Alvaro Froes da Fonseca
Alvaro Fróes da Fonseca, Brazilian anatomist and anthropologist (Porto Alegre 26 March 1890 – 1988) Reported possibly an unique case in anatomic literature about anastomosis in cranial nerves De Nature lusu. Sobre uma anastomose entre os IX e XII pares craneanos. Doctoral Thesis (1914) Reported a variety of pelvic colon 1 – Sobre uma variedade do colon pelvico. Descripção e apresentação da peça. 2 – Ligamentos do joelho. Comm. Soc. Med. Bahia (1921-5) ACHIEVEMENTS Created a new anthropometric index the superoinferior index of body (1926) Idealized diameters and indices such as bucal, bi-orbital, interloculo nasal, nasal bizygomatic and Froes da Fonseca tibio-pelvic indices A new index relating to upper and lower halves of sternal body, presented a new technique for measuring sternum and proposed the relation between mean width and length in Contribuição da anatomia do esterno (1926) Modified Dubois cephalization formula and Lapicque radio-pelvic index Modified Kruse scale (Froes-Kruse scale) Developed new models of notecards for anthropometric measures in As novas fichas antropológicas do Museu Nacional (1926) improved in 1933 Invented multimeter leveller Eponym of Froes da Fonseca technique (gasserectomy with conservation of motor roots) HONORS Life Member, Anatomisch Gesellschaft (1939)
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Brazilian / Portuguese naturalist, geographer and explorer (Salvador 27 April 1756 – Lisbon 23 April 1815) Headed a Portuguese expedition to Brazil aiming to study nature and a give a complete geographical and topographical description of each region explored Performed hydrographical explorations reporting the first exhaustive representation of Amazon rivers Wrote memoirs about fauna, flora, ores and Native populations Described a number of dyeing methods used by Brazilian Indians Sent plants, animals, wood samples, minerals and ethnographic material to Portugal Famous naturalists like Etienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, Joseph Banks, Casimiro Gómez Ortega and Alexander Von Humboldt described new species from his biological collections First reported and described cacao witches broom (1785-7) He would be among the first in the world to employ thermometer in order to diagnose fever in according to Anais Acad. Med. Rio de Janeiro 79:305, 1913 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (about zoology) Memória sobre o peixe pira-urucu. Arch. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 12:155-8, 1903 Memória sobre o peixe-boi e do uso que lhe dão no Estado do Grão-Pará. Arch. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 12:169-74, 1903 Memória sobre o jurararete. Arch. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 12:181-6, 1903 Relações dos peixes dos sertões do Pará Memória sobre as tartarugas Memória sobre as variedades de tartarugas que há no Estado do Grão-Pará e do uso que lhe dão Relação dos animais quadrúpedes, silvestres, que habitam nas matas de todo o continente do Estado do Grão-Pará Observações gerais e particulares sobre a classe dos mamíferos Lista dos animais que fazem objeto das caçadas e das pescarias dos índios HONORS Alexandresaurus Rodrigues, Pellegrino, Dixo, Verdade, Pavan, Argolo & Sites Jr. 2007 (Reptilia)
Alejandro Feinstein
Alejandro Feinstein, Argentine astrophysicist (La Plata 30 May 1929 – Expert on astronomic photometry and galactic structure Authored over 200 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G. Baume, R. Vazquez & G. Carraro. Photometric study of the young open cluster NGC 3293. Astron. Astrophys. (2003) 99 Be Stars which recently showed large photometric changes. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 2(184), 1970 The open cluster NGC 6231 (1968) Multicolor UBVRI observations of metallic-line stars. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 79, 1967 The intrinsic colors of bright giants (1960) Ha and Hp measures as related to be Be Star rotation With J.J. Clariá. Fotometria multicolor del cumulo abierto NGC2287 List of Be Stars in open clusters with UBV data With J.C. Muzzio. The light curve of I Carinae. Astron. Astrophys. A group of stars around the helium star HD96446 With R.A. Vazquez. The brightest stars in young open clusters With R.A. Vazquez. Binary stars: another effect contributing to the supposed abnormal extinction law in NGC6193?. Astron. Astrophys. 257(411):92, 863 HONORS Asteroid 10988 Feinstein
Aldo Focesi Jr.
Aldo Focesi Jr., Brazilian biochemist (Campinas, São Paulo State 18 June 1933 – Campinas, São Paulo State September 2001) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, J. Bonaventura & R.E. Cashon. Functional properties of the hemoglobina from the South American snake Mastigodryas bifossatus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A. Mol. Integr. Physiol. 109:1085-95, 1994 With G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, C.L. Nagatomo & M.S. Matsuura. Interactions of adenosine triphosphate with snake hemoglobins. Studies in Liophis miliaris, Boa constrictor and Bothrops alternatus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part B. Biochem. Mol. Biol.109:1085-95, 1994 With S. Oyama Jr., G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, C.L. Nagatomo & M.S.A. Matsuura. Bothrops alternatus hemoglobin components. Oxygen binding properties and globin chain hydrophobic analysis. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 105:271-5, 1993 With M. Takagi & S.H. Ogo. Polyphosphate binding sites in Liophis miliaris hemoglobin. Evidence with reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 62:401-8, 1990 With E. Rocha, M.S.A. Matsuura & S.H. Ogo. Effect of acetate on the Bohr effect of Liophis miliaris hemoglobin (1987) With S.H. Ogo, M.S. Matsuura & J.C. Say. Further evidence of dimer-tetramer transition in hemoglobin from Liophis miliaris. Braz. J. Med. Res. 20(6):861-4, 1987 With S.H. Ogo, R. Cashon, C. Bonaventura & J. Bonaventura. Fluorescence studies on the binding of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate to human hemoglobin A and its variant hemoglobin Providence. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 20(6):755-8, 1987 With M. Tabak, J.R. Perussi, O.R. Nascimento et al. Structural characterization of hemoglobin of Liophis miliaris (1986) With R. Cashon, C. Bonaventura & J. Bonaventura. The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides as allosteric effectors of human hemoglobin. J. Biol. Chem. 261:12700-5, 1986 With A.A.B. Lima, N.C. Meirelles & L.P.S. Airoldi. Allosteric effect of protons and adenosine triphosphate on hemoglobins from aquatic Amphibia. J. Comp. Physiol. B 155(3):353-5, 1985 With M.I. Portus, M.L.C. Vieira & A.R. Oliveira. Hemoglobinas em siluriformes da Amazônia Central. III. Caracterização imunológica de alguns bagres e cascudos. Acta Amaz. 13(2), 1983 With M.I. G. Portus & N.C. Meirelles. Hemoglobinas em siluriformes da Amazônia Central. II. Determinação do efeito Bohr por focalização isoelétrica. Acta Amaz. 13(1), 1983 With M.S.A. Matsuura & S.H. Ogo. Multiplicity and immunological characterization of the hemoglobina components from Liophis miliaris and Helicops modestus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 76 B (4):915-9, 1983 With M.I. G. Portus & E.L. Donald. Hemoglobinas em siluriformes da Amazônia Central. I. Análise eletroforética dos hemolisados. Acta Amaz. 12(4):707-11, 1982 With H.F. Vieira, M.L. Vieira & N.C. Meirelles. Some functional and structural properties of Bufus paracnemis and Pipa pipae hemoglobins. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A Comp. Physiol. 73(2):197-200, 1982 With M.A.S. Matsuura, S.H. Ogo & M.R.F. Marques. Identification of carboxyl terminal amino acids in globins of Helicops modestus and Liophis miliaris. Braz. J. Med. Biol. 15(1):108, 1982 Ação de efetores alostéricos sobre hemoglobinas de animais de diferentes espécies. Thesis, Universidade de Campinas (1980) With M. Brunori, J. Bonaventura, M.T. G. Portus & M.T. Wilson. Separation and characterization of the hemoglobin components of Pterygopichthys pardalis, the acaribodo. Comp. Biochem 62 A: 173-7, 1979 With M.I. G. Portus. Comparative studies of Bohr effect on hemoglobin from Osteoglossum bicirrhosum and Pterygoplichthys pardalis. Acta Amaz. 9(1):147, 1979 With N.C. Meirelles. Pipa carvalhoi hemoglobins. I. Electrophoretic and chromatographic analysis of the blood hemolysate. IRSC Science 5:91, 1977 With J. Cannata, R. Mazumder, R.C. Warner & S. Ochoa. Metabolism of propionic acid in animal tissues. XII. Properties of mammalian methylmalonyl coenzyme a mutase. J. Bio. Chem. 240:3249-57, 1965 With J. Moura Gonçalves. Especificidade imunológica de venenos de escorpião. Cien. Cult. 12:1110, 1960 With I.F de Carvalho. Ação de pentaclorofenol e dicumarol sobre fosforilase A cristalina do músculo. Cien. Cult. 12:106, 1960
Alberto & Alda Falcao
Alda Lima Falcão, Brazilian medical entomologist (Aracati, Ceará State 27 March 1925 – Belo Horizonte 31 August 2019) Authored about 100 works With H. Bermudez, J.P. Dedet, A. Morales Alarcón, D. Feliciangeli, E.F. Rangel, C. Ferro de Carrasquilla, E.A.B. Galato, E.L. Gomez, E. Perez, I. Sherlock, M. Torrez, R. Vignes & M. Wolff. Proposition of a standard description for Phlebotominae sand flies Parasitologia 33(1):127-35, 1991 With H. Bermudez, J.P. Dedet, M. Duncan, A. Morales Alarcón et al. A programme for computer aided identification of Phlebotominae sandflies of the Americas (CIPA) – Presentation and check-list of American species. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 88(2):221-30, 1993 DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genus Edentomyia 2003 with Galati, Andrade Filho & Silva Living Species Bichromomyia inornata 1965 with Martins & Silva Brumptomyia ortizi 1971 with Martins & Silva Deanemyia appendiculata 1961 with Martins & Silva Deanemyia ramirezi 1982 with Martins, Silva & Miranda Edentomyia piauiensis 2003 with Galati, Andrade Filho & Silva Evandromyia gaucha 2007 with Andrade Filho & Souza Evandromyia (Aldamyia) bacula 1965 with Martins & Silva Evandromyia (Aldamyia) termitophila 1964 with Martins & Silva Evandromyia (Barrettomyia) teratodes 1964 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia alencari 1962 with Martins & Souza Lutzomyia borgmeieri 1972 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia (Castromyia) caligata 1965 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia dubia 1965 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia goiana 1962 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia ischnacantha 1962 with Martins, Souza & Silva Lutzomyia ischyracantha 1962 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia paulwilliamsi 1977 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia renei 1957 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia ruparupa 1976 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) sherlocki 1971 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia souzalopesi 1970 with Martins & Silva Lutzomyia (Tricholateralis) spathotrichia 1963 with Martins & Silva Martinsmyia cipoensis 1964 with Martins & Silva Martinsmyia oliveirai 1970 with Martins & Silva Micropigomyia (Micropigomyia) mangabeirana 1963 with Martins & Silva Micropigomyia (Micropigomyia) schreiberi 1975 with Martins & Silva Micropigomyia (Sauromyia) capixaba 1987 with Martins, Silva & Dias Micropigomyia (Sauromyia) pusilla 1986 with Dias, Martins & Silva Micropigomyia (Silvamyia) acanthopharynx 1962 with Martins & Silva Micropygomyia (Silvamyia) echinatopharynx 2004 with Andrade Filho, Galati & Andrade Nyssomyia fraihai 1979 with Martins & Silva Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) bianchigalatiae 1999 with Andrade Filho, Aguiar & Santos Dias Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) torrealbai 1979 with Ordoñez & Martins Psathyromyia (Forattiniella) abunaensis 1965 with Martins & Silva Psathyromyia (Forattiniella) campograndensis 2001 with Oliveira, Andrade Filho & Brazil Psathyromyia (Forattiniella) naftalekatzi 2000 with Andrade Filho, Almeida & Brandão Filho Psathyromyia (Xiphopsathyromyia) hermanlenti 1970 with Martins & Silva Trichophoromyia eurypyga 1963 with Martins & Silva Trichopygomyia killickorum 2004 with Andrade Filho & Brazil Trichopygomyia rondoniensis 1965 with Martins & Silva Fossil Species Micropygomyia brandaoi 2008 with Andrade Filho & Galati Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) brazilorum 2006 with Andrade Filho & Galati Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia 2007 with Andrade Filho, Brazil & Galati Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotownsendi 2006 with Andrade Filho, Brazil & Galati HONORS (Diptera) Subgenus Aldamyia Galati 1995 Subgenus Falcaomyia Galati 1995 Her husband, Alberto Rocha Falcão, Brazilian medical entomologist (died Belo Horizonte 06 September 2017) Developed Falcão light Trap Um novo modelo de armadilha luminosa de sucção para pequenos insetos. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 76:303-5, 1981
Yehia Mahmoud Ezzat
Yehia Mahmoud Ezzat, Egyptian entomologist (1919 – 1991) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Allococcus 1956 with McConnell Erimococcus 1966 Ferrisicoccus 1956 with McConnell Maconellicoccus 1958 Paracoccus 1956 with McConnell Planococcoides 1956 with McConnell Species About 50