Alvaro Wille Trejos
Alvaro Wille Trejos, Costa Rican entomologist (San Jose 17 May 1928 – San Jose 11 June 2006) From German ancestry A technique for collecting stingless bees under jungle conditions. Insectes Sociaux 9(3):291-3, 1962 With C.D. Michener, E.A. Cross, H.V. Daly & C.W. Rettenmeyer. Additional techniques for studying the behaviour of wild bees. Insectes Sociaux 2:237-46, 1955 Coauthored a monumental work on the nest architecture of stingless bees With C.D. Michener. The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev.Biol. Trop. 21(Suppl1):1-278, 1973 DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Species Fossil Proplebeia silacea 1959 Trigonia (Liotrigonia) dominicana 1964 with Chandler Living Plebeia tica 1969 Tetragonisca costaricensis 1962 Trigonia (Plebeia) intermedia 1960 Trigonisca discolor 1965 HONORS Meliwillea Camargo, Lobo & Roubik 1997 (Hymenoptera) LINKS www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol54-4/00-4-Obituario%20A.%20Wille.pdf
Alpheus Fuller Williams
Alpheus Fuller Williams, US-born South African mining engineer (Oakland, Alameda County, California 21 June 1874 – Cape Town 06 January 1953) With J. Parry & F.E. Wright described mineral species bultfonteinite (1932) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Genesis of the diamond. A geological, mineralogical, crystallographical, petrographical and chemical study of kimberlite and its associated, cognate and accidental inclusions (1932) Diamond-bearing alluvial gravels of the union of South Africa. Brit. Empire Mining Metal. Congr. Handbook (1930) HONORS Afwillite Parry & Wright 1925 (Mineral)
Ahmed Hassan Wahba
Ahmed Hassan Wahba, Egyptian bacteriologist (Berlin, Germany 15 December 1922 – ?) Metallic sheen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nature 204:502, 1964 Developed a new type of cholera vaccine Developed and modified methods Vibriocine production in the cholera and El Tor vibrios. Bull. World Health Organ. 33(5):661-4, 1965 Wih J. H. Darrell. Pyocine-typing of hospital strains of Pseudomonas pyocyanea. J. Clin. Path. 17:236-42, 1964 The production and inactivation of pyocines. J. Hyg. 61(4):431-41, 1963 With O.M. Lidwell. A simple apparatus for colicine typing. Appl. Bacteriol. 26:246, 1963 With V. Takla. A new chemical flocculation test for cholera vibrio identification. Bull. World Health Organ. 26(2):306-8, 1962 With V. Takla. Semi-synthetic media for the cultivation of bacteria. J. Minist. Health 1(4):89-91, 1960
Abraham Willink
Abraham Willink, Dutch-born Argentine entomologist (Drachten, Friesland Province 13 January 1920 – San Miguel de Tucumán 08 February 1998) DESCRIBED HYMNENOPTERA TAXA Genera Araucodynerus 1968 Carlobembix 1958 Cuyodynerus 1968 Incodynerus 1968 Species About 75 HONORS Willinkia Bondar 1949 (Coleoptera) Willinkiella Menke 1968 (Hymenoptera) Willinkapis Moure 1953 (Hymenoptera)
Zeferino Vaz
Zeferino Vaz, Brazilian helminthologist (São Paulo 27 May 1908 – São Paulo 09 February 1981) Authored about 70 works With C. Pereira developed a simple and rapid process for in toto-mounting of nematodes in balsam (1934) and a technique for staining parasites DESCRIBED HELMINTH GENERA Trematoda Parahemiurus 1930 with Pereira Travassosina 1932 Trematichthys 1932 Witenbergia 1932 Nematoda Ackertia 1934 Hempelia 1936 Paraleiurus 1929 with Pereira HONORS Zefevazia Martínez 1954 (Coleoptera)
Y. Narsing Rao Varma
Y. Narsing Rao Varma, Indian palynologist (1947 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL POLLEN / SPORAE SPECIES Callialasporites crassimarginatus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Cicatricosisporites gangapurensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Cicatricosisporites verrumuratus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Contignisporites crenatus 1984 with Ramanujam Cucurbitariaceites keralaensis 1985 with Patil Dicellaesporites inaequalis 1985 Distalanulisporites verrucatus 1984 with Ramanujam Foveosporites sahii 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Impardecispora adilabadensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Ischyosporites pusillus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Matonisporites sahnii 1984 with Ramanujam Neoraistrickia rallapetensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Platysaccus bharadwaji 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Trilites orikkaiense 1984 with Ramanujam Undulatisporites venkatachalai 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Varmasporites tonakkalensis 1985 with Patil HONORS Varmasporites Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000 (Fossil pollen /sporae)