Luis Calvo Mackenna
Luis Calvo Mackenna, Chilean pediatrician (1883 – Santiago 02 December 1937) Described dolicho stenomelalgy or Calvo Mackenna syndrome (1915) and Calvo Mackenna sign in child acidosis (1919) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Baeza Goñi. Principios basicos para la organización y funcionamento de las gotas de leche. Rev. Chil. Pediat. 4(9):425-30, 1933 Formas clinicas de la acidosis (acetonemia) en la infância (1919) La tache bleue mongolique à Santiago du Chili. Archives Medecine des Enfants (1916) Sindrome hemorrágico como única manifestación de sífilis hereditária tardia. Arch. Lat. Amer. Pediatria (1911) Anestesia cloroformica con el aparato de Ricard (1907)
Luciano Catalano
Luciano Roque Catalano Vecchio, Argentine economic geologist (Buenos Aires 20 December 1890 – 1970) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Datos hidrológicos del desierto de Atacama. Publ. Decisión Minas Geol. 35:10-16, 1972 El hierro argentino de Zapla (Provincia de Jujuy), Calizas de León y San Juancito (Provincia de Jujuy), estúdio preliminar de geologia económica (1965) Reconocimiento geológico-económico de la sierra de Ancaján. Est. Geol. Min. Econ. Ser. Argentina 1, 1964 Boro-berilio-lítio: uma nueva fuente de energia natural. Estud. Geol. Mineria Econ. (1964) Estudio geológico-economico del Salar de Hombre Muerto. Minist. Economia 4, 1964 La mica en la Argentina, estudio geológico-economico. Pub. Inst. Fisiograf. Geol. 10, 1940 Los radioelementos y la constitución atómico corpuscular de la matéria y energia. Yacimientos argentinos de minerales de radio, uranio, vanádio, nióbio, tantalio (1940) La Sal, estudio preliminar inspección minera a las Salinas Grandes. Rev. Minera 9(2):63, 1938 El minério de bário (baritina) de El Portezuelo, Aguada del Monte (Cordoba) 1938 Los penitentes de nieve y observaciones geofísicas atmosféricas. Asoc. Cult. Conf. Rosario, Cien. Natur. 3:15, 1935 Puna de Atacama (Territorio de los Andes). Reseña geológica y geográfica (1930) Reseña geológica preliminar del Territorio Nacional de los Andes. Rev. Minera 2 (1930) Nueva zona estanífera de la Republica argentina. Rev. Minera 1 (1929) Geología química de los boratos. Formación de las cuencas y características generales de la superfície de los salares, Puna de Atacama. Publ. Direcc. General Minas, Geol. Hidrol. 28, 1927 Contribución al conocimiento de los fenómenos geofísicos atmosféricos. Publ. Direcc. General Minas, Geol. Hidrol. 24, 1926 Geología económica de los yacimientos de boratos y materiales de las cuencas, Salar de Cauchari (Puna de Atacama), Territorio Nacional de los Andes. Publ. Direc. Gen. Minas, Geol. Hidrogeol. 23, 1926 Yacimientos caolínicos del Valle de los Sauces, La Rioja. Publ. Direc. Gen. Minas, Geol. Hidrogeol. 22:3-43, 1926 A new mineral from the Sierras del Pie de Palo. An. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 11:253-67, 1923 Estudio químico del mineral de titânio de la Sierra de Pie de Palo. An. Soc. Quim. Arg. 6:35-48 & 83-93, 1918 Yacimientos de estaño (casiterita) de la Sierra de Fiambalá (Catamarca). Publ. Min. Agricultura 81 HONORS Catalanoite Sureda & Ruiz 2002 (Mineral)
Luciano Campos
Luciano Elliot Campos Street, Chilean agricultural entomologist (São Paulo, Brazil 19 February 1927 – Santiago de Chile 01 January 1989) Authored over 60 works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA (with R. Cortes) Genera Androsoma 1971 Myiodexia 1971 Caltagironea 1974 Species Androsoma perhirsutum 1971 Archytas platonicus 1971 Belvosia barbosai 1971 Caltagironea scillina 1974 Caltagironea vera 1974 Chaetocnephalia andina 1971 Epalpodes malloi 1971 Gymnosoma neotropicale 1971 Incamyia cincerea 1971 Incamyia perezi 1971 Incamyia sandovali 1971 Lespesia leliae 1971 Lespesia nimia 1971 Myiodexia deserticola 1971 Prosopochaeta caliginosa 1971 Siphoactia peregrina 1971 Triachora barbosai 1971 Trichophoropsis sabroskyi 1971 Urodexodes elongatus 1974 Winthemia reliqua 1971 HONORS Camposodes Cortes 1967 (Diptera) LINKS Revista Chilena de Entomologia 17:109-112, 1989 (in Spanish; contains bibliography; available online)
Louis Hsiao Yun Chen
Louis Hsiao Yun Chen, Singaporean mathematician (1940 – Turned Stein concentration inequality concept into an effective tool for providing error bounds for the normal approximation in many settings Eponym of Stein-Chen method of Poisson approximation BIBLIOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTIONS With Q.M. Shaq. A non-uniform Berry-Esseen bound via Stein’s method. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 120 (92):236-54, 2001 An inequality for the multivariate normal distribution. J. Multiv. Anal. 12(2):306-15, 1982 With S.T. Ho. An Lp bound for the remainder in a combinatorial central limit theorem. Ann. Probability 6:231-49, 1978 An approximation theorem for convolutions of probability measures. Ann. Probab. 3:992-9, 1975 Ann approximation theorem for sums of certain randomly selected indicators. Zeitsch. f. Wahrschein. Verw. Geb. 33:69-74, 1975
Louis Ferdinand Cruls
Louis Ferdinand Cruls, Belgian-born Brazilian astronomer and geodesist (Diest, Brabant 21 January 1848 – Paris 21 June 1906) ACHIEVEMENTS Determined the rotation period of Mars and measured apparent semi diameter of this planet Published a memoir about spots and the time of Mars rotation motion (1878) Made relevant studies about Jove rotation and its satellites and binary stars With E. Liais & emperor Pedro II determined semi-diameter of Sun and Mercury (1878) Saw the Great Comet of 1882 that was known as Cruls Comet (discovered by English-Australian astronomer Ellery) Performed the first spectroscopic analysis of comets (1882) by using spectroscope (British William Huggins used photography for the same purpose in 1881) Proposed formulae for magnetic declination as a function of time Methode graphique pour la determination des heures approchées des éclipses du soleil et des occultations (1894) Methodo para determinar as horas das occultações de estrellas pela lua baseado sobre o conhecimento exacto do instante da conjuncção apparente dos dous astros (1899) Invented a differential barometer Organized Dictionnaire Climatologique Universelle reckoning on scientists of world renown HONORS Valz Medal, Academie de Sciences de Paris (1882) for his work on spectroscopical analysis in the study of comets Cruls Crater (in Mars)
Lila Castellanos
Lila Rosa Castellanos Serra, Cuban biotechnologist (18 September 1948 – Developed new original methods for the detection of proteins, nucleic acids and lipopolysaccharides on electrophoresis gels The methods developed in her laboratory on gel-staining technology are frequently cited in the international literature, and are now routinely employed by international scientific community Introduced the use of imidazole in combination with zinc salts for detection of proteins, nucleic acids, lipopolysaccharides and lipooligosaccharides CONTRIBUTIONS With Y. Ramos, V. Besadá, L.J. Gonzalez, Ya García et al. Double fractionation by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (DF-PAGE): new method for quantitative proteomics studies. Biotecn. Aplic. 34:4501-3, 2016 With Y. Ramos, Y. García, Y. Perez Riverol et al. Peptide fractionation by acid pH SDS-free electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 32(11):1323-6, 2011 With E. Hardy. Negative detection of biomolecules separated in polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. Nature Protocols 1(3):1551, 2006 With Y. Ramos & V. Huerta. An in-gel digestion procedure that facilitates the identification of highly hydrophobic proteins by electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry analysis. Proteomics 5:2729-38, 2005 With L.J. Gonzalez, V. Badock, M. Díaz, A. Moro et al. Identification of nuclear proteins of small cell lung cancer cell line H82: an improved procedure for the analysis of silver-stained proteins. Electrophoresis 24 (2003) With A. Vallin, W. Proenza, J.P. LeCaer & J. Rossier. An optimized procedure for detection of proteins on carrier ampholyte isoelectric focusing and immobilized pH gradient gels with imidazole and zinc salts. Its application to the identification of isoelectric focusing separated isoforms by in-gel proteolysis and mass spectrometry. Electrophoresis (2001) With W. Proenza, V. Huerta & R.J. Simpson. Proteome analysis of polyacrylamide gel-separated proteins visualized by reversible negative staining using imidazole-zinc salts. Electrophoresis 20:7 32-7, 1999 With C. Fernandez-Patrón, E. Hardy Rando, M. Guerra, E. Estevez, E. Mehl & R.W. Frank. Understanding the mechanism of the zinc-ion stains of biomacromolecules in electrophoresis gels: generalization of the reverse-staining technique. Electrophoresis (1998) With E. Hardy, E. Pupo, H. Santana & M. Guerra. Elution of lipopolysaccharides from polyacrylamide gels. Anal. Biochem. (1998) With C. Fernandez-Patrón, E. Hardy, H. Santana & V. Huerta. High yield elution of proteins from sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels at the low picomole level. Application to N-terminal sequencing of a scarce protein and to in-solution biological activity analysis of on-gel renatured proteins. J. Protein Chem. (1997) With C. Fernandez-Patrón, E. Hardy & V. Huerta. A procedure for protein elution from reverse stained polyacrylamide gels applicable at the low picomole level: an alternative route to the preparation of low abundant proteins for microanalysis. Electrophoresis 17:1564-72, 1996 With C. Fernandez-Patrón, J. Madrazo, E. Hardy, E. Mendez & R.W. Frank. Single-step electrotransfer of reverse stained proteins from sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel onto reversed-phase minicartridge and subsequent desalting and elution with a conventional high-performance liquid chromatography gradient system for analysis. Electrophoresis (1995) With C. Fernandez-Patrón & P. Rodríguez. Reverse staining of sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gels by imidazole-zinc salts: sensitive detection of unmodified proteins. BioTechniques 12:564-73, 1992