Ladislao Biro
Laszlo Jozsef Biro, Jewish Hungarian-born Argentine inventor (Budapest 29 September 1899 – Buenos Aires 24 October 1985) INVENTIONS (32) Ballpoint pen (1931) patented in 1938 A fountain pencil (1928) Ballpoint pen ink Mechanical machines and retractor for ballpoint pens A bottle labeling line and device for the same purpose A phenol-based resin A continuous process for phenolic resins (1944) A mechanical gearbox (1932) A washing machine (1930) Inviolable lock Clinical thermograph (1943) A link for curtains Devices for recording blood pressure A process for amelioration of iron ramrods resistance (1944) Application of magnetic sustenance of railroad cars Air filter for carbon activated cigarettes Device for beheading ampoules Figure mirror Devices for energy exploitation from sea waves (1958) Roll on scent dispenser with box A molecular and isotopic system for gas fractionation (1978) A method for uranium hexafluoride enrichment (1980s) Napalm Other micromechanic artifacts
Krishna Das Bagchee
Krishna Das Bagchee, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Tanti Bandha, Bangladesh 19 January 1898 – Dehra Dun 06 January 1973) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Coleosporium barclayense 1950 Cronartium himalayense 1933 Macrophoma shoreae 1953 Melampsora oblonga 1950 Peridermium himalayense 1929 Poria rhizomorpha 1953 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS New and noteworthy diseases of trees and decay in timber in India. Indian For. 80:246-51, 1954 An unrecorded parasite of teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f.) reported from Dehra Dun, U.P.. Indian For. 73(7):332-4, 1947 HONORS Bagcheea Muller & Menon 1954 (Fungi)
Krishan Sahai Bilgrami
Krishan Sahai Bilgrami, Indian phycologist and mycologist (Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh 09 July 1933 – Lucknow 31 December 1996) Codescribed with S.M. Reddy the genus Pseudohansfordia (Fungi) in 1975 HONORS Bilgramia Panwar, Purohit & Chouhan 1974 (Fungi) Bilgramia Yadava 1990 (Chlorophyceae)
Keppel Harcourt Barnard
Keppel Harcourt Barnard, English-born South African zoologist (London 31 March 1887 – Cape Town 22 September 1964) DESCRIBED 105 genera of Crustacea 14 genera of Trichoptera 8 genera of Mollusca 8 genera of Diptera 1 genus of Plecoptera 6 valid genera and 27 valid species of Ephemeroptera 10 valid genera and 41 valid species of Fishes HONORS Barnardara Provonsha & McCafferty 1995 (Ephemeroptera) Barnardichthys Chabanaud 1927 (Fishes) Barnardoscia Taiti & Ferrara 1982 (Crustacea) Barnardromia McLay 1993 (Crustacea) Keppelius Manning 1978 (Crustacea)
Kanwar Bahadur
Kanwar Bahadur, Indian microscopist (Simla 13 April 1925 – With E. W. Muller, published the first image of individual atoms by means of a field ion microscope in Physical Review 102(3):624-31, 1955 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With K.L. Chaudhary. Crystallization of amorphous antimony films prepared by vacuum evaporation. Appl. Physics Letters 15(9):277-9, 1969 With P.V. Sastry. On the extra reflections in electron diffraction patterns from thin evaporated films of some of the face-centred cubic metals. Proc. Phys. Soc 78(5):594, 1961 With E.W. Muller. Velocity distribution in field ion emission (1957) With E.W. Muller. Field ionization of gases at a metal surface and the resolution of the field ion microscope (1956) With T.V. Desikachary. Electron microscope study of the diatom wall structure. II. Sci. Indus. Res. 13 B(2):92-94, 1954 With T.V. Desikachary. Electron microscope study of the diatom wall structure. IV. Sci. Indus. Res. 13 B(4):240-3, 1954 With T.V. Desikachary. Electron microscope study of the diatom wall structure. V. Trans. Americ. Microscop. Soc. 73(3):274-7, 1954 LINKS http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/oct102005/1280.pdf
Julio Martín Borda
Julio Martín Borda Lascuraín, Argentine dermatologist (Buenos Aires 05 May 1907 – 05 January 1984) With G. Stringa & R. Mancini described the first cases of calcium deposits in late cutaneous porphyria or porphyric calcinosis (1954) Described ampullary and erosive porphyria of adult (1950) Described melanotic prurigo or Pierini-Borda prurigo With L.E. Pierini. Prurigo melanótico. Rev. Arg. Dermat. 3:32, 1947 EPONYMS Borda syndrome (a skin genetic condition associated with hydrocystoma, xanthelasma and dental dysplasia) Borda sign (marked actinic damage in porphyria cutanea tarda)