Salomão Azar Chaib
Salomão Azar Chaib, Brazilian surgeon (Teresina 25 September 1918 – São Paulo 26 November 1993) From Syrian ancestry Authored about 45 works Created Chaib technique or azigo portal disconnection With S.L. Souza Lessa, I. Cecconello, V.N. Felix & E. Chaib. A new procedure for treatment of bleeding esophageal varices by transgastric azigo portal disconnection. Int. Surg. 68: 353, 1983 A modification of Heller operation Tratamento cirúrgico do megaesôfago, uma nova modificação da operação de Heller. Ver. Col. Bras. Cir. 10:169-73, 1983
Romualdo Cuervo
José Romualdo Cuervo Rubiano, Colombian explorer, naturalist and geographer (Guachetá, Cundinamarca 1801 – Lenguazaque, Cundinamarca Department 02 August 1861) Performed studies on geography and prehistory Owner of a botanical garden and collections of curious and rare objects HONORS Cuervea Triana ex Miers 1872 (Celastraceae)
Rodolfo Casamiquela
Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela Gerhold, Argentine paleontologist, anthropologist and archeologist (Ingeniero Jacobacci, Rio Negro Province 11 December 1932- Cipolletti, Rio Negro Province 05 December 2008) Authored over 400 publications and 24 books DESCRIBED Fossil Reptilia Family Pisanosauridae 1967 Genera Aetosauroides 1960 Argentinosuchus 1960 Chilenosuchus 1980 Herbstosaurus 1975 Neorotodactylus 1980 Pisanosaurus 1967 Protolacerta 1975 Fossil Amphibia Genera Gigantobatrachus 1959 Shelania 1960 Wawelia 1963 Ichnofossil Genera Ichnhippus 1975 with Díaz Ingerierichnus 1964 Megatherichnum 1974 HONORS Family Casamiquelidae Bonaparte 2002 (Fossil Mammalia) Genus Casamiquelichnus Coria & Carbajal 2004 (Ichnofossil) Genus Casamiquelia Bonaparte 1990 (Fossil Mammalia)
Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia
Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, Uruguayan obstetrical physiologist (Montevideo 26 September 1921 – 02 December 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS With Hermógenes Alvarez First obtained records of intrauterine amniotic pressure during childbirth defining intensity, contraction rate, inner tonus and uterine activity (1947) . These were the first records of human uterus activity during labor Established the descending triple gradient law (1949) Developed Montevideo unit of uterine performance (1949) First recorded intramiometrial pressure in distinct parts of uterus during childbirth establishing the source and propagation of wave of uterine contraction (1950) Established two kinds of contraction during pregnancy Established the concept of uterine tonus, its effects and variations Described the pain, emotions and remedies influence on uterine conductivity Independent from Edward Hon described main changes of fetal cardiac rate produced via uterine contractions which became later the basis of fetal monitoring (1958) Eponym of Alvarez-Caldeyro Barcia microballoon Described criteria to predict the progress of labor during delivery Showed an original method used to diagnose early fetal asphyxia during labor (1958) Developed methods for recording contractions of pregnant human uterus and fetal cardiac rate Described the first continuous cardiotachogram (1958) With colleagues developed sub partu tocolysis, the first medicamentous tocolysis (1969) Proposed first uterine inhibitory treatment in the world Developed the first devices for recording uterine contractility and fetal heart rate First to record amniotic fluid, intraplacental blood and intramiometrial pressures Eponym of Caldeyro Barcia classification for decelerations (1965) HONORS President, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (1976-9) Houssay Prize, Organization of American States (1976) Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1994 & 1995) Asteroid Caldeyro 9478
Robert Harold Compton
Robert Harold Compton, English-born South African botanist (Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England 06 August 1886 – Cape Town 11 July 1979) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genera Alatoseta 1931 (Asteraceae) Arachnocalyx 1935 (Ericaceae) Austrotaxus 1922 (Taxaceae) Cromidon 1931 (Selaginaceae) Dymondia 1953 (Asteraceae) Eremiella 1953 (Ericaceae) Globulariopsis 1931 (Scrophulariaceae) Silicularia 1953 (Brassicaceae) Urgineopsis 1930 (Liliaceae) Species 188 new HONORS Comptonella Baker f. 1921 (Rutaceae)
Richard Austin Cooper
Richard Austin Cooper, South African chemist (1889 – 31 March 1972) Described mineral modderite (1924) Developed the chlorine process for extraction of platinum metals (1929) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.W. Watson. The development of the chlorine process of extraction of platinum metals from ores (1929) A new platinum mineral in the Rustenburg norites. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 28:281-3, 1928 Platinum specimens from Onverwacht mine. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 26:228-30, 1926 Modderit. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:265, 1924 Mineral constituents of Rand conglomerates. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:90-3, 1924 Mineral constituents of the Rand banket. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 23:90-5, 1923 With W.F. Watson. The acidity of mine waters. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 22, 1921 Notes on the use of potassium permanganate as cyanide in sand-filling solutions (1914) On determination of platinum metals in ores and concentrates On manufacture of pig iron in Natal Notes on manipulation of osmiridium concentrate HONORS Cooperite Wartenweiller 1928 (Mineral)