Carlos Charlín Correa
Carlos Charlín Correa, Chilean ophthalmologist (Santiago 23 April 1885 – Santiago 31 August 1945) Gained international recognition for his studies on etiology of papilla edema Described iatrogenic diseases in ophthalmology Described pseudodeaf sign in hysterical blinds patients (Charlin Sign) Described Charlin syndrome El Nuevo Síndrome del Nervio Nasal y sus Formas Larvadas. El Dia Medico 4:35, 1931 Le syndrome du nerf nasal, Ann. Ocul. 168:86-102, 1931 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Syphilis of Orbit And Skull. Rev. Med. Chile 47:816, 1919 With C. Lobo Onell & S. Barrenechea. Albuminuric retinitis. Arch. Oftal. Hisp. Amer. 36:549-63, 1926 Symptomenkomplex bei Lasionen des N. nasalis. Arch. Oftalm. Buenos Aires 5:132, 1930 Le syndrome fruste du nerf nasal . Ann. Ocul. 168:808, 1931 Etiologie du syndrome du nerf nasal. Ann. Ocul. 169:257, 1932 La tuberculinotherapie dans les nevralgies faciales idiopathiques et certaines affections essentielles. Publ. Univ. Chile 1, 1940 Neurites oticas de la lactancia. Arch. Oftal. 1, 1944 La neurite del nasale da causa generale
Carlos Chagas Filho
Carlos Chagas Filho, Brazilian biophysicist (Rio de Janeiro 12 September 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 16 February 2000) Son of Carlos Chagas (filho means son in Portuguese) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 200 scientific papers Described action of curare and curare-like action substances in electro plaque Discovered that electro plaques have 2 kinds of excitability Explained operating mechanism of Electrophorus electricus electrical organ Discovered central nucleus that commands electrical discharges in medula oblongata of the eel Described micro heterogeneity of desmin in electrical organ of poraquê (Electrophorus electricus) Identified nicotinic receptor in poraquê (Electrophorus electricus) Showed that acetylcholine played a role in the process of electric discharges of Electrophorus electricus Isolated the acetylcholine membrane receptor of electrical fishes Introduced notion of specific and unspecific receptors With D. Bovet & L. Sollero described the in vivo curarisation of the electric organ of the Electrophorus electricus (1953) With C. Chagas, M. Françon & H.C. Parreira. Nouvelle methode d’etude des gradientes d’indice applicable a la electrophorese. An. Acad. Bras. Cien. 27:385, 1955 On the use of a multivibrator as a Geiger-Muller counter external quenching circuit With M.X. de Oliveira. Electrogênese em cultura de tecidos (1946) With A. Leão, M.F. Moreira & M.S. Santos. On the low voltage discharge of the electrophorus. Nature (1946) With D. Albe-Fessard & H.M. Ferreira. Sur l’existence d’un systeme directment excitable dans l’organe eléctrique. C.R. Acad. Sciences 232:1015-7, 1951 With D. Albe-Fessard & H.M. Ferreira. Sur l’existence d’un systeme effecteur de la décharge electrique des Electrophorus electricus. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1951) Técnica de registro dos potenciais elétricos de miocárdio em cultura HONORS President, Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1973-90) Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris
Carlos Chagas
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das Chagas, Brazilian physician (Oliveira, Minas Gerais State 09 July 1878 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1934) Regarded as world authority on hygiene and tropical pathology ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered and described Chagas disease (1909), identifying etiologic agent (Trypanosoma cruzi), studying its biology and morphology, way of transmission, clinical manifestations, general principles of its epidemiology, its wild reservoir and intermediate host Nova tripanozomiase humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen; n.sp; ajente etiologico de nova entidade mórbida. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 1:159-218, 1909. Described Chagasic cardiopathy (1922) With Eurico Villela. Forma cardiaca da tripanosomiase Americana. Mem. inst. Oswaldo Cruz 14: 5-61, 1922. Described anasarca and hepatomegaly in Chagas disease Described Romaña sign or unilateral eyelid oedema before him Enunciated home theory of malaria transmission undertaking the first successful campaign against malaria in the world (1905) Developed a new and effective technique to malaria control using the insecticide pyrethrum to disinfect houses (the main method for malaria suppression around the world) First to describe lesions of bone marrow in malaria Described edematous form of quartan fever Clarified pernicious outbursts in malaria Discovered Pneumocystis sp. in human beings (1911) First reported the phenomenon of Anopheles stinging during daytime in the sunlight DESCRIBED Diptera Anopheles nigritarsis 1907 Anopheles (Anopheles) intermedius 1908 Anopheles (Myzorhynchella) parvus 1907 Anopheles pseudomaculipes 1908 Cellia braziliensis 1907 (the first diurnal Anopheline known) Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) juxtamansonia 1907 Protozoa Genus Prowazekia 1910 with Hartmann Subgenus Schizotrypanum 1909 Cercomastix parva 1910 with Hartmann Chagasella hartmanni 1910 Haemogregariona lutzi 1910 with Hartmann Trypanosoma cruzi 1909 Trypanosoma minasense 1909 HONORS/EPONYMY Doctor Honoris causa, Harvard University (1921) Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Paris Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles (1934) Schaudinn Prize (1912) Kummel Prize (1925) Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1913 & 1921) Subgenus Chagasia Cruz 1906 (Diptera) Genus Chagasella Machado 1912 (Protozoa) Chagas disease Chagome Asteroid Chagas 9483
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz
Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist (1944 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Amphibia Genus Phasmahyla 1990 Species Aplastodiscus arildae 1987 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus cavicola 1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus flumineus1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus ibirapitinga 2003 with Pimenta & Silvano Aplastodiscus leucopygius 1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus lutzorum 2017 with Berneck, Giaretta, Brandão & Haddad Aplastodiscus sibilatus 2003 with Pimenta & Silvano Aplastodiscus weygoldtii 1987 with Peixoto Boana bandeirantes 2013 with Caramaschi Boana beckeri 2004 with Caramaschi Boana botumirim 2009 with Caramaschi & Nascimento Boana buriti 1999 with Caramaschi Boana ericae 2000 with Caramaschi Boana jaguariaivensis 2010 with Caramaschi & Segalla Boana latistriata 2004 with Caramaschi Boana phaeopleura 2000 with Caramaschi Boana stenocephala 1999 with Caramaschi Bokermannohyla gouveai 1992 with Peixoto Brachycephalus pulex 2011 with Napoli, Caramaschi & Dias Chiasmocleis alagoana 1999 with Caramaschi & Freire Chiasmocleis altomontana 2017 with Forlani, Tonini, Zaher & Sá Chiasmocleis atlantica 1997 with Caramaschi & Izecksohn Chiasmocleis capixaba 1997 with Caramaschi & Izecksohn Chiasmocleis jimi 2001 with Caramaschi Chiasmocleis mantiqueira 2007 with Feio & Cassini Chiasmocleis mehelyi 1997 with Caramaschi Chiasmocleis migueli 2017 with Forlani, Tonini, Zaher & Sá Chiasmocleis sapiranga 2007 with Caramaschi & Napoli Chiasmocleis veracruz 2017 with Forlani, Tonini, Zaher & Sá Crossodactylus franciscanus 2015 with Pimenta & Caramaschi Crossodactylus timbuhy 2014 with Pimenta & Caramaschi Crossodactylus werneri 2014 with Pimenta & Caramaschi Dendrophryniscus krausae 2008 with Fusinatto Dendropsophus pseudomeridianus 2000 with Caramaschi & Dias Hylomantis granulosa 1989 Melanophryniscus peritus 2011 with Caramaschi Melanophryniscus simplex 2011 with Caramaschi Melanophryniscus spectabilis 2011 with Caramaschi Ololygon agilis 1983 with Peixoto Ololygon skuki 2011 with Lima & Azevedo Phasmahyla exilis 1980 Phasmahyla spectabilis 2008 with Feio & Nascimento Phasmahyla timbo 2008 with Napoli & Fonseca Phrynomedusa bokermanni 1991 Phrynomedusa marginata 1976 with Izecksohn Phrynomedusa vanzolinii 1991 Proceratophrys aridus 2012 with Nunes & Juncá Phyllodytes brevirostris 1988 with Peixoto Phyllodytes kautskyi 1988 with Peixoto Phyllodytes maculosus 2007 with Feio & Cardoso Physalaemus camacan 2005 with Pimenta & Silvano Physalaemus erikae 2004 with Pimenta Physalaemus feioi 2010 with Cassini & Caramaschi Physalaemus insperatus 2008 with Cassini & Caramaschi Physalaemus irroratus 2007 with Nascimento & Feio Physalaemus orophilus 2010 with Cassini & Caramaschi Proceratophrys aridus 2012 with Nunes & Juncá Proceratophrys caramaschii 2012 with Nunes & Juncá Proceratophrys gladius 2014 Mangia, Santana & Feio Proceratophrys itamari 2014 with Mangia, Santana & Feio Proceratophrys mantiqueira 2014 with Mangia, Santana & Feio Proceratophrys minuta 2011 with Napoli, Abreu & Del Grande Proceratophrys paviotti 2005 with Prado & Izecksohn Proceratophrys phyllostomus 1999 with Izecksohn & Peixoto Proceratophrys pombali 2014 with Mangia, Santana & Feio Proceratophrys sanctaritae 2010 with Napoli Proceratophrys subguttata 1999 with Izecksohn & Peixoto Pseudis tocantins 1998 with Caramaschi Sphaenorhynchus canga 2015 with Araújo Vieira, Lacerda, Pezzuti & Assis Stereocyclops palmipes 2012 with Salles & Caramaschi Trachycephalus lepidus 2003 with Pombal & Haddad Pisces Species Leptopanchax aureoguttatus 1974 Mucurilebias leitaoi 1992 with Peixoto Ophthalmolebias bokermanni 1987 with Carvalho Rachoviscus graciliceps 1981 with Weitzman Xenurolebias izecksohni 1983 BRAZILIAN PATENT Equipamento de descarga e medição rodoviário automático de combustível PI05031290 B1 (2005) HONORS Cruziohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler 2005 (Amphibia) Cacruzia de Mello 1992 (Orthoptera)
Carlos Alberto Castaño
Carlos Alberto Castaño Bazterrica, Argentine gynecologist (Buenos Aires 26 December 1887 – Buenos Aires 1964) CONCEPTS Proposed the concept of uterine pseudo-fibroma With A.J. Risolia named ovariopatic metrorrhagies in Prensa Med. Arg (1921) Pointed out that gonorrhea may produce genuine syphilitic adnexitis Syphilitic lesions in uterine adnexa. Semana Medica 25(44), 1918 Nuevo concepto etiopatogenico de los fibromiomas uterinos. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. Univ. Buenos Aires 1(2):35-9, 1925 Etiologie et pathogenie des fibromyomes uterins. Conception nouvelle. Bull. Soc. Obst. Gyn. Paris 3:174, 1926 SIGNS Proposed Castaño sign or pudendal point (erotic pain) for pelvic varicocele Signos exteriores de la pulsación cardiaca o choque de la punta. La pulsación cardiaca externa sistolica: demonstración fisiologica, experimental (1908) NEW OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES Proposed the operation for radical cure of pelvic varicocele Varicocele pelvico, su diagnostico y tratamiento: un nuevo procedimiento de curación radical. Rev. Espan. Obst. Gynec. (1921) Pelvic varicocele: diagnosis and the treatment and a new operation for its radical cure. Surgery Gyn. Obst. 40(2):237, 1925 Proposed a surgery for treatment of sclerokystic ovaritis With Anibal S. Introzzi. Nuevo procedimiento quirurgico para el tratamiento de la ovaritis escleroquistica. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. 5:265, 1929 Retroversion et ligamentopexie. Technique personelle (1933)
Camargo family
Theodureto Leite de Almeida Camargo, Brazilian pedologist and agricultural chemist (São Carlos, São Paulo State 22 September 1880 – São Paulo 05 May 1958) Authored works with great repercussion in the country and abroad Proposed a recipe for manuring orangeries Developed Theodureto Camargo method for dosage of nitrogen of caffeine and mono and diaminate acids (1921) With pomologist João Herrmann first to designate soybean as green fertilizer for depleted lands (1930) Proposed a method for determining NaOH or KOH in titrated liquids With R. Hottinger. Determinação da soda ou potassa nos líquidos titulados. Rev. Soc. Cient. S. Paulo 2(9-10):129-32, 1907 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P. Vageler. O solo na sua concepção moderna. Bol. Tec. IAC 49(3):30, 1938 With C.A. Krug. Experiências sobre a adubação da batata. Bol. Tecn. Inst. Agron. Campinas 16:1-36, 193? Physiologia vegetal: influência da relação K/N no desenvolvimento do cafeeiro durante o primeiro período de vegetação (1937) With P. Vageler. Probleme der tropischen und subtropischen Bodenkunde. Bodenk. u. Pflanzenernahr 49(4):137-61, 1937 With P.C. Mello. O papel do cálcio na conservação do poder absorvente do solo. Bol. Tecn. IAC 13:1-12, 1937 With K. Endell & P. Vageler. O papel do húmus nos solos tropicais e subtropicaes, na base de estudos roentgenographicos das suas argilas (1937) With P. Vageler. Analyses dos solos. Bol. Tecn. IAC (1936) With R. Bolliger & P. Correa de Mello. Sur l’influence de la concentration en ions hydrogene du milieu de culture sur le développement du caféier (Coffea arabica L.). Compt. Rend. Hebd. Seances 188:878-80, 1935 With R. Bolliger. Influência do pH do solo sobre a porcentagem de assucar na canna. Bol. Tecnico IAC 8(3-4), 1934 With P.C. Mello. Influence of eight years successive fertilizing with concentrated potassium salts and with kainit on the replaceable bases of the “terra roxa” soil, Brazil. Soil Science 37:167-78, 1934 Sobre o cansaço das terras roxas. Bol. Agric. (1929) With P.C. Mello. Estudo comparativo sobre estado de saturação e bases substituíveis nas terras roxas virgens e cultivadas com cafeeiro há cerca de 30 anos (1928) With J. Herrmann. Contribuição para o estudo da adubação verde das terras roxas cansadas. Bol. Tecn. IAC 1 (1928) O mosaico (1926) Contribuição para o estudo das transformações químicas sofridas pelas folhas do cafeeiro mortas pela geada (1921) Cultura racional da batata (1914) With R. Cruz Martins. A adubação do algodoeiro em terras roxas With J. Herrmann. Experiências com diversas formas de adubos fosfatados Determinação da cor do solo OFFICES Minister of Agriculture (1945-6) and acting Minister of Justice (1946) His son, Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo, Brazilian arachnologist and ornithologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 06 June 1922 – São Paulo 14 July 2006) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Arachnida Genera Capichameta 1955 Chirabicirculigera 1948 with Soares Leitanoctenus 1948 Paralophostica 1948 Sickius 1948 with Soares Wulfilopsis 1955 with Soares Species 90 Aves Valid Species Amazona kawalli 1989 with Grantsau