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)
Ricardo Libertario Carezani
Ricardo Libertario Carezani, Argentine physicist (Cordoba 11 April 1921 – From Italian father Created the Autodynamics theory (1940-5) Bases fundamentals para una nueva mecanica relativistica: la autodinamica (1952) Autodynamics: fundamental basis for a new relativistic mechanics (1999) Proposed an universal gravity function (1955) Discovered that special relativity is a subset of autodynamics (1991) LINKS www.dehilster.com/docs/CarezaniFrameReduction.ppt http://www.worldnpa.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_283.pdf
Ren Chang Ching
Ren Chang Ching or Renchang Qin, Chinese botanist (Wujin, Jiangsu Province 15 February 1898 – Beijing 22 July 1986) World authority in pteridophytes DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Ceterachopsis 1940 Craspedosorus 1978 with Chu Cyrtogonellum 1938 Cyrtomidictyum 1940 Cystoathyrium 1966 Dictyodroma 1964 Drynariopsis 1940 Dryoathyrium 1941 Emodiopteris 1978 with Wu Glaphyropteridopsis 1963 Holostachyum 1940 Lastreopsis 1938 Lepidogrammitis 1940 Lepisorus 1933 Lithostegia 1933 Macrothelypteris 1963 Metapolypodium 1978 Metathelypteris 1963 Neolepisorus 1940 Nothoperanema 1966 Parathelypteris 1963 Phanerophlebiopsis 1965 Platygyria 1980 with Wu Polypodiastrum 1978 Polypodiodes 1978 Protowoodsia 1975 Pseudocyclosorus 1963 Pseudophegopteris 1963 Pteridrys 1934 with Christensen Saxiglossum 1933 Sinopteris 1933 with Christensen Tricholepidium 1978 Trichoneuron 1965 HONORS Chingia Holttum 1971 (Pteridophyta)
Remolo Ciola
Remolo Ciola, Italian-born Brazilian industrial chemist (Roncegno, Trento Province, Italy 17 June 1923 – São Paulo 28 July 2010) Specialist in chromatography Published some 150 technical and scientific papers ACHIEVEMENTS Developed new catalyzers and improved chromatographs Designed catalytic processes and analytical instrumentation Proposed a new method for estimating equilibrium constants for reactions Developed a new catalyst for propylene oxidation Developed thermodynamical method for predicting chemical behavior of many substances La prediction des reactions chimiques à l’aide de la thermodynamique. Ind. Eng. Chem. 49(10):1789-92, 1957 Eine quantitative bestimmungsmethode der flüchtigen aldehyde in gasen und dämpfen. Experientia 13:206, 1957 With Cyro Marino. Oxidação de olefinas. II. Novo catalisador para oxidação de propileno. Estudo do perfil de temperatura do reator. Cien. Cult. 21(2):191, 1969 A new derivatization technique for sugar analysis (1987) Uma nova sistemática para análise de gases dissolvidos em óleos isolantes de transformador PATENTS (some 22) With K.H. Dolberhau Brazilian Patent PI 7702 (1978) Dispositivo automático aplicado como alimentador de animais de pequeno porte PI 0201255-3 (2002) HONORS Biography in Chromatography – A Century of Discovery – 1900-2000, authored by C.W. Gehrke, R L. Wixom and E. Bayer, Elsevier, 2002. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Bestimmung von flüchtigen Aldehyden in Gasen und Dämpfen. Fresenius’ Zeitschrift fur Analytische Chemie. 159-60:360, 1957. Predicting chemical reactions by thermodynamics. Journal of Appl. Chem. 8:329, 1958. With H. Djordjevic, G.A. Bourdon & A. Prantera. Kinetics of catalytic hydrolisis of ophthalates. An. Quim. 22:1027, 1971. With Celso R. Blatt. Analysis of vetiver essential oil by supercritical fluid extraction and online capillary gas chromatography. Journal of High Resolution Chromatography. 14(11):775-77, 1991. With R.B. Marino. Supercritical fluid extraction over view of jojoba wax, Pecan and Brazil nut oil. Ciencia e Tecnologia de Alimentos 14(Suppl):178-85, 1994.