Saad El Din Ansary
Saad El Din Mostafa al Ansary, Egyptian micropaleontologist (fl.1950-77) DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA SPECIES Anomalina fayoumensis 1955 Anomalina hofensis 1963 with Ismail Ceratobulimina sinaensis 1966 Discorbis bakrensis 1966 with Tewfik Discorbis simplex 1966 with Tewfik Flabellina gahannamensis 1955 Gaudryina matulaensis 1966 with Tewfik Gyroidina aegyptiaca 1955 Halophragmoides frizzelli 1966 with Tewfik Halophragmoides orbanensis 1966 with Tewfik Halophragmoides zeitensis 1966 with Tewfik Lacosteina maquawilensis 1958 with Fawhr Nonion fayoumensis 1955 Nonion maadiensis 1955 Nonion trompi 1955 Planulina synaensis 1955 Pseudoglandulina synaensis 1955 Robulus trompi 1955 Saracenaria barnardi 1955 With Emara (1966) Ammobaculites hensoni Ammobaculites sinaensis Ammomarginulina curvatura Ammomarginulina elongata Anomalina sinaensis Bolivinoides beckmanni Bolivinoides minsheraensis Bolivinoides shatai Ellipsoidina osmani Epistominella ghorabi Flabellammina bielevata Marginulina paleocenica Pseudoclavulina gigantea Robulus ellisi Vaginulina subtaylorana Valvulineria minima Valvulineria punctata Valvulineria turonica Verneuilina faragi Verneuilina saidi
Rubens de Azevedo
Rubens de Azevedo, Brazilian amateur astronomer (Fortaleza 30 October 1921 – Fortaleza 17 January 2008) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a Transitory Lunar Phenomenon (TLP) involving crater Aristarch in the Moon (1969); it was confirmed by astronaut Edwin Aldrin. Discovered one Lunar valley near crater Grimaldi (1963). It was confirmed by Chilean astronomers a year after. One suggested that the valley should be called Vallis Azevedo or Vallis Brasiliensis. It is object of controversy MEMBERSHIP Active Member, Lunar International Observers Network, NASA. Member, Societé Astronomique de France Member, Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomia Fellow Member, International Lunar Society. A good biography: http://astronomiaemfortaleza.blogspot.com/2008/02/61anos-da-criao-da-sbaasociedade.html (in Portuguese)
Rosario Averna-Sacca
Rosario Averna-Saccá, Italian-born Brazilian agronomist and plant pathologist (1883 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 11 August 1951) Reported the symptoms of magnesium deficiency in cotton, coffee, citrus and vine plants with the indication to correct them by applying dolomitic lime Chlorosis of orange and other plants on ferruginous soils. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 13(2):129-50, 1912 First to verify in vine plant that the amplitude of the angles formed by central rib and the laterals as a fixed character of the races (190?) With O. Comes established correlation between the acidity of cell sap and biochemical phenomena L’ acidita dei succhi delle piante in rapporto alla resistenza contro gli attachi dei parassiti. Staz. Sper. Agr. Ital. 43:185-209, 1910 NEW DISEASES Uma nova molésta da mandioca. O Fazendeiro 5:368-9, 1912 First to report tobacco anthracnose and its causal fungus (Colletotrichum nicotianae) Algumas das moléstias cryptogamicas do tabaco (Nicotiana tabacum). Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 23(7-8):201-68, 1922 Uma moléstia nova da videira (1923) Algumas moléstias cryptogamicas novas do systema radicular do cafeeiro (1926) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Malavolta. Absorção de enxofre orgânico pelo tomateiro (Lycopersicon esculentum). Bol. ESALQ (1950) Pústulas pretas sobre laranjas doces produzidas pelo Phoma citricarpa. Rev. Agric. 15:668-74, 1940 An ascomycete (Glomerella) observed on orange in Guaruja, Brazil. Rev. Agric. 15 (11-2): 463-7, 1940 Contribuição para o estudo das doenças criptogâmicas das plantas cítricas. Uma gomose produzida por Dothiorella. Rev. Agric. 13(3-4):107-26, 1938 Necrose dos sarmentos da videira produzida por causas não parasitárias (1936) Um novo hóspede de jaboticabeira, Coryneum beijerinckii Oud., Asterula beyerinckii Sacc., Ascospora beyrenckii Vuill. O Solo 27(3-4):26-8, 1935 Um entomophago cryptogamico do Caconema radicicola (Greef) Cobb (Fusarium mauroi). Bol. Agric. S. Paulo (3-4):93-101, 1933 Contribuição para o estudo da biologia da Thielaviopsis paradoxa (de Seynes) Höhn, da bananeira e da canna de assucar. Rev. Agric. 7(3-4), 1932 With A. Neiva. Os entomophagos cryptogamicos na broca do cafeeiro (Stephanoderes hampei Ferr.) encontrados em São Paulo. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 31(1-4):10-24 & 195-213, 1930 Sobre a presença de um protozoário nos tecidos da canna, atacados pelo mosaico (1926) Contribuição para o estudo das moléstias criptogâmicas das roseiras (1926) Dimerosporium mangiferum. SACC (1923) Algumas das moléstias cryptogamicas mais communs da baunilha (Vanilla planifolia) nos Estados de São Paulo e S. Catharina. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 23:282-305, 1922 Moléstias dos coqueiros. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 21(2):141-86, 1920 Moléstias do cambucazeiro (Rubachia glomerata). Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 21:37-42, 1920 Moléstias da jaboticabeira. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 21(1-3):29-37, 1920 Moléstias cryptogamicas do cacaueiro e do coqueiro. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 21 (1920) Moléstias da macieira. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 19:430-3, 1918 As moléstias cryptogamicas das plantas hortícolas. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 18:382-416, 486-515, 567-83, 634-54, (1917) Moléstias das laranjeiras. Boletim Agr. S. Paulo 18:334-46, 1917 Moléstias cryptogamicas da canna de assucar, Schizophyllum commune Fr. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 17:640-1, 1916 Segunda contribuição para o estudo das moléstias cryptogamicas do cafeeiro. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 17(11):878-92, 1916 Uma moléstia do platanus (Fusarium nervisequuni Fuckl.). Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 13:469-71, 1912 Gangrena do trigo. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 13(3):234, 1912 O “brusone” do arroz. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo 13(1):291-302, 1912 DESCRIBED NEW FUNGI SPECIES Cercospora brasiliensis 1917 Chaetophoma coffeicola 1925 Cladosporium theobromicola 1920 Clasterosporium coffeanum 1925 Colletotrichum allii 1917 Colletotrichum dioscoreae 1917 Colletotrichum hortorum 1917 Colletotrichum littoralis 1923 Colletotrichum melongenae 1917 Colletotrichum rosarum 1926 Cytospora nicotianae 1922 Cytosporina coffeicola 1925 Dipodascus solani 1920 Dothidea neivae 1926 Ellisiellina sacchari 1916 Euryachora rosicola 1926 Euryachora sacchari 1916 Fusarium mauroi 1933 Gibberella gossypina 1920 Gloeosporium coffeigenum 1926 Gloeosporium gossypii 1920 Glomerella coffeicola 1925 Glomerella melloi 1935 Hendersonia rosicola 1926 Hendersonia saccharicola 1916 Hendersonia vanillae 1922 Lasiodiplodia citri 1917 Leptothyrium rosae 1926 Leucothyridium vanillae 1926 Linospora sacchari 1916 Macrophoma tabaci 1923 Macrophoma vanillae 1922 Muyocopron vanillae 1922 Nectria coffeigena 1925 Peronospora gossypina 1920 Pestalotia coffeicola 1925 Pestalotia littoralis 1926 Pestalotia vanillae 1922 Pionnotes navarrae 1926 Pleospora nicotianae 1922 Plowrightia solanicola 1923 Podosporium theobromicola 1920 Puccinia capsici 1917 Sphaeroderma gossypii 1920 Stachylidium coffeicola 1926 Stictis coffeicola 1925 Stilbum cagnii 1920 Valsaria ampelina 1922
Romualdo Ferreira d’Almeida
Romualdo Ferreira d’Almeida, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 February 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 24 August 1969) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Subtribe Dircennina 1941 Genera Languida 1922 Mansueta 1922 Rhadinoptera 1922 Placidina 1928 Diogas 1938 Epityches 1938 Garsaurites 1938 Rhodussa 1939 Gelotophye 1940 Lonia 1945 Dulcedo 1951 Ceratiscada 1970 (with Brown) Species About 175 Others 15 subspecies and 5 varieties EPONYMY Almeidaia Travassos 1938 (Lepidoptera) Almeidella Oiticica 1946 (Lepidoptera) Romualdia Rego Barros 1957 (Lepidoptera) Romualdisca D’Andretta & Travassos 1946 (Lepidoptera) HONORS Alcides d’Orbigny Prix (1929), Societé Entomologique de France. A good biographical note in http://peabody.research.yale.edu/jls/pdfs/1970s/1974/1974-28(3)293-Mielke.pdf
Roger Pierre Hippolyte Arlé
Roger Pierre Hippolyte Arlé, French-born Brazilian entomologist (1909-2001) Respected as world authority on soil ecology GENERA DESCRIBED Cenobiopelma 1934 (with Mello-Leitão) Arachnida Abernessia 1947 Hymenoptera Tupiaporus 1947 Hymenoptera Brachystomellides 1959 Collembola Ctenocyrtinus 1959 Collembola Micronella 1959 Collembola Organella 1959 Collembola Paranurella 1959 Collembola Nothobrya 1961 Collembola Halachorutes 1966 Orthoptera Hylaeanura 1966 Orthoptera Pseudostachia 1968 Collembola Najtia 1986 (with Mendonça) Collembola Described at least 73 Collembola species from Brazilian fauna HONORS Arlea Womersley 1939 (Collembola) Arlesia Handschin 1942 (Collembola) Arlesiella Delamare-Deboutteville 1951 (Collembola) Arlesminthurus Bretfeld 1999 (Collembola) Arlemiris Carvalho 1984 (Hemiptera)
Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras
Rodrigo José Alvarez Cambras, Cuban orthopedic surgeon (La Habana 22 December 1934 – Authored 95 papers and 7 books Described 9 new surgical techniques such as Ralca external fixator mounting for treatment of hip fracture INVENTIONS (23 patents in 21 countries) Footwear for genu recurvatum (1994) Ralca external fixator Ralca orthopedic table Ralca external minifixator Instrumentation for percutaneous disectomy Ralca cervical threaded nail of hip Ralca pin-plate A new spa bone densitometer LINKS HTTP://files.sld.cu/editorhome/files/2010/01/curriculum-vitae-actualizado-6-de-diciembre-2010.pdf (in Spanish)