Barend Cornelius Jansen
Barend Cornelius Jansen, South African veterinarian (12 August 1921 – Pretoria 13 July 1987) Internationally recognized for his research on the toxins produced by members of the Clostridium genus Authored over 50 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Hayes. The acquisition of immunity to Histophilus ovis by sheep in nature. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 51:269-70, 1984 With M. Hayes. Immunity against genital infection by Histophilus ovis in rams. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 51:203-7, 1984 With M. Hayes. Retardation of wool growth in Merino sheep caused by bacteria. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 50:271-4, 1983 With J.L. Du Plessis & L. Prozesky. Heartwater in Angora goats. I. Immunity subsequent to artificial infection and treatment. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 50:137-43, 1983 The epidemiology of bacterial infection of the genitalia in rams (1983) The etiology of rams epididymitis. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 47:101-7, 1980 With P.C. Knoetze. The immune response of horses to tetanus toxoid. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 46:211-6, 1979 With P.C. Knoetze. Tryptic activation of Clostridium botulinum type Cβ toxin. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 38:237, 1971 The quantitative determination of the toxic factors produced by Clostridium botulinum types C & D. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 38:177, 1971 The toxic antigenic factors produced by Clostridium botulinum types C and D. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 38:93-8, 1971 The prevention of enterotoxemia (pulpy kidney disease) by vaccination. Bull. Off. Intern. Epiz. 67:1539-67, 1967 The duration of immunity to pulpy kidney disease of sheep. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 34:333, 1967 The production of a basic immunity against pulpy kidney disease. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 34(1):65-80, 1967 The beta toxin of Clostridium welchii type B, Wilsdon, in relation to the production of a vaccine against lamb dysentery. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 28:495-549, 1961 The occurrence of pulpy kidney in sheep dosed with phenothiazine. J.S. Afr. Vet. Med. Assoc. 31:209-10, 1960 The experimental reproduction of pulpy kidney disease. J.S. Afr. Vet. Med. Assoc. 31:205-8, 1960 With A.S. Snijders. A comparison of Streptothrix bovis and Actinomyces dermatonomus. Bull. Epizoot. Dis. Afr. 3:242-3, 1955 With W.O. Neitz. Transmission of tick paralysis to adult Merino sheep by Rhipicephalus evertsi. Laboratory observations, Onderstepoort (1950)
Aylthon Brandão Joly
Aylthon Brandão Joly, Brazilian phycologist and botanist (Itatiba, São Paulo State 15 November 1924 – São Paulo 29 August 1975) Considered as one of great phycologists of 20th Century Authored 73 works DESCRIBED TAXA Algae Valid Genera Centrocerocolax 1966 Dawsoniocolax 1970 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Diplothamnion 1966 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Heterodasya 1966 with Oliveira Filho Montemaria 1970 with Alveal Spyridiocolax 1966 with Oliveira Filho Species Anadyomene saldanhae 1969 with Oliveira Filho Anadyomene rhizoidifera 1973 with Pereira Antithamninon ternatum 1966 with Cordeiro Marino Antithamnion tristicum 1963 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Aphanocladia pacifica 1968 with Alveal Audouinella agardhiellae 1963 with Cordeiro Marino Audouinella epispiculum 1963 Cordeiro Marino Avrainvillea atlantica with Yamaguishi-Tomita Calliblepharis occidentalis with Yamaguishi-Tomita Callithamnion callithamnioides 1966 with Ugadim Caulerpa kempfii with Pereira Centrocerocolax ubatubensis 1966 Ceramium brasiliense 1957 Ceramium dawsoni 1957 Champia minuscula 1966 with Ugadim Chondria platyramea 1966 with Ugadim Corallophila atlantica 1963 with Ugadim Cryptonemia delicatula 1966 with Cordeiro Marino Dawsoniocolax bostrychiae 1967 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Diplothamnion tetrastichum 1966 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Gracilaria cearensis 1965 with Pinheiro Jania prolifera 1966 Laminaria abyssalis 1967 with Oliveira Filho Laminaria brasiliensis 1966 with Oliveira Filho Lomentaria rawitscheri 1957 Myriogloea bonariensis 1970 with Cabrera & Sazima Periphykon delesserioides with Ugadim & Oliveira Filho Pleonosporion boergesenii 1957 Polyphysa myriospora 1965 with Cordeiro Marino Pterocladiella taylori 1957 Rhipilia fungiformis with Ugadim Scinaia brasiliensis 1965 with Cordeiro Marino Spermothamnion nonatoi 1957 Spyridiocolax capixaba 1966 with Oliveira Filho Stenogramma rhodymenioides 1970 with Alveal Varieties 5 Plantae Cybianthus coronatus 1978 with Jung (Primulaceae) HONORS Jolydrilus Marcus 1965 (Annelida Oligochaeta) Jolyna Guimarães 1986 (Phaeophyceae) Aylthonia Menezes 1971 (Velloziaceae)
Aron Jurkiewicz
Aron Jurkiewicz, Brazilian pharmacologist (Santos, São Paulo State 12 December 1938 – Proposed relative responsiveness or rho ratio a new parameter for classification of receptor system, which measures the capability of a receptor system to induce a maximal contraction after saturation by a full agonist With N.H. Jurkiewicz, G.G. Barros & J.R. Valle. Relative responsiveness (ρ) of pharmacological receptor systems in the rat vas deferens. Pharmacology 2:89-99, 1969 Responsividade relativa de receptores farmacológicos (ρ): considerações teóricas e determinação experimental (1970) Demonstrated the fade response of vas deferens of castrated rat induced by a maximal dose of barium chloride With A. Langeloh & A.D. Guedes. Time-response curves for barium and noradrenaline in vas deferens of castrated rat. Europ. J. Pharmacol. (1977) Synthesized with colleagues a new series of tacripyrines having the moieties of tacrine and nimodipine that inhibit acetylcholinesterase with a potency about 1000 fold lower than that of physostigmine or tacrine, being potential therapeutic agents in Alzheimer disease With A. Caricati-Neto, A.R.M.S. Brito, S.S. Mulford & P.A. Busatto. A double perfusion system with two-channel recording for the simultaneous study of the contractile response of the circular and longitudinal smooth muscle layers of the rat vas deferens (1990) Verified that voltage-dependent calcium channels of cell membranes are ruled by hormones and adrenergic innervation Verified that the density of alpha adenoceptors and calcium channels rise in the hypertension Reported the first time that nitric oxide behaves a second messenger for the neurotransmission in rat vas deferens With N.H. Jurkiewicz & I. Vladimirova. Evidence for participation of nitric oxide in excitatory neurotransmitter in rat vas deferens. Life Sciences 55:1123-8, 1994 Solved the calcium paradox With L. Berganti, A. Caricati-Neto et al. Novel model for calcium paradox in sympathetic transmission of smooth muscles. Role of cyclic AMP pathway. Cell calcium (2013)
Antonio Nunez Jimenez
Antonio Nuñez Jimenez, Cuban geographer, speleologist and archaeologist (Alquízar, La Habana Province 20 April 1923 – La Habana 13 September 1998) Authored 1,665 papers and other works A number of discoveries in the fields of Cuban geography and archaeology Geography/Speleology Discovered the Gran Caverna de Santo Tomas (1954), the second largest cave system in American continent with archaeological and paleontological discoveries Archaeology Discovered the eldest culture of the Cuban archipelago and one of most ancient of Caribbean region in the caves of Seboruco (Mayarí, Holguín) 1939 Studied the Guanahatabey culture in El guanahatabey, troglodita indocubano (1946) Discovered the Cuba’s biggest archeological monument at Guaney (Camaguey Province) consisting of a mound of earth, rocks and ceramic fragments that served as an altar for the Tainos HONORS Jimenezia Vandel 1973 (Crustacea) Jimeneziella Avram 1970 (Arachnida)
Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse
Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse, Dutch-born South African entomologist (Hague 19 April 1877 – Pretoria 12 June 1970) Authored over 50 scientific articles and the monumental work The Moths of South Africa (1932-64) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera 134 Species Over 500 HONORS Jansea Cameron 1910 (Hymenoptera) Eujansea Fletcher 1980 (Lepidoptera) Janseana Gozmany & Vari 1973 (Lepidoptera) Janseides Bourgogne 1979 (Lepidoptera) Janseodes Viette 1967 (Lepidoptera) Janseola Hopp 1923(Lepidoptera)
Alfredo Jahn
Alfredo Jahn Hartmann, Venezuelan naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, linguist, historian and archaeologist (Caracas 08 August 1867 – Caracas 12 June 1940) Son of German immigrants Authored 93 works Collected plant species and archaeological objects Devised a machine to wash coffee grains and other to dry coffee grains (1883) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Los cráneos deformados de los aborígines de los Valles de Aragua. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Nat. 8:4-14, 1932 Los paramos venezolanos. Sus aspectos físicos y vegetación. Bol. Soc. Venezol. Cien. Nat. 1:93-127, 1931 El deshielo de la Sierra Nevada de Merida y sus causas. Cult. Venez. 110, 1931 Parahuanos und Guajiros und die Pfahlbauten am See Von Maracaibo. Zeit. f. Ethnol. 46:267-83, 1927 Los aborigines del occidente de Venezuela: su historia, etnografia y afinidades linguísticas (1927) Esbozo de las formaciones geológicas de Venezuela (1921) Contribución a la hidrografia del Orinoco y del Río Negro. Anales Univ. Central Venezuela 10(2):181-230, 1909 Las Palmas de la flora venezolana (1908) Tablas barométricas para el cálculo de alturas entre los paralelos 0° y 16° de la América Tropical. Anales Univ. Central Venezuela 8:595-640, 1907 Observaciones glaciologicas en los Andes venezolanos HONOURS Doctor Honoris Causa, Hamburg University Nachtigall Medal, Geographical Society of Berlin (1928) Honorary Member, American Geographical society of New York