Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren
Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren, Spanish-born Dominican priest, explorer, plant collector and geologist (Daroca, Zaragoza Province 04 August 1871 – Santo Domingo 04 March 1926) Discovered a number of new species from Dominican flora Cited as a discoverer of larimar, a blue variety of pectolite (1916) HONORS Fuertesia Urban 1911 (Loasaceae) Fuertesiella Schlechter 1913 (Orchidaceae)
Mario Guimarães Ferri
Mário Guimarães Ferri, Brazilian botanist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 07 July 1918 –São Paulo 15 June 1985) Expert on plant hormones and ecology Developed a biological test for detecting auxins in plants With Lúcia V. de Camargo. Influence of growth substances on the pulvini of the primary leaves of bean plants. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Preliminary observations on the translocation of synthetic growth substances. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 14, 1945 With S.G. Wildman & J. Bonner. The enzymatic conversion of tryptophan to auxin by spinach leaves. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 13:131, 1947 With A. Lex. Stomatal behavior as influenced by treatment of β-naphthoxyacetic acid. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 15:283-90, 1948 With M. Rachid. Further information on the stomatal behavior as influenced by treatment with hormone-like substances. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 21:155-66, 1949 Photoinactivation of the plant hormone indol acetic acid by fluorescent substances. Nature 4269, 1951 With L. Labouriau. Water balance from the “caatinga”. I. Transpiration of some of the most frequent species of the “caatinga” of Paulo Afonso (Bahia) in the rainy season. Rev. Bras. Biol. 12:301-12, 1952 Water balance of the “caatinga”, a semi-arid type of vegetation of northern Brazil. In: 8ieme Congrès Internat. Bot. Paris. Rapports et communications. Parvenus avant le congrès, sect. 7, Paris 221-3, 1954 On the moprphology of the stomata of Eucalyptus terticornis, Ouratea spectabilis and Cedrela fissilis. Bol. Fac. Cien. Letras USP 173 Bot. 11, 1954 Photoactive movement of the stomata of sugarcane. Revta. Bras. Biol. 17, 1957 Aspects of the soil-water plant relationships in connection with some Brazilian types of vegetation. In: Proc. Abidjan UNESCO and the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa south of the Sahara. Symposium UNESCO: Tropical Soils and Vegetation 103-9, 1959 With B.L. Morretes. Contribuição ao estudo da anatomia das folhas de plantas do Cerrado. I. Bol. Fac. Fil. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo 16:7-70, 1959 Contributions to the knowledge of the ecology of the “Rio Negro Caatinga” (Amazon). Bull. Res. Council Israel Sect. D 8:195-207, 1960 Problems of water relations of some Brazilian vegetation types, with special consideration of the concepts of xeromorphy and xerophytism. Plant water relationships in arid and semi-arid conditions. Proc. Madrid Symposium Arid zone Research 16:191-7, Unesco, Paris, 1961 With B.L. Morretes. Contribuição ao conhecimento da anatomia de folhas de plantas de uma caatinga do Rio Negro (Amazonas). Revta. Biol. Lisboa 78(1-4): 97-122, 1972 His brother, Rubens Guimarães Ferri, immunochemist (São Paulo 25 October 1922 – São Paulo 02 August 1979) DEVELOPED METHODS / OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With H.C. Ferreira & L.G. Murat. Rapid test for fibrinolysis in vivo. Transfusion 4:21-5, 1964 With W. Cossermelli. Analyse immuno-eletrophoretique. Micro et macrométhodes, Rev. Franc. Etud. Clin. Biol. 9:134, 1964 With W. Cossermelli, S.D. Giannini & T. Tutiya. Tests for evaluation of activity in rheumatoid arthritis. Rev. Paul. Med. 49(5):353-8, 1956 With L.V. Decourt, M. Papaleo Neto, S.D. Giannini, G. Spilborghs & T. Tutiya. Serological tests in diagnosis of rheumatic activity. I. Determination of mucoprotein. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 8(4):361-78, 1955 With L.V. Decourt, T.J.B. Cardoso & T. Tutiya. Isolamento e eletroforese da mucoproteína do soro humano. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 10:389-94, 1955 Isolamento e caracterização da iso-hemaglutinina. Frações proteicas do plasma humano. Métodos de estudo. O Hospital (1955) Papers in Science With R. Guidolin. Fluorescence and photo-inactivation of snake poisons. Science 113:300-2, 1951 With A.W. Galston & R. Guidolin. Photoinactivation of indolacetic acid. Science 114 (2969): 555, 1951 Other papers Estudo imunoquimico de antígenos intracelulares. O Hospital 59:917-24, 1961 With O. Bier. Gel-precipitação e imuno-electroforese. Anais Microbiol. (1961)
Manoel Basilio Furtado
Manoel Basílio Furtado, Brazilian physician, ethnographer and naturalist (Queluz, Minas Gerais State 02 November 1826 – Rio Novo, Minas Gerais State 13 May 1903) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Anotações sobre o café Descrição de duas gitiranaboyas Descrição das águas minerais do Capim, município de Muriaé, Minas Geraes Descrição do gavião de penacho ou Montaurana Descrição e história de um crânio humano, achado em uma gruta de São Geraldo Estudo sobre o bicho da Taquaraquicé (1882) Notas sobre o vaga-lumes Operação do Trepano. Thesis, Academia de Medicina Rio de Janeiro Pequeno dicionário de palavras indígenas (1878) Itinerário de Senhor Bom Jesus do Itabapoana (RJ) à Gruta das Minas do Castelo (ES) 1884 Morcegos do Brasil – Contribuição para o estudo da zoologia no Brasil. Rev. Arqu. Publ. Mineiro 3-4, 1903 HONORS Basilia Miranda Ribeiro 1903 (Diptera)
Luiz Guimarães Ferreira
Luiz Guimarães Ferreira, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 05 January 1937 – Authored 136 papers (until 2011) ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced transition state concept independent from Slater With J.R. Leite. Effects of the Coulomb Correlation on the Calculated Results of Atoms and Ions with and without Spin-Polarization. Physical Review A.3:1224-1230, 1971. Proposed new atomic configurations in a crystalline lattice Developed LDA-1/2, a new methodology for obtaining excited states of a crystal With M. Marques & L.K. Teles. Approximation to density functional theory for the calculation of band-gaps of semiconductors. Physical Review B – Solid State 78:125116, 2008 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With C.J.A. Quadros. Fourier method of analysis of magneto-oscillatory effects. Phys. Lett. A 28(3):211-2, 1968 A Local Approximation for Exchange and Correlation in Band Structure Calculations. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 30:1113, 1969 With J.R. Leite & J.R. Pereira. A correlation to the Liberman approximation for the exchange energy. Appl. Phys. Lett. 40 A: 315, 1972 With J. R. Pereira Neto, D. Lida & A. Agostinho Neto. Generalization of the Augmented Plane Wave Method. Journal Of Physics C 7:1076, 1974. With A. Agostinho Neto & D. Lida. A Non-Muffin-Tin Version of the Multiple-Scattering Method for Crystals and Molecules. Physical Review B 14:354, 1976. With S.R. Salinas & M.J. Oliveira. On a Variational Procedure for Obtaining the Thermodynamic Properties of Statistical Models. Physica Status Solidi B – Basic Research 83:229, 1977. With P.S. Guimarães & N.J. Parada. Improved Effective Mass Approximation for Impurity Levels in Insulators. Solid State Communications 27:137, 1978. With J.R. Leite. General Formulation of the Variational Cellular Method for Molecules and Crystals. Physical Review A 18:335, 1978 With L.M. Brescansin. A Crystalline Cluster Model for Ionic Solids: NaCl. Physical Review B 20: 3415, 1979 With P.S. Guimarães. A method to estimate the relativistic corrections in Atomic and Molecular Calculations. Solid State Communications. 32:525, 1979 Theory and Method for Accelerating the Convergence of Self-Consistent Electronic Structure Calculations. Journal of Computational Physics 36:198, 1980. With M. A. A. Pudensi. A Method to Calculate the Reflection and Transmission of Guided Waves. J Opt Soc Am 72:126, 1982. With M. L. Siqueira. A New Version of the Variational Cellular Method for Polyatomic Systems. Journal of Physics B – Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 16: 3111-3123, 1983. With M. L. Siqueira. New Technique in the Calculation of Defects in Solids by Molecular Methods: Pure and Cu-doped ZnS. Physical Review B 34:5315-5319, 1986. With M.A. Boselli. A model for relaxation in intermetallic compounds. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 9:4801-4812, 1997 With V. Ozolins & A. Zunger. A new force field for alloys: application to Cu-Au (1998) With A.R. Lopes, M.A.P. Lima & M.H.F. Bettega. A geometrical optics model for electron-molecule collisions. Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 39:1045-1053, 2006
Lizhi Fang
Lizhi Fang, Chinese astrophysicist (Peking 12 February 1936 – Tucson, Arizona 06 April 2012) Authored 340 papers, book chapters and conference papers Suggested that the universe may be closed in Acta Astronomica Sinica 17:134, 1977 Proposed that the periodic distribution of quasars can be explained if the Universe has a non-trivial topology Developed new models and new predictions to the direct observations of cosmic reonization With J. Pando developed a method for measuring the spectrum of a density field by a discrete wavelet space-scale decomposition (1985) A new type relativistic object – SS433. Chin. J. Nature 2:695, 1979 With S.J. Gu. A new representation of (real and virtual) localized modes. Acta Physica Sinica 21:1951, 1965 LINKS http://fang-lizhi.hxwk.org/files/2014/05/Append_SciencePaperList_For_CND.pdf
Liang Fei
Liang Fei, Chinese herpetologist (1936 – Chengdu, Sichuan Province 04 June 2022) DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Genera Glandirana 1990 with Ye & Huang Kurixalus 1999 with Ye & Dubois Pachyhynobius 1983 with Qu & Wu Parapelophryne 2003 with Ye & Jiang Pseudohynobius 1983 with Yang Strauchbufo 2012 with Ye & Jiang Species Amolops xinduqiao 2017 with Ye, Wang & Jiang Bufotes zamdaensis 1999 with Ye & Huang Feihyla fuhua 2010 with Ye & Jiang Ingerophryne ledongensis 2009 with Ye & Huang Kurixalus odontotarsus 1993 with Ye Leptobrachella alpina 1990 with Ye & Li Leptobachella liui 1990 with Ye Leptobrachella ventripunctata 1990 with Ye & Li Leptobrachium guangxiense 2009 with Mo, Ye & Jiang Leptobrachium hainanense 1993 with Ye Leptobrachium huashen 2005 with Ye Liurana medogensis 1997 with Ye & Huang Limnonectes bannaensis 2007 with Ye, Xie & Jiang Limnonectes fujianensis 1994 with Ye Megophrys baolongensis 2007 with Ye & Xie Megophrys binchuanensis 1995 with Ye Megophrys binlingensis 2009 with Jiang & Ye Megophrys chuannanensis 2001 with Ye & Huang Megophrys glandulosa 1990 with Ye & Huang Megophrys huangshanensis 2005 with Ye Megophrys jingdongensis 1983 with Ye Megophrys mangshanensis 1990 with Ye Megophrys medogensis 1983 with Ye & Huang Megophrys sangzhiensis 2008 with Jiang & Ye Megophrys wawuensis 2001 with Jiang & Zheng Megophrys wuliangshanensis 1995 with Ye Megophrys wushanensis 1995 with Ye Megophrys zhangi 1992 with Ye Microhyla beilunensis 2018 with Zhang, Ye, Wang, Wang & Jiang Nanorana conaensis 1981 with Huang Nanorana medogensis 1999 with Ye Nanorana ventripunctata 1985 with Huang Nidirana hainanensis 2007 with Ye & Jiang Odorrana exiliversabilis 2001 with Li & Ye Odorrana hainanensis 2001 with Ye & Li Odorrana jingdongensis 2001 with Ye & Li Odorrana junlianensis 2001 with Huang & Ye Odorrana nanjiangensis 2007 with Ye, Xie & Jiang Odorrana nasuta 2001with Li & Ye Odorrana yizhangensis 2007 with Ye & Jiang Oreolalax granulosus 1990 with Ye & Chen Oreolalax liangbeiensis 1979 with Liu Oreolalax lichuanensis 1979 with Hu Oreolalax nanjiangensis 1999 with Ye Oreolalax puxiongensis 1979 with Liu Oreolalax rhodostigmatus 1979 with Hu Oreolalax xiangchengensis 1983 with Huang Pachyhynobius shangchengensis 1983 with Qu & Wu Pelophylax hubeiensis 1982 with Ye Pseudohynobius puxiongensis 2000 with Ye Rana huanrenensis 1990 with Ye & Huang Rana omeimontis 1993 with Ye Rana zhenhaiensis 1995 with Ye & Matsui Scutiger jiulongensis 1995 with Ye & Jiang Scutiger muliensis 1986 with Ye Scutiger nyingchiensis 1977 Scutiger tuberculatus 1979 with Liu Scutiger wanglangensis 2007 with Ye Theloderma baibungense 2009 with Jiang & Huang Tylotriton hainanensis 1984 with Ye & Yang Tylotriton liuyangensis 2014 with Yang, Jiang & Shen Tylotriton wenxianensis 1984 with Ye & Yang HONORS Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad et al. 2006 (Amphibia)