Ruy Faria
Ruy Faria, Brazilian hematologist (Rio de Janeiro 17 October 1914 – ?) His paper A transfusão de sangue em ginecologia e obstetrícia. Ann. Bras.Ginec. 2:1, 1936 was quoted by Kilduffe & DeBakey in their treatise The Blood bank and the technique and Therapeutics of transfusion (1942) CONTRIBUTIONS Novo aparelho de transfusão de sangue (1941) Modificação de técnica na determinação dos grupos sanguíneos. Rev. Paul. Med. 3:137, 1948 Transfusão improvisada. Ann. Paul. Med. Cir. (1950) Membership Elected Member, International Society of Hematology
Ruy Escorel Ferreira Santos
Ruy Escorel Ferreira-Santos, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 10 October 1917 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 26 October 2003) Created innovative techniques in cardiac and chest surgeries Developed subtotal esophagectomy with cervical esophagogastric anastomosis by a posterior mediastinal route (Ferreira-Santos technique) With H. Camara Lopes. Indicação seletiva do processo de Heller, da ressecção parcial e da ressecção subtotal do esôfago no tratamento cirúrgico do megaesôfago. Rev. Paul. Med. 52:269-75, 1958 Proposed a classification for stages of affected esophagus in Chagas disease (1968)
Rui Ribeiro Franco
Rui Ribeiro Franco, Brazilian petrologist and mineralogist (São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo State 09 June 1916 – São Paulo 20 February 2008) Authored about 50 papers and 4 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W. Loewenstein. Zirconium from the region of Poços de Caldas. Am. Mineral. 33:142-51, 1948 Beryl at Altinho, Pernambuco. Mineria y Metalurgia 9:201-2, 1949 With J.F. Schairer. Liquidus temperatures in mixtures of the feldspars of soda, potash and lime. J. Geol. 59:259-67, 1951 HONORS Ruifrancoite Atencio, Chukanov, Coutinho, Menezes Filho, Dubinchuk & Mockel 2007 (Mineral)
Rubens Ferreira
Rubens Ferreira, Brazilian physiologist (São Paulo 13 March 1901 – Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1972) ACHIEVEMENTS Published nearly 180 works Invented electric devices for studying metabolism Described the complex of defensive reactions in gastric mucosa (1946) Developed electrotherapeutic methods for curing internal lesions known as metamerotherapy Da metameroterapia. Brasil Medico 66(33-35):505-26, 1952. See www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/radiguet/rf.html (in Portuguese)
Roberto Farina
Roberto Farina, Brazilian plastic surgeon (São Paulo 11 June 1915 – 16 November 2001) Developed Frontal flap method Nose tip collapse through loss of chondro-mucous substance (repair of nasal lining). Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 13(2):137-43, 1954 Described Farina “riding trousers” type of resection With R. Baroudi, B. Golcman & O. de Castro. Riding-trousers like type of pelvicrural lipodystrophy (trochanteric lipomatosis). Brit. J. Plast. Surg. (1960) Invented nasolabial flap as a method of correcting nasal lining defects in leprosy patients Collapse of the tip of the nose in leprosy caused by loss of chondro-mucosal substance (repair of the nasal mucosa with nasogenal flaps). Ann. Chir. Plast. 7:287-90, 1962 DEVELOPED OTHER TECHNIQUES Saddle and boxer’s nose. Aesthetic Plast. Surg. 7(3):171-5, 1983 With J.B. Villano. Reduction mammaplasty with free grafting of the nipple and areola. Br. J. Plast. Surg. 25:393-8, 1972 With P.B. Magalhães, O. de Castro & B. Golcman. Ectropion and loss of palpebral substance (repair with palpebral and parapalpebral flaps) 1964 Total unilateral harelip. Correction of severe deformity of the palate and lips in a single operation: Le Mesurier’s cheiloplasty & Veau-Ernst gnatho-uranostaphyloplasty. Ann. Chir. Plast. 3:199-205, 1958 Ptose palpebral. Blefaroplastia pela técnica de Wiener-Lexer modificada (1949)
Ricardo de Lemos Froes
Ricardo de Lemos Fróes, Brazilian botanist (Maranhão State 1891 – 1960) DESCRIBED NEW PLANT SPECIES Anacardium negrense 1948 with Pires Axonopus caracarahyensis 1950 with Black Buchenavia longibracteata 1950 Froesia crassiflora 1950 with Pires Humiriastrum villosum 1950 Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis 1948 with Black Ichnanthus tarumanensis 1950 with Black Lorostemon negrensis 1959 Quiina paraensis 1950 with Pires Schnella longiseta 1950 Strychnos malacosperma 1955 with Ducke Strychnos oyapocensis 1959 Theobroma canumanense 1964 with Pires Ziziphus itacaiunensis 1959 HONORS Froesia Pires 1948 (Quiinaceae) Froesiochloa Black 1950 (Poaceae) Froesiodendron Fries 1956 (Annonaceae) Lemosfroesia (Moraceae)