Hilario Soares de Gouvea
Hilário Soares de Gouvea, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Caeté, Minas Gerais State 23 September 1843 – Rio de Janeiro 25 October 1923) ACHIEVEMENTS First to describe a fatal case of xerosis conjunctivae bulbi (1869) Established the relationship between xerophthalmia and malnutrition Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Hemeralogie und Xerophthalmie aus Ernaehrungs-Stoerungen. Arch. Ophtal. XXIX:167-200, 1883 First to report a family with hereditary retinoblastoma and first suggested hereditary basis for cancer L’Heredité des gliomes de la retine. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de Janeiro, 1886 L’Heredité des gliomes de la retine. Annales d’ Oculistique. 143:32-5, 1910 Described a new process for curing corneal staphyloma Novo processo para a cura dos estafilomas anteriores aderentes da córnea, produzida por prolapsos da íris. Rev. Cursos Práticos e Theoricos, Rio de Janeiro
Hernando García Barriga
Hernando García y Barriga, Colombian botanist (Bogotá 30 November 1913 – 2005) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Agrostis boyacensis 1943 with Swallen Axonopus micay 1960 Carica fructifragrans 1958 with Hernandez Camacho Gustavia dumitiana 1952 Gustavia romeroi 1975 with Mori Herrania cuatrecasana 1941 Herrania dugandii 1941 Matisia uribei 1952 Philodendron leyvae 1962 Piper erythroxyloides 1975 with Schultes Pouteria officinalis 1978 Prunus betancuri 1984 with Schultes Prunus carolinae 1983 Prunus ernestii 1983 Rapatea circasiana 1954 with Mora Rapatea muayi 1954 with Mora Rapatea schultesiana 1954 with Mora Saurauia anolaimensis 1943 with Schultes Saurauia putumayonis 1943 with Schultes Saxofridericia colombiana 1954 with Mora Sporobolus bogotensis 1943 with Swallen Urochloa albicoma 1943 with Swallen Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa 1958 with Hernandez Camacho HONOURS Lifetime Achievement Award, Linnean Society of London (1979) Richard Evans Schultes Award (1974) Visiting Professor, Harvard University (1967) Genus Garcibarrigoa Cuatrecasas 1986 (Asteraceae)
Henri Claude Gorceix
Henri Claude Gorceix, Brazilian / French geologist (Saint Denis des Murs, Haute Vienne 19 October 1842 – Paris 06 September 1919) He was a descendant of famous chemist Joseph Gay Lussac SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notice sur le gisement et l’exploration de l’or a Lavras, Province du Rio Grande do Sul (1875) Estudo chimico e geológico das rochas do centro da Província de Minas Geraes. Ann. Escola Minas Ouro Preto 1:1-12 & 2:7-23, 1881 Les diamants et les pierres précieuses du Brésil. Rev. Sci. 29:553, 1882 Notes sur quelques mineraux des roches métamorphiques des environs d’Ouro Preto (Minas Geraes, Brésil). Bull. Soc. Franc. Mineral. Cristallogr. 6:27, 1883 Note sur une zéolite d’un roche pyroxenique du bassin de l’Abaeté, Minas-Geraes, Brésil. Bull. Soc. Franc. Mineral. Cristallogr. 7-8:32, 1884 Sur les mineraux qui accompagnent le diamant dans le nouveau gisement de Salobro, province de Bahia, Brésil. Compt. Rendus l’Acad. Sci. XCVIII:1446-8, 1884 Bacias Terciarias de agua doce nos arredores de Ouro Preto (Gandarela e Fonseca), Minas Geraes (1884) Noticia relativa a alguns minerais dos cascalhos diamantíferos contendo acido fosfórico, alumina e outras terras da família cerium. (1884) Sur de sables à monazite de Caravelles, province de Bahia (Brésil). Bull. Soc. Mineral France 32, 1884 Diamonds in Brazil. Brazilian Mining Review (1902) Etude geologique des gisements de topazes de la province de Minas Geraes, Brésil. Ann. Scient. Ecole Normal Superieure Observations sur le climat et le régime des pluies du plateau de la province de Mines-Geraes Ficus elastica de Minas Geraes. Bull. Soc. Comm. Paris 13:31, HONORS Gorceixia Baker 1882 (Asteraceae) Gorceixite Hussak 1906 (Mineral)
Heirehalli Chenniah Govindu
Heirehalli Chenniah Govindu, Indian mycologist (1918 – Described the genus Zeuctomorpha 1984 with Sivanesan & Kirk beyond about 70 new fungi species HONORS Govindua Batista & Maia 1960 (Fungi)
Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar
Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar, Egyptian oceanographer (Cairo 15 November 1907 – 1994) AUTHORED The partnership between fish and anemone. Nature 134:291, 1934 The preservation of contractile marine animals in an expanded condition. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. Kingdom 22(1):295-9, 1937 DESCRIBED NEW VALID TAXA Cnidaria Genus Efflatounaria 1939 Species Anthelia hicksoni 1940 Briareum hamrum 1948 Clavularia hicksoni 1939 Efflatounaria tottoni 1939 Heteroxenia ghardaqensis 1940 Ovabunda macrospiculata 1940 Rhodelinda gardneri 1940 Unomia stolonifera 1938 Pisces (with Clark 1953) Species Brachaluteres fahaqa Lagocephalus suezensis Paraluteres arqat Mollusca Species Hypselodoris ghardaqana 1957 with Aboul-Ela HONORS Goharia Beltagi & Eshky 1992 (Turbellaria)
Gutierrez family
Avelino Praxedes Gutierrez Fernandez, Spanish-born Argentine surgeon and anatomist (San Pedro de Sola, Santander, Cantabria 21 July 1864 – Buenos Aires 20 February 1946) ACHIEVEMENTS Described new techniques mainly for gastrointestinal surgery Developed Gutierrez procedure for treatment of chronic osteomielitis (1896) Tratamiento de las osteomielitis. Rev. Iberoamericana 7:23, 1902 Established a surgical method for treatment of hydatid cysts (1905) Sobre un nuevo procedimiento de oclusión del duodeno y estomago en las gastrectomias por cancer de este organo (a new procedure for stomach occlusion in cancer gastrectomies) Developed a retroauricular incision for parotidectomy (Gutierrez incision) Eponym of Gutierrez humerotricipital triangle and Gutierrez nephrocolopexy His son, Alberto Gutierrez Saenz, surgeon (Buenos Aires 10 November 1892 – Bariloche 23 February 1945) Authored over 300 papers and 9 books Created and developed hanging drop method for epidural anesthesia El valor de la aspiración liquida en el espacio peridural en la anestesia peridural. Rev. Cir. Buenos Aires 12:225-30, 1933 Reported neuropexy Developed new methods of regional blocks for certain surgical procedures Designed a device to infiltrate rapidly local anesthesics Dispositivo para anesthesia local. Rev. Hosp. Español 9:39-40, 1932 Designed Gutierrez needle for epidural anesthesia Eponym of Gutierrez sign