Charles Frederic Jacot-Guillarmod
Charles Frederic Jacot-Guillarmod, South African entomologist (Ladylrand District, Orange Free State 24 August 1912 – Faraway, Grahamstown State 22 September 1979) His parents were of Swiss and French origin DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Genera Agrothrips 1939 Derothrips 1940 Zuluiella 1939 Species Agrothrips priesneri 1939 Chirothrips hoodi 1941 Cranothrips karrooensis 1937 Elaphothrips edouardi 1939 Elaphothrips faurei 1939 Elaphothrips laticornis 1941 Elaphothrips niger 1939 Elaphothrips nigripes 1939 Elaphothrips orangiae 1937 Elaphothrips powelli 1937 Elaphothrips transvaalensis 1939 Exothrips navicularius 1941 Exothrips pulcher 1941 Exothrips setosus 1941 Gastrothrips xosa 1939 Haplothrips bedfordi 1941 Hoplandothrips arrhenus Hoplandothrips edentatus 1939 Hoplandothrips flavidus 1939 Hoplandothrips landolphiae 1939 Hoplandothrips vansoni 1939 Kleothrips (Akleothrips) zuluensis 1939 Malacothrips antennatus 1940 Monilothrips montanus 1942 Oedalothrips aemulus 1942 Oedalothrips amabilis 1942 Ophthalmothrips amyae 1940 Plectothrips capensis 1937 Plectothrips giganteus 1937 Podothrips longiceps 1937 Rhipiphorothrips miemsae 1937 Scirtothrips fumipennis 1937 Synaptothrips psoraleae 1937 Zuluiella distincta 1939 HONORS Jacotia Faure 1940 (Thysanoptera) Jacotitypus Heinrich 1967 (Hymenoptera)
Carlos & Mercedes Jaschek
Karl Otto Rudiger Jaschek, German-born Argentine / French astrophysicist (Brzeg, today Poland 02 March 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 12 April 1999) His wife, Mercedes Isabel Corvalán de Jaschek, Argentine / French stellar spectroscopist (Buenos Aires 13 April 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 21 November 1995) Authored about 250 publications and over 15 books BOTH Worked on the first classification schemes in the ultraviolet spectrum With Y. Andrillat worked on determination of fundamental properties of Ae, Be and shell stars with near infrared data Introduced the subgroup of Gallium stars in the general classification Discovered Ap stars from Si group λ 4200 and Be stars (1962) Identified the presence of rare earths in stars of Mn and SrCrEu groups Discovered spectral subgroups and showed clearly its spectral features Developed classification methodologies suited to each available spectral range Obtained the first detections of high temperature stars with anomalous CNO contents Authored two classical books Classification of Stars (1987) and The behavior of the chemical elements in stars (1995) HONORS Asteroid 2964 Jaschek (Carlos) LINKS http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997BAAA…41….1L
Boju Jiang
Boju Jiang or Po-Chu Chiang, Chinese mathematician (Tianjin 04 September 1937 – Calculated the Nielsen numbers in a subgroup of fundamental group (1964) Verified the Nielsen fixed point conjecture (1980s) Clarified about the least number of fixed points among the maps in a homotopy class (1980s) Proved that the concordance group of algebraically slice knots is infinitely generated (1981) Gave an algebraic sufficient condition for the existence of periodic points of a prescribed pure period (1983) Developed Nielsen theory of periodic orbits (1996) With S. Wang & Y.Q. Wu showed that on many manifolds all orientation-preserving homeomorphisms are isotopic to fixed point free homeomorphisms (2000) With X.S. Lin, S. Wang & Y.Q. Wu developed various methods to detect the various achiralities of knots and links in S and gave a simple procedure for calculating the #-function in terms of a crossing change formula and its initial values (2002) With Y. Ni, S. Wang & Q. Zhou first established examples of non-fibred knots with property IE and non-fibred knots without property IE (2006) With H. Zheng deduced a trace formula for the computation of the forcing relation of braids (2008) With S. Wang & Q. Zhang introduced an alternative definition of fixed point class (2011) EPONYMY Jiang group Jiang subgroup Jiang spaces Jiang conditions (1963)
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)