María Etcheverry
María Edith Etcheverry Campaña, Chilean entomologist and historian of science (Chuquicamata, Antofagasta 20 April 1928 – Viña del Mar 02 January 2012) DESCRIBED GENERA Flukea 1966 (Diptera) Quinta 1970 (Lepidoptera) Ruizantheda 1960 with Gonzalez (Lepidoptera) Stuardosatyrus 1965 with Gonzalez (Lepidoptera) HONORS Etcheverrius Gonzalez 1966 (Lepidoptera)
Mariano Estoque
Mariano A. Estoque, Philippine meteorologist (31 December 1921 – Tubao, La Unión Province 10 January 2022) CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY The spectrum of large-scale turbulent transfer of momentum and heat (2010) With S. Almazán & J. Mondares. A sea breeze rainfall model. Atmosfera 7(4), 2009 A surface mesoscale wind model for complex terrain. Atmosfera 3(3):203-16, 1990 With R.M. Endlich, F.L. Ludwig & C.M. Bhumralkar. A diagnostic model for estimating winds at potential sites for wind turbines. J.Appl. Meteorol. 21(10), 1982 A hurricane model for simulating cloud seeding (1971) With C.M. Bhumralkar. A method for solving the planetary boundary layer equations. Bound-Lay Meteorol. 1(2), 1970 Vertical mixing due to penetrative convection. J. Atmos. Sciences 25(6):1046-51, 1968 An Approximation to boundary layer wind profiles. Tellus 19(4), 1967 A numerical model of the atmospheric boundary layer. J. Geophys. Res. 68(4), 1963 The sea breeze as a function of the prevailing synoptic situation. J. Meteorol. 19(3), 1962 Vertical and radial motions in a tropical cyclone. Tellus 14(4):394-402, 1962 A theoretical investigation of the sea breeze. Quart. J. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 87:136, 1961 A graphically integrable prediction model incorporating orographic influences. J. Atmos. Sciences 14(4):293-6, 1957 A prediction model for cyclone development integrated by Fjortoft’s method. J. Met. 13(2):195, 1956 Graphical integration of a two-level model. Scient. Report 10 Dept. Meteorol. Univ. Chicago (1956) HONOURS IMO Prize (1997)
Marcial Espinosa
Marcial Ramón Espinosa Bustos, Chilean botanist and mycologist (San Javier de Loncomilla, Linares Province 20 June 1874 – Santiago 17 August 1959) Authored 65 papers DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Plantae Adiantum gertrudis 1936 Adiantum philippianum 1936 Adiantum weatherbyanum 1936 Anemone moorei 1940 Austroblechnum corralense 1932 Conanthera johowii 1932 Diplazium fuenzalidae 1940 Elaphoglossum rudolphi 1932 Maihueniopsis camachoi 1933 Maihueniopsis reicheana 1940 Nothifagus alessandrii 1926 Nothifagus leonii 1929 Polystichum fuentesii 1932 Fungi Cyttaria johowii 1936 Lepiota locanensis 1920 Petersonia sanctae-crucis 1949 Fossil Plantae Sticherus (Gleichenia) asenjoi 1937 HONORS Espinosa Gahan 1947 (Hymenoptera)
Mahmoud Ahmed El Sherbini
Mahmoud Ahmed El Sherbini, Egyptian atomic physicist (Menial Al Kamh, Sharqia 22 January 1909 – 11 June 1998) Authored papers with great recognition in scientific circles The Stark effect for strong fields. Philos. Magazine 14(7):384-6, 1932 Did pioneering work on crystal rectification With Y.L. Youssef. The effect of cooling and of magnetic fields on crystal rectification. Proceed. Phys. Soc. 51:449, 1939 Reversal of rectification by heat in crystal contacts and its analogy to a thermos-electric phenomenon. Proc. Phys. Soc. Lond. 53:120-5, 1941 With Y.L. Youssef. Dependence of the direction of rectification in copper pyrites on voltage, temperature and time of measurement. Nature 147 (3731):543, 1941 Discovered inverse rectification at low temperatures With Y. Leito. Effect of temperatures on crystal rectification at low temperatures (1938) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Copper beryllium alloys as secondary electron emitters (1961) With A. S. El Meligy. Energy levels for the Coulomb potential with cut-off. Zeitschr. fur Angew. Mathem. Physik ZAMP 10(5):474-7, 1959 With I.L. Abdallah. Formation of surface layers under ultrasonic agitation for investigations on secondary electron emission. Proc. Math. Phys. Soc. Egypt 4:45-52, 1956 With S.R. Haddara. Secondary electron emission and surface structure. Proc. Math. Phys. Soc. Egypt 3(3):25-36, 1949 Third order terms in the theory of Stark effect. Philos. Magazine 13(7):24-8, 1932 Three-dimensional periodic orbits in the field of a non-neutral atom. Philos. Magazine 14(7):303-10, 1932 Electron reflection in the low energy region. Thesis (1932) A simple thermal milliammeter
Luis Enrique Erro
Luis Enrique Erro Soler, Mexican astronomer (Villa de Chalco, Ciudad de Mexico 07 January 1897 – Ciudad de Mexico 18 January 1955) Discovered at least 20 new variable stars SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With S. Gaposchkin. On the eclipsing system of RZ Cassiopeiae Variable stars in high latitude field 354. Bull. Harv. Coll. Obs. 913 (1940) HONORS Lunar Erro crater His nephew, Braulio Iriarte Erro, Mexican astronomer (Ciudad de Mexico 11 April 1920 – San Andrés Choula, Puebla State 13 August 1986) Determinated light curvature of DYPegasus With W. A. Hiltner & H.L. Johnson determinated the color diagrams of galactic clusters With G. Haro & E. Chavira discovered a great number of planetary nebulae or T-Tauri stars DISCOVERED NEW STARS (with E.Chavira) New blue giants between galactic coordinates 1=345º to 1=35°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(11):27, 1954 (176) Gigantes azules entre 1=330° y 1=35°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(13), 1955 (110) Nuevas estrellas de tipos espectrales tempranos con Hα en emission entre 1=338° y 1=33°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(13), 1955 (79) Lista de estrellas con Hα en emision entre 1=338° y 1=33°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(14), 1956 (58) Estrellas azules en el casquete galactico norte. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(16), 1957 (817) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.A. Hiltner & H.L. Johnson. The galactic cluster NGC6633. Astrop. J. 127:539, 1958 With H.L. Johnson & R.I. Mitchell. The color-magnitude diagram of the Hyades cluster. Astrop. J. 136:175, 1962 With H.L.Johnson & R.I. Mitchell et al. Five-color photometry of bright stars. Sky & Telescope 30(1):21-31, 1965 With H.L. Johnson & R.I. Mitchell. UBVRIJKL photometry of the bright stars. Comm. Lunar Photom. Labor. 4(3), 1966 With E. Chavira & O. Cardona. Changes in the Be stars of Cassiopeiae-Perseus region Photoelectric photometry of faint blue stars at high galactic latitudes Spectral types for the brightest flare stars in the Pléiades. Bol. Inst. Tonantzintla (1975)
Lindsay Atkins Eddie
Lindsay Atkins Eddie, South African astronomer and meteorologist (Cape Town 1845 – Grahamstown 13 October 1913) Made important observations on Mars planet (1907) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Gale’s comet (1912) Curious meteor trail seen at Grahamstown (1895) Spectrum of Y Argus. Popular Astron. 3:123-7, 1895 Note on an auroral display. J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 4:381, 1894 The Short Period Variable 5 Cepheid HONORS Eddie crater on Mars