Enrique Balech Capdeville
Enrique Balech Capdeville, Argentine planktologist and oceanographer (Telen, La Pampa 17 August 1912 – Necochea, Buenos Aires 26 August 2007) From French parents ACHIEVEMENTS Described surface currents in southwestern Atlantic based on biogeographic studies of dinoflagellates later confirmed Nuevas contribuciones a los esquemas de circulación oceânica frente a La Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 37(2);159-66, 1965. Regarded as a world authority in Dinophyceae Modified Kofoid’s plate tabulation system First to recognize heterogeneity of genus Gonyaulax and proved the existence of a sulcus in Podolampas. DESCRIBED DINOPHYCEAE/DINOFLAGELLATA TAXA Families Protoperidiniaceae 1988 Thecadiniaceae 1956 Genera Adenoides 1956 Clevea 1948 Ensiculifera 1967 Fragilidinium 1959 Neobursaridium 1941 Oblea 1964 Plagiodinium 1993 with Faust Prodinophysis 1943 Pseudometacylis 1968 Roscoffia 1956 Schuettiella 1988 Scrippsiella 1959 Stylicauda 1951] Species About 210 Subspecies & Varieties At least 23 HONORS Honored in genus Balechina Loeblich Jr. & Loeblich III 1968 (Dinophyceae) LINKS HTTP://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/aquaparadox/html/PFD/taxonomic%20Monographs/BalechObit.pdf HTTP://www.inidep.edu.ar/publicaciones/revista/revista_19/inmem_balech.htm
Ennio Cosimo Damião Barbato
Ennio Cosimo Damião Barbato, Brazilian cardiologist (São Paulo 23 June 1919 – São Paulo 22 March 1966) Authored about 60 works Worked in Instituto de Cardiologia (Mexico) and Michigan University (USA) ACHIEVEMENTS Attempted determining blood temperature in cardiac cavities, used in some European clinics. First to study intracavitary electric potentials Published with eminence Electrocardiographic Epicardic Mapping by direct electrodes in Circulation review. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Zarco Caramelli. Significado Clínico da Nomenclatura Eletrocardiográfica, 1962 (book). A study on the ventricular excitation of the human heart. I-The spread of the stimulus in the normal heart. IV Congresso Interam. Cardiol. Buenos Aires, 1952. Pneumonia e Cor Pulmonale crônico esquistossomótico. Arqu. Bras. Cardiol. 3:195-305, 1953. With F. Pileggi, A.C. Debes, T. Fujioka, M.S. Magalhães, J. Tranchesi, E. san Juan & L.V. Décourt. Study of the sequence of ventricular activation and the QRS complex of the normal heart using direct epicardial leads. Am. Heart J. 55:867-80, 1958 With A.C. Debes, T. Fujioka, F. Pileggi, E.J. Zerbini & L.V. Décourt. Direct epicardial and thoracic leads. Their relationship in man. Am. Heart J. 58:238, 1959. With H. Haebisch, T. Fujioka, F. Pileggi& L.V.Décourt.Schistosomal cor pulmonale. Postgrad. Med. 32:246-52, 1962. With U. Pasini, E.T. Carvalho Jr., L. Valada, F. Pileggi & L.V. Décourt. Electroencephalographic changes in patients with paroxysmal cardiac arrhythmias. Arqu. Bras. Cardiol. 20:71, 1967.
Emilio Henrique Baumgart
Emilio Henrique Baumgart, Brazilian civil engineer (Blumenau, Santa Catarina State 25 June 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 09 Oct 1943) Son of German father ACHIEVEMENTS Created sucessive fluctuactions system applied to building bridges and related in reinforced concrete (1930); the process gained international fame and was applied later to Alveley bridge, England (1937) Built A Noite edifice (Rio de Janeiro), world’s highest building in reinforced concrete of its day (1931) and the Emilio Baumgart bridge (Santa Catarina), the world’s largest free span of this day in straight truss of full soul Built the Railway bridge on Mucuri river, world Record for straight beam for this kind of bridge (1937-9) Designed the world’s first hangar door with pivotant leaves in reinforced concrete (1929-30) at Campo dos Afonsos District, Rio de Janeiro Built As Oficinas Gerais do Campo dos Afonsos (Rio de Janeiro) that display a number of innovations (1931) Introduced innovations in design, calculation and making of reinforced concrete Introduced falsework in a wooden bow without intermediate support A new kind of retaining walls of reinforced concrete Used independent negative reinforcement in slabs Introduced trusses and columns in L and T sections Conceived the use of reinforced concrete trusses as a arch centering (1938) TRIVIA/CURIOSITIES Despite the world fame that gained he didn’t publish any paper or technical note. He gained fame when Norwegian engineer Rolf Schjoedt published a detailled article about the bridge that built in 1930 in “Long Rigid Frame Bridge Erected by Cantilever Method”. Engineering News Record p.208-9, 1931.
Emil Bose
Emil Bose (Boese), German-born Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Hamburg 08 June 1868 – Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas State 08 November 1927) With E. Wittich first to describe eugeosynclinal sequence (1913) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Mollusca Genera Adkinsia 1928 Budaiceras 1928 Coahuilites 1928 Marathonites 1917 Perrinites 1917 Plesioptygmatis 1906 Prothalassoceras 1917 Uddenites 1917 Vidrioceras 1917 Species At least 146 Brachiopoda Genera Pseudokingena 1900 with Schlosser Rhynchonellopsis 1894 Species 5 HONORS (Mollusca) Boesites Miller & Furnish 1940 Emilites Ruzhencev 1938 Subg. Boesites Young 1968 LINKS https://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/15-1/(1)Seibertz_1.pdf
Eleodoro Bellido
Eleodoro Bellido Bravo, Peruvian geologist (Huaytará, Huancavelica 03 July 1918 – 1982) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geologia de los yacimientos de Tambo Grande, Piura (1965) Geologia de los yacimientos de fierro de Huancavelica (1956) Geología del curso medio del río Huaytará (1956) Geologia de los yacimientos de tungsteno de La Victora y Nuevo Mundo (1954) Los recursos minerales del sur del Perú HONORS Bellidoite de Montreuil 1975 (Mineral)
Edward Button
Edward Button, English-born South African explorer and gold prospector (Brundish, Suffolk 24 May 1836 – Pietermaritzburg 24 May 1900) Collected plants and seeds Authored a paper Explorations in the gold regions of the Limpopo. Report Brit. Assoc. Advanc. Science (1872) HONORS Buttonia McKen ex. Bentham 1871 (Orobanchaceae) LINKS https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=439