Enrique Del Solar
Enrique Manuel Del Solar Caceda, Peruvian fisheries biologist (Ica 05 November 1911 – Miami, United States 1990) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Ensayo sobre la ecologia de la anchoveta. Bol.Comp. Adm. Guano 18:3-23, 1942 With F. Blancas S. & R. Mayta L. Catalogo de crustáceos del Peru, 1970 Crustaceos braquiuros (cangrejos), anomuros y estomatopodos em las zonas nerito-pelágicas y litoral de Tumbes. Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lima 89:40-48, 1970 Addenda al catalogo de crustáceos del Perú. Inf. Inst. Mar. Peru 38:1-21, 1972 La merluza (Merluccius gayi Guichenot) como indicador de la riqueza biotica de la plataforma continental del norte del Peru. Publ. Soc. Nac. Pesqu. HONORS Delsolaria Garth 1973 (Crustacea)
Enrique Benjamín del Castillo
Enrique Benjamín del Castillo Mallea, Argentine clinical endocrinologist (Mendoza 14 December 1897 – Buenos Aires 30 June 1969) Authored over 200 papers and 7 books Described Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome Sobre un caso de galactorrea y amenorrea. Bol. Soc. Obst. Ginecol. Buenos Aires 11:64-72, 1932 With A. Lanari. Sindrome caracterizado por crecimiento exagerado, amenorrea y galactorrea. Semana Medica 1:1905, 1933 Described Del Castillo-Trabucco-Balze syndrome With Armando E. Trabucco & F.A. de la Balze. Syndrome produced by absence of germinal epithelium without impairment of Sertoli or Leydig cells. J. Clin. Endocrinol. 7:493-502, 1947 Observed that sex cycle could be seen in urinary sediment what gave rise to urocytogram Found the changes observed in smears of the urinary sediment closely parallel those seen in vaginal smears With J. Argonz & C. Galli-Mainini. Cytological cycle of the urinary sediment and its parallelism with the vaginal cycle. J. Clin. Endocrin. 8:76, 1948 With j. Argonz & C. Galli-Mainini. Smear from the female urethra and their relationship to smears of the urinary sediment. J. Clin. Endocrin. 8:1362, 1949 Demonstrated that daily injections of estrogens during a period of several months to female castrated rats produced the periodic appearance of vaginal estrus separated by diestrus lasting several days With C. Calatroni. Cycle sexuel periodique et folliculine. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 104:1024, 1930 With G. di Paola confirmed the induced vaginal cycle by estrogens in the woman (1941) Described hypertrophies of sub-maxillary glands in distinct endocrine states
Elias Dolianiti
Elias Dolianiti, Brazilian paleobotanist (Rio de Janeiro 26 January 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 30 July 1985) From Greek ancestry Authored over 30 works World-renowned on Gondwanic flora DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Kegelidium 1954 Paulophyton 1954 Palaeostigma 1957 with Krausel Polysolenoxylon 1958 with Krausel Prototaxoxylon 1958 with Krausel Solenopitys 1958 with Krausel Stephanophyllites 1977 with Millan Species/Varieties Archaeosigillaria picosensis 1957 Chondrodendron brasiliense 1949 Dadoxylon manieroi 1958 with Krausel Diplothmemma gothanica 1954 Gangamopteris buriadica var. acrodeltoidis 1954 Gangamopteris mosesii 1954 Jurinodendron brasiliense 1963 Kegelidium lamegoi 1954 Luehea roxoi 1949 Lycopodites amazonica 1967 Nipa pernambucensis 1955 Ottokaria sancta-catharinae Palaeostigma sewardii 1957 with Krausel Parataxopitys americana 1950 with Milanez Paulophyton sommeri 1954 Protolepidodendron kegeli 1957 with Krausel Prototaxoxylon brasilianum 1958 with Krausel Rhabdotaenia criciumensis 1953 Rubidgea itapemensis 1982 with Millan Rubidgea lanceolata var. truncata 1982 with Millan Solenopitys paulistana 1958 with Krausel Stephanophyllites sanpaulensis 1980 with Millan Taxopitys alves-pintoi 1958 with Krausel Triphyllopteris alvaro-albertoi 1954 HONORS Dolianitia Millan 1967 (Fossil Plants)
Eladio Dieste
Eladio Dieste Saint Martin, Uruguayan structural engineer and architect (Artigas 10 December 1917 – Montevideo 19 July 2000) Created and developed structural ceramics or reinforced brick Invented two kinds of vault: self-carrying vaults and Gaussian vaults Developed techniques to achieve resistant structures such as pre-stressing of brickwork and moveable formworks Designed and built special machines and devices for construction Developed special details and calculation techniques Enunciated a theorem that relates moments integral along the directrix of vault to moment in each point in Un Nuevo teorema sobre estructuras laminares.
Efrén C. del Pozo
Efrén Carlos del Pozo Rangel, Mexican physiologist and pharmacologist (San Luis, Potosí 11 September 1907 – Ciudad de Mexico 14 May 1979) Authored over 50 papers Discovered that newborn animals don’t display reflex palsy immediately after spinal cord lesions With C. Guzmán, A. Fernandez & J. Negrete. El choque espinal en gatos jóvenes. Bol. Inst. Estud. Med. Biol. Mex. 12(7):169-72, 1954 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pharmacology of venoms of Mexican Centruroides. Rev. Invest. Salud Publica 28(1):51-66, 1968 & Mem. Inst. Butantan 33(2):615-25, 1966 With M. Salas & P. Pacheco. Effects of scorpion venom at neuromuscular junction. Rev. Invest. 33(3):961-4, 1966 Los effectos paralizantes de la “tullidora”, estudios clinicos y experimentales. Gac. Med. Mex. 95(2):179-82, 1965 La botânica medicinal indígena de Mexico. Estudios Cult. Nahuatl. 5:57-73, 1965 With C. Guzmán & F. del Pozo. Jump reflex in the hypothalamic cat. J. Neurophysiol. 16(4):376-80, 1953 With J. Negrete. Effect of adrenalectomy on the contraction of skeletal muscle. Rev. Inst. Salub. Enferm. Trop. 13(2):163-8, 1953 With J. Negrete, J. Ibarra & M. Fernandez. Effects of cortisone on striated muscle contraction. Amer. J. Physiol. 171(2):354-8, 1952 With A. Gonzalez Ochoa. Two cases of prevention and treatment of lepra reaction by cortisone. J. Invest. Dermat. 18:423-4, 1952 With E.G. Pardo & D. García-Tellez. The action of several principles and extracts of the digitalis group on ischemic skeletal muscle. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 101:63-7, 1951 With E.G. Pardo. Ischemic striated muscle as an indicator of the activity of a cardiac glycoside. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 97(2):144-9, 1949 With E.G. Pardo & G. Anguiano. Influence of striated muscle activity on the lethal dose of k-strophanthoside. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 96(1):86-94, 1949 The action of the venom of a Mexican scorpion (Centruroides noxius Hoffmann) on cholinesterases. Brit. J. Pharmac. Chemistry 3(3):219-22, 1948 With L.C. Anguiano. Acciones del veneno de alacrán sobre la atividade motora del musculo estriado. Rev. Inst. Salubridad Enf. Tropicales 8(4):231-63, 1947 With E. Pardo & J. Derbez. Cihuapahtli, an activator of uterine motility (Montanoa tomentosa). Fed. Proc. 5(1-2):79, 1946 Inhibitory responses of pregnant cat’s uterus to epinephrine and hypogastric stimulation. (1946) With L.C. Anguiano. Physiological actions of scorpion venom (1946) Estudios farmacologicos de algunas plantas usadas en la medicina azteca. Boletín Indigenista (1946) With J. Gonzalez & T.H. Mendez. Acciones del veneno de alacrán sobre el aparato respiratorio. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. Mex. 6:77-84, 1945 With A. Rosenblueth. The changes of impedance of the turtle’s ventricular muscle during contraction. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:514-9, 1943 With A.A.P. Leão. The effects of hyperventilation and of blood-pressure changes on the self-sustained responses of the cerebral cortex. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:335-42, 1943 With A. Rosenblueth. The centrifugal course of Wallerian degeneration. Amer. J. Physiol. 139:247-54, 1943 With A. Rosenblueth. The electric responses of the tail pilomotors and nictitating membrane of the cat. Amer. J. Physiol. 137:263-79, 1942 With A. Rosenblueth. Accommodation in mammalian motor nerves. Amer. J. Physiol. 136:629-46, 1942 Transmission fatigue and contraction fatigue. Amer. J. Physiol. 135:763-71, 1942 El dinitrofenol 1-2-3-estimulante del metabolismo y su aplicación clinica. Thesis, UNAM (1935) With A. Rosenblueth. The effects of veratrine upon the superior cervical ganglion. Amer. J. Physiol. HONOURS Associate Researcher, National Institute for Medical Research, London A bibliography is available in Boletín Estudios Med. Biol. 31:116-26, 1980
Eduardo De Robertis
Eduardo Diego Patricio De Robertis, Argentine cytologist and microscopist (Buenos Aires 11 December 1913 – Buenos Aires 31 May 1988) Son of Italian immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS With P. Rojas & F.A. Saez discovered that most amphibians have no morphologically distinguishable sex chromosomes (1935) Determinated the release mechanism of spermatozoa from amphibian male testicles Showed that gonadotrophin promotes gonadal maturation in toads acting on Sertolli cells (1942) With Angel Pogo discovered follicular thyrocolloid or colloidal vesicles of thyroid gland Demonstrated the existence of an enzymatic mechanism in production and reabsorption of thyroid hormone (1940s) First demonstrated the existence of a thyroid protease With R. Grasso demonstrated peroxidases in epithelial cells and proposed the benzidine technique for histochemical localization of peroxidase activity (1946) With F.O. Schmit discovered neural tubules or intracellular microtubules (1947) With B. Epstein & M. Reissig described contagious myxomatosis virus of rabbit (1952) With R. Canzani, B. Epstein & G. Gasic described mice transplantable leukemia virus (1955) With Bennett and independently from Palade discovered synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals (1954) and named them With Bennett associated synaptic vesicles to quantal acetylcholine and catecholamine release Demonstrated synthesis and release mechanisms in synaptic vesicles Identified pre- and post synaptic receptors Identified the connective ciliary nature between the outer and inner segments of photoreceptors (1956) With Lasansky first visualized protein-lipid bilayers in retinal photoreceptors and myelin-sheath membranes (1959) First described exocytosis mechanism in adrenal and the ontogenesis of photoreceptors Showed ultrastructure and physiological role of synaptic vesicles (1967) With F. Wald & H. Gerschenfeld discovered the role of glial cells in transmission of neural impulses With Pena, Medina, Novas & Paladini discovered N-butyl-β-carboline-3-carboxylate that binds to cerebral benzodiazepine receptors (1986) Coined term endomembrane system Developed techniques of subcellular fractionation for nervous system studies With G. Rodríguez de Lores & A. Pellegrino de Iraldi developed De Robertis method of differential centrifugation for isolation of synaptic terminals (1962) Assay of thyrotropic hormone in human blood. J. clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 8(11):956-66, 1948 With C.A. Peluffo invented a special chamber to observe the motility of bacteria (1951) With A. Lasansky. Electron microscopy of retinal photoreceptors. The use of chromation following formaldehyde fixation as a complementary technique to osmium tetroxide fixation. J. Biophys. Biochem. Cytol. 7:493-8, 1960 With W. Nowinski & F.A. Sáez authored Citologia General or Cell Biology (1946) with many issues Papers in top journals Absorption of the exocrine cells of the pancreas. Nature 157:264, 1946 With W.W. Nowinski. The mechanism of the therapeutic effect of iodine on the thyroid gland. Science 103 (2675):421, 1946 With E. Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz & A. Pellegrino de Iraldi. Isolation of synaptic vesicles from nerve endings of the rat brain. Nature 194:794-5, 1962 With L. Salganicoff, L.M. Zieher & G. Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz. Acetylcholine and cholinacetylase content of synaptic vesicles. Science 140(3564):300-1, 1963 Ultrastructure and cytochemistry of the synaptic region. The macromolecular components involved in nerve transmission are being studied. Science 156(3777):907-14, 1967 Molecular biology of synaptic receptors. Science 171(3975):963-71, 1971 With his son Eduardo Miguel De Robertis authored Cell and Molecular Biology (1980) and translated into 9 languages Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee