Guillermo Kuschel
Guillermo Kuschel Gerdes, New Zealand / Chilean entomologist (Frutillar, Llanquihe Province 13 July 1918 – Auckland 01 August 2017) Since 1962 living in New Zealand Recognized as a world authority on Coleoptera Curculionidae Authored over 100 works Described 152 new genera in Coleoptera (until 2003) HONORS Kuschelius Sublette & Wirth 1980 (Diptera) Kuschelomyia Souza Lopes 1961 (Diptera) Kuscheliana Carvalho 1952 (Hemiptera) Kuscheliola Evans 1957 (Hemiptera) Kuschelioniscus Strouhal 1961 (Crustacea) Kuscheliochilus Wygodzinsky 1951 (Thysanoptera) Kuschelita Climo 1974 (Mollusca Gastropoda) Kuschelacarus Cook 1992 (Acari) Kuschelina Bechyné 1951 (Coleoptera) Kuschelydrus Ordish 1976 (Coleoptera) Kuschelus Kaszab 1982 (Coleoptera) Kuscheliotes Jeannel 1962 (Coleoptera) Kuschelinus Straneo 1963 (Coleoptera) Kuschelidium Johnson 1982 (Coleoptera) Kuschelaxius Howden 1992 (Coleoptera) Kuschelanthus Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999 (Coleoptera)
Guillermo Kreutzer
Guillermo Oscar Alejandro Kreutzer, Argentine pediatric cardiologist (Buenos Aires 11 December 1934 – Developed operation for correction of tricuspid atresia (1971) performing the first total fenestrated pulmonary ventricle bypass in the world (Fontan-Kreutzer operation) Una operación para la correción de la atresia tricuspidea. Presented 5th Reunião Cient. Soc. Arg. Cardiol. (1971) With E. Galíndez, H. Bono, C. de Palma & J.P. Laura. An operation for the correction of tricuspid atresia. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 66:613-21, 1973 Suggested using Jatene’s operation of repair of transposition of great vessels in transposed newborn without ventricular septal defects With R. Neirotti, E. Galíndez, A. Coronel & E. Kreutzer. Anatomic correction for transposition of the great arteries. J. Thorac.Cardiovasc. Surg. 73:538-42, 1977 Performed the first international experience in tetralogy of Fallot with subpulmonary ventricular septal defects With R. Neirotti, E. Galíndez, A. Rodríguez Coronel, M. Pedrini & L. Becu. Tetralogy of Fallot with subpulmonary ventricular septal defect. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 25:51-6, 1978 Created direct posterior atriopulmonary anastomosis (1978) With F.J. Vargas, A.J. Schlichter, J.P. Laura et al. Atriopulmonary anastomosis. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 83(3):427-36, 1982 Proposed to repair the transposition of great arteries with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis With F.J. Vargas, A. Schlichter, M. Granja & E. Kreutzer. Repair of corrected transposition with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 40:509-11, 1985 Developed a technique of the autologous pericardial valved conduit With A.J. Schlichter. Tubo valvulado de pericardio autologo. Rev. Lat. Cardiol. Cir. Cardiovasc. Inf. 1:37-40, 1985 Improved Fontan-Kreutzer operation With J.F. Keane, J.E. Lock, E.P. Walsh, R.A. Jonas, A.R. Castañeda & J.E. Mayer Jr. Conversion of modified Fontan procedure to lateral atrial tunnel cavopulmonary anastomosis. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 111(6):1169-76, 1996 Described a surgical technique to perform a total bypass of the venous ventricle via cavo atriopulmonary anastomosis With C. Kreutzer & A.J. Schlichter. Cavo atriopulmonary anastomosis via a non- prosthetic media tunnel. J. Cardiac. Surg. 12(1):37-40, 1997 Developed an original technique for the tetralogy of Fallot repair with agenesis of the pulmonary valve With A.J. Schlichter & G.O. Kreutzer. Tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve: a surgical technique for complete repair. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 117:192, 1999 Introduced modifications in varieties of venous ventricle by-pass such as a new fenestration form by total bypass of right ventricle (2001) With Ch. Kreutzer, A.J. Schlichter, J. Simón et al. A new method for reliable fenestration in extracardiac conduit. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 75:1657-9, 2003 Suggested a 24 mmm cerclage of pulmonary artery in patients with tetralogy of Fallot after transannular patch repair or autologous pericardial valved conduit Previous banding of the pulmonary artery could enhance later transcatheter implantation of a biologic valve. World J. Pediatr. Congen. Heart Surg. 5:644, 2014 OTHERS With F.J. Vargas. A surgical technique for correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 90(3):410-3, 1985 With C. Kreutzer, C. Blunda & A.J. Schlichter. The autologous pericardial valved conduit for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction. Oper. Techn. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 8(3):146-9, 2003 With C. Kreutzer, G. Zapico, C. Blunda, J.L. Simon & A.J. Schlichter. A simplified technique for short-term postcardiotomy pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J. thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 51(5):659-62, 2004 With C. Kreutzer, G. Zapico, J.L. Simon & A.J. Schlichter. A simplified and economic technique for immediate postcardiotomy pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. ASAIO Journal (2005) LINKS http://www.caccv.org.ar/raccv/03-2009-28.pdf http://www.sac.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/v83n4a13-en.pdf
Felix Konotey-Ahulu
Felix Israel Domeno Konotey-Ahulu, Ghanaian clinician (Odhumase Krobo, 12 July 1930 – London 27 May 2025) Regarded as world’s leading expert on sickle cell anemia Authored over 200 publications DESCRIBED Sicklaemic human hygrometers (1965) Torrential epistaxis and facial skin ulceration in sickle cell anemia (1965) Bilateral femoral head necrosis preventing procreation in sickle cell disease (1967) Parkinsonian tremor audible through stethoscope known as Konotey-Ahulu parkinsonuian stethoscope sign or Kaps sign (1967) Mental nerve peripheral neuropathy from sickle cell crisis (1972) With H. Lehmann & B. Ringelhann discovered haemoglobins Korle-Bu (1968) and Osu-Christianborg (1971) Coined the term gnathopathy (1974) Invented male procreative superiority index in anthropogenetics providing a mathematical basis for sickle cell gene frequencies (1980) First to use polygamy to trace genetic traits backwards Invented kanad for genetic counseling Papers in top journals Management of sickle cell disease in the community. Brit. Med. J. 348, 2014 Antioxidants for children with kwashiorkor. Brit. Med. J. 330 (2005) Sickle-cell disease and the patient. Lancet 365 (9457):382-3, 2005 The sickle-cell diseases – clinical manifestation including the “sickle crisis”. JAMA Intern. Med. 133(4):611-9, 1974 Malaria and sickle-cell disease. Brit. Med. J. 2 (5763):710, 1971 OTHERS First person known to have traced hereditary disease in his forebears, generation by generation, with all names, right back to 1670 AD The Human Genome Diversity Project: cogitations of an African native (1999) Developed a method for writing African tonal languages Mother Tongue – Introducing the Tadka phonation technique for speaking an African tonal language: Krobo/Dangme-Ga of South East Ghana (2001) LINKS http://www.sicklecell.md/pdfs/fkacv.pdf http://konotey-ahulu.com/pdfs/FIDKA%20Bio%20true%20web%20version%20August%202009.pdf
Federico Kurtz
Friedrich (Federico) Kurtz, German-born Argentine botanist and paleobotanist (Berlin 06 March 1854 – Cordoba 23 August 1920) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Living Species Androsace salasii 1900 Atriplex cachiyuyu 1897 Ballota hildebrandtii 1875 with Vatke Brodiaea poeppigiana 1893 Caesalpinia riojana 1921 Carex circinata 1894 Carex lyonii 1894 Carex rahuiensis 1894 Chamelum bodenbenderi 1893 Diplachne mendocina 1897 Elymus albowianus 1896 Elymus barbatus 1897 Elymus spegazzinii 1900 Eupatorium vernale 1871 with Vatke Gutierrezia spathulata 1893 Jaborosa andina 1897 Lesquerella mendocina 1883 Leucheria contrayerba 1893 Ligusticum alpinum 1894 Neosparton andinum 1894 Parrya nudicaulis 1894 Perezia pilifera 1894 Potentilla sibbaldia 1894 Saxifraga albowiana 1896 Selinum benthamii 1894 Selinum gmelini 1894 Senecio paradoxus 1900 Sphacele griosebachii 1893 Fossil Genera Bergiopteris 1921 Botrychiopsis 1894 Perseophyllum 1902 Species Abietites valentini Araucarites patagonica Archangelskya protoloxsoma Bergiopteris insignis 1921 Botrychiopsis weissiana 1894 Cladophlebis mendozaensis 1902 Cladophlebis mesozoica Dicroidium (Xylopteris) argentina 1921 Dicroidium pinnis-distantibus Diplothemna bodendenderi Eusphenopteris sanjuanina Fedekurtzia argentina 1921 Kurtziana cacheutensis Otozamites ameghinoi Otozamites barthianus Otozamites rothianus Perseophyllum hauthaliana 1902 Rhacopteris szajnochai Sphenobaiera argentinae Sphenopteris jocoliensis Yabeiella brackebuschiana HONORS (Plantae) Kurtziana Frenguelli 1942 (Fossil) Fedekurtzia Archangelsky 1981 (Fossil) Kurzamra Kuntze 1891 (Lamiaceae)
Elliot W. Kitajima
Elliot Watanabe Kitajima, Brazilian plant virologist and microscopist (Registro, São Paulo State 12 August 1936 – From Japanese ancestry Authored about 500 papers with 4,500 citations (Web of Science) and/or 11,000 citations (Google Scholar) Showed the Citrus tristeza disease virus With D.M. Silva, A.R. Oliveira, G.W. Muller e A.S. Costa. Thread-like particles associated with tristeza disease of citrus. Nature 201:1011-2, 1964 Showed that citrus leprosis is a virosis With G.W. Muller, A.S. Costa & W. Yuki. Short, rod-like particles associated with Citrus leprosis. Virology 50(1):254-8, 1972 Found that citrus leprosis symptoms may be caused by two distinct viruses With J.C.V. Rodrigues & C.M. Chagas. Brevipalpus-transmitted plant virus and virus-like diseases: cytopathology and some recent cases. Exper. Appl. Acarol. 30(1):135-60, 2003 Performed the first studies about lipid droplets in leaf cells of Rubiaceae With C.C. Landim. Unusual structure of lipid droplets presente in leaf cells of Coffea. Bragantia 27(2):78-80, 1968 DESCRIBED NEW VIRUS & DISEASES With L.R. Pereira, M.C. Rodrigues, C. Chabi-Jesus, P.L. Ramos-Gonzalez, C.J. Barbosa et al. Historical and contemporany evidence confirms a Higreviruses as the causal agent of citrus zonate chlorosis. Viruses 17(11):1428, 2025 With A.H. Vidal, A.C.R. Abreu, J.F.S. Dantas Filho & M.J. X. Vianna. Discovery and genome characterization of three new rhabdoviruses infecting Passiflora spp in Brazil. Viruses 17(5):725, 2025 With P.L. Ramos-Gonzalez, M.A.V. Alexandre, M.P. Barros, L.M.L. Duarte et al. Two novel betarhadovirins infecting ornamental plants and the peculiar intracellular behavior of the cytorhabdovirus in the liana Aristolochia gibertii. Viruses 16(3):322, 2024 With C. Chabi-Jesus, P.L. Ramos-Gonzalez, A.D. Tassi, L. Rossetto Pereira et al. Citrus bright spot virus: a new dichorhavirus, transmitted by Brevipalpus azores, causing citrus leprosis disease in Brazil. Plants 12(6):1371, 2023 With M.A. Nunes, L.M. Ferreira, L.A. Rogerio, V.M. Novelli et al. Infection by coffee ringspot virus is identified for the first time in succulent plants. J. Plant Pathol. 104(2):1-5, 2022 With M.C. Rodrigues, L. Rossetto Pereira, P.L. Ramos-Gonzalez, C. Chabi-Jesus, A.D. Tassi et al. First report of Passion fruit green spot virus infecting Hibiscus plants. New Dis. Report 45(2), 2022 With C.M. Kaufmann, A.J. Boari, R. Blawid & T. Nagata. Detection of a new Fabavirus in black pepper by next-generation sequencing (2021) With R.G. Dietzen, N. Bejerman, Y. Mei, C.L.J. Lee, C. Chabi-Jesus, J. Freitas-Astua & S.M. Veras. Joá yellow blotch-associated virus, a new alphanucleorhabdovirus from a wild solanaceous plant in Brazil. Arch. Virol. 166 Suppl.):1-8, 2021 With A.T.M. Lima, A. Orilio, M.M.S. Almeida, C. Rocha, F.M. Zerbini et al. Malvaviscus yellow mosaic virus, a divergent begomovirus carrying a nanovirus-like nonanucleotide and a modified stem-loop structure. Ann. Appl. Biology 179(1), 2021 With K.F.C. Pantoja, A. Boari, B.R. De Marchi, J.A.M. Rezende, R. Gonçalves, G.M.L. Assis, R. Blawid & R. Krause-Sakate. Arachis virus Y, a new potyvirid from Brazilian forage peanut (Arachis pintoi). Arch. Virol. 165(2), 2020 With A.E. Faria, E.S. Gorayeb, V.M. Camelo-Garcia, J. Bonin, T. Nagata, J.M. F. Silva, A. Bogo, J.A. M. Rezende & F.N. Da Silva Molecular and biological characterization of a putative new sobemovirus infecting Physalis peruviana. Arch. Virol. 164:1-6, 2019 With C. Chabi-Jesus, P. Ramos-Gonzalez, A. D. Tassi, O. Guerra-Perlaza, R. Harakava, J. E. A. Bessera Jr, R. B. Salaroli & J. Freitas-Astua. Identification and characterization of citrus chlorotic spot virus, a new dichorhavirus associated with citrus leprosis-like symptoms. Plant Disease 102, 2018 With P. Ramos-Gonzalez, C. Chabi-Jesus, O. Guerra-Perlaza, A. D. Tassi, R. Harakava & J. Freitas-Astua. Citrus leprosis virus N: a new dichorhavirus causing citrus leprosis disease. Phytopathology 107, 2017 With J.A. M. Rezende, V.M. Camelo-Garcia, S.C.S. Andrade, J.E. Bruriolla & L.M. L. Duarte. Biological and molecular characterization of a putative new potexvirus infecting Senna occidentalis. Archives of Virology 161:1-5, 2016. With R.G. Dietzen, J.H. Kuhn, A.N. Clawson, J. Freitas-Astúa, M.M. Goodin, H. Kondo, T. Whetzel & A.E. Whitfield. Dichorhavirus: a proposed new genus for Brevipalpus mite-transmitted, nuclear, bacilliform, bipartite, negative-strand RNA plant viruses. Archives of Virology 159:607-19, 2013 With A.S. de Oliveira; F.L. Melo; A.K. Inoue-Nagata; T. Nagata, R.O. Resende & J.M. Qiu. Characterization of Bean Necrotic Mosaic Virus: A Member of a Novel Evolutionary Lineage within the Genus Tospovirus. Plos One 7:e38634, 2012. With V.C. Oliveira, T. Nagata; F.C. Guimarães, F.A. Ferreira, C. Nicolini, R. O. Resende, A.K. Inoue-Nagata. Characterization of a novel tymovirus on tomato plants in Brazil. Virus Genes 46:190-4, 2012 With S.C. Maciel, R.F. Da Silva, M.S. Reis, A. Jadao, D.D. Rosa, J. Giampan, J.A.M. Rezende & L. E. A. Camargo. Characterization of a new potyvirus causing mosaic and flower variegation in Catharanthus roseus in Brazil. Scientia Agrícola 68:687-90, 2011 With K. S. Kubo; P. T. O. Ferreira; B. K. Alcantara; A. J. Boari; R. T. Gomes; J. Freitas-Astua; J. A. M. Rezende; G. J. Moraes & R. B. Salaroli. Clerodendrum chlorotic spot: a disease caused by a nuclear type of Brevipalpus (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)-transmitted virus. Scientia Agricola 65:36-49, 2008 With N. Lucinda, T. Nagata, A. K. Inoue-Nagata & R.B. Salaroli. Brugmansia suaveolens mottle virus, a novel potyvirus causing leaf mottling of Brugmansia suaveolens in Brazil. Archives of Virology 153:1971-6, 2008 With J. Skare; I. Wijkamp, I. Denham, J. A. M. Rezende, J.W. Park, B. Desvoyes, C. Rush, K. Scholthof & H. Scholthof. A new eriophyid mite-borne membrane-enveloped virus-like complex isolated from plants. Virology 347 (2):343-53, 2006. With D. C. Teixeira, J. Ayres, F. A. O. Tanaka, L. Danet, S. Jagoueix-Eveillard & J.M. Bove. First report of a huanglongbing-like disease ofr citrus in São Paulo State, Brazil, and association of a new Liberibacter species, Candidatus Liberobacter americanus with the disease. Plant Disease 89(1):107, 2005 With T. Nagata, D. M. T. Alves, A. K. Inoue-Nagata, T. Tian, J. E. Cardoso & A. C. Avila. A novel melon flexivirus transmitted by whitefly. Archives of Virology 150:379-87, 2005. With M. Maccheroni, M. C. Alegria, M. Bar-Joseph, P. Arruda, J. P. Kitajima, F. C. Reinach, J. A. Ferro & A. C. C. Silva. Identification and genomic characterization of a new virus (Tymoviridae family) associated with citrus sudden death disease. Journal of Virology 79(5):3028-37, 2005 With L. D. Mota, M. G. S. D. Vecchia, R. Gioria, J. A. M. Rezende, L. E. A.
Eduardo Moacyr Krieger
Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, Brazilian physiologist (Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul 06 June 1928 – Authored 233 papers ACHIEVEMENTS World famous for his studies on experimental hypertension Performed known studies about pressoreceptors adaptation in hypertension and hypotension Pioneer on utilization of rat as a model for studies regarding regulation of blood pressure at sleep and exercises (1960s) Described a sino-aortic baroreceptor denervation method worldwide used Neurogenic hypertension in the rat. Circulation Research 15:511-21, 1964 Demonstrated that the baroreceptors are reset to operate at higher blood pressure levels in hypertension and that a complete resetting occurs when the increase in the pressure threshold equals the increase in blood pressure Arterial baroreceptor resetting in hypertension. Clin. Exp. Pharmacol. Physiol. Suppl. 15:3-17, 1989 With J.J. de Lima, M.L. Vieira, F.J. de Paula, L.E. Ianhez, E. Sabbaga et al. Coronary angiography is the Best predictor of events in renal transplant candidates compared with noninvasive testing. Hypertension 42:263-8, 2003 METHODS With P.P.S. Soares, M.R. Ushizima & M.C. Irigoyen. A semi-automatic computerized method to measure baroreflex-mediated heart rate responses that reduces interobserves variability. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Research 38(6):949-57, 2005 With M.A. Gutierrez, S.S. Furuie, M.C. Irigoyen & C.P. Mello. A microcomputer system for quantitative analysis of neural activity in the regulation of the cardiovascular system. Computers in Cardiology (1990) With R.A. Santos & L.J. Greene. An improved fluorometric assay of rat serum and plasma converting enzyme. Hypertension 7(2):244-52, 1985 With L.C. Michelini & J.V.P. Leite. A new electrolyte strain gauge to study changes in aortic caliber produced by hypertension. J. Hypert. Diseases, 1981 HONOURS Lifetime Achievement Award, Interamerican Society of Hypertension (1997) ICLAS Muhlbock Award (2007) WHl Detlev Ganten Excellence Award in Hypertension and Global Health Implementation, 2019 Awards Committee of the World Hypertension League