Te-pei Feng
Te-pei Feng, Chinese neurophysiologist (Linhai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province 20 February 1907 – Shanghai 10 April 1995) Authored over 100 scientific papers Discovered the increase of the resting heat production of muscle on passive stretch known as Feng effect Effect of length on resting metabolism of muscle. J. Physiol. 74:441-54, 1932 Published important studies on neuromuscular junction that were internationally recognized (1936-41) Discovered the phenomenon of postdenervation hypertrophy in the slow muscle fibers of the chick With H.W. Jung & W.Y. Wu. The contrast trophic changes of the anterior and posterior latissimus dorsi of the chick following denervation. Acta Physiol. Sinica 25:304-11, 1962
Tarciso Filgueiras
Tarciso de Sousa Filgueiras, Brazilian botanist (Goiânia 03 February 1946 – Goiânia 18 May 2019) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Altoparadisium 2001 with Davidse, Zuloaga & Morrone Cambajuva 2013 with Viana & Clark Canastra 2001 with Morrone, Zuloaga & Davidse Ophiochloa 1993 with Davidse & Zuloaga Rheochloa 1999 with Peterson & Herrera Section Paspalum sect. Biaristata 1994 with Davidse Species Allagoptera robusta 2015 with Martins Altoparadisium chapadense 2001 with Davidse, Zuloaga & Morrone Andropogon crispifolius 1995 with Guala Andropogon saxicola 2019 with Zanin, Viana & Welker Arthropogon bolivianus 1986 Arthropogon filifolius 1981 Arthropogon rupestris 1996 Atractantha shepherdiana 2011 with Santos Gonçalves & Clark Aulonemia cincta 2014 with Viana Aulonemia soderstromii 2014 with Viana & Judziewicz Aulonemia xerophylla 2013 with Viana & Judziewicz Canastra lanceolata 1982 Colanthelia kinoshitae 2018 with Santos Gonçalves & Clark Colanthelia secundiflora 2018 with Santos Gonçalves & Clark Colanthelia sparsiflora 2018 with Santos Gonçalves & Clark Echinolaena ecuadoriana 1994 Guadua magna 2006 with Londoño Isachne burchellii 2019 with Rodrigues Merostachys tratianae 2012 with Santos Gonçalves & Carvalho Okano Mesosetum alatum 1987 Mesosetum gibbosum 1984 with Renvoize Mesosetum longiaristatum 1987 Mesosetum tenue 1984 with Renvoize Mezilaurus opaca 1987 with Kubitzki Ophiochloa hydrolithica 1993 with Davidse & Zuloaga Paspalum biaristatum 1994 with Davidse Paspalum burmanii 2001 with Morrone & Zuloaga Paspalum campinarum 1995 with Davidse Paspalum imbricatum 1981 Paspalum longiaristatum 1994 with Davidse Paspalum morichalense 1994 with Davidse & Zuloaga Paspalum niquelandiae 1995 Paspalum peregrinum 1987 with Burman Paspalum zuloagae 1994 with Davidse Rheochloa scabriflora 1999 with Peterson & Herrera Streptostachys rigidifolia 1993 with Morrone & Zuloaga Triraphis devia 1999 with Zuloaga HONORS Filgueirasia Guala 2003 (Poaceae)
Tancredo Alves Furtado
Tancredo Alves Furtado, Brazilian dermatologist (Carmo do Parnaíba, Minas Gerais State 13 April 1923 – Belo Horizonte 25 July 2014) Authored over 200 scientific works with 60 of them in foreign reviews and books RELEVANT PAPERS Critérios para o diagnóstico de leishmaniose tegumentar americana. An. Bras. Dermatol. 65:51-6, 1980 Mechanism of infection in South American blatomycosis. Dermatol. Trop. 2:27-32, 1963 Manifestações tardias da framboesia. Thesis (1955) Late manifestations of yaws. AMA Arch. Derm. 76(4):446-51, 1957 With A.C. Veigas & F.J.F. de Oliveira. Gentamicina, um novo antibiótico de uso tópico, no tratamento das piodermites e impetiginações. O Hospital 75(3):1041-4, 1969 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Pellegrino & L.H. Pereira. Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, intradermal test with a promastigote suspension and a crude extract from Leishmania brasiliensis. Rev. Inst. Trop. São Paulo 19:393-5, 1977 Infection versus disease in South American blastomycosis. Int. J. Dermatol. 14:117-25, 1975 With J.G. Assunção, A.C. Viegas & V.L. de Barros. Topical triamcinolone acetonide in a new combination in the treatment of eczema. An. Bras. Dermatol. 44(4):309-14, 1969 An appraisal of chemotherapy of American leishmaniasis. Dermatol. Iber. Lat. Am. 3:257-8, 1968 With C.F. Lopes & A. Hermeto. Treatment of mycetoma caused by Nocardia brasiliensis using a new sulfamide administered once a week. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 11(4):135-9, 1965 With B. Horizonte. Keroacanthoma: experimental histopathologic and clinical findings. Dermatol. Trop. 3:85-90, 1964 With F.J. Szymanski. Eccrine poroma. Z. Haut. Geschlechtskr. 33:353-9, 1962 With G. Batista. Carcinomatous degeneration of an old yaws ulcer. Z. Tropenmed. Parasitol. 13:198-201, 1962 Histopatologia del tumor misto de la piel de las glandulas salivales (Siringoma condroide). Arch. Arg. Dermat. 22(1):51-4, 1962 Sarcoid structure in secondary syphilis. O Hospital 60:885-8, 1961 With F.J. Szymanski. Etude histologique du dyskeratose verruqueux. Ann. Dermatol. Syph. 88:633-40, 1961 With T.A. Cisalpino & U. Santos. In vitro studies of effect of Amphotericin B on Leishmania brasiliensis. Antib. Chemoth. 10:692-3, 1960 With E.O. Cisalpino. Local treatment of pyodermas with a new quaternary ammonium compound (triburon). Antibiotic Med. Clin. Ther. 7:553-9, 1960 With B.A. Rodrigues. Paper electrophoresis of serum proteins in pemphigus foliaceus. J. Invest. Dermatol. 33:227-9, 1959 Etiopathogenesis of juxta-articular nodules. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil. 86:638-54, 1959 The Lucio-Alvarado form of leprosy. A case observed in Brazil. Int. J. Lepr. 27:110-5, 1959 Histopathology of pemphigus foliaceus. Arch. Derm. 80:66, 1959 With J. Pellegrino. Intradermal test in American leishmaniasis with a polysaccharide fraction isolated from Leishmania brasiliensis. J. Invest. Dermat. 27:53, 1956 With J.W. Wilson & O.A. Punkett. South American blastomycosis or paracoccidioidomycosis. The mycosis of Lutz, Splendore and Almeida. Arch. Derm. Syph. Chicago 70:166, 1954 With H. Brandão. A supra-renal do pênfigo foliáceo. Rev. Bras. Med. 6(10):664-9, 1949 With J. Pellegrino. A terapêutica da blastomicose sul-americana. Ensaios “in vitro” com a streptomicina. Brasil Med. 62:54, 1948 With J. Aleixo. Micose de Lutz de início possivelmente dentário (Relato de cinco casos). Brasil Med. 62:265, 1948
Sylvio Ferraz Mello
Sylvio Ferraz Mello, Brazilian astrophysicist (São Paulo 26 October 1936 – Known worldwide as a specialist on the dynamics of bodies in the solar system, perturbation theory in celestial mechanics and in dynamical systems in general Studied the role of resonances in orbital dynamics of solar systems and dissipative processes in solar system evolution ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced a special shadow function or approximation (1964) Developed a perturbation model valid for very high eccentricities Discovered chaotic eccentricity jumps to values larger than 0.9 in 3.1 resonance with Jupiter Creep Tides. A new model to study the tidal evolution of close-in satellites and exoplanets. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrol. (2014) A rheophysical tidal theory for exoplanets and satellites (2012) First to study exoplanet systems whose orbits are resonant between them With T. Michtchenko & C. Beaugé. The orbits of the extrasolar planets HD82943c and b. Astrop. J. 621:473-81, 2005 Proposed a model that explained the absence of great asteroids with six-years period and the their excess with eight-years period (1993) With D. Lazzaro & R.V. Martins. A semi-analytical solution for the eccentricities and longitudes of the pericenter of the Uranian satellites. Astron. Astrop. (1987) With M. Sato & P.E. Nacozy. A numerical averaging procedure for the Galilean satellites system (1983) Ferraz Mello technique or algorithm of date-compensated discrete Fourier transform Estimation of periods from unequally spaced observations. Astron. J. 86:619, 1981 First to study the pair Europa-Ganymedes in Dynamics of the Galilean Satellites (1979) Proposed an extension to several degrees of freedom of the Delaunay method (1978) Sur um modele mathematique pour l’etude des effets de la pression de radiation solaire sur le mouvement des satellites artificiels. Comp. Rend. Acad. Sciences Paris (1971) HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Observatoire de Paris (2007) Brouwer Award, American Astronomical Society (Division on Dynamical Astronomy) 2015 Asteroid Ferraz Mello (5201) See HTTP://www.astro.iag.usp.br/~sylvio/vitae.pdf
Shouxian Fang
Shouxian Fang, Chinese nuclear physicist (Shanghai 27 October 1932 – Beijing 19 January 2020) With Kaiyu Wei discovered a nonisochronous phenomenon in isochronous cyclotrons (1962) Played a role in the design of a new heavy current antiproton accumulator ring Developed a dispersion removal method for small and medium circular accelerators (1982-3) Proposed a design of compensation of solenoid effects by skew quadruples in electron positron collider making machines performance superior to those in the world PATENTS With J. Tang & X. Guan. Equalizing method of beam emittance. CN200910077726 (2009) With X. Du. Movable horizontal intraoperative radiotherapy apparatus. CN201110165386 (2012) With X. Du. Method and apparatus for deflection of electronic beam of intra-operative radiation therapy apparatus . CN20110165373 (2012) With X. Du. S-band movable horizontal intraoperative radiation therapy machine. CN201120207609 (2012)
Sergio Henrique Ferreira
Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, Brazilian pharmacologist (Franca, São Paulo State 04 October 1934 – Ribeirão Preto 17 July 2016) ACHIEVEMENTS Gained international recognition for his studies on field of inflammatory analgesics Authored 281 papers (until early 2013) Proposed that the aspirin’s mechanism of action was due to prevention of pain receptors sensibilization as a consequence of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition With J.R. Vane and Y.S. Bakhle obtained experimental evidence that angiotensin inhibition could be a hypertension therapy With M. Rocha e Silva discovered and isolated bradykinin potentiating factor or BPF (1965) Discovered peripheral analgesic mechanism of action of dipyrone Discovered peripheral action of morphine and the phenomenon of tele-antagonism Observed hyperalgesia mechanism Characterized the phenomenon of retrograde sensibilization of primary sensorial neuron that consists in glutamate release in spinal cord of primary peripheral neuron Demonstrated cytokines involvement in inflammatory pain Discovered anti-hypertensive converting enzymes inhibitors Proposed the development of opiates drugs of peripheral action Contributed significantly to define the role of inflammatory mediators to inducing hyperalgesia Proposed the idea that the development of inflammatory pain depends on hierarchical release of distinct mediators Proposed that the inflammatory pain followed stimuli action on prostaglandin-sensitized nociceptors (1972) Discovered that a distinct class of analgesics is able to counteract the ongoing sensitization of the primary sensory neuron via stimulation of the arginine/-nitric oxide pathway Described an antagonist of interleukin 1 that is being developed as a model for a new class of analgesics Found that interleukin I mediates the endogenous release of prostaglandins and interleukin 8 is responsible for the development of the sympathetic hyperalgesia Characterized the retrograde sensitization of the primary sensory neuron (2008) A new method for measuring variations of rat paw volume. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 31:648, 1979 With I. Bareicha. Técnica de superfusão contínua de órgãos isolados para detecção e quantificação de histamina no sangue circulante. Cien. Cult. 21(2):550-1, 1969 HONORS Mahidol Award, Prince Mahidol Foundation (2008) Honorary Member, International Association for the Study of Pain (2005) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2002) Werle Commemorative Medal (1993) Ferreira Award, Norwegian Hypertension Society (1990)