Luis F. de Armas
Luis Florencio de Armas Chaviano, Cuban invertebrate zoologist (Ranchuelo Municipality, Villa Clara Province 03 January 1945 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Arachnida Genera Alayotityus 1973 Antillostenochrus 2002 with Teruel Antillotrecha 1994 Belicenochrus 2010 with Víquez Bucinozomus 2015 with Rehfeldt Caribezomus 2011 Cokendolpherius 2002 Colombiazomus 2012 with Delgado Santa Guanazomus 2002 with Teruel Heteronochrus 2010 with Víquez Kenyazomus 2014 Lawrencezomus 2014 Mayacentrum 2006 with Víquez Ravilops 2005 with Víquez Reddellzomus 2002 Tityopsis 1974 Valeriophonus 2005 with Víquez Wayuzomus 2006 with Colmenares Subgenus Parvabsonus 1974 Species Over 200 Crustacea Genera/Subgenus (with Juarrero de Varona) Cuzcodinella 1999 Matazonellus 1996 Potrerillo 1999 Species Cuzcodinella alejandroi 2016 with Rodríguez Cabrera Cuzcodinella oryx 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Matazonellus eglisi 1996 with Juarrero de Varona Matazonellus turquinensis 1996 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Potrerillo) assoi 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Potrerillo) auritus 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Potrerillo) nanus 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) agramontino 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) bidentatus 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) elegans 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) holguinensis 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) jaumei 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) maiteae 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) mitratus 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Pseudarmadillo) spinosus 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo inornatus 2017 with Rodríguez Cabrera Pseudarmadillo vanxiclei 2003 with Juarrero de Varona Coleoptera (with Garrido 2012) Species Strongylium acraeum Strongylium haetianum Strongylium elongatum Strongylium pumilum Strongylium quisqueyanum Strongylium verde Strongylium woodruffi Orthoptera Species Cubacophus sheylae 2014 HONORS (Arachnida) Armascirus Den Heyer 1973 Luisarmasius Reddell & Cokendolpher 1995 LINKS https://www.scorpionsetc.com/taxa-of-arachnids-insects-and-wood-lice.html
Luis Alvarez Garcia
Luis Aureo Alvarez Garcia, Paraguayan-born Puerto Rican plant pathologist (1903 – ?) Described Phyllosticta swietenia A mahogany seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Forester 1;23-4, 1939 First report of Phyllachora balansae on Cedrela sp. A cedar seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Carib. Forester 1(2):26, 1940 Described Acrotheca basellae that causes Acrothecium leaf spot Acrothecium leaf of Basella rubra L. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 27:159-60, 1943 Fusarium bulbigenum v. coffeae today Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. coffeae as a new variety causing a coffee fusarium wilt Studies on coffee root disease in Puerto Rico. I. A Coffee fusarium wilt. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 29(1):1-29, 1945 Described Pleospora tetrasepta 1945 Described a foot-root gummosis with distinctly different symptoms from the long-known disease Glomerella gummosis of Citrus species in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1):38-40, 1963 A new species of Leptosphaeria causing leaf blight of common garden asparagus in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1), 1963 (Leptosphaeria portoricensis) Reported Physalospora rhodina as responsible for dieback of mangos in Puerto Rico With L. López Garcia. Gummosis, dieback and fruit rot disease of mango (Mangifera indica L.) caused by Physalospora rhodina (B & C) Cke. In Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Res. 55:435-50, 1971
Luis Agote
Luis María Agote García, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 22 September 1868 – Turdera, Buenos Aires Province 12 November 1954) Discovered the use of sodium neutral citrate as anticoagulant (1914) independent from Belgian A. Hustin and US Richard Lewinsohn Developed an apparatus to perform blood transfusion (Agote apparatus) Nuevo metodo sencillo para realizar transfusiones de sangre. MCM (1914) Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusión de la sangre. Ann. Inst. Clin. Med. 1:24-31, 1915 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Historia clinica de um caso de mixedema infantil. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 7(23):1-248, 1899 Neuropatologia. Nuevo metodo grafico para fijar la herencia. Rev. Iberoam. Cien. Med. 7:402-7, 1902 Diagnostic precoce du myxoedeme congenitale. Arch. Med. Enfants 6(9), 1903 Lecciones de Clinica medica (1904) Las defensas naturales en los cardíacos (1909) With L.J. Facio. El suero gelatinoso como analgesico (1911) With J.C. Navarro. Quiste nidation desaparecido sin vomica y sin eliminación de membranas. Rev. Ass. Med. Arg. 32:111, 1920 Hereditary syphilis. Arch. Med. Enfants 26:545, 1923 With A.E. Bianchi. Echinococcosis in the heart: case at autopsy. Rev. Soc. Med. Int. Tisiol. 3:469-514, 1927 Cancer de la cara anterior del estomago
Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada
Lucas Ignacio José Joaquín Pedro de Alcantara Juan Bautista Francisco de Paula Alamán y Escalada, Mexican scientist, historian and politician (Guanajuato 18 October 1792 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 June 1853) Studied botany under famous A. De Candolle with who corresponded sending Mexican plant collections. Studied mining in School of Mines at Freyburg. Employed sulfuric acid in separating gold and silver. HONORS Alamania Lexarza (Orchidaceae) TRIVIA/CURIOSITIES Ruled Mexico as member of a triunvirate (1829-30)
Lorenzo Francisco Aristaraín
Lorenzo Francisco Aristaraín Pellerano, Argentine mineralogist (Buenos Aires 22 February 1926 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES (with Hurlbut) Ameghinite (1967) Beusite (1968) Olsacherite (1969) Rivadavite (1967) Teruggite (1968) HONORS Aristarainite Hurlbut & Erd 1974 (Mineral)
Libero Domenico Antonaccio
Libero Domenico Antonaccio, Brazilian organic chemist (Rio de Janeiro 12 February 1924 – Rio de Janeiro after 2012) DISCOVERED AND DESCRIBED NEW PLANT ALKALOIDS With B. Gilbert, J.C. Braekman, C. Hootele, C. Van Moorleghem, M. Kaiser & J. Pecher. Indole alkaloids. XVII. Five dihydroindole alkaloids from Aspidosperma verbascifolium. Bull. Soc. Chim. (1969) With B. Gilbert, N.A. Pereira, H. Vorbuegger, H. Budzikiewicz, J.M. Wilson, L.J. Durham & C. Djerassi. Alkaloid studies. XXXIII. Mass spectrometry in structural and stereochemical problems. VI. Polyneuridine, a new alkaloid from Aspidosperma polyneuron, and some observations on mass spectra of indole alkaloids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 84(24):5001, 1962 With H. Budzikiewicz. Harman 3-3 carbonsaure ein neues alkaloid aus Aspidosperma polyneuron. Monatsch. Chem. 93:962, 1962 With C. Djerassi, B. Gilbert, T. George & A.A. P. Archer. Alkaloid studies. 30. Isolation and constitution of 3 new Aspidosperma alkaloids cylindrocarpine, cylindrocarpidine and pyrifolidine. Tetrahedron 16(1-4):212, 1961 With N.V. Riggs & L. Marion. A new quaternary aporphine from Fagara tingoassuiba Hoehne. Can. J. Chem 39:1330-5, 1961 With B.Gilbert, A.A. Archer & C. Djerassi. Alkaloid studies. XXIII. Isolation of four new Aspidosperma cylindrocarpin, refractine, pyrifoline and pyrifolidine alkaloids. Experientia 16:61-2, 1960 Isolated the phenolicalkaloid aspidofiline from Aspidosperma pyrifolium (1960) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With L.M.F. Serpa, W. Wanderley & E. Florio. The reaction of 5,6-dibromo cholestan 3one with di-methyl formamide, a new route to steroidal dienones. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 44(3-4):419-22, 1972 With J.C. Perrone. The salting-out curve of human serum. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 25(4):459-68, 1953