Juan Antonio Garbarino
Juan Antonio Garbarino Bacigalupo, Chilean natural products chemist (Santiago 27 April 1932 – Buenos Aires 09 October 2012) From Italian descent Authored over 300 scientific publications With M. Carvajal, L. Espinoza, H. Peña Cortés et al. first to show the production of hydroxylated derivatives of jasmonic acid by biotransformation (2011) With B.M. Fraga, R. Guillermo, M.G. Hernandez & M.C. Chamy first to observe Baeyer-Villiger oxidation in a microbiological transformation involving Gibberella fujikuroi (2009) With A. Russo, V. Cardile & A. de Ioannes first to show that lithreol inhibited cancer cell-viability in a dose-dependent manner (2008) Isolated a number of new diterpenes of various skeleton types Discovered and described at least 90 new diterpenes/diterpenoids and at least 50 new other natural compounds such as glucosides and sesquiterpenes isolated from fungi and lichens With B.M. Fraga, R. Guillermo & M.G. Hernandez discovered prestemodane skeleton (2004) Performed the structural delucidation of alkaloids, terpenoids and glycosidic phenyl propanoids Proved the therapeutic properties of plants like Lithraea caustica and Calceolaria sessilis PATENT With H. A. Peña Cortés & M.A. Carvajal Tocornal. Metodo de biotransformación com hongo Gibberella fujikuroi de acido salicílico (2006)
Juan Alberto Grieve
Juan Alberto Germán Grieve Becerra, Peruvian automobile engineer (Lima 15 July 1878 – Lima 03 July 1950) ACHIEVEMENTS Un nuevo motor termico (A new thermal engine). Bol. Minas, Industrias y Construcción 20:15-6, 1904 Developed a 5 horse power internal combustion engine (Grieve engine) Construcción de um motor a gasolina. Bol. Minas Fomento 3(3):58-65, 1905 Designed, built and patented a 20 horse power motor-car (Grieve), the first of Latin America (1908) and regarded one of the world’s best cars comparable to those of built in USA and Europe such as Renault and Brassiere HONOURS Life Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1949) LINKS https://guzlop-editoras.com/web_des/ing01/mecanica/pld1139.pdf His father, Juan Crisostomo Grieve Downing, engineer (Lima January 1848 – April 1905) From Scottish father and Irish mother Built a type of cannon that bears his name
Juan Agustín Gabastou
Juan Agustín Gabastou Bidart, Argentine gynecologist and obstetrician (Buenos Aires 23 June 1882 – Buenos Aires 31 July 1963) Developed hydraulic artificial labor or Mojon-Gabastou injection for retained placenta (1913) Un nuevo procedimiento de alumbramiento artificial. Anales Soc. Obst. Ginecol. Bs Aires (1914) and its German version in Munchener Mediz. Wochens. 61:651, 1914 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tumor mixto gigante del ovario (1944) With F. Kermauner & E.G. Murray. Hipoplasia genital femenina y esterilidad. V Congr. Arg. Obst. Gin. Bs Aires (1943) With E. Harguindeguy. La radiografia en el embarazo extrauterino. Bull. Soc. Obst. Gyn. 17:686, 1928 Tratamiento de la infección puerperal (1919) Adrenals in normal and pathologic pregnancy (1917) Embryotomy with living fetus. Semana Medica 23:49, 1916 La pibiotomia en las primerizas. Semana Medica 11, 1914 Desprendimiento prematuro de la placenta (normalmente insertada). Doctoral Thesis (1908) Una manifestación poco común de autointoxicación gravídica. Semana Medica
João Florencio Gomes
João Florêncio de Salles Gomes, Brazilian herpetologist and physician (Tatuí, São Paulo State 03 September 1886 – São Paulo 29 May 1919) Developed an original method for preparation of anti-dysenteric toxin Elucidated the complete life cycle of botfly With A. Neiva. Biologia da mosca do berne (Dermatobia hominis) observada em todas suas phases. Annaes Paul. Med. Cir. 8(9):197-209, 1917 DESCRIBED REPTILIAN TAXA Genera Ptychopis 1915 Species Apostolepis cearensis 1915 Apostolepis longicaudata 1921 Drymoluber brazili 1918 Gomesophis brasiliensis 1918 Phalotris nasutus 1915 Ptychopis flavovirgatus 1915 Rhinocerophis cotiara 1913 Rodriguesophis iglesiasi 1915 HONORS Gomesophis Hoge & Mertens 1959 (Reptilia)
José Rodolfo Galvele
José Rodolfo Galvele, Argentine metallurgist (Buenos Aires 10 March 1937 – Buenos Aires 31 July 2011) Authored one book and more than 160 papers Found that aluminum suffered from intergranular corrosion with hydrogen bubbles diffusing along grain boundaries and also showed that alloying elements eliminated molecular hydrogen improving the corrosion resistance of aluminum in his Ph.D dissertation (1962) A methodology for the prediction of susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (1976) Proposed a simple model to explain pitting corrosion mechanism or acid induced pit stabilization theory (1976-84) Proposed a famous mechanism of stress corrosion cracking or surface mobility mechanism known as Galvele model (1986-7) With G.S. Duffó developed an equation for the calculation of the surface mobility coefficient based on exchange current density SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.M. Giordano, S.B. Farina & G.S. Duffó. Steric hindrance as a rate controlling step in stress corrosion cracking. Corrosion Science 49(6):2745-53, 2007 Tafel’s law in pitting corrosion and crevice corrosion susceptibility. Corrosion Science 47(12):3053-67, 2005 With S.A. Serebrinsky. Effect of the strain rate on stress corrosion crack velocities in face-centred cubic alloys. A mechanistic interpretation. Corrosion Science 46(3):591-612, 2004 Application of the surface-mobility stress corrosion cracking mechanism to nuclear materials. J. Nuclear Materials 229:139-48, 1996 Surface mobility mechanism of stress corrosion cracking. Corrosion Science 35(1-4):419-34, 1993 With G.S. Duffó. Experimental confirmation of the surface mobility stress-corrosion cracking mechanism: Ag-15Pd, Ag-15Au and Ag-30Cd alloys in halid and sulfate containing solutions. Corrosion Science 30(2-3), 1990 With R.M. Carranza. Repassivation kinetics in stress corrosion cracking. Corrosion Science 28:233, 1988 With Y.S. Park, A.K. Agrawal & R.W. Staehle. Stress corrosion cracking and anodic behavior of AISI-304 stainless steel, Inconel-600 and Inconel-800 straining in boiling NAOH solutions. Corrosion 34, 1978 With J.B. Lumsden & R.W. Staehle. Effect of molybdenum on the pitting potential of high purity 18% Cr ferritic stainless steels. J. Electrochem. Soc. 125:1204, 1978 With I.L. Muller. Pitting potential of high purity binary aluminium alloys-Al-Cu-alloys pitting and intergranular corrosion. Corrosion Science 17(3):179-93, 1977 Transport Processes and the mechanism of pitting of metals. J. Electrochem. Soc. 123(4):464-74, 1976 With S.B. de Wexler. Anodic behavior of aluminium straining and a mechanism for pitting. J. Electrochem. Soc. 121(10), 1974 With S.M. de DeMicheli. Mechanism of intergranular corrosion of Al-Cu alloys. Corrosion Science 10(11); 795, 1970 With T.P. Hoar. Anodic behavior of mild steel during yielding in nitrate solutions. Corrosion Science 10(4):211-24, 1970 With J. Mazza. Corrosion of superpure aluminium in distilled water at high temperature. J. Nuclear Materials 13(1):92-9, 1964 With A.D. Keitelman. Pitting and pitting inhibition of iron in sodium sulfate solutions. Corrosion Science HONORS Corrosion Science TP Hoar Award (1981 & 1987) Nace Whitney Award (1999) Evans Award, Institute of Corrosion, United Kingdom (1999) LINKS http://www.ancefn.org.ar/institucional/docs/CVGalvele-esp.pdf
José Moura Gonçalves
José Moura Gonçalves, Brazilian biochemist (Rio de Janeiro 05 January 1914 – São Paulo 19 October 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS With C. R. Diniz isolated and characterized the active compounds of venom from Tityus serrulatus such as tityustoxin Isolated neurotoxin protein crotamine from venom of rattlesnakes and studied its pharmacological properties Developed new methods for protein isolation and characterization Developed techniques of osmotic pressure, dilatometry and enzymes microtitration in tissue cuts Determination of the coefficient of absorption of light in the cells. Rev. Bras. Biol. 4(1):125-30, 1944