Franz Eugen Hussak
Franz Eugen Hussak, Austrian-born Brazilian mineralogist and petrographer (Wilden, Steiermark 10 March 1856 – Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais State 05 September 1911) First described the pseudoleucites (1890) Presented first accurate reports about microstructure of titaniferous iron ores DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Gorceixite (1906) Zirkelite (1895) with Prior Senaite (1898) with Prior Lewisite (1895) Derbylite (1895) with Prior Tripuhyite (1897) with Prior Florencite (1899) with Prior Brazilite (1892) variety of baddeleyite
Fortunato Herrera
Fortunato Luciano Herrera Garmendia, Peruvian botanist, ethnographer, historian, geographer and mineralogist (Cusco 13 December 1873 – Lima 13 April 1945) Authored over 200 papers and 20 books Proposed the use of Krameria triantha natural products Authored Contribución a la flora del Departamento del Cusco (1921), with native synonyms, varieties of food plants and notes of ethnological and historical character With Russian Y. Yakovlev authored the monumental work El mundo vegetal de los antiguos peruanos (1934), describing the uses of plants in the arts and daily life of old civilizations in Peru (with international repercussion) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera Aliconia 1921 Hemifuchsia 1936 Species Aliconia guaco 1921 Cantua hibrida 1921 Cassia florifera 1921 Hemifuchsia yodostoma 1936 Mentha muna 1921 HONOURS Auxilliary Member, Academie Internationale de Botanique, Le Mans, France Genus Fortunatia Mcbride 1931 (Asparagaceae) About 50 plant species bears his name LINKS www.fortunatoherrera.org/index.html
Foon Chew How
Foon Chew How or Kuanzhao Hou, Chinese botanist (1908 – 1959) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid genus Muricococcum 1956 with Chun (Euphorbiaceae) Species 116 HONORS Foonchewia R.J.Wang 2012 (Rubiaceae)
Ezechias Paulo Heringer
Ezechias Paulo Heringer, Brazilian botanist and botanical collector (Manhuaçu, Minas Gerais State 05 April 1905 – Brasilia 15 January 1987) From German descent Authored over 100 papers From his collections 154 orchid species and 9 plant species were described as new DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Section Elenaea 1987 with Rizzini (Fabaceae) Species Aniba pulcherrima 1976 with Kubitzki Cassia mystacicarpa 1966 with Rizzini Cedrela elliptica 1966 with Rizzini Copaifera bulbotricha 1977 with Rizzini Cyclolobium nutans 1980 with Rizzini Dalbergia hortensis 1987 with Rizzini & A. Mattos Mimosa artemisiana 1979 with Paula Stryphnodendron barbatulum 1987 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron confertum 1966 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron cristalinae 1986 Stryphnodendron gracile 1966 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron platyspicum 1966 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron sallesianum 1987 with Rizzini Virola lieneana 1979 with Paula Vochysia pseudopumila 1966 with Rizzini Described new fungi species (at least 8) Described Mycosphaerella melastomataceaerum 1966 with Batista & Cavalcanti With A.C. Batista, G.E.P. Peres & W.A. Cavalcanti. Alguns Mycosphaerellaceae novos e antigos do Planalto Central Brasileiro. Atas Inst. Micol. 3(485):218-37, 1966 Flora micológica das espécies do Cerrado de Paraopeba (Minas Gerais) e arredores. Cerrado 3 (14):9-14, 1971 With M.J.P. Maciel. Fungos filamentosos de quatro formações ecológicas – mata ripária (ciliar), cerrado, mata inundável e mata do afloramento calcáreo. Brasil Florestal 11(47):11-21, 1981 With G.P. de P. Lopes. Alguns fungos pouco conhecidos e sete espécies novas em folhas de plantas do Planalto Central Brasileiro (Distrito Federal, Goiás). Arq. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 25:73-116, 1981 Performed extensive studies about underground plant organs With C.T. Rizzini. Estudo sobre os sistemas subterrâneos difusos de plantas campestres. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 38:85-112, 1966 With C.T. Rizzini. Studies on the underground organs of trees and shrubs from Southern Brazilian savannas. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 34(2):235-47, 1962 With C.T. Rizzini. Underground organs of plants from some Southern Brazilian savannas, with special reference to the Xylopodium. Phyton 17(1):105-24, 1961
Eusebio Hernandez Perez
Eusebio G. Hernandez y Pérez, obstetra e ginecologista cubano (Colón, Matanzas Province 18 January 1853 – La Habana 23 November 1933) Introduced improvements in forceps, Tarnier basiotribe and Farabeuf pelvimeter Developed a new pelvimeter Proposed an open synphysiotomy procedure Described a new cause of cervix anatomical rigidity during delivery Nueva causa de rigidez anatômica del cuello uterino durante el parto (1899) Expanded Pinard’s concept of puericulture to adult life cycle creating homiculture, i.e. scientific physical improvement of mankind With Domingo Ramos Delgado. Homicultura (1911) LINKS https://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/revciemedhab/cmh-2012/cmh121q.pdf (Spanish)
Eric Hagsater
Eric Ragnar Wolko Hagsater Gartenberg, Mexican entrepneur and orchidologist (Ciudad de Mexico 05 May 1945 – From Swedish father and Austrian mother Described 800 new species in genus Epidendrum and 25 in other genera of Orchidaceae HONORS Hagsatera R. Gonzalez 1974 (Orchidaceae)