Bernardo Beiguelman
Bernardo Beiguelman, Jewish Brazilian human geneticist (Santos, São Paulo State 15 May 1932 – São Paulo 05 October 2010) Authored 428 scientific works between papers, communications, books and book chapters. ACHIEVEMENTS Performed first studies in the world about resistance and hereditary susceptibility to leprosy First to demonstrate that resistance and susceptibility to Virchowian Hanseniasis is genetically determined Aspectos geneticos da resistência a lepra (1965) Demonstrated that the lepromin reaction has a familial pattern Hereditariedade da reação de Mitsuda. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 30(4):153-72, 1962 Described recessive juvenile glaucoma With Durval Prado. Recessive juvenile glaucoma. J. Genet. Hum. 12:53-54, 1963. METHODS AND OTHERS With M.F. Feitosa, F.P. Alves, M.M.F. Moura, V. Engracia, R.C. Pagotto, L.H.P. Silva, E.P. Camargo & H. Krieger. A major genetic mechanism involved in resistance to malaria in western Amazonia. Intern. J. Hum. Genet. 2(2):77-80, 2002 With W. Pinto Jr. Ficha clínica para recém-nascidos com alguma alteração da morfogênese: uma proposta. Braz. J. Genetics 3:819-26, 1991 Um método simples para o estudo da mistura racial no Brasil. Cien. Cult 32 (Suppl):745, 1980 With A.F.N. Magalhães, W. Pinto Jr. A.S. Pereira & R.A. Pereira Filho. Simplificação da prova de respiração calórica para o diagnóstico da síndrome de Gilbert. Arq. Gastroent. 15:73-8, 1978 With W. Pinto Jr. A new approach to dermatoglyphic studies. Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol. 4:305-9, 1971 Uma teoria genética para explicar as diferentes formas clinicas da lepra. Cien. Cult. 21:228, 1969 Devised an in vitro test for studies of macrophages in relation to Mycobacterium leprae (1966) LINKS/CURRICULUM WWW.abc.org.br/~beiguel (Portuguese) HTTP://desvirtual.com/bbeiguel/curriculum.htm (Portuguese)
Benjamin Vinelli Baptista
Benjamin Vinelli Baptista, Brazilian anatomist (Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1901 – 21 October 1983) BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudo comparado da circulação cerebral nos mamíferos domésticos e no homem. Razão de ser da rede admirável. Doctorate Thesis. Faculdade de Medicina do rio de Janeiro, 1922. Do Nervo grande hipoglosso. Thesis, Rio de Janeiro, 1925. Caso raríssimo de aplasia bilateral da clavícula. Boletim Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro. 44:73-75, 2 Abb, 1928. Des valvules sigmoides aortiques. Assoc. Anat. Comptes Rendus 26: 42-46, 1931. Musculus Sternalis. Rev. Univ. do Rio de Janeiro, série 1:1, 1932. Varieté anatomique du sternum. Arquivo de Anatomia e Antropologia (Lisbon). 14: 629-633, 1933. Contribution a l’etude des anomalies Du coeur. Un cas de vraie transposition dês arteres de La base Du coeur. Ann. D’anat.path. 10:1212, 1933. A propôs d’ um cas d’ectopie renale congénitale. Soc. Anat. Paris. Ann d’Anat. Path. 10(3):334, 1933. Calcul de l’urethre. Archivos de Pediatria T V1(67): 695-696, 1934. O nervo vago no feto humano. Arquivos Inst, Benjamin Baptista. 2:115-124, 1936. Investigações anatômicas sobre o nervo vago em alguns mamíferos. Arq. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 2(2): 1936. Investigações anatômicas sobre o nervo vago nos vertebrados. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32(2): 1937. Investigações anatômicas sobre os Bradypodidas: o Orthosympatico no Bradypus tridactylus. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32(4): 1937. (with Murillo Fontes). Quelques recherches sur les sujets Brasiliens. Folia Morphologica 8:99-104, 1937-8. Contribuição ao estudo dos hipotremados. Arqu. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 5:333-353, 9 Abb, 1939. Nervus terminalis no homem. Arq. Inst. Benj. Bapt. 6:209, 1940. Angiospasmo Cerebral- novo capítulo da cirurgia de emergência. Revista Médica Brasileira (Separate), 1940. Duplicidade do nervo mediano observada em um caso de secção traumática da região antibraquial anterior. Rev. Bras. Tuberculose, 1940. (with Vicencio de Rosso) Emergency Surgery in Central Angiospasm. Abst. Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. 47:1055, 1942. Anatomia Humana tomo I and II, 1943-1944. Investigações anatômicas sobre o elemento acessório do complexo vagal. Archivos Inst. Benjamin Baptista 10: 1944. Investigações anatômicas sobre os nervos cranianos ventrais em “vertebrata”. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciências 16: 79-110, 1944. Formações pseudo-ganglionares em nervo craniano motor. Rev. Bras. Cir. 14:267-70, 1945 Fratura do esterno com afundamento. Intervenção e cura. Brasil Médico-Cirúrgico XV(1): 1948. (Separate). Musculus plantaris in Brazilian Negroes. 1972 (with J. Pereira Ramalho) Anthropometric researches on Brazilian Indians. Proceedings Tenth International Congresso f Anatomists and Eightieth Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Anatomists, Tokyo. P. 60-61, 1975 (with J. Pereira Ramalho e R.K. Papais) Variação osteogênica do neurocrânio Da pleura dos mamíferos domésticos EPONYMY Vinelli Baptista foramen (xiphoid foramen) His father, João Benjamin Ferreira Baptista, surgeon and anatomist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 07 Jul 1869 – Rio de Janeiro 26 Nov 1934) Developed new dissection techniques With Aloysio de Castro e Schilde concluded the constancy of pituitary duct in Felidae SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cura radical da hernia inguinal (1895) Anatomia rara do nervo músculo cutâneo (1898) Anomalias supra-aorticas. 3º Reun. Congr. Cient. Lat Am. (1905) Contribuição ao estudo anatomo-aplicado do apêndice íleo-cecal (1907) Estudo da topografia cardio-torácica (1907) Contribuição ao estudo das anomalias renais (1909) Das anastomoses normais do sistema venoso porta e cava (1909) Contribuição a estudo das anomalias dos ureteres (1917) Contribuição ao estudo da loja esplênica (1918) Da loja renal do ponto de vista anatomo aplicado (1918) Contribuição ao estudo do rim único (1919) Persistência da veia cava superior esquerda. Duplicidade da veia cava inferior (1920) Da anomalia de origem da artéria poplítea (1921) Dos ossos inter-parietal e pactal (1922) With E. Roquette Pinto & A. Schild. Contribution à l’ anatomie comparée dês races humanes. Dissection d’une indienne du Bresil. Archivos do Museu Nacional. 26: 7-25, 1926. HONOURS/OFFICES Praised by many compliments at Europe (1930-1) Founder, Committee Internationale de Recherches sur les parties molles
Benjamin Berisso
Benjamín Berisso, Argentine microchemist and pharmacist (Santa Fé 31 March 1897 – Rosario 1979) ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Described slide tests for alkaloids Described a new microchemical reaction for urotropine in Sobre una nueva reacción microquimica de la urotropina. Publ. Inst. Inves. Microquim. Arg. 18(19), 1954 Proposed a new reagent (sodium iodide + piperazine) to study lead and gold (1956) Described Berisso reaction Modified Deniges method for hydrocyanic acid With A. Martini. Microchemical detection of hydrocyanic acid in forensic investigations. Mikrochemie 26:241-4, 1939. Cloridrato de cocaína como reactivo microquímico do cationio ouro. Rev. Col. Farm. Nac. Argentina 1:3, 1945 Sobre una nueva reacción especifica y diferencial de la narceina e narcotina. Rev. Col. Farm. Nac. Argentina 1:35, 1945 Estudio de nuevos complejos microcristalinos (1948) With R.M. Aquino. Sobre una nueva reacción microquimica del agua oxigenada. Publ. Inst. Invest. Microquim. 14:119, 1950. Sobre una nueva reacción microquimica que sirve para caracterizar y diferenciar mediante tecnicas microanaliticas adecuadas mercurio, iridio, indio, platino y oro. Acta Microchimica 44(4/6):812-21, 1956. Sobre nuevas reacciones microquímicas de La piperacina y del licetol y su aplicación microanaliticas. Microchimica Acta 45(3/4):296-305, 1957. A microchemical reaction for detecting and differentiating pyridine, quinoline and acridine. Publ. Inst. Invest. Microquim. Sobre una nueva reacción microquimica de la hioscina y de la atropina
Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born US immunologist (Caracas 29 October 1920 – Boston, Massachusetts 02 August 2011) Son of Sephardic Jews that came from North Africa His wife Annette Dreyfus was niece of Nobel Laureate Jacques Monod ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered genes that regulate immune responses and traced it to a region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in 1969 Studied the chemistry of suppressor T lymphocytes leading to understand the possibility to control autoimmune diseases With B. Levine showed that immune response was due to the presence of a gene (Ir gene) With G. Biozzi developed mathematical equations that describe the amount of foreign material that can be removed by phagocytes of liver and spleen With Z. Ovary, K. Bloch & F. Kourilsky established unequivocally that different classes or subclasses of immunoglobulins mediated distinct functions With A. Berken established the existence of receptors on phagocytic cells for the Fc portion of antibody With Z. Ovary discovered bridging effect Developed a technique for assessment of the phagocytic activity of the macrophage system. With G. Biozzi and B.N. Halpern. Quantitative study of the granulopectic activity of the reticulo-endothelial system. II. A study of the kinetics of the RES in relation to the dose of carbon injected; relationship between the weight of the organs and their activity. Brit.J.Exp.Pathol. 34:441-57, 1953. Developed carbon clearance test With G. Biozzi, C. Stiffel and B.N. Halpern. Etude quantitative de l’activité granulopexique du SRE chez la souris. C.R. Seances Soc. Biol. Fil. 148:431, 1954. HONORS Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize (1980)
Axel Oscar Bachmann
Axel Oscar Bachmann Eberle, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 07 March 1927 – 10 February 2017) From German descent Expert on aquatic insects Authored over 138 papers, 23 book and book chapters DESCRIBED NEW ARTHROPODA TAXA Coleoptera Subgenus Paramegadytes 1980 with Tremouilles Species Andogyrus anta 1965 Andricus bioteriae 1999 with Pujade-Villar Helobata confusa 1987 with Fernandez Helobata corumbataensis 1987 with Fernandez Helobata perpunctata 1987 with Fernandez Helobata quatipuru 1987 with Fernandez Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) acutidens 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) brasiliensis 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) caratinga 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) costera 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) denticulata 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) franca 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) iguazu 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) irinoides 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) mucajai 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) paraensis 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) paulista 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) praesumptapolita 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) solitaria 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) spatula 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) spiculosa 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) utiariti 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) utinga 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) venezolana 1968 Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) guarani 1966 Lancetes arauco 1981 with Tremouilles Mecometopus aulai 2002 with Di Iorio Megadytes (Bifurcitus) magnus 1980 with Tremouilles Tropisternus (Pristoternus) acaragua 1970 Tropisternus (Pristoternus) burmeisteri 1981 with Fernandez Tropisternus (Pristoternus) gaeae 1969 Tropisternus (Pristoternus) longispina 1981 with Fernandez Tropisternus (Pristoternus) sapana 1970 Tropisternus (Tropisternus) missionum 2000 with Fernandez Tropisternus (Tropisternus) noa 2000 with Fernandez Hemiptera Genus Guazuplea 1968 Species Ectemnostega quechua 1961 Metrobates laetus 1995 with Mazzuco Microvelia isabelae 1979 Neoplea (Neoplea) gauchita 1968 Notonecta (Paranecta) huincamoreni 1962 Ovatametra gualeguay 1966 Sigara (Tropocorixa) tucma 1961 Sigara (Tropocorixa) platensis 1962 Sigara (Tropocorixa) vuriloche 1960 Sigara (Tropocorixa) yala 1979 Tenagobia (Incertagobia) carapachay 1961 Trichocorixa milicorum 1979 Diptera Species Culex lahillei 1962 with Casal LINKS http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S0373-56802007000200003&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt (bibliography)
Avelino Barrio
Avelino Barrio Perez, Spanish-born Argentine herpetologist and toxinologist (La Coruña, Spain 10 August 1920 – Buenos Aires 30 June 1979) Gained international recognition for his studies on snake venoms Authored about 100 papers Co-discoverer of rattlesnake neurotoxin called gyroxin (1931) With Vital Brazil discovered veratrine properties of venom from Crotalus durissus (1950s) With O. Vital Brazil described an apparatus for obtaining bird spider venom employing electrical stimulus Discovered that the green coloration in frogs of the families Centrolenidae, Hylidae and Pseudidade is due partly to the pigment biliverdin (1965-8) Performed important contributions to the study of anuran songs DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Genus Insuetophrys 1970 Species Atelognathus nitoi 1973 Batrachyla antartandica 1967 Ceratophrys cranwelli 1980 Hypsiboas cordobae 1965 Insuetophrys acarpicus 1970 Physaelemus santafecinus 1965 Pleuroderma guayapae 1964 Scinax berthae 1962 LINKS https://www.sites.google.com/site/coleccionabacacia/home/-publicos-homenajes/2-avelino-barrio-h