Paulo de Tarso Alvim
Paulo de Tarso Alvim Carneiro, Brazilian agronomist and plant physiologist (Ubá, Minas Gerais State 23 February 1919 – Ilhéus, Bahia State 18 February 2011) ACHIEVEMENTS Internationally known as world authority in production physiology of coffee and cacao plants. Showed the importance of zinc in cacao production Showed that is possible discover a condition of moisture deficiency in the plant from measurements of the degree of opening of stomata (1956) First to demonstrate that many tropical plants require a cycle of dehydration-hydration in order to flowering or renew the foliage. Described the phenomenon in Moisture stress as a requirement for flowering of coffee. Science 32(3423):354, 1960. The phenomenon above described he termed hydroperiodism in Tree growth periodicity in tropical climates. In Formation of wood in forest trees. Ed. M.H. Zimmermann. 479-95. Academic Press, New York. 1964. The above chapter became a classical work on tropical ecophysiology With W.A. Araujo first experimentally demonstrated that formation of cerrado fields is related to edaphic factors and mineral defficiencies (1952) Invented Alvim porometer, the first portable porometer suited for studying stomatal opening in field conditions. A new type of porometer for measuring stomatal opening and its use in irrigation studies. Symposium on Methodology of Eco-Physiology:325-9, 1962. Invented phytophysiometer A new dendrometer for monitoring cambium activity and changes in the internal water status of plants. Turrialba 25:445-7, 1975. Developed a “transpirograph” Um aparelho simples para registrar a transpiração das plantas. Lilloa 19 (1949) Perfected traditional infiltration method to evaluate the opening index of stomata. Developed a procedure to conserve the germinative power in cacao seeds Un procedimiento simple para conservar el poder germinativo de las semillas de cacao. Agronomia 25(92):43-8, 1958 Studied the action of gibberelic acid on fructification, flowering and production of coffee plants and verified the beneficial effects Estimulo de la floración y fructificación del cafeto por aspersiones con acido giberelico. Turrialba 8(2):64-72, 1958 HONORS Houssay Prize, Organization of Americann States (OAS) 1995 GENERA Alvimiantha Grey-Wilson 1978 (Rhamnaceae) Mycoalvimia Singer 1981 (Fungi) Alvimia Calderón ex Soderstrom & Londoño 1988 (Poaceae)
Paulo Cesar de Azevedo Antunes
Paulo Cesar de Azevedo Antunes, Brazilian sanitarian and medical entomologist (São Paulo 25 May 1901 – 15 January 1974) Authored 23 works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Subgenus Lophopodomyia 1937 Species Abebaeus crassus 1938 with Lane Aedes pennai 1938 with Lane Anopheles (Lophopodomyia) squamifemur 1937 Coquillettidia shannoni 1937 with Lane Culex soperi 1937 with Lane Goeldia lanei 1937 Haemagogus tropicalis 1938 with Cerqueira Kangoropus tuberculifer 1938 with Lane Lutzomyia evandroi 1936 with Costa Lima Lutzomyia lloydi 1937 Lutzomyia whitmani 1939 with Coutinho Mansonia shannoni 1937 with Lane Neaedus elegans 1938 with Lane Taeniorhynchus shannoni with Lane Trichoprosopon lanei 1937 Trichoprosopon evansae 1942 HONORS Antunesia Amaro 1966 (Protozoa) Subg. Antunesmyia Lane & Cerqueira 1942 (Diptera)
Paulo Abib Andery
Paulo Abib Andery, Brazilian mining engineer and metallurgist (Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais State 26 September 1922 – São Paulo 24 October 1976) From Lebanese parents World pioneer on mining systems in automation Verified the possibility of milling secondary crusher material in only one stage and yielding an minimum of sludge DEVELOPED Serrana process of separation and concentration of phosphates in minerals with low phosphate content or alkaline rocks employing flotation (1961-73) A process for exploitation of chalky stocks A process for concentration of oxidized lead ore and adapted it for residual ores from carbonatite Movable plants established on skids that follow the displacement of exploration fronts by hydraulic disassembly of alluvions PATENTS Flotation of phosphate containing materials. Int. Cl. 209-167 & US3,4303,783 (1968) With Serrana S.A. de Mineração. Processo de concentração de fosfatos minerais a partir de minérios de fosfatos minerais a partir de minérios de fosfato de ganga carbonática. BRPI77910 (1968) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratamento de minério e hidrometalurgia (1980) With F.A. Siriani. Características gerais de desgaste de mandíbulas em britadores (1972) Concentração de apatita do carbonato de Jacupiranga, estado de São Paulo. Thesis, Escola Politécnica Univ. São Paulo (1967) Concentração de minério oxidado de chumbo, mina de Boquira, Município de Macaúbas, Estado da Bahia. Thesis, Escola Politecnica Univ. São Paulo (1961) Características Tecnológicas de Minérios e Matérias Primas Minerais HONOURS Diploma, International Congress of Mineral Treatment, Cagliari, Italy (1974) Pauloabibite Menezes Filho, Atencio, Andrade et al. 2013 (Mineral) Part of this information was obtained from Francisco Alves book Paulo Abib: um engenheiro que acreditava no Brasil (2012)
Pastor Alayo
Pastor Fortunato Alayo Dalmau, Cuban zoologist (Santiago de Cuba 01 June 1915 – 02 February 2001) DESCRIBED Genus Enacantha 1966 with Donelly (Odonata) About 65 species in Arthropoda (Insects and Arachnids) HONORS Alayocimex Hernandez & Cruz 1994 (Heteroptera) Alayotityus Armas 1973 (Arachnida) Subgenus Alayoapis Michener 1966 (Hymenoptera)
Pablo Anduze
Pablo José Anduze Díaz, Venezuelan explorer, ethnologist and entomologist (Puerto España, Trinidad 21 August 1902 – Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas 20 November 1989) Authored the most complete study about Yanomami people until that day He was Governor of Amazonas State (1960-3; 1974-6) DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES Anopheles aquasalis 1948 Anopheles delta 1948 Anopheles guarao 1950 with Capdevielle Anopheles guarauno 1948 Anopheles tachirensis 1947 Anopheles upatensis 1944 with Hecht Culex albertoi 1943 Culex beauperthuyi 1943 Culex creole 1948 Culex ernsti 1948 Culex kukenan 1942 Culex mathesoni 1942 Culex pifanoi 1948 Culex surucumensis 1941 Culex terepaima 1948 Culex venezuelensis 1948 Culex vogelsangi 1948 Sabethes paraitepuyensis 1941 Simulium matteabranchium 1947 Toxorhynchites mara 1942 Wyeomyia taurepana 1941 Others (Siphonaptera) Subgenus Avesopsylla 1947 with Fox Subspecies Dasypsyllus (Avesopsylla) lasius venezuelensis 1947 with Fox HONORS Anduzedoras Fernandez-Yepez 1968 (Pisces) Anduzeia Gonzalez-Sponga 1992 (Arachnida)
Pablo Acosta Ortíz
Pablo Acosta Ortiz, Venezuelan surgeon (Barquisimeto 21 March 1864 – Paris 13 February 1914) ACHIEVEMENTS Published Du traitement chirurgical des aneurismes du tronc brachiocephalique et de la crosse de l’aorte. Doctorate Thesis, Faculté de Medicine de Paris, 1892 (under prof. Le Dentu); it received highly in French medical environment. Authored another book Lecciones de Clinica Quirurgica (1911) HONORS Honored in a bust at Hall of Fame, International College of Surgeons, Chicago, USA.