David Joaquín Guzmán
David Joaquín Guzmán Martorell, Salvadorean naturalist and anthropologist (San Miguel, El Salvador 15 August 1843 – San Salvador 20 January 1927) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Essai de topographie physique et médicale de la Republique du Salvador (Amerique Central). Thesis, Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1869) Estudio sobre el cultivo de algunas plantas y arboles industriales susceptibles de explotarse en la Republica de Costa Rica (1892) Botanica industrial de Centro America (1908) Especies utiles de la flora salvadoreña (1926) HONORS Honorary Member, Academie Internationale de Botanique de Le Mans (French) Honorary Member, Academie Universelle des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles (1885)
Coluthur Gopalan
Coluthur Gopalan, Indian nutritional biochemist (Salem, Tamil Nadu 29 November 1918 – Chennai 03 October 2019) Studied Grierson-Gopalan syndrome Burning feet syndrome. Indian Medical Gazette 81:22-26,1946. Showed the importance of breast-feeding for infant growth and also the effect of maternal dietary intake and nutritional status on breast milk composition Showed the role of pantothenic acid in the burning feet syndrome and the role of fatty acids in phrynoderma Demonstrated the link between aflatoxicosis and hepatic carcinoma Suggested the amino acid imbalance may be one cause of pellagra SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The etiology of phrynoderma. Ind. Med. Gaz. 82:16-20, 1947 The lathyrism syndrome. RSTMH-T 44:333-8, 1950 Some cutaneous disorders related to malnutrition. Ind. J. Dermatol. Venereol. Leprol., p. 2311-8, 1957 With B. Belavady. Chemical composition of human milk in poor Indian women. Ind. J. Med. Res. 45:234-45, 1959 With B. Belavady. Effect of dietary supplementation on the composition of breast milk. Ind. J. Med. Res. 46, 1960 Possible role for dietary leucine in the pathogenesis of pellagra. Lancet 1:697-9, 1959 With S.G. Srikantia. Leucine and pellagra. Lancet 2: 954-7, 1960 With S.G. Srikantia. Kwashiorkor and mental development. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 21:844, 1968 With T.V. Madhavan. Effect of dietary protein on carcinogenesis of aflatoxin. Arch. Pathol. 85:133-7, 1968 With K.S.J. Rao & S.G. Srikantia. Plasma cortisol levels in protein calorie malnutrition. Arch.Dis. Child 43:365-7, 1968 With S.G. Srikantia & L. Vasantha. Biochemical changes in the skin in kwashiorkor. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 23(1):78-82, 1970 With B. Yadgiri, V. Reddy, P.G. Tulpule & S.G. Srikantia. Aflatoxin and Indian childhood cirrhosis. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 23(1):94-8, 1970 Pellagra in sorghum eaters. Proceed. First Asian Congress of Nutrition, Hyderabad, p.661-9, 1972 With M.C. Swaminathan, V.K.K. Kumari, D.H. Rao & K. Vijayaraghavan. Effect of calorie supplementation on growth of undernourished children. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 26:563-6, 1973 With Y.G. Deosthale. The effect of molybdenum levels in sorghum (Sorghum vulgare Pers.) on uric acid and copper excretion in man. Brit. J. Nutr. 31:451, 1974 With K.S. Jaya Rao. Pellagra and aminoacid imbalance. Vitam. Horm. 33:505-28, 1975 With T.V. Madhavan. Effect of dietary protein on aflatoxin injury in weanling rats. Arch. Pathol. 80:123-6, 1975 With K. Krishnawamy. Famine oedema. Progr. Food Nutr. Sci. 1(3):207-24, 1975 Vitamin A and child mortality. Bull. Nutr. Found India 11:1-3, 1990 Vitamin A deficiency and childhood malnutrition. Lancet 340:177-8, 1992 Kwashiorkor and marasmus: evolution and distinguishing features. Natl. Med. J. India 5(3):145-51, 1992 HONOURS President, International Union of Nutritional Sciences (1975-9) International Union of Nutrition Sciences Award (1989) LINKS http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/107/07/1184.pdf
Chhitar Mal Gupta
Chhitar Mal Gupta, Indian molecular biologist (Bharatpur, Rajasthan State 01 September 1944 – Authored 136 papers and 5 book chapters Elucidated the actin cytoskeletal network in Leishmania Delineated the factors that generate and maintain the transbilayer phospholipid asymmetry in erythrocytes and yeast plasma membranes Defined the depth of insertion of membrane integral proteins in bilayer matrix and the factors that determine the phospholipids conformation and their packing in vesicles Developed a novel class of liposomes which resist their lysis by blood components and survive for long in blood circulation Developed simple and efficient procedures for synthesis of natural and modified phospholipids PATENTS (6) With I.A. Modi, B.M. Khamar, A. Puri, R.S. Bhatta, R. Pratap, G.K. Jain, S. Bhadauria, a.K. Khanna, O.P. Asth & A. Ghatak. Combination of BAR antagonist and HMC CoA reductase inhibitor for treatment of dyslipidemia PCT/IB2010/000898 & WO201022407A3
Carlos Roberto Gonzalez
Carlos Roberto Gonzalez, Argentine paleontologist and biostratigrapher (Tucumán 15 January 1940 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Amosius 2004 with Waterhouse Malimania 1994 Orbiculopecten 1978 Sueroa 2006 Waterhouseus 2010 Species Acanthopecten jaguelensis 1997 Amosius harringtoni 1978 Aphanaia precursa 2012 with Waterhouse Atomodesma amleri 2012 with Waterhouse Cypricardinia precordillerana 1997 Etheripecten saraviae 2006 Euchondria sabattinae 1971 Heteropecten anteloi 1997 Heteropecten cortignasi 2006 Hyolithes amosi 1972 with Sabattini Leptodesma (Leiopteria) aredesi 2006 Leptodesma (Leiopteria) variabilis 1977 Leptodesma (Leiopteria) veladerensis 1992 Malimania patagoniensis 1969 Malimania triangularis 1994 Merismopteria salinensis 1975 Myofossa antiqua 1977 Myofossa calingastensis 2002 Myonia prinsi 2010 Nuculopsis (Nuculanella) camachoi 1972 Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis) patagoniensis 1969 Orbiculopecten parma 1978 Orbiculopecten taboadai 2002 Oriocrassatella andina 2002 Oriocrassatella piauiensis 2012 with Anelli, Simões & Souza Oriocrassatella sanjuanina 1976 Palaeolima alata 1997 Palaeolima antinaoensis 1972 Palaeoneilo amosi 1977 Palaeoneilo subquadratum 1994 Parallelodon quichaurensis 2006 Posidoniella malimanensis 1994 Praeundulomya moreli 2006 Promytilus grandis 2002 Promytilus patagonicus 1975 Pyramus primigenius 1972 Pyramus tehuelchis 1972 Sanguinolites freytesi 1977 Sanguinolites punillanus 1994 Sanguinolites turneri 1977 Schizodus arrondoi 1992 Schizodus paucus 1977 Streblopteria montgomeryi 2006 Striochondria sueroi 1969 Stutchburia iglesiaensis 1976 Sueroa andreisi 2006 Sueroa chubutensis 1969 Waterhouseus keideli 2010 Waterhouseus tepuelensis 1969 HONORS Gonzalezius Taboada 2004 (Fossil Brachiopoda)
Carlos Graef Fernandez
Carlos Graef Fernandez, Mexican mathematician and physicist (Guanaceví, Durango State 25 February 1911 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 January 1988) From German descent Authored 17 papers Performed important works about gravitation His doctoral thesis in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about periodic paths of cosmic rays gained international level (1935) Demonstrated that there is a number of possible motions in the plane of magnetic equator of Earth Obtained simple mathematical formulas to describe equatorial periodic orbits First to treat a problem of differential equations in three dimensions (1940) Gave an explanation about curvature of luminous rays and the red shift to spectral rays Solved the problem of two-body in gravitational theory HONORS National Science Prize, American Mathematical Society (1970)
Carlos Garces Orejuela
Carlos Garcés Orejuela, Colombian plant pathologist (Cali 1915 – Medellín 2002) With K.H. Fernow first report of potato black rot by Rosellinia or white shroud (1949) Described Xanthomonas axonopodis, causative agent of bacterial leaf spot of Axonopus scoparius With M.P. Starr. El agente causante de la gomosis bacterial del pasto imperial en Colombia. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín 12:73-83, 1950 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA (in Estudios micologicos colombianos. Dothideales. Caldasia 2:75-87, 1941 & New or heterofore unreported species of the higher Ascomycetes from Colombia and Venezuela. Mycologia 36:429-59, 1944 (corrected in 37:389-90, 1944) Genus Phaeotrabutia 1941 Species (23) Anisochora chardonii 1941 Asterina solanacearum 1944 Asterinella bredemeyerae 1944 Catacauma cabali 1941 Coccodiella miconiicola 1944 Lembosia perseae 1944 Meliola antioquensis 1944 Meliola venzeuelana 1944 Meliola xylosmaticola 1944 Meliola xylosmicola 1944 Microthyrium phoradendri 1944 Microthyrium rhombisporum 1944 Parodiopsis bicoronata 1944 Phaeotrabutia isabelae 1941 Phyllachora abutilonis 1944 Phyllachora chusqueana 1941 Phyllachora clavata 1944 Phyllachora gynericola 1944 Phyllachora murilloi 1941 Phyllachora rapaneicola 1941 Polyrhizon capparidis 1944 Schiffnerula robusta 1944 Sphaerodothis merianiae 1944 Uleodothis eupatoricola 1941