Eduardo Cabana
Enrique Mario Cabaña Perez, Uruguayan mathematician and statistician (Florida 02 December 1937 – Proposed extending the notion of stochastic integral and Brownian motion to separable Hilbert spaces (1966 & 1969) Generalized the Itô lemma and solved differential stochastic equations independently of Russian Daletzky (Daletzky-Cabaña integral) in 1960s Devised the immersion method With M. Wschebor. On the barrier problem for stationary Gaussian processes. Publ. Inst. Mat. Estatis. 4:123-8, 1969 Defined Brownian leaf The vibrating string forced by white noise. Z.W. Gebiet. 15:111-30, 1970 Introduced barrier problem to solutions in stochastic analysis On the barrier problem for the vibrating noise forced by white noise. Z. Wahrschein. Verw. Gebiete 22:13-24, 1972 Introduced the supremum of a two-parameter process With M. Wschebor. The two-parameter Brownian bridge: Kolmogorov inequalities and upper and lower bounds for the distribution of the maximum. Ann. Probab. 10(2):289-02, 1982 Developed a new estimator of second spectral moment of a stationary Gaussian process Estimation of the spectral moment by means of the extrema. Trab. Estad. Invest. Operativa 36:71-80, 1985 Proposed a new definition of string martingale in the plane On a Wiener martingale characterization of two parameter Wiener processes. Statis. Probab. Lett. 10(3):263-70, 1990 With his daughter A. Cabaña Nigro introduced the concept of transformed empirical processes and developed a general procedure for constructing test classes of distributive disposition with or not parameter estimation using transformed empirical processes (1994-7) Goodness of fit and comparison tests of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov type for bivariate populations. Ann. Statistics 22:1447-59, 1994 Transformed empirical processes and modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests for multivariate distributions. Ann. Statis. 25(6):2388-409, 1997 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With M. Wschebor. An estimate for the tails of the distribution of the supremum for a class of stationary multiparameter Gaussian processes. J. Appl. Probability 18:536-41, 1981 Una familia asintoticamente optima de estadisticos lineales de rangos no anticipativos. Cuad. Estad. Matem. 7(8):73-81, 1984 Affine processes: a test of isotropy based on level sets. SIAM. J. Appl. Mathematics (1987) A Gaussian process with parabolic covariances. J. Appl. Probability 28:898-02, 1991 Modified Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for isotropic distributions in the plane. Sankhya (Ind. J. Statistics) A 58:440-63, 1996 With A. Cabaña. Modified Anderson-Darling test with selective power improvement. Publ. Matem. Uruguay 9:1-13, 2001 A test for symmetry for regression models (2006) Design of continuous regression test by transforming the accumulated residues process (2006) LINKS http://www.cmat.edu.uy/~mordecki/cabana/emc-mordecki.pdf (Spanish) file:///C:/Users/gustavo/Downloads/enrique_cabaña_recibe_este_lunes_el_título_de_doctor_honoris_causa.pdf (Spanish)
Eduardo Caballero y Caballero
Eduardo Caballero y Caballero, Mexican helminthologist and parasitologist (Villahermosa, Tabasco State 26 October 1904 – Ciudad de Mexico 30 December 1974) Authored over 211 works DESCRIBED GENERA Trematoda Botulisaccus 1955 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Cheloniotrema 1957 with Cerecero & Grocott Choanophorus 1942 Haroldmanteria 1972 with Bravo-Hollis Ichthyotrema 1952 with Bravo-Hollis Irinaia 1965 with Bravo-Hollis Kamchatkinella 1972 with Bravo-Hollis Langeronia 1949 with Bravo-Hollis Macrovalvitrema 1957 with Bravo-Hollis Manteria 1950 Maxbraunium 1942 with Cerecero Ochoterenatrema 1943 Parachiorchis 1943 Pseudoacanthostomum 1953 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Pseudomazocraes 1955 with Bravo-Hollis Pseudoparvumcreadium 1957 Pseudopodocotyle 1972 with Rodríguez Pterinotrema 1954 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Pterinotrematoides 1955 with Bravo-Hollis Monogenea (all with Bravo-Hollis) Ahpua 1973 Bychowskimonogenea 1972 Helixaxine 1965 Mexicana 1960 Paracalceostoma 1960 Paramicrocotyle 1972 Parancylodiscoides 1961 Pseudoeurysorchis 1962 Pseudotetrancistrum 1961 Digenea Dermaskrjabinia 1974 with Caballero R. Ornithotrema 1963 with Brenes & Arroyo Pseudocleptodiscus 1961 Robertdigenea 1970 with Caballero R. Hirudinea Americobdella 1956 Batrachobdella 1931 Cymatobranchus 1960 Hygrobdella 1940 Oceanobdella 1956 Pintobdella 1937 Potamobdella 1932 Nematoda Dibulbiger 1935 Foleyellides 1935 Parachandlerella 1948 Saurofilaria 1954 Wehrdikmansia 1945 HONORS Caballeraxine Lebedev 1972 (Monogenea) Caballeria Bychowsky & Nagibina 1972 (Monogenea) Caballerocotyle Price 1960 (Monogenea) Caballerodiscus Sey 1988 (Digenea) Caballeroia Thapar 1960 (Digenea) Caballeroiella Lamothe-Argumedo 1977 (Digenea) Caballerotrema Prudhoe 1960 (Trematoda) Caballerotrematoides Madhavi 1977 (Trematoda) Edcaballerotrema Teixeira de Freitas 1960 (Trematoda) Neocaballerotrema Simha 1977 (Trematoda) Caballeroides Chaturvedi & Khera 1977 (Nematoda) Caballeronema Margolis 1977 (Nematoda) Caballerorhynchus Salgado-Maldonado 1977 (Acanthocephala) Subgenus Caballeroispirura Barus 1963 (Nematoda)
Edilberto Campos
Edilberto de Souza Campos, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Lagarto, Sergipe State 04 September 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 02 April 1971) DEVELOPED NEW TECHNIQUES Novo meio de conservar os instrumentos cortantes. Soc. Med. Bras. Med. 06 June 1925 Método simples e prático de esterilizar instrumentos cortantes. Brasil Medico 23(1):291, 1925 Ciclodiálise transcorneal, simplificação da operação de Heine. Brasil Médico 55(26):445-51, 1941 Nova orientação na operação de pterygio: ressecção sub-mucosa. Brasil Medico 50:42, 1936 Nova orientação na operação de pterygio. II. Bol. Acad. Nac. Med. 108 (3):754, 1936 OTHERS Contribution á l’etude des complications du pterygion. La Clin. Ophtalm. (1909) His son, Evaldo de Mendonça Campos, ophthalmologist (Rio de Janeiro 16 August 1915 – Rio de Janeiro 16 July 2003) Authored over 80 works Designed a hand with four fingers to access the visual acuity of children before the age of six and seven (Evaldo Campos hand) Reported the second case of electric cataract in the world (after Soviet I.S. Chepurina 1941) Cataract produced by electric current. Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 3:21, 1944 Cataract from industrial electricity. Am. J. Ophthalm. 28:111, 1945 OTHERS Effect of retrobulbar anesthesia on ocular tension and vitreous pressure. Am. J. Ophthalm. 33(1), 1950
Dorival Macedo Cardoso
Dorival Macedo Cardoso, Brazilian biochemist (São Paulo 14 July 1907 – São Paulo 16 February 1966) Collaborated with famous studies about the vitamin B in cell oxidations of nervous tissue With P.E. Galvão. Estudos sobre as oxidações na avitaminose B e no jejum. Arch. Inst. Biol. 3:219-48, 1930 Developed hypohysation method (Von Ihering method) for spawning of piracema fishes, used worldwide in fish-farming stations (1934) With R. Von Ihering, P. Azevedo, J. Pereira Jr., Hypophysis and fish reproduction. Intern. Physiol. Congr. 15:211-2, 1935 or Sechenov J. Physiol. Of USSR 21(5-6):211-2, 1935 Verified that the reduction of methylene blue could be used in standardization of BCG vaccine With W.F. Almeida. Padronização do BCG. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 18:633-44, 1950 With W.F. Almeida. BCG seco – determinação de sua viabilidade por um método bioquímico. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 18:119, 1950 Described a simple and fast method for standardization of BCG vaccine With G. Nazario, J. Planet do Amaral & W.F. Almeida. Padronização do BCG. II. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 20:583-92, 1952 Observed that the vitamin B12 content from stools and rumen varies according to food conditions of cattle With W.F. Almeida. Atividade vitamínica B12 no rúmen e nas fezes de bovinos. Sua variação com o regime alimentar. Arq. Inst. Biol. 25:237-52, 1958 Developed a culture medium for dosing of vitamin B12 With W. F. de Almeida. Meio de cultura para a dosagem de vitamina B12 com E. coli 113-3. Arquivos Inst. Biol. 1954
Domingos Fernandes da Costa
Domingos Fernandes da Costa, Brazilian astronomer and geographer (São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro State 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 1956) Started series of micrometrical measurements on double stars (1921-1926) whose results were sent to Robert T.A. Innes, director from Meteorological Observatory in Johannesburg, and included in general catalogue of Southern Hemisphere. Authored observations about Reid, Tempel and Ensor comets in Astronomische Nachrichten (1925) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medidas micrométricas de estrelas duplas efectuadas durante os anos de 1924 a 1926 na equatorial de Cooke de 46 cm (1927) Levantamento magnético do Valle do Rio São Francisco. Relatório e resumo dos resultados (1914)
Domingo Cozzo
Domingo Cozzo Vasi, Argentine forester (Buenos Aires 06 October 1918 – Buenos Aires 10 August 2003) From Sicilian ancestry Authored over 180 scientific works PLANT ANATOMY Una particular anomalia anatomica que sirve a la identificación de la madera del “guatambu” blanco (Balfourodendron riedelianum Engl.) 1960 The structure and diagnostic significance of crateriform bordered pits in the vessels of Cercidium. J. Arnold Arboretum 34:187, 1953 Identification of woods by means of punch cards. Cien. Invest. 6(4):159-64, 1950 Estructura leñosa estratificada no registrada en gêneros de leguminosas argentinas. Lilloa 16 (1948) OTHERS Un recipiente con perforaciones que facilita la manipulación de secciones histológicas libres. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 3(2):105-8, 1950 Described the fossil plant species Nothofagoxylon neuquenense (1950)