Kaitai Fang
Kaitai Fang, Chinese mathematician and statistician (Taizhou, Jiangsu Province 05 June 1940 – Proposed the idea of uniform designs (1978) with Y. Wang Created visualization analysis Developed the d operator Found that many existing orthogonal designs were also uniform designs Developed new methods for inference in generalized multivariate analysis Other Contributions Proposed a kind of regression with constraint prescription regression With B.Q. Fang introduced three families of multivariate and matrix l1-norm symmetric distribution with location and scale parameters (1986) With B.Q. Fang introduced a family of multivariate distributions and a criterion of the invariance of statistics (1987) With B.Q. Fang introduced a family of multivariate symmetric distributions (1988) With J.L. Xun defined a class of multivariate distributions including the multivariate logistic (1989) With Y. Wang developed a sequential algorithm for optimization and its applications to regression analysis (1990) and another for solving a system of nonlinear equations (1991) With Y. Wang & H.L. Wong developed a new method for generating the uniform distribution on the unit sphere (1992) With R.Z. Li gave some methods for generating both an NTnet and the uniform distribution on a Stiefel manifold and their applications (1997) With D.K.J. Lin & C.X. Ma proposed five criteria for comparing multi-level super-saturated designs (2000) With G.E. Gennian & M. Liu proposed a discrete discrepancy as a measure of uniformity for super-saturated designs (2002) and the packing method (2004)
Juan Santos Fernandez
Juan Santos Fernandez Hernandez, Cuban ophthalmologist (Union de los Reyes, Matanzas Province 22 July 1847 – La Habana 06 August 1922) Authored over 2000 scientific works and notes Studied ocular pathologies as such as ocular complications of malaria, changes in eyeground due to toxic and infectious causes, ocular surgery with anesthetic application and trachoma and its epidemic variety Proposed the utilization of eserine in cataract operation (1875) First reported the temporal optic disc pallor considered pathognomonic of Cuban epidemic Neuropathy and tobacco and alcohol-related amblyopia (1875) La ambliopia alcoholica en la Isla de Cuba y de un sintoma coadyuvante, no descrito para diagnosticarla (1876) Successful method of extraction of congenital and traumatic cataract Consideraciones generales sobre la extracción de las cataratas y descripción de um nuevo método operatório (1876) HONORS Honor Academic, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology American Academy Honor Member, Societé Ophtalmologique Française de Paris Honorary Member, University of Pennsylvania
Juan Flegenheimer
Juan Gerson Flegenheimer, Argentine radiochemist of Dutch-Jewish parentage (31 July 1928 – Necochea, Buenos Aires Province 28 August 2021) DESCRIBED NEW ISOTOPES Hafnium 83 with Gatti Molybdenum 105 Technetium 102m Rhenium 189 with Baró & Viirsoo Rhenium 190m with Baró Technetium 102 with Seelmann Eggebert Technetium 105 with Seelmann Eggebert Technetium 103 with Geithoff BIBLIOGRAPHY With G.B. Baró & Y.M. Virsoo. Dos nuevos radioisotopes de renio y tungsteno (1966) With G.B. Baro. A2,8 hour Rhenium isotop. Radiochim. Acta 1:2, 1962 With W. Seelmann-Eggebert. Neue Spalttechnetium isotope 104Tc. Z. Naturforschg. 678 (1958) With D. Geithoff. Uber die Bestimmung des18-und 4,5 min-technetiums und ein neues kurzlebiges Tc-isotop (103). Z. Naturforschg. 12a:351 (1957) With O. Gatti. Ein neues Hf-isotop (183Hf). Z. Naturforschg. 11a:679 (1956) With J. Facetti & E. Trabal. A new nuclide
Juan Farill y Solares
Juan Farill y Solares, Mexican orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 February 1902 – 24 June 1973) Authored 87 scientific and popular works Advocated arthrograms of congenitally dislocated hips (1952) INTRODUCED Skeletal traction with fixation The employment of contrast mielography for discal lesions diagnosis Arteriography for bone tumours diagnosis TECHNIQUES Personal therapeutic conduct in the treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip in children. Anal. Ortop. Traum. Montevideo 3:281, 1950 Reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip in children; personal technic. Pediatr. Am. 9(3):97-107, 1951 Orthoradiographic measurement of shortening of the lower extremity; technic. Med. Radiogr. Photogr. 29:32-8, 1953 Tratamiento del pie supino flaccido por tenoplastia del tibia anterior; descripción de técnica (1953) Tibioperoneal tenoplasty for congenital club-foot with peroneal insufficiency. J. Bone Joint Surg. Am. 38A(2):329-36, 1956 Tratamiento incruento del pie equino por acortamiento de los gemelos. Gac. Med. Mexico 91(4):275-83, 1961 A tendon transfer for the treatment of certain cases of cavus deformity of the foot. J. Bone Joint Surg. (Am.) 45:1779, 1963 Eponym of Farill operation of diaphysectomy
Juan Carlos Forte
Juan Carlos Forte, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 16 February 1949 – During his post-doctoral research at Kitt Peak National Observatory (Arizona, USA) was involved in one of the first massive applications of digital techniques for image processing in astronomy: the study of the rich globular cluster systems associated with the giant galaxy M87 ACHIEVEMENTS With F.R. Faifer, C.G. Escudero, M. Norris et al. First confirmed ultra-compact dwarf in the NGC5044 group. Astron. Astrophys. 599:L8, 2017 First study of metallicity-sensitive C-T1 photometry of a low-luminosity elliptical galaxy With D. Geisler, P.G. Ostrov, A.E. Piatti & W. Gieren. The globular cluster system of the low-luminosity elliptical galaxy NGC1247. Astron. J. 121(4):1992-2002, 2001 Detected dust clouds in several globular clusters With M. Mendez. A multicolor CCD Survey of Southern Globular Clusters (1988) Discovered globular cluster swapping With R.E. Martínez & J.C. Muzzio. On the origin of the globular cluster system of M87. Astron. J. 87(11):1465, 1982 With M.A. Orsatti. Un sistema W Cephei lejano en Puppis. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 25:31, 1980 METHODOLOGIES A new (g-i) vs. (C-T1) colours calibration With G. Moyano Loyola & F.R. Faifer. Globular clusters: chemical abundance-integrated colour calibration. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 53:133-6, 2010 A technique to extract ultra-deep diffuse-light spectra from the standard multi-object spectroscopic observations used to investigate extragalactic globular cluster systems With M.A. Norris, R.M. Sharples, T. Bridges, K. Gebhardt et al. Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy of the spheroid and globular cluster system of NGC3923. Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 385(1):40-52, 2008 A method that exploits the correlation between sky brightness and the intensity of airglow With F. Faifer & J. Scheer. Estudio del brillo del cielo en El Leoncito. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 43:80-1, 1999 Defined C-T1, a new integrated metallicity index With D. Geisler. The abundance distribution and luminosity function of globular clusters in NGC1399. Astrophys. J. Lett. 350:L5, 1990 HONORS Asteroid Forte LT8780
Juan Carlos Fasciolo
Juan Carlos Fasciolo Rosso, Argentine biochemist (Pigue 05 April 1911 – Mendoza 11 October 1993) Authored over 100 papers With L.F. Leloir, J. M. Muñoz, E. Braun-Menendez and A. Taquini discovered angiotensin and described enzymatic nature of renin-angiotensin system and its relationship to arterial hypertension Recognized that renal ischemia induces renin secretion Angiodiactin: a new vasodilator substance of the tissues. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 3:1, 1953 With H.L. Nolly & R.R. Cabrera. Chymotensin – an angiotensin-like substance released from human plasma by chymotrypsin. Acta Physiol. Lat.Am. 24(5):484-7, 1974 Papers in top journals With J.M. Muñoz, L.F. Leloir & A.C. Taquini. Hypertensin: the substance causing renal hypertension. Nature 144:980, 1939 With L.F. Leloir, J.M. Muñoz & E. Braun-Menendez. On the specificity of renin. Science 92 (2398):554-5, 1940 With E.B. Menendez, B.A. Houssay, L.F. Leloir, J.M. Muñoz & A.C. Taquini. Angiotonin or hypertensin. Science 98(2553):495, 1953 METHODS With J.M. Muñoz, E. Braun-Menendez, A. Taquini & L.F. Leloir. Metodo para la medición de la renina humana. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 19:321-31, 1943 With A. Taquini. Metodo para el reconocimiento de pequeñas quantidades de renina. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. (1947) With F.E. Alonso & M.M. Puebla. Indirect method for the determination of renal renin. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 35:84-95, 1959 With A. Binia & O.A. Carretero. A method for the estimation of bradykinin in blood. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 13:101-9, 1963 With E. DeVito. Method for the estimation of renin activity in plasma. Acta Physiol. Lat. Am. 15:129-37, 1965 With G.L. Totel, B.B. Johnson & R.E. Johnson. A method for the calculation of the relative contributions of recruitment and enhancement to human eccrine sweating. J. Clin. Invest. 49(5):890-7, 1970