Castellanos brothers
Alfredo Castellanos Camara, Argentine paleontologist, stratigrapher and geographer (Buenos Aires 25 July 1893 – Rosario 22 June 1975) Authored studies on paleontology, paleoanthropology, stratigraphy and geomorphology DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Berthawyleria 1940 (in honor to his wife Bertha Wyler de Castellanos) Chlamyphractus 1940 Daedicuroides 1941 Dasypodon 1927 Eosclerophorus 1948 Glyptocoileus 1948 Glyptopedius 1953 Glyptostracon 1953 Hoffstetteria 1957 Isolinia 1951 Kraglievichia 1927 Lomaphorops 1932 Nonotherium 1942 Palaeodaedicurus 1928 Paraglyptodon 1932 Parahoplophorus 1932 Peiranoa 1946 Plaina 1937 Plohophoroides 1929 Pseudoplohophorus 1926 Pseudothoracophorus 1951 Rohnia 1957 Stromatherium 1953 Urotherium 1926 Xiphuroides 1928 HONORS Castellanosia Kraglievich 1932 (Fossil Mammalia) See www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/fisiografia/PAB/P64.pdf His brother, Alberto Castellanos Camara, botanist (Cordoba 02 December 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 05 September 1968) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Condalia megacarpa 1957 Condalia montana 1939 Deuterocohnia haumanii 1929 Deuterocohnia schreiteri 1929 Dyckia mitis 1929 Dyckia ragonesei 1944 Eriocaulon misionum 1945 Ficus maroma 1944 Gymnocalycium ragonesi 1950 Hatiora herminiae 1941 with Porto Hippeastrum aglaiae 1941 Jatropha matacensis 1958 Opuntia araucana 1964 Opuntia colubrina 1955 Pitcairnia chiriguana 1929 Puya harmsii 1933 Puya lilloi 1929 Puya smithii 1938 Puya yakespala 1945 Tephrocactus geometricus 1934 Tillandsia diaguitensis 1929 Tillandsia funebris 1933 Tillandsia jucunda 1929 Tillandsia peiranoi 1938 HONORS Castellanosia Cardenas 1953 (Cactaceae)
Cassiano Conzatti
Cassiano Conzatti, Italian-born Mexican botanist (Comune di Civezzano, Trento Province 13 August 1862 – Oaxaca 02 March 1951) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Bumelia eloxochitlensis 1941 with R.E. Schultes Bumelia eriocarpa 1912 with Greenman Croton zavaletae Cyperus penicillatus 1943 Dictyanthus tigrinus 1924 with Standley Habenaria arachnea 1947 Habenaria rotundifolia 1947 Heliconia pochutlensis 1947 Iresine herrerae 1918 with Blake Jacquemontia sinuata 1897 with L.C. Smith Polypodium oaxacanum 1946 Sysirinchium longispathum 1947 HONORS Conzattia Rose 1909 (Fabaceae)
Carmen Lelia Cristobal
Carmen Lelia Cristóbal Cañé, Argentine botanist (Tafi Viejo, Tucuman Province 01 December 1932 – Married to botanist Antonio Krapovickas DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Sterculiaceae Genera Megatritheca 1965 Rayleya 1981 Sections 6 Species 87 Malvaceae Section Lebretonia (1962) with Krapovickas Species 20 espécies HONORS Cristobalia Morillo, Caceres & Keller 2015 (Apocynaceae)
Carlos S. Carbonell
Carlos Salvador Carbonell Mas, Uruguayan entomologist (Montevideo 22 December 1917 – Montevideo 15 August 2019) DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA GENERA Albinella 2002 Albrechtia 1978 with Descamps Atacamacris 1972 with Mesa Baeacris 1977 with Fraser & Rowell Carrascotettix 1995 Costalimacris 1988 with Seabra Digamacris 1989 Episomacris 1978 with Descamps Eucosmetacris 1978 with Descamps Eulampiacris 1978 with Descamps Haroldgrantia 1967 with Ronderos & Mesa Hippariacris 1978 with Descamps Illapelia 1972 with Mesa Jagomphacerus 1995 Kyphiacris 1978 with Descamps Lamiacris 1978 Leptoteracris 1978 with Descamps Limacridium 1988 with Seabra Nepiopteracris 1978 with Descamps Orotettix 1994 with Ronderos Pseudaristia 2002 Radacridium 1984 Rehnuciera 1969 Ronderosacris 1978 with Descamps Rowellia 2002 Scyllinula 1995 Staleochlora 1992 with Roberts Stenelutracris 1978 with Descamps Tepuiacris 2002 Tingomariacris 1978 with Descamps HONORS Carbonellia Mateu 1968 (Coleoptera) Salvadoracris Costa 2006 (Orthoptera) Carbonellis Bentos Pereira 2006 (Orthoptera) Carbonellacris Roberts 1978 (Orthoptera) Carbonelliella Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona 2015 (Orthoptera)
Carlos Eugenio Chardon
Carlos Eugenio Chardon Palacios, Puerto Rican plant pathologist and mycologist (Ponce 28 September 1897 – San Juan 07 March 1965) From French descent Discovered Aphis maidis as the vector of sugar cane mosaic virus (1922) With Raphael A. Veve. The transmission of sugar cane mosaic by Aphis maidis under field conditions in Puerto Rico. Phytopathology 13:24-9, 1923 Um nuevo “Smut” de Puerto Rico. Rev. Agr. 6(4):21, 1921 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Order Coryneliales 1926 with Seaver Valid Genera Dictyochorina 1932 Glabrotheca 1939 Leptosporina 1939 Species More than a hundred HONORS (Fungi) Chardonia Ciferri 1930 Chardoniella Kern 1939
Carlos Eugenio Cardini
Carlos Eugenio Cardini Bellati, Argentine biochemist (Buenos Aires 09 December 1911 – Buenos Aires 10 August 1992) From Italian grandparents With R. Caputto, L.F. Leloir and A. Paladini discovered sugar nucleotides, determined its chemical nature and showed that play a key role in sugar interconversion and polysaccharides synthesis (1948) With L.F. Leloir established that in plant tissues two reactions can lead to synthesis of sucrose (1953-5) With L.F. Leloir suggested the involvement of uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine in chitin synthesis (1953) With L.F. Leloir and J. Chiriboga synthesized sucrose (1955) With L.F. Leloir described an alternative mechanism for synthesis of glycogen from UDP-glucose and glycogen synthase (1957) With Yamaha & Leloir demonstrated that glycosides synthesis via UDPG (1960) With Fekete & Leloir discovered enzymatic system that catalyzes sucrose transformation into starch (1960) With Rosalía B. de Frydman & Luis F. Leloir demonstrated that phytoglycogen biosynthesis from ADP-glucose (1965) Demonstrated the starch biosynthesis in vascular plants by ADP-glucose With R.B. Frydman & B.C. Souza. Distribution of adenosine diphosphate D-glucose: a 1-4-glucan a-4glucosyl-transferase in higher plants. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 113:620-3, 1966 With R.E. Trucco. A new phosphoric esther of glucose and its function as a coenzyme. Cien. Invest. 4(10):433-5, 1948 METHODS/TECHNIQUES With Cabib and Leloir suggested the use of sodium chloride in dilute hydrochloric acid for eluting nucleotides from a column of ion-exchange resin and introduced the technique of purifying nucleotides with Norite Developed a new procedure for determination of choline With A.D. Marenzi. The colorimetric determination of choline. J. Biol. Chem. 147:363, 1943 A procedure for preparation of β-α-nitrosonaphthol and an assay for cobalt With W. Jung & M. Fuksman. El β-α-nitrosonaftol como reactive del cobalto. II. Colorimetria y fotometria del cobalto. Anal. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 21:191, 1943 With A.D. Marenzi. Colorimetric micromethod for determining total and unsaturated fat acids of blood. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 19:118-30, 1930 PAPERS IN NATURE With T. Yamaha. Biosynthesis of plant glycosides from uridine diphosphate glucose. Nature 182 (4647):1446-7, 1958 With M.A. Rongine de Fekete & L.F. Leloir. Mechanism of starch biosynthesis. Nature 187:918-9, 1960 With J.C. Trivelloni & E. Recondo. Adenosine diphosphate glucose and glucoside biosynthesis. Nature 195:1202, 1962 EPONYMY Leloir pathway or Leloir cycle or Leloir-Cardini cycle (galactose metabolism) Leloir-Cardini enzyme (UDP glucose glycogen transglucoxylase)