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)
Jacinto Convit
Jacinto Convit García, Venezuelan leprologist (Caracas 11 September 1913 – Caracas 12 May 2014) Internationally recognized as one of greatest leprologists of his day Authored over 300 papers Described anergic diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis or Convit disease (1946) With P. Lapenta. Sobre un caso de leishmaniasis tegumentaria de forma diseminada. Rev. Policlin. Caracas 28(100):153-8, 1948 With F. Kerdel Vegas & G. Rodríguez. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: A hitherto undescribed skin disease. J. Invest. Dermatol. 36:457-62, 1961 Proposed armadillo as an experimental animal model in leprosy research (1975) With I. Campo-Aasen & C. Alemán. New organelle observed in Leishmania brasiliensis. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 67:122-4, 1973 Developed an immunotherapeutic vaccine for leprosy and leishmaniasis (1982) METHODS First to perform vitamin E local infiltrations on patients with leprosy (Convit method) La Vitamina E. Las atrofias musculares de la mano por neuritis leprosa y el tratamiento de estas lesiones por el alfa-tocoferol. Rev. Sanid. As. Social 8:641-8, 1943 With J. Jorgensen. Um método de absorción para la refinación del aceite de Hydnocarpus wightiana para inyecciones intramusculares. Los productos absorbidos. El test de Kreis y el valor de Valenta en el pronostico de la tolerância. Conf. Panam. Lepra 3:2-12, 1947 Modified the Baker method for distinguishing Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepraemurium With I. Campo-Aasen. Identification of the non-cultivable pathogenic mycobacteria M. leprae and M. lepraemurium. Int. J. Leprol. 36:166-70, 1968 With M.E. Pinardi. A simple method for the differentiation of Mycobacterium leprae from other mycobacteria through routine staining technic. Int. J. Lepr. 40:130-2, 1972 With J.L. Avila, M. Goifman & M.E. Pinardi. A test for the determination of competency in clearing bacilli in leprosy patients. Bull. Wld Health Org. 46:821-6, 1972 With M. Goihman-Yahr, E. Essenfeld Yahr, M.C. Albornoz, L. Yarzabal et al. New method for estimating direction of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis by phagocytic cells in vitro. J. Clin. Microb. 103:365-70, 1979 Eponym of Convit method for preparing a soluble skin test antigen and Convit soluble antigen HONORS Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1988)
Isidoro Caplan
Isidoro Caplan, Argentine anatomist (Buenos Aires 01 March 1933 – 07 February 1992) Made original and detailed research into lymphatic topography Described some new nodes in the lymphatic system of the mammary gland and presented also a new classification of the axillary lymphatic nodes from an anatomical point of view Described new collecting tubes and lymphatic ganglia from thyroid gland Developed a Gerota-based technique for studying lymphatic system DESCRIBED NEW STRUCTURES IN LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Investigación de las corrientes linfoganglionares de la glandula tiroides. Su importância anatomo-clinico-quirurgica. Rev. Argent. Cir. 52:32, 1987 Linfaticos de la glandula mamaria. Estudio e investigación del pedículo interno o mediatinal. Experiencia de 200 casos (1973) El sistema linfatico de la glândula mamaria. (A proposito de 300 casos). Bol. Trab. Soc. Arg. Cir. XL (21-22):330-42, EPONYMY Caplan ganglion Caplan or triccipital pathway Caplan posterior axillary underchain HONOURS Docteur Honoris Causa, La Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1990)
Isidoro Cabrera
Isidoro Cabrera Rodríguez, Colombian dendrologist and botanical collector (San Martín, Meta Department 17 April 1922 – Discovered and collected new plant species SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Ruiz Domínguez. Colecciones floristicas realizadas en la provincia del Chocó Biogeografico colombiano (2012) Las plantas y sus usos en las islas de la Providencia y Santa Catalina (2005) Datos fenologicos de espécies arbóreas colombianos. Cespedesia 7(25-6) Suppl.2: 101-60, 1978 HONORS Isidodendron Fernandez-Alonso, Perez-Zabala & Idarraga 2000 (Trigoniaceae)