Malcolm Hutchison Giffen
Malcolm Hutchison Giffen, South African phycologist (Rosebank, Cape Town 06 July 1902 – East London, Buffalo City, Eastern Cape Province 16 September 1986) Described genus Cuneolus 1970 and 89 new species of diatoms HONORS Giffenia Round & Basson 1997 (Bacillariophyceae)
Lélio Itapuambyra Gama
Lélio Itapuambyra Gama, Brazilian mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (Rio de Janeiro 29 August 1892 – Rio de Janeiro 21 July 1981) Introduced notion of spheroidal structure spaces. It is the same as uniform structure enunciated by Weil in 1937 Notion de proximité et espaces à structure sphéroidale. American Journal of Mathematics 67(1):42-58, 1945. Another important work Limits d’ensemble dans les espaces abstraits. Summa Brasiliensis Mathematicae 1:1945-6 Proposed a fundamental theorem Sur les fonctions d’intervalle. Anais Acad. Bras. Sciencias (1939) Gave many demonstrations and important original results Introdução a teoria dos conjuntos. Rev. Bras. Estat. (1941-4) Simplified the classical methods of reduction per day Sobre o cálculo dos fatores de Kimura para a reducção ao dia (1925) Improved the control of instrumental deviation in the observation of latitude variations Estudo da precisão do método de Talcott (1929) Proposed that curvature correction may be formulated as a function of median zenital distance by observed star pairs On the computation of the reduction to the meridian in latitude observators. Astron. Nachrichten 5361:163-4, 1925 Developed a Talcott method for computing mean declination of a pair of stars using differential corrections of Kimura factors Member, Astronomical Time and Earth Rotation Committee, International Astronomical Union (1956-64) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Valores da gravidade nas regiões centro e sul do Brasil (1972) Sobre a variação diurna do campo magnético no Brasil (1972) Constante do micrômetro da luneta zenital de Heyde (1969) Campo magnético normal e sua variação secular em 545 pontos geográficos do Brasil, 1880-1960 (1966) Cyclic fluctuations in geomagnetic secular change (1915-1959) 1960 Précis de theorie du magnetometer (1957) With C.A. Barros. Comparison of the Rude Skov and Vassouras magnetic standards by means of quartz horizontal-force magnetometers (1953) Recherches théoriques et pratiques sur les variometres unifilaires (1951) Series numéricas (1947) Sobre a integral imprópria (1941) Sur l’additivité du contigent. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 207:29-31, 1938 Sur l’additivité de l’accumulatif. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 207:447-8, 1938 Contribuição a teoria dos limites. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciências (1937) Sobre as equações diferenciais do movimento dos asteróides (1934) On the computation of mean star factors for the deduction of latitude observations by Horrebow-Talcott method Astron. Nachrichten 5691:45-6, 1930 Estudo sobre as linhas geodésicas. Thesis (1929) Contribuições para o estudo da variação das latitudes (1929) Determinação da latitude (1929) Cálculo do nascer e do occaso da Lua no Rio de Janeiro (1928) Nota sobre a theoria do movimento diurno (1924)
Luis Guglialmelli
Luis C. Guglialmelli Cosentino, Argentine organic chemist (Buenos Aires 15 May 1884 – San Martín, Buenos Aires Province 14 November 1937) Son of Genoese immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered hundreds of new chemical species A new method for obtaining gold Acción de la plata colidal sobre los cloruros de oro y de platino. Nuevo método de obtención de oro coloidal. Anales Soc. Cient. Argentina, 1913. Created arseno-tungstic and molybdic reagents (Guglialmelli reagent) Arseno-tungstic-molybdic acid as a reagent for phenols. Anales Soc. Quim. Argentina 4:183-4, 1916. Un Nuevo procedimiento de valorización de los taninos por colorimetria. Actas y Trabajos, Primer Congreso Nacional Medicina, Buenos Aires, Tomo V: 211, 1916. New reaction distinguishing the sugars. Anales Soc. Quim. Argentina 4:277-82, 1916. New and delicate test for dimethylaminee-phenyldimethylisopyrazolone (pyramidone). Anales Soc. Quim. Arg. 4:180-2, 1916. Identification of naphthols, a new and sensitive test for a-naphthol. Anales Soc. Quim. Argentina 5:97-101, 1917. General method for the detection of phenols in essential oils. Anales Soc. Quim. Argentina 5:11-23, 1917. Un nuevo procedimiento de valorización de los taninos por colimetria (1919) With Carlos Guerrero Estrella. Un Nuevo procedimiento de la tintura marrón sobre la lana. Anales Asoc. Quim. Arg. 8:325, 1929.
Luis Emilio Grosso
Luis Emilio Grosso, Argentine hydrobiologist (San Salvador de Jujuy 1942 – San Miguel de Tucumán 03 July 2025) DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATA TAXA Crustacea Family Patagonaspididae 2002 with Peralta Genera Cuyojanira 1992 Dyticogidiella 1985 with Claps Mesochthongidiella 1985 with Fernandez Patagonaspides 2002 with Peralta Patagongidiella 1993 with Fernandez Rudolphia 2009 with Peralta Species Argentinogidiella hormocollensis 1988 with Fernandez Argentinogidiella lavillai 1984 with Claps Bogidiella cooki 1979 with Ringuelet Cuyojanira riojana 1992 Dyticogidiella ringueleti 1988 with Fernandez Dyticogidiella talampayensis 1985 with Claps Eobogidiella purmamarcensis 1979 with Ringuelet Grossogidiella mauryi 1993 with Fernandez Hyalella araucana 1999 with Peralta Hyalella rionegrina 1999 with Peralta Mesochthongidiella tucumanensis 1985 with Fernandez Parastygocaris clapsi 1997 with Peralta Parastygocaris schminkei 1997 with Peralta Patagonaspides sandroruffoi 2002 with Peralta Patagongidiella danieli 1993 with Fernandez Pseudingolfiella morimotoi 2006 with Peralta & Ruffo Rudolphia macrodactylus 2009 with Peralta Stygocaris hugofernandezi 2000 with Peralta Gastrotricha Species Aspidiophorus brahmsi 1973 Aspidiophorus lilloensis 1983 with Drahg Chaetonotus annectens 1991 with Drahg Chaetonotus (Captochaetus) majestuosus 1984 with Drahg Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) odontophraynx 1986 with Drahg Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) pilaga 1982 Chaetonotus (Primochaetus) soberanus 1984 with Drahg Chaetonotus (Primochaetus) tenuisquamatus 1982 Chaetonotus (Zonochaeta) guruguetoi 1973 Heterolepidoderma famaillensis 1991 with Drahg Polymerurus paraelongatum 1986 with Drahg Coleoptera Species Haliplus bachmanni 1970 with Vidal Sarmiento Suphis ticky 1992 Acari Species Omartacarus paraelongatus 1991 with Fernandez HONORS Grossogidiella Koenemann & Holsinger 1999 (Crustacea)
Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães
Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães, Brazilian entomologist (Itapira, São Paulo State 24 January 1908 –São Paulo 07 November 1998) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Mallophaga Acutifrons 1942 Falcophilus 1942 Hoazineus 1940 Micronaubates 1935 with Pessoa Pessoaiella 1940 Theresiella 1985 Siphonaptera Ayeshaepsyllina 1993 with Linardi Neopolygenis 1993 with Linardi Neotropsylla 1993 with Linardi Rothschildopsylla 1953 Tiamastina 1993 with Linardi Vernoniella 1942 Diptera Baucuterebra 1941 with Carrera Hershkovitzia 1956 with D’Andretta Paraeuctenodes 1936 with Pessoa Species At least 42 valid species and 9 subspecies in Mallophaga & Anoplura
Leopoldo García-Colin
Leopoldo García-Colin Scherer, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 27 November 1930 – Ciudad de Mexico 08 October 2012) From German descent Authored 237 papers and 17 books on chemical physics and statistical physics SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Benedicks effect in a relativistic simple fluid. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 38:141, 2013 With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the nature of the so-called generic instabilities in dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Gen. Relat. Grav. 41(7):1645-54, With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo & A.L. García-Perciante. Relativistic transport theory for simple fluids to first order in the gradients. Physica A. Stat. Mech. Appl. (2008) With E. Hernandez-Lemus. Non-equilibrium critical behavior: an extended irreversible thermodynamics approach. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 31(4):397-417, 2006 With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Jeans instability in the linearized Burnett regime. Physica A 347:375, 2005 With P. Goldstein. On the validity of Onsager’s relation in an inert dilute gas mixture. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. (2005) With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Hydrodynamic time correlate functions in the presence of a gravitational field. Physica A 237:213, 2003 With O. Resendis-Antonio & H. Larralde. A statistical model of DNA denaturation. Physica A 318:435, 2002 With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the gravitational instability of a dissipative medium. Class. Quant. Gravity 19(8): 2171-6, 2002 With F.J. Uribe, R.M. Velasco & E. Díaz Herrera. Shock wave profiles in the Burnett approximation. Phys. Review E 62:6648, 2000 With F.J. Uribe & R.M. Velasco. Bobylev’s instability. Phys. Review E 62:5835, 2000 With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the cosmological implications of irreversible thermodynamics. J. Gen. Relat. Grav. 31:781, 1999 Remarks on the glass transition. Rev. Mex. Fisica 45, 1999 With F.J. Uribe & R.M. Velasco. Burnett description of Strong shock waves. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81:2044, 1998 With S. Godoy. Nonvalidity of the telegrapher’s diffusion equation in two and three dimensions for crystalline solids. Physics Review E 55(3):2127-31, 1997 With J. Galvão Ramos & A.R. Vasconcellos. A thermo-hydrodynamics theory based on informational statistical thermodynamics. Braz. J. Physics 27(4):585-604, 1997 With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Relativistic Navier-Stokes equations in the Meixner-Prigogine scheme. Physica A 240:480, 1997 With S. Godoy. From the quantum random walk to classical mesoscopic diffusion in crystalline solids. Phys. Rev. E 53:5779, 1996 With M.A. Olivares-Robles. On different derivations of telegrapher’s type kinetic equations. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 21:361-79, 1996 With P. Goldstein. Transport processes in a viscoelastic binary mixture. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 19:170-83, 1994 With R.M. Velasco. Viscoheat coupling in a binasry mixture. J. Phys. A Math. Gen. 24(5), 1991 With F.J. Uribe. Extended irreversible thermodynamics beyond the linear regime. A critical overview. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 16:89-128, 1991 Extended non-equilibrium thermodynamics: scope and limitations. Rev. Mex. Fisica 34:344, 1988 With R.F. Rodríguez. On the relationship between extended thermodynamism and the wave approach to thermodynamics. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn.13:81-94, 1988 With M. López de Haro. The Burnett equations in extended irreversible thermodynamics. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 7:95, 1982 With S.M.T. de la Selva. The bulk viscosity and the chemical relaxation measurements within the context of thermodynamics (1980) With J. Peretti. Evaluation de la function de distribution binaire d’un gaz quantique imparfait. Methode Générale. Compt. Rendus 248:1625, 1959 With R.F. Rodríguez, M. López de Haro, J. Casas-Vazquez & D. Jon. On the foundations of extended irreversible thermodynamics. J. Stat. Phys. 37:465-84, With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Rayleigh-Brillouin spectrum in special relativistic hydrodynamics HONOURS World champion of Jai Alai (1950) Physics Prize, University of Maryland (1956-7) Visiting Profesor, J.D. Van der Waals Chair, Amsterdam University (1976)