Otto de Alencar e Silva
Otto de Alencar e Silva, Brazilian mathematician (Fortaleza 03 August 1874 – Rio de Janeiro 25 February 1912) CONTRIBUTIONS Gave a new demonstration of Stokes formula La formule de Stokes. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 2(9-10):156-61, 1898 Developed a Zinger-like method for time determination using even height of two distinct stars Memoria sobre a determinação da hora (1906) Enunciated that propagation of vibratory motion in a indefinite gaseous mass is independent of acceleration and velocity of its molecules De l’Action d’ une force accélératrice sur la propagation du son. Jornal das Ciências Matemáticas e Astronômicas do Porto (1901) Solved the Bertrand problem of curves with solutions of Riccati equation Aplicações geométricas da equação de Riccati. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro (1):83-149, 1904 Suplemento à memória Aplicações geométricas da equação de Riccati. Rev. Cursos Esc. Politecn. p.21-31, 1905 Algumas questões relativas à theoria dos covariantes e das curvas de dupla curvatura (1905) First to discover that between the roots of a binary form and those of its covariant there are three fundamental relationships Sur l’equation de Riccati. Bull. Sciences Mathem. 25(36):97-98, 1901 Algumas questões relativas à theoria dos covariantes e das curvas de dupla curvatura (1905) Presented new resultsA superfície mínima de Riemann de geratriz circular. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3:137-44, 1898 Led the Inspetoria Geral de Iluminação from Rio de Janeiro (1909-12) whose service was considered one of the best in the world SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Teoria da atração. Rev. Did. Esc. Polit. 4:3, 1910 Uma lição sobre a teoria dos parâmetros diferenciais. Rev. Cursos Esc. Polit. 4:1-43, 1908 Teoria dos momentos. Rev. Did. Esc. Polit. 2:53-69, 1908 Uma propriedade da série hipergeométrica. Rev. Did. Esc. Polit. 2:47-52, 1908 Uma identidade em formações elípticas. Rev. Did. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 2:3-4, 1908 Interpolação. Rev. Did. Esc. Polit. 1:35, 1907 Sobre a lei de refração de Descartes. Rev. Did. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 1:5-11, 1907 Lições sobre a teoria da Lua. Rev. Cursos Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3:77-128, 1906 Lições sobre a teoria das funções simétricas. Rev. Cursos Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3:1-42, 1906 Lições sobre a teoria dos erros (1906) Física e eletrotécnica (Notas e memórias) 1906 Interruptor Wehnelt. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 4(2):87-94, 1900 O fenômeno Zeemann. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3(10):50-1, 1899 A teoria de Maxwell e as oscilações hertzianas. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3 (1):5-6, 1899 A superfície mínima de Riemann de geratriz circular. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 3:137-44, 1898 Sobre o emprego da função d log l'(n) / dn em um problema de eletrostática. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 2(9-10):131-8, 1898 A herpolodia de Poinsot. Rev. Esc. Politecn. 1(7):248-57, 1897 Demonstração de alguns theoremas. Rev. Esc. Polit. 1(5):171-4, 1897 O teorema de Lancret e uma nota sobre a equação de Riccati. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 1 (4):113-21, 1897 LINKS www.sbhc.org.br/pdfs/revistas_anteriores/1992/7/artigos_4.pdf http://www.sbhc.org.br/arquivo/download?ID_ARQUIVO=283
Oscar Arredondo
Oscar Paulino Arredondo y de la Mata, Cuban zoologist and paleontologist (La Habana 18 July 1918 – La Habana 20 July 2001) Authored 134 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL & LIVING VERTEBRATE TAXA Fossil Mammalia Subfamily Mesocninae 1988 Genera Cubacyon 1974 with Varona Galerocnus 1997 with Rivero de la Calle Indocyon 1981 Neocnus 1961 Neomesocnus 1961 Paralouatta 1991 with Rivero de la Calle Paramiocnus 2002 with Arredondo Species Capromys acevedoi 1958 Capromys antiquus 1979 with Varona Capromys barbouri 1979 with Varona Capromys beatrizae 1979 with Varona Capromys delicatus 1979 with Varona Capromys gracilis 1979 with Varona Capromys jaumei 1979 with Varona Capromys kraglievichi 1979 with Varona Capromys latus 1979 with Varona Capromys minimus 1979 with Varona Capromys robustus 1979 with Varona Capromys silvai 1979 with Varona Cubacyon transversidens 1974 with Varona Galerocnus jaimezi 1997 with Rivero de la Calle Geocapromys megas 1979 with Varona Geocapromys pleistocenicus 1958 Indocyon caribensis 1981 Mesocnus herrerai 1977 Neocnus amplus 1999 with Arredondo Neocnus minor 1961 Neocnus major 1961 Neomesocnus brevirostris 1961 Paralouatta varonai 1991 with Rivero de la Calle Paramiocnus riveroi 2002 with Arredondo Living Mammalia Species Nesophontes major 1970 Nesophontes submicrus 1970 Fossil Aves Subfamily Ornimegalonyxinae 2003 Genera Antillothrix 1995 with MacPhee, Horovitz & Jimenez Vasquez Gigantohierax 1999 with Arredondo Ornimegalonyx 1958 Species Bubo osvaldoi 1994 with Olson Buteogallus borrasi 1970 Gigantohierax suarezi 1999 with Arredondo Gymnogyps varonai 1971 Ornimegalonyx acevedoi 1982 Ornimegalonyx gigas 1982 Ornimegalonyx minor 1982 Ornimegalonyx oteroi 1958 Oscaravis olsoni 2002 with Arredondo Tyto noeli 1972 Tyto riveroi 1972 HONORS Oscaravis Suarez & Olsson 2009 (Fossil Aves) LINKS https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/ON%20(18)%20149-154.pdf
Oscar Amoedo
Oscar Luis Amoedo y Valdez, Cuban dentist radicated in France (Matanzas 10 November 1863 – Paris 27 September 1945) Authored over 120 papers Regarded as founder of the forensic stomatology ACHIEVEMENTS Authored first treatise on human identification using dental archs The role of the dentists in the identification of the victims of the catastrophe of the “bazar de la charité”, Paris, 4th of May, 1897. The Dental Cosmos 39:905-12, 1897 First to describe a paradental epithelial rest constant in human Developpement des dents permanents; ebauche d’une troisieme dentition chez l’homme (1887) Imagined a method for treating dead teeth Tratamiento de los dientes muertes y relleno immediato de sus raíces. Presented in First International Dental Congress, Paris (1892) Developed a technique for implantation of decalcified teeth Implantation des dents decalcifiées (1894) His thesis L’Art Dentaire em Médecine Légale had international repercussion and translated into many languages (1898) Nuevo manual operatorio para la queiloplastia del lábio (1889) DEVELOPED (23 dental instruments) such as A needle used joint to galvano-cautery A thermocautery A syringe for sterilizing devitalized teeth (1894) An adjustable anatomical articulator A simplified articulator Amoedo articulated silver plate A forceps Root canal instruments Stereoscopic binocular odontoscope LINKS http://www.revmatanzas.sld.cu/revista%20medica/ano%202007/vol5%202007/tema17.htm (in Spanish) www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhad/vol10/article04.htm (in French)
Oluwafeyisola Sylvester Adegoke
Oluwafeyisola Sylvester Adegoke, Nigerian geologist and paleontologist (Ondo 09 July 1937 – World authority on post-Cretaceous stratigraphy of West Africa Authored about 100 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCAN TAXA Families (1977) Ewekoroiidae Heligmotomidae Vanpalmeriidae Genera Adekunbiella 1967 (in honor to his wife Adekunbi Adegoke) Afranodontia 1977 Afrocimonia 1977 Afrocornulina 1977 Afrollonia 1977 Afrovolutilithes 1977 Douvilletoma 1977 Druidwilsonia 1977 Eamesidura 1977 Ewekoroia 1977 Ewekorolaxis 1977 Ewekoromeris 1977 Nigerapana 1977 Nigerialaxis 1977 Nigerithium 1977 Parkeristoma 1977 Platylaxis 1977 Ravnostoma 1977 Reymentella 1977 Sootryenella 1977 Swiftopecten 1969 Vanpalmeria 1977 Vincenturris 1977 Wendella 1977 Wyattella 1967 Species About 200 FOSSIL SPORES/POLLEN (with Jan du Chene) Species Bacutricoliptes potiskumensis 1978 Cranwellipolis gambeensis 1978 Densoisporites jamataensis 1978 with Adediran & Petters Foveomonocolpites bauchiensis 1979 Longapertites microfoveolatus 1957 Psilastephanocolporites gongolaensis 1978 HONORS Adegokeastraea Ogbe 1976 (Fossil Cnidaria)
Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe
Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe, Nigerian physician (Ondo 17 July 1933 – Internationally known for his studies on hypertension management Authored many papers on hypertension and renal diseases (over 100 papers on medicine, tertiary healthcare and higher education) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Glycosuria and raised blood glucose during intravenous infusion of angiotensin in the unanaesthetized rabbit. Physiol. 178:16-17, 1965 With W.C.B. Brown & W. Cranston. The direct renal action of angiotensin in the rabbit. Clin. Sci. 30:259, 1966 Profuse haematuria in sickle cell trait (With a note on renal papillary necrosis). W. Afr. Med. J. 15:151, 1966 Response to angiotensin infusion before and after adrenalectomy in the rabbit. Am. J. Physiol. 212:1147, 1967 Renal papillary necrosis in sickle cell hemoglobinopathy. Br. Med. J. (Clin. Res.) 3:283, 1967 The nephrotic syndrome in pregnancy. J. Obst. Gynaec. B. 74:919-24, 1967 With E.A. Lewis, D. Montefiore & O.A. Okubadejo. Trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole in typhoid. Br.Med.J. 3(5620):721-2, 1968 With J.B. Familusi. Urinary tract infection in infancy and early childhood. E. Afr. Med. J. 50:515, 1973 With A.B. Oyediran, I.O. Abayomi, S.P. Bohrer & A.O. Lucas. Renographic studies in vesical schistosomiasis in children. Am.J.Trop.Hyg. 24(2):274-9, 1975 With R. Carlisle, U. Basile & M.E. Solagbade. An approach to realistic evaluation of antihypertensive regimes. Postgrad. Med. 53(615):7-11, 1977 With I.A. Olatunde & R. Carlisle. Beta-adrenergic blockers in the treatment of hypertension. Experience with propanolol in Ibadan, Nigeria. E. Afr. Med. J. 54, 1977 With F.M. Akinkugbe, O. Ayeni et al. Bi-racial study of arterial pressures in the first and second decades of life. Br. Med. J. (1977) Nephrology in the tropical setting. Nephron 22:249, 1978 World epidemiology of hypertension in blacks. J. Clin. Hypertens. (Suppl3):15-25, 1987 With A. Akinsola, A.O. Iyun, C.O. Mbanefo & J. Thomas. Prolonged prednisolone therapy in adult nephritic syndrome: a preliminary study. Afr. J. Med. Med. Sci. 17(2):119-23, 1988 With A. Aderibigbe & A. Arije. Glomerular function in sickle cell disease patients during crisis. Afr. J. Med. Med. Sci. 23(2):153-60, 1994 HONORS Boehringer Ingelheim Award, International Society of Hypertension
Nilamber Awasthi
Nilamber Awasthi, Indian palaeobotanist (Pithoragarh, Uttar Pradesh 06 June 1937 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Alangioxylon 1969 Calophylloxylon 1965 with Lakhanpal Canarioxylon 1974 with Prakash & Brezinová Carallioxylon 1984 Careyoxylon 1970 Chrysophylloxylon 1977 Cordioxylon 1984 Deccanostrobus 2007 with Kapgate & Chitaley Duabangoxylon 1970 with Prakash Euphorioxylon 1982 with Guleria & Lakhanpal Gonystyloxylon 1984 with Panjwani Heritieroxylon 1981 with Lakhanpal & Prakash Holigarnoxylon 1970 with Prakash Holopteleoxylon 1977 Hopenium 1980 Mangiferoxylon 1966 Mesuoxylon 1964 with Lakhanpal Millettioxylon 1967 Pericopsoxylon 1979 Schleicheroxylon 1982 with Guleria & Lakhanpal Siderinium 1970 with Prakash Stereospermoxylon 1982 with Prakash