Paulo Roberto Gomes Brandao
Paulo Roberto Gomes Brandão, Brazilian mining engineer (Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais 26 January 1944 – With T.M. G. Ribeiro. Development and validation of graphitic carbon analysis of graphite ore samples. Tecnologia em Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineração 14:183-9, 2017 DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Carlosbarbosaite with Atencio, Roberts, Cooper, Menezes Filho, Coutinho, Stirling, Venance, Ball, Moffatt, Chaves & Romano 2012 Cesarferreiraite with Scholz, Chukanov, Menezes Filho, Atencio, Lagoeiro, Belotti, Chaves, Romano, Belakovskiy & Pekov 2014 Almeidaite with Menezes Filho, Chukanov, Rastsvetaeva, Aksenov, Pekov, Chaves, Richards, Atencio, Scholz, Krambrock, Moreira, Guimarães, Romano, Persiano, de Oliveira & Ardisson 2015 HONORS Brandaoite Menezes Filho, Chaves, Cooper, Ball, Abdu, Sharp, Day & Hawthorne 2018 (Mineral)
Paulo Emidio Barbosa
Paulo Emidio de Freitas Barbosa, Brazilian physical chemist (Fortaleza 04 June 1919 – Rio de Janeiro April 1997) With F. Feigl. A new procedure for detecting acidity. Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. 14(6):519-21, 1942 Um metodo para aumentar a precisão de análises espectrográficas quantitativas. An. Assoc.Quim. Brasil 9:40-6, 1950 With L..M.A. Barbosa. Sugestões sobre calibração de chapas em fotometria fotográfica. Bol. Lab. Prod. Mineral 35 (1949) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With L. Barreto Filho. Qualitative and quantitative spectrography: limit of identification. Anais Assoc. Quim. Brasil 4 (1947) & Bol. Lab. Prod. Mineral 26:25-51, 1947 Determination of beryllium by means of 8-hydroxy-quinoline. Bol. Lab. Prod. Mineral 17 (1945) A identificação do potássio com a dipicrilamina. Rev. Soc. Bras. Quim. 10(4), 1941
Paulo Benedetti
Paolino Michellini Benedetti, Italian-born Brazilian filmmaker, photographer and inventor (Bernalda, Basilicata Region, Matera Province 18 August 1863 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1944) His name is given as Paulo Cianelli Benedetti and his birth place as Lucca, Tuscany in many sources DEVELOPED / INVENTED A new natural color film process with a device adaptable to any camera (1927; not patented) Panchromatic film development technique replacing orthochromatic film A microphone An improved sound reproduction system Superimposition of subtitles over scenes projected on the screen BRAZILIAN PATENTS Um dispositivo para a obtenção fácil e rápida de reservas em fitas cinematographicas (1930) Systema de cinematographia fallante, cantante ou musical, denominado Cinemetrophonia nº 6961 (1912) & nº 14294 (1913) (called Vitaphone too it was a Movietophone similar system) Aperfeiçoamentos em fitas cinematographicas (1912) Fechadura hydraulica (?) Processo de incisão destinada a produzir decorações em relevo sobre superfície metálica nº 6168 (1907) Combustor para iluminação a gás acetileno nº 3721 (1907) Gerador de gás acetileno nº 6234 (1905) Preparado para engomagem de roupa nº 5827 (1902) Máquinas para fabricação de gás acetileno nº 2215 & 2243 (1898) With D. Tolomei, J. Morganti, J.N. Bonfim, J. Huet de Bacelar. Purificador para iluminação a gás acetileno nº2018 (1897) OTHERS His movie Um transformista original (1914) was considered one of the most important films of that year by Encyclopedie Bordas from Paris (1915) Gold medal laureate for his camera in Torino International Fair (1911)
Patricia Berjak
Patricia Berjak, South African seed biologist (Johannesburg 29 December 1939 – Durban 21 January 2015) Married to botanist Norman W. Pammenter Authored over 140 papers Recognized as a world leader on the study of seeds mainly recalcitrant ones Elucidated the nature of varied responses of recalcitrant seeds to desiccation and the role of calcium in rehydration Described a modified procedure for the preparation of maize root tips for electron microscopy (1968) During his doctoral thesis discovered the means to substantially reduce fungal growth in maize seeds that result from poor storage conditions (1969) Defined the role of the deteriorative seed-associated fungi in recalcitrant seeds Refined seed storage practices Developed the application of cryobiology principles to the long-term conservation of the plant species that produce recalcitrant species HONOURS Elected President, International Society for Seed Science (2005-11)
Pablo Buriticá
Pablo Elías Buriticá Cespedes, Colombian plant pathologist and mycologist (Honda, Tolima Department 29 March 1943 – Described the etiologic agent of rust of Jatobá tree (Crossospora hymenaea) With J. Hennen & J. Dianese. The rust of Jatobá: a new Crossospora species from Neotropica on Hymenaea (Leguminosae). Fitopatol. Bras. 19(4):588, 1994 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Family Uncoleaceae 2000 Genera Aeciure 1996 with Hennen Campanulospora 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Ceratocoma 1991 with Hennen Hennenia 1995 Macabuna 1994 with Hennen Malupa 1992 with Ono & Hennen Morispora 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Peridipes 1994 with Hennen Scalarispora 1994 with Hennen Scutelliformis 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Uncol 2000 with Rodríguez Gavíria Uredendo 1994 with Hennen Uredostilbe 1994 with Hennen Species About 75
Pablo Biolley
Paul Auguste Biolley, Swiss-born Costa Rican naturalist (Neuchatel 16 February 1862 – San José de Costa Rica 16 January 1908) With H.F. Pittier described about 100 species in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera (1895) As only author named Hyporhicnoda carinata 1900 (Blattodea) and the genus Leptinotarsa 1897 (Coleoptera) HONORS Biolleya Saussure 1897 (Blattodea) Biolleyana Distant 1909 (Hemiptera)