Guillermo Delgado Palacios
Guillermo Delgado Palacios, Venezuelan pharmacist (Caracas 1866 – Caracas 18 April 1931) Proposed a new extract and derivatives of chaulmoogra oil for leprosy Terapia etil-chaulmoogrica de la lepra. Rev. Diplom. Colombia 34 (1932) Relation of pulmonary infections to the calcium metabolism. Suggestions for a new method of treatment. Med. Rec. 99:475-8, 1921 Explained the mechanism and acting of intestinal bacterial flora and described fecal carcoma Chimie Pathologie Tropicale dans la Région Atlantique (1914) Developed a method for detecting water in milk by melting point Proposed the bioracemic theory for explaining the origin of life (1905) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al estudio del café en Venezuela (1895) Bioquimica de la digestión y la asimilación (1903) Estrutura molecular y efectos fisiológicos (1904) Reactions urologiques empiriques (1907) Mecanismo biológico de la hemoglobinúria (1907) Asimilación del hierro y clorosia (1909) Extraphysiological or putrefactive urea (1915) The retrograde circulation of calcium ion on the human body
Giovanni Dalma
Giovanni Dalma, Jewish Italian-born Argentine psychiatrist and sociologist (Fiume 18 June 1895 – Tucumán 21 October 1977) Discovered new reflexes in sacrogluteal region between them a group that could be used to determinate disc herniation Discovered nasofacial reflex Performed important studies about cerebrospinal fluid pressure along epileptic seizure Developed a new method for storage blood and use it in progressive paralysis therapeutics Developed a technique for vital staining of nervous tissue named electrogalvanic chromophoresis Proposed the theory of dispsychobiosis (1948)
Gilberto Barbosa Domont
Gilberto Barbosa Domont, Brazilian biochemist (Rio de Janeiro 11 November 1934 – With A.N. Monteiro, S.A. Vinhas, R. Borojevic, P.A. Mourão et al. Establishment of a continuous cell line from fibrotic schistosomal granulomas in mice livers. In vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 21(7):382-90, 1985 With F.C.S. Nogueira, G. Palmisano, M.R. Larsen, F.A.P. Campos & P. Roepstorff. N-and O-linked glycoproteins in plants: alternative route for plastidial proteins destination (2012) With C.D. T. Freitas, F.C. S. Nogueira, I.M. Vasconcelos, J.T. A. Oliveira & M.R. Viana. Osmotin purified from the latex of Calotropis procera: biochemical characterization, biological activity and role in plant defense. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 49:738-43, 2011 (first osmotin purified from latex) With V. Guimarães, M.H. Silva & J.C. Perrone. Analytical and preparative fractionation of snake venoms. Isolation of crotamine a neurotoxin from Crotalus durissus terrificus venom. An. Acad. Bras. Cien 43(3/4):587-98, 1971 DEVELOPED METHODS With A.R.F. Silva, D.B. Lima, A. Leyva, R. Duran, C. Batthyany, P.F. Aquino, J.C. Leal, et al. DiagnoProt: a tool for discovery of new molecules by mass spectrometry. Bioinformatics 33:1883-5, 2017 With Y. Perez-Riverol, A. Sanchez, J. Noda, D. Borges, P.C. Carvalho, R. Wang et al. HI-bone: a scoring system for identifying phenylisothiocyanate-derivatized peptides based on precursor mass and high intensity fragment ions. Anal. Chem. 85 (2013) With P.C. Costa, D. Cociorva, M.G.C. Carvalho, V.C. Barbosa & J.R. Yates Jr. A strategy to automatically infer precursor charge states of electron transfer dissociation tandem mass spectra (2009) With P.C. Carvalho, J.S.G. Fischer, E.I. Chen, M.G.C. Carvalho,Degrave, W., J.R. Yates & V.C. Barbosa. GO Explorer: A gene-ontology tool to aid in the interpretation of shotgun proteomics data. Proteome Science 7:1-11, 2009 With J.S.G. Fischer, L. Liau, P.C. Carvalho, V.C. Barbosa, M.G. C. Carvalho & J.R. Yates. A novel dynamic proteomic strategy to analyze the effects of perillyl alcohol on glyoblastoma cells (A172) 2009 With P. Carvalho, M. Junqueira & R. Valente. Caititu: a tool to graphically represent peptide sequence coverage and domain distribution. J. Proteom. 71:486-9, 2008 With P.C. Carvalho, J.S.G. Fischer, M.G. C. Carvalho, J. Hewel & J.R. Yates. A novel strategy for differential proteomics by spectral counting and statistical learning (2007) With S.A. Chermont, S.L.G. Rocha, P.B. Jurgilas, A.G.C.N. Ferreira & J. Perales. New methodology for the isolation of an antimyotoxic protein from opossum serum and a relative protein from human plasma (2002) With H. Moussatché, J. Perales, A.G. Neves Ferreira et al. New methodology for the obtainment of antibothropic factors from South American opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) and jararaca snake (Bothrops jararaca). Toxicon 37(10):1417-29, 1999 With A. Iachan, J.C. Perrone, L.V. Disitzer, V.R.O. Castro, R. Roitman & S.M. Gomes. Contribuição ao estudo da torta de mamona (1966) With A. Iachan, L.V. Disitzer & J.C. Perrone. Fractionation of trypsin by paper electrophoresis. Nature 203(4090):43-5, 1964 PATENTS With P.C. Carvalho, W.M.S. Degrave, M.G.C. Carvalho, R. Fonseca Neto, S. Lilla. A method for identifying protein patterns in mass spectrometry WO2007041826 A2 (2006) With W.M.S. Degrave, P.C. Carvalho, M.G.C. Carvalho, R. Fonseca Neto & S. Lilla. Método de diagnóstico baseado em padrões proteômicos e/ou genômicos por vetores de suporte aplicados a espectrometria de massa PI0506117-2 A2 (2005) With P.B. Jurgilas, J. de Meis, R.H. Valente, A.G.C.N. Ferreira, D.A.M. Cruz, D.A.F. de Oliveira, W. Savino & J. E. Perales Aguiar. Use of dm43 and its fragments as matrix metalloproteinases inhibitor PI0400284-9 A2 (2004) & WO2005087252A1 HONORS Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who (1991-2)
Garibaldi José Devincenzi
Garibaldi José Devincenzi Alciaturi, Uruguayan zoologist (Maldonado 20 December 1882 – Montevideo 17 September 1943) Authored over 45 papers DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Hypostomus luteomaculatus 1942 Mullus americanus 1933 Paraloricaria commersonoides 1943 Scleronema angustirostre 1942 Trachelyopteris teaguei 1942 HONORS Devincenzia Kraglievich 1932 (Fossil Aves)
Friedrich Moritz Draenert
Friedrich Moritz Draenert, German-born Brazilian agronomist (Weimar 03 December 1838 – Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 09 September 1903) First in the world showed bacterium as causative agent of plant diseases identifying Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vasculorum as etiologic agent of sugar cane gummosis before T.J. Burrill Berichte über die Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 1:13-17, 1869 Weitere notizen über Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 1:212, 1869 Proposed a set of rules for weather forecast in O Clima do Brazil (1896)
Francisco Díaz Covarrubías
Francisco Díaz Covarrubías, Mexican astronomer and geographer (Jalapa, Veracruz State 21 January 1833 – Paris, France 19 May 1889) ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed Mexican method for latitudinal determination at any geographical location in Earth (1855) Proposed new astronomical methods for determination of geographical time, azimuth, latitude and longitude Nuevos metodos astronomicos para determiner la hora, el azimuth, la latitude y la longitude geograficas (1867) Predicted Solar eclipse that occurred at March 25, 1857 Introduced the use of chiaroscuro in topographic drawing SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Determinación de la posicion geografica de Mexico (1859) With R. Almaraz. Carta hidrográfica del Valle de Mexico (1862) Viaje de la comision astronomica Mexicana al Japón para observar El transito Del planeta Venus por el disco del Sol el 8 de diciembre de 1874 (1876) Recherches relatives a l’influence de la chaleur solaire sur la figure generale de la terre (1881)