Jingrun Chen
Jingrun Chen, Chinese mathematician (Fuzhou, Fujian Province 22 May 1933 – 19 March 1996) Authored over 70 papers Proved Chen’s theorem On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and the product of at most two primes. J. Kexue Tongbao 17:385-6, 1966 Proved that every sufficiently large even number is the sum of a prime and a number with at most 2 prime factors (1973) Eponym of Chen primes HONORS Asteroid 7681 Chenjingrun
Jesus Calderón Tinoco
Jesus Calderón Tinoco, Mexican immunologist and cytologist (Uruapán, Michoacán State 1943 – 07 May 2008) With E. Unanue & R.T. William discovered that macrophages release thymidine that inhibits EL-4 cells (1974) With E.R. Unanue described the existence of stimulating factors of T lymphocytes in Nature 253:359, 1975 Demonstrated the neutrophils as the main protective cell against amebiasis With L. Muñoz & H. Acosta showed the regenerative capacity of Amoeba histolytica cell membranes as an effective evasion mechanism to host humoral response (1980) With José Tapia Ramírez & José Manuel Hernandez developed Porcimunesoa, the first vaccine for blue eyes swine disease
Janira Martins Costa
Janira Martins Costa, Brazilian entomologist (Olinda, Pernambuco State 05 December 1941 – Rio de Janeiro 08 February 2018) DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Cordulisantosia 2007 with Fleck Fluminagrion 2013 with Anjos Santos & Lozano Garrisonia 2007 with Penalva Navicordulia 1995 with Machado Species Chalcopteryx machadoi 2005 Cordulisantosia machadoi 2000 with Santos Cordulisantosia marshalli 1992 with Santos Cordulisantosia newtoni 2000 with Santos Cyanallagmna corbeti 2009 with Santos & Souza Epipleoneura angeloi 2010 with Pessalcq Garrisonia aurindae 2007 with Penalva Heteragrion muryense 2000 with Santos Lestes fernandoi 2006 with Souza & Muzón Macrothemis absimile 1991 Macrothemis newtoni 1990 Micrathyria pseudhypodidyma 2002 with Lourenço & Vieira Navicordulia amazonica 1995 with Machado Navicordulia atlantica 1995 with Machado Navicordulia kiautai 1995 with Machado Navicordulia leptostyla 1995 with Machado Navicordulia longistyla 1995 with Machado Navicordulia mielkei 1995 with Machado Navicordulia miersi 1995 with Machado Neocordulia fiorentini 2007 with Machado Neocordulia gaucha 2007 with Machado Neocordulia machadoi 2010 with Santos & Carrico Neocordulia mambucabensis 2000 with Santos Neocordulia pedroi 2010 with Carrico & Santos Neocordulia santacatarinensis 2008 with Ravanello & Souza Franco Oxyagrion chapadense 1978 Oxyagrion fernandoi 1988 Oxyagrion machadoi 1978 Oxyagrion pseudocardinale 2000 with Souza & Santos Oxyagrion santosi 1967 Oxyagrion simile 1978 Oxyagrion sulinum 1978 Oxyagrion sulmatogrossense 2000 with Souza & Santos Oxyagrion zielmae 2006 with Souza & Muzón Peristicta jalmosi 2007 with Pessalcq Peristicta janiceae 2007 with Pessalcq Peristicta muzoni 2007 with Pessalcq Perithemis capixaba 2006 with De Souza & Muzón Rhionaeschna brasiliensis 2002 with Ellenrieder Others Diptera Species Culicoides huaymacapaci 2008 with Felipe-Bauer, Caceres & Valderrama Bazán Culicoides pseudoheliconiae 2008 with Felipe-Bauer, Caceres, Silva, Valderrama Bazán & Gonzales Perez
James Robert Coleman
James Robert Coleman, US / Brazilian botanist (Barberton, Ohio State 31 October 1934 – São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 03 March 2001) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Verbesina apiculata 1966 Verbesina chapmanii 1972 Verbesina tequilana 1966 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.A. Coleman. Apomixis in two triploid Brazilian species of Eupatorium: E. bupleurifolium and E. callilepis. Rev. Brasil. Genet. (1984) Chromosome numbers of angiosperms collected in the State of São Paulo. Rev. Brasil. Genet. 5:533-49, 1982 With M.A. Coleman. Reproductive biology of an andromonoecious Solanum (S. palinacanthum Dunal). Biotropica 14:69-75, 1982 With E.M. de Menezes. Chromosome numbers in Leguminosae from the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Rhodora 829831):475-81, 1980 Additional chromosome numbers in Brazilian Compositae. Rhodora 72:94-9, 1970 Chromosome numbers in some Brazilian Compositae. Rhodora 70:228-40, 1968 A taxonomic revision of section Jimenezia of the genus Verbesina (Compositae). Amer. Midl. Naturalist 76:475-81, 1966 HONORS Colemania Skvortzov & Noda 1968 (Protozoa)
Jair Correa de Carvalho
Jair Correa de Carvalho, Brazilian plant pathologist and helminthologist (Três Pontas, Minas Gerais State 1920 – São Paulo 25 December 1983) Considered as world-renowned specialist in Mononchidae nematodes Authored 30 scientific papers on nematodes taxonomy and control DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera Neochordodes 1942 Pseudochordodes 1942 Species Chordodes moraisi 1942 Helicotylenchus elisensis 1957 Iotonchus risoceiae 1953 Mononchus coronatus 1956 Mononchus piracicaboides 1960 Mononchus soutoi 1956 Paragordius esavianus 1942 Pseudochordodes manteri 1942 Rotylenchus iperoiguensis 1956 Sporonchulus ibitiensis 1951 Xiphinema americanum 1956 Xiphinema itanhaense 1962 Xiphinema paulistanum 1965 See docentes.esalq.usp.br/sbn/perfisbn/1half/jair.pdf (in Portuguese)
Jacques Pierre Cassedanne
Jacques Pierre Cassedanne, French / Brazilian gemmologist and mineralogist (Paris 11 September 1928 – Luxembourg 08 September 2017) Authored over 280 publications Discovered a number of noble metal oxides Un nouveau matériau gemme: le quartzite à lazulite. Rev. Gemmologie 105:17-8, 1990 With M. Lasserre. Análise isotópica pelo método do chumbo de algumas galenas brasileiras: descrição do método utilizado. Min. Met. 69(293):215-24, 1969 HONORS Cassedanneite Cesbron, Giraud e Poullen 1988 (Mineral)