Jorge Victor Crisci
Jorge Victor Crisci, Argentine botanist (Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province 22 March 1945 – Known as international leader in phylogenetics and historical biogeography DESCRIBED Genera Burkartia 1976 Marticorenia 1974 Species/Subspecies Asterostigma fabrisii 1970 Leucheria graui 2008 with Katinas & Tellería Leucheria meladensis 2018 with Katinas & Marticorena Leucheria salina zollneri 1976 Moscharia solbrigii 1974 HONORS Criscia Katinas 1994 (Asteraceae) Criscianthus Grossi & Nakajima 2013 (Asteraceae)
Jorge Hugo Corbella
Jorge Hugo Corbella Marti, Argentine geologist (fl.1969) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Vuillemin, D. Ariztegui, P.R. Leavitt, L. Buntyng, F. Anselmetti, P. Francus, A. Lucke, N.I. Maidana, C. Ohlendorf, F. Schabitz, S. Wastegard & B. Zolitschka. Recording of climate and diagenesis through sedimentary DNA and fossil pigments at Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina. Biogeosciences 13(8):2475-92, 2016 With B. Ercolano, A.M.J. Coronato, P.E. Tiberi & G.N. Marderwald. Glacial geomorphology of the tableland east of the Andes between the Coyle and Gallegos River Valleys, Patagonia, Argentina. J. Maps 12 (Suppl1):304-13,2016 With A.M.J. Coronato, B. Ercolano & P.E. Tiberi. Glacial, fluvial and volcanic lands cape evolution in the Laguna Potrok Aike maar Area, Southern Patagonia. Quart. Sci. Reviews 71:13-26, 2013 With P.S. Ross, S. Delpit, M. Haller & K. Nemeth. Influence of the substrate on maar-diatreme volcanoes – An example of a mixed setting from the Pali Aike volcanic field, Argentina. J. Volcan. Geoth. Res. 201:253-71, 2011 With R.D. Acevedo, M. Rocca, J.F. Ponce & J.O. Rabassa. Meteoritos y astroblemas de la Patagonia argentina: un recorrido por los posibles cráteres de impacto meteoritico y una guia de lós meteoritos hallados en su território. Desde La Patagonia 8(12):10-9, 2011 With R.D. Acevedo, J.F. Ponce, J.O. Rabassa & M. Rocca. Bajada del Diablo. Un excepcional campo de craters producidos por meteoritos en el centro de Chubut. Ciencia Hoy 20(18):25-35, 2010 With M. Fey, C. Korr, N.I. Maidana, M.L. Carrevedo, S. Dietrich et al. Palaeoenvironmental changes during the last 1600 years inferred from the sediment record of a cirque lake in Southern Patagonia (Laguna Las Vizcachas, Argentina). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeocol. 281:363-75, 2009 With C. Mayr, A. Lucke, N.I. Maidana, M. Wille, T. Haberzettl et al. Isotopic and geochemical fingerprints of environmental changes during the last 16,000 years on lacustrine organic matter from Laguna Potrok Aike (Southern Patagonia, Argentina). J. Palaeolimnol. 42:81-102, 2009 With R.D. Acevedo, J.F. Ponce, M. Rocca & J. Rabassa. Bajada del Diablo impact crater-strewnfield: the largest crater field in the Southern Hemisphere. Geomorphology 110(3-4):58-67, 2009 With B. Zolitschka, F. Schabitz, A. Lucke, G. Clifton, B. Ercolano et al. Palaeoecological potential of crater lakes in the Pali Aike volcanic field, Southern Patagonia (Argentina). J. South Am. Earth Sci. 21:294-09, 2006 With B. Zolitschka, N. Maidana & C. Ohlendorf. Investigating maar formation and the climate history of Southern Argentina. The Potrok Aike maar Lake sediment. Archive Drilling Project (PASADO). Sci. Drilling 3:54-5, 2006 With B. Zolitschka, F. Schabitz, A. Lucke, M. Wille, C. Mayr, C. Ohlendorf et al. Climate changes in Southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina) inferred from lake sediments – the multi proxy approach of SALSA. Pages News 12(2):9-11, 2004 With F.E. Novas, S. Apesteguía & H.A. Leanza. First fission track age for the dinosaur bearing Neuquén Group. Rev. Museo Arg. Cien. Naturales 6:227-32, 2004 With F. Schabitz, M.M. Paez, M.V. Mancini, F.A. Quintana, M. Wille et al. Estudios de pólen actual como clave para la reconstrucción del paleoambiente en el sur de Patagonia, Argentina. Rev. Museo Arg. Cien. Naturales 5(2):301-16, 2003 With R. Scasso & P. Tiberi. Sedimentological analysis of the tephra from the 12-15 August 1991 eruption of Hudson volcano. Bull. Volcan. 56:121-32, 1994 With S.M. Alonso. Postglacial hydroclastic and pyroclastic deposits in the Lanin National Park, North Patagonian Cordillera, Neuquén. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent.44:127-32, 1989 Sierra de Queupuniyeu, North extrandean Patagonia, Rio Negro: the chemistry of the alcaline volcanic units. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent.44:111-26, 1989 Hallazgo de rocas leuciticas en la Sierra de Los Chacays, Patagonia Extrandina, Provincia de Chubut. Rev. Asoc. Arg. Mineral. Petrol. Sediment. 14(3-4):88-96, 1983 Quimismo del Complejo Volcánico alcalino sierra Negra de Telsen, Patagonia extrandina Norte, Argentina. Rev. Asoc. Arg. Min. Petrol Sedim. 13(1-2):29-38, 1982 Contribución al conocimiento geológico de la Alta sierra de Somuncura, Macizo Nordpatagonico, Província de Rio Negro (República Argentina). Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. 29(2):155-90, 1974 Basaltos nefelínicos associados al graben del Cerro Piche, Macizo Nordpatagónico, Província de Rio Negro, Argentina. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent. 28(3):209-18, 1973 Etude geologique de La sierra de las Moreas (Prov. De Murcie, Espagne). Thesis (1969) HONORS Corbellia Maidana & Round 1999 (Bacillariophyceae)
Jorge Cerbon Solorzano
Jorge Cerbón Solorzano, Mexican biochemist and microbiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 20 March 1930 – Proposed a model for regulation of lipidic composition comprising processes modulated by phosphoinositid degradation and/or transformation Explained the action mechanism of local anaesthetics due to its interaction with lipidic phase of cell membranes NMR evidence for the hydrophobic interaction of local anaesthetics. Possible relation to their potency. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 290:51-7, 1972 Described the bacterial species: Mycobacterium flavescens, Mycobacterium gordonae, Mycobacterium peregrinum, Mycobactrium runyoni & Mycobacterium acapulcensis 1962 with Bojalil & Trujillo With L.F. Bojalil. Scheme for the differentiation of Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis. J. Bact. 78:852-7, 1959
Jorge Carauta
Jorge Pedro Pereira Carauta, Brazilian botanist (Marechal Hermes, Rio de Janeiro State 23 April 1930 – Rio de Janeiro 08 October 2013) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Sections Emygdioa & Sichinia 1976 Species Dorstenia albertii 1974 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia amazonica 1979 with Valente & Barth Dorstenia bonijesu 1983 with Valente Dorstenia capricorniana 1976 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia conceptionis 1974 Dorstenia contensis 1985 with Berg Dorstenia gracilis 1976 with Valente & Araújo Dorstenia grazielae 1973 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia heringeri 1975 with Valente Dorstenia hildegardis 1978 with Valente & Barth Dorstenia mariae 2002 with Albuquerque & Castro Dorstenia maris 1977 with Valente Dorstenia milaneziana 1974 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia schulzii 1976 with Valente & Araújo Dorstenia strangii 1974 Dorstenia sucrei 1974 Dorstenia triseriata 2014 with Machado & Fontella Ficus bahiensis 2003 with Berg Ficus christianii 1994 Ficus duartei 2003 with Berg Ficus ernanii 2012 with Pederneiras, Souza, Machado, Vianna & Romaniuc Ficus goiana 2013 with Berg & Machado Ficus hatschbachii 2003 with Berg Ficus lagoensis 2003 with Berg Ficus mariae 1999 with Emygdio & Berg Ficus nevesiae 2002 Ficus rupicola 2003 with Berg HONORS Subsect. Carautaea Pederneiras, Romaniuc-Neto e Mansano 2015 (Moraceae)
Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz
Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz, Mexican pediatrician and nutritionist (Pachuca, Hidalgo 12 September 1922 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 April 1998) From Italian ancestry Authored 647 publications and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS With F. Gómez & R. Ramos Galván characterized the child severe malnutrition First described nutritional recovery syndrome With F. Gomez & R. Ramos Galván. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With F. Gómez, R. Ramos Galván & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With R. Ramos Galván established new criteria in child growth dynamics and development World pioneer in studying malnutrition effects on infantile psychoemotional development (1950s) Showed that the biological age is less than chronological age in a malnourished child With R. Arrieta. Stimulation and mental development of malnourished infant. Lancet 12 Jan 1980 p. 89 Authored a classical study of malnutrition-mental performance relationships With E.R. de Licardie & H.G. Birch. Nutrition, growth and neurointegrative development: an experimental and ecologic study. Pediatrics 38(2 Part II):319-72, 1966 Proposed a modified Gesell scale With I. Lares-Asseff, P. Santiago & B. Perez Ortiz. A new dosing regimen for metronidazole in malnourished children. Scand. J. Infect. Dis. 25(1):115-21, 1993 PAPERS IN RELEVANT PERIODICALS With A.B. Barnet, I.P.Weiss, M.V. Sotillo, E.S. Ohlbrich & M. Shkurovich. Abnormal auditory evoked potentials in early infancy malnutrition. Science 201 (4354):450-2, 1978 With M. Lindoro & H.G. Birch. Sex differences in I.Q. pattern of children with congenital heart defects. Science 174 (4013):1042-4, 1971 With F. Gómez, R. Ramos Galván & J. Cravioto. Prevention and treatment of chronic severe infantile malnutrition (kwashiorkor). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 69(5):969-81, 1958 With F. Gómez, R. Ramos Galván, S. Frenk, J. Vazquez Santaella & C. de la Peña. Fat absorption in chronic severe malnutrition in children. Lancet 268(6934):121-2, 1956 HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Goteborg University (1970) Doctor Honoris Causa, Tufts University, Boston, United States (1962) Invited Professor, Cornell University, Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lecturer, Nobel Conference Purkinje Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences Rank Prize for Nutrition, United Kingdom (1988) Gopalan Gold Medal oration, Nutrition Foundation of India Gold Medal, Japan Pediatric Society Premio Reina Sofia de España (1984)
Joaquim Ribeiro da Costa
Joaquim Ribeiro da Costa, Brazilian Army officer and mechanical inventor (Salvador 10 September 1857 – Rio de Janeiro 05 February 1937) Father of world-famous architect Lúcio Costa INVENTIONS A life-saving boat (acclaimed in World Fair of Paris) Lifeguard Raft and boat Directiophone, device devoted to know the direction of the sound of a steam whistle (prize-winner in World Fair of Paris 1900) Torpedo-boat semi-submarine New submarine torpedo A rotating steam engine Another rotary engine An original steam engine (patented in France, Belgium, Germany, England & United States) A new steam distribution without eccentric (patented in many countries) New steam engine for navigation purposes Original all automatic engine working by means of compressed air A new sucking treading pump with oscillating movement Apparatus for automatic feeding of boilers New apparatus to feed automatically any boiler Four concentric tubes boiler (patented in several countries) 2 other kinds of boiler (e.g. extra fast vaporization boiler) Hydraulic turbine for navigation purposes Machine to make tooth-picks Electrical hydraulic apparatus Semi submersible motorboat Immersion regulator for submarines BRAZILIAN PATENTS Aparelho electrico hidráulico, destinado a aproveitar a força da água quando a embarcação está em movimento a fim de carregar acumuladores elétricos para diversos misteres (1887) Sistema de lancha torpedeira semi-submarina, movida pela eletricidade, destinada ao lançamento de torpedos Whitehead (1888)