Augusto Chaves Batista
Augusto Chaves Batista, Brazilian mycologist, lichenologist and phytopathologist (Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia State 15 June 1916 – Recife 30 November 1967) Considered in both Brazil and abroad as outstanding name of mycology in 20th century. Despite this fact he is in great esteem unknown in his own country ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 5 books and 700 papers Described at least 2 families (Astronateliaceae & Polyetronaceae), 170 valid genera of Fungi, 26 valid genera of Lichenes and 410 other taxa of Fungi and Lichen. A important part of these species related to plant and human diseases Described at least 750 new fungal species With Heraldo da Silva Maia described a new fungal disease of ornamental fishes (1959) Described new plant pathogens Described Phyllachora torrendiella as etiologic agent of lixa pequena (small verrucosis) in 1948 With J.N. da Silva described a new rose disease caused by a new species Stagonospora rosarum (1950) Diplodia recifensis that causes mal de Recife (mango tree disease) in association with the insect Xyleborus affinis. With T. Gayão described Teichosporella oryzae that causes a rice disease (1950) Didymella mangiferae and Ascochyta mangiferae that cause basal necrosis of leaves of mango trees (1952) Phomatospora anacardiicola 1957 and Diploidium anacardiacearum (with Cavalcante) that cause diseases in cashew nut tree With Bezerra et al. Pilgeriella anacardii 1964 that cause black mold of cashew nut With J.L. Bezerra, G.E. P. Peres & H. da Silva Maia Entyloma vignae etiologic agent of leaf smut Described new human pathogens With J.S. Silveira & S.T.C. Campos Endomycopsis epidermalis 1959 With F. Monnier & J.S. Silveira Byrrha portiovaginalis 1961 With J.A. de Lima, F.P. Pessoa & S.K. Shome. Adiaspiromicose humana: doença pulmonar causada por Emmonsia brasiliensis. Publ. 331 IMUR (1961) HONORS (Fungi Genera) Batistamnus Bezerra & Cavalcanti 1967 Batistia Ciferri 1958 Batistina Peres 1961 Batistinula Von Arx 1960 Batistopsora Dianese, Medeiros & Santos 1993 Batistospora Bezerra & Herrera 1964 Number 17, Hall of Ouststanding Mycologists, Netherlands (1958) Honor Medal, Universitá di Pavia (1956) BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/bibquery.pl?author=batista, a.c. www.sbfito.com.br/tpp/Suplemento_2005_Brasilia.pdf
Auguste Bravard
Pierre Joseph Auguste Bravard, French/Argentine paleontologist and cartographer (Issoire, Puy de Dome 18 June 1803 – Mendoza 28 March 1861) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Arctotherium 1857 Budomys 1843 Cainotherium 1857 Camelotherium 1857 Cardiodus 1857 Cynodictis 1850 with Pomel Eutemnodus 1858 Neomys 1843 Opistorhinus 1857 Platyodon 1853 Plesiarctomys 1852 HONORS Bravardia Hauthal 1902 (Fossil Plant)
Arturo Erhardo Burkart
Arturo Erhardo Burkart, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 25 September 1906 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province 25 April 1975) Son of German immigrants Authored over 170 works (papers and books) about botany, plant genetics and agriculture Considered as the foremost world authority on legume taxonomy Named the term catenated fruits Estudios sobre las leguminosas-hedisareas de la Republica Argentina y regiones adyacentes. Darwiniana 3:117-302, 1939 DESCRIBED/NAMED TAXA Genera Lophocarpinia 1957 (Fabaceae) Mimozyganthus 1939 (Mimosaceae) Piptadeniopsis 1944 (Mimosaceae) Prosopidastrum 1964 (Mimosaceae) Yucaratonia 1969 (Fabaceae) Skujaephyconema 1959 (Cynanophyceae) Others About 113 new Fabaceae species A number of intraspecific taxa HONORS Houssay Prize, OAS (1974) Genus Burkartia Crisci 1976 (Asteraceae)
Archimede Busacca
Archimede Busacca, Italian-born Brazilian ophthalmologist (Basico, Messina 27 January 1893 – São Paulo 25 March 1971) Authored 155 papers and 4 books Recognized as one of the world’s leading ocular pathologists Became world-famous for his contributions to biomicroscopy of the living eye Systematized the study of fundus biomicroscopy and its illuminating modes With H. Goldmann & S. Schiff-Werthemer. Biomicroscopie du corps vitré et du fond de l’oeil (1957) Performed magistral works on trachoma and the pannus First to describe the presence of microbes on trachoma and developed a method for obtaining biopsies of trachomatous cornea in Rev. Biol. Hyg. 86 (1934) On a form of choriorinite with detachment of the retina. Arch. Ophthalmol. Rev. Gen. Ophthalmol. 9 (5):549-83, 1949 First to demonstrate the independence of basal membrane from Bowman’s membrane in Bull. Soc. Franç. Ophtalm. 62:133, 1949 First to describe the ascending phenomenon of layers in uveitis Un nouveau phénoméne observé dans le corps vitré antérieur au cours des uvéites. Ophthalmologica 126:355-60, 1953 Demonstrated anatomopathologically the vascular keratitis La keratite trachomateuse avasculaire. Klin. Mbl. Augenhk. 94:202-35, 1935 First to perform light microscopy on an eye with pseudoexfoliation of the anterior lens capsule Other relevant works Algumas observações originaes sobre o modo de se comportar da córnea transparente e do humor aquoso nos processos de iridocyclite. Estudos com a lâmpada de fenda de Gullstrand (1922) DESCRIBED The pathology of Herbert pits On the structure of Herbert’s pits. Brit. J. Ophthalmol. 19;26-31, 1935 Tonofibrils in lens epithelium (1927) Three groups of lymphatic channels at the limbus Chlamydia trachomatis Un germe aux caracteres de rickettsies (Rickettsia trachomae) dans le tissue trachomateux. Arch. Ophthalm. 52:567-72, 1935 METHODS Un dispositif simple et pratique pour la goniotomie. Ophthalmologica 158;292-5, 1969 Method for selective staining of Rickettsia. Their etiological value (1953) How to transport material for graft for long distances. Ann. D’ocul. 183(9):791-3, 1950 Note préliminaire sur une méthode de coloration elective des rickettsias du trachome et sur leur valeur etiologique. Fol. Clin. Biol. S. Paulo 12(1):1-6, 1940 A simple method of treating dacryocystitis in the newborn. Arch. Ophthalm. 24:1256, 1940 A method for the correction of entropion in trachomatous patients: with particular attention to the esthetic results. Arch. Ophthalm. 16 (5), 1936 Um methodo rápido e simples para coloração dos corpúsculos rickettsioides do trachoma pelo Victoriablau (1935) NAMED Trachomatous pustulae Goniosynechia (1945) Lunula for conjunctive that compose the limbic area EPONYMY Busacca pseudo-exfoliation deposits (1928) Goldmann-Busacca polar lens Busacca marginal line of fovea (1948) Busacca trabecular conjunctival layer Busacca nodule or floccule (nodule that appears on the iris in the anterior mesodermal layers) 1971 Pannus sclerosé de Busacca (=pannus involutif sclerosé)
Antonio Beguez Cesar
Antonio M. Beguez César, Cuban pediatrician (Santiago de Cuba 12 March 1895 – Santiago de Cuba 11 February 1975) Discovered (1933) and described (1943) Beguez Cesar disease or Chediak-Higashi before Steinbrinck (1948), Chediak (1952) and Higashi (1954) Neutropenia cronica maligna familiar con granulaciones atipicas de los leucocitos. Boletín Soc. Cubana Pediatria 15(12):900-22, 1943
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya
Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian statistician (01 April 1915 – 17 July 1996) Proposed a measure of similarity between two multinomial distributions (Bhattacharya coefficient) Defined a cosine metric for distance between distributions or measured the divergence between two probability distributions (Bhattacharya distance) On a measure of divergence between two statistical populations defined by their probability distributions. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 35:99-109, 1943 Established lower bounds to the variance of an unbiased estimator Introduced the concept of affinity between two laws of probability EPONYMY Bhattacharya affinity Bhattacharya bounds (1946) Bhattacharya centroid Bhattacharya clustering Bhattacharya matrix Cramer-Rao-Bhattacharya inequalities