Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Indian mathematician and statistician (Kosben, Goa 31 July 1907 – Pune, Maharashtra State 29 June 1966) Introduced Kosambi map function in The Estimation of Map Distance from Recombination Values. Annals of Eugenics (1944) Developed proper orthogonal decomposition or Kosambi-Karhunen-Loeve decomposition (1943) Developed methods for quality control of industrial goods and statistical methods for determining dams sites and sizes Eponym of Kosambi rule
Christine Sophie Kabuye
Christine Sophie H. Kabuye, Ugandan botanist and ethnobotanist (21 November 1938 – With D. Wood. A first record of multicellular glandular hairs in the Graminae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 62(1):69-70, 1969 DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Living Alloeochaete geniculata 1975 Alloeochaete gracillima 1975 Alloeochaete ulugurensis 1975 Biophytum turianiense 1969 Eragrostis aristiglumis 1971 Fossil Pollia tugenensis 1989 with Jacobs HONORS Kabuyea Brummit 1998 (Thecophilaeaceae)
Carlos Arnaldo Krug
Carlos Arnaldo Krug, Brazilian plant geneticist and agronomist (São Paulo 25 October 1906 – Campinas 06 February 1973) From German ancestry Authored about 100 works With A.S. Costa described purple bud of White potato (1937) With A. Carvalho. Genetical proof of existence of coffee endosperm. Nature 144 (3646):515, 1939 With A. Carvalho & J.E.T. Mendes found many new varieties of coffee plants With A. Carvalho & J.E.T. Mendes performed the main researches concerning to coffee plant genetics in the world With A.J.T. Mendes observed the occurrence of real and false polyembryonies in coffee plant With G.P. Viegas developed hybrid maize being Brazil the second country in the world with hybrid maize from its own lineages after United States (1939) (Argentina is the second country to have a hybrid maize but your strains were from United States) With G.P. Viegas & L. Paoleri developed maize hybrids IA300, IA1932 & IA1952 With O. Bachi determined the chromosome number of many species of Citrus sp. Developed a method for hybridization of coffee plant Hybridization of coffee. J. Hered. 26:325-30, 1935 Developed a method for calculating the mesh of grading sieves for different coffees O Cálculo da “peneira media” nas seleções do cafeeiro. Rev. Inst. Café 26 (156):123-7, 1940 HONORS Subgenus Krugiphinema Cohn & Sher 1972 (Nematoda) LINKS http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/krug.htm (in Portuguese; bibliography)
Atam Prakash Kapur
Atam Prakash Kapur, Indian entomologist (fl.1942 – 1973) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Coleoptera Acarinus 1948 Afidentula 1955 Afissula 1955 Pseudaspidimerus 1948 Singhikalia 1963 Tetrabrachys 1948 Lepidoptera Bissetia 1950 Chilotraea 1950 Drasa 1950 Girdharia 1950 Hemiptera Austrotachardiella 1958 Species About 100 between Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera & Ephemeroptera
Antonio Krapovickas
Antonio Krapovickas, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 08 October 1921 – Corrientes 17 August 2015) From Lithuanian parents Regarded as one of world’s foremost experts on taxonomy of Malvaceae family Authored the most complete monograph of Arachis genus With W.C. Gregory. Taxonomia del genero Arachis (Leguminosae). Bonplandia 8:1-186, 1994 DESCRIBED MALVACEAE TAXA Valid Genera Acaulimalva 1974 Bordasia 2003 Calyculogygas 1960 Calyptraemalva 1965 Dirhamphis 1970 Hochreutinera 1970 Monteiroa 1951 Phragmocarpidium 1969 Spirabutilon 2009 Tropidococcus 2003 Woodianthus 2012 Subgenus Novoarticulata 2003 Sections 12 Species 283 HONORS Krapovickasia Fryxell 1978 (Malvaceae) Akrosida Fryxell & Fuertes 1992 (Malvaceae)
Anna Kohn
Anna Kohn (Hoineff), Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 18 May 1940 – Daughter of Jewish Polish immigrants DESCRIBED NEMATODA/TREMATODA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Bellumcorpus 1962 Brasilnema 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Centrodes 1964 with Travassos Cesartrema 1964 with Travassos Chabaudtrema 1970 Dollfustravassosius 1967 with Teixeira de Freitas Gussevia 1964 with Paperna Kritskyia 1990 Mabiarama 1967 with Teixeira de Freitas Maxtrema 1969 with Travassos e Teixeira de Freitas Mazzantia 1964 with Travassos Metacamopiella 1996 with Santos & Lebedev Neoparaseuratum 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Paranaella 2000 with Baptista-Farias & Cohen Paraprosorhynchus 1967 Pararhipidocotyle 1970 Parasynodontisia 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Paraurotocus 1966 with Travassos Piavussunema 1968 with Correa Gomes & da Silva Motta Pozdnyakovia 2012 with Justo Rallitrema 1964 with Travassos Serpentinotrema 1964 with Travassos Voelkeria 1964 with Travassos Species About 75 HONORS Annakohniella Fernandes, Cohen, Mendonça & Justo 2013 (Digenea) Anakohnia Bravo-Hollis 1986 (Monogenea) Hoineffia Diaw 1976 (Nematoda)