Gatti family
Carlos Zacarias Santiago Gatti Battilana, Paraguayan physician, ethnologist and philologist (Asunción 30 December 1899 – Asunción 24 April 1956) From Italian father With G. Delamare described doubtful bacterial species Treponema rigidum (1931) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Enciclopedia Guarani-Castellano de ciencias naturales y conocimientos paraguayos Plantas de uso comun en la medicina folclorica paraguaya para regular la fecundidad Las culebras venenosas del Paraguay. Rev. Med. Paraguay 1(2):81-100, 1955 With T. Rojas & A.W. Bertoni. El vocabulario español-guaraní para uso medico (1947) With C. Magarinos Torres & J. Boggino. Alterações dos folículos pilo-sebáceos em caso de síndrome bolhoso do grupo pênfigo. Presença de inclusões intranucleares das doenças por vírus filtráveis. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 45(4), 1947 La pelagra en el Paraguay. Anales Fac. Med. 7(12):3-38, 1940 With R. Jimenez de Gaona. Cebion bei der Lepra.-Behandlung. Arch. Schiffs. Tropenhyg. 43:32, 1939 With J. Boggino & C. Prieto. Un nouveau foyer de leishmaniose viscerale en Amerique du Sud. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 32:602-5, 1939 With P. Menendez & A. Knallinsky. Influencias de la carne y de yerba mate sobre un brote de escorbuto humano y sobre el escorbuto experimental. Arch. Farmacol. Sperim. Scienze Affini 62:37, 1936 With G. Delamare & D. Gonzalez. La pied vegetant du Paraguay (leishmaniose americaine ulcero-vegetante). Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 25(5):488-94, 1932 With G. Delamare. Fusospirochetose et leishmaniose cutanée. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 25(2):141-5, 1932 With G. Delamare. Spirochetes et corps annulaires intraleucocytaires. Compt. Rend. L’Acad. Sciences 194 (21):1861-2, 1932 With G. Delamare. Mycetome du pied à grains noirs. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 24:80-4, 1931 With G. Delamare. L’evolution des kystes de la piedra paraguayenne. Compt. Rend. L’Acad. Sciences 186:1771-2, 1928 With G. Delamare. La piedra del Paraguay. An. Fac. Cien. Med. Asunción 2:10, 1928 HONORS Correspondent Member, New York Academy of Sciences (1947) International Who’s Who in World Medicine (1947) His nephew, Eugenia Teresa Elisa Bordas Gatti, Paraguayan botanist and plant chemist (Asunción 1920 – 01 May 2018) PHYTOCHEMISTRY With Jr. Dai, R. Suttisri, D.D. Soejarto & A.D. Kinghorn. Clerodane diterpenoids from Baccharis articulata. Phytochem. 34(4):1087-90, 1993 (two novel clerodane diterpenes) With F. Fullas, R.A. Hussain, J.M. Pezzuto, D.D. Soejarto & A.D. Kinghorn. Gaudichaudiosides A-E, five novel diterpenes glycoside constituents from the sweet-tasting plant, Baccharis gaudichaudiana. Tetrahedron 47(40):8515-22, 1991 With H.E. Makapugay, D.D. Soejarto & A.D. Kinghorn. Piperovatin, the tongue-numbing principle of Ottonia frutescens. J. Ethnopharm. 7(2):235-8, 1983 With R. Gmelin & M. Schuler. Holocalin: ein neues cyanogenes glykosid aus Holocalyx balansae. Phytochem. 12:457, 1973 With M. Schluter. Canavanine in Canavalia paraguayensis, C. gladiata & Dioclea paraguayensis. Phytochem. 11(12):3533-4, 1972 HONORS Bordasia Krapovickas 2003 (Malvaceae)
Garcia Lebredo family
Joaquín María de la Asunción Garcia Lebredo y Lladó, Cuban physician (Matanzas 18 August 1833 – La Habana 26 November 1899) Invited to join as correspondent fellow of Societé de Biologie de Paris due to this work below Note sur les lésions hepatiques dans deux cas de fievre jaune. Gaz. Med. Paris (1874) & Comptes Rendus des Seances et Mem. de la Societé de Biologie (1877) Another prize-winning work by Real Academia de Medicina de Madrid related physiology and therapeutics via organic chemistry Aplicaciones que permite hacer a la fisiologia y a la terapeutica el estado actual de la Quimica Organica (1870) Many of his works received praise in foreign countries Received many titles and honors from many societies worldwide SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Disertación sobre el tétano (1856) Consideraciones sobre la cuestión de identidad de las fiebres biliosa y grave y amarilla. Anales Real Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Natur. La Habana 3:245-54 & 287-300, 1866-7 Ensayo sobre una nueva teoria quimico-fisiologica de la fiebre amarilla endemica de las Antillas. Inf. Acad. Cien. 7, 1870-1 Informe sobre enajeción mental de D.E.R. en causa por tentativas de violación en sus hijas. Trab. Com. Med. Leg. Hig.Publ. R. Acad. Cien. Med. La Habana (1873) Sobre la marcha que pudo emprender un herido.An. Acad. Cien. Med. La Habana (1888) His son, Mario Adolfo García-Lebredo Arango, hygienist and epidemiologist (La Habana 27 April 1866 – La Habana 05 July 1931) Consultant for several foreign institutions Described the way in which occur the transmission of filariasis in man by mosquitoes Metamorphosis of Filaria in the body of the mosquito (Culex pipiens). J. Infect. Dis. (1905) Nota preliminar deducida de experiencias practicas que demuestram el sitio por donde la Filaria nocturna abandona el Culex pipiens infectado. Rev. Med. Trop. Habana 5:171-2, 1904 Authored a work recognized abroad La fiebre amarilla y su diagnostico em especial de los casos benignos. Sanidad y Beneficiencia (1909) Diagnosis of yellow fever: with special reference to mild cases, a study in sanitation SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La fiebre amarilla: su diagnostico (1931) Tratamiento del paludismo (1930) La defensa sanitaria de Cuba. Rev. Med. Cubana (1929) Estado actual de nuestros conocimientos sobre la enfermedad de Weil y la fibre amarilla. Bol. Med. Cir. Guayaquil (1922) Leptospirosis experimental con un “strain” (Merida) de Noguchi. Rev. Med. Cir. La Habana (1921) With J. Guiteras & W.H. Hoffmann. Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae en La Habana. Anales Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Natur. La Habana LVII:462-3, 1920-1 Considerations suggested by publications of Dr. Noguchi on experimental yellow fever (1919) Causas y medios de reducir la mortalidad infantil en cada término municipal. Bol. San. Benef. 18:209-33, 1917 La invasión paludica em las provincias de Camaguey y Oriente. Bol. San. Benef. (1917) Beri-beri: an epidemiological and experimental study (1915) Parasitismo intestinal en Cuba (1914) With A. F. Coca & G.M. Dorrance. “Vaccination” in cancer. II. A report of the results of the vaccination therapy as applied in 79 cases of human cancer. Z. Immun. Forsch. Exp. Ther. 13:543, 1912 Organización del servicio bacteriologico de peste en la sección de investigaciones y estudio de las enfermedades transmisibles. San. Benef. 8:179-241, 1912 Report on the yellow fever in Madeira: diagnosis, epidemiology. Bull. Yellow Fever Bureau 1:294, 1911-2 Informe sobre la fiebre amarilla en Merida. Diagnostico y Epidemiologia (1911) Contribution to the study of beriberi. J. Am. Publ. Health Assoc. 1:924, 1911 With A. Recio. Poliomielitis anterior aguda epidemica: Epidemia de Cuba 1909. Sanidad y Beneficiencia 3:170, 1910 Un caso de larvas de Dermatobia cyaniventris observada en el hombre. Rev. Med. Cir. La Habana 13:425, 1908 Un caso de fiebre recurrente en La Habana (1906) With E. Martínez y Martínez. Un caso de enfermedad de Weil. Rev. Med. Trop. 6:25-32, 1905 Algunas observaciones sobre la anatomia del mosquito con dibujos originales. Rev. Med. Tropical 5(4), 1904 Huespedes de infección protozoarica (1903) Rabia. Su diagnostico por los corpusculos de Negri. Bol. San. Benef. 2:634, 190?
Gabriel Guarneros Pena
Gabriel Guarneros Peña, Mexican molecular biologist (Ciudad de Mexico 08 July 1941 – ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered new bacteriophages infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Entamoeba histolytica Characterized novel genetic signals which regulate messenger RNA translation in prokaryotes Discovered a minigene that regulates translation termination Proposed a novel concept of retroregulation of gene expression With V. Flores, A. Cazares, E.M. Adriaenssens, L. Kameyama, O. Sepulveda Robles, A. Kropinski & J.H. Kuhn described a new viral genus, Pamx74 virus (2016) HONOURS Life Sciences Award, Montreal Interscience Association (2012) International Howard Hughes Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1991-6)
Francisco Grohmann
Francisco Grohmann, Brazilian pedologist (fl.1941-82) DEVELOPED METHODS / DEVICES With H.P. Medina & A. Kopper. Novo tipo de lisímetro monolítico. Bragantia 11:333-5, 1951 Análise de agregado de solos. Bragantia 19:199-213, 1960 With A. Conagin. Técnica para o estudo da estabilidade de agregados do solo. Bragantia 19(22):329-43, 1960 With B. Van Raij. Influencia dos métodos de agitação na dispersão da argila do solo. Anais Congr. Bras. Cien. Solo 14:123-32, 1973 With O.A. de Camargo, E. Salati & E. Matsui. A technique for sampling the soil atmosphere. Soil Sci. 117:173-4, 1974 With M.B. P. Camargo & A.P. Camargo developed a simple direct-reading glassy tensiometer for determining soil moisture in Pesq. Agropec. Bras. 17(12), 1763-72, 1982
Francisco Gregori Jr.
Francisco Gregori Jr., Brazilian cardiovascular surgeon (Bocaina, São Paulo State 10 December 1947 – DEVELOPED NEW SURGICAL TECHNIQUES With M. Barbero-Marcial, R. Snitcowsky, M. Ebaid, G. Verginelli & E.J. Zerbini. Anastomosis of the subclavian artery to the descending aorta for the correction of interrupted aortic arch. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 56:653-6, 1973 With L.A. Façanha, S.S. Silva, L.C. Miguita, I.A. Ribeiro, M.L.P. Goulart, M.F. Campos & E. Sahao. Nova técnica reconstrutora na insuficiência valvar mitral por ruptura de cordas tendíneas. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 37:111-4, 1981 With R.T. Takeda, S.S. Silva, L.A. Façanha & M.A. Meier. A new technique for repair of mitral insufficiency caused by ruptured chordae the anterior leaflet. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 96:765-8, 1988 With R.T. Takeda, L.A. Façanha, S.S. Silva, L.C. Miguita, S.S. Hayashi & T.E.F. Gregori. Nova técnica reconstrutora na insuficiência mitral por alongamento das cordas tendíneas da cúspide anterior. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 54:205-9, 1990 With S.S. Silva, L.A. Façanha, O.M. Moure, M.L.P. Goulart, C.O. Cordeiro & W. Rade. Autotransplante de cordas tendíneas. Nova técnica para tratamento cirúrgico da insuficiência mitral por rotura de cordas tendíneas da cúspide anterior. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 7:250-5, 1992 With C.O. Cordeiro, M.L.P. Goulart, W.J. Couto, V. Rosa, S.S. Silva, L.A. Façanha, O.M. Moure, I.A. Ribeiro, W.K. Aquino, S.S. Hayashi, R.B. Rezende & A. Miguita Jr. Técnica de Cox sem crioablação para o tratamento cirúrgico da fibrilação atrial. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 8:220-4, 1993 (first report of Cox operation in children in literature) With S.S. Silva, A.L. Façanha, C.O. Cordeiro, W.K. Aquino & O.M. Moure. Preliminary results with a new technique for repairing elongated chordae tendineae of the anterior mitral valve leaflet. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 107:321-3, 1994 With S.S. Silva, M.P. Goulart, O. Canesin & S.S. Hayashi. Grafting of chordae tendinae: a new technique for the repair of mitral insufficiency caused by ruptured chordae of the anterior leaflet. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 107(2):635-8, 1994 With S.S. Silva, I.A.Ribeiro, C.O. Cordeiro & W.J. Couto. Modified technique for total cavopulmonar connection. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 57:1649-51, 1994 With C.O. Cordeiro, W.J. Couto, S.S. Silva, W. Aquino & A. Nechar Jr. Cox-Maze operation without cryoablation for the treatment of chronic atrial fibrilation. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 60:361-4, 1995 With C.O. Cordeiro, U.A.Croti, S.S. Hayashi, S.S. Silva & T.E.F. Gregori. Partial tricuspid valve transfer for repair of mitral insufficiency due to ruptured chordae tendineae. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 68:1686-91, 1999 With C.O. Cordeiro, U.A. Croti, T.E.F. Gregori & O.M. Moure. Transplante cardíaco em paciente com agenesia total do pericárdio. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 75:249-50, 2000 OTHERS Proposed segmental shortening velocity, a hemodynamic index for assessing the segmental contracture of left ventricle Resultados hemodinâmicos do implante intra-miocárdico da artéria mamária interna. Master Dissertation, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (1980) Developed Gregori-Braile prothetic ring for mitral annuloplasty (1987) With S.S. Silva, K. Baba, L. Queiroz, R.T. Takeda, L.A. Façanha, S.S. Hayashi & O. Canesin. Um novo modelo de anel protético para pacientes com insuficiência da valvar mitral. Relato de dois casos. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 50:407-20, 1988 With S.S. Silva, S.S. Hayashi, W. Aquino, C. Cordeiro & L.R. Silva. Mitral valvuloplasty with a new prothetic ring. Analysis of the first 105 cases. Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 8(4):168-72, 1994 Developed Braile-Gregory prosthesis for replacing chordae tendinae of atrioventricular valves (2006) With J.C. Leal, L.E. Gallina, R.S. Thevenard & D.M. Braile. Avaliação ecodopplercardiográfica em pacientes submetidos a substituição de cordas tendíneas rotas. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 22:184-91, 2007 With J.C. Leal & D.M. Braile. Premolded bovine pericardial chordate for replacement of ruptured chordate tendinae. Heart Surg. Forum 13:517-20, 2010 Proposed h-fac index, a personal scientometric index With .F. Godoy & F.F. Gregori. Proposta de um índice cientométrico individual, com ênfase na ponderação positiva da participação do primeiro autor: índice h-fac. Rev. Bras. Cir. Cardiovasc. 27(3):370-6, 2012 LINKS http://fgregorijunior.blogspot.com/2012/11/214-desenvolvimento-de-tecnicas.html
Francisco Gonzalez Medrano
Francisco Gonzalez Medrano, Mexican botanist and plant ecologist (Ciudad de Mexico 13 January 1939 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 January 2017) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Neoeplingia 1982 with Ramamoorthy & Hiriart Rzedowskia 1981 Species Casimiroa calderonii 1981 with Chiang Frankenia margaritae 1973 Gochnatia hiriartiana 2004 with Villaseñor & Medina Mimosa martindelcampoi 1983 Neoeplingia leucophylloides 1982 with Ramamoorthy & Hiriart Rzedowskia tolantonguensis 1981 Stegnosperma sanchezii 1986 with Medina Styphnolobium burseroides 1993 with Sousa & Rudd HONORS Medranoa Urbatsch & Roberts 2004 (Asteraceae)