Juan Bacigalupo
Juan D. M. Bacigalupo Brignole, Argentine parasitologist (Buenos Aires 29 December 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 August 1956) Authored 207 works First use of microscopic examination of probing extracted duodenal fluid for diagnosis of fascioliasis With A.J. Bengolea & C. Velasco Suarez. Distomatosis por Fasciola hepatica. Arch. Argent. Enferm. Apar. Diges. Nutr. (1927) Demonstrated that Hymenolepis nana could display two types of life evolution presenting an indirect larval form (1928) With A. Palacios Costa. Nueva espiroquetosis vaginal provocada por la Espiroqueta rawsoni, n.sp. Rev. Med. Trop. Parasitol. 4(6):319-21, 1938 (Spirochaeta rawsoni) With E. Rivero. Vaginal sphincter, new organ of Echinococcus granulosus Batsch. J. Parasitol. 35(5):547, 1948 Developed Bacigalupo-Rivero centrifugation method for parasitological study of stool Metodo pratico para el diagnostico de la teniasis por Taenia saginata. (A simple method for teniasis diagnosis). Sem. Med. 47(30): 184-5, 1940 Eine neue behandlungsmethode der tuberkulosen meningitis. Munch. Med. Wchnschr. 62:222-3, 1915 Eponym of Bacigalupo phenomenon DESCRIBED PARASITES Demodex caviae 1954 with Roveda Diphyllobothrium granaia 1948 Hymenolepis intermedius 1927 Spirochaeta uretritis 1926 Trypanosoma marplatensis with N. de La Plaza
João José Bigarella
João José Bigarella, Brazilian geologist (Curitiba 23 September 1923 – Curitiba 05 May 2016) From Italian and Bohemian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 212 works Performed studies on palaeogeography, sedimentology, geomorphology and stratigraphic correlation Introduced the concept of colluviums ramps With M.R. Mourinho. Considerações a respeito dos terraços fluviais, rampas de colúvio e várzeas. Bol. Paran. Geogr. 16-17:153-97, 1965. Created the term scaled pediplane Developed a device named stereohelioplanimeter
João Barbosa Rodrigues
João Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian naturalist (São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais State 22 June 1842 – Rio de Janeiro 06 March 1909) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed studies about botany, etnography, archaeology, climatography and phytogeography Discovered 538 orchid species that were described by Martius in Flora Brasiliensis Described 20 valid genera of plants in Brazilian flora (being 16 of them from Orchidaceae family ), 347 new species of Orchidaceae family and 382 new species of Arecaceae plants Described fossil reptile genus and species Purussaurus brasiliensis 1891 Performed physiological studies about curare and its antidote (1878) Formulated pariquine, a medicamentous preparation against hepatic disturbances that learned from Parinquins natives (1894) Conceived a collapsible compass for cranial and bizygomatic measures Published Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, that attained international repercussion (1903) Published Genera et specie orchidearum novarum (1877-82), with diagnoses of more than 700 orchid species, recognized with a Gold Medal from Academie des Sciences de Paris Paleontology Les reptiles fossiles de la vallée de l’Amazone (1892) Archaeology O muyrakytã e os idolos symbolicos. Estudo da origem asiática da civilização do Amazonas nos tempos pré-históricos. Part II (1899) O muyrakytã. Estudo da origem asiática da civilização do Amazonas nos tempos pré-históricos. Part I (1889) Antiguidades do Amazonas (1879) Idolo amazonico, achado no rio Amazonas (1875) HONORS Brodriguesia Cowan 1981 (Fabaceae) Barbosella Schlechter 1918 (Orchidaceae) Barbrodria Luer 1981 (Orchidaceae)
José Vicente Bustillos
José Vicente Bustillos y Maceira (Mazeira, Maseira or Maseyra), Chilean naturalist and chemist (Valparaíso 14 April 1800 – Santiago 27 March 1873) INVENTIONS A device for vacum distillation A new building material for street paving Bustillos-Vazquez method for preserving meat employing lime acetate SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Formulario Nacional de Medicamentos para el uso de los Hospitales del Ejercito (1869) Observaciones botânicas, terapêuticas y análisis de la Witheringia crispa. Rev. Farm. 4:280-96, 1865 Relación de las observaciones cientificas hechas por Bustillos en compañia de don Anjel Vazquez en el sur de la Republica. Anales Sco. Farmacia 2:357 & 401, 1864 Memoria sobre la hidrofobia. Anales Soc. Farmacia 1:39, 1863 Elementos de farmácia aplicada a medicina (1856) Elementos de química orgânica aplicada a medicina (1851) Observaciones relativas a jeolojia, meteorologia y historia naturales de Chile. Anales Univ. 7:315, 1850 Memoria sobre el maitén. An. Univ. Chile (1849) Carnes. Sustancia útil para conservarla fresca em el acido piroleñoso. Anales Univ. Chile 3:209, 1846 Analisis del agua de los manantiales. El Araucano (13 August 1841) La yerba del lagarto (1837) Yerba mate chilena. An. Univ. Chile 26 Sobre la aplicación del acido pirolignico a la preparación del charque i sobre el uso de diversas plantas de Chile en la medicina
José María de la Barrera
José Maria de La Barrera Errecalte, Argentine hygienist and bacteriologist (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 21 February 1892-?) Isolated the Junín virus, causative agent of hemorrhagic Argentine fever With D.J. Greenway, H.R. Rugiero, M. Frigerio, A.S. Parodi, N. Nettler, F. Garzón, M. Boxaca, L.B. Guerrero & N.R. Nota. Sobre la etiologia del brote epidémico de Junin. El Dia Medico 30:2000-10, 1958 Described three Siphonaptera genera: Gephyropsylla 1952, Hechtiella 1952 and Alloctenus 1966 (with Traub) HONORS Barreropsylla Jordan 1953 (Siphonaptera)
José María Bustamante
José María de Bustamante y Septién, Mexican geographer, naturalist, physicist and astronomer (Guanajuato 1786 – Ciudad de Mexico 1834) SCIENTIFIC LEGACY Inventions A barometer/thermometer used to measure altitudes An aerometer for measuring specific weights of bodies A gravimeter (1831) Bustamantine theodolite Hydraulic pumps for waters from mines Performed studies about plants of Mexican flora Studied rocks and mineral species, discovering a new mineral that sent to Brongniart and in his honor was called bustamite His nephew, Miguel José de la Luz Ignacio Francisco Bustamante Chico, engineer (Ciudad de Mexico 28 December 1833 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 February 1911) Patented a machine for peling coffee and a building material concrete-like named petroma