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 Described fatty degeneration of visceral organs or Couto’s disease Da Polysteatose visceral curavel. Arch. Bras. Med. 4:475-83, 1914. 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, p.717, 1912. Remembered in Miguel Couto’s sign seen in ascites 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) Performed important pharmacological researches about plants and fruits of Brazilian flora
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)
Miguel Canela
Miguel Francisco Canela Lazaro, Dominican anatomist and botanist (Santiago de los Caballeros 29 September 1894 – Santo Domingo 01 December 1977) From Chinese grandfather With H. Rouviere discovered peroneo-astragalo-calcaneo ligament or Rouviere-Canela ligament With H. Rouviere, Le ligament Peroneo-Astragalo-Calcanee. Ann. Anat. Pahol. 9:745-50, 1932 Described the joint íleo superficial bundle of iliac sacrum ligament or Hakim-Canela bundle With M. Hakim. Recherches sur l’articulation sacro-iliaque chez l’homme et chez les anthropoides. Ann. Anat. Path. Anat. Norm. Med-Chir. (1937) Authored important studies about lymphatic system in Germany Connexiones ganglionaires de las lynfatiques del uterus. Presse Med. 76 (1934) Discovered anormal forms of renal tuberculosis With G. Marion. Sur une forme anormale de la tuberculose renale. Tuberculoso renale a masque de Collibacilose (1931) With H. Rouviere. Anatomie Humaine, descriptive et topographique (1948)
Messias Carrera
Messias Cassaña Carrera, Brazilian entomologist (São Paulo 30 May 1907 – São Paulo 02 December 1994) Authored 68 papers DESCRIBED VALID DIPTERA TAXA Genera Aczelia 1955 Alvarenga 1962 Aspidopyga 1949 Austenmyia 1955 Cleptomyia 1949 Eraxasilus 1959 Ichneumolaphria 1951 Leinendera 1945 Macahyba 1947 Neodiogmites 1949 Paramydas 1948 with D’Andretta Schizoceratomyia 1947 with Lane & Souza Lopes Seabramyia 1962 Stenasilus 1962 Tocantinia 1955 Species 115 HONORS (Diptera) Carreraia Correa 1947 Messiasia D’Andretta 1951 Carreraomyia Cole 1969 Carrerapyrgota Aczel 1956
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr, US-born Colombian entomologist and ornithologist (Sullivan, Illinois State 14 February 1879 – Bucamaranga 27 July 1965) Recognized as a world authority on Neotropical genera of Mallophaga DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mallophaga Genera Ardeiphagus 1949 Austrokelloggia 1936 Colinicola 1945 Corvicola 1949 Cotingacola 1956 Cracimenopon 1954 Cuclotocephalus 1936 Cuclotogaster 1936 Desumenopon 1954 Discocorpus 1936 Ditopos 1956 Docophorocotes 1936 Eiconolipeurus 1945 Epiara 1954 Epicolinus 1945 Epipectus 1966 Epipsittacus 1944 Formicaphagus 1957 Formicaricola 1957 Furnaricola 1944 Heptagoniodes 1936 Heptapsogaster 1936 Heptarthrogaster 1936 Heptasus 1936 Heterogoniodes 1936 Heterokodeia 1954 Heteromenopon 1954 Heteropeosteus 1944 Hirundiniella 1963 Hoazinia 1940 Hypocrypturellus 1940 Kelloggia 1903 Lamprocorpus 1936 Megaginus 1936 Megapeosteus 1936 Mimemamenopon 1958 Nirmocotes 1936 Nothocotus 1936 Ornicholax 1903 Passonomedea 1944 Pseudocophorus 1940 Pseudolipeurus 1936 Pseudophilopterus 1936 Psittacobrosus 1954 Ramphasticola 1949 Rhyncothura 1936 Sakoskida 1953 Tinamicola 1936 Tinamotaecola 1944 Trichodomedea 1945 Trichodopeosteus 1936 Trochiliphagus 1960 Tyrannicola 1956 Families (4 subfamilies) Heptasogastridae 1936 Trochiliphagidae 1960 Species / Subespecies 866 Aves Species Anairetes alpinus 1933 Aulacorhynchus huallagae 1933 Cinclodes aricomae 1932 Grallaricula leymebambae 1933 Myiophobus inornatus 1932 Myrmotherula grisea 1935 Selasphorus simoni 1910 Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis 1933 Syndactyla striata 1935 Subspecies 73 HONORS Subg. Carrikeria Hopkins 1947 (Mallophaga) Carrikerella Hebard 1921 (Orthoptera)