Emil August Goeldi
Emil August Goeldi, Swiss / Brazilian naturalist (Ennetbuhl, Sankt Gallen Canton 28 August 1859 – Berne 05 July 1917) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Genus Euryzygomatomys 1901 Species Saguinus imperator 1907 Subspecies Saguinus imperator imperator 1907 Saguinus labiatus thomasi 1907 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) gilvigularis paraensis 1904 with Hagmann Aves Species Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus 1904 Subspecies Lepidothrix coronata caelestipileata 1905 Amphibia Species Trachycephalus resinifictrix 1907 Pisces Genus Phreatobius 1905 Species Phreatobius cisternarum 1905 Arachnida Genera Cimarus 1893 Octytus 1893 Species At least 21 Others Genus Meloidogyne 1889 (Nematoda) Subgenus Haematomyidium 1905 (Diptera) HONORS Goeldia Keyserling 1901 (Arachnida) Maorigoeldia Edwards 1930 (Diptera) Goeldichironomus Fittkau 1965 (Diptera) Goeldiella Eigenmann & Norris 1900 (Pisces) Subgenus Ctenogoeldia Edwards 1930 (Diptera)
Elsa Rossi de Garcia
Elsa Rossi de Garcia, Argentine paleontologist (fl.1959-83) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Ostracoda Suborder Cuyanocopina 1975 Superfamilies Beecherellidacea 1975 Celechovitacea 1975 Families Celechoviteidae 1975 Platibolbidae 1975 with Proserpio Proparaparchitidae 1975 with Proserpio & Nuñez Genera Argenticytheretta 1969 Argentinites 1975 with Baldis Baldiscella 1975 Bernardites 1976 with Proserpio Bertelsiana 1980 with Proserpio Bilobeyrichia 1975 with Baldis Cribobolbina 1979 with Proserpio Cuvillierina 1972 Dillobellopsis 1975 with Baldis Furchesia 1975 with Proserpio Grekoffiana 1969 Kloedenellopleura 1975 with Baldis Leanzacythere 1976 with Leanza Masiukcythere 1967 Nortite 1976 with Proserpio Novocythere 1972 Nugnela 1975 with Proserpio Platibolba 1972 with Baldis Platybolina 1975 with Proserpio Saltite 1976 with Proserpio Seudomacronotella 1975 1975 with Proserpio Sohniella 1979 with Proserpio Zygobolbinella 1975 with Proserpio Others Neovenericor 1980 with Levy (Bivalvia) Polanskiella 1983 (Hymenoptera) HONORS (Fossil Ostracoda) Garciana Schallreuter 1994 Garciaella Ding & Honigstein 1994
Elio García Austt
Elio García-Austt Negri, Uruguayan neurophysiologist (Montevideo 09 April 1919 – Montevideo 12 August 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS First demonstrated strychnine spikes in the chick embryo (1954) Found that counting repetitive light flashes augmented the visual response (1963-4) With Rius described the slow response of auditory galvanic stimulation (1965) First to demonstrate that stimulation of limbic structures provokes dormancy and decreases in electroencephalogram frequency Developed a technique for diagnosing normotensive hidrocephaly With P. Handler developed a simple method for magnetic tape recording of bioelectric potentials (1960) and computational procedures in neurophysiology
Eleazar Guzman Barron
Eleazar Sebastián Guzmán Barrón, US/Peruvian biochemist (Huari, Ancash 18 September 1899 – Chicago 26 June 1957) Regarded as world authority in cellular respiration and enzymatic systems associated to biological oxidations Performed classical researches on pyruvic acid metabolism Indicated the function of sulphydrylic compounds in metabolism Demonstrated that cortical hormones inhibit glycolysis by inhibition of hexokinase With M. Bacila. The effect of adrenal cortical hormones on the anaerobic glycolysis and hexokinase activity. Endocrinology 54(5):591-603, 1954 Demonstrated that enzymes containing active sulphydryl groups were capable in defending against radiations (1943) With William A. Pearlzweig. New colorimetric method for determination of bile acids in blood. Proceed. Soc. Exper. Biol. Medicine 24:233-4, 1926.
Eduardo Gonzalez Pacheco
Eduardo Gonzalez Pacheco, Chilean mining engineer and mineralogist (died 2002?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Hidratos de gas. Revista de Marina 2-3, 2002 With J. Muñoz Cristi, La cuenca petrolifera de Magallanes. Rev. Minerales 91:42-57, 1965 Estudio geologico-economico del districto minero de Panulallo y regiones vecinas. Anales Fac. Cien. Fis. Matem. 11(11):45-92, 1954 With J. Muñoz Cristi, Geologia de los yacimientos de pirofilita de Arrayán en la Provincia de Cauquenes (i.e. Maule). Rev. Minerales 1953 HONORS Gonzalezoxylon Nishida 1981 (Fossil Plantae)
Domingo Mauricio Gómez
Domingo Mauricio Gómez Gimeranez, Cuban biomathematician (Guaracabuya, Las Villas Province 22 September 1903 – Manhattan 13 December 1978) Living in United States since 1960s Authored about 70 scientific works and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS Authored the first modern treatise on hemodynamics Les lois physiques de l’hémodynamique (leur détermination piézographique). Actualites Scientifiques, Recherches d’ Hemodynamique et Cardiologie 511, 1937 Discovered a new syndrome With H. Vaquez. Un syndrome hypertensif nouveau. L’hypertension moyenne solitaire (1931) First to apply piezoelectricity to measurement of blood pressure in vessels With André Langevin developed Gomez-Langevin procedure for measuring pressure changes in blood vessels and conceived Gomez-Langevin piezograph or piezoelectric manometer (1933) Authored studies and discoveries about arterial hypertension treatment employing extracts from cortical region of the kidney receiving the Prix Mesurer of Academie de Medecine de Paris (1935) Action therapeutique de certains extraits rénaux dans le traitement de l’hypertension artérielle (1934) Developed Gómez formulae for estimating intrarenal hemodynamics Laid out the foundations of microscopic morphometrical techniques in developing morphometric methods for estimating the lungs diffusion surface area Published a series of formulae for directly evaluating glomerular hemodynamics in humans Evaluation of renal resistances, with special reference to changes in essential hypertension. J. Clin. Invest. 30:1143-55, 1951 Developed Weibel-Gómez technique or method With E.R. Weibel. A principle for counting tissue structures on random sections. J.Appl. Physiol. 17:343-8, 1962 Introduced the concept of continuous distribution for either specific tidal volume throughout the lungs or for the specific blood flow through the organs and tissues A mathematical treatment of the distribution of tidal volume throughout the lung. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. Washington 49(3):312-9, 1963 A physicomathematical concept of continuous distribution of specific blood flow through the organs. PNAS 51(5):750-7, 1964 With E. Weibel proposed irregular dichotomy as mode of branching in all human airway tree and found that the average diameter of the airways decreased by a factor of cube root of ½ Presented methods for the evaluation of the physical characteristics of the renal vascular tree Hemodynamics of the renal circulation. La Rev. Scie. 3272(8):451, 1947 Showed that blood flow through the kidney was reduced in hypertensive patients With P.R. Caldwell. A formulation for the partition of free vs. hemoglobin-bound 2,3-diphosphoglycerate. Resp. Physiol. 19(3):290-7, 1973 INVENTIONS/PATENTS With Vaquez & Gley invented a new oscillometer (Kimometre) With A.J. Langevin. Methode et apareil pour la mesure et l’enregistrement des pressions sanguines. Le piezographe. Brevet d’invention nº 337.641 (1932) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Rodrigue. Etude radiologique et clinique de l’opacité aortique (1931) With P. Gley. La determination des pressions moyenne et minima par la methode oscillometrique. Presse Med. 39:284, 1931 With P. Gley. Le travail Du coeur sous l’influence des anevrysmes arterioso-veineux. J. Physiol. et de Pathol. Gen. 29:442-5, 1931 With P. Bailliart. La pression moyenne dans le glaucome Action de certains extraits de la corticale du rein sur la retention ureique: contribution a l’etude therapeutique de l’uremie. Presse Med. 9:219-21, 1935 Caracteristiques physiques des vaisseaux, debit circulatoire et loi de decroissance, en fonction du temps, de la pression arterielle. Comp. Rend. Hebd. Sean. Acad. Sci. 203:1030, 1936 With C. Veil. Sur la limite statique de la presion arterielle. Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. 123:957-9, 1936 With André Langevin. La piézographie directe et instantanée: ses applications aux etudes d’hémodynamique; controle des méthodes mécaniques. Actualites Scientifiques, 1937 Hémodynamique et angiocinétique: etude rationelle des lois régissant les phénomênes cardio-vasculaires (1941) L’Hemodynamique de la circulation renale. Rev. Sci. 85 (451):583, 1947 With P. A. Morales, C.H. Crowder et al. Measurement and significance of urinary appearance time in dog. Amer. J. Physiol. 163:454, 1950. Evaluation of renal resistances with special reference to changes in essential hypertension. J.Clin. Invest. 30:1143, 1951 Considerations of oxygen-hemoglobin equilibrium on the physiological state. Am. J. Physiol. 200:135-42, 1961 With E.R. Weibel. Architecture of the human lung. Use of quantitative methods establishes fundamental relations between size and number of lung structures. Science 137:577-85, 1962 With W.A. Briscoe & G. Cumming. Continuous distribution of specific tidal volume throughout the lung. J. Appl. Phys. 19:683-92, 1964 A physico-mathematical study of lung function in normal subjects and in patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases. Med. Thorac. 22:275-94, 1965 With J. Lowenstein, P.R. Steinmetz et al. The distribution of intrarenal blood flow in normal and hypertensive man. Circulation 35:250-4, 1967 With P.R.B. Caldwell & H.W. Fritts. Respiratory heat exchange in normal subjects and in patients with pulmonary disease. J. Appl. Physiol. 26:82-88, 1969 HONORS Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize nominee for three times