Juan Balme
Juan Balme Giraud or Jean Pierre Balme, French-born Mexican horticulturist and botanical explorer (1880 – 1964) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Orquídeas mexicanas. Bol. Soc. Bot. Mexico 10:16-25, 1950 Laelias mexicanas. Bol Soc. Bot. Mexico 4:2-9, 1946 Algunos datos sobre orquídeas colombianas (1939) Quelques notes sur um arbre fruitier mexicain le Crataegus mexicana (1939) Algunos datos sobre el cultivo de la piña en Mexico. Revista Agrícola 3:117-51, 1921 La viticultura em Mexico. Revista Agricola 5:581-3, 1920 HONORS Balmea Martínez 1942 (Rubiaceae)
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) Described a new parasite Dibothriocephalus taenioides 1945 With Marcos Fischman. Botriocefaliasis por um nuevo parasito (Diancyrobothrium taenioides). Contribución al estudio clinico y parasitológico de um caso de botriocefaliasis. Arch. Hosp. Israelita 6:89-94, 1949 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 Nueva reacción diagnostica para quiste hidatico. Sem. Med. 227:11, 1918 Notes on the use of filtered urine as the antigen of the Wassermann reaction. Sem. Med. 26:523, 1919 L’autoinfection est elle possible dans l’ankylostomiase. C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris 93:966-7, 1925 Demonstrated Bacigalupo phenomenon La investigación de huevos de Taenia saginata en las matérias fecales de los portadores del parasita. Sem. Med. 38:1234-5, 1931 DESCRIBED PARASITES Demodex caviae 1954 with Roveda Dibothriocephalus taenioides 1945 Diphyllobothrium granaia 1948 Hymenolepis intermedius 1927 Spirochaeta uretritis 1926 Trypanosoma marplatensis with N. de La Plaza HONOURS Correspondent Member, Société de Pathologie Exotique (Paris) & Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London)
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 Authored over 20 books such as Estrutura e origem das paisagens tropicais e subtropicais (4 vols, 1,500 pages, 2nd edition 2007) 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 With M.R. Mousinho & J.X. da Silva. Pediplanos, pedimentos e seus depósitos correlativos no Brasil. Bol. Paran. Geogr. 16-7:117-51, 1965 Developed a device named stereohelioplanimeter for measuring dip direction and angle for paleocurrents With R. Salamuni. Sobre um aparelho para medição de estratificação cruzada. Dusenia 8(1):41-3, 1958 Authored a paper in which exposed innovative ideas about geomorphology having international impact With A.N. Ab’Saber. Paleogeographische und paleoklimatische aspekte des Kainozoikum in Sudbrasilien. Zeitschr. f. Geomorphol. 8:286-312, 1964 Proposed dissipation structure, a new type of geological structure Structures developed by dissipation of dune and ridge deposits: beach ridge deposits. Catena 2:107-52, 1974 Relevant studies about paleocurrents and dunes Paleocurrents and the problem of continental drift. Geol. Rundschau 62(2):447-77, 1973 Wind pattern deduced from dune morphology and internal structures. Bol. Paran. Geoscien. 28-9:73-114, 1970-1 Dune sediments: characteristics, recognition and importance. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 53:707, 1969 (abstract) With R. Salamuni & P.L. Marques Filho. Método para avaliação do nível oceânico à época da formação dos terraços de construção marinha. Bol. Paran. Geolo. 4-5:111-5, 1961
João Barbosa Rodrigues
João Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian naturalist (São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais State 22 June 1842 – Rio de Janeiro 06 March 1909) Performed studies about botany, etnography, archaeology, climatography and phytogeography ACHIEVEMENTS Botany 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 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 Others 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 Studied indigenous botanical nomenclature Defined the various types of curare in according to its utility L’uiraery ou curare. Extraits et complément des notes d’un naturaliste brésilien (1903) 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) Antiguidades do Amazonas. I- Armas e instrumentos de pedras; II- Arte Cerâmica; III-Aterros sepulchraes; IV- Sernambys; V- Inscripções (1892) O muyrakytã. Estudo da origem asiática da civilização do Amazonas nos tempos pré-históricos. Part I (1889) O Muirakitan, precioso acervo coevo do homem ante-colombiano (1882) 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)