Reinaldo Di Polo
Reinaldo Victor Di Polo Alemán, Venezuelan biophysicist (Caracas 06 March 1943 – 15 June 2016) Authored over 180 papers (about 4,000 citations) With L. Beaugé clarified the ATP regulatory effect on Na/Ca exchange in giant axons of squid (1970s) Characterized metabolically the Na/Ca exchange system in human cardiac tissue Discovered a new protein in nerve cells that maybe represents a new class of exchange systems (1997) DEMONSTRATED The presence of an ATP-driven Ca2+ pumps in giant axons of squid (1979) The metabolic exchange of Na/Ca using ATP and an intracellular regulatory site for this process The presence of a 13KDa protein regulating this Na/Ca exchange in nerve cells The presence of a Ca-dependent extrusion mechanism of ATP hydrolysis in excitable tissues independent of Na/Ca exchanger
Reinaldo Damasceno
Reinaldo Mauricio Goubert Damasceno, Brazilian medical entomologist (Igarapé-Açú, Pará State 24 July 1916 – Macapá 14 August 1976) Developed Damasceno trap for collecting insects Contribuição entomológica – Descrição de um método de captura de insetos em troncos de arvores, buracos na terra e tocas de animais silvestres. In: Congr. Bras. Higiene 13, 1955, Belém DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES (39 new species; incomplete list) Anopheles albitarsis 1944 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles domesticus 1944 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles konderi 1942 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles marajoara 1942 with Ayroza Galvão Culex belemnensis 1955 with Duret Culex majuensis 1955 with Duret Lutzomyia baityi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia campbelli 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia carvalhoi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia castanheirai 1945 with Arouck Lutzomyia cerqueirai 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia dreisbachi 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia dunhami 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia fariasi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia lopesi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia meirai 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia melloi 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia nevesi 1956 with Arouck Lutzomyia pinottii 1956 with Arouck Lutzomyia serrana 1949 with Arouck Lutzomyia souzacastroi 1944 with Causey Lutzomyia wagleyi 1945 with Causey Lutzomyia williamsi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia wilsoni 1945 with Causey Phlebotomus christophersoni 1944 with Causey Phlebotomus deanei 1945 with Causey & Arouck Phlebotomus digitatum 1950 with Arouck Phlebotomus ferreirai 1945 with Causey Phlebotomus marajoensis 1944 with Causey Phlebotomus pilosus 1944 with Causey Phlebotomus rachoui 1956 with Arouck Phlebotomus scaffi 1956 with Arouck Sciopemyia servulolimai 1945 with Causey
Pedro Celestino Luis Denier
Pedro (Pierre) Celestino (Celestin) Luis (Louis) Denier, French-born Argentine entomologist (Paris 14 November 1892 – Resistencia, Chaco 15 August 1941) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Tribe Epicautini 1931 Genera Eolydus 1913 Lyttomeloe 1921 Parameloe 1933 Picella 1933 Wagneronota 1935 Species Acrolytta neivai 1940 Acrolytta nigropicta 1932 Calocomus desmaresti 1939 Eolydus atrocoelureus 1913 Ephebocerus dufaui 1922 Lytta griseopubescens 1935 Meloe auropictus 1921 Oncideres guttulata 1939 Parameloe alutus 1933 Picnoseus laevigatus 1935 Picnoseus rubrofasciatus 1934 Pseudomeloe escomeli 1911 Pseudomeloe porteri 1934 Pyrota diadema 1940 Pyrota dispar 1934 Pyrota wagneri 1934 HONORS (Coleoptera) Denierella Kaszab 1952 Denierus Pic 1913 Denierota Kaszab 1959
Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala, Ceylonese zoologist and anthropologist (Colombo 08 May 1900 – Colombo 01 December 1976) Authored 350 publications on anthropology, archaeology, sociology, palaeontology and zoology DESCRIBED TAXA Living Mammalia Valid Subspecies Bubalus bubalis migona 1952 Bos frontalis leyus 1952 Panthera pardus kotiya 1956 Fossil Mammalia Genera Gona 1958 Hippoleakius 1947 Homopithecus 1960 Mioceta 1967 Miodugong 1969 Miotursiops 1969 Muva 1958 Omoloxodon 1955 Platystegodon 1954 Prechoeropsis 1948 Sulcicephalus 1954 Turkanatherium 1951 Living Aves Valid Subspecies Eurystomus orientalis irisi 1951 Harpactes fasciatus parvus 1955 Gallus lafayettii xanthimaculatus 1955 Reptilia (described 51 living and fossil taxa in Reptilia; incomplete list) Living Reptilia Valid Species Calodactylodes illingworthorum 1953 Cnemaspis podihuna 1944 Geckoella yakhuna 1945 Hemidactylus hunae 1937 Hemidactylus lankae 1953 Hemidactylus parvimaculatus 1953 Lankascincus dorsicatenatus 1953 Nessia didactyla 1934 Nessia hickanala 1940 Ophisops minor 1971 Rhinophis dorsimaculatus 1941 Rhinophis tricolorata 1975 Uropeltis ruhunae 1954 Fossil Reptilia Genera Miocaretta 1967 Miotestudo 1967 Living Fishes Genera Ehirava 1929 Horadandia 1943 Horadetia 1943 Malpulutta 1937 Valid Species Clarias nebulosus 1958 Ehirava fluviatilis 1929 Garra phillipsi 1933 Horadandia atukorali 1943 Laubuca lankensis 1960 Lepidocephalus jonklaasi 1956 Malpulutta kretseri 1937 Puntius melanomaculatus 1956 Puntius titteya 1929 Rasboroides vaterifloris 1930 Fossil Fishes Genus Miosynechodus 1969 Fossil Echinodermata Genus Minicidaris 1961
Paulo Dacorso Filho
Paulo Dacorso Filho, Brazilian veterinarian (Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State 14 April 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 03 July 1975) Authored over 70 papers Performed studies on comparative pathology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.A. Muchaluat. Ocorrência de sarcoma osteogênico do maxilar superior em cão. Veterin. 22:43-51, 1969 With J. Langenegger. Lesões da artéria pulmonary e seus ramos causadas por D. immitis. Anais XIII Congr. Bras. Vet. (1962) With J. Lagenegger & A.M. Lagenegger. Ocorrência da infestação por Angiostrongylus vasorum em cães do Rio de Janeiro (1962) With J. Langenegger & J.H. Guimarães. Ocorrência de cestódeos em equídeos necropsiados na Escola Nacional de Veterinária. Arq. Inst. Biol. Animal 4(1):65-76, 1961 With J. Langenegger, J.F. Faria & O.J.L. Gonzales. Infestação por Spirocerca lupi e sarcoma osteogênico em esôfago do cão (1961) With I.O.N. Campos, J.F. Faria & J. Langenegger. Doença de Johne (paratuberculose) em bovines nacionais. Arq. Inst. Biol. Animal 3:129-39, 1960 With J. Langenegger & J.F. Faria. Melanoma maligno generalizado em coelho. An. Col. Anat. Bras. 5:131-41, 1959 With W.A. Chagas. Criptococose pulmonar em caprino. Anais Col. Anat. Bras. 3:55-69, 1957 With J. Langenegger & J. Dobereiner. Odontoma multidentifero proliferante em bovino. Anais Col. Anat. Bras. 2, 1956 With R.G. Cunha. Lesões observadas em coelhos recém-nascidos inoculados com amostras de três tipos de vírus de febre aftosa (1954) With J. Lagenegger & J. Dobereiner. Sobre a infestação e lesões anatomopatológicas causadas por Dioctopphyma renale (Goeze 1780) em cães. Veterinário 8(2):35-54, 1954 Contribuição ao estudo da rinosporidiose em equinos (1954) With J. Andrade dos Santos & P. P. Donato. Contribuição ao estudo da anatomia patológica da linfadenite caseosa dos ovinos. Bol. Soc. Bras. Med. Vet. 25, 1946 Contribuição a anatomia patológica da leptospirose icterohemorrágica no cão (1945) Notas anatomopatológicas. Encefalites por microfilária em cão. Bol. Soc. Bras. Med. Vet. 13(3-4):211-7, 1944 With J. A. Santos. Contribuição ao estudo da icterícia dos muares recém-nascidos. Anais II Congr. Bras. Vet. p.579-83, 1943 Contribuição ao estudo da oncologia comparada. Thesis (1943) With J.A. Santos. Neuro-linfomatose das aves (1943) Leptospirose canina. O Hospital 18:797-809, 1940 Contribuição ao estudo da estandardização da vacina contra o carbúnculo sintomático (1940) HONORS Invited to be professor of Comparative Pathology at New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School (1975) Nisseiken Award, Institute of Biology, Japan
Orville Adelbert Derby
Orville Adelbert Derby, US-born Brazilian geoscientist and geographer (Kelloggsville, Cayuga County, New York State 23 July 1851 – Rio de Janeiro 27 November 1915) Authored 173 scientific works dealing about geology, mineralogy, palaeontology and archaeology Gained international recognition for his studies on nepheline rocks associated to phonolite and foyaite and his petrographical researches On nepheline rocks in Brazil. Part I. With special reference to the association of phonolite and foyaite. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. 43:457-75, 1887 Laid the basis of genetical association between a group of filonian and eruptive rocks First to study and describe the coexistence of intrusive and extrusive rocks in the same magma (1887) Proposed the notion of consanguinity of eruptive rocks (1885) A study in consanguinity of eruptive rocks. J. Geol. 1(6):597-605, 1893 Identified that nepheline rocks were from the same magma with distinct cooling velocities Discovered the geologic origin of monazite in gneissic and granitic rock First to appreciate zircon and monazite as a guide minerals to eruptive rocks On separation and study of the heavy accessories of rocks. Proceed. Rochester Acad. Sci. 1:198-206, 1891 Peculiar modes of occurrence of gold in Brazil. Am. J. Science 3(28):73-4, 1884 Discovered tinguaite that was named Rosenbusch in 1887 DESCRIBED/NAMED Queluzite (protore) 1908 Caldasite (1919) Jacupiranguite (1891) Marahuite (1907) METHODOLOGY Developed a new method for determination of monazite Imagined a process for detaching fossils from limestone matrix employing hydrochloric acid solution Papers in Science The genesis of the Diamond. Science 9(207):57-8, 1887 Is The São Francisco do Sul (Santa Catarina) iron a meteorite? Science 20:254-5, 1892 The supposed Tertiary sea of Southern Brazil. Science 13:348-9, 1901 The northeast coast of Brazil in ancient cartography. Science NS 19:681-94, 1904 Review of Branner’s “Stone reefs of Brazil”. Science 21:738-40, 1905 HONORS Wollaston Medal (1892) Derbyia Waagen 1884 (Fossil Brachiopoda) Derbyella Grabau 1931 (Fossil Brachiopoda) Derbyina Clarke 1931 (Fossil Brachiopoda) Derbyaeconcha Likharev 1934 (Fossil Brachiopoda) Derbyoides Dunbar & Condra 1932 (Fossil Brachiopoda) Orvillia White 1887 (Fossil Mollusca) Derbyella White 1906 (Fossil Plantae) Derbylite Moore & Araki 1976 (mineral) Orvillite Lee 1919 (a zircon variety)