Carlos Galli-Mainini
Carlos Tulio Galli Mainini, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 07 October 1914 – Buenos Aires 16 October 1961) Introduced male toad test for diagnosis of pregnancy known as Galli-Mainini test Pregnancy test with male Batracia. Endocrinology 43:349-50, 1948 Reacción diagnostica de embarazo en la que se usa sapo macho como animal activo. La Sem. Med. 54:337-40, 1947 Pregnancy test using the male batrachia. JAMA 138:121-6, 1948 Found the changes observed in smears of the urinary sediment closely parallel those seen in vaginal smears With E. B. del Castillo & J. Argonz. Cytological cycle of the urinary sediment and its parallelism with the vaginal cycle. J. Clin. Endocrin. 8:76, 1948 With E. B. del Castillo &J. Argonz. Smear from the female urethra and their relationship to smears of the urinary sediment. J. Clin. Endocrin. 8:1362, 1949 A simplified perfusion apparatus for the maintenance of living organs in vitro. J. Exp. Med. 73:745-6, 1941 Devised an artificial respirator hand-driven (1950) Classification of hyperthyroid eye disorders. La Sem. Med. 53 (36 Pt2):419-23, 1946 With C. Abinzano. The dermogram: images of the skin surface on smoked paper. Sem. Med. 108 (7):223-9, 1956
Carlos Ernesto Gordillo
Carlos Ernesto Gordillo Maldonado, Argentine petrologist and mineralogist (Villa Ascasubi, Cordoba Province 1925 – December 1984) DESCRIBED Cordieritite rock Las rocas cordieríticas de Orcoyana y Cerro Negro-Soto (Cordoba). Bol. Asoc. Geol. Cordoba 2:90-100, 1974 New mineral species With W. Schreyer & G. Werdnig. A new sodian-berylian cordierite from Soto, Argentina and the relationship between distortion index, Be content and state of hydration. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 70:421-8, 1979 With M.E.J. de Abeledo, V. Angelelli & M.A.R. de Benyacar. Sanjuanite, a new hydrated basic sulfate-phosphate of aluminium. Amer. Miner. 53:1-8, 1968 With E. Linares, R.O. Toubes & H. Winchel. Huemulite, a new hydrous sodium and magnesium vanadate from Mendoza Province, Argentina. Amer. Mineral. 51(1-2):1-13, 1966
Biresh Chandra Guha
Biresh Chandra Guha, Indian biochemist (Mymesingh, today Bangladesh 07 June 1904 – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh State 20 March 1962) World recognized expert on vitamins and ascorbic acid With I.B. Chatterjee, N.C. Ghosh & J.J. Ghosh developed a technique for determination the ability of an animal tissue to synthesize vitamin C (1957) Isolated proteins from tree leaves and grasses With I.B. Chatterjee & N.C. Ghosh discovered and characterized enzymes aldonolactonase and L-gulonolactone oxidase (1958-60) First to announce the presence of the bound form of ascorbic acid in plant tissues Isolated a bound form of niacin from maize, rice and wheat bran’s Designed anti-folic acid compounds and nucleic acid base analogues for potential application in cancer chemotherapy With A.K. Hazra & S.K. Bose. A rapid method of surveying fungi of cellulolytic power. Sci. Cult. 24:39-40, 1958
Berta Gerschman de Pikelin
Berta Sofía Gerschman de Pikelin, Argentine arachnologist (Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires Province 26 June 1905 – 1977) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA (with Schiapelli) Genera Amaloxenops 1958 Bolostromoides 1945 Melloleitaoina 1960 Paracleocnemis 1942 Pycnothelopsis 1942 Simonida 1958 Xenoplectus 1958 Species About 165 HONORS Pikelinia Mello Leitão 1946 (Arachnida) LINKS http://www.efn.uncor.edu/dep/divbioeco/DivAni1/aracnol/schiapelli.html
Bernhard Gross
Bernhard Gross, German-born Brazilian physicist (Stuttgart 22 November 1905 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 01 February 2002) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 200 papers Published important studies on viscoelasticity and rheology that attained international repercussion such as Gross model of viscoelasticity and a book that became a classical Mathematical Structure of theories of Viscoelasticity (1953) Noticed that the formalism of dielectric and viscoelastic relaxations are identical Performed first systematic studies on thermo-electrets Formulated theory of two-charge of electrets With L. Ferreira-Denard discovered the “freezing” of electrical charges in dielectrics With L.F. Denard. Efeitos de temperatura em condensadores carregados. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1943) With L.F. Denard. On permanente charges in solid dielectrics. I. Dielectric absorption temperature effects in carnauba wax. Physical Reviews 67:253, 1945 Developed first Gross transform which relates the absorption of isotropic and unidirectional beams of radiation Zur absorption der Ultrastrahlung , Zeit. Physik 83:214-21, 1933. Developed second Gross transform used for description of the mechanical behavior of elastic materials With Lela Lacerda derived a new integral transform in rheology (c.1947) Developed the removable condenser method that permits know quantitative state of surface electrical charges and their evolution within time Derived formula that relates deformation delay and force relaxation functions Discovered important charge storage effects in glasses and polymers. Performed first systematical studies on thermal stimulated currents Introduced a thermally stimulated current technique to investigate the charge and polarization storage in ice Performed the first quantitative studies on charge dynamics With P.S. Toledo developed methods for computing thermodielectric constant and time of system constant Developed general theory of linear response in electronic circuits theory Introduced the concept of Compton currents and proved their existence First to report the existence of large particles in a fall out With A. Arnon. Eine beobachtung uber die von kernbombenversuchen herrührende Radioaktivitat der Luft. Zeitschrift der Naturforsch. 12:944-5, 1957 With P.S. Rocha. Um novo método para medida das tensões de polarização (A new method for measurement of polarization tensions). Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 6(1), 1934 Uma nova aplicação do princípio de superposição na teoria dos dielétricos anômalos. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 11(3):213-8, 1939 Sobre uma nova transformação integral. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1940) Sobre uma transformação integral que interessa à eletrotécnica.Anais Acad. Bras. Cien. (1941) With J. Costa Ribeiro. Sobre um novo método para a investigação experimental dos eletretos (1943) Proposed and built the Compton dosimeter (patented in Brazil, United States & Germany) Estabilizador de voltagem eletrônico para um gerador de corrente alternada. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1943) Novo tipo de contador de Geiger-Muller Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1948) Developed a new type of Compton dosimeter for monitoring gamma rays (1958-9)
Benjamín Galíndez
Benjamín Galíndez Cabanillas, Argentine gynecologist and composer (San Roque, Punilla Department, Cordoba Province 13 October 1880 – Cordoba 22 December 1972) Created a method of uterine ligamentopexy (1927) Nueva aplicación del forceps Tarnier (A New application of Tarnier forceps) 1911 A new model of intrauterine splint Wrote a number of musical works