Rafael Arango y Molina
Rafael Arango y Molina, Cuban malacologist (La Habana 1837 – La Habana 13 August 1893) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA SPECIES Alcadia nuda 1866 Annularia uncinata 1884 Annularops tryoni 1879 Annularops vannostrandi 1876 Annularopsis coronadoi 1867 Badiofaux gutierrezi 1876 Bialasmus imparata 1882 Callocoptis abdita 1880 Chondropoma cisnerosi 1876 Chondrothyra gundlachi 1862 Cistula jimenoi 1864 Cochlodinella atropurpurea 1882 Colobostylus arguisi Coryda nigropicta 1867 Cylindrella contentiosa 1884 Cylindrella stearnsi 1880 Cysticopsis luzi 1868 Eutrochatella nodae 1862 Gongylostoma colorata Gongylostoma confusa 1882 Helicina cisnerosi 1879 Hemitrochus sauvallei 1866 Hendersonina hamlini 1882 Hipponix arangoi 1880 Liocallonia infortunata 1882 Liocallonia patruelis 1876 Liocallonia triplicata 1882 Macroceramus blaini 1866 Macroceramus clerchi 1866 Macroceramus minor 1866 Macroceramus parallelus 1866 Melaniella pichardi 1862 Nesocoptis prima 1882 Nodilittorina hidalgoi 1880 Obeliscus paradoxus 1881 Opisthosiphon aguilerianum 1876 Organocoptis remota 1880 Pfeiffericoptis machoi 1876 Poecilocoptis crassilabris 1882 Poecilocoptis incerta 1881 Pycnoptychia torrei 1876 Sagracoptis consanguinea 1882 Sagracoptis coronadoi 1864 Sagracoptis difficultosa 1882 Semitrochatella babei 1876 Stenogyra gutierrezi 1879 Tetrentodon clerchi 1870 Tomelasmus assimilis 1884 Tomelasmus thomsoni 1884 Torrecoptis lajoncheri 1884 Trochatella pfeifferiana 1866 Troschelviana mestrei 1879 Troschelvindex bebini 1865 Turrithyra deceptor 1882 Uncinicoptis hidalgoi 1879 Unicinicoptis unguiculata 1880 Urocoptis torrei Vertigo neglecta 1856 HONORS (Mollusca) Genus Arangocoptis Jaume & de La Torre Subgenus Arangia Pilsbry & Vanatta 1898
Pedro Narciso Arata
Pedro Narciso Arata Unzué, Argentine pharmacist and organic chemist (Buenos Aires 29 October 1849 – Buenos Aires 05 November 1922) From Genoese father Performed studies on bromatology, phtochemistry and agricultural chemist CHEMICALS With Italian Francesco Canzoneri isolated sesquiterpene winterene from Wintera aromatica (1890) and first prepared pilijanine in pure state (1891) With F. Canzoneri isolated alkaloid moradeine from Pogonopus tubulosus With Carlos Gelzer isolated and characterized morrenol from Morrenia sp. Isolated alkaloid baccharine from Baccharis coridifolia Isolated and identified alkaloid saccharine from Baccharis cordifolia Lam. (1877) Identified the quebrachitannic acid from quebracho colorado Sobre el acido quebratànico? quebrachitânico? (asi dice antes) del quebracho colorado (Lozopterigium lorentzi Gris.) 1879 Isolated and identified alkaloid berberine from calafate Analisis de la madera del calafate (Berberis buxifolia L; B. macrophylla Fost. 1879) METHODS With pharmacist José Poisa developed Arata method or double dye method (1884) improved by Italian Posetto and known as Arata-Posetto test, used for detection of artificial organic colouring matters of acid character in foods Described a methodology for studying active principles from plants Guía para analisis inmediato de los vegetales (1879) Metodo para la investigación de los colores derivados del alquitrán en los vinos Eponym of Arata method for caffeine SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F. Canzoneri. Beitrage zur kenntniss des Pillijau (Lycopodium saururus) Lam. Apuntes sobre la cera contenida en las hojas de la yerba mate. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg 3, 1877 Sobre un alcaloide encontrado em mio-mio (Baccharis coridifolia Lam.). Anales Soc. Cient. Arg 4:34-6, 1877 Estudio sobre acido quebrachotanico. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg 1878-9 Estudio quimico de la Persea lingue. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 10:195-6, 1880 With F. Canzoneri. Studio sulla vera corteccia di Winter (Drimys winteri). Gazz. Chim. Ital. 18:527-39, 1888 La Morrenia brachystephana Gr., vulgo tassi y sus propriedades galactogogas. Anales Dep. Nac. Higiene 1:65-73, 1891 Contribución al estudio del tanino contenido en la yerba mate. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg 1897
Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga
Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga, Brazilian physician radicated in Portugal (Oeiras, Piaui State 1826 – Lisboa 14 July 1883) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered double crural murmur or Duroziez murmur in 1855 (translated to French in 1856), before Duroziez that described it in 1861. Due to this fact some Brazilian authors call it Alvarenga-Duroziez murmur or sign. Memoria sobre a insuficiência das válvulas aórticas e considerações gerais sobre as moléstias do coração (1855). Sur l’insuffisance des valvules aortiques. Paris, 1856. Described the phenomenon of sensation changes on tongue in thiamine deficient patients Published works that arouse interest and were translated to French, German, English and Italian languages. Established Alvarenga Prize in Medical Colleges of Paris, Stockholm, Wien, Berlin, Lisbon, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro and Bruxelles. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Anatomia patológica e patogenia das comunicações entre as cavidades direitas e esquerdas do coração (1872) Anatomia patológica e sintomatologia da febre amarela em Lisboa no ano de 1857 (1861). Apontamento acerca das etocardias a propósito de uma variedade descrita, a traquocardia (1867) Apontamentos sobre os meios de ventilar e aquecer os edifícios públicos (1857). Apontamentos sobre os pontos de aplicação das vias de absorção dos medicamentos (1882) Bosquejo histórico e crítico dos meios terapêuticos empregados contra a erisipela (1873). Como atuam as substâncias brancas e cinzentas da medula espinhal na transmissão das impressões sensitivas e terminações de vontade (1862) Considerações sobre o cólera-morbus epidêmico no hospital de S. José de Lisboa (1856) Considerations et observations (1869) Da cinose (1871) Da importância da estatística na medicina (1869) Da propilamina, trimetilamina e seus sais (1877) De la therminologie generale (1871) De la thermosemiologie et thermacologie (1871) Des medications hypothermiques et hyperthermiques, et des moyens therapeutiques que les remplissent (1881) Do salicato de potassa no tratamento da erisipela (1875) Elementos de termometria clínica geral (1870) Estado da questão a cerca do duplo sopro crural na insuficiência das válvulas aórticas (1863) Estatística dos hospitais de São José, São Lázaro e Desterro no ano de 1865 (1868) Estudo sobre as perfurações cardíacas (1870) Estudo sobre as variações de comprimento dos membros pelvianos na coxalgia (1850) Farmacotermagenese (1880) Fragmentos de farmacoterapiologia geral ou matéria médica e terapêutica (1883) Grundzüge der Allgemeinen clinischen Thermometrie und der Thermosemiologie und Thermacologie (1873) Leçons cliniques sur les maladies du couer (1878) Sintomatologia, natureza e patogenia do beriberi (1872) Theories de l´action therapeutique du tartre stibiè dans la pneumonie (1881)
Pedro Baptista de Andrade
Pedro Baptista de Andrade, Brazilian chemist and pharmacist (Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 08 October 1848 – São Paulo 06 October 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS Pioneer in industrial exploitation of a number of products from Brazilian flora Obtained more than 50 products and subproducts from coffee plant Isolated mannitol from coffee plant Isolated many products from peppertree Created 12 recipes for wines, liqueurs and other industrial products from orange Obtained alkaloids from a number of species of Brazilian flora Discovered alkaloid cayaponin from Cayaponia cabocla that gave him fame in international scientific circles (1885) Improved the recipe of guaraná soda from Pereira Barretto marketed under the name Guarana Antarctica or Brazilian Soda (1921) Held about 25 patents
Paulo Ribeiro de Arruda
Paulo Ribeiro de Arruda, Brazilian electrical engineer (Itapetininga, São Paulo State 30 May 1909 – São Paulo 22 November 1985) Developed an absolute method for determination of frequencies in radio electrical spectrum at his doctoral thesis (1939) Authored Sobre um acessório electromecânico para o oscilógrafo de raios catódicos (1948) Discovered a new type of motion that named caterpillar type Introduced new improvements to electron microscope Developed a number of devices that were not patented PATENTS Polyanalyzer, an electromechanical device that enables the observation and simultaneous record of many periodic signs or phenomena on the screen of a single oscillograph Microtome for ultra-thin sections employing caterpillar type motion (1959) Remote control of micro dislocation by means of caterpillar type motion Automat employing caterpillar type motion A system of grains purge using thermal process (number 957.350) with engineer Lauro Vianna Bacellar
Paulo de Toledo Artigas
Paulo de Toledo Artigas, Brazilian parasitologist and helminthologist (São Paulo 09 January 1904 – 08 September 1992) Authored Mounting of helminths and small arthropods. A new, simple and efficient method. Mem. Inst. Butantan 10:71, 1935-6 Novo método simples e eficiente. Montagem de helmintos e pequenos artrópodes. Mem. Inst. Butantan 10:65-70, 1935/6 DESCRIBED TAXA Families Bieriidae 1969 with Perez (Trematoda) Rhigonematidae 1930 (Nematoda) Genera Prototravassosia 1938 (with Unti) Protozoa Teratotrema 1928 (with Travassos & Pereira) Trematoda Chiostichorchis 1932 (with Pacheco) Trematoda Westella 1943 (with Ruiz & Leon) Trematoda Paraibatrema 1981 (with Silva Cordeiro, Ueta & Deberaldini) Trematoda Rondonema 1926 Nematoda Ichthyocephalus 1926 Nematoda Cruznema 1927 Nematoda Clementeia 1930 Nematoda Dudekemia 1930 Nematoda Paraoxyuronema 1937 Nematoda Klossnema 1986 (with Silva Cordeiro) Nematoda Creptotrema 1928 with Travassos & Pereira (Trematoda) Genarchella 1928 with Travassos & Pereira (Trematoda) Hydrochoerisnema 1980 with Arantes (Nematoda) Liophistrema 1942 with Ruiz & Leão (Trematoda) Neocucullanus 1928 with Travassos & Pereira (Nematoda) HONORS Artigasia Christie 1934 (Nematoda)