Francisco Alzola
Francisco Alzola Victorero, Cuban agronomist (fl.1940-57) DEVELOPED A new process of continuous alcoholic fermentation (1940-1) A continuous alcoholic fermentation process with an unique tower-shaped dorn (1945) Un proceso para agitar mostos en fermentación (1945) PATENTS Equipment and procedure of carrying out continuous fermentations or System of continuous fermentation US 2,371, 208 (1945) Apparatus for continuous fermentation US2450218A (1946) Vinegar Jupiter (1947) Aparato para la aplicación eficiente de abono (1956)
Floriano Paulo de Almeida
Floriano Paulo de Almeida, Brazilian medical mycologist (São Paulo 25 January 1898 – Taubaté, São Paulo State 10 July 1977) ACHIEVEMENTS With E. Souza Campos distinguished North American blastomycosis from South American blastomycosis know as Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease (1927) With C.S. Lacaz first to isolate Histoplasma capsulatum (1939) With C.S. Lacaz obtained antigen paracoccidiodin for skin test of South American blastomycosis (1941) With C.S. Lacaz, S. Sampaio & J.C. Fernandes presented the first report about cat to man transmission of sporotrichosis (1955) Developed Almeida-Silva Lacaz yeast sporulation medium With Barros developed method for genetic determination of levuliform fungi With C. S. Lacaz. Nova técnica para demonstração rápida dos ascoporos. Folia Clin. Biol. 12(4), 1940 With M. Fernandes. Nova técnica para o isolamento rápido do Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. An. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo 20:155-7, 1944 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genus Paracoccidioides 1930 etiologic agent of South American blastomycosis Species Fonsecaea monophora with Moore Geotrichum virulens 1940 with Lacaz Streptomyces paraguayensis (1940)
Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, Brazilian geologist (Rio de Janeiro 18 February 1916 – São Paulo 02 August 2013) Authored over 250 works ACHIEVEMENTS Described first Pre-Cambrian fossils in South America Collenia itapevensis (1944) Defined South American platform (1969) Co-authored a paper with great repercussion that confirmed the geochronological correlation between Brazil and Africa continent With P.M. Hurley, G.C. Melcher, U.G. Cordani, J.R. Rand, K. Kawashita, P. Vandoros, W.H. Pinson & H.W. Fairbarn. Test of continental drift by means of radiometric ages. Science 157 (3788):495-500, 1967 DESCRIBED (Fossil Crustacea) GENERA Acantholeaia 1950 Candonopsis 1950 Pachecoia 1950 Species Acantholeaia regoi 1950 Palaeolimnadia petrii 1950 Cyzicus (Lioestheria) mendesi Cyzicus (Lioestheria) barbosai Pachecoia acuminata Pachecoia rodriguesi Candonopsis pyriformis MEMBERSHIP/HONORS Correspondent fellow, Societé Geologique de France Vice-President, International Union of Geological Sciences (1980-4) Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who (1971-2) Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Alberta (1991) Genus Fernandoalmeidium Novozhilov 1961 (Fossil Crustacea) Almeidaite Menezes Filho, Chukanov, Rastsvetaeva, Aksenov et al. 2013 (Mineral)
Fernando Arens Jr.
Fernando Arens, Brazilian engineer (1880 – 05 September 1942) Son of German immigrants Lived most of his life in United States ACHIEVEMENTS invented and patented the production of cast-iron tubes by centrifugation (1915) with D. Sensaud de Lavaud; it is known in most countries as De Lavaud process;
Fernando Altamirano
Fernando Guilebaldo Isabel Juan Jose María de Jesus Altamirano Carbajal, Mexican physician and naturalist (Aculco, Mexico State 07 July 1848 – Ciudad de Mexico 07 October 1908) A cousin of botanist Manuel Urbina Authored over 250 scientific works mainly on physiology and pharmacology of Mexican plants A botanical collector discovered new plant species described by other botanists Discovered Ambystoma altamirani, a new axolotl species (1895) With F. Domínguez showed the paralyzing properties of seeds extracts from Erythrina species (1857) and discovered the curarizing action of Erythrina americana in Gaceta Med. Mex. 12:77-91, (1877) Introduced the use of following species in economic botany or medicine: candelilla (wax producer), Parthenium argentatum (rubber producer), Lupinus montanus (cardiac tonic), Cladonia vermicularis (antimalarial) and pipitzahoic acid as an alternative to Rhamnus purshiana ISOLATED (may not be complete) Caleandreine from Calliandra grandiflora glycoside Casimirose from Casimiroa edulis (1898) glycoside Lennesin from Calea zacatechichi glycoside Coralloidin (alkaloid) from Erythrina coralloides Erythroidine (alkaloid) from Erythrina Plumbagin from Plumbago pulchella (crystalline principle)
Felix Aguilar
Felix Aguilar Rojo, Argentine astronomer and geodesist (San Juan 02 May 1884 – La Plata 28 September 1943) Una solución del metodo Gauss generalizado a más de 3 astros y tablas auxiliares para tiempo sidéreo y acimut en el instante de la observación (1942) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Empleo de la luz difusa en la medición angular geodesica. Anales Acad. Nac. Ciencias Exactas 7:7-15, 1940 La hora en la Republica Argentina. Rev. Astron. (1938) Bestimmung von Breite und Uhrstand aus der Beobachtung der Zeiten gleicher Hoehe von 3 Sternen (Methode von Gauss). Astron. Nachrichten 266:331, 1938 Determinación de los coeficientes de densidad y temperatura de los pendulos de invar. Publ. Observ. Astron. La Plata Ser. Geodes. 1(1), 1936 Proyecto de medición del arco de meridiano argentino. Bol. Univ. La Plata (1934) Astronomisches Nivellement in Argentinien. Zeitschr. fur Vermessungswesen (1930) Contribución a la determinación de la figura matematica de la tierra (1928) La tierra como superficie esferica (1926) With B.H. Dawson. Catalogo La Plata B de 7792 estrellas de declinaciones comprendidas entre 57º a 62º (1875) para el equinocio de 1925 (1924) Resultado de las observaciones en la zona 57º a 61º con el circulo meridiano Gautier durante el año 1914 (1916) A propósito del calculo de la orbita del cometa 1912a Galle. Anales Soc. Cient. arg. 75:24-7, 1913 Determinaciones de la variación de latitud para la investigación del movimiento del polo. Resultate des international Breitendienistes t.4 (1911) HONORS Asteroid 1800 Aguilar LINKS https://www.amigosdelaastronomia.org/storage/magazines/RA099.pdf