Francisco Javier Estrada
José Francisco Javier Severiano Adolfo Estrada Murguia, Mexican physicist (San Luis Potosi 11 February 1838 – San Luis Potosi 12 February 1904) First to obtain light from electrc arc in Americas Proposed the use of telephone as a system of detection of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (1883) before an Italian Showed that the plant Phytolacca electrica has electric and magnetic properties Showed the indefinite reproduction of static electricity (1874) It is said that developed the wireless telegraphy before Italian G. Marconi INVENTIONS/MODIFICATIONS/IMPROVEMENTS Two telegraphic printers (1877) Maxima and minima automated barometer Improved galvanoplasty procedures and invented many of them An electric dynamo engine similar to Grammme’s (1868) (for which won a prize in United States) A new device for measuring the speed of electric currents Many new systems of duplex telegraphic transmission (1879-81) Four simulcast devices (1879-81) An improved Cooper telegraph (1881) A new keyboard manipulator for Morse code (1881) A metallic thermometer (1874) An electric piano (1878) A little mantle gas lamp (1895) A new electrical communication system between railway telegraphs and moving trains (1886) An electric network Electro-magnetic geological balance. A new study proposed to science. The compasses reformed (1900), a simple device for predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and studying the underground layers in general (1895) A long distance transmitting microphone (1881) New telephone transmission system with improved telephones (1881-2) Introduced improvements to Bell telephone Siphon-polarized rapid receiver (1883) Variable resistance differential rheostat (1887) An electric recording and warning sismometer Sismophone (1894) New procedures for applying electricity to military strategies A fireless steam engine employing ice as fuel (1874) A patent about the production and bottling of sparkling wines and effervescent alcoholic liqueurs HONOURS Fellow, Academie des Sciences Physiques de Paris LINKS Lat.Am.J. Phys.Educ. 1(1):101-8, 2007
Francisco Javier Escalante
Francisco Javier Escalante Plancarte, Mexican astronomer and engineer (Morelia, Michoacán State 1887 – Ciudad de Mexico 03 March 1972) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.E. López. Las partes del mundo marciano y sus divisiones convencionales (1956) El planeta Marte (1963) HONORS Escalante crater on Mars
Fernando Etayo Serna
Fernando Etayo Serna, Colombian geologist and paleontologist (Ulloa, Valle del Cauca 1942 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA / AMMONITES TAXA Genera Buenoceras 1979 Carloscaceresiceras 1979 Codazziceras 1979 Corteziceras 1979 Franciscoites 1979 Gloriaceras 1979 Hubachia 1979 Jaumaporta 1979 Johnwyattia 1979 Juandurhamiceras 1979 Pseudoptychoceras 1979 Ralphimlayites 1979 Riedelites 1979 Rinconiceras 1979 Santafecites 1985 Stantonia 1979 Stoyanowiceras 1979 Zambranoites 1979 Subgenera Bowlesia 1979 Buergliceras 1968 Colomboceratoides 1979 Jaumaportaiceras 1979 Merriamella 1979 Sohlitella 1979 Species Over 100 Others Fossil Reptilia Genera Padillasaurus 2015 with Carballido, Pol, Parra, Padilla & Paramo Sternorhynchus 2016 with Paramo, Gómez Perez & Noé Species Padillasaurus leivaensis 2015 with Carballido, Pol, Parra, Padilla & Paramo Sternorhynchus munozi 2016 with Paramo, Gómez Perez & Noé HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Etayoa Villarroel 1987 Notoetayoa Gelfo, López & Bond 2008
Faustino Monteiro Esposel
Faustino Monteiro Esposel, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1888 – Rio de Janeiro 16 September 1931) EPONYMY Codescribed Austregésilo-Esposel sign With A. Austregésilo. Le phénomene de Babinski provoqué par excitation de la cuisse. L’Encephale 7:429-36, 1912. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Ozorio de Almeida. Sur Le mecanisme Du phenomene Du retrait Du membre inferieur provoque par La flexion plantaire des orteils. Revue Neurol. 2(20):432, 1912. With A. Austregésilo. Las cenestopatias. Gac.Med. Sur Esp. 33:316-19, 1915. Action de l’anemie experimentale produite par la bande d’Esmarch sur les reflexes. Revue Neurol. 23:169, 1916. Pituitary body. Ref. End. 1:533, 1917. With A. Marques. Thalamussymptome syphilitischer Natur (in Portuguese). Arch. Bras. Neuriatr. 8:7, 1926 Quelques considerations sur la lepre. Arch. Bras. Neur. Psychiat. 9(1):3-8, 1927. With A. Austregésilo. Contribuições brasileiras ao estudo da esclerose lateral amiotrófica. Bras. Med. 34:25, 1929. Em torno do sinal de Babinski. Arch. Bras. Neuriatr. Psych. 11(1):16-30, 1929. Cerebellite aigue. Rev. Clinicas, Rio de Janeiro 4(1);2, 1930.
Eugenio Espejo
Eugenio Francisco Javier de Santa Cruz Espejo y Aldaz, Ecuadorian physician, philosopher and author (Quito February 1747 – Quito 27 December 1795) ACHIEVEMENTS In Reflexiones acerca de um metodo para preservar los pueblos de las viruelas (1785), anticipated the pathogenic role of microbes and proclaimed the causes of decomposition and putrefaction in organic compounds by direct influence from certain microorganisms
Esfandiar Esfandiari
Esfandiar Esfandiari, Iranian botanist and mycologist (Kerman 03 March 1909 – Teheran 03 August 1995) Described about 70 new plant species HONORS Esfandiariomyces Ershad 1985 (Fungi) Esfandiaria Charif & Aellen 1952 (Chenopodiaceae) Esfandiaria Popov 1951 (Orthoptera)