Andre Mauricio Vieira de Carvalho
André Maurício Vieira de Carvalho, Brazilian botanist and plant collector (Ilhéus, Bahia State 05 October 1951 – Ilhéus, Bahia State 16 November 2002) From French and German ancestry DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Section Pseudecastaphyllum 1997 Species Dalbergia elegans 1997 Dalbergia grandistipula 1997 Dalbergia guttembergi 1997 Zollernia magnifica 1993 with Barneby Zollernia modesta 1993 with Barneby SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.M. Thomas, A.M. Amorim, J. Garrison & A.L. Arbelaez. Plant endemism in two forests in Southern Bahia, Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 7:311-22, 2008 With A.M. Amorim, W.M. Thomas & J.G. Jardim. Floristics of the Una Biological Reserve, Bahia, Brazil. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 100:67-146, 2008 With W.M. Thomas, A.M. Amorim, J. Garrison & T.S. Santos. Diversity of woody plants in the Atlantic coastal forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 100:21-66, 2008 Synopsis of genus Dalbergia in Brazil. Brittonia 49(1):87-109, 1997 Systematic studies of the genus Dalbergia L. f. in Brazil. Doctoral Thesis (1989) With S.A. Mori, B.M. Boom & T.S. Santos. Ecological importance of Myrtaceae in an easstern Brazilian wet forest. Biotropica 15:68-70, 1983 With S.A. Mori, B.M. Boom & T.S. Santos. Southern Bahian moist forests. Bot. Review 46:155-232, 1983 HONORS Andreadoxa Kallunki 1998 (Rutaceae)
Ana Maria Cetto
Ana María Cetto Kramis, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 18 February 1946 – From German father and Swiss-descent mother Authored 110 papers and 11 books With L. de la Peña developed a formalism in stochastic quantum mechanism that properly distinguishes classical from quantum stochastic processes Established various quantum effects of the zero-point field Made central contributions to stochastic electrodynamics being invited to write the book The Quantum Dice: An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics (1996) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (with L. de la Peña) With A. Valdés Hernandez. Quantum behavior derived as an essentially stochastic phenomenon. Phys. Scripta T151 (2012) With A. Valdés Hernandez. Quantization as an emergent phenomenon due to matter zero-point field interaction. J. Phys. Conf. Series 361(1), 2012 With A. Valdés Hernandez. Quantum mechanics as an emergent property of ergodic systems embedded in the zero-point radiation field. Found. Phys. 39:1240, 2009 Electron system correlated by the zero-point field: physical explanation for the spin-statistics connection. J. Phys. Conf. Series 701(1), 2008 The foundations of linear stochastic electrodynamics. Found. Phys. 36(3), 2006 Contribution from stochastic electrodynamics to the understanding of quantum mechanics (2005) Planck’s law as a consequence of the zero-point radiation field. Rev. Mex. Fisica 48:1-8, 2002 (Suppl.) Quantum theory and linear stochastic electrodynamics. Foundations of Physics 31(12):1703-31, 2001 Estimate of Planck’s constant from an electromagnetic Mach principle. Foundations of Physics Letters 10(6):591-8, 1997 Simple relationship between energy and adiabatic invariants for systems with a power-law potential. Am. J. Physics 52:539-42, 1984 Schrödinger equation derived from stochastic electrodynamics. Phys. Letters A 62(6):389-90, 1977 Derivation of quantum mechanics from stochastic electrodynamics. J. Math. Phys 18:1612, 1977 Stochastic electrodynamics as a foundation for quantum mechanics. Phys. Lett 56(4):253-4, 1976 Stochastic theory for classical and quantum mechanical systems. Found. Physics 5:355-70, 1975 The harmonic oscillator in a random electromagnetic field: Schrödinger equation and radiative corrections (1974) Stronger form for the position-momentum uncertainity relation. Phys. Lett. A 39:65, 1972 Self-interaction corrections in a nonrelativistic stochastic theory of quantum mechanics (1971) Lagrangian form of stochastic equations and quantum theory Phys. Lett. A 29:562-3, 1969 HONOURS Segner Award (2005) Doctor Honoris Causa, Tajikistan National University (2007) Honorary Doctorate, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2010) Honorary Member, Royale Academie Belge des Sciences de Outre-Mer (2012)
Alvaro Santos Costa
Álvaro Santos Costa, Brazilian plant pathologist (Sorocaba, São Paulo State 09 January 1912 –Campinas, São Paulo State 18 August 1998) ACHIEVEMENTS Considered as one of leading plant virologists in the world Authored about 100 papers Performed classical and pioneer studies on survey, identification, characterization and epidemiological studies of viruses affecting horticultural crops Identified carrot motley dwarf virus Described bean golden mosaic disease (1965) Described Colletotrichum gossypii South var. cephalosporioides, the fungus that causes ramulosis disease of cotton (1935-6) Described cassava vein mosaic disease (1940) Described tomato yellow top virus (1949) Described Brazilian tomato curly top vírus (1949) with C.W. Bennett With C.W. Bennett described Euphorbia mosaic bigeminivirus (1950) Described cotton anthocyanosis virus (1956) First to report tomato spotted wilt virus in groundnut (1941) Identified papaya ringspot virus as the limiting production factor for papaya Discovered that degeneration of strawberry culture was due to the accumulation of at least four different viruses compounded by continuous vegetative propagation Characterized virus and phytoplasma diseases of cassava and demonstrated that the Brazilian and African cassava mosaics were caused by different viruses Authored pioneering work on whitefly-transmitted diseases in several cultivated and wild plants With T.J. Grant discovered mild strains of citrus tristeza virus (1951) and with G.W. Mueller used it for cross protection against severe strains With F.M. do Nascimento & H.E. Borges discovered that bronzy of cotton plant is due to a mite (1955) Described the morphology of virus tristeza With D.M. Silva, A.R. Oliveira, G.W. Muller e E. W. Kitajima. Thread-like particles associated with tristeza disease of citrus. Nature 201 (4923):1011-2, 1964 With E.W. Kitajima, G.W. Muller & V.A. Yuki. Short rod-like particles associated with citrus leprosis. Virology 50:254-8, 1972 (demonstrated the citrus leprosis virus) Described chicote de Piralima With H.S. Prates & G.W. Muller. Chicote, anomalia da Piralima de causa desconhecida. Summa Phytopathol. 7(1-2):18-9, 1981 With E.W. Kitajima & J.A. Betti. Strawberry veinbanding vírus, a member of the cauliflower mosaic group. J. Gen. Virol. 20:117-8, 1973 With C.M. Franco. A virus technique useful to diagnose foliar deficiencies. Plant Physiol. 26:6250-8, 1951 With Krug described purple bud of White potato (1937) Demonstrated that vira cabeça disease of tomato and tobacco was caused by Orthotospovirus Uma anomalia das folhas do mamoeiro. O Biológico 7(10):285-6, 1941 Duas novas moléstias de vírus do feijoeiro (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). O Biológico 7:177-82, 1941 With A.R. Lima & R. Forster. Necrose branca, uma moléstia de virus do fumo (Nicotiana tabacum L.) e “fumo couve” como sintoma tardio. J. Agron. S. Paulo 3:1-26, 1940 With R. Forster. Nota preliminar sobre uma nova moléstia de vírus do algodoeiro. Mosaico das nervuras. Rev. Agric. 13:187-91, 1938 Found Pernambuco witches broom (1977) With E.W. Kitajima observed Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo witches broom of cassava (1969) With V.R. Caetano & E.W. Kitajima. Espiga branca do trigo, uma possível moléstia de vírus. Bragantia 20:61-4, 1970 With H.P. Krug. Eine durch Ceratostomella hervorgerufene Welkekrankheit der Crotalaria juncae in Brasilien. Phytopath. Zeitschr. 8:507-13, 1935 With H.P. Krug. Conditioning of the plant by one virus necessary for systemic evasion of another. Phytopath. Zeitschr. 65:219 -30, 1969 HONORS Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1957) Award of Merit, American Phytopathological Society (1972) LINKS http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO.1999.89.2.112
Aloysio de Castro
Aloysio de Castro, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 14 June 1881 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1959) Wrote about 50 pieces for voice and piano ACHIEVEMENTS First to use cinematography on lateral gait Used flank walk as a sign of ataxia Described the deviation of position of upper limbs during gait in athetosis First to use cinematography on runoff gait in beribéri Demonstrated that in some certain types of paralysia agitans there is a similarity with rhizomelic spondylosis (1911) independently from Tilne Pointed out the sign of the ocular sprocket in the side excursions of Parkinson’s syndrome Pointed out the diadochokinesia as a sign of Huntington chorea (1912) First to point out the importance of synkinesias in athetosis (1912) before Pierre Marie & Foix Described the triangle deviation of the mouth in facial paralysis Reported the third case of Recklinghausen syndrome with acromegaly but the first case of this association with pathogenic relations (1911) Described Tapia pseudo-syndrome Reported Babinski sign in common anemias (1926) and benign jaundice Reported the Brudzinski centro-lateral reflex in adult meningitis Described local skin reflex of mentum (1926) Described a new kind of reflex of automatism in hemiplegia Described a type of extension of the large toe in hemiplegia simultaneously with the associated bending motion antagonist to Cacciapuoti paretic thigh With Oscar de Souza proposed the term genito-glandular dystrophy (1917) Described the first case of dextrocardia, transposition of stomach, liver and spleen without gastric inversion With Baptista & Schilde concluded the constancy of pituitary duct in Felidae Named oxycephalus-syndactyly Described 2 new hypermetric tests being one of them the handshake sign Described the phenomenon of bilateral forced flexion in hemiplegic coma Developed a special test for studying the asynergy in the walk Reported the phenomenon of fingers dance in spasmodic hemiplegia Verified the constancy of muscle hypotonia in diabetes EPONYMY Aloysio de Castro manoeuvre Sobre a interpretação do sinal de Babinski. Brasil Médico, 1927. Aloysio de Castro sign Sinal de Brudzinski na meningite dos adultos. Brasil Médico, 1912. Aloysio de Castro sign or statue face in periferic facial diplegia Evolution et aspects cliniques de la diplegie faciale. Revue Neurologique (1919) BIBLIOGRAPHY Brasil Medico XLVIII (44):920-4, 1934 Francisco de Castro His father, Francisco de Castro, physician (Salvador 17 September 1857 – Rio de Janeiro 11 October 1901) First to describe angina pectoris in beriberi before Pekelharing and Winkler First to draw the attention of beriberi uremia without albuminuria Observed bradypnea in the bronchi Described angina vera attacks in patients with mitral stenosis in Tratado de Clinica Propedeutica (1896) that Magalhães Gomes named Francisco de Castro syndrome in Brasil Medico (1939) Reported the clinical hybridism between typhoid fever and malaria independently of German Julius Mannaberg (1889)
Alipio Correa Netto
Alipio Correa Netto, Brazilian thoracic surgeon (Cataguazes, Minas Gerais State 14 January 1898 – São Paulo 24 May 1988) ACHIEVEMENTS First to observe cases of cardiac thyreotoxicosis Distinguished between achalasia in megacolon of pylorus in adults and hypertrophic stenosis from newborn babies Idealized and realized the first rational rectosigmoidectomy Um caso de megacólon curado pela amputação perineal intra-esfincteriana do reto. Rev. Med. São Paulo 24: 29-39, 1940. Proposed sphincterotomy of the pelvirectal and internal anal sphincters With E. Etzel. Le megaesophage et le megacolon devant la theorie de l’achalasie. Etude Clinique et anatomopathologic. Revista Sudamericana de Medicina y Cirurgia 5:395-421, 1934. Conceived Duhamel-Haddad operation With J. Haddad & A. Raia. Abaixamento retro-retral do cólon com colostomia perineal no tratamento do megacólon adquirido. Operação de Duhamel modificada. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 11: 83-85, 1965. Improved Russell method for hydrostatical dilation of cardia Tratamento do megaesôfago pela dilatação forçada com balão hidrostático. Rev. Cirurgia São Paulo 10:397, 1934. Modified and created new surgical techniques for tuberculosis Perfected thyroidectomy technique Laparotomia supra-umbilical mediana e um meio de cortar a laparocele With M. Amorim and independent of E. Etzel described the lesions of the intramural plexus found in patients with megaesophagus and megacolon and demonstrated the systematic character of the neuronal involvement which extends throughout the digestive tract. With M. Amorim. Histopathologia e Pathogenese do megaesophago e megarecto. Considerações em torno de um caso de “mal de engasgo”. An. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo 8:101-27, 1932 First to reproduce megaesophagus, megastomach, megabladder and megacolon in experimental Chagas’disease With M. Okumura. Experimental production of “megas” in animals inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi (in Portuguese). Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 16:338-41, 1961 Eponym of Alipio Correa Netto sign for saphenous vein malfunction See Revista Paulista de Medicina 47(1):29-42,1955
Alfredo Calcagno
Alfredo Domingo Calcagno Difilippi, Argentine psycho-pedagogue (Mercedes, Buenos Aires 26 October 1891 – 09 March 1962) Devised a number of apparatuses and dispositifs for anthropological and psychological studies such as hafiestesiômetro (for measuring tactile acuity) and axiestesiômetro (for measuring space muscle perception) With Mira López created axioesterômetro Described cranioencephalograph technique in Nuevos instrumentos de antropometria. Descripción y técnica del cráneo-encefalógrafo (1918)