Cesar Mendonça Ferreira
César Mendonça Ferreira, Brazilian gemmologist (Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State 11 December 1942 – DEVELOPED METHODS With G.J.A. Machado, P.C. Souza & A.C.S. Sabioni. O tratamento do topázio imperial por preenchimento de fraturas. Rev. Bras. Geochem (2006) With J. Martins & N.P. Silva. Microestruturas de pelotas feitas com mistura de redutos e finos de minério. Rev. Escola Minas 55(3):2037, 2002 BRAZILIAN PATENTS With G.M. da Costa, V. Barrón López de Torre & J. Torrent Castellet. Processo para quantificação das fases mineralógicas em minérios com altos teores de ferro por espectrofotometria de reflectância difusa. PI0802824-9 A2 (2008) With A.C.S. Sabioni. Processo de coloração de gemas lapidadas por dopagem ou recobrimento químico de seu pavilhão ou coroa PI0002321-3 B1 (2000) With A.C.S. Sabioni & G.M. Costa. Processo de coloração e/ou modificação de cores de gemas lapidadas por dopagem em etapas múltiplas PI0001034-0 B1 (2000) With M.A.G. Bentes, F.L. Von Kruger, M.A.R. Drummond & J. D. Donda. Processo de recuperação com enobrecimento de resíduos com teor metálico provenientes do sistema de despoeiramento primário de convertedores PI9202821-7 A2 (1992) HONORS Cesarferreiraite Scholz, Chukanov, Atencio, Belotti, Menezes Filho et al. 2014 (Mineral)
Celeste Fava-Netto
Celeste Fava-Netto, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Lins, São Paulo State 04 June 1919 – São Paulo 02 May 2014) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Fava Netto medium for paracoccidiodomycosis Estudos quantitativos sobre a fixação do complemento na blastomicose sul-americana com antígeno polissacarido. Arqu. Cir. Clin. Exp. 18:197-254, 1955 Contribuição para o estudo da blastomicose de Lutz. Rev. Inst. A. Lutz. 2:99-194, 1961. Developed Fava Netto reaction for paracoccidiodomycosis diagnosis With Açucena Raphael. A reação intradérmica com polissacarides do Paracoccidioides brasiliensis na blastomicose sul-americana. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. São Paulo 3:161-5, 1961. Proposed a quantitative indirect immunofluorescence reaction for serodiagnosis of paracoccidiodomycosis With M.F. de Franco & L.G. Chamma. Reação de imunofluorescência indireta para o diagnóstico sorológico da blastomicose sul-americana. Padronização da reação e comparação dos resultados com a reação de fixação do complemento. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. 15(6):393-8, 1973. Eponym of Fava Netto antigen
Carlos Juan Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay y Barres, Cuban microbiologist and epidemiologist (Camaguey 03 December 1833 – La Habana 19 August 1915) From Scottish father and French ancestry mother ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 187 articles Determined hydric origin of cholera (1873) independently from Snow researches Transmisión del colera por medio de las aguas corrientes cargadas de princípios específicos. An. Acad. Cien. Habana 10:159-170, 1873 Developed a new method for extraction of cataract Consideraciones generals sobre la extracción de catarata y descripción de um nuevo método operatório. Anal. Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Nat. La Habana 12:285-66, 1875-6 Identified Aedes aegypti as etiological vector of yellow fever El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmisión de La fiebre amarilla. An. Acad. Cien. Habana 18:147-169, 1881 With F. Poey concluded that female mosquitoes transmitted the yellow fever Proposed a modification of Hayem-Nachet hemocytometer (1881) Conceived a practical method for infant tetanus proposing aseptic package for treatment of umbilical cord (1903) A plausible method of vaccination against yellow fever. Philadelphia Med. J. Proposed criteria about the leukocytes function in cellular nourishment and in the formation of toxins, lysines and antibodies (1904) Enunciated his ideas about gravitation Nueva teoria da gravitación. Anales Real Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Nat. La Habana 11:429-41, 1874 Nota adicional a la Nueva teoria da gravitación. Anales Real Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Nat. La Habana 11:469-75, 1874 HONORS Mary Kingsley Medal, School of Tropical Medicine, London (1907) Genus Finlaya Theobald 1903 (Diptera) Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize nominee for 7 times (1905, 1906, 1907, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915)
Carlos Flechtmann
Carlos Holger Wenzel Flechtmann, Brazilian plant acarologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1938 – CONTRIBUTIONS With D. Navia, E.E. Lindquist & H. Aguilar. A new species of Abacarus (Acari: Prostigmata:Eriophyidae) damaging sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum L. from Costa Rica – the first eriophyoid mite described with a tibial seta on leg II. Zootaxa 3025 (3025):51-8, 2011 With E.P.J. Britto, M.G.C. Gondim & D. Navia. A new deuterogynous eriophyid mite (Acari: Eriophyidae) with dimorphic males from Caesalpinia echinata from Brazil: description and biological observations. Intern. J. Acarol. 34(3):307-16, 2008 (first example of a deuterogynous eriophyid mite in tropical regions with two forms of males) With J.D.P.Arzolla. Dispositivo para o preparo de cromatogramas com corrente de ar quente. Bol.Indus. Animal 20:395-7, 1962 DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Amrineus 1994 Aracaurioptes 2000 Athrix 2004 Atrichoproctus 1967 Chiangmaia 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Davisella 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Diptilostatus 2003 Distaceria 1995 with Amrine & Stasny Esalquia 2002 Glabrisceles 2002 with Navia Glossilus 2000 with Navia Guanophagoides 1978 with Fain Gymnaceria 2012 with Oliveira & Rodrigues Hunteria 1984 with Delfinado-Baker & Baker Juxtacolopodacus 2010 with Queiroz Kaella 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Meliponopus 1985 with Fain Melittiphisoides 1984 with Delfinado-Baker & Baker Meyerella 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Moraesia 2004 Nasuchus 2002 with Navia Neohypoaspis 1983 with Delfinado-Baker & Baker Neotydeolus 1979 with Camargo Oziella 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Palmiphytoptus 2002 with Navia Paraponychus 1977 with Gonzalez Phetehaburus 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Rhyncadicrus 2011 with Reis, Gondim & Navia Rhynchopolipus 1972 with Husband Scolotosus 1971 with Keifer Steopa 2003 with Amrine & Stasny Suracarus 2005 Tecarus 2000 Tectochloracarus 1999 with Fain, Engel & O’Connor Zeterohercon 1990 with Johnston Species Over 200 HONORS Flechtmannia Keifer 1979 (Acari) Flechtmanniella Stebnicka 1999 (Coleoptera) Flechtmannus Moares, Lindquist & Lofego 2002 (Acari) Augeriflechtmannia Kocak & Kemal 2008 (Acari)
Carlos Fiebrig
Karl August Gustav Fiebrig, German naturalist in South America (Hamburg 25 May 1869 – Tucumán, Argentina 25 October 1951) Worked most of his career in Paraguay Expert on plant ecology, plant eco-morphology and entomology DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Apinagia guairaensis 1923 (Podostemaceae) Genus Myrmegryllus 1907 (Diptera) Myrmegryllus dipterus 1907 (Diptera) Forcipomyia ixodoides 1928 (Diptera) HONORS Fiebrigiella Harms 1908 (Fabaceae) Fiebrigella Duda 1921 (Diptera)
Candido Simões Ferreira
Candido Simões Ferreira, Brazilian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais State 19 March 1921 – Rio de Janeiro 23 September 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Vertebrates Ceratodus brasiliensis 1980 with Souza Cunha (Pisces) Mollusca Anadara egleri 1964 Bittium praevarum 1970 Chlamys capanamensis 1960 Chlamys coopericellus 1960 Chlamys japericensis 1960 Chlamys tetristriata 1960 Crassinella erichseni 1969 Leptopecten pirabensis 1960 Ostrea zomerysi 1966 with Marchesini Santos Pitar diminuta 1964 Potamides woodringi 1964 Turbinella tuberculata 1964 Xancus tuberculatus 1964 With Cunha Astraea brasiliensis 1957 Atrina pirabensis 1959 Cymatium carlotae 1957 Cypraea macrovoluta 1957 Diodora fortalezensis 1957 Diodora siqueiirai 1957 Divaricella castelensis 1959 Modiolus domingosi 1959 Mytilus canoasensis vidali 1959 Strombus goeldii 1957 Turbinella amazoniana 1957 Turbinella mauryae 1957 Vasum kraatzi 1957 With Coelho Austrodiscus lopesi 1989 Brachypodella britoi 1971 Bulimulus trindadeae 1971 Carychium sommeri 1971 Strobilops mauryae 1971 Vertigo mezzalirai 1971 With Klein (1979) Acesta maranhensis Brachidontes eoexustus Neithea nana HONORS Candidodon Carvalho & Campos 1988 (Fossil Reptilia)