Alfredo Duges
Alfred Auguste Delsescautz Dugés, French-born Mexican physician and naturalist (Montpellier 16 April 1826 – Guanajuato 07 January 1910) Son of French obstetrician and naturalist Antoine Louis Dugés DESCRIBED TAXA ACARI Genus Alophus 1885 Amphibia Valid Species Ambystoma altamirani 1895 Ambystoma dumerili 1870 Ambystoma velasci 1888 Calotriton asper 1852 Phrynosoma taurus 1873 Sonora michoacanensis 1884 Reptilia Valid Genus Adelophis 1879 Valid Species Adelophis copei 1879 Bipes tridactylus 1894 Hypsiglena jani 1865 Mesoscincus altamirani 1891 HONORS Dugesia A. Gray 1882 (Asteraceae)
Alfonso Díaz Najera
Alfonso Díaz Najera, Mexican medical entomologist (Balsas, Guerrero State 19 January 1910 – 1992?) With G. Román y Carrillo & L. Vargas. New technics for studying the susceptibility of arthropods to persistent inseticides. I. Tests with four Mexican anopheline species raised in the laboratory, based on the definitive knock-down of the specimens. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 19:19-65, 1959 DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera Dyarella 1946 with Vargas & Martinez Palacios Eubonetia 1953 with Vargas Grenieriella 1951 with Vargas Hearlea 1946 with Vargas & Martínez Palacios Lanea 1946 with Martinez Palacios & Vargas Mallochianella 1948 with Vargas Neosimulium 1946 with Vargas & Martinez Palacios Tlalocomyia 1970 with Wygodzinsky Species 62
Alfonso Davalos
Alfonso Davalos, Ecuadorian-born Venezuelan urologist With O.S. Lowsley & T.J. Kirwin. Urolocide, a new skin antiseptic and disinfectant for instruments. J. Urol. Davalos technique for surgical treatment of penile cancer (1931) Davalos technique of simultaneous bilateral-uretero-intestinal anastomosis (1945) Davalos bilateral ureteral transplantation (transplantation of the ureter into bowel) Davalos technique for total resection of penis and cavernous organisms
Alfonso Dampf
Alfons Alexis Ernst Michael Dampf, German-born Mexican entomologist (Dagö Island, Kerthell Village, Estonia 03 December 1884 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 March 1948) DESCRIBED SIPHONAPTERA TAXA Family Ceratophyllidae 1908 Genera Archaeopsylla 1908 Mesopsylla 1910 Sciuropsylla 1942 Species At least 15 new species Described Palaeopsylla klebsiana, the first fossil flea (1910) Others At least 10 new species of Diptera and a new species of Acari HONORS Genera Dampfia Smit 1954 (Siphonaptera) Dampfiella Sellnick 1931 (Acari) Dampfaria Verhoeff 1932 (Myriapoda) Dampfius Pacheco 1964 (Coleoptera) Dampfiana DeLong & Hershberger 1948 & Alfonsiella Waterston 1920 (Hemiptera) Subgenera Dampfomyia Adis 1945 (Diptera) Dampfitrichia Mosely 1937 (Trichoptera)
Alex Du Toit
James Alexander Logie Du Toit, South African hydro-geologist and paleobotanist (Newlands, Rondebosch, near Cape Town 14 March 1878 – Pinelands, Cape Town 25 February 1948) Authored 86 works Most known as main supporter of Wegenerian continental drift theory in the early 1900s DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Eretmonia 1932 Moltenia 1927 Species Dicroidiopsis incisa Eretmonia natalensis Glossopteris longicaulis Lepidopteris africana Moltenia dentata Nilssonia brownii Pseudoctenis capensis Pseudoctenis fissa Pseudoctenis lanciformis Pseudoctenis spatulata HONORS Du Toit crater (on Mars) Genus Dutoitia Hoeg 1930 (Fossil Plantae) Genus Alexia Anderson & Anderson 2003 (Fossil Plantae) Genus Dutoitella Dingle 1981 (Ostracoda)
Alejandro Dalma Kende
Alejandro Dalma Kende, Jewish Mexican ophthalmologist (Ciudad de Mexico 06 January 1934 – From Hungarian parentage DEVELOPED METHODS With J. Dalma Weiszhausz & V. Franco Cardenas. Subretinal perfluorocarbon liquid for dissection of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. J. Ophthalm. Vis. Res. 7(4):350-4, 2012 With J. Dalma Weiszhausz & V. Franco Cardenas. A modified technique for extracting a dislocated lens with perfluorocarbon liquids and viscoelastics. Ophthalmic Surg. Lasers Imaging 41(5):572-4, 2010 With L. Sanchez Bulnes. Surgical treatment of retinal detachment. New developments in the technique of radial sclera resections. Am. J. Ophthalm. 61(5 Pt.2):1038-44, 1966 HONOURS Honor Award & Distinguished Service Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology