Adolfo Guzman Arenas
Adolfo Guzmán Arenas, Mexican computer scientist (Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca State 22 July 1943 – Convert. Design of a language for symbol manipulation and its corresponding processor. Thesis (1965) With R. Segovia. A parallel reconfigurable LISP machine (1976) Decomposition of a visual scene. Into three-dimensional bodies. Proceed. AFIPS Fall Joint Comp. Conf. 33:291-04, 1968 With J. A. Alarcón. Diseño por computadora de fuentes de alimentación de corriente directa (1973) Percepción remota a traves de computadoras: equipo, programas y aplicaciones (1975) With D. Gómez. A digital model for three-dimensional surface representation, J. Geoprocess. 1:53-70, 1979 With E. Bribiesca. How to describe pure forms and how to measure differences in shapes using shape numbers (1980) (invented the form numbers that allow to describe any form or two-dimensional silhouette, and to measure the resemblance between two forms this way described) A parallel heterarchical machine for high level language processing (1981) (the first computer in the world that processes in parallel and uses LISP as its main language) With R. Barrera, A. Ginich & T. Radhakrishnan. Design of a high level language (L) for image processing (1981) With G. Narvaez, L. Sheremetov, J. Martínez & A. Albornoz. The EVA Teleteaching Project – the concept and the first experience in the development of virtual learning spaces (1988) Unified Step language (1991) (designed and built a visual language where the programs are expressed as directed networks to describe parallel process) Diseño de un sistema general de seguimientos (1993) With A. Garcia, G. Martínez Luna & G. Narvaez Esquer. Clasificación supervisada. Inducción de arboles de decisión. Algoritmo K-D (1998) (k-d trees) With B. Beltrán Martínez, F. Martínez Trinidad & J. Ruiz Shulcloper. Clasitex++, una hierramienta para el analisis de textos (1998) (program to finding the main themes in a Spanish text) ANASIN, an intelligent analyzer-synthesizer for data mining (1999) LIPS-based SSDL language (1999) With A. Gelbukh & G. Sidorov. A method of describing document contents through topic selection (1999) With A. Gelbukh & G. Sidorov. Simple method for hierarchical conceptual indexing of documents using relational data model (2002) With V. Polo de Gyves. Bibliodigital Red para compartir información distribuida. Bol. Sist. Nac. Estad. Inform. Geogr. 1(1):73-80, 2005 With A.D. Cuevas. A language and algorithm for automatic merging of ontologies (2006) A fuzzy clustering approach for finding similar documents using a novel similarity measure. Expert Syst. Appl. 33(3):600-5, 2007 With S. Levachkine. Hierarchy as a new data type for qualitative variables. Expert Syst. Appl. 32(3):899-10, 2007 (confusion theory) With G. Martínez Luna. Antecumen. Prototipo de hierramienta para el analisis con cubos en memoria principal (2008) With E. Bribiesca & L.A. Martínez. Enclosing trees. Patt. Anal. Applic. 15(1):1-17, 2012 (a method for representing voxel-based objects by means of enclosing trees) With J. Arellano-Verdejo, S. Godoy Calderón & R. Barrón Fernandez. Busqueda eficiente del optimo numero de grupos en un conjunto de dados con un nuevo algoritmo evolutivo celular hibrido. Comp. Sist. 18(2), 2014 With J. Arellano-Verdejo, S. Godoy Calderón, F. Alonso Pecuna & M.A. Cruz Chavez. A new efficient entropy population-merging parallel model for evolutionary algorithms. Int. J. Comput. Intellig. System 10(1):1186, 2017
Adeodato García Valenzuela
Adeodato García Valenzuela, Chilean biochemist (Coltauco, Cachapoal Province 29 December 1864 – 22 December 1935) Discovered a ptomaine named hexamethylenediamine or Garcia compound when studied under Hoppe-Seyler in Germany. Published in Zeitschrift fur Physiol. Chemie 27:543-595, 1893. Authored works about Abderhalden test for pregnancy SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Beitrage zur Kenntis des Haarwechsels bei Menschlichen Embryonen und Neugebornen. Morphol. Arbeiten, 1891. With F. Hoppe-Seyler. Las ptomaínas en procesos de putrefación de los líquidos albuminosos Venenos y envenenamientos en Chile
Abdul Kasim Mohamed Ghouse
Abdul Kasim Mohamed Ghouse, Indian plant morphologist (Parangipattai, Tamil Nadu State 15 June 1933 – 2015?) Described several taxa with multinucleate fusiform cells Noted certain interesting correlations between cambial behavior and phenological events Elucidated diagnostic anatomical features of a large number of softwood and hardwoods Observed that the proportion of phloem that was actively conducted was noted to vary with taxa and even with the different positions within the plant axis DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES With M. Yunus. A rapid maceration technique to study reaction-xylem developed due to root-knot nematodes. Micr. Acta 80:273-5, 1978 With F. Farooqi & D. Sabir. Use of sodium hydroxide in the preparation of epidermal peels from certain coniferous leaves rich in resins and tannins. Stains Technol. 49:125-8, 1974 With M. Yunus. Preparation of cuticle-free epidermal peels for the demonstration of primary pit fields. Ann. Bot. 38:209-11, 1974 With M. Yunus, F. Farooqi & D. Sabir. A simple maceration technique for the separation of sieve elements from the barks of woody plants. Curr. Sci. 43:424-5, 1974 With D. Sabir. A simple technique to demonstrate three-dimensional view of tracheary elements of Equisetum. Acta Bot. Indica 1:73-5, 1973 With M. Yunus. Preparation of epidermal peels from leaves of gymnosperms by treatment with hot 60% HNO3. Stains Techn. 47:322-4, 1972
A. Gopalakrishna
A. Gopalakrishna, Indian bat researcher (Arkalgud, Karnataka 20 October 1922 – after 1996) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.T.F. Bernard, J.J. Rasweiler IV & N. Badwaik. The anatomy of the female genitalia and the structure of the foetal membranes in Mormoopidae. Bat research News 31:17, 1992 With N. Badwaik. Vascularisation of the placenta in some bats. Proceed. Indian Acad. Sci. 99:289-303, 1990 With N. Badwaik. Growth of the corpus luteum in relation to gestation in some Indian bats. Curr. Sci. 57:883-6, 1988 With N. Badwaik. Trophoblast in chiropteran development. Curr. Sci. 57:830-4, 1988 Migratory pattern of some Indian bats. Myotis p.223-7, 1986 With K.B. Karim. Foetal membranes and placentation in Chiroptera. J. Reprod. Fertil. 56:417-29, 1979 With K.B. Karim & G.C. Chari. Pregnancy record of some Indian bats. Curr. Sci. 48:716-8, 1979 With K.B. Karim & G. Rajgopal. Post-ovulatory changes in the eggs of some Indian bats. Curr. Sci. 43(14):454-5, 1974 With A. Madhavan, R.S. Thakur & G. Rajgopal. The graafian follicle in some Indian bats. Curr. Sci. 43(13):400-2, 1974 Uterus-blatocyst relationship in Chiroptera. Part I. Topographical relationship between the uterus and blastocysts. In bats. J. Zool. Soc. India 23:55-61, 1971 With A. Madhavan. Sex-ratio in some Indian bats. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 67:1771-5, 1970 Gestation period in some Indian bats. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 66:316-22, 1969 With K.V.R. Murthy. Utero-ovarian junction in two species of bats. Bull. Zool. Coll. Science, Nagpur 8:19-22, 1960 Foetal membranes in some Indian Microchiroptera. J. Morphol. 102:157-98, 1958 Studies on the embryology of Microchiroptera. Part VI. Structure of the placenta in the Indian vampire bat, Lyroderma lyra lyra (Geoffroy) (Megadermatidae). Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences 16:93-8, 1950 Studies on the embryology of Microchiroptera. Part V. Placentation in the vespertilionid bat, Scotophilus wroughtoni (Thomas). Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences B 31:235-51, 1950 Studies on the embryology of Microchiroptera. Part III. Reproduction in the male vespertilionid bat, Scotophilus wroughtoni (Thomas). Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences 27:137-51, 1948 Studies on the embryology of Microchiroptera. Part II. Histological changes in the genital organism and the accessory reproductive structure during the sex cycle of the vespertilionid bat, Scotophilus wroughtoni (Thomas). Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences 30:17-46, 1949 Studies on the embryology of Microchiroptera. Part I. Reproduction and breeding seasons in the South Indian vespertilionid bat, Scotophilus wroughtoni (Thomas). Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences 26(6) Ser. B:219-32, 1947 HONOURS Main Speaker, International Conference on Bat Research, USA (1978) & Aberdeen, UK (1995) Genus Gopalia Dixit, Capoor & Rengaragu 1980 (Cestoda)
Xinfang Fang
Xinfang Fang, Chinese industrial microbiologist (1907 – 1992) Expert on fermentation Invented a method to test the alcohol content of the spirits PATENT With Y.T. Chen & X.Z. Hao. Process for producing long-chain alpha, omega-dicarboxylic acid by synchronous fermentation of microbe. Chinese Patent 95117436 HONORS Fangia Lau, Ren, Fung et al. 2007 (Bacteria)
William Stephen Finsen
William Stephen Finsen, South African astronomer (Johannesburg 28 July 1905 – Johannesburg 16 May 1979) From Danish parents and nephew of Nobel Prize winner Niels R. Finsen Discovered over 300 double stars Developed Finsen eyepiece interferometer HONORS Finsen Dorsum on asteroid 433 Eros Asteroid 1794 Finsen