Mukunda Murari Chakravarty
Mukunda Murari Chakravarty, Indian protozoologist (Mymensingh, today Bangladesh 04 October 1904 – Calcutta 28 June 1976) DESCRIBED TAXA Suborder Aseptatorina Superfamilies Porosporicae 1960 Gregarinicae 1960 Family Sphaerocystidae 1960 Genera Hyalosporina 1935 Mesnilium 1972 with Misra & Haldar Monoductus 1933 with Ray Quadruspinospora Sarkar 1969 HONORS (Protozoa) Chakravartiella Misra & Raychaudhury 1973 Mukundaella Sarkar 1981
Mischa Cotlar
Mischa Cotlar, Ukrainian-born Argentine mathematician (Sarny, Rivne Oblast Province 01 August 1913 – Buenos Aires 16 January 2007) His father, Ovsey Cotlar (1879-1952) is rembered in Lasker-Cotlar variant (chess) ACHIEVEMENTS Enunciated the transfer principle in modern ergodic theory and ergodic Hilbert transform (1955) Introduced the notion of quasi-orthogonality Introduced quasi-orthogonal lemma for self-adjoint operators known as Cotlar-Stein lemma (1955) With C. Sadosky introduced the concept of generalized Toeplitz kernels (1979) and the notion of algebraic scattering systems (1987) Introduced the notion of “total” EPONYMY Cotlar theorem Cotlar-Sadosky lifting theorem (1979) Cotlar-Sadosky extension theorem Cotlar-Sadosky algebraic scattering systems Cotlar inequalities Toeplitz-Krein-Cotlar triplets Cotlar decomposition LINKS http://www.emis.de/journals/BAMV/conten/vol1/vol1N1p75-83.pdf (in Spanish; contains bibliography)
Minchen Chow
Minchen Chow or Ming-zhen Zhou, Chinese paleontologist (Shanghai 09 November 1918 – 04 January 1996) Authored over 100 scientific papers and 5 monographs DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA GENERA Mammalia Altilambda 1978 with Wang Bahomys 1965 with Li Bemalambda 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting 1973 Chailicyon 1975 Chungchienia 1963 Convallisodon 1978 with Qi Dissacusium 1977 with Zhang, Wang & Ding Eoentelodon 1958 Honanodon 1965 Hukoutherium 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Ilianodon 1961 with Xu Juxia 1964 with Chiu Klamelia 1984 with Rich Kuanchuanius 1963 Lambdopsalis 1978 with Qi Lantianius 1964 Liaotherium 1991 with Chen & Wang Linnania 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Lofochaius 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Lophoodon 1973 with Li & Chang Lunania 1957 Lushiamynodon 1965 with Xu Lushius 1961 Metacoryphodon 1982 with Qi Palasiodon 1977 with Zhang, Wang & Ting Paratriisodon 1959 Pastoralodon 1978 with Qi Plagiocristodon 1978 with Qi Prosarcodon 1984 with McKenna & Xue Radinskya 1989 with McKenna, Ting & Luo Rulengchia 1983 with Zhang Shuotherium 1982 with Rich Urtinotherium 1963 with Chiu Youngofiber 1978 with Li Yuodon 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Reptilia Chengyuchelys 1953 with Young Dianotitan 1974 with Chang & Ting Hsisosuchus 1953 with Young Isometremys 1962 with Yeh Lufengia 1959 with Hsu Paoteodon 1960 with Sun Sinaspideretes 1953 with Young Tienfuchelys 1953 with Young Pisces (with Chang) Chetungichthys 1974 Fuchunkiangia 1974 Huashia 1974 Neolepidotes 1977 Paralycoptera 1974 Pingolepis 1974 Yungkangichthys 1974 HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Minchenella Zhang 1980 Mozomys Li, Setoguchi, Wang, Hu e Chang 2005
Miguel Rolando Covian
Miguel Rolando Covián Bello, Argentine-born Brazilian neurophysiologist (Rufino, Santa Fé Province 07 September 1913 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 05 February 1992) Known internationally for his studies on the limbic system physiology One of the discoverers of the endocrine system control by several suprahypothalamic brain structures Obtained the first results indicating the importance of neural control of saline ingestion Established the importance of limbic area for brain circuitry that controls the sodium appetite and hydro-mineral balance (1975)
Miguel Couto
Miguel de Oliveira Couto, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 01 May 1865 – Rio de Janeiro 06 June 1934) ACHIEVEMENTS Created the notion of hematogenous jaundice As icterícias originadas no sangue in Lições de Clinica Medica vol 2 (1923) Described fatty degeneration of visceral organs or Couto’s disease Da Polysteatose visceral curavel. Arch. Bras. Med. 4:475-83, 1914. La polystéatose viscérale chronique. Ann. Med. Paris 22:449-59, 1927 Described Miguel Couto circular murmur, a murmur with circular propagation in serious mitral insufficiency Les bruits des souffle circulaires de l’insuffisance mitrale. arch. Malad. du Coeur, des Vaisseaux et du Sang, 5:717, 1912. Miguel Couto sign (ascitis) Sobre uma syndrome de hypertensão gástrica. Brasil Médico (1917) Miguel Couto sign or cervical paresthesia in aerophagics O síndromo cervical (parestesia coli) dos aerófagos Miguel Couto sign or ear murmur O sopro no ouvido (acufonia) dos aerófagos – aeroapêndice Proposed the diagnosis of yellow fever by spectroscopic urine test Diagnóstico precoce da febre amarela pelo exame espectroscópico da urina (1897) Pioneered the use of methylene blue in malaria and leprosy Les injections endo-veineuses du bleu de méthylene dans le paludisme. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 1:292-5, 1910 Valor diagnóstico da lepra pela coloração azul das placas anestésicas pelo azul de metileno Contributed to knowledge of many subjects in clinics A ateromasia dos cancerosos Conceito das vagopatias na influenza A língua negra na gripe Brasil Med (1920) A asma gripal A febre intermitente perene da colite mucosa (in Deutsche Med. Wochenschrift 1913) Patogenia do triângulo paravertebral de Grocco BIBLIOGRAPHY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE Betrachtungen und Erfahungen uber Beriberi und Malaria. Arch. f. Schiffs-u. Tropen-Hyg. 30:275-84, 1926 (abstract in J.A.M.A 87:712, 1926) Uber Einen Fall von “Hydrocephalus idiopathicus” unter der Maske des “weber’schen Symptomenkomplexes”. Sofortige Heilung durch Lumbalpunktion. Neurol. Centralblatt. 1:20, 1913 Die Febris intermittens perennis bei Colitis Mucosa. Dtsch. Med. Woch. 16 (1913) La meralgie paresthésique de la colite muco-membraneuse. Bull. Mem. Soc. Med. Hop. Paris 29:342-53, 1913 Les injections Le souffle systolique de l’insuffisance aortique pure. Semaine Med. 26:3, 1906 With Azevedo Sodré published a classical monograph about yellow fever Das Gelb-Fieber. In Nothnagel, H. Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie herausgegeben Von Hofrat. Vol 5, Part 2, p.181-6, 1901. With Rocha Lima wrote chapters about yellow fever in Carl Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten (1929) and Nicola Pende’s Endocrinologia, Patologia I Clinica degli organi a secrezione interna (1923-4) HONOURS Honorary Member, Academie Nationale de Medecine, France (1917) Correspondant Member, Société de Pathologie Exotique de Paris (1908)
Miguel Cerda
Miguel H. Cerda Gonzalez, Chilean entomologist (Angol, Cautín Province, Araucania Region 1923 – Santiago de Chile 11 October 1996) DESCRIBED VALID COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Huequenia 1980 Paraholopterus 1986 with Cekalovic Vilchesia 1980 Species Acalodegma vidali 2002 with Elgueta Acanthinodera cummingi 1986 Apyrauna larsoni 1980 Brachychilus wagenknechti 1954 Callisphyris auriventris 1993 Callisphyris fritzi 1968 Callisphyris uretai 1963 Cerdaia testacea 1980 Emphytoecia camousseighti 1995 Emphytoecia eliquiensis 1995 Hephaestion auratum 1968 Hephaestion bullocki 1968 Hephaestion tolhuaca 1995 Huequenia araucana 1980 Malcho chilensis 1968 Paraectropsis decoratus 1953 Paraholopterus nahuelbutensis 1986 with Cekalovic Parepimelitta barriai 1968 Penessada chilensis 1963 Planopus octaviusbarrosi 1968 Pseudocephalus auromaculatus 1980 Stenophantes herrerai 1987 Stenophantes martinezi 1980 Stenorhopalus andinus 1968 Stenorhopalus monsalvei 1954 Stenorhopalus valdiviensis 1995 Stromatium chilensis 1968 Syllitus beltrani 1968 Syllitus elguetai 1991 Tacyba maculata 1988 Tillomorpha roitmani 1993 Tuberopeplus krahmeri 1980 Vilchesia valenciai 1980 Xenocompsa martinsi 1980 Zehra krahmeri 1973 HONORS Cerdaia Monné 2006 (Coleoptera)