Consuelo Bazan de Segura
Consuelo Bazán de Segura, Peruvian plant pathologist (1914 – 2001?) Born Consuelo Bazán Pizarro Una nueva enfermedad del haba (Vicia faba L.) en el Peru. Agronomia 10(42):49-52, 1945 (Phoma sp.) Carica papaya, another possible host of Phytophthora cinnammomi. Plant Dis. Reporte 35(5):335, 1951 With A. Quevedo first report about potato smut on Solanum stoloniferum (1955) Stated that the causal organism of Verticillium wilt of potato in Peru was Verticillium albo-atrum (1958) Reported a wilt of chile pepper caused by Phytophthora citrophthora (1958) Corticium salmonicolor and Pellicularia koleroga on various species of Eucalyptus in Turrialba, Costa Rica. Turrialba 20(2):254-5, 1970 (first report of pink disease on Eucalyptus) Attack of Phytophthora blight of macadamia by Phytophthora palmivora. Turrialba 20:375-6, 1970 (first report of Phytophthora blight of macadamia by P. palmivora)
Claudio Barros Rodríguez
Fernando Claudio Barros Rodríguez, Chilean reproductive biologist (Santiago 23 October 1936 – 27 October 2008) Regarded as a world leader in sperm biology Authored studies on reproductive biology of mammals and invertebrates and gamete cryopreservation Showed that the mammalian oocyte and the spermatozoon fuse together side by side SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.I. de los Reyes & J.A. Palomino. Effect of human chorionic gonadotrophin supplementation during different culture periods on in vitro maturation of canine oocytes. Theriogen. 64(1):1-11, 2005 With M.R. Solovera & J.A. Stuardo Rosales. Efecto del medio de cultivo sobre el desarollo embrionario bovino in vitro (Effect of culture medium on in vitro bovine embryo development). Veterin. Mex. 34(4):389-95, 2003 With M.I. de los Reyes. Immunolocalization of proacrosin/acrosin in bovine sperm and sperm penetration through the zona pellucida. Anim. Reprod. Science 58(3-4):215-8, 2000 With M. Valdivia, T. Sillerico & A. de Ioannes. Proteolytic activity of rabbit perivitelline spermatozoa (1999) With R. Yanagimachi. Induction of zona reaction in gold hamster eggs by cortical granule material. Nature 233:268-9, 1971 With A. Garavaono. Capacitation of hamster sperm with blood sera. J. Reprod. Fertility 22:381-4, 1970 With J.M. Bedford, L.E. Franklin & C.R. Austin. Membrane vesiculation as a feature of the mammalian acrosome reaction. J. Cell Biol. 34(3):195, 1967 Autodiferenciación del miembro posterior del embrión de pollo en implantes corioalantoicos With M. I. de los Reyes. In vitro sperm penetration through the zona pellucida of immature and in vitro matured oocytes using fresh, chilled and frozen canine semen
Clare Rilloraza Baltazar
Clare Rilloraza Baltazar, Philippine entomologist (San Fernando, La Union 01 November 1927- DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera/Subgenus (Incomplete) Barthasis 1972 Hybomischos 1961 (synonym) Hypsotypos 1963 Ischnobracon 1963 Pachymelos 1961 Millironia 1964 Sychnostigma 1961 Triancyra 1961 Species 108 HONORS Baltazaria Townes 1961 (Hymenoptera)
Christian Neethling Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard, South African cardiothoracic surgeon (Beaufort West 08 November 1922 – Paphos, Cyprus 02 September 2001) Born from Dutch father ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the world’s first human heart transplant (03 December 1967). He is first to choose as a heart donor a brain-dead accident victim (1967) Defined the concept of brain death First successfully implanted artificial arteries (1969) Developed technique of heterotopic heart transplantation with Jacques Losman (1974) First to attempt xenograft transplantation in a human patient (1977) With J.H. Louw showed how intestinal atresia resulted from vascular block Discovered that congenital intestinal atresia is caused by an inadequate blood supply to the fetus during pregnancy and developed a procedure to correct it Designed Barnard artificial heart valve (1957) With D. Novitsky, W.N. Wicomb, D.K.C. Cooper, A.G. Rose & R.C. Fraser showed the concept of hormonal replacement therapy in dead transplant donors (1984) With D.K.C. Cooper & W.N. Wicomb the first to successfully transport donor hearts using a hypothermic perfusion storage device (1981) With M.S. Barnard enunciated principles for complete correction of Fallot’s tetralogy (1975) With T.G. O’Donovan & M.S. Gotsman developed a method of surgical treatment for transposition of great vessels in infants (1968) With M.S. Gotsman, W. Beck, I.W. Piller, S.C. Bosman & V. Schrire developed a modified technique for long-term endocardial pacemaking (1966) With C.C. Goosen, V. Schrire & L.V. Holmgren developed University of Cape Town mitral valve prosthesis (1962-3) With V. Schrire performed the first successful surgical correction of Ebstein’s anomaly tricuspid valve replacement (1962) and first prostethic valve replacement (1963) A method of operating on fetal dogs in utero (1957) HONORS Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee
Charles Brewer Carías
Charles A. Brewer Carias, Venezuelan explorator, anthropologist, geographer and naturalist (Caracas 10 September 1938 – From British descent ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered world’s largest quartzite cave (2004) Discovered one of the greatest sinkholes on Earth at Sarisariña Tepui (1974) Discovered biospeleothems, a new phenomenon in Nature (2006) HONORS Brewcaria Smith, Steyermark & Robinson 1984 (Bromeliaceae) Many taxa in plants and animals bear his name See http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/I_UBC/CVCharlesBrewer.pdf
Chander Kanta Banerjee
Chander Kanta Banerjee, Indian pathologist Described Banerjee syndrome With D.J. Girling & J.S. Wigglesworth. Pulmonary fibroplasia in newborn babies treated with oxygen and artificial ventilation. Arch.Dis. Child. 47:509, 1972. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With V.R. Sarode, K. Savitri, K.L. Narasimharao & A. Khajuria. Primary extrarenal Wilm’s tumour: identification of a putative precursor lesion. Histopathology 21(1):76-8, 1992 With K. K. Vayshei & B.N. Dutta. Malpighian corpuscles of spleen in infancy and childhood. Indian J. Path. Microbiol. 34(3):193-9, 1991 With K.V.S. Bhaskar & K. Joshi. Hepatoblastoma with glomerulocystic disease – a mere coincidence or an association. Nephron 54:273-4, 1990 With S. Roy, K. Joshi, R.A. Choudhury, S.C. Varma. Nuclear morphometric analysis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Pathology 21(2), 1989 With M. Gandhi, R. Lal, A. Sankaranarayanan & P.L. Sharma. Acute toxicity study of the oil from Azadirachta indica seed (neem oil). J. Ethnopharm. 23(1):39, 1988 With S. Kumar, D. Chandrasekhar & M.S. Rao. Solitary paravesical tuberculoma masquerading as bladder carcinoma. With A. Rajwanshi, S. Radhika, A. Das & N. Jayaram. Fine-needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of cysticercosis presenting as apalpable nodules