Cesar Bergadá
Cesar Bergadá, Argentine pediatric endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 08 June 1929 – Buenos Aires 08 April 2005) Presented original hypothesis about anomalies of sexual differentiation With I. Bergadá, G. Del Rey, P. Lapunzina, M. Fellous & S. Copelli. Familial occurrence of the IMAGe association: additional clinical variants and a proposed mode of inheritance. J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 90:3186-90, 2005 Described Bergada syndrome or Rudimentary testes syndrome With W.W. Cleveland, H.W. Jones Jr & L. Wilkins. Variants of embryonic testicular dysgenesis: bilateral anorchia and the syndrome of rudimentary testes. Acta Endocrinol 40:521-36, 1962. DESCRIBED DISEASES With S. Iorcansky, N. Altschuler & M. Cullen. Familial dysenzymatic goiter caused by failure in the binding of iodothyroxines. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metab. 12(4):227-33, 1967 With V.A. Dahl. New endocrine system caused by the inadequate secretion of antidiuretic syndrome. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metab. 10:148-50, 1964 With M. Cullen. Female pseudohermaphroditism without postnatal adrenal hyperplasia. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metab. 4(4):352-71, 1958 DEVELOPED METHODS With F. Gruneiro & A. Chiesa. The surface of epiphysis of the knee: an index of the onset of neonatal hypothyroidism (NH). Pediat. Res. 28(4), 1990 With C. Bianculli, B. Cano de Candas, J. Menendez & M. A. Rivarola. Urinary acid phosphatase as an auxiliary index of androgenic response. J. Pediatrics 89(2):325, 1976 With V.A. Dahl. The determination of urinary pregnanetriol. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metabolismo 10:84-9, 1964
Cassio Bottura
Cássio Bottura, Brazilian cytogeneticist and hematologist (Matão, São Paulo State 20 January 1920 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 26 January 1988) ACHIEVEMENTS Published nearly 60 works Co-authored the first publication reporting a megaloblastic change that complicated the course of hemolytic anemia in sickle cell anemia, 8 years ahead of international literature The first report about sickle cell anemia without gastric achylia With M. Jamra & L.M. Ferreira. Anemia falciforme: considerações em torno de um caso (1944) Introduced the use of glycose and insulin for the treatment of acute alcoholism With D. Pfuhl Neves & L. Marques de Assis. Tratamento do alcoolismo pela glicose e insulina. Rev. Paul. Med. 32:226-7, 1948 Developed a direct technique for analysis of human chromosomes from cells of bone marrow With I. Ferrari. A simplified method for the study of chromosomes in man. Nature 186:904-5, 1960 Described spontaneous chromosome endoreduplication in acute leukemia With I. Ferrari. Endoreduplication in acute leukemia. Blood 21:207, 1963. Observed chromosome abnormalities in patients treated with pyrimethamine, suggesting that such anomalies may also occur in megaloblastic anemia With V. Coutinho. Pyrimethamine (Daraprim) induced chromosome abnormalities in man. Human Chrom. Newsl. 15:4, 1965. Demonstrated the clonal nature of cell proliferation in Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia The genetic nature of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. Prensa Med. Argentina 53:223-4, 1966 (in Spanish) Demonstrated that the Philadelphia 1 chromosome in chronic myeloid leukemia originates from reciprocal translocation With V. Coutinho. A possible explanation for the origin of the Philadelphia chromosome. Blur 22:273-6, 1971. Methods Developed original techniques for the investigation of the cytogenetics of neoplastic diseases of the blood With I. Ferrari. Simplified technique for examination of chromosomes in the bone marrow of man. Can. Med. Assoc. J. 85(7):381, 1961 With V. Coutinho. Direct method for the study of human chromosomes. Rev. Paul. Med. 72(1):9-13, 1968 An alternative decomplementation method for the measurement of the survival of human erythrocytes transfused into rats. Experientia 37(4):437-8, 1981 With M. A Zago & F. Ferreira Costa.A modified quantitative solubility test I normal hemolysates and in hemoglobin variants. Rev. Paul. Med. 100(3):15-7, 1982 Papers in top journals (see above) With F.F. Costa & M.A. Zago. Effects of piracetam and iodoacetamide in erythrocyte sickling. Lancet 2 (8155):1302, 1979 With L.M. de Assis & W. Bloise. Gonadal dysgenesis (Turner’s syndrome) with male phenotype and XO chromosomal constitution. The Lancet 2:1059-60, 1960 With L.M. de Assis & D.R. Epps. Chromosomal constitution and nuclear sex of a true hermaphrodite. Lancet 2 (7142):129-30, 1960 Most of this text was extracted from Rev. Bras. Genet. (Brazil. J. Genetics) 11(2):493-4, 1988.
Carlos Guido Bollini
Carlos Guido Bollini, Argentine physicist (Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province 15 January 1926 – Buenos Aires 12 October 2009) Authored over 100 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Invented analytical regularization method With J.J. Giambiagi & A. Gonzalez Dominguez. Analytic regularization and the divergence of quantum fields theories. Nuovo Cimento 31:550-61, 1964 Invented dimensional regularization method With J.J. Giambiagi. Dimensional Regularization. J. Nuovo Cimento 12 B:20, 1972 Eponym of Bollini-Giambiagi potential OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With J.J. Giambiagi. A differential equation for the self-energy in momentum space. Phys. Lett. 10(2):219-21, 1964 With F.F. Grinstein. A summation procedure for expansions in orthogonal polynomials. Rev. Bras. Física (1977) With J.J. Giambiagi. Relations between effective potentials in different dimensions. Phys. Lett. B 134(6):436-8, 1984 With J.J. Giambiagi. Lagrangian procedures for higher order field equations (1986) With J.J. Giambiagi & O. Obregon. Criteria to fix the dimensionality corresponding to some higher derivative Lagrangians. Modern Phys. Lett. A 7(7):593-9, 1992 With D.G. Barci, L.E. Oxman & M.C. Rocca defined non local pseudo-differential operators acting on a space of analytic functionals and showed how to solve homogeneous and inhomogeneous equations associated with these operators (1998) With L.E. Oxman & M.C.Rocca. Equivalence theorem for higher order equations. Int. J. Theoret. Physics 37(11):2857-75, 1998 With T. Escobar & M.C. Rocca gave a general definition of convolution between two arbitrary tempered ultra distributions (1999) With M. Giambiagi, M.S. de Giambiagi & A.P. de Figueiredo. Graphical linking of MO multicenter bond index and VB structures. II-5-c rings and 6-c heterocyclic rings. Struct. Chem. 12(2):113-20, 2001 With M.C. Rocca. Superstring and superstring field theory: a new solution using ultra distributions of exponential type. Int, J. Theor. Physics 48(4):1053-69, 2009 With M. Giambiagi, Segre de Giambiagi & J.J. Giambiagi. On a SC method for determining bond orders in alternant hydrocarbons. HONORS Physics Nobel Prize nominee
Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo
Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo, Brazilian phycologist and lymnologist (São Paulo 28 November 1937- DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Genera Bjornbergiella 1966 (Cryptophyceae) Prescottiella 1976 (Chlorophyceae) Tetranephris 1977 (Chlorophyceae) with C.R. Leite Pseudocryptomonas 1988 (Cryptophyceae) with G. Tell Croasdalea 1993 (Zygnemaphyceae) with C.T.J. Mercante Species Bjornbergiella hawaiiensis 1966 Bourrellyodesmus guarrerae 2004 with Faustino Bourrellyodesmus jolyanus with AZevedo Cosmarium brancoi 1967 Cosmarium lapeanum with Ventrice Cosmarium subtruncatum with Ventrice Cryptomonas brasiliensis with Castro & D. Bicudo Dispora globosa with R. Bicudo Euastrum vitalianum with R. Bicudo Hemidinium brasiliense with Skvortzov Hemidinium montanum with Skvortzov Hemidinium pseudochraceum with Skvortzov Ichthyocercus manauensis 1986 Katodinium fontinalis with Skvortzov Katodinium sanctipaulense with Skvortzov Mallomonas kristianseni 1993 with Wujek Micrasterias croasdaleana with Sormus Micrasterias prescottiana with Sormus Micrasterias sanctipaulensis with Sormus Oocystis apicurvata 2015 with Ramos & Moura Pleurotaenium brasiliense with Ventrice Protocryptomonas acuta with Castro & D. Bicudo Protocryptomonas sygmoidea with Castro & D. Bicudo Pseudocryptomonas americana 1988 with Tell Pseudocryptomonas parrae 1988 with Tell Pseudocryptomonas subcylindrica 1988 with Tell Quadrigula jolyi with R. Bicudo Salpingoeca ampulloides 1984 with D. Bicudo Salpingoeca brevicollis with D. Bicudo Salpingoeca caudiculata with D. Bicudo Spirogyra verucogranulata 1996 with Dias Staurastrum prescottii 1967 Staurodesmus asiaticus 1978 with Compere Strombomonas carinata 2003 with Alves da Silva Strombomonas ferrazii 2003 with Alves da Silva Strombomonas simplex 2006 with Alves da Silva Tetranephris brasiliensis 1977 with Leite Trachelomonas alabamensis 1998 with Wolowski Vacuolaria tropicalis 1973 with Cardoso Varieties/Forms Described 21 varieties and 10 forms too HONORS Bicudoa Wetzel, Lange-Bertalot, Morales, Bicudo, Hoffmann & Ector 2012 (Bacillariophyta)
Carlos do Prado Barbosa
Carlos do Prado Barbosa, Brazilian amateur mineralogist (Alfenas, Minas Gerais State 07 January 1917 – Belo Horizonte 17 April 2003) With Paulo A. Matioli found the mineral brumadoite (1993), described later by Atencio, Roberts, Matioli et al (2008) DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Bahianite 1978 with Moore & Gaines Minasgeraisite 1986 with Foord, Gaines, Crock & Simmons SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.U. Falster, W.B. Simmons, K.L. Webber, J. Nizamoff & R.V. Gaines. Minerals of the Brumado magnesite deposits, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, Brazil. Rocks and Minerals 75:32-9, 2000 With P.J. Modreski & E.E. Foord. Crystal chemistry of uvitedravite from the Brumago magnesite deposits, Bahia, Brazil (1997) Notas sobre a ocorrência de paládio e platina no Município de Pilar. Eng. Min. Metal. 35(207):111, 1962 HONORS Carlosbarbosaite Atencio, Roberts, Cooper, Menezes Filho, Coutinho, Stirling, Venance, Ball, Moffatt, Chaves, Brandão & Romano 2012 (Mineral)
Carlos Burckhardt
Karl Emmanuel Burckhardt, Swiss-born Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Basle 26 March 1869 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 August 1935) Authored 44 publications DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA GENERA Durangites 1912 Idoceras 1906 Mazapilites 1919 Nebrodites 1910 Proniceras 1919 Pseudoctenostreon 1930 Species More than 100 HONORS Burckhardtia Frech 1907 (Fossil Mollusca) Burckhardtites Humphrey 1949 (Fossil Mollusca) Burckhardtite Gaines, Leavens & Nelen 1979 (Mineral) See http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/epoca02/1936-9-1burckhardt.pdf (in Spanish; with bibliography)