Carlos Heuser
Carlos Heuser, Argentine radiologist (Buenos Aires 08 February 1868 – Buenos Aires 28 March 1934) First to use a constrast medium in the human vessels (first venography and pulmonary angiography) Pielografia con yoduro de sodio y las inyecciones intravenosas de yoduro potasico en radiografia. Sem. Med. 26:424, 1919 First to use Lipiodol (iodized oil) to create a radiograph of uterine cavity creating hysterosalpingography by Lipiodol (1921) Developed a hysterosalpingography method employing Lipiodol and Vaseline (1924) Lipiodol in the diagnosis of pregnancy. The Lancet 206 (5335): 1111-2, 1925 La metrosalpingografia. Sem. Med. 33:1667-71, 1926 Introduced a protective mask for use during x-ray utilization Responsible for many improvements in the field of radiology HONOURS Gold Medal, Radiological Society of North America (1931)
Carlos Herrera Rojas
Carlos H. Herrera Rojas, Peruvian plant physiologist SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Control of Spilanthes urens Tacq. “Turre macho” by means of hedonal herbic amine salt of 2,4 d-herbic for its eradication of cultivated fields. Archivos Biol. Med. Exp. 2:18-19, 1969 Eradication of Distichilis spicata “grama salada” by means of 2,2 di-chloro-propionic acid dowpon herbic. Archivos Biol. Med. Exp. 2, 1969 HONORS Herreramyxa Skvortzov 1972 (Xanthophyceae)
Carl Curt Hosseus
Carl Curt Hosseus, German-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (Stromberg im Thale, Hunsruck Pfalz 11 August 1878 – Cordoba 04 May 1950) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Aeschynanthus macrocalyx 1907 Astragalus tafelii 1938 Bauhinia harmsiana 1907 Begonia mouhotiana 1911 Berberis argentinensis 1921 Buddleja iresinoides 1926 Cassia kuntzei 1921 Ceratostigma stapfianum 1911 Croton hutchinsonianus 1911 Echinocactus bodenbenderianus 1929 Escallonia graefiana 1921 Escallonia tucumanensis 1921 Exacum sutaepense 1908 Gentiana hesseliana 1911 Geum scottsbergianum 1921 Gymnocalycium centeterium 1926 Gymnocalycium ottonis 1926 Gymnocalycium sigelianum 1926 Helicia hookeriana 1913 Hexaptera kurtzii 1921 Hoffmannseggia philippiana 1921 Hoya engleriana 1907 Indigofera siamensis 1907 Leucas lamioides 1911 Linderia bifaria 1911 Malacocarpus dusenii 1931 Mussaenda sutepensis 1911 Opuntia riojana 1936 Osbeckia ridleyana 1911 Patagonium philippianum 1921 Phyllatathodendron siamense 1911 Polygonum damrogianum 1911 Portulaca cordobensis 1921 Rhododendron ludwigianum 1911 Rhynchosia longipetiolata 1907 Richthofenia siamensis 1907 Rostkovia reichei 1915 Rubus volkensianus 1911 Senecio craibinnus 1911 Swertia dielsiana 1911 Varieties 23 HONORS Hosseusia Gyelnik 1940 (Lichenes) Hosseusia Prout 1931 (Lepidoptera)
Brian John Huntley
Brian John Huntley, South African plant ecologist and conservationist (Durban 20 February 1944 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.R.J. Dean, M.A. Huntley & C.J. Vernon. Notes on some birds of Angola. Durban Mus. Novit. 14:43-92, 1988 With G.R. Hughes & D. Wearne. Sea turtles in Angola. Biol. Cons. 5:58-9, 1973 Ageing criteria for tsessebe. J. Sth. Afr. Wildl. Mg. Assoc. 3:24-6, 1973 A note on food preferences of a steenbok. J. Sth. Afr. Wildl. Mg. Assoc. 2:24-6, 1972 Carcass composition of mature male blesbok and kudu. S. Afr. J. Anim. Sci. 1:125-8, 1971 Seasonal variation in the physical conditions of mature lesbok and kudu. J. Sth. Afr. Wildl. Mg. Assoc. 1:17-9, 1971 Observations on the Percy Fyfe Reserve Tsessebe population. Ann. Transv. Mus. 27:225-39, 1970 Altitudinal distribution and phenology of Marion Island vascular plants. Tydskr. Natuurwet 10:4, 1970 A floristic and ecological account of the vegetation of Marion and Prince Edward Islands, South Indian Ocean. MSc. Thesis, University of Pretoria (1968) A preliminary account of Ngoye Forest Reserve, Zululand. J. S. Afr. Bot. 31:177-205, 1965 HONORS Brianhuntleya Chesselet, Hammer & Oliver 2003 (Aizoaceae)
Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Bernardo Alberto Justino Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Buenos Aires 10 April 1887 – Buenos Aires 21 September 1971) Son of French immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 500 papers and several books With A. B. Biasotti discovered that pituitary anterior lobe played an important role in carbohydrates metabolism in blood stream and that it was possible to control the metabolism by equilibrium of distinct hormones (1929) Discovered sugar oxidation in blood depends on a complex interaction between insulin and other hormones such as prolactin and somatotropin Demonstrated pancreas graft between carotid and jugular veins in dogs regulated the glycemia Proved pituitary diabetogenic effect depends on liver Determined that the cortex of the adrenal gland is indispensable to life (1923) With J.T. Lewis. The relative importance to life of cortex and medulla of the adrenal glands. Am. J. Physiol. 64:512-21, 1923 First employed the meal-feeding scheme With D. Martínez. Experimental diabetes and diet. Science 105:548-9, 1947 Noted the existence of a diabetogenic principle derived from pars distalis acting through adrenal glands (1930) With A. Biasotti & C.T. Rietti first observed metahypophysary diabetes and distinguished it from hypophysary diabetes (1932) With Juan C. Fasciolo demonstrated hypertension is due to a pressor action substance (renin) in ischemic kidneys (1937-8) With C. Galli-Mainini discovered that pregnant women urine caused spermatozoa release in male frog With Giusti and Gonzalez demonstrated anterior lobe effect on spawning in female frogs and toad (1929) First to use pituitary implants in fishes (1931) Performed important studies about snakes and spiders toxin developing a protecting serum against certain spiders toxins Authored Human Physiology (1945) translated into English, French, Italian and Portuguese Papers in top journals With O. Orías & I. Sara. The mechanism of action of alloxan on blood sugar. Science 102(2643):197, 1945 With C. Martínez. Experimental diabetes and diet. Science 2734(:548-9, 1947 With C. Martínez. Alloxan diabetes in dogs with renal pedicles clamped. Nature 162(4119):571, 1948 With E.B. Menendez, J.C. Fasciolo, L.F. Leloir, J.M. Muñoz & A.C. Taquini. Angiotonin or hypertensin. Science 98(2553):495, 1953 EPONYMY Houssay phenomenon (1930) Houssay dogs or animal Houssay syndrome Giusti-Houssay hypohysectomy (1924) Houssay-Gerschman technique for liver perfusion (1947) Genus Houssayanthus Hunziker 1978 (Sapindaceae) Genus Houssayella Bonetto & Ezcurra de Drago 1966 (Fresh-water Porifera) Houssay 2550 Asteroid Houssay crater in Moon HONORS Physiology & Medicine Nobel Prize 1947 Dale Medal, London Society of Endocrinology 1960 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris 1935 Doctor Honoris Causa, Harvard University 1936 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oxford 1947 Doctor Honoris Causa, Columbia University 1954 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Cambridge 1960
Bailin Hao
Bailin Hao, Chinese physicist (Beijing 26 June 1934 – Beijing 07 March 2018) Authored 171 research papers and 27 books CONTRIBUTIONS With S.Y. Zhang. An ALGOL program to calculate the fault currents in power networks” Communications in Power Systems Design, 33 (1976) (in Chinese). With S.Y. Zhang. “Two ALGOL programs to calculate power flows in power networks” Communications in Power Systems Design, 44 (1977) (in Chinese). With H. Shi & Y.C. Xu“A closed-form approximation for the 3-dimensional Ising model” Chinese Physics (AIP), 2 (1982), 1-16 Chinese original: Acta Physica Sinica, 27 (1978), 47-62. With S.Y. Zhang. A general-purpose program for calculating the stability and transients of high order linear regulator systems” Computer Technique, 1:45-56, 1978 (in Chinese). With Q.L. Li, J.B. Chen & L.Yu.“Time and space scanning of the b-value: a method for monitoring the development of catastrophic earthquakes”Acta Geophysica Sinica, 21:101-124, 1978 (in Chinese) With S.Y. Subharmonic stroboscopy as a method to study period-doubling bifurcations” Phys. Lett. A87:267-70, 1982 Two kinds of entrainment-beating transitions in a driven limit-cycle oscillator”, J. Theor. Biol., 98:9-14, 1982 With S.Y. Zhang. Subharmonic stroboscopic sampling method for study of period-doubling bifurcation and chaotic phenomena in forced nonlinear oscillators”, Acta Physica Sinica, 32:198-208, 1983 (in Chinese) With G. Hu. A scaling relation for the Hausdorff dimension of the limiting sets in one-dimensional mappings” Commun. Theor. Phys., 2:1473-6, 1983 With C.J. Mei. A semi-microscopic model for acoustic activity”, Commun. Theor. Phys., 4:795-802, 1985 With W.Z. Zeng. The derivation of a sum rule determining the q-th order information dimension”, Commun. Theor. Phys., 8:295-301, 1987 With J. Qi & H. Luo. CVTree: a phylogenetic tree reconstruction tool based on whole gemomes”, Nucl. Acids Res. 32 (July 2004), Web Server issue, W45-W47 With Junjie Shen, Shuyu Zhang & Hoong-Chien Lee. SeeDNA: a visualization tool for K-string content of long DNA sequences and their randomized counterparts. Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2(3):192-6, 2004 With Guanghong Zuo. CVTree3 Web Server for whole-genome-based and alignment-free prokaryotic phylogeny and taxonomy, Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics, 13: 321- 31, 2015 With Guanghong Zuo. LVTree Viewer: an interactive display for the All-Species Living Tree incorporating automatic comparison with prokaryotic systematics, Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics (2016) HONORS Bailinhaonella Feng, Yang, Gao, Ji, Yin, Zhao, Chunyi, Li, Zhi & Tang 2019 (Bacteria)