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
João Ferreira Teixeira de Freitas
João Ferreira Teixeira de Freitas, Brazilian helminthologist (Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1912 – 10 April 1970) Described at least 8 orders and 10 families DESCRIBED HELMINTH GENERA Nematoda Avellaria 1934 with Freitas Batracholandros 1965 with Ibañez Brevigraphidium 1960 with Machado de Mendonça Brevithominx 1964 with Travassos & Machado de Mendonça Caenostrongylus 1938 with Lent Capillostrongyloides 1935 with Lent Chabaudgolvania 1958 Didactylurus 1960 with Dobbin Gongylonemoides 1937 Graphidiops 1938 Heligmoskrjabinia 1937 with Lent Helminthoxys 1937 with Lent & Almeida Heterakoides 1956 Inglisakis 1969 with Vicente & Santos Lutznema 1934 with Lent Mariostrongylus 1967 with Franco Migonella 1946 with Freitas & Proença Moaciria 1956 Molinema 1939 with Lent Nicanoria 1970 with Vicente & Pinto Orthothominx 1960 with Silva Oswaldostrongylus 1934 with Lent Paradeletrocephalus 1947 with Lent Paragraphidium 1960 with Mendonça Paramidostomum 1950 with Mendonça Pareterakis 1956 Parhadjelia 1939 with Lent Pearsonema 1960 with Mendonça Piratuba 1941 with Lent Preterakis 1956 Pseudaspidoderina 1956 Pseudaspidoderoides 1956 Pteroxyascaris 1958 Raillietakis 1956 Ruschiella 1967 Salobrella 1941 Schrankiella 1959 Splendidofilaroides 1968 with Ibañez Stilestrongylus 1937 with Lent & Almeida Subulascaris 1957 with Dobbin Trichotravassosia 1938 with Lent Vaznema 1948 with Lent Trematoda Acanthocollaritrema 1965 with Travassos & Burnheim Acanthocolpoides 1965 with Travassos & Burnheim 1965 Amarocotyle 1965 with Travassos & Burnheim Caimanicola 1938 with Lent Catarinatrema 1971 with Santos Cathaemasioides 1941 Chalcinotrema 1947 Dollfustravassosius 1967 with Kohn Halltrema 1939 with Lent Ignavia 1948 Mabiarama 1967 with Kohn Maxtrema 1969 with Travassos & Kohn Metacetabulum 1938 with Lent Paralecithobotrys 1948 Prionosomoides 1967 with Dobbin Pulchrosomoides 1937 with Lent Cestoda Gessyella 1959 Pseudocapillaria 1959 Pterothominx 1959 Ritaklossia 1959 Digenea Edcaballerotrema 1960 Maicuru 1960 Paratanaisia 1959 Species Described at least 197 new helminth species HONORS (Nematoda) Freitasia Barus & Garrido 1968 Freitascaris Sprent 1983 Freitascapillaria Moravec 1982 Freitasoxyascaris Correa Gomes & Silva Motta 1967 Freitastrongylus Gonçalves, Pinto & Durette-Desset 2007 Trichofreitasia Sutton & Durette-Desset 1991
João da Silva Feijó
João da Silva Feijó, Brazilian / Portuguese naturalist (Rio de Janeiro 1760 – Rio de Janeiro 10 March 1824) Nee João da Silva Barbosa Collected rocks, minerals, plants, animals and fossils in Cape Verde (1783-97) and Ceará State (1799-1818) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Memória econômica sobre a raça do gado lanígero na capitania do Ceará, com os meios de organizar os seus rebanhos por princípios rurais, aperfeiçoar a espécie actual das suas ovelhas e conduzir-se no tratamento delas e das suas lãs em utilidade geral do comércio do Brasil, e prosperidade da mesma capitania (1811) Memória sobre a fábrica real de anil na ilha de Sto. Antão. Mem. Econ. Acad. Real de Ciências Tomo 1 Memória sobre a capitania do Ceará. Mem. Econ. Acad. Real de Ciências Tomo 1 Ensaio econômico sobre as ilhas de Cabo Verde. Mem. Econ. Acad. Real de Ciências Tomo 5 Ensaio político sobre as ilhas de Cabo Verde. Mem. Econ. Acad. Real de Ciências Tomo 5 Memória sobre a última erupção vulcânica do pico da ilha de Cabo Verde. O Patriota 3(5) Preâmbulo ao ensaio filosófico e político sobre a capitania do Ceará para servir a sua história geral Memória sobre a urzela de Cabo Verde Memória sobre as minas do Ceará Carta topográfica do Ceará a Mina do Salpetra HONORS Subgenus Feijoa O. Berg 1858 (Myrtaceae)
José Pinto da Fonseca
José Pinto da Fonseca, Brazilian entomologist (Mariana, Minas Gerais State 03 August 1896 – São Paulo 27 July 1982) Authored over 200 papers DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Achantomedes 1974 with Von Diringshofen Anopulvinaria 1972 Eunusa 1974 Gonoconophora 1950 Hypsoprorachis 1969 with Von Diringshofen Mesoselenaspidus 1970 Neoischnaspis 1970 Oedacanthus 1951 Parakermes 1973 Parapulvinaria 1969 Pendularia 1927 Perilecanium 1962 Pseudoselenaspidus 1962 Taunaya 1934 Described about 70 new species between Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera HONORS Fonsechellus Silvestri 1946 (Coleoptera) Fonsecaiulus Young 1977 (Hemiptera)