Ignacio Domeyko
Ignacy Domeyko, Polish/Lithuanian Chilean mineralogist, geologist, meteorologist and etnographer (Niedzwiadka, Korelichi District, Belarus 31 August 1802 – Santiago de Chile 23 January 1889) Born into a family of Polish-speaking Lithuanian noblemen Authored over 400 reports on mineralogy, geology, geography, physics and ethnography Authored Elementos de Mineralogia que compreenda principalmente las especies minerales de Chili, Bolivia, Peru y Provincias Argentinas (1844) Authored Araucania y sus habitantes (1845) that was translated into many languages as Polish, French and German Discovered and described 27 new mineral species such as archevite, ammiolite, bolivite, bordosite, chileite, copiapite, coquimbite, daubreeite, embolite (1844), mottramite (1848), nantokite, philippite, schwarzembergite (1864), taznite, tocornalite (1867), krohnkite (1879) and tamarugite (1883) HONORS Genus Domeykoa Philippi 1860 (Apiaceae) Genus Domeykosaurus Rubilar & Vargas 2003 (Fossil Reptilia) Domeykite Haidinger 1854 (Mineral) Asteroid Domeyko 2784
Horacio Descole
Horacio Raul Descole Torres, Argentine botanist (Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province 06 February 1910 – Tucumán Province 16 February 1984) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Sections (Calceolariaceae) Phyllophorus 1954 with Borsini Rosula 1954 with Borsini Species Alternanthera tucumana 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig Angelonia evitae 1950 with Borsini Calceolaria lilloi 1955 with Borsini Calceolaria pennelli 1955 with Borsini Calceolaria ruizlealii 1954 with Borsini Calceolaria ruiz-pavoni 1954 with Borsini Calceolaria tucumana 1942 Euphrasia piossekii 1955 with Borsini Hoffmannia australis 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig Kallstroemia tucumanensis 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig Plectocarpa rougesii 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig Schubertia schreiteri 1941 with Meyer Trechonaetes rotacea 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig HONORS Descolea Singer 1952 (Fungi) Descoleia Aczel 1956 (Diptera) Mesodescolea Archangelsky 1963 (Fossil Plantae) See WWW.archivo.unt.edu.ar/attachments/059_brito.pdf (in Spanish)
Horacio Damianovich
Horacio Jaime Damianovich Cuyas, Argentine chemist (Buenos Aires 11 January 1883 – Buenos Aires 26 November 1959) From Serbian, Greek and Spanish descent ACHIEVEMENTS Performed important studies on chemistry of noble gases being invited by Societe Chimique de France to expose his researches in 1937 One of the first in the world to obtain derivatives of noble gases Studied in detail the adsorption of helium on metal surfaces (1920-40) Made significant contribution to the understanding of helides Obtained the first stable compounds of helium (1937) Conceived a metabolimeter Metabolimetre à circuit ouvert pour usage clinique. Compt. Rend. Hebd. Soc. Biol. 88, 1923 Developed Damianovich-Catan method With M.A. Catan. Las vitaminas en el metabolismo de la levedura. Anales Inst. Modelo Clin. Med. 5:98, 1920 With M. Guitarte. Procedimiento mecânico para la resolución de las ecuaciones y representación gráfica de las funciones (1908) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Guglialmelli. Contribución al studio de los albuminoides. Rev. Gen. Mat. Color. 163, 1909 Studie uber die Schiffsche reaction und den dabei entstehenden Farbstoff. Rev. Mat. Color. 14:39-46, With L. Guglialmelli. Action des matieres colorants organiques artificielles sur l’hidrolyse diastasique des albuminoides. Rev. Gen. Mat. Color. 18:269, 19?? Aplicaciones experimentales a la biologia de las propriedades de las soluciones coloidales. Na. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 13(3):, 1910 The chemistry of helium and analogous elements. III. Bases for the establishment of a chemistry of the inert gases. Anales Asoc. Quim. Arg. Ultraviolet absorption spectra of extracts containing vitamins. Anales Asoc. Quim. Arg. 10:209-14, 1912 Sur quelques problems de cinétique chimique. Accélération, induction et vitesse dans Le transformations isothermiques. Anales Soc. Quim. Arg. 1:289, 1914 The inertia and the chemical activity of the rare gases. II. Obtaining stable compounds by the action of helium on platinum, activated by cathodic evaporation. A report of researches on vitamine B states accelerates the action of diastatic processes, internal and external secretions, and the synthesis of nucleins. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 85:591-2, 1921 With A.T. Williams. Spectrophotométrie ultraviolette., etc. (acides nucléiques et derives). Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 98:241, 1924 With A.T. Williams. Ultra-violet spectrophotometry as a method of examining the mechanism of certain chemical reactions and as a method of qualitative and quantitative determination. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 98, 1924 With J. Pirosky. Verwendung der Mikrophotographie mit Ultraviolettem licht um veranderungen durch die Reagenzien in der Histologie aufzudecken. An. Inst. Modelo Clin. Med. 10(1):147-61, 1927 La loi de production de l’hélium par le radium. Résultats obtenus jusqu’a present et nouvelles experiences. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 124:229-34, 1937 With P. Urondo. Helio y radioactividad en los minerals de uranio. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 124:240-7, 1937 Recherches sur l’inertie et l’activité chimique des gaz rares. I. Observations sur La théorie de lab nulivalence. Le probléme general de l’activation chimique dês gaz rares. Bulletin Soc. Chim. France 5:1085-92, 1938. The chemistry of helium and helinoids. Combination of helium with uranium by chemical-cathodic activation and thermal decomposition of the complex formed. Anales Asoc. Quim. Arg. 27:64-73, 1939
Honorio Delgado
Honorio Delgado Espinosa, Peruvian psychiatrist and psychopathologist (Arequipa 26 September 1892 – Lima 28 November 1969) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored the first reports in field of psychoactive drugs Introduced sodium nucleinate in the management of the psychotic agitation (1917) and the use of phenobarbital for the control of seizures (1919) With H. Valdizán made the first phyto-pharmacological contributions in clinical and therapeutic studies on mental disorders Described 3 fundamental concepts in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia: the autism, the disjunction of the ego with respect to the content of consciousness and the breakdown of basic categories of knowledge Anticipated the role of attention and cognition in the phenomenology of schizophrenia Developed technotherapy (the use of arts for recovering psychiatric patients) See http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/159/10/1674.pdf
Hermann Duque Caro
José Hermann Duque Caro, Colombian geologist, stratigrapher and micropaleontologist (Bogotá 22 March 1935 – 20 September 2015) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. O’Dea, H.A. Lessios, A.G. Coates, R.I. Eytan et al. Formation of the isthmus of Panama. Sci. Adv. 2(8), 2016 With R. Betancur, A. Acero & S.R. Santos. Phylogenetic and morphologic analyses of a coastal fish reveals a marine biogeographic break of treestrial origin in the Southern Caribbean. Plos One 5(7), 2010 The Llanos Basin. In search of greater stratigraphic resolution. J. Petrol. Geol. 20:96-9, 1997 Contributions to the geology of the Pacific and the Caribbean coastal areas of Northwestern Colombia and South America. Thesis, Princeton University (1991) Neogene stratigraphy, paleoceanography and paleobiogeography in northwest South America and the evolution of the Panama seaway. Palaeogeog. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol. 77(3-4):203-34, 1990 The Chocó Block in the northwestern corner of South America. Structural, tectonostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications. J. South Amer. Earth Sciences 3:71-84, 1990 Estratigrafia, paleoceanografia y paleobiogeografia de la Cuenca del Atrato y la evolución del istmo de Panamá. Bol. Geol. Inst. Nac. Inest. Geol. Mineras 31(1):3-46, 1990 El arco de Dabeiba: nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento del noroccidente de la Cordillera Occidental. Ingeominas (1989) Cenozoic paleogeography in Nothwestern South America: major drainage pattern implications. Amer. Soc. Ichth. Herpet. 69 (1989) Estilo structural, diapirismo y episodios de acrecimiento del terreno Sinu-San Jacinto en el Noroccidente de Colombia. Bol. Geol. 27(2), 1984 Geotectonica y evolución de la región noroccidental colombiana. Bol. Geol. Ingeominas 23:4-37, 1980 Major structural elements and evolution of Northwestern Colombia. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 29:329-51, 1978 Los foraminíferos planctónicos y el terciário de Colombia. Rev. Espan. Micropaleont. 7(3):403-27, 1975 Ciclos tectônicos y sedimentários em el norte de Colombia y sus relaciones com la paleo-ecologia. Bol. Geol. Ingeominas 19(3):1-23, 1972 Observaciones generales a la bioestratigrafia y geologia regional en los departamentos de Bolivar y Cordoba. Bol. Geol. Univ. Ind. 24:71-87, 1968 HONORS Duquepsammia Seiglie & Baker 1987 (Fossil Foraminifera)
Hector Dal Lago
Hector Dal Lago, Argentine orthopedist and traumatologist (Santa Rosa del Conlara, San Luis Province 16 May 1912 – 08 November 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS Described the sign of anterior shaft release in knee pneumoarthroradiography With E. H. Lagomarsino. El signo del desprendimiento del asta anterior en la neumoartrorradiografia de la rodilla (1942) Described the syndrome of popliteal buttonhole With E. H. Lagomarsino. Diferencias anatomoclinicas de los meniscos (1946) Developed a surgical technique for relapsing luxation of shoulder Resection of the external meniscus of the knee; personal technic. Sem. Med. 111(Suppl.17):577-8, 1957 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratamiento del pie plano transverso y del hallux valgus con metatarso varo Reconstrucción plástica del tendón de Aquiles com la aponeurosis de los gemelos Mecanismo de fractura del escafoides carpiano Afecciones traumáticas de los meniscos de la rodilla With E.H. Lagomarsino. Neumoartrorradiografia en la rodilla normal y patológica (1941) With E.H. Lagomarsino. Experimental study of rotary luxation of the atlas: application to actual knowledge (1941) With E.H. Lagomarsino. Decorticamiento del condillo humeral externo. Rev. Ortop. Traumatol. 9:138-48, 1939