Cristóbal Espildora Luque

Cristóbal Espíldora Luque, Chilean ophthalmologist (1896 – 1962) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Espíldora Luque syndrome Sindrome oftálmico-silviano (ceguera monocular hemiplejia alternas). Archivos Oftalm. Hispano-Amer. 34:616-21, 1934 Espildora Luque classification of hypertensive neuropathies Sobre clasificaciones oftalmoscopicas de la hipertensión arterial. El Dia Medico 28:402, 1946 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   The glaucomatous Syphilitic Patient. Arch. Oftalm. Hispano-Amer. 30: 1929. Arterielle Ueberdruck im Kopfe. Zentralb. F.d. ges. Ophthal. 22:421, 1932.   With W.E. Coutts. Signos oculares de La linfogranuloma inguinal subaguda. Rev. Med. Chile 62:433, 1934. L’Hypertension arterielle retinienne solitaire. Tr. XV Internat. Ophthal. Congr. 2:156-89, 1937. With E. Santos Galmez & L. Casorza. Systemic and retinal hypotension in tabetic and glaucoma papillary atrophy. Arch. Oftal. Buenos Aires 15:136-60, 1940.   With J. Mosser & A. Gormaz. Sindrome de Sjogren (Dacrio-psialo-adenopathia-atrophicans). Arch. Soc. Oftalm. Hispano-Amer. 8(4):333-350, 1948 Changes in the fundus oculi in arterial hypertension. Rev. Med. Chile 82(9):507-8, 1954. With A. Gormaz, G. Lama & A. Villaseca. Intraocular acrylic lens. Ridley’s  operation. Arch. Chil. Oftalm. 12:56, 1955. With F. Goni, R. Ortuzar, P. Thomsen & L. Vial. Pyretotherapy and subacutaneous hexamethonium in the treatment of severe and malignant hypertension. Circulation 13:351-9, 1956. Una variedad especial de desprendimiento retinal. Arch. Chil. Oftal. 15(41):102-3, 1958.  

Clemente Estable

Clemente Estable Fallabella, Uruguayan histopathologist and neurophysiologist (Santa Lucia, Canelones Department 1894 – Montevideo 27 October 1976) Son of Italian immigrants Authored about 150 works ACHIEVEMENTS Enunciated concepts on comparative structure in brain cortex Note sur la structure comparative de l’ecorce cerebelleuse et derives physiologiques possibles. Trav. Lab. Rech. Biol. Univ. Madrid 21:169-256, 1923  Enunciated the concept of hipocytomorphosis Hipocitomorfosis. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 1:361-74, Formulated the concept of reversibility synapses and morphological quantitative concepts as synaptic valence and synaptic spectrum Espectro sináptico, constantes sinápticas y revisión del concepto de sinapsis. Reunión Cient. Asoc. Latinoam. Cien. Fisiol. Punta del Este 75-76, 1957 Described nucleolonema, a new cell structure With Roberto J. Sotelo. Una nueva estructura celular: el nucleolonema. Rev. Fac. Hum. Cien. Montevideo 7:47-68,   Created the concept of synaptic pathology     Pathology of the interneuronal synapses. Excerpta Med. Intern. Congress Series 100:463-8, 1965 Discovered and described the trophic function of synapse (1956-8) First to describe axo-axonic synapse Demonstrated that Purkinje cells axons of cerebellum extend to nuclei of encephalic axis and spinal cord (1927) Described accurately the morphological neuronal changes that characterize many neurodegenerative diseases Showed how drugs modify the interneuronal connections With chemist L.F. Fieser purified and synthesized gonyleptin from opilion Gonyleptus sp. (1955) METHODS Created endocardiac biomicroscopy With Alberto Vaz Ferreira. Methode pour l’examen microscopique “in vivo” du coeur  dês vertébrés. Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. Paris 106:847-50, 1931 Created bioiridomicroscopy LINKS http://www.smu.org.uy/dpmc/hmed/historia/articulos/estable.pdf http://www.revistacts.net/files/rodriguez_ithurralde_editado.pdf His nephew, José Jesus Estable Parodi, physiologist and pharmacologist (Montevideo 22 September 1905 – 10 December 1976) Authored 66 papers DESCRIBED TECHNIQUES With H.J. Rossello. Nueva tecnica de descerebración en el perro. Comptes Rendus des Sciences de la Société de Biologie et ses filiales et associens CXI (32):406, 1932 With C. Bordoni Posse & E.C. Palma. La tecnica de arteriografia de contraste y sus resultados. Rev. Inform. Terap. 19:106, 1937 PAPERS WITH FOREIGN AND FAMOUS SCIENTISTS T.H. Sollmann Action of procaine, salicylate and benzoate of sodium on the excitability of skeletal muscle and of nerve. Anesth. 9(2):194-9, 1948 Survival time of refrigerated mammalian muscle and nerve after somatic death. Am. J. Physiol. 156(3):328, 1949 With S.O. Hoerr. Loss of excitability of frog sciatic nerve and skeletal muscle on deep-freezing. Am. J. Physiol. 156(3):333, 1949 C. Heymans    On new nicotinolytic compounds. Science 109 (2823):122, 1949 With S. Castillo de Bonneveaux. Sur la pharmacologie de la phénothiazinyl-ethyldiéthylamine (2987 R.P.). Arch. Intern. Pharmacodyn. Therapie LXXIX (2-3):123, 1949 With S. Castillo de Bonneveaux. Nicotinolytic action of diethylaminoethylphenothiazine (2987 R.P. or Diparcol). Arch. Intern. Pharmacodyn. Therapie LXXIX (2-3):185, 1949

Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer

Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Ceylonese / Australian mathematical physicist (Navatkuli, Jaffna 12 June 1918 – Melbourne 10 March 2001) Authored 63 papers and 4 books Developed the Eliezer theorem (1943) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.C. Barton. On pursuit curves. J. Austr. Math. Soc. Series B41:358-71, 2000 With G.E. Prince. On the Lie symmetries of the classical Kepler problem. J. Physics A 14(3):587-96, 1981 With G.E. Prince. Symmetries of the time-independent N-dimensional oscillator. J. Physics A 13(3):815-23, 1980 With G.E. Prince, P.G.L. Leach, T.M. Kalotas & R.M. Santilli. The Lie and Lie-admissible symmetries of dynamical systems. Hadron. J. 3(1):390-43, 1979-80 Symmetries and first integrals of some differential equations of dynamics. Hadron. J. 2(5):1067-1109, 1979 With P.G. Leach. Equivalence principle and quantum mechanics – note. Amer. J. Physics 45(12):1218-21, 1977 A note on time-dependent harmonic oscillator. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 30(3):463-8, 1976 Elementary inequalities for integrals. Math. Magaz. 45:89-91, 1972 With D.E. Daykin. Generalization of Holder’s and Minkowski’s inequalities. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society 64:1023-7, 1968 With D.E. Daykin. Generalizations and aplications of Cauchy-Schwarz inequalities. Quart. J. Mathematics. Oxford Series 18(2):357-60, 1967 With D.E. Daykin. Generalizations of the A.M. and G.M. inequality. Math. Magaz. 40:247-50, 1967 On the classical theory of particles. Proc. Royal Soc. London 194 A:543-55, 1948   Relativistic wave equations. Nature 159:160, 1947 Quantum electrodynamics and low energy photons. Proc. Royal Soc. London 191 A:133-6, 1947   The interaction of electrons and an electromagnetic field. Reviews Modern Physics 19:147-84, 1947 The hydrogen atom in generalized classical electrodynamics. Physical Review 71(2):49-53, 1947 Quantum electrodynamics and the interaction of the hydrogen-like atoms with a radiation field.  Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 38:145-60, 1946 The classical equations of motion of an electron. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society 42:278 -86, 1946 Radiating electron in a magnetic field. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society 42:40-44, 1946 The application of quantum electrodynamics to multiple processes. Proc. Royal Soc. London 187 A:210-9, 1946   On Dirac’s theory of quantum electrodynamics: the interaction of an electron and radiation field. Proc. Royal Soc. London A 187:197-210, 1946 A discussion on the exactness of the Lorentz-Dirac classical equations. Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 37:125-30, 1945 With A. Malvaganan. On the classical theory of radiating electrons. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society 41:184-6, 1945 The hydrogen atom and the classical theory of radiation. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Society 39:173-80, 1943  LINKS http://www.eelamview.com/2012/07/30/maamanithar-christie-jayaratnam-eliezer-1918-2001-a-conquering-scientist/

Amin El Nawawy

Amin S. El Nawawy, Egyptian agronomist and microbiologist With S.O.Gnan. Isolation and propagation of new methanol-utilizing microorganisms. Biotech. Bioengin.(1983) Utilization of bagasse pith for the production of fodder yeast by a new isolate of Candida pelliculosa (1969) With M. Fahmy & Y. Abdel Malek. Isolation and identification of a new strain of yeast suitable for growth on pentose substrates. 1st Conf. Microbiol. (1965) PATENT With I.Y. Hamdan, I.M. Banat & N.M. Al-Awadhi. Process and microorganisms for producing single cell protein. US5314820A (1987)  

Adolfo Ernst

Gustav Adolf Ernst, German-born Venezuelan ethnographer, archeologist, naturalist, explorer and geographer (Primkenau, Silesia 06 October 1832 – Caracas 12 August 1899) Authored over 478 works on botany, zoology, ethnography, geography, philology, physical anthropology, paleontology and archeology DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Genus Libanothamnus 1870 (Asteraceae) Species Asagraea caracasana 1871 Bacopa braunii 1870 Chrysosplenium aulacocarpum 1874 Chusquea spencei 1872 Cissus hahniana 1876 Cissus paucidentata 1870 Cissus sexangularis 1870 Clethra confertifolia 1874 Declieuxia alfredi 1887 Eremolepis microcalyx 1887 Eupatorium heteroneurum 1928 Goodyera neglecta 1877 Hibiscus geminiflorus 1888 Libanothamnus neriifolius 1870 Lysipoma bourgoini 1887 Micranthemum pilosum 1874 Montanoa excelsa 1870 Neea anisophylla 1874 Spiracantha denticulata 1874 Tabebuia globiflora 1887 Vallesia hypoglauca 1870 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Plantas interesantes de la flora caracasana (1870) Diatomaceous earth from the Lake of Valencia, Caracas (1871) Meteorology of Caracas, Venezuela, South America (1872) Enumeración sistematica de las especies de moluscos hallados hasta ahora en los alrededores de Caracas y demás partes de la Republica (1876) Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877) Estudios sobre las deformaciones, enfermedades y enemigos del arbol de café en Venezuela (1878) Memoria botanica sobre el embarbascar, ó sea, la pesca por medio de plantas venenosas (1881) El carbón mineral en Venezuela (1883) Die ethnographische Stellung  der Guajiro-Indianer (1887) Prähistorische und ethnographische gegenstände aus Venezuela (1888) Uber fischvergiftende pflanzen (1888) Petroglyphen aus Venezuela (1889) HONORS Ernstia Jousseuame 1889 (Mollusca Gastropoda) Ernstichthys Fernandez-Yepez 1953 (Pisces)

Adolfo Elias

Adolfo Ramón Elías Tallaferro, Argentine analytic chemist (Buenos Aires 07 August 1889 – Rosario 1968) Sobre un procedimento fotoquímico para la investigación de impresiones digitales. An. Asoc. Soc. Quim. Arg. 4:267-8, 1915  Um aparato para la determinación del tempo de coagulación de la sangre. Hemoaglutinina del rícino. Su rápida caracterización en las tortas de oleaginosas Investigación rápida y directa del bromato en el pan. An. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 30 (1942) Los cilindros urinários. Metodo a la tinta china para el examen de los sedimentos