Woon Young Chun
Woon Young Chun or Huanyong Chen, Chinese botanist (Hong Kong 22 July 1890 – 18 January 1971) From Cuban mother DESCRIBED VALID GENERA/SUBGENERA Cathaya 1962 with Kuang (Pinaceae) Cathayanthe 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Malania 1980 with Lee (Olacaceae) Merrillanthus 1941 with Tsiang (Asclepiadaceae) Peiantha 1982 with Chen (Lamiaceae) Raphiocarpus 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Tengia 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Zenia 1946 (Fabaceae) Species 478 new species HONORS Chunia Chang 1948 (Hamamelidaceae) Chuniophoenix Burret 1937 (Arecaceae)
Wlandemir de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
Wlandemir de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian mycologist and lichenologist (fl.1961) DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Fungi Acanthorus 1967 Amerodiscosiellina 1966 with Batista Batistamnus 1967 with Bezerra Bullaserpens 1965 with Batista e Bezerra Byrsomyces 1972 Ceramoclasteropsis 1962 with Batista Chaetantromycopsis 1986 with Silva e Upadhyay Characonidia 1965 with Batista Clasteropycnis 1963 with Batista Dictyophrynella 1964 with Batista Elachopeltella 1966 with Batista Elattopycnis 1963 with Batista Haplopeltheca 1963 with Batista & Bezerra Johncouchia 1983 with Hughes Mycerema 1963 with Batista & Bezerra Orthobellus 1973 with Silva Pycnodactylus 1967 with Batista & Silva Pyripnomyces 1972 Scoliotidium 1963 with Batista Scothelius 1965 with Batista & Bezerra Stomiopeltopsis 1963 with Batista Symphysos 1967 with Batista Ventrographium 1986 with Upadhyay & Silva Lichenes Lagenomyces 1972 with Silva Phaeoantenariella 1969
William Gerson Rolim de Camargo
William Gerson Rolim de Camargo, Brazilian mineralogist and crystallographer (São Paulo 25 February 1920 – São Paulo 1987) Introduced variations on a number of analytical methods With J.B. Madureira Filho. New diagrams for physical determination of garnets. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 48:57-8, 1976 With I.M. Souza. A new crystal habit of tourmaline. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 42:219-2, 1970 With J.B. Madureira & W.H. Kerth. A mathematical approach for determination of molecular composition of transparent spinels With C.R. Leite & I.M. Souza. Determinação precisa dos parâmetros unitários na câmara de precessão. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1969) With J.P. Algarte. Nova tabela para a determinação dos minerais de solos por difração de raios X. Cien. Cult. 20(2):162-3, 1968 With C.R. Leite. Nova técnica para a determinação do retículo recíproco na câmara de precessão. Cien. Cul. 19:254, 1967 With A.G. Inglez. Determination of unit cell dimensions by a graphic analytical method. Ann. Meet. Am. Cryst. Assoc. (1967) With A.G. Inglez. Método gráfico-analítico para a determinação dos parâmetros da cela unitária (1966) With D. Svisero. Uma nova câmara de pó para difração de raios X. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 40:71-5, 1966 Variante do método de imersão para a medida dos índices de refração (1964) A modification of the Buerger powder camera. Exhibit of non-commercial apparatus (1963) Aplicações da trigonometria esférica em problema da simetria cristalográfica. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Universidade de São Paulo Mineralogia 13:97-105, 1955 Determinação de índices de zona no sistema hexagonal. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Universidade de São Paulo 163 Mineralogia 12:19-23, 1954 (described a general graphical solution of zone index determination in the hexagonal system)
William Callia
William Ermete Primo Callia, Brazilian plastic surgeon (1927 – São Paulo 01 June 2003) Developed abdominal lipectomy or lipoabdominoplasty or Callia operation Contribuição para o estudo da correção em cirurgia do abdomen em pêndulo e globoso: técnica original. Thesis (1965) New technique for breast reconstruction in unilateral amastia (1960) Uma plástica para a cirurgia geral. Med. Hosp. 1:40, 1967 Nova técnica de reconstrução de rebordo de asa de nariz (Nota prévia) 1959 Nova técnica de postectomia Nova técnica de mamoplastia
William Bartlett Calvert
William Bartlett Calvert, Irish-born Chilean entomologist (Lurgan, Armagh County, Ulster Province 18 October 1856 – ?) DESCRIBED NEW LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genus Neorumia 1893 Species Agriocoma araucana 1893 Argentulia montana 1893 Argopteron puelmae 1888 Aloba cinereus 1895 Catocalopsis medinae 1891 Cherchiella andina 1894 Chloroclydon graphica 1890 Hyponomeuta rutila 1893 Incalvertia valdiviana 1893 Macaria alba 1893 Microclysia paulseni 1893 Microclysia philippii 1891 Neorumia gigantea 1893 Neorumia lutea 1893 Oporabia arenosa 1893 Perusia gracilis 1893 Pseudaleucis oyarzuni 1893 Pseudolucia andina 1893 Pucaraia izquierdoi 1893 Siona alba 1893 Stamnodes triangularia 1891 Synaxis strigata 1893 Tetracis ianthinus 1893 Triptiloides esmeralda 1893 HONORS Incalvertia Rindge 1986 (Lepidoptera) Calvertius Sharp 1891 (Coleoptera)
Wenxin Chen
Wenxin Chen, Chinese soil microbiologist (Liuyang County, Hunan Province 23 September 1926 – Beijing 07 October 2021) Authored over 80 papers ESTABLISHED The world’s largest rhizobia resource bank and database One of the two most important rhizobia classification laboratories in the world A set of scientific classification and identification of rhizobia technical methods and data processing procedures DISCOVERIES Proved the diversity of the symbiosis relationship between rhizobia and legumes (one plant can coexist with a variety of rhizobia) Revealed the biogeographical characteristics of rhizobia and related genomic differences Revealed the difference in the effectiveness of symbiosis between close-source strains and different plant varieties (required to screen strains for crop varieties) Discovered that rhizobia adapts to symbiotic interactions and other environmental conditions with genes unique to system branches With C.F. Tian, Y.J. Zhou, Y.M. Zhang, Q.Q. Li, Y.Z. Zhang, D.F. Li, S. Wang et al. Comparative genome of rhizobia nodulating soybean suggests extensive recruitment of lineage-specific genes in adaptations. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109(22):8629-34, 2012 Found that mixed planting between gramineous plants and legumes both interacting each other to achieve high yield, overcoming the nitrogen inhibition or barrier DESCRIBED BACTERIA TAXA Genera Mesorhizobium 2005 with Jarvis, Van Berkum, Nour, Fernandez, Cleyet-Marel & Gillis Nakamurella 2004 with Tao, Yue, Chen et al. Species About 70 HONORS Invited to write the rhizobia part of the Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (1998) Genus Wenxinia Ying, Wang, Dai, Yang, Liu & Liu 2007 (Bacteria)