Cruz-Coke family
Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe, Chilean biochemist (Valparaiso 22 April 1899 – Santiago 18 March 1974) From French mother and English grandfather ACHIEVEMENTS Developed the idea that molecular fluctuations exert a major influence on cells rather than that exerted by thermodynamics anticipating J. Monod Las transformaciones de la energia en los organismos vivos. Rev. La Clinica 4:517-30, 1927 Discovered tyrosine molecule in angiotensin Identified a factor of “energy yield” in oxidation reactions Factores componentes del metabolismo. Rev. Med. Chile 68:159-62, 1940 With J. Mardones & M. Plaza de los Reyes proposed a scheme of a number of biochemical reactions in renal hypertension mechanism METHODS Developed chemical methods for inactivating angiotensin (1946) With L. Lapicque. Nouvelle methode de dialyse chloroformique. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. Paris 96:946-8, 1927 Sur une reaction chimique de la vitamine antirachitique. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. Paris 105, 1930 A colour reaction of vitamine E with vitamine K and cysteine. Nature 181(4601):49, 1958 Papers in top journals With F. Gonzalez & W. Hulsen. The use of ionic exchange resins for the purification of penicillin and hypertensin. Science 101 (2622), 1945 (A simple method of purifying penicillin by means of synthetic resins) Inactivation of hypertensin. Science 104 (2691):86, 1946 Mechanism of renal hypertension. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 3:32-60, 1946 HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences Honorary Member, United States Surgeons Association Vice-president, First International Congress of Biochemistry, Cambridge (1949) His son, Ricardo Cruz-Coke Madrid, Chilean physician (Santiago de Chile 13 August 1925 – Santiago de Chile 26 October 2016) Authored about 300 publications about medicine, genetics, ethics and history Described a nomogram to estimate the chance of consanguinity for specific autosomal recessive diseases Nomogram for estimating specific consanguinity risks. J. Med. Genet. 19(3):216-7, 1982 Sexagesimal scale for mapping human genome. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 74(1):91-7, 2001 A general diagram of human genome. J. Med. Genet. 27:388-9, 1990 With J.C. Silva. Medical genetic study by computer of a universal sample of livebirths. I. Introduction to the methods. Rev. Med. Chile 97(5):320-31, 1969 With J. Mardones. Detection of the segment of the population vulnerable to alcoholism, by means of a genetic marker Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam. 71(3):187-93, 1971 Papers / Letters in Lancet Genetic diagram of the human family. Lancet 304 (7872):109, 1974 Genetic theory and the alcoholic phenotype. Lancet 302 (7840):276, 1973 With G.J. Gorrell & H.C. Thuline. Inheritance of alcoholism. Lancet 289 (7484):274-5, 1967 With A. Varela. Inheritance of alcoholism. Its association with colour-blindness. Lancet 2 (7476):1282-4, 1966 With A. Varela. Colour-blindness and alcohol addiction. Lancet 2 (7426):1348, 1965 Colour-blindness and cirrhosis of the liver. Lancet 1 (7396):1131-3, 1965 With R. Etcheverry & R. Nagel. Influence of migration on blood pressure of Easter Islanders. Lancet 1 (7335):697-9, 1964 Absence of essential hypertension. Lancet 278 (7214):1255, 1961 Environmental influences and arterial blood pressure. Lancet 2 (7156):885-6, 1960 The nature of hypertension. Lancet 275 (7134):1128, 1960 The nature of essential hypertension. Lancet 274 (7107):853, 1959 Diastolic pressure and malignant hypertension. Lancet 272 (7049):752-3, 1958 With M. Plaza de los Reyes, R. Orozco, I. Matus & A. Cristofanini. Influenzal pneumonia treated with cortisone and antibiotics. Lancet 270:7000-5, 1957
Clodoveo Carrion Mora
Clodoveo Augusto David Baltazar Carrión Mora, Ecuadorian naturalist (Loja 11 June 1883 – Guayaquil 09 December 1957) Discovered and collected specimens of fossil plants and fishes, arthropods, reptiles, amphibians and birds from which new species were described SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudios cientificos: insectos fósiles en la hoya de Loja. Revista Mediodía CCE 11:1-14, 1935 Breves consideraciones sobre la paleontologia de Loja. Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo 1(1):313-6, 1935 Contribución a la paleontologia de las provincias de Azuay y Loja. Rev. Universitaria 2(2-3):150-61, 1934 Breves consideraciones sobre la flora y fauna de la Provincia de Loja (1930) El chirimoyo (Annona cherimolia). Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo 4(5):313-6, 1930 El huato o guato (Erythrina sp.). Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo 1(1):15-20, 1925 La achira. Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo 5 (46):317-9, 1918 El algodonero. Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo (1914) Historia natural de la provincia de Loja (1909) Monografia de algunas plantas textiles y tintoreas de la provincia de Loja El chulco (Oxalis sp.) Plantas fósiles del valle de Malacatos HONORS Carrionellus White 1927 (Fossil Pisces) Carrionia Muir 1931 (Hemiptera)
Cleofe Elsa Calderón
Cleofe Elsa Calderón, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 26 October 1929 – Buenos Aires 19 March 2007) DESCRIBED POACEAE TAXA (With Soderstrom) Tribe Streptogynaeae 1980 Genera Maclurolyra 1973 Leptophyllochloa 1978 Arberella 1979 Otatea 1980 Species Arberella dressleri Chusquea angustifolia Chusquea circinata Chusquea coronalis Chusquea longiligulata Chusquea scabra Chusquea vulcanalis Koeleria fueguina Koeleria vurilochensis Maclurolyra tecta HONORS Calderonella Soderstrom & Decker 1973 (Poaceae)
Cleide Costa
Cleide Costa, Brazilian entomologist (22 October 1940 – With E.J. H. Bechara & P. Colepicolo Neto showed the ecological role of fireflies bioluminescent larvae for termite nest and around it (1986) With S. Vanin & P. Colepicolo Neto. Larvae of Neotropical Coleoptera, XIV: First Record of bioluminescence in the family Staphilinidae (Xantholinini). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 30:101-4, 1986 DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Subfamily Campyloxeninae 1975 Tribes Euplinthinii 1975 Platycrepidiini 1993 with Casari-Chen Subtribes Compsoplinthina 1975 Euplinthina 1975 Hapsodrilina 1975 Nyctophyxina 1975 Genera Afrocerophytum 2014 with Vanin & Rosa Agnostelater 1975 Arcanelater 1975 Brachycerophytum 2003 with Vanin, Lawrence & Ide Bucklelater 1973 Coctilelater 1975 Compsoplinthus 1975 Cryptolampros 1975 Deilelater 1975 Euplinthus 1975 Fulgeochlizus 1975 Hapsodrilus 1975 Ignelater 1975 Lygelater 1975 Metapyrophorus 2009 with Rosa Neoarhaphes 1966 Noxlumenes 1975 Nyctophyxis 1975 Opselater 1975 Phytocerum 2003 with Vanin, Lawrence & Ide Ptesimopsia 1975 Pyrearinus 1975 Pyroptesis 1975 Sooporanga 1975 Vesperelater 1975 HONORS Cleidecosta Johnson 2002 (Coleoptera)
Claudio Costa Neto
Cláudio Costa Neto, Brazilian chemist (Rio de Janeiro 11 December 1932 – PROPOSED Uma notação linear para moléculas orgânicas explicítas em grupamentos funcionais e esqueletos hidrocarbônicos. Anais Acad, Bras. Ciencias 66:23, 1994 Theoretical organic geochemistry. I. An alternative model for the epimerization of hydrocarbonic chiral centers in sediments. Organic Geochem. 10:834-8, 1988 Um modelo de não-equilíbrio para o comportamento cromatográfico. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 37:580, 1965 METHODS/PATENTS With F. Feigl spot test for diketones and quinines based on catalytic effect (1956) A synthetic procedure of pyrazinamide using acetate and ethyl acrylate (patented) Perfected process for preparation of phosphoric triesters (1991) Process for preparation of phosphoric triesters from alcooxydes (1991) Process for production of soft aggregates (1984)
Claudio Canut de Bon
Claudio Canut de Bon Urrutia, Chilean industrial mining engineer (1937 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Cucurella & M.E. Cisternas. Pyrobitumen related to silver-copper deposits in a Cretaceous volcanic-sedimentary sequence: Talcuna district, Coquimbo, Chile. Mineral. Polonica 36(1):9-21, 2005 With R. Coenraads. Lapis lazuli from the Coquimbo Region, Chile. Gems & Gemology 36(1):28-41, 2000 With E. Gilabert, B. Lavielle, R.B. Scorzelli, I. Souza Azevedo, G. Poupeau. The Morro de la Mina H Chondrite: a noble gas study and Mossbauer spectroscopy evidences for terrestrial alteration. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34 Suppl. p.A43 (1999) With R. Ardila, E.R. Carrascal, S. Canchaya & R. Collao. Geologia de los skarns cupriferos del Distrito de San Antonio, Región de Coquimbo, Chile (1994) With H. Pedersen & H. Lindgren. Vaca Muerta mesosiderite strewnfield. Meteoritics 27:126-35, 1992 With C. Gebauer, M. Gaete & J. Campos. Obtención de un concentrado cobre-cobalto a partir de un mineral sulfurado polimetalico conteniendo arsenico de la IV Región (1991) HONORS Canutite Kampf, Mills, Hatert, Nash, Dini & Molina Donoso 2014 (Mineral)