Felix Gonzalez Bonorino
Felix Gonzalez Bonorino y Haurou, Argentine geologist and petrologist (Buenos Aires 17 August 1918 – 02 October 1998) From Italian, English and French descent Systematized metamorphic processes Sistemática de los procesos metamórficos. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. 1(3):219-30, 1946 Described and characterized mylonitic belts that pass through batholiths Granitos y migmatitas de la falda occidental de la sierra de Aconquija. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. 6 (3):137-86, 1951 Proposed the mechanical origin of schistosity The mechanical factor in the formation of schistosity. Proceed. Intern. Geol. Congress 18:303-18, 1960 Proposed that inverse faults should become horizontal in depth Postulated models of Tertiary compressive tectonics
Felipe Nery Guimarães
Felipe Nery Guimarães, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Belém 25 May 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 1975) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed yaws treatment employing penicillin With A.M. da Cunha, A.E. Area Leão & H.T. Cardoso. Ensaios terapêuticos com penicilina. I Bouba (framboesia, pian, yaws). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 40: 1825, 1944 Performed the first reproducible studies on cultivation of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue culture and described criteria for it First to report active penetration of Toxoplasma gondii into cells and described the conoid organelle in this genus With Hertha Meyer. Cultivo de Toxoplasma Nicolle e Manceaux, 1909 em culturas de tecidos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2(1):123-9, 1942 (Separata) Described the exanthematic form of toxoplasmosis (1941-3) independent from Pinkerton & Henderson (1941) World Health Organization (WHO) expert on infectious and parasitary diseases SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Deane. Aspectos interessantes de phagocytose observados na leishmaniose visceral e na malária. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 33:263-79, 1939 Toxoplasmose humana meningoencefalomielite toxoplasmica: ocorrência em adulto e recém-nascido. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 38:207-320, 1943 With G. Jansen. Novo transmissor silvestre do Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi (Chagas, 1909). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 38: 437-41, 1943 With A.E. Area Leão & G. Nóbrega. Ensaios terapêuticos com penicilina. II. Sífilis. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 41:237, 1944 Sobre a chamada “doença de Osgood-Schlatter”; sua ocorrência em boubáticos com “boomerang-leng”. (Preliminary note). Brasil Médico 60:399-400, 1946 Visceralização da Leishmania brasiliensis Viana 1911, em hamsters (Cricetus cricetus). Brasil Medico 61, 1947 Manifestações boubáticas discrômicas simulando pinta (caratê, mal de pinto, puru-puru). Brasil Médico 61:81-87, 1947 Manifestações boubáticas tardias semelhando quadro clínico de pinta terciaria. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 45: 307, 1947 With B.A. Rodrigues. O puru-puru da Amazônia (Pinta, Carate, Mal de Pinto, etc.). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 135, 1948 Effect of chloromycetin and dihydrostreptomycin on tropical framboesia. O Hospital 39:63, 1951 Leishmaniose experimental. II. Comportamento da Leishmania brasiliensis Vianna 1911 em hamsters (Cricetus (Mesocricetus) auratus Waterhouse). O Hospital 40:25-46, 1951 Leishmaniose experimental. IV. Reprodução em hamsters (Cricetus auratus) de uma leishmaniose cutânea nodulotumoral oriunda da Amazônia (histiocitoma leishmaniótico). O Hospital 40, 1951 Infecção do hamster (Cricectus auratus Waterhouse) pelo agente da micose de Lutz (blastomicose sul-americana). O Hospital 40:515, 1951 With L.C. Rezende, Z. Picarelli & J.R. Valle. Concentração de ions e reatividade farmacológica da musculatura lisa genital masculina de ratos. Ciencia e cultura 4:119, 1952 Sensibilidade do hamster (Cricetus (Mesocricetus) auratus Waterhouse) ao Treponema pertenue. Anais Inst. Med. Tropical (Lisbon) 10:655-62, 1953 Estado atual do conhecimento da forma lepromatóide da leishmaniose tegumentar. O Hospital 67(1):57-76, 1965 Pesquisas sobre a imunidade da framboesia tropica no homem. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Federico Grande Rossi
Federico Grande Rossi, Cuban bacteriologist and pathologist (Matanzas 14 December 1866 – La Habana 11 July 1942) From Spanish father and mother of Italian ancestry With E. Acosta Mayor described the fungus species Cladothrix invulnerabilis (1898) With E. Acosta. Medios de cultivo. Nuevo procedimento para preparar a gelatina. Cron Med-Cir. 14, 1892 With E. Acosta. Ureometro pratico (1892) Proposed an improvement of Roux flask for employing potato as culture medium (1904) Nuevo signo diagnostico en el ulcus (1917) HONORS Membre Associée Etranger, Société de Hygiene de Paris (1893)
Federico Gomez Santos
Federico Gómez Santos, Mexican pediatrician (Coahuila de Zaragoza 17 November 1898 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 February 1980) Developed Gómez scale for classifying anthropometric-based infantile desnutrition Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary Definitely identified the disease of malnutrition, simplified the terminology, established the basis for a clinical classification (weight for age), described the different degrees of intensity of the disorder and the treatment for each degree and gave as a common cause the deficient assimilation of food by the organism Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary Desnutrición. Boletín Med. Hosp. Inf. 3 (4):543, 1946 With J. Cravioto & R. Ramos Galván characterized the child severe malnutrition First described nutritional recovery syndrome With J. Cravioto & R. Ramos Galván. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With J. Cravioto, R. Ramos Galván & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With J. Cravioto established new criteria in child growth dynamics and development With R. Ramos Galván showed the chlorine concentration in the sweat and described the pattern of plasmatic amino acids showing the transient existence of metabolic blocks similar to congenital errors of metabolism PAPERS IN RELEVANT PERIODICALS With R. Ramos Galván, J. Cravioto & S. Frenk. Prevention and treatment of chronic severe infantile malnutrition (kwashiorkor). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 69(5):969-81, 1958 With R. Ramos Galván, J. Cravioto, S. Frenk, J. Vazquez Santaella & C. de la Peña. Fat absorption in chronic severe malnutrition in children. Lancet 268(6934):121-2, 1956
Eusebio Yatco Garcia
Eusebio Yatco Garcia, Philippine parasitologist (Binan, Laguna 29 December 1905 -?) ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Described 6 species of helminths, 2 species of protozoa and 1 species of bacteria Invented salva-ara First report of Cheilospirura hamulosa parasitizing the man With C. Africa. A new nematode parasite (Cheilospirura sp.) in the eye of man in the Philippines. J. Phil. Is. Med. Assoc. 16:603-7, 1936 Extract of the wings of the Philippine butterfly Terias hecabe Linnaeus, a new antibiotic for malaria. Journal Philipp. Med. Assoc. 25: 6279-90, 1949. Flumamine a new synthetic analgesic ant-flu drug. Journal of Philipine Med. Assoc. 26:7287-93, 1950. Vitamine E (Alpha Tocopherol), a new anthelmenthic against Ascaris lumbricoides. Proc. Sixth Int. Congr. Trop. Med. and Malaria 2:650-55, 1958. Schistosomiasis philippinensis and Schistosoma philippinensis, a new clinical entity and a new species of blood fluke respectively. MD Journal 8:6225-31, 1959. The blood-tuberculin reactions, a new rapid test for tuberculosis. Phil. Scient. Journal 9(67-8):16, 1962. With Virginia Sirilau. Diglutamic acid and biguanide, a new anticatabolic and anti-epileptic drug. M.D. Journal 14:8503-6, 1964. With T.P. Pesigan. A modified field stain for rapid staining of thick and thin blood smears. J. Phil. Med. Assoc. 22:4165-71, 1965. His curriculum vitae is available in http://webdb.stii.dost.gov.ph/scidetails.jsp?sci_id=000469
Eugenio Giacomelli
Eugenio Giacomelli, Italian-born Argentine entomologist (Liorna, Italy 1876 – La Rioja 27 December 1941) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Cyanohypsa 1911 Species Agraulis superargentata 1925 Anomis erosoides 1915 Apodemia minuscula 1911 Aricoris cosquinia 1928 Aricoris umbrata 1928 Artace bipunctata 1911 Artace lilloi 1911 Audre drucei 1914 Automeris capillensis 1930 Callicore kohleri 1930 Copiopteryx inversa 1911 Cosmophila erosoides 1915 Cyanohypsa stefanelli 1911 Diaethria kohleri 1926 Dysdaemonia cortesi 1925 Dysdaemonia jordani 1925 Elousa schausi 1911 Euptoieta ramirezi 1926 Euptychia ocellata 1928 Euptychia periphas 1928 Eurata cingulata 1925 Eurata paraguayensis 1928 Giacomellia floresi 1915 Giacomellia inversoatomosa 1911 Herbita prouti 1911 Heteropygas angulum 1911 Heteropygas dognini 1911 Heteropygas pallida 1911 Ischnopteryx seriei 1911 Leucotmemis cosquinensis 1928 Manduca carrerasi 1911 Manduca jordani 1912 Mathania carrizoi 1914 Melittia arcangelii 1914 Microgonia dognini 1915 Ortilia nigra 1928 Phoebis pseudomas 1911 Phulia reedi 1918 Phyciodes janthe 1928 Phyciodes saladilhensis 1911 Psectrotarsia tamsi 1922 Pyrameis caryoides 1922 Pyrgus enigmatica 1929 Rachiplusia atrata 1911 Schinia riojana 1922 Teriocolias riojana 1911 Thecla pseudarenia 1914 Thymelicus schrottkyi 1911 Tolype fumosa 1922 Vorates mabillei 1911 HONORS Giacomellia Bouvier 1930 (Lepidoptera)