Juan Nepomuceno Adorno
Juan Nepomuceno Adorno, Mexican philosopher, mechanic and inventor (Ciudad de Mexico 16 May 1807 – Ciudad de Mexico 1880) Performed studies on meteorology, hydrography and hygiene INVENTIONS Melography, a new musical writing in Melographie or nouvelle notation musicale (1855) Melograph piano or pianola Devices for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars and shredded tobacco (1846) Weapons (e.g. a weapon that could fire up to 70 rounds of ammunition per minute) A superdynamic railway A kaleidoscopic machine to prevent falsification of official documents Three-wheeled anti-rollover armored vehicles Detachable buildings Devices for pumping flood-water from dwellings A terrestrial globe capable of separation into pieces and 12 convex maps of Earth Accounting devices A steam mill
Juan Luis Arentsen
Juan Luis Arentsen Sauer, Chilean ophthalmologist (Punta Arenas 14 July 1916 – Santiago 28 November 2004) From Norwegian father and Danish mother Authored 78 papers and 5 books With M. Durán. Nuevo modelo de contensor de ojos enucleados para estudios docentes y de investigación. Arch. Chil. Oftal. 31:23, 1974 With M. Durán. Stereotaxic device for experimental eye surgery. Invest. Ophthal. 15(1):34-6, 1976 Ptosis palpebral: nueva tecnica en la miectomia del musculo elevador del parpado (1951) Arentsen method (Dissolved penicillin into novocaine employed by local infiltration) Penicilina en solución de novocaína para el tratamiento de procesos inflamatorios. Nueva tecnica de aplicación
Juan de Acosta
Juan de Acosta, Cuban shipbuilder (died La Habana 1748) Regarded as one of the foremost Spanish shipbuilders of his day Built / headed the building of the most important ships of Spanish Navy (11) Proposed variations to ship models Introduced important innovations to production of boats
Juan Carlos Ahumada Sotomayor
Juan Carlos Ahumada Sotomayor, Argentine gynecologist (La Plata 17 April 1890 – Buenos Aires 29 May 1976) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome Ahumada, J.C., Del Castillo, E.B. Sobre un caso de galactorrea y amenorrea. Boletín de la Sociedad de Obst. y Ginecol. de Bs. Aires 11: 64-72, 1932 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.E. Nogues & H.L. Guixa. Patologia quirurgica ginecológica de la vejez. Dia Med. 22:2567-72, 1960 Carcinoma de la vulva. Rev. Argent. Cancer 1:7, 1959 With J.L. Sardi & L.A. Arrighi. Endometriosis genital y embarazo. Obst. Ginecol. Lat. Am. 15:15, 1957 With A.E. Nogues & C. Donovan. Hysterography in the diagnosis of dead and retained human ovum. Am. J. Obst. Gynecol. 71:1274, 1956 With L.A. Arrighi & D. Calandra. Notre opinion au sujet du traitement du prolapsus génital. Compt. Rend. Soc. Franç. Gynec. 25:142-4, 1955 With R. Sanmartino & L.A. Arrighi. Carcinosarcoma uterino. Obst. Gynecol. Lat. Am. 9:131-46, 1951 With R.M. Chevallier & L.M. Mezzadra. Tubal surgery and sterility. Sem. Med. 58:248-60, 1951 With A.E. Nogues. Perforating fornix endometriosis. Obst. Ginecol. Lat. Amer. 4:651, 1946 With R.M. Chevallier. Rectopatias actinogeneticas. Rev. Med. Lat. Am. 27:437, 1942 With N. Contreras Ortiz. Nuestra experiencia en la atresia vaginal congênita (1942) With T. Schlossberg. Contribución al estudio de los adenomas sudoríparos de la vulva. Ver. Med. Quir. Patol. Fem. 7(3):285, 1936 With R. Gandolfo Herrera. Histeroscopia. Rev. Med. Lat. Am. 21:265, 1935 With O. Prestini & J.L. Ahumada. Sarcoma quistico del útero. Rev. Quirur. Buenos Aires 15:150-5, 1936 With N. Contreras Ruiz. Endometriosis y tuberculosis genital. Bol. Soc. Obst. Ginec. Bs Aires 10:355, 1931 Metastasis cardíaca. Sem. Med. 34:1366, 1927 Cancer del seno y gestación. Sem. Med. 33(1):567-9, 1926 Adenomiosis, adenomioma y adenocarcinoma del cuerpo del útero. Bol Trab. Soc. Cir. Bs Aires 8:565, 1924
João de Aguiar Pupo
João Bueno de Aguiar Pupo, Brazilian dermatologist (Itatiba, São Paulo State 12 May 1890 – São Paulo 23 August 1980) With E. Rabello identified lepromatous and tuberculoid polar-types First to prescribe penicillin for syphilis Introduced sodium arsenite in the treatment of leishmaniasis Introduced aminoarsenophenol (arsenical) in the treatment of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (1926) With L. Cunha Motta described blastomycotic paronychia (1936) Verified immunoallergic dissociation phenomenon Reported the occurrence of two kinds of multiform erythema in leprosy (papulous and nodous) in 1930 First to show the epidemiological importance of uncharacteristic forms of the leprosy (1940) EPONYMY Aguiar Pupo moriform ulcerous stomatitis, an anatomo-clinical manifestation of paracoccidioidomycosis Aguiar Pupo nodular or dermohypodermic lesion (1946) Aguiar Pupo method for treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis
José T. Acosta Jiménez
José T. Acosta Jiménez, Cuban zoologist (fl. 1939-1961) DESCRIBED FORAMINIFERA TAXA Species Acostata mariae 1940 Acostina pyramidale 1940 Ammobaculites exiguus 1940 Ammobaculites howelli 1940 Ammobaculites josephi 1940 Ammoscalaria morenoi 1940 Cassidulina palmerae 1940 with Bermudez Chrysalogonium brodermanni 1940 with Bermudez Chrysalogonium ritae 1940 Cystammina aguayoi 1940 with Bermudez Quinqueloculina torrei 1939 Stilostomella obsoleta 1940 Triloculina bermudezi 1940 Triloculina fiterrei 1940 Uvigerina bermudezi 1940 Subspecies/Varieties Triloculina fiterrei meningoi 1940 Karreriella subcylindrica var. caribae 1940 Gaudryina quadrangularis var. antillana with Bermudez SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Quinqueloculina torrei, un nuevo foraminifero de la costa de Cuba. Torreia 1(1-3). 1939 Triloculina eburnea d’Orbigny. Torreia [Havana] 2. 1-4. 1939. Nuevos foraminiferos de la costa sur de Cuba. Torreia 3(25-26).1940 Triloculina bermudezi, un nuevo foraminifero de las Islas Bahamas. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana d Historia Natural 14(1): 37-38. 1940 Algunos foraminiferos nuevos de las costas Cubanas. Torreia 5: 30-36. 1940 Nuevos foraminiferos de la costa sur de Cuba. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana d Historia Natural 14(4): 269-276. 1940 With P. J. Bermudez. (1940). Resultados de la primera expedicion en las Antillas del ketch Atlantis bajo los auspicios de las Universidades de Harvard y Habana, nuevas epecies de foraminiferos recientes. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural 14(1): 55-58. With I. Pérez-Farfante and M. Alemany. Hallazgo de Trachypenaeus constrictus en el Golfo de Batabanó. Notas sobre investigaciones. Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras, La Habana 1: 1-6. 1960. HONORS (Foraminifera) Acostata Brönniman, Whittaker & Valleri 1992 Acostina Bermúdez 1949 Acostinella Sarkar & Gupta 2008 (Fossil)