Jose Luis Casaseca
José Luis Agustín Casaseca y Silván, Cuban / Spanish chemist (Salamanca 25 August 1800 – Barcelona 08 October 1869) Discovered and analyzed mineral thenardite (1826) Analisis de una nueva substancia mineral, la thenardita. Annales Chimie Physique 23:308-15, 1826 TECHNIQUES/INVENTIONS Invented certain analytical techniques Nuevo método de pulverización de fósforo (New method of phosphorus pulverization). Journal de Pharmacie (1830) Proposed improvements in Payen decolorimeter Determination instantanée du cuivre dans le analyses quantitative des dissolutions cuivriques pures. Cuivrometre fondé sur cette methode à l’usage des ingenieurs des mines, des chimistes et des mineralogistes. Comptes Rendus 26:948, 1848 With Georges Sorve invented a system of lighting gas employing water (1836) Sobre un nuevo metodo para reducer metal, el cloruro de plata, mediante el azucar (1855)
Jose Joaquin Castaño
José Joaquín Castaño Arenas, Colombian plant pathologist (Rionegro 16 August 1920 – Medellín 26 May 2014) Authored about 80 papers and 5 books DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES Pestalozzia sp.; un hongo aislado de las hojas del café y generalmente asociado con el Stilbum flavidum Cooke, causante de la enfermedad de la “gotera”. Bol. Inform. Cenicafé 2(18):44-5, 1951 Isolated the fungus Moniliophthora rorei from cacao Moniliasis del cacao en una región del Departamento de Caldas. Agric. Trop. 6:21-5, 1952 Identified the real causative agent of coffee llaga macana (Ceratocystis fimbriata) Patogenia y epifitologia en el estudio de llaga macana del cafeto. Bol. Cenicafé 4(39):17-24, 1953 Described the seedling dieback of coffee Una afección nueva en Coffea liberica. Rev. Cafet. Col. 12(126):4123-5, 1954 Podredumbre del cuello radicular de plantulas de café en el semillero, causado por un hongo del género Rhizoctonia. Bol. Inform. Cenicafé 7(78):192-7, 1956 Discovered Furcraea necrotic streak virus With A. J. Dabek. The occurrence, symptomatology, transmission and virus aetiology of macana disease of fique (Furcraea spp.) in Colombia, South Americas. Phytopathol. Z. 92:57-69, 1978 OTHERS With E.G. Bernal. Un metodo practico para combatir el ‘mal rosado” del cafeto. Agric. Trop. 9(7):53-7, 1953 Developed ICA60 variety of gomosis resistant Axonopous scoparius (1960s)
Jose Felipe Caldeira
José Felipe Carla Caldeira, Brazilian astronomer (1943 – Discovered new asteroids With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Posições astrométricas de asteroides identificados em fevereiro e março de 1981 no observatório europeu Austral, La Silla, Chile. Anu. Inst. Geocienc. 4:1-19, 1980 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Descoberta de elementos orbitais dos asteroides 1979 HB, 1979 P e 1979 YP. Bol. Soc. Astron. Bras. 4(2):8, 1981 With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. 363 precise positions of asteroids. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 8:19-27, 1983 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Observed Asteroids at the GPO La Silla Chile 1983 Sep. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 11:43, 1985 (9) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira, S. Vaz & H. Debehogne. 262 Positions of Asteroids and their dependences. ESO, La silla, Chile, February 10-25, 1985. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 13:161, 1986 (6) HONORS Asteroid 2926 Caldeira
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