Alberto Brenes
Alberto Manuel de Jesus Brenes Mora, Costa Rican botanist (San Ramón de Alajuela 02 September 1870 – San Ramón de Alajuela 28 May 1948) Discovered, collected and sent over 71 new plant and fungi species from Costa Rica flora that were described by other researchers HONORS Genus Brenesiella Sydow 1929 (Fungi) At least 19 species bears his name
Alberto Boerger
Alberto Carlos Boerger, German-born Uruguayan plant breeder (Foerde, Grevenbrück, Westphalia 04 November 1881 – Colonia del Sacramento 28 March 1957) Developed Avena 1095a, a variety of oat DEVELOPED NEW WHEAT VARIETIES Americano 25e, 26n, 44d or Universal II, 25 c & Pelón 33c (1918) Artigas (1924) Porvenir, Renacimiento & Centenario (1933) Litoral 1 & 2, Precoz, Multiplicación 11 & 14 BIBLIOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTIONS Adaptación de Trifolium subterraneum al ambiente productivo del Uruguay (1952) Adaptación de variedades uruguayas de Triticum vulgare (Vill.) a las exigencias de un periodo de siembra dilatado (1938) Observaciones sobre agricultura. Quince anos de trabajos fitotecnicos en el Uruguay (1928) Orientation a donner aux methodes de reproduction dans le but de sauvegarder les races locales (1927)
Alberto Betim Paes Leme
Alberto Betim Paes Leme, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (Rio de Janeiro 15 November 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 01 July 1938) Authored 34 scientific works First to describe total energy technique, a spectrographic technique used traditionally in mineral analysis (1918) Sur un nouveau procédé d’analyse quantitative. Comptes Rendus Hebd. Seances Acad. Sciences 166:466-7, 1918 Procédé cinématique d’analyse spectrale quantitative appliqué aux mineraux. Boletim Museu Nacional 9(3):53-104, 1933 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Historia física da Terra – vista por que a estudou no Brasil (1943) O tectonismo da Serra do Mar. A hipótese de uma remodelação terciária. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 3:143, 1930 Etat des connaissances geologiques sur le Bresil (Rapport avec la theorie de Wegener sur la derive des continents). Bull. Soc. Geol. France 4 ser. 29:35-87, 1929 Um fóssil permo-carbonífero no Parana-Panama. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 3:47-8, 1927 Estudo industrial das plantas têxteis nativas e cultivadas no Brasil (1926) Evolução da estrutura da Terra e geologia do Brazil (1924) A gênesis do linhito do norte de São Paulo (1924) Notas geológicas sobre o maciço do Itatiaya. Bol. Mus. Nac. 1(1):31-4, 1923 Indícios de existência de petróleo em São Paulo. Rev. Sciencias Rio de Janeiro 6:10-1, 1922 Notas sobre a geologia do Ceará. Rev. Sciencias Rio de Janeiro 4:150-2, 1920 With G. Tammann, M. Siegbahn et al. Spektralanalyse. Fresenius Zeitschr. f. Anal. Chemie 58:354-6, 1919 Synthese geológica do Brasil. Arch. Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro 22:31-86, 1919 Analyse espectral aplicada a mineralogia (1919) Sobre a formação de linhito de Caçapava (1918) Sur um gisement d’euxenite au Brésil. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sciences 161:177-9, 1915 Les zeolites du Rio do Peixe (Brésil). Comptes Rendus de l’Acad. Sciences 158:416-8, 1914 Os gneiss do Rio de Janeiro (1912) MEMBERSHIP/HONOURS Elected Member, Société Geologique de France (1912) Doctor Honoris Causa, Academie des Sciences of Université de Paris (Sorbonne)
Aimé Bonpland
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Goujaud Bonpland, French-born Argentine botanist (La Rochelle 22 August 1773 – Santa Ana, Misiones Province 04 May 1858) DESCRIBED PLANT GENERA Aegopogon 1806 (Poaceae) with Humboldt Angelonia 1809 (Scrophulariaceae) Bertholletia 1808 (Lecythidaceae) Ceroxylon 1804 (Arecaceae) Culcitium 1808 (Asteraceae) Elyonurus 1806 (Poaceae) with Humboldt Eriope 1833 (Lamiaceae) with Humboldt Eudema 1813 (Brassicaceae) Exostema 1807 (Rubiaceae) Leucophyllum 1812 (Scrophulariaceae) Lilaea 1808 (Juncaginaceae) Limnocharis 1807 (Butomiaceae) Machaonia 1806 (Rubiaceae) Marathrum 1806 (Podostemaceae) Matisia 1805 (Bombacaceae) Menodora 1812 (Oleaceae) Platycarpum 1811 (Rubiaceae) Pleopeltis 1810 (Pteridophyta) with Humboldt Podopterus 1812 (Polygonaceae) Polybotrya 1810 (Pteridophyta) with Humboldt Retiniphyllum 1806 (Rubiaceae) Saccellium 1806 (Boraginaceae) Salpianthus 1807 (Nyctaginaceae) HONORS Bonplandia Cavanilles 1800 (Polemoniaceae) Bomplandiella Spegazzini 1886 (Fungi) Bonpland crater in Moon
Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt
Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt, Brazilian plant pathologist and mycologist (Manaus 06 June 1899 – São Paulo 17 June 1987) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored nearly 300 works Proposed an equation for anthill growth Expressão matemática do crescimento de formigueiros de Atta sexdens rubropilosa representada pelo aumento do número de olheiros. Arq. Inst. Biol. 12:229-36, 1941 Authored a formula Theoretical distribution of lesions on leaves or fruits caused by insects and other animals or by infectious agents transmitted by vectors. Arq. Inst. Biol. 24(17):243-52, 1943 Described Citrus false exantema With J.P. da Fonseca & M. Autuori. Manual de Citricultura (2nd part) 1933 Described zonate chlorosis in citrus With H.S.V. Grillo. A chlorose zonada. Uma nova doença dos citrus. Arqu. Inst. Biol., 1934 With H.S. Fawcett suggested that citrus tristeza was a virus disease (1936) Developed Bitancourt method for treatment of citrus tristeza Developed starch test, the first index for citrus tristeza, an iodine test for starch accumulation above bud union and starch depletion below the bud union Um teste para a identificação precoce da tristeza dos citrus. O Biológico 10(6):169-175, 1944. Discovered coffee ringspot disease A mancha anular, uma nova doença do cafeeiro. O Biológico 4:404-5, 1938. Identified citrus leprosis as a virus disease (1940s) and suggested its transmission by mites (Brevipalpus phoenicis) Described a new root disease of citrus A doença do citrus no vale do Paraiba. O Biológico 6:268-9, 1940 First to isolate Phytophthora cinnamoni from citrus in the world With H.S. Fawcett. Occurrence, pathogenicity, and temperature relations of Phytophthora species on Citrus in Brazil and other South American countries. Arch. Inst. Biol. 11:107-18, 1946 Described or co-described 112 new Fungi species DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES CAUSATIVE AGENT Elsinoe arrudai with Jenkins Elsinoe australis 1936 with Jenkins (Sweet Orange scab) Elsinoe bertholetiae 1945 Elsinoe blechni 1955 with Jenkins Elsinoe bochneri with Jenkins Elsinoe brasiliensis 1940 with Jenkins (Superelongation disease of cassava) Elsinoe caleae with Jenkins Elsinoe caroli with Jenkins Elsinoe chilensis 1945 Elsinoe costai with Jenkins Elsinoe cryptostegiae 1941 with Jenkins Elsinoe deslandesii Elsinoe fawcetti 1936 with Jenkins (Sour Orange Scab) Elsinoe heveae 1942 with Jenkins (Spotted Anthracnose of Hevea) Elsinoe krameriii with Jenkins Elsinoe lepagei 1941 with Jenkins Elsinoe leucospila with Jenkins Elsinoe mangiferae 1946 with Jenkins (Mango Scab) Elsinoe pitangae (anthracnose of Eugenia pitanga) Elsinoe ractii with Jenkins Elsinoe rochalimai with Jenkins Elsinoe theae 1939 (Foliar scab of tea) Elsinoe uruguayensis 1945 Elsinoe venezuelensis 1945 Elsinoe verbenae with Jenkins Sphaceloma psidii 1949 with Jenkins (Guava Spotted Anthracnose) Sphaceloma papayae 1955 with Jenkins (Papaw scab) Sphaceloma arachidis 1940 with Jenkins (Peanut Scab) Sphaceloma spondialis 1942 with Jenkins (Ciriguela Scab) Stomiopeltis citrii 1934 (Sooty blotch of citrus) Setophoma sacchari 1938 ( a leaf spot of sugar cane) Sphaceloma bidentis 1950 (spot anthracnose) Sphaceloma erythrinae 1950 (spot anthracnose of Erythrina crista-galli) Sphaceloma hoveniae 1950 with Jenkins (spot anthracnose of Hovenia dulcis) Sphaceloma terminaliae Proposed storing specimens in herbaria with their distinctive patterns first keeping them in Drummond’s solution and then drying them Showed that indole acetic acid (IAA) must be oxidized and converted to a dimer named deuterauxin in order to be active Deuterauxin, an active oxidation product of indolyl-3-acetic acid and its possible role in the mechanism of plant cell wall elongation. Nature (London) 200:548-52, 1963 Performed important studies about IAA, its metabolism and biosynthesis, physiological implications and involvement to plant cancer (1954-78) With E.J. Hambleton discovered an efficient process in order to control of pink bollworm Invented a special process to improve flavor of the coffee beverage Papers in renowned reviews With K. Schwarz. Paper chromatography of unstable substances. Science 126:607-8, 1955 Other Studies Efeitos da faísca electrica sobre cafeeiros. O Biológico 17(3):41-9, 1959 OTHERS Vice-president, First International Congress of Plant Pathology, London (1968) Honorary Vice-president, International Congress of Botany, Edinburgh (1964) and Seattle (1969) Member, International Committee on Virus Nomenclature Invited to write the preface of 1978 Annual Review of Phytopathology, a honor reserved to leading authorities in the area A sportsman he was Brazilian national diving champion
Adrian Bengolea
Adrián Jacobo Bengolea Demaría, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 27 October 1887 – Buenos Aires 15 July 1950) CONTRIBUTIONS First use of microscopic examination of probing extracted duodenal fluid for diagnosis of fascioliasis With J. Bacigalupo & C. Velasco Suarez. Distomatosis por Fasciola hepatica. Arch. Argent. Enferm. Apar. Diges. Nutr. (1927) Described Bengolea-Velasco Suarez sign for neoplasic obstruction and or compression of biliary ducts With C. Velasco Suarez. La obstrucción biliar completa, signo de obstrucción o de compresión neoplasica de las vias biliares. Sem. Med. 45(2):1282, 1928 Una nueva tecnica para la cura radical de las hernias umbilicales del adulto. Rev. Asoc. Med. 27:23, 1917 With A. Negri. A conservative treatment for residual gallstones. Mem. Acad. Chir. 75(21-2):563-6, 1949 Papers published abroad With S.D. Provenzano. Operative gynecology. Obst. Gyn. Survey 8(2), 1953 With A. Negri. Surgical treatment of chronic non-lithiasic cholecystitis. Lyon Chir. 44(6):673-8, 1949 With A. Negri. La maladie du cholédoque. Rev. Chir. 66:65-73, 1947 With C. Velasco Suarez & A. Negri. Difficulties in the roentgenological examination of the biliary tract. Amer. J. Roentgen. Radium Therapy 52(2):149, 1945 Radical resection of the oesophagus for carcinoma. Surg. Gynec. 29:413, 1929 Valeur comparative des operations pour fistules vésico-vaginales. Bull et Mem. Soc. Nat. Chir. 54:1027, 1928 Resultats obtenus par le tubage duodénale dans les icteres chirurgicaux. Rev. Chir. 26:918-22, 1928 With C. Velasco Suarez. Considérations médicales et chirurgicales sur les affections de la vesicule et des voies urinaires. Arch. Mal. Appar. Digestif 18:961-1020, 1928 With A. Zabala. Sur les blessures de l’hepato choledoque et de la maniere de les éviter. Lyon Chir. 21(3), 1924 Kommunikation zwischen Ovarialkystom und Flexura lienalis des Kolon (Dem.). Zentralbl. f. Gynak. 47:1440, 1923 With C. Velasco Suarez. Cholecystoduodenal fistula to biliary lithiasis EPONYMY Bengolea arterial clamp or haemostatic forceps Zabala-Bengolea partial cholecystectomy (1923)