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
Alfonso Jimenez Muñoz
Alfonso Jimenez Muñoz, Costa Rican agronomist (fl.1943-67) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudio agrologico de la parte norte del distrito central de Turrialba. Thesis, Fac. Agron. Univ. de Costa Rica, San José (1951) Nombres vulgares en la avifauna costarricense (1960) Estado actual de la flora y la fauna de Costa Rica (1964) HONORS Section Jimenezia Breedlove, Berry & Raven 1982 (Onagraceae)
Ahmad Khan Jamil
Ahmad Khan Jamil, Pakistani anaesthetist (Takht Bhai, Mardan District 12 May 1939 – Non-kink catheter mount. Brit. J. Anaest. 46(8):628, 1974 A simple device for teaching controlled ventilation. Anaesthesia 29(5):605-6, 1974 Designed humeral epicondyle holder for use in orthopaedic surgery (1968) Designed a simple device for blind tracheal intubation and pediatric endotracheal tube Listed in Marquis International Who’s Who
Adib Jatene
Adib Domingos Jatene, Brazilian cardiologist (Xapuri, Acre State 04 June 1929 – São Paulo 14 November 2014) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored 272 scientific works Described a simple method for preparation of amorphous ice employed in myocardium selective hypothermia (1963) Introduced the concept of geometrical reconstruction of ventricular cavity usando Dacron patch Operative technique. Cleve Clin. Q. 45(1):94-7, 1978 Performed contributions to myocardial revascularization and congenital heart diseases surgeries Performed first successful arterial switch or dextro-transposition of great arteries (Jatene operation) in 1975 With V.F. Fontes, P.P. Paulista, L.C.B. Souza, F. Neger, M. Galantier & J.E.M.R. Sousa. Successful anatomic correction of transposition of the great vessels: a preliminary report. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 28(4):461-4, 1975 With V.F. Fontes, P.P. Paulista, L.C.B. Souza, F. Neger, M. Galantier & J.E.M.R. Sousa. Anatomic correction of transposition of the great vessels. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 72(3):364-70, 1976 Proposed a technique of left ventricular reconstruction or Jatene procedure (1984) Left Ventricular aneurysmectomy. Resection or reconstruction? J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 89:321-31, 1985 Developed Barbero Marcial technique With M. Barbero-Marcial, A.A. Riso, G. Verginelli & F. Pileggi. A technique for correction of truncus arteriosus type I and II without extracardiac conduits. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 4(1):1-8, 1989 and J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 99(2):364-9, 1990 TECHNIQUES With L.A. Dallan, S.A. Oliveira, L.P. Poli de Figueiredo, L.A. Lisboa & F. Platania. Externally supported radial artery graft for myocardial revascularization: a new technique to avoid vasospasm. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 118(3):563-5, 1999 With F.B. Jatene, R.S. Assad & L.J. A. DiDio. An anatomy-based new surgical technique: “Segmentectomy” of the Left Ventricule for Systematized Partial Cardiac Resection. Symposium on Modern Imaging of the Human Body Dissecting and Clinical Anatomy. In: XV Federative International Congress of Anatomy, Rome 1999 With M.L. Barbero Marcial, C. Tanamati, E. Atik, L.J. Kajita, M. Ebaid & M.B. Jatene. Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery with an intramural aortic route: diagnosis and surgical treatment. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 13(2): 120-3, 1998 With M.A. Santos, P.R. Salerno, M.M. Capellari et al. Technical modifications in the surgery of supravalvar aortic stenosis. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 11(4):279-86, 1996 With P.R. Salerno, M.A. Santos, M.B. Jatene et al. New delivery system for pediatric blood cardioplegia. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 10(3):150-3, 1995 With R.S. Assad, V.D. Aiello, M.B. Jatene, R. Costa & F.l. Hanley. Cryosurgical ablation of fetal atrioventricular node – new model to treat fetal malignant tachyarrhythmias”. Ann Thorac. Surg 60(6):629-632, 1995 With R.S. Assad, M.B. Jatene, L.F.P. Moreira, P.C. Sales, R. Costa & F.L. Hanley. Fetal heart-block – a new experimental-model to assess fetal pacing”, Pacing Clin Electrophys 17(7):1256-1263, 1994 With J.J. Dinkhuysen, L.C.B. Souza, P. Chaccur et al. Trapezoidal aortoplasty. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 9(4):205-12, 1994 With M. Barbero-Marcial, E. Sosa, J.O.C. Auler Jr. & M. Scanavacca. Interpapillary subendocardial cryoablation for the treatment of recurrent ventricular chagasic tachycardia. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 8(3):215-9, 1993 With L.C.B. Souza, P. Chaccur, J.J. Dinkhuysen et al. New technical modification for supravalvar aortic stenosis surgical treatment. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 7(2):121-6, 1992 With F.B. Jatene, M.B. Jatene, N.Ikari & D.M.A. Machado. Surgical correction for atrial inversion in Senning operation in case of right ventricular dysfunction. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 6(1):49-53, 1991 With M. Barbero-Marcial, A.A. Riso, G. Verginelli & F. Pileggi. Nova técnica para correção do truncus arteriosus tipo I e II. Rev. Bras. Cardiol. Pediat. 1(1):15-21, 1991 With M. Barbero-Marcial, E. Sosa & M. Scanavacca. New technique for treatment of recurrent and refractory nodal reentry tachycardia: dissection of the posterior portion of the atrioventricular node. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 5(1):35-41, 1990 With M. Barbero-Marcial, E. Atik, M. Ratti, G. Verginelli, F. Pileggi et al. New surgical techniques for treatment of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary arteries anomalies including the so-called type IV. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 2(1):22-31, 1987 With D.S. Kormann, S.J. Kormann, J.C. Pachón Mateos, J.E.M.R. Sousa et al. Cardiac stimulation with teleanode: a new technique for electrical pacing of the heart. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 1(1):1-13, 1986 With L.B. Puig, L. Franca Neto, M. Rati, J.A.F. Ramires, F. Pileggi & P. L. Luz. A technique of anastomosis of the right internal mammary artery to the circunflex artery and its branches. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 38:533-4, 1984 With D.S. Korman, P.R. Gauch, J.C. Pachon, S.J. Korman & S. Galvão Filho. A new technique for pacemaker implantation with an endocardial electrode in children. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 41(4):227-30, 1983 Introduced transoperatory mapping (1978) Presented the mitral ring duplication as a new technique for treating mitral insufficiency (1971) Systematized the use of intermittent anoxic heart block for anastomosis (1968) DEVELOPED/INVENTED A rod clamp for mitral commissurotomy (1953) Built a model of heart-lung machine (1957) With W. Jazbik developed a simplified bubble oxygenator (1963) Patented bubble and membrane oxygenators and tilting-disc valves (1965) With H. Magalhães & W. Jazbik developed a non-disposable bubble oxygenator model (1964) With Waldir Jazbik built reusable bubble oxygenators (1966) Jatene-Macchi disposable oxygenator With Eduardo Issamu Nakayama & Adolfo Alberto Leiner Axial Rotary pump for Circulatory assistance An artificial heart-lung machine Valvular prostheses and pacemakers With F.A. Lucchese, R. Kalil, P.R. Prates & I.A. Nesralla. A new valve retractor for mitral valve procedures. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 29:177-8, 1980 Presented a model of prosthetic tilting disc (1981) With Fábio B. Jatene & Pedro C.P. Lemos. Hydro-dynamic flowmeter in myocardial revascularization surgery. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 1(1):49-53, 1986 Developed the disposable hollow fiber membrane oxygenator (1986) With P.M.A. Pomerantzeff, A.A. Leirner, A.S. Hayashida, M.L. Silva & R.A. Purchio. A non-conventional reniform heart valve biosprothesis with improved performance. ASAIO J. 38:607-10, 1992 With M.S. Oshiro, S.A. Hayashida, M.J.S. Maizato, E.F. Marques, N.A.G. Stolfi & A.A. Leirner Design, manufacturing, and testing of a paracorporeal pulsatile ventricular assist device – Sao-Paulo Heart Institute VAD”, Artificial organs: 19(3):274-279, 1995 With R.S. Assad, M. Cardarelli, M.C.D. Abduch, V.D. Aiello & M. Maizato. Reversible pulmonary trunk banding: experimental model for rapid pressure of the pulmonary ventricle. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 13(3):239-48, 1998 HONORS Pioneers in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Societé de Chirurgie