Alberto Carcelles
Alberto R. Carcelles, Argentine malacologist (Buenos Aires 18 July 1897 – Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province 23 January 1977) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Adelphotectonica uruguaya 1953 Cancilla larranagai 1947 Fuegotrophon amettei 1946 Fusinus frenguellii 1953 Minicymbiola corderoi 1953 Phalium iheringi 1953 Pleurotomella aguayoi 1953 Provocator corderoi 1947 Semicassis labiata iheringi 1953 Solariella patriae 1953 Terebra doellojuradoi 1953 Trophon clenchi 1953 HONORS Subgenus Carcellesia Perez Farfante 1952 (Mollusca Gastropoda)
Adelmar Faria Coimbra Filho
Adelmar Faria Coimbra Filho, Brazilian primatologist (Fortaleza 04 June 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 27 June 2016) Authored over 200 works Gained international renown for his studies on primates conservation mainly lion tamarins Founded the Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro, the world’s first institute to aim primarily primates conservation (1975) First to breed Lion tamarins in captivity Observed the habit of tree-gouging and gum-eating among the marmosets of Brazil Aspectos inéditos do comportamento de saguis do gênero Callithrix (Callithricidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 32(4):505-12, 1972 With R. A. Mittermeier. Exudate-eating and tree-gouging in marmosets. Nature 262:630, 1976 Showed the inversion of reproductive phases in primates due to boreal-austral hemisphere migration With A. de A. Maia. As fases do processo reprodutivo de Macaca mulatta Zimmermann 1780, na ilha do Pinheiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Cercopithecidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 37(1):77-8, 1977 With A. de A. Maia. A sazonalidade do processo reprodutivo em Leontopithecus r. rosalia (Linnaeus, 1766) (Callithricidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 39(3):643-51, 1979 Described Callithrix kuhlii 1985, a new marmoset species First to breed Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) at sea level HONOURS Australian primatologist Colin Groves called him living legend of primatology in his book Primate Taxonomy (2001)
Abelardo Cantu Chapa
Abelardo B. Cantu-Chapa, Mexican paleontologist and biostratigrapher (China, Nuevo León State 12 January 1935 – DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Acevedites 1967 Bejucoceras 1976 Caseyella 1976 Chignahuapites 2009 Chinamecaceras 2006 Colladites 1967 Cuetzalanites 2009 Djanelidzeites 2012 Eopaquiericeras 2006 Esiaticomanites 2018 with Zarazua, Sanchez & Morales Fierrites 1993 Galeanites 1998 Garcites 2001 Huastecoceras 1976 Kurdistanites 2012 Mazatepites 1967 Misantlites 2009 Novoleonites 1992 Parrasites 2009 Parvaites 2009 Peñaceras 1963 Peruvites 2012 Puebliceras 1993 Salinites 1968 Satoites 1966 Suarites 1967 Submazapilites 1963 Taraisites 1966 Veracruciceras 2006 Wiedmannites 2009 Species Acevedites acevedense 1967 Aegocrioceras eguiluzi 2009 Ataxioceras (Ataxioceras) lopeztichae 1991 Bejucoceras simplecostatum 1976 Bochianites thieuloidis 1976 Capeloites lajense 2009 Capeloites neoleonense 2001 Capeloites peyroullesense 2009 Chignahuapites chignahuapense 1990 Chinamecaceras maldonadoi 2006 Coahuilites bassae 1963 Coahuilites obregoni 1963 Cuetzalanites tonatiuhoides 2009 Dufrenoyia huastecensis 1963 Durangites (Parrasiella) galeanense 1968 Durangites juanense 1968 Durangites (Parrasiella) latiumbilicatum 1968 Durangites zigzagcostatus 2006 Eopaquiericeras pazi 2006 Eopaquiericeras peraltai 2006 Esiaticomanites rursiconstricta 2018 with Zarazua, Sanchez & Morales Fierrites alamitosensis 1993 Galeanites garcense 1998 Garcites cavernensis 2001 Garcites potrerensis 2001 Groebericeras poblanense 1967 Haploceras veracruzanum 1976 Hegaratella baezi 2012 Immunitoceras pruvosti 1963 Inoceramus sornayi 1963 Kossmatia subzacatecana 1967 Lamellaptychus veracruzanus 1963 Mazatepites arredondense 1967 Misantlites reyesi 2009 Neohoploceras bartolini 2009 Neolissoceras bejucense 1976 Neolissoceras semisulcata 1976 Novoleonites tovarensis 1992 Olcostephanus bosei 1966 Olcostephanus carrillense Parrasiella juanensis 1968 Parvaites aguirrei 2009 Parvaites leanzai 2009 Peñaceras stoyanovi 1963 Pictonia (Colladites) granadillense 1967 Proniceras larense 1967 Proniceras subtorrense 1976 Protacanthodiscus densicostatus 1967 Protancyloceras alamensis 1963 Protancyloceras anahuacensis 1963 Protancyloceras barrancensis 1963 Protancyloceras ramirense 1963 Puebliceras lascarense 1993 Suarites velardense 1967 Suarites floreslopezi 1967 Suarites bituberculatum 1967 Submazapilites mexicanus 1963 Substeueroceras imlayi 1963 Subthurmannia dominguense 1967 Subthurmannia mazatepense 1967 Subthurmannia pemex 1963 Taraisites durangense 1966 Thurmanniceras kleini 2009 Veracruciceras myczynskii 2006 Veracruciceras ruizi 2006 Wichmanniceras hernandense 1967
Abel Chifflet
Abel Guillermo Chifflet Gramatica, Uruguayan surgeon (Mercedes, Soriano Departament 18 April 1904 – 1969) From Italian and French descent Authored over 150 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Bases anatômicas para a cirurgia do câncer do reto. Rev. Bras. Cir. 37:232, 1959 With W. Suiffet. Supuración metastásica en la equinococcosis multiples. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 23:988, 1958 Anatomia del contenido pelviano masculino. Cirurgia del recto (1956) La exploración del colédoco en la colecistitis litiasica. Rev. Cir. Uruguay 26(3):405-12, 1955 Entrada quirúrgica entre el recto y la vejiga. Rev. Cir. Uruguay 26(1):9-21, 1955 La cirurgia de la diverticulitis del sigmoide. Dic. Med. Uruguay 21:602, 1955 Extensión caudal de la exéresis en el câncer del recto alto. A proposito de 4 observaciones de câncer multiple del recto. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 25:313-24, 1954 La exploración operatória de la tercera porción del duodeno. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 22:533, 1951 La hidatidosis hepatica es una afección hepato-biliar. Bol. Soc. Cirur. Uruguay (1948) La travesía del perineo masculino. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 21:539-49, 1950 With J. Llopart. Equinococosis hepática y riñon derecho. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 17(3-4):147-65, 1946 La indicación operatória en los procesos hepato-biliares agudos. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Espec. 28:2, 1946 Factores de êxito en la colectomia en um tiempo. Bol. Soc. Cir. Uruguay 15:116-23, 1944 With R. Musso. El desprendimiento de la adventícia en los quistes operados del hígado. Anales Fac. Med. Montevideo 23 (1938) La eosinofilia costal en el quiste hidatidico del pulmón. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Espec. 9(6):655, 1937 With P. Purriel. El neumoquiste perivesicular. Arch. Urug. Med. Cir. Espec. 11:639-51, 1937 With H. Ardao. Quiste hidatidico del seno. Anales Fac. Med. Montevideo 5(3), 1933 La fisiologia del tarso posterior. Su equilíbrio transversal (1933) Estudio anatomoquirúrgico del angulo duodenoyeyunal. Anales Faxc. Med. Montevideo 27(5-7):382, 1932 With C. Rolando. Peritonite par rupture d’un kyste ombilicale His name is involved in Chifflet pelvian rectum (rectus medius) and Chifflet abdominopelvian fascia (Albanese interureteral lamina) HONORS Foreign Correspondent Member, Societé de Chirurgie de Lyon
Zhidong Bai
Zhidong Bai, Chinese mathematician (Laoting County, Hebei Province 27 November 1943 – Recognized as a world leading expert in random matrix theory and high-dimensional statistics Authored over 200 research papers With Y.Q. Yin & P.R. Krishnaiah showed that the largest eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix tends to a limit under certain conditions when both the number of variables and the sample size tend to infinity (1988) ACHIEVEMENTS/SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.C. Hui, D.D. Jiang, W.K. Wong, Z.Z.Zhu & S.R. Zheng. A new test of multivariate nonlinear casuality (2018) With G.M. Pan & Y.Q. Qin. A central limit theorem for sums of functions of residuals in a high-dimensional regression model with an application to variance homoscedasticity test (2017) With C. Zhang, J. Hu & C. Wang. Multi-sample test for high-dimensonal covariance matrices. Comm. Statis. Theor. Methods (2017) With Y.C. Hui, W.K. Wong & Z.Z.Zhu. A new nonlinearity test to circumvent the limitation of Volterra expansion with applications. J. Korean Statis. Soc. (2016) With H.Q. Li, J. Hu & K.X. Zou. Test on the linear combinations of mean vectors in high-dimensional data (2016) With M.R. Valenzuela, W.K. Wong & Z.Z. Zhu. New tests for poorness, richness and middle class welfare: stochastic dominance analysis for different types of social welfare functions (2016) With W.M. Li & J.Q. Chen & Y. Qin. Estimation of the population spectral distribution from a large dimensional sample covariance matrix. J. Statis. Plann. Infer. (2013) With N.N. Xia. Functional CLT of eigenvectors for large sample covariance matrices. Statis. Papers (2013) With W.M. Li & T.Q. Liu. Rounded data analysis based on ranked set sample. Statis. Papers (2012) With X. Ding. Estimation of spiked eigenvalues in spiked models (2012) With G.M. Pan. Limiting behavior of eigenvectors of large Wigner matrices. J. Statis. Phys. (2012) With R. Couillet, J.W. Silverstein & M. Debbah. Eigen-inference for energy estimation of multiple sources. IEEE Trans. Inform. 57(4):2420-39, 2011 With D. Kundu, I. Bai & S. Nandi. Super efficient frequency estimation. J. Statis. Plann. Infer. (2011) With K. Wong & W.K. Wong. An improvement of the sharpe-ratio test on small samples mean variance ratio test (2009) With H.X. Liu & W.K. Wong. A note on the mean-variance analysis of self-financing portifolios. (2006) With X.M. He. A chi-square test for dimensionality with non-Gaussian data. J. Multiv. Anal. (2004) With T.H. Tsai & H.K. Hwang. Berry-Esseen bounds for the number of maxima in planar regions. Electr. J. Probab. (2003) With C.R. Rao, M. Chow & D. Kundu. An efficient algorithm for estimating the parameters of superimposed exponential signals. J. Statis. Plann. Inference (2003) With M. Chen & G. Li. Rank estimation for longitudinal data with subject attrition due to response selection. Sankhya Ser. A (2003) With G.J. Chen, Y. Chen & F.F. Hu. A kind of optimal design in urn models (2003) With F.F. Hu & L. Shen. An adaptive design for multi-arm clinical trials. J. Multiv. Anal. (2002) With G.J. Chen & F.F. Hu. A kind of urn model for adaptive sequential design. Acta Math. Scient. (2001) With W.Y. Tsai & G.S. Shieh. Rank tests for independence – with a weighted contamination alternative. . Statis. Sinica (2000) With F.F. Hu. Asymptotic theorem for urn models with nonhomogeneous generating matrices. Stoch. Proc. Appl. (1999) With H.Z. An & M.H. Guo. Multi-step prediction for nonlinear autoregressive models based on empirical distribution. Statis. Sinica (1999) With P.E. Cheng & H.C. Zhang. An extension of the Hardy-Littlewood strong law. Stat. Sin (1997) With D. Kundu & A. Mitra. A theorem in probability and its applications in multidimensional signal processing. IEEE Trans. Signal Process. (1997) With P.R. Krishnaiah, L.C. Zhao & N. Sambamoorthi. Model selection for log-linear models (1992) With C.R. Rao & M. Chow. An algorithm for efficient estimation of superimposed exponential signals (1989) With L.C. Zhao & K. Subramanyan. On determination of the order of an autoregressive model. J. Multiv. Anal. (1988) With L.C. Zhao & P.R. Krishnaiah. A new method to estimate the direction of arrival of signals (1988) With L.C. Zhao, C. Rao & P.R. Krishnaiah. A new approach for reconstruction of the left ventricle from biplane angiocardiograms (1987) With L.C. Zhao & P.R. Krishnaiah. On detection of the number of signals when the noise covariance matrix is arbitrary. J. Multiv. Anal. (1986) With L.C. Zhao & P.R. Krishnaiah. On detection of the number of signals in presence of white noise. J. Multiv. Anal. (1986) With L.C. Zhao & P.R. Krishnaiah. On detection of number of signals in presence of colored noise using information theoretic criteria (1985)
Wolfgang Bucherl
Wolfgang Bucherl, German-born Brazilian zoologist and toxinologist (Haberzeigen, close to Regensburg, Lower Bavaria 27 April 1911 – São Paulo 14 January 1985) Descendent from a German-Hungarian family Authored about 150 works ACHIEVEMENTS Developed electro stimulation for obtaining spiders and scorpions venoms Novo processo de obtenção de veneno seco, puro de Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891) e titulação da DL 50 em camundongos. Mem. Inst. Butantan 25(1):153-7, 1953 Contribuição ao estudo dos órgãos sexuais externos das espécies do gênero Scolopendra Linne, mais frequentes no Brasil. Um novo método morfo-comparado para a sua sistematização. Mem. Inst. Butantan 16:37, 1942 Prepared anti Loxosceles venom (1953) Developed techniques to keep scorpions in captivity Imagined nurseries for scorpions and spiders Described poison gland of a number of scolopendrids (1946) With E. Buckley edited the three volume book Venomous Animals and their Venoms by Academic Press, 1971 DESCRIBED TAXA 1 Arachnida subfamily Phoneutriinae (1969) 1 Arachnida Genus (Andibothriurus 1964) 5 Myriapoda Genera Brasilophora 1939 Brasiloscutigera 1939 Chilenarea 1942 Coxopleurotostigmus 1939 Thereuoquima 1949 137 Species and 25 subspecies between Arachnida and Myriapoda