Augusto Cicare
Augusto Ulderico Cicaré Ercoli, Argentine mechanical engineer (Polvaredas, Saladillo Department, Buenos Aires Province 25 May 1937 – Saladillo Department, Buenos Aires Province 26 January 2022) From Italian ancestry Regarded as a world reference in this field and a world pioneer in ultralight helicopters Many helicopter companies have based their developments on ultra-light helicopters developed by his company DESIGNED A new four-strokes engine with 4-V cylinders for use in DKW automobiles (1960s) A new fuel axial type injection pump for Diesel engines (1987) A four cylinder, two strokes aircraft engine with 60HP Oil recovery pumps that can be found in most racing cars in the tourism category (1972 & 1980) Oil and gasoil filters for diesel engines (1973) A rotary injection pump A novel system that allows to operate Diesel engines with two fuels (Cicaré dual Diesel-Gas System) 2002 A scooter HELICOPTERS Built 13 helicopter models (1958, 1964, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998 e 2001) Cicaré CH 1 (first helicopter built in Latin America) 1958 Cicaré CH 3 presented with a four blade rigid rotor, with the hub made of composites and a hydraulic system to assist the commands (1973) Cicaré CH 4 (1982) & CH 7 (1991) models were recognized for their innovative command systems Cicaré CH 6 (with 582 rotary engine) designed in 1987; successful displayed in Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkoshi, USA (1990) Cicaré CH 11C a counter-rotating helicopter with a novel cyclic system (1998) Flight Simulators The first Aircraft flight simulator of Latin America (1969) Cicaré SVH-3 Helicopter Flight Simulator with unique characteristics with potential to revolutionize the training system in the world 1994 Cicaré SVH4 with a new electronic safety control system (2014) PATENTS A lubricating system for two strokes diesel engines (1965) Transformed the Ford and Chevrolet six cylinder engines from the use of gasoline fuel to diesel and obtained the patent of the invention of this system with a new tapa de cilindros (nº234.852) (1975) Mechanism for controlling pitch change in helicopter blades (designed in 1987; patented in 1990) US5165851A (1992) EP0589091 A1 (1992) HONOURS Gold Medal, Vehicles, Nautical, Aeronautic and Accessories Section, International Exhibition of Inventors, Geneve (1999) for his flight simulator LINKS www.cicare.com.ar/en-augusto-cicare.html
Asim Cenani
Asim Cenani, Turkish pediatrician and geneticist (Gaziantep 24 May 1931 – First reported case of a female patient mosaic for a supernumerary small marker chromosome derived from X With A. Silahtaroglu, S. Hacihanefioglu, S. Yilmaz, Y. Tarkan-Arguden & Z. Turner. A small supernumerary marker chromosome X identified by in situ hybridization. Clin. Genet. 47(5):270-3, 1995 DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES With W. Lenz. Totale syndaktylie und totale radio-ulnare Synostose bei zwei Bruedern. Z. Kinderheilkd. 101 (3):181-90, 1967 (Cenani-Lenz syndactyly) With A.N. Mindikoglu & A. Erginel. An unknown syndrome of nose deformity, oxycephaly, aplasia of the nasolacrimal ducts, and symmetrical cyst formation on the upper lip in siblings: craniorhiny. Plast. Reconst. Surg. 88 (4):699-702, 1991 With A. Yuksel, M.M. Seven, A. Deviren, M.K. Soulemez, S. Hacihanefioglu & T. Ulutin. Two female siblings with a previously unreported MCA/MR syndrome: pre and postnatal growth retardation, iris colobomata, spasticity, facial dysmorphism and dilated ventricles. Genet. Counseling 10(3):265-9, 1999
Ascensión Laurentino Cabrera
Ascención Laurentino Cabrera, Argentine astronomer and geodesist (1917 – 27 February 2003) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Feinstein & J.J. Claria. Multicolor photometry of the open cluster NGC 2287 (1978) With A. Feinstein & J.C. Forte. The total lunar eclipse of May 24-25 (1975) HONORS Asteroid Cabrera 2997
Arturo Curbelo
Arturo Curbelo Hernandez, Cuban bacteriologist (Pinar del Río 01 September 1901 – La Habana 21 April 1973) Authored 264 papers and 11 books Discovered the etiology of epidemic ileocolitis Proposed Havana doctrine or Escherichia coli pathogenicity Metodo ideal de administración del Lactobacillus acidophilus con fines terapeuticos. Rev. Med. Cubana (1931) With Reinaldo Marquez Camacho discovered new serotypes: Salmonella cubana (1945) & Salmonella havana (1937) Authored the book chapter Fever due to rat bite including sodoku in Clinical Laboratory Methods and Diagnosis by Robert Gradwohl (1943)
Arturo Carrion
Arturo Lorenzo Carrión Pacheco, Puerto Rican medical mycologist and epidemiologist (Rio Piedras 15 August 1893 – San Juan October 1990) Described the fungal species Rhinocladiella compacta 1935 Reported that Fonsecaea pedrosoi could be the etiological agent of chromomycosis (1935) With C.W. Emmons. A spore form common to three etiologic agents of chromoblastomycosis. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:114, 1935 Chromobiomycosis: new clinical type caused by Hormodendron compactum. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:663, 1936 Cephalosporium falciforme sp.nov., a new etiologic agent of maduromycosis. Mycologia 43:522-3, 1951 Chromoblastomycosis and related infections. New concepts, differential diagnosis and nomenclatural implications. Int. J. Dermat. 14:27-32, 1975 Eponym of Pedroso-Carrión disease or chromoblastomycosis
Armando & Candida Helena Conagin
Armando Conagin, Brazilian biostatistician (Campinas, São Paulo State 19 January 1922 – Campinas, São Paulo State 14 May 2018) DEVELOPED / MODIFIED STATISTICAL TESTS With D. Barbin & C.G.B. Demetrio. Modified Dunnett’s test for a randomized complete block design. Rev. Bras. Biom. 29(4):559-610, 2011 With D. Barbin & C.G.B. Demetrio. Modifications for the Tukey test procedure and evaluation of the power and efficiency of multiple comparison procedures. Scientia Agricola 65:428-32, 2008 With D, Barbin. Bonferroni’s and Sidak’s modified tests. Scientia Agricola 63:70-6, 2006 With L.A. Ambrosio. Delineamento 1/8 (44) em blocos de 16 unidades. Braz. J. Agric. 81(2), 2006 Discriminative power of the modified Bonferroni’s test under general and partial null hypothesis. Rev. Agric. 74:117-26, 1999 OTHER TECHNIQUES With R.S. Garruti. Escala de valores para avaliação da qualidade de bebida de café (A scoring scale for quality evaluation of the coffee beverage). Bragantia 20:557-62, 1961 With F. Grohmann. Técnica para o estudo da estabilidade de agregados do solo. Bragantia 19(22):329-43, 1960 With J.R. Gallo. Acid-soluble phosphorus in leaves as a diagnostic aid of the nutritional status of corn (1960) With R.A. Catani, J.R. Gallo & H. Gargantini. Amostragem de solo para estudos de fertilidade. Bragantia 14:19-26, 1955 (a technique for collecting soil samples in order to study fertility) His wife, Candida Helena Teixeira Mendes Conagin, Brazilian plant cytogeneticist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 16 June 1917 – Campinas, São Paulo State 04 January 2010) Sister of agronomist Antonio José Teixeira Mendes DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES com Dixier M. Medina Nova técnica para a contagem de cromossomos em amendoim (Arachis hypogaea L.). Bragantia 22:423-44, 1963 With D.M. Medina. A technique for tetrad analysis and pollen viability in Tecnica Citologica Publ. 260 (1964) With D.M. Medina & C.R.L. Longo. Technique for chromosome observation in Coffea embryos. Caryologia 24:365-70, 1971 Paradichlorobenzene for chromosome counts. Stain Technol. 26(4):274, 1951 O melhoramento do amendoim cultivado (Arachis hypogaea L.) por meio de cruzamentos. Técnica empregada. Bragantia 15(20):297-300, 1956