Victor Manuel Badillo
Victor Manuel Badillo Franceri, Venezuelan botanist (La Guaira 15 October 1920 – Maracay, Aragua State November 2008) DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Freya 1985 (Asteraceae) Horovitzia 1993 (Caricaceae) Tamananthus 1985 (Asteraceae) Species 143 new plant species HONORS Badilloa King & Robinson 1975 (Asteraceae)
Victor L. Badillo
Victor Lasala Badillo, Philippine amateur astronomer (23 January 1930 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY VHF Scintillations and TEC at Manila (1981) With W.R. Barron, E.W. Cliver & D.A. Guidice. An Atlas of selected multi-frequency radio bursts from the twentieh solar cycle (1980) Solar microwave bursts accompanying proton events (1979) Low latitude PC3 and PC4 micropulsations (1977) Possible Fermi mechanism of solar cosmic rays (1976) Moro Gulf Tsunami of 17 August 1976 With J.E. Salcedo & R.A. Panotes. Solar effects on geomagnetic micropulsations and VLF phase shifts (1975) With J.E. Salcedo. Solar radio studies at Manila Observatory (1973) Solar microwave scintillation. Radio Science 5(6):979-82, 1970 With K. Maeda. Equatorial spread-F and troposphere tropical disturbances. J. Atmos. Sci. 23:812-9, 1966 The atomic radial density distribution in tobacco mosaic virus and turnip yellow mosaic virus by x-ray scattering (1963) HONORS Badillo 4866 Asteroid
Victor Bertullo
Victor Hugo Bertullo, Uruguayan veterinarian (Dolores 30 March 1919 – Montevideo 01 July 1979) Specialized in fisheries, surveying and fishing technology ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a new yeast species, Hansenula montevideo in marine fishes (1951) Developed Bertullo-Perez Hettich fish silage method With F. Pérez-Hettich. El ensilado de pescado. Anales de La Facultad de Veterinaria 4(4):141-9, 1956. Conceived a new treatment for presence of Demodex in dogs. With Theodore Pilz. Un nouveau traitement de la Demodexie canine. Recueil de Medicine Vétérinaire. Tome CXXXII, 1956. With Pérez Hettich patented Protein Hydrolysis US Patent 3000789 (1961) With Aquiles H. Delfino invented Bio-Proteo-Catenulated (BPC), a protein food of high quality using yeast Hansenula montevideo (1960s) With Celso Pereira Rivada patented Fish Protein Hydrolysis US Patent 3516349 (1970)
Victor Benavides Caceres
Victor Edilberto Benavides Caceres, Peruvian geologist and paleontologist (Arequipa 23 February 1928 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCAN SPECIES (1965) Acanthoceras chasca Acanthoceras pollocense Acanthoceras sangalense Amonites ollonense Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) kayi Barroisiceras (Forresteria) basseae Beudanticeras chimuense Coilopoceras jenksi Coilopoceras newelli Heterotissotia bucheri Hoplitoides inca Knemiceras ovale Knemiceras triangulare Neodeshayesites inti Neodeshayesites nicholsoni Neolobites kummeli Parahoplites quilla Parengonoceras champaerense Parengonoceras haasi Pseudaspidoceras reesidei Sharpeiceras occidentale Thomasites fisheri Tissotia hedbergi Venezoliceras harrisoni HONORS Subgenus Benavidesites Cooper 1982 (Fossil Cephalopoda)
Vera Lucia Ramos Bononi
Vera Lucia Ramos Bononi, Brazilian mycologist and ecologist (1944 – Proposed the use of Basidiomycetes to decolor textile efluente dyes and bioremediation of organochlorine contaminated soil (1990s) METHODS/PATENTS With D.R. Matheus, K.M.G. Machado & C. Fabris. Protocol for selection of Basidiomycetes to be applied in contaminated soils remediation systems (1998) With D.R. Matheus, K.M.G. Machado, R.A. de Nadai, R.T.R. Monteiro & L.K. Okino. Processo de biorremediação de materiais sólidos contaminados com compostos orgânicos clorados, utilizando fungos basidiomicetos ligninocelulolíticos. PI9702847-9 A2 (1997) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genus Skvortzovia 1987 with Hjortstam Species Melzericium rimosum 1987 with Hjortstam Psilocybe microcystidiata 1984 with Guzmán Psilocybe ramulosa 1984 with Guzmán Psilocybe trufemiae 1984 with Guzmán Steccherinum subochraceum 1986 with Hjortstam HONORS Veralucia Reynolds & Dunn 1982 (Fungi)
Upendranath Brahmachari
Upendranath Brahmachari, Indian physician (Jamalpur, Bihar, West Bengal 19 December 1873 – 06 February 1946) ACHIEVEMENTS Synthesized carbostibamide (urea stibamine) and determined that it was effective in the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (1922) Described a new disease, post-kalaazar dermal leishmanoid (Brahmachari disease) Concluded that Burdwan fever was a combination of malaria and kala-azar (1911) Showed that in Blackwater fever the largest amount of haemolysis occurred in the liver during the active stage of the disease and prepared an antihaemolytic solution of quinine for treatment of certain cases. Developed a sorological reaction for diagnosis of kala-azar (1907) known as Brahmachari reaction or Brahmachari-Ray reaction Medicine & Physiology Nobel prize nominee (1929)