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)
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 Laid the basis of genetical association between a group of filonian and eruptive rocks Proposed the notion of consanguinity of eruptive rocks (1885) Identified that nepheline rocks were from the same magma with distinct cooling velocities DESCRIBED/NAMED Queluzite (protore) 1908 Caldasite (1919) Jacupiranguite (1891) Tinguaite Marahuite (1907) METHODOLOGY Developed a new method for determination of monazite Imagined a process for detaching fossils from limestone matrix employing hydrochloric acid solution 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)
Octavio Drummond
Octavio de Almeida Drummond, Brazilian plant pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 21 June 1912 – 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Ramularia phaseoli, causative agent of bean floury leaf spot (1945) Proposed a simple method for studying fungicides for preventive pulverization on leaves Um método simples e eficiente para o estudo de fungicidas para pulverizações preventivas em folhas. Lilloa 21:57-9, 1949 Demonstrated that the necrosis on tip of branches of coffee plants was caused by low temperatures Etiologia da “canela seca” do cafeeiro. Bol. Agric. Belo Horizonte 5(1-2):29-38, 1956 Described a new disease (maize ear rot by Sclerotium) With V.M. Yaringaño. Nota previa sobre uma nova podridão da espiga do milho produzida por Sclerotium. Congresso do Milho, Rio de Janeiro, 1962. A “folha de samambaia” do tomateiro. Ceres 3:385-90, 1942 (a virus disease of tomato)
Nil Ratan Dhar
Nil Ratan Dhar, Indian physical chemist (Jessore, Bangladesh 02 January 1892 – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh State 05 December 1986) Authored over 450 original papers on electrochemistry, catalysis, velocity of reactions, colloid chemistry, photochemical processes and soil reactions ACHIEVEMENTS With D.N. Bhattacharya determined the mobility of ions at zero degree temperature and the transport number of nitrite ion by electrolysis of a solution of silver nitrate With A.K. Dutta determined the second dissociation constant of dibasic acids Concluded that tropical sunlight is one of the governing factors in various chemical processes that occur in soils such as nitrification Discovered the influence of light on nitrogen fixation and loss in soils Discovered the relationship between the nitrogen and phosphate status of soils Established that sunlight and phosphates enhance nitrogen fixation in soils by slow oxidation of organic matter A new method of nitrogen fixation and conservation and reclamation of alkali lands. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (1935) Suggested that many compounds that are formed in the atmosphere result from light-induced reactions (1930s)
Nguyen Van Dao
Nguyen Van Dao, Vietnamese mathematician and physicist (Thanh-Ba District, Phu Tho Province 1937 – Hanoi 2006) Authored 114 papers, 8 books and 5 monographs One of the world’s leading experts in nonlinear oscillations Studied the effects caused by parametric excitations on nonlinear systems Identified relationship between distinct components of nonlinear systems Made considerable contributions to methods of asymptotic analysis of nonlinear oscillatory systems, examining the interaction between nonlinear systems accomplishing self-excited oscillations, forced oscillation and parametrically-excited oscillations SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Vibration and stability of dynamic systems with absorbers. Thesis (1965) Connected oscillations of rigid bodies. J. Math. Phys. (1966) Nonlinear oscillations of higher order systems (1979) With Yu. A. Mitropolsky. Applied asymptotic methods in nonlinear oscillations (1994) Quasilinear oscillations in systems with large static deflections. Proc. Intern. Conf. Appl. Dynamics (1995) With N. V. Dinh. Interaction between nonlinear oscillating systems (1996) With M.V. Dinh & T.K. Chi. Interaction between nonlinear parametric and forced oscillations. Viet. J. Mechanics 22(3), 1998 With N.V. Dinh. Dynamic absorber for self-excited system Some problems on nonlinear oscillations. IUTAM Solid Mech. Appl. 77:141-51, 2000 HONOURS Elected Member, European Science Academy (2002) LINKS https://vjs.ac.vn/index.php/vjmech/article/download/5526/5062