José Martiniano de Azevedo Netto
José Martiniano de Azevedo Netto, Brazilian civil and sanitary engineer (Mococa, São Paulo State 21 October 1918 – São Paulo 26 June 1991) His Manual de Hidráulica (Handbook of Hydraulics) was translated into Russian language Proposed Brazilian or Azevedo Netto method for retention and distribution of stormy waters Aproveitamento de aguas de chuva para abastecimento. Rev. Bras. San. Meio Ambiente (Bio) 3(2), 1991 With Carlos A. Richter proposed a flocculation in porous media and in meshes or grids (1991) Derived a formula to compute maximum speed in hydraulic conduits Proposed a slow sand filter for domestic use With E.R. Yassuda & J.A. Martins led the design and construction of Cantareira System, one of greatest systems of water supply and impounding in the world (1968-73) Designed the world’s largest underground treated water pumping station (Lameirão Pumping Station at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in 1960, opened in 1966 Eponym of Azevedo Netto energy dissipator
José de Oliveira Almeida
José de Oliveira Almeida, Brazilian immunologist and serologist (Barretos, São Paulo State 13 December 1912 – 14 November 1993) Gained international recognition for his improvements to quantitative complement fixation test METHODS Described a new antigen and improved a quantitative reaction of complement fixation for Chagas disease With J.L.P. Freitas. Nova técnica de fixação de complemento para a moléstia de Chagas (reação quantitativa com antígeno “gelificado” de culturas de Trypanosoma cruzi. O Hospital (R. Janeiro) 35(6):787-800, 1949 Developed an innovative serological reaction for Chagas disease With J.L.P. Freitas & A.F. Siqueira. Capacidade reativa específica do antígeno em reações de complemento para moléstia de Chagas. Anais Congr. Intern. Doença de Chagas 1:51-62, 1959 Isofixation curves as a method for standardization of quantitative complement fixation test. J. Immunol. 76:259-63, 1956 Described a technique for complement fixation for leprosy in Rev. Bras. Leprol. 26:181, 1958 With Maltaner developed a complement fixation test (Maltaner-Almeida technique) Tecnica de la reacción de fijación del complemento em gotas para excluir donadores de sangue chagásico. Bol. San. Panamer. 55(2):133-45, 1963 DEVICES Wassermann quantitativo: cálculo do título por abaco de fácil construção. O Hospital 35(2):247-53, 1949 Wassermann quantitativo: nomograma circular para cálculo do título pelo método das seis unidades. Folia Clin. Biol. 16(2):186-91, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Inhibition of Rubino factor as a test for detecting antigens common to leprosy bacilli (1978) Standardized quantitative complement-fixation test. Research Immun. Immunobiol. 2:247-95, 1976 Serology in leprosy. Bull. WHO 42(5):673-702, 1970 Reação quantitativa de fixação do complemento em gotas sobre placas pelo método das curvas iso-hemolíticas. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 5:176-89, 1963 The meaning of antibody titer in leprosy determined by complenment fixation with antigens prepared from tubercle bacilli. Anais VIII Congr. Intern. Leprol. 3:263-75, 1963 With F. Fulton. Linear relationships in complement-fixation. J. Hyg. Camb. 60:95-104, 1962 Cripto-antigenos e cripto-reações com antígeno de bacilo da tuberculose e soros de leprosos, em reações de fixação de complemento. Cien. Cult. 10:71-6, 1958 With W.R. Thompson. Use of model system to indicate presence of a second agent in tuberculosis. Antigen preparation (1957) With W.R. Thompson. Sequential tests of antigen components. Influence of technical variability and of producer aim. Ann. Report Div. Lab. Res. New York State Dep. Health (1955) With L. Souza Lima & R.P.S. Carvalho. The value of the quantitative complement-fixation test for syphilis in leprosy. Am.J. Trop. Hyg. 4:41-6, 1955 With J.L.P. Freitas & H. Brandão. Complement fixation test with a triple antigen for syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy or Chagas disease in blood banks. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 3:490-4, 1954 With S.B. Pessoa & A. Covello. Quantitative complement fixation tests in bouba. O Hospital 43(3):373-80, 1953 With A.M. Silverstein & F. Maltaner. Principles governing the practical of complement fixation tests. J. Immunol. 68(5):567-76, 1952 With M. Adura. Conditioned hemolysis: quantitative technic standardized for tuberculosis and leprosy (1952) With O.B. Portella. Microflocculation reaction with cardiolipin and sitolipin in blood in leprosy (1952) Técnica da reação de Wassermann quantitativa: emprego do colorímetro foto-elétrico na padronização dos reagentes e na leitura da reação. O Hospital 37(6):847-98, 1950 Contribuição para o estudo das reações quantitativas de fixação de complemento. I. O sistema hemolítico. Doctoral Thesis (1950) With F. Maltaner. The parallel effects of magnesium on the complementary and coagulative activities of blood serum. Blood 4:728, 1949 O tempo de hemólise nas reações de fixação do complemento. Relações quantitativas entre tempo de hemólise e concentração de complemento no sistema hemolítico anticarneiro (1949) Determinação quantitativa da sífilis. Gazeta Clinica 40:219-38, 1942 Determinação do complexo imune em termos de soro ou de antígeno pela sua relação linear com o complemento
José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
José Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, Brazilian politician and naturalist (Santos, São Paulo State 13 June 1763 – Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 06 April 1838) ACHIEVEMENTS Studied in Academy of Mines in Freiberg being a disciple of Abraham G. Werner (1792-4) Contributed to discovery of lithium since the element was discovred in a mineral sample that collected. Identified in Scandinavia 4 new species (petalite, spodumene, cryolite e scapolite) and 7 new varieties of minerals (wernerite, acanthicone, sahlite, coccolite, indicolite, aphrizite and alocroite). Alocroite later became andradite. Proposed the use of suffix -ite in mineral nomenclature Stablished volcanic nature of obsidian Distinguished astronomical climate from meteorological climate Performed systematic phytochemical studies about Brazilian flora involving the research about quina Described orchid and bromeliad species and varieties from Rio de Janeiro (1821) Left science in 1821 HONORS Andradea Freire-Allemão 1845 (Nyctaginaceae) Andradite (mineral) TRIVIA/CURIOSITIES It is said that he held the best particular mineral collection in that years (1819). Became first-minister of Brazil (1822; 1822-23) and prevented that Brazil splitted in little states like other countries in Spanish America. Due to this fact he is recognized as patriarch of Independency in Brazil. Suggested a new capital for Brazil and named it Brasilia in 1823 (realized only in 1960!)
José Arechavaleta y Balpardo
José Cosme de Arechavaleta y Balpardo, Spanish-born Uruguayan botanist and microbiologist (Urioste, Bilbao 27 September 1838 – Montevideo 16 June 1912) Described nearly 160 species, 55 varieties, 14 forms of plants besides new insect species in according to IPNI site
José Arce
José Arce y Arce, Argentine physician and diplomat (Lobería, Buenos Aires Province 15 October 1881 – Buenos Aires 27 July 1968) Authored over 200 works (112 papers) Un nouveau procédé commun à la gastrostomie et a la jejunostomie. Rev. Chir. (Paris) 32:335, 1905 Um nuevo procedimiento para el acortamiento de los ligamentos redondos en el tratamiento de las retrodesviaciones uterinas fijas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 15:185, 1907 An endothoracic operation with preliminary pneumothorax known as operative pneumothorax or Arce method (1936) With Ivanissevich proposed surgical methods for hydatid cysts A new gastrostomy technique for digestive obstruction Perfected the Alquié-Alexander-Adams method Eponymy Arce ligamentopexy (1935) Arce sign, a radiological sign for lung tumours Arce retractor Posadas-Arce method for pulmonary hydatid cysts HONORS Honorary Member, Physician’s Club (1922) Gold Medal, Hamburg University (1927) Doctor Honoris Causa, Temple University of Philadelphia (1937) Doctor Honoris Causa, Wolfgang Goethe University, (1938) Honorary Member, New York Medical Association (1938) Honorary Member, Medical Society of Shanghai (1946) Professor pro-tempore, Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1931), Professor pro-tempore in Bucharest (1933), Berlin & Jena (1938) Professor pro-tempore, Université de l’Aurore, Shanghai (1946) LINKS http://www.museoroca.gov.ar/articulosytrabajos/inmigracionhistoriaarte/arcebiovisual.pdf (in Spanish)
José Antonio de Alzate
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Mexican cleric, scientist, historian and cartographer (Ozumba, Mexico State 21 November 1737 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 February 1799) Founded the following scientific journals: Diario Literario de Mejico (1768), Asuntos Varios sobre Ciencias y Artes (1772-3) and Observaciones sobre la Fisica, Historia Natural y Artes Utiles (1787-8) renamed Gaceta de Literatura (1788-95). The majority of his writings was published in these journals. INVENTIONS A bath floater which named automatic floating stopper (1790) A cotton gin A ring shaped bell Improved method for drying gunpowder MEMBERSHIP Foreign Associate Member, French Academy of Sciences. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Nuevo mapa geografico de la America Septentrional (1767), that was published by French Academy of Sciences. Observaciones Meteorologicas (1769) Observación del paso de Mercurio por el disco del Sol (9 de noviembre 1769). 1769 Observación del paso de Venus por el disco de Sol (1770) Memoria sobre la historia natural de las cercanias de la ciudad de Mexico (1770) Eclypse de luna de 12 de Diciembre de 1769 observado en la Imperial Ciudad de Mexico y dedicada al Rey Nuestro Señor (1770) Memoria del uso que hacen los indios de los pipiltzintzintlis (1772) Utilidad de las observaciones meteorologicas (1773) Descripción de las antiguedades de Xochicalco, when described the Xochicalco ruins. Finished in 1777 but published only in 1791. Memoria sobre la naturaleza, cultivo y beneficio de la grana (1777) Observaciones fisicas ejecutadas en la Sierra Nevada (1789) Discurso sobre la goma lacca, sus virtudes medicinales y hormigas que la producen (c.1790) Memoria sobre la grana cochinilla (1794) Medios de que se pueden valer los hombres para prevenir calamidades (1795) Modelo y descripción de los hornos de Almadén Sobre escarchas. Sobre heladas. Fidelidad del barometro HONORS Alzatea Ruiz & Pavón 1794 (Alzateaceae)