Domingos José Freire Jr.
Domingos José Freire Jr., Brazilian chemist and physician (Rio de Janeiro 05 November 1843 –Rio de Janeiro 21 August 1899) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 100 works on chemistry and medicine Enunciated Freire law “the climate diversity displays infeccious species diversity and in consequence pathogenic microbian diversity” (1894) Discovered an alotropic state of bromine (1890) and the pentagonal schema of aromatic series in organic chemistry Discovered the fat substances fermentation later confirmed by Van Tieghem Proposed the cyanic function Isolated alkaloid that named grandiflorine (today solasonine) from Solanum grandiflora Sur un alcaloide du fruit du loup. Comptes Rendus de Seances de l’Academie de Sciences. CV(22):1074-6, 1887. Introduced pereirine hydrochloride in therapeutics (1887) Discovered a purgative resin from Solanum paniculatum (1890) Developed a device for extracting dissolved gases in organic liquids alternative to Alvergniat pneumatic pump (1881) Developed processes for dosage of oxygen in organic fluids, gelatin in peptones and gases in urine Developed a new warm filtration system of broth for microbian culture media (1892) With J. Clarimundo Nobre de Melo. Sobre um novo sistema de filtração a quente dos caldos para o cultivo dos microorganismos (1892) A new volumetric process for quinine dosage of quina barks in sulphate state Novo processo volumétrico para dosar a quinina das cascas da quina no estado de sulfato. União Medica 4:108-13, 1884 A process for gelatin dosage in medicinal peptones Processo para dosar a gelatina que falsifica as peptonas medicinais: pesquisas feitas no laboratório da Faculdade de Medicina da Corte. União Médica 2:61-3, 1882. A new volumetric procedure for urine oxygen dosage Nouveau procede pour doser volumétriquement l’oxygene de l’urine. Comptes Rendus dês Seances de l’Academie dês Sciences. LXXXI:229, 1881 A new reagent for detecting gelatin A new synthetic method, the slow absorptions method Warning tube for Marsh apparatus Tubo de aviso para o aparelho de Marsh. Gazeta Medica Brasileira, 1882. PATENTS An embalming process (1882) With Charles Berthaud. A new system of distillation of alcoholics fluids (1886) With Felicissimo Rodrigues Fernandes. A process of milk storage (1887) A process for fresh meat storage and dried meat processing (1887) With Joaquim M. Caminhoá patented conservation of fresh products employing an antiputrid gas (1888) HONORS Honorary President, Pharmacological Section, International Congress of Medical Sciences, Bruxelles (1875) First Class Medal, International Medical Congress, Washington, USA (1887) BIBLIOGRAPHY (The data were extracted from) Benchimol, L.J. Dos micróbios aos mosquitos, 1999 (book)
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo, Brazilian mathematician (Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará State 02 April 1934 – Authored 93 papers and 4 books With F.E. Browder introduced the term π1-space (1965) Stated and proved a fixed point theorem for weakly continuous maps in Banach spaces (1966) With E. Mitidieri obtained some sufficient conditions for validity of the maximum principle for cooperative and non-cooperative elliptic system (1991) Defined the notion of G operator With M. Cuesta & J.P. Gossez proved the existence of a first non-trivial curve in the Fucik spectrum of the p-Laplacian (1998) With J. Yang proved a priori bound for positive solutions of semilinear elliptic systems with nonlinearities depending on the gradients (2001) With J.P. Gossez & P. Ubilla, introduced notions of local superlinearity and local sublinearity in J. Func.Anal. 199(2):452-67, 2003 With B. Ruf & J.M. do O extended the notion of critical growth to superlinear nonlinearities which don’t have a polynomial growth (2005) With B. Sirakov showed that a class of nonlinear elliptic systems have the property that all their positive classical solutions are uniformly bounded (2005) With B. Ruf & J.M. do O proved the existence of positive solutions for non-variational elliptic systems in dimension two (2008) With E.M. Santos & O.H. Miyagaki obtained new Hardy type inequalities and proved sharp pointwise estimates for functions in the Sobolev spaces of radial functions defined in a ball (2011) HONOURS Telesio Galilei Gold Medal 2011 Full Professor, Illinois University (1967-73) Associate Researcher, University of Chicago (1966-7)
Coaracy Franco
Coaracy de Moraes Franco, Brazilian agronomist and plant physiologist (Amparo, São Paulo State 16 September 1912 – ?) Developed two simple aiding devices for use in coffee bush grafting (reported at the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo April 23, 1972 (page 6) A method to ensure the availability of iron and phosphorus in nutrient solutions With W.E. Loomis. The absorption of phosphorus and iron from nutrient solutions. Plant Physiol. 22(4):627-34, 1947 First to note the typical symptoms of zinc deficiency in coffee plants With H.C. Mendes. Deficiência de microelementos em cafeeiro. Bol. Supt. Serv. Café São Paulo 28(318): 19-22, 1953 With H.C. Mendes. Deficiência de zinco em cafeeiro. Bol. Supt. Serv. Café São Paulo 29(334): 34-9, 1954 TECHNIQUES With L.C.S. Ramos & M.M. Alves de Lima. Titration method to estimate the root surface area of coffee plants. Turrialba 28(4):303-5, 1978 With M. V. de Moraes. Método expedito para enxertia em café (A quick method for grafting in coffee plant) 1968 With A.C. Magalhães. Inconveniências do método das pesagens rápidas para a medida da transpiração. Phyton 20:87-96, 1963 With A.C. Magalhães. Techniques for measurement of transpiration of individual plants. Coll. Intern. Method. L’Eco-Physiol. Veg. Montpellier, France p.211-24, 1962 With A.S. Costa. A virus technique useful to diagnose foliar deficiencies. Plant Physiol. 26:6250-8, 1951 With R. Inforzato developed potted plant weighing technique for measuring transpiration of Coffea arabica, Inga edulis and Eucalyptus saligna (1950-2) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Efeito da temperatura do solo e suas oscilações sobre o crescimento e o acúmulo de nutrientes nas partes aéreas do cafeeiro. Turrialba 32:249, 1982 Efeito das adubações minerais exclusivas e contínuas sobre a fertilidade do solo. Bragantia 29:139-51, 1970 With L.G. Labouriau, I.F.M. Valio & A.C. Magalhães. Nota sobre a abertura estomática noturna em plantas dos cerrados. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 36(4):463-77, 1964 With A.C. Magalhães. Toxicidade do feijão de porco sobre a “tiririca”. Bragantia 21 (1962) Lesão do colo do cafeeiro, causado pelo calor. Bragantia 20(24):645-52, 1961 A eliminação da substância péctica do café despolpado é causada por microorganismo. Bragantia 19(38): 621-6, 1960 Estrangulamento do caule do cafeeiro, causado pelo frio. Bragantia 19:515, 1960 Influence of temperature on growth of coffee plant (with special emphasis on root temperature). Bull. IBEC Research Institute (1958) Descoloração em folhas de cafeeiro, causado pelo frio. Bragantia 15:131, 1956 A Agua do solo e o sombreamento dos cafezais na América Central. Bragantia 11(4-6): 99-119, 1951 With R. Inforzato. Quantidade de agua transpirada pelo cafeeiro cultivado ao sol. Bragantia 10(9): 247-57, 1950 With E. Germek & R. Inforzato. Estudo do Sistema radicular do arroz. Bragantia 10(3):89-92, 1950 Toxicidade do perclorato ao tomateiro. II Reun. Bras. Cien. Solo (1949) With H.C. Mendes. Sintomas de deficiências minerais no cafeeiro. Bragantia 9:165-73, 1949 O problema do sombreamento dos cafezais em São Paulo. Bol. Supt. Serv. Café São Paulo 22:708-17, 1947 Influência do pergaminho sobre a germinação de sementes de café (1946) Estudos sobre a conservação de sementes. I. Respiração de sementes de algodão em diversas umidades relativas. Bragantia 3(6):137-49, 1943 With J.E. Paiva Neto. Influência do manganês sobre o desenvolvimento do arroz cultivado em solução nutritiva: nota prévia. Bragantia 1(7):517-24, 1941 Teor em clorofila das folhas de cafeeiros diversamente sombreados e a pleno sol. Rev. Inst. Café Estado de São Paulo 28(169):296-9, 1941 Fotoperiodismo em cafeeiro (C. arabica L.). Rev. Inst. Café Estado de São Paulo 15(164):1586-92, 1940 With L.O.T. Mendes. Influência do expurgo, com bisulfurato de carbono, na germinação de café (Coffea arabica). Rev. Inst. Café Estado de São Paulo 24(25), 1939 Relation between chromosome number and stomata in Coffea. Bot. Gaz. 100(4):817-27, 1939 Sobre os compostos fenólicos no café. J. Agron. 2(3):132-8, 1939 Sobre a fisiologia dos estomas do cafeeiro Coffea arabica L. Anales Reun. SudAmer. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 3:293-7, 1938
Clementino Fraga
Clementino da Rocha Fraga, Brazilian physician (Muritiba, Bahia State 15 September 1880 – Rio de Janeiro 08 January 1971) Authored important studies about beri-beri and malaria Described an adrenal form of malaria that became known as Fraga’s syndrome communicated primarily to Sociedade Médica dos Hospitais da Bahia in 1914 Suprarenal syndrome in paludism. Proc. Am.Soc. Trop. Med., 1917 Described a sign of suprarenal insufficiency known as Fraga’s sign or orthostatic tachycardia Sobre um sinal de insuficiência suprarenal. Soc. Med. Hosp. Bahia, 1916. Proposed Clementino Fraga classification for adventitious breathing sounds
Clemente Ferreira
Clemente Miguel da Cunha Ferreira, Brazilian physician (Rezende, Rio de Janeiro State 29 September 1857 – São Paulo 06 August 1947) Authored 256 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos de l’emploi du chlorhydrate de pereirine dans le fievres malariques. Bull. Gen. Therap. (1885) De l’emploi du salol dans la fievre jaune (1890) Du traitement de la syphilis infantile par les injections sous-cutanées de sels mercuriels (1891) De la tuberculose chez les enfants. Bull. Gen. Therap. (1893) Sur l’albuminurie dans la malaria infantile. Revue des Maladies de L’enfance (1893) L’albumine dans l’expectoration comme element semiologique dans la diagnose précoce de la tuberculose pulmonaire (1911) HONOURS Cited in Prix Montyon, Institut de France (1894) for his work Etudes cliniques sur la coqueluche (1887) Correspondent Member, Société Therapeutique de Paris Award, International Congress Against Tuberculosis, Rome (1912)
Claudio Gilberto Froehlich
Cláudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (São Paulo 10 June 1927 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 27 November 2023) From German and Latvian descent Limnology / Hydrobiology With A.S. Melo. Macroinvertebrates in neotropical streams: richness patterns along a catchment and assemblage structure between 2 seasons. J. North Amer. Benthol. Soc. 20(1):1-16, 2001 With A.S. Melo. Substrate stability in streams: effects of stream size, particle size, and rainfall on Frequency of movement and burial of particles. Acta Limnol. Bras. 16(4):381-90, 2004 With A.S. Melo. An attractor domain model of seasonal and interanual biodiversity of stream macroinvertebrate communities. Freshw. Biol. 67:1370-9, 2022 DESCRIBED TAXA Turbellaria Genera Issoca 1954 Kontikia 1954 Xerapoa 1955 Species About 60 Plecoptera Genera Guaranyperla 2001 Tupiperla 1969 Species 83 Ephemeroptera Genus Segesta 2007 with Siegloch & Polegatto Species Caenis cuniana 1969 Segesta riograndensis 2007 with Siegloch & Polegatto Thraulodes amanda 2011 with Mariano Thraulodes pelicanus 2011 with Mariano Thraulodes xavantinensis 2011 with Mariano Onychophora Epiperipatus barbadensis 1962 Epiperipatus tucupi 1968 Peripatus dominicae barbadensis 1962 Trichoptera Grumichella blahniki 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella boraceia 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella cressae 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella jureia 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella leccii 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella muelleri 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella paprockii 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella parati 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Grumichella trujilloi 2016 with Holzenthal & Calor Phylloicus camargoi 2011 with Quinteiro & Calor Phylloicus paprockii 2011 with Quinteiro & Calor Diptera Fissimentum fordlandense 2011 with Pinho Fissimentum guairense 2011 with Pinho Fissimentum mateusi 2011 with Pinho HONORS Genera Claudiella Reichard & Vanin 1976 (Coleoptera) Claudioperla Illies 1963 (Plecoptera) Claudiotendipes Andersen, Mendes & Pinho 2017 (Diptera) Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society of Plecopterologists (2008) LINKS https://www.scielo.br/j/rbent/a/8ynDHnzGjNhGqcZ6bFmnrMC/?lang=en# https://actalb.org/article/10.1590/S2179-975X9124/pdf/alb-36-e46.pdf