Joaquín Frenguelli
Joaquín Frenguelli, Italian-born Argentine physician, naturalist, geographer and archeologist (Rome 19 August 1883 – Santa Fe 23 June 1958) DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Algae/Protozoa (Fossil) Auerinella 1954 Clathrium 1938 Clericia 1925 Naviculopsis 1940 Outesia 1925 Paradictyocha 1940 Planicircus 1940 Semantebria 1940 Spyrebria 1940 Trachelostomum 1939 Algae (Living) Deflandreia 1938 (Chrysophyceae) Muelleria 1945 (Bacillariophyceae) Opephoropsis 1945 (Bacillariophyceae) Plantae (Fossil) Barrealia 1942 Charnelia 1954 Dicroidiopsis 1943 Displasiophyllum 1943 Fanerotheca 1944 Feruglioa 1944 Furqueia 1954 Harringtonia 1942 Kurtziana 1942 Macrotaenia 1943 Phacolepis 1942 Pterorrachis 1942 Tetraptilon 1950 Xylopteris 1943 Zuberia 1943 Hymenoptera (Fossil) Prosceliphron 1946 Reptilia (Fossil) Orchesteropus 1950 Venatoripes 1950 Mammalia (Fossil) Neolicaphrium 1921 Nothobos 1933 Prionodelphis 1922 Described about 60 new fossil species and living diatoms HONORS (Fossil) Frenguellia Arrondo, Cesari & Gutierrez 1991 (Plantae) Frenguellisaurus Novas 1986 (Reptilia) Frenguellia Petrulevicius & Nel 2003 (Odonata) Frenguelliphlebia Martins-Neto & Gallego 2003 Frenguelliceras Leanza 1945 (Mollusca) Frenguellicythere Bertels Psotka & Martinez 1999 (Crustacea) Frenguelliella Leanza 1942 (Mollusca)
Joaquim de Sampaio Ferraz
Joaquim de Sampaio Ferraz, Brazilian meteorologist (Rio de Janeiro 28 November 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1966) Showed the key role of Atlantic Polar anticyclone in Amazonian cold (1925) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Irrupções de águas frias no Atlântico Sul, ao longo da costa meridional brasileira, até o Cabo Frio. Rev. Geogr. Inst. Pan-Am. Geogr. Hist. 25(10), 1951 Suggestions for the explanation of probable connections between solar activity and rainfall variation in Southeastern Brazil (1942) With F.E. Magarinos Torres. Contribuição para o estudo do regime das chuvas no Nordeste (1940) Subsídios para o estudo de um ciclo climatológico do Sudeste Brasileiro. Rev. Bras. Geogr. 1(3), 1933 Segundo Ano Polar Internacional – Projeto de Cooperação do Brasil (1931) A previsão do tempo baseada em observações locais (1928) Causas prováveis das secas do Nordeste Brasileiro (1925) As ondas de frio no Brasil (1919) HONORS Member, International Meteorological Committe (1923-31) Honorary Member, Royal Meteorological Society
Jacobus Christian Faure
Jacobus Christian Faure, South-African entomologist (Pretoria, Transvaal 29 August 1891 – Johannesburg 30 May 1973) DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Genera Ascania 1954 Caprithrips 1933 Carius 1961 Catina 1956 Dentothrips 1933 Edissa 1953 Elatea 1957 Fulgorothrips 1933 Hartwigia 1949 Hoodiana 1933 Idiothrips 1933 Jacotia 1940 Maxillata 1949 Nanothrips 1938 Poethrips 1933 Reticulothrips 1925 Rhinoceps 1949 Rhinothrips 1933 Schizeia 1949 Strassenia 1959 Talitha 1958 (in honor to his mother) Species About 80 new species HONORS Faureia Uvarov 1921 (Orthoptera) Faureaspis Munting 1968 (Hemiptera) Faureana Bhatti 1973 (Thysanoptera) Faureothrips Priesner 1949 (Thysanoptera) Fauriella Hood 1937 (Thysanoptera)
Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas
Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas, Chilean geographer and geologist (Curicó 27 March 1904 – Santiago 24 February 1966) Authored over 60 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Serie sedimentaria volcanico con plantas en las islas Snow y Livingston. B. Información paleobotânica preliminar. Resum. Soc. Geol. Chile 9(10):3-4, 1965 Trabajos recientes sobre la geologia de La Antarctica Chilena. Bol. Inst. Antar. Chileno (1965) Los afloramientos plantiferos de El Arrayán, inmediaciones de Santiago. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 8(100), 1964 Un Megaterium de Tarapacá. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 7(79), 1963 Megaterios del Norte de Chile. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 3(36), 1959 Las terrazas marinas en las Provincias de Linares y Maule. Inform. Geogr. 1:12-3, 1951 Notas paleontológicas. Resultados sobre los fósiles de Navidad y Matanzas. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 25 (1950-1) Distribución de los volcanes del grupo de los Descabezados. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 19:19-30, 1941 Acerca de algunos fósiles y puquios en el valle de Paipote. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. XLIII:319-23, 1938 Informe paleontologico sobre fósiles marinos de la zona carbonifera. Bol. Dept. Min. Petrol. Minist. Fom. Chile 79(8):86-93, 1938 Las capas de los Molles. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 16:66-98, 1937 Algunos afloramientos paleozoicos de la desembocadura del Choapas. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 16:37, 1937 El retico en la costa de Chile central. Bol. Dept. Min. Petrol. Minist. Fom. Chile 1-11, 1937 Notas sobre nuevos hallazgos de mastodontes hechos em Chile. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 15:63-5, 1936 Los caballos fósiles encontrados en Chacabuco y otros con los cuales se relacionam. Bol. Mus. Nac. Santiago 15:47-62, 1936 With R. Latcham. Observaciones geológicas en el território de Aysén. Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 14:1-22, 1935 Noticia sobre lós fósiles encontrados en La Hacienda Chacabuco en abril de 1929. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. XL:96-9, 1929 HONORS Fuenzalidaite Konnert, Evans Jr., McGee & Ericksen 1994 (Mineral)
Humberto Fracassi
Humberto Fracassi, Argentine anatomist (Buenos Aires 28 May 1882 – 1967) Described a new nervous structure the parietofrontal tract Developed tractotomy of parietofrontal fascicle for relieving pain (Fracassi tractotomy) A tractotomia do fascículo parietofrontal na supressão da dor. Prensa Medica Arg. 38(42):2715-22, 1951 Patented Automatic degreaser for human bones (1943) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Metodos de investigación sobre la circulación coronária. 6th Congr. Nac. Med. Cordoba 1 (19, 18):804, 1938 La segmentación bronquial del lóbulo superior. Arch. Soc. Arg. Anat. 1:392, 1939 Reflujo pielo-venoso pelvico y venoso-pelvico. Prensa Med. Arg. 37:29-33, 1940 Circulación arterial de los huesos largos. Arch. Soc. Arg. Anat. Norm. Patol. 1(8-9), 1941 División bronquial. Arch. Chilenos Morfologia 6:153-68, 1942 Arteria pulmonar. Sus ramificaciones. Sus relaciones. Prensa Med. 33:29, 1943 Anatomia de las venas pulmonales. Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción 18:99-104, 1944 Arterias interoseas de la mano. Prensa Med. Arg. 32:27-30, 1945 Anatomia del Sistema nervoso simpatico. Rev. Med. Cordoba 34 (1946) Anatomia de las venas pulmonares. Arch. Esp. Morfologia 7:407-46, 1949 With H. Paulini & J.M. Dionisi. Contribution a l’etude des voie lymphatiques. Rev. Fac. Cien. Med. Univ. Nac. Cordoba 7(1):27-39, 1949 Circulación del cerebro. Rev. Univ. Nac. Cordoba 38(21):1-30, 1951 With A. Givré. Nuevas concepciones neuroquirurgicas, fisiopatológicas y anatómicas em relación a la lobotomia pré-frontal antálgica. Med. Esp. 26(152):341-58, 1951 Circulación arterial de los metacarpianos, metatarsianos y sus falanges. Arch. Esp. Morfologia 11(40):91-104, 1954 Arterias de la mano. Arch. Esp. Morfol. 11(39):21-48, 1954 Cierre de envases con preparados anatômicos
Humberto Fernandez Morán
Humberto Fernandez-Morán Villalobos, Venezuelan biophysicist and microscopist (La Cañada de Urdaneta District, Maracaibo 19 February 1924 – Stockholm 17 March 1999) From Basque, Sephardic Jewish and Carib Indian descent Worked most of his career in United States and Sweden DISCOVERIES First to uncover the complexity of mitochondrial membranes structure Discovered Fernandez-Morán particles or F1 particles or oxysomes in mitochondria (1962) With Dahl performed first electron microscopy sections of pollen grains (1952) First electron microscopic studies of peripheral myelin (1950) independent from Sjostrand (1950) First electron microscopic observations of radially repeating layers in myelin (1950s) Discovered the paracrystalline character of the myelin sheath With J.D. Green & R. Luft first to study the electron microscopy of the anterior pituitary (1949) Described submicroscopic nerve fibers and other macromolecular complexes INTRODUCED/DEVELOPED Devices Introduced cryo-ultramicrotomy with biological specimens (1952) A diamond knife for ultrathin sectioning. Exptl. Cell Res. 5:255-6, 1953 (US Patent 3060.781) A new microtome with a diamond knife. Industrial Diamond Rev. 16:128-33, 1956 Introduced concept of cryo electron microscopy and the cryo electron microscope Introduced cryo-ultramicrotome Introduced the use of superconducting objective lens at liquid helium temperature in electron microscopy (Fernandez Moran superconducting lens) Designed first the use of superconducting cryostat lenses in transmission electron microscopy (1966) Improved ultramicrotomes Developed ultra sharp diamond edges for ultra thin sectioning and as a point cathode (1969) Developed sample holders for liquid nitrogen and hydrogen Developed pointed filaments and single crystal filaments for electron micrographs With P. Dennis, A. Caski, J. Sprenger & W. Rawler. Spectrometre à resonance magnétique nucléaire utilisant des transistors. Archives des Sciences 10:233-4, 1957 Techniques With Bullivant first to apply freeze-substitution techniques to ultrastructural studies (1957-60) With J.B. Finean introduced gelatin as an embedding technique medium for electron microscopy (1957) independent from Gilev (1958) Developed ultra-rapid cryofixation technique employing liquid helium (1960) Described a technique of negative staining of mitochondrial membranes (1962) Described a gelatin-glycerin technique for freezing microtome HONORS Claude Bernard Medal, Université de Montreal (1967) Doctor Honoris Causa, Milton University Nobel Prize nominee John Scott Medal (1967)