Jose Mariano da Conceicao Velloso
José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, Brazilian / Portuguese Franciscan friar, publisher and naturalist (Tiradentes, Minas Gerais State 15 August 1742 – Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1811) His real name was José Vellozo Xavier (some sources give October 14, 1742 as his birth date) Collected animal, plant and mineral specimens in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1783-90) Authored Florae Fluminensis (1790, but published posthumously only in 1825-7) in which described many genera and species of Brazilian flora DESCRIBED VALID TAXA (1825-7) Genera Ravenia Leretia Chresta Schwartzia Cleobula Lamanonia Hilleria Dulacia Joannesia Subgenus Trigonocarpus Incertae sedis Ivonia Species At least 163 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Alographia dos alkalis fixos, vegetal ou potassa, mineral ou soda, e dos seus nitratos (1793) Diccionario Portuguez e Brasiliano (1795) Memórias, e extractos sobre a pipereira negra (Piper nigrum) que produz o fructo conhecido vulgarmente pelo nome de pimenta da India (1798) Memória sobre a cultura do loureiro cinamono, vulgo caneleira de Ceilão, que acompanhou a remessa das plantas da mesma feita de Goa para o Brasil (1798) Quinografia portuguesa: ou collecção de várias memórias sobre vinte e duas espécies de quinas, tendentes ao seu descobrimento nos vastos domínios do Brasil (1799) O Fazendeiro do Brazil (an 11-volume rural encyclopedia) 1799-1806 Relação das moedas dos paizes estrangeiros com o valor de cada huma, reduzido ao dinheiro portuguez para o uso dos comerciantes (1800) Aviario Brazilico ou Galeria Ornithologica das aves índigenas do Brazil (1800) Extracto sobre os engenhos de assucar do Brasil, sobre o methodo já então praticado na factura deste sal essencial (1800) Instrucções para o transporte por mar de arvores, plantas vivas, sementes e de outras diversas curiosidades naturaes (1805) Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum classe criptogamica Linnei, Lichenes dicuntur Descripção de vários peixes do Brazil Tratado da navegação por canais HONORS Mycovellosiella Rangel 1917 (Fungi) Vellosiella Baillon 1887 (Scrophulariaceae)
Jose Maria Velasco
José Maria Tranquilino Francisco de Jesus de Velasco Gomez, Mexican landscape painter, scientific illustrator and naturalist (Temascalcingo, Mexico State 06 July 1840 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 August 1912) AUTHORED Research about anatomy and metamorphosis of axolotl in which described Siredon tigrina (named Ambystoma velasci later) Descripción, metamorphosis y costumbres de una especie nueva del género Siredon, encontrada em el lago de Santa Isabel, cerca de la Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, Valle de Mexico. La Naturaleza 4:209-33, 1879 Anotaciones y observaciones al trabajo del sr. August Weismann sobre la transformación del ajolotle mexicano em Amblystoma. La Naturaleza 5:58-84, 1880 With I. Velasco. Estudios sobre una nueva espécie de falsa jalapa de Querétaro Ipomoea triflora. La Naturaleza 1:338-42, 1870 Estudio sobre la família de las cactáceas de Mexico. La Naturaleza 1:201-3, 1870 HONORS Velascoa Calderón & Rzedowski 1997 (Plantae)
Jose Maria Vargas
José Maria de Las Dolores Vargas Ponce, Venezuelan statesman, physician, naturalist and chemist (La Guaira 10 March 1786 – New York 13 July 1854) He was owner of a mineral collection, a herbarium, a chemical laboratory and the best private library of his country With José da Cruz Limardo obtained alkaloids from Cinchona species Collected more than 800 plant specimens from Venezuela and Caribbean islands that sent to herbaria of De Candolle family (Geneve), Smithsonian Institution and New York Botanical Garden SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medicine Memoria sobre el mal de Lazaro (with J.J. Hernandez) Memoria sobre los aneurismas (1828) Memoria sobre los nervios cervicales y de los cardíacos observados en un loco (1828) Memoria sobre el dengue (1828) Monografia sobre casos practicos de insectos en las fosas nasales (1828) Memoria sobre los perjuicios de la pesca, por médio de barbasco, y otros venenos (1828) Memoria sobre dos fetos monstruosos (1828) Memoria sobre um aneurisma de la artéria hepática (1828) Memoria sobre uma singular distribución de los ureteres, observada em um cadáver disecado em el anfiteatro de la classe de Anatomia (1829) Descripción de una ptósis en el ojo derecho de un hombre (1829) Memoria sobre el cólera morbus (1831) Monografia sobre la epilepsia (1831) Instrucción popular sobre el cólera (1832) Manual de Cirurgia (1841) Botany Organografia Observaciones sobre el sistema de Linneo Plantas útiles de Venezuela y Puerto Rico Monografia sobre las gramíneas OFFICE President of Venezuela (09 February – 09 July 1835; 20 August 1835-24 April 1836) HONORS Elected Member, Royal College of Surgeons of London (1810s) Genus Vargasia Bertero 1825 (Sapindaceae)
Jose Antonio Valdes Anciano
José Antonio Felix de la Caridad Valdés y Anciano, Cuban neurologist (Matanzas 31 March 1867 – La Habana 10 March 1923) First reported a generalized hereditary emphysema Enfisema generalizado de caracter familiar (1896) Reported the youngest patient with acromegaly Acromegalia en un negro de 14 años. Presse Medicale (1897) First in the world to use antidiphteric serum for treating other diseases beyond diphtheria Un caso de bronquitis seudo-membranosa, estafilocóccica, sin bacilos de Loeffler, tratado com êxito por el suero de Roux (1897) First reported the coexistence of pseudohypertrophic myopathy and Friedrich disease in the same patient Enfermedad de Friedrich y miopatia pseudohipertrofica coexistentes en un mesmo individuo. Rev. Med. Cubana 3:125, 1904 First reported the coexistence of chronic trophoedema and acromegaly Trofoedema cronico pseudoelefantiasico en un negro acromegalico. Rev. Med. Cubana 9:15, 1906 Enunciated a new theory about mitral functional narrowness With Filomeno Rodríguez Acosta Nueva teoría sobre la estrechez mitral funcional. Rev. Med. Cubana 21:61, 1912 HONOURS Foreigner Associated Member, Medic Psychological Society, Paris (1910) Correspondent Member, Neurological Society of Philadelphia (1906) Honorary Member, Societé Medecine Mentale de Belgique LINKS http://www.revmatanzas.sld.cu/revista%20medica/ano%202007/vol1%202007/tema17.htm (in Spanish)
Johannes Petrus Van der Walt
Johannes Petrus Van der Walt, South African mycologist (1925 – 13 November 2011) With K. Hopsu-Havu introduced the Diazonium Blue B test for yeast species characterization (1976) DESCRIBED VALID YEAST TAXA Genera Ambrosiozyma 1972 Cyniclomyces 1971 with Scott Dekkera 1964 Entelexis 1973 with Johannsen Hyphopichia 1976 with Von Arx Kluyveromyces 1956 Lodderomyces 1966 Myxozyma 1981 with Von Arx & Weijman Wickerhamiella 1973 Yarrowia 1981 with Von Arx Species 88 HONORS Vanderwaltozyma Kurtzman 2003 (yeast) LINKS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539321
Joel Valencia Parparcén
Joel Valencia Parparcén, Venezuelan gastroenterologist (Porlamar, Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta State 23 November 1913 – Madrid, Spain 27 December 1985) Descent from Jewish Dutch of Curazao Authored over 400 scientific and educational works He was president of World Organization of Gastroenterology (1978) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Candia, R. Ferro & B. Bruni-Celli. Lipoma submucoso de cólon. G.E.N. 11:93-8, 1956 With L. Carbonell, B. Bruni-Celli & V. Madureri. La gastritis y su diagnostic mediante la biopsies cega. Rev. Sinopsis Latinoam. Gastroenterol. 3(1):9, 1960 With S. Beker, L. Carbonell, N.B. Bosch & R.P. Moncada. Estudios funcionales y histopatologicos en el syndrome de malabsorción intestinal. G.E.N 15:461-76, 1961 With H. Romer. Gastritis: a study of 1000 consecutive gastric biopsies. Amer.J. Dig. Dis. 8:798, 1963 With S. Beker, A. Rivas Gómez & P.R. Moncada. Strongyloidiasis intestinal en Venezuela. G.E.N. 17:285-95, 1963 With S. Beker, J. Carbonell & P.R. Moncada. Biopsia de la mucosa intestinal en ciertas parasitosis intestinales (Necatoriasis y Strongiloidiasis). G.E.N. 17(3):377-82, 1963 With R. Salomón. Fotografia endoscopica. Evaluación en el diagnostico. G.E.N. 20:79, 1965 With G. D’Escrivan. Hiatal hernia and its cardiovascular manifestations. Prensa Méd. Arg. 52(45):2833-9, 1965 With E. Candia. Technique and diagnostic value of the transparieto-hepatic cholangiography. Am.J. Gastroenterol. 47(5):389-411, 1967 With S. Beker. Portal hypertension syndrome. A comparative analysis of bilharzial fibrosis and hepatic cirrhosis. Amer.J. Dig. Dis. 13 (12):1047-54, 1968 With S. Beker & M. de Gonzalez. Hepatitis viral postransfusional. Prensa Med. Arg. 55(27):1286-7, 1968 With S. Beker, P. Grases & M. Gonzalez. Coma hepatico por hepatitis aguda. G.E.N. 28:401, 1969 With G. D’Escrivan. Hernia hiatal y lesiones de la unión esofagogástrica. G.E.N. 25:55-69, 1970 With C. Alemán-Gavotti & B. Bruni-Celli. Ultrastructure of the gastric mucosa in atrophic gastritis. Archives Fr. Malad. App. Digest., 1970 With V.L. Torres & G. D’Escrivan. Normes pour le diagnostic radiologique des petites hernies hiatales. Ann. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 6(6):473-85, 1970 Tubeless hypotonic duodenography. G.E.N. 27(2):157-83, 1972 With M. Guelrud, H.Niño & M. Dao. Angiographic aspects of pancreatic neoplasms. G.E.N. 1972 With B. Bruni-Celli. Hypertrophic gastritis versus gastric carcinoma. Amer. J. Gastroenterol. 59(2):119-33, 1973 Alcoholic gastritis. Clin. Gastroenterol. 10:389-99, 1981