Alexandre Pinto Corrado
Alexandre Pinto Corrado, Brazilian neuropharmacologist (01 January 1930 – Studied physiopathological implications of nociceptive responses induced by bradykinin With F.G. Graeff characterized resulting behavioral, autonomic and analgesic effects of intracerebroventricular application of bradykinin With A.O. Ramos & C.T. Escobar clarified the mechanism of potentiation caused by antibiotics amino glycosides to curare-induced neuromuscular block With O. Vital Brazil discovered neuromuscular action of antibiotics and the blocking mechanism of streptomycin in high doses (1957)
Alcides Carvalho
Alcides Carvalho, Brazilian agronomist and plant geneticist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 20 September 1913 – Campinas, São Paulo State 18 April 1993) ACHIEVEMENTS Published 272 scientific papers about Coffea sp. Studied genetic improvement of coffee plant, developed varieties with more productivity in various environments and resistant to agricultural pests With M.N. Rhoades. A função e a estrutura dos plastídeos das células parenquimatosas que envolvem os feixes vasculares da folha do milho. Bragantia 6:189-202, 1946 With C.A. Krug, J.E.T. Mendes & A. Carvalho. A new type of coffee. Bragantia 10(1):11-25, 1950 With C. A. Krug & J.E.T. Mendes found many new varieties of coffee plants With C. A. Krug & J.E.T. Mendes performed the main researches concerning to coffee plant genetics in the world Proposed a new grouping of species from Eucoffea section With L.C. Monaco. Genetic relationships of selected Coffea species. Cien. Cult. 19:151-65, 1967 Papers in Nature With C.A. Krug. Genetical proof of existence of coffee endosperm. Nature 144 (3646):515, 1939 Linkage in Coffea arabica. Nature 189 (4765):685-6, 1961 With J.S. Tango & L.C. Monaco. Genetic control of caffeine content of coffee. Nature 205:314, 1965 DEVELOPED COFFEE VARIETIES (65) Mundo Novo (1952) Acaiá (1960s) Catuaí Vermelho & Catuaí Amarelo (1972) Caturra Vermelho & Caturra Amarelo Icatu vermelho, Icatu amarelo & Icatu precoce (1992) Bourbon Amarelo & Bourbon Vermelho Obatã Tupi Apoatã Catimor Sarchimor Ibairi Approximately 90% of coffee varieties in Brazil and other countries were developed by him (data from 1993)
Alceu Lemos de Castro
Alceu Lemos de Castro, Brazilian carcinologist (Rio de Janeiro 13 November 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 27 September 1988) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Family Pudeoniscidae 1973 Genera Amazoniscus 1967 Benthanoides 1958 Benthanoscia 1958 Brasiloniscus 1973 Fritzianira 1977 (with Brasil Lima) Hemicepon 1980 (with Brasil Lima) Hileioniscus 1967 Microsphaeroniscus 1985 Paracymothoa 1955 Parischioscia 1967 Species At least 75 Described a dermapteran species Spongiphora moreirai 1947 with Machado HONORS Castrione Brasil Lima 1980 (Crustacea)
Alberto Pedro Calderón
Alberto Pedro Calderón Cores, US / Argentine mathematician (Mendoza 14 September 1920 – Chicago 16 April 1998) Authored about 80 papers With Antoni Zygmund formulated the singular integrals and invented techniques that became standard tools in harmonic analysis Created pseudodifferential calculus Introduced Lipschitz spaces and parabolic Hp spaces Introduced the inverse conductivity problem With Aronszajn & Smith introduced Bessel potential operators First to obtain general theorems of unicity for equations systems in partial derivatives With C.P. Calderón. A representation formula and its applications to singular integrals With R. Panzone developed the theory of Banach space valued singular integrals With A.I. Benedek & R. Panzone. Convolution operators on Banach space valued functions. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 48:356-65, 1962 HONORS Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1989) National Medal of Science, United States (1992) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1950, 1966 & 1978) EPONYMY Calderón-Zygmund singular integrals Calderón-Zygmund decomposition Calderón-Zygmund operators Calderón-Zygmund kernel Calderón-Zygmund lemma Calderón-Zygmund inequalities Arens-Calderón lemma Shilov-Arens-Calderón theorem Calderón-Toeplitz operator Calderón couples Calderón condition Calderón maximal operator Calderón product Calderón projector Calderón reproducing formula for characterizing wavelets Calderón extension theorem Calderón-Vaillancourt theorem Benedek-Calderón-Panzone principle Multiplier theorem of Benedek-Calderón-Panzone Calderón unicity theorem for Cauchy problem (1958) Calderón-Hardy spaces
Alberto Coy Otero
Alberto Jesús Coy Otero, Cuban helminthologist (13 November 1942 – 28 November 2002) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Blaberinema 1988 with Garcia Carnoyachaeta 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Freitasia 1968 with Barus Jibacoa 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Turquinella 1989 Typhlopsia 1978 with Barus Species Abbreviata bahamensis 1990 with Moravec & Barus Abbreviata baracoa 1966 with Barus Aoruroides rosario 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Aoruroides travassosi 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Aorurus fontenlai 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Aorurus guantanamo 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Aplectana rysavyi 1969 with Barus Blaberinema lacrimosus 1998 with Garcia Carnoya cubitas 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Carnoya haiti 2001 with Garcia & Alvarez Carnoyachaeta singularis 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Chiorchis groshafti 1989 Clementeia ariguanabo 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Coynema poeyi 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Freitasia teixeraii 1968 with Barus Haematoloechus viguerasi 1982 with Martínez & Ventosa Heth hispaniolae 2001 with Garcia & Ventosa Heth pinnatum 1995 with Garcia Heth poeyi 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Hystrignathus pinarensis 1990 Ichthyocephalus alayoi 2001 with Garcia & Ventosa Ichthyocephalus anafe 1996 with Garcia Ichthyocephalus cubensis 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Ichthyocephalus guaniguanico 1999 with Garcia Ichthyocephalus spinosus 1995 with Garcia Jibacoa cubensis 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Jibacoa habana 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Kalicephalus alsophisi 1966 with Barus Leidynema chitwoodii 1998 with Ventosa & Garcia Longior alius 1994 with Garcia Longior zayasi 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Oswaldocruzia anolisi 1968 with Barus Paraichthyocephalus klossae 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Parapharyngodon cubensis 1969 with Barus Pellecitus barusi 1982 Rhabdochona cubensis 1987 with Moravec Rhabdochona problematica 1987 with Moravec Rhigonema piedralavela 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Robertia longicauda 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Salesia cubana 1995 with Garcia Severianoia emelinae 2001 with Garcia & Ventosa Severianoia escambray 1995 with Garcia Severianoia parvula 1995 with Garcia Severianoia parvula 1995 with Garcia Severianoia vitta 1994 with Garcia Skrjabinodon cricosauriae 1974 with Barus Spauligodon antillarum 1974 with Barus Terranova caballeroi 1966 with Barus Thelandros cubensis 1966 with Barus Thelastoma bivalvula 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Thelastoma simplex 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Trichospirura teixeirai 1968 with Barus Turquinella cubensis 1989 Typhlopsia kratochvili 1978 with Barus HONORS Coynema Morffe & García 2011 (Nematoda)
Alberto Ciancia
Alberto Osvaldo Ciancia Rochon, Argentine ophthalmologist (Puán, Buenos Aires Province 26 January 1924 – Described Ciancia syndrome La esotropia con limitación de la abducción en el lactante. Arch. Oftalm. Buenos Aires 26:207, 1962 La esotropia em la lactante, diagnóstico y tratamiento. Arch. Chil. Ophth. 9:117, 1962 TECHNIQUES/OTHERS Proposed recession of the superior oblique muscles to correct A patterns of up to 35 PD, a technique used universally With J. Prieto Díaz. Retroceso del oblicuo superior (1970) A technique for en Z elongation of upper oblique tendon (1977) With N. Melek. A new treatment of anomalous correspondence in intermittent exotropias. Arch. Oftalm. Buenos Aires 44(5):108-19, 1969 With H.A. Garcia, J.R. Lavin & N. Massimino. A new and practical model transducer fórceps for measurement of active and passive forces in eyes movements. Binoc. Vis. 2:69-76, 1987