Jose Lima Pedreira de Freitas
José Lima Pedreira de Freitas, Brazilian hygienist and parasitologist (Mococa, São Paulo State 12 January 1917 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 15 June 1966) He was the foremost world authority on Chagas disease in his time Authored nearly 70 works Described a new antigen and improved a quantitative reaction of complement fixation for Chagas disease With J.O. Almeida. Nova técnica de fixação de complemento para a moléstia de Chagas (reação quantitativa com antígeno “gelificado” de culturas de Trypanosoma cruzi. O Hospital (R. Janeiro) 35(6):787-800, 1949 With V. Nussenzweig, R. Sonntag , V.Amato Neto et al. proposed in vitro sterilization of blood employing gentian violet (1953) Developed an innovative serological reaction for Chagas disease With J. O. Almeida & A.F. Siqueira. Capacidade reativa específica do antígeno em reações de complemento para moléstia de Chagas. Anais Congr. Intern. Doença de Chagas 1:51-62, 1959 With J. Pellegrino. Quantitative complement test in Schistosoma mansoni. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 10:537-40, 1961
Jorge Fontella Pereira
Jorge Fontella-Pereira, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 17 December 1936 – Rio de Janeiro 26 August 2024) Genera (Apocynaceae) Austrochthamalia 2013 with Morillo Morilloa 2014 with Goes & Caceres Moral Species Described 94 species (until 2015) HONORS Fontellaea Morillo 1994 (Asclepiadaceae)
Jorge Ferigolo
Jorge Ferigolo, Brazilian paleontologist (c.1947 – Studied anatomy and pathology of fossil vertebrates DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA Genera Reptilia Decuriasuchus 2011 with França & Langer Guaibasaurus 1999 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Riograndia 2001 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Sacisaurus 2007 with Langer Mammalia Octodontobradys 1993 with Rodrigues dos Santos & Rancy Species Reptilia Colombophis spinosus 2010 with Hsiou & Albino Decuriasuchus quartacolonia 2011 with França & Langer Dicynodontipus protherioides 2008 with Silva, Carvalho & Fernandes Guaibasaurus candelariensis 1999 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Lesothosaurus diagnosticus 2006 with Langer Rhynchosauroides retroversipes 2008 with Silva, Carvalho & Fernandes Riograndia guaibensis 2001 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Sacisaurus agudoensis 2007 with Langer Mammalia Clyomys riograndensis 2008 with Hadler, Verzi, Vucetich & Ribeiro Octodontobradys puruensis 1993 with Rodrigues dos Santos & Rancy Tapirus rondoniensis 2011 with Holanda & Ribeiro HONORS Ferigolomys Kerber, Bissaro Jr., Negri, Souza-Filho, Guilherme & Hsiou 2017 (Fossil Mammalia)
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)