Arturo Alberto Alezzandrini
Arturo Alberto Alezzandrini Brauer, Argentine ophthalmologist (Buenos Aires 24 November 1932 – Described Alezzandrini syndrome With A.M. Casalá. Vitiligo, poliosis unilateral com retinitis pigmentaria y hipoacusia. Arch. Arg. Dermatol. 9:449, 1959 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Toxoplasmosis ocular aguda adquirida (Nueva forma de inoculación). Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 59:135, 1984 Sindrome de “Morning Glory”. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 58:46-9, 1983 La retino-fluoresceinografia en las alteraciones del epitelio pigmentario de la retina. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 46:13-20, 1971 Macular degeneration and pits of the optic disc. Mod. Prob. Ophthalm. 9:171, 1971 L’angiomatose miliaire retinniene de Leber et la rétinite de Coats. Diagnostic différentiel par la retinophotographie apres injection intraveineuse de fluorescéine. Ann. Ocul. 202:23-37, 1969 With C. Nicoli. Macula lutea injuries due to an eclipse. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 43(6):146-50, 1968 Diagnostico diferencial de los tumores intraoculares por medio de la retina-fluoresceino-grafia. IV Congr. Latinoam. Cancer (1967) Estrias angioides de la retina. Su estudio por medio de la retina-fluoresceingrafia. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires (9):259-63, 1967 With J. Garcia Bazarra. Autohemotherapy in the treatment of ocular burns caused by alkalies. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 40(12):397-400, 1965 With C. Nicoli. Retinography with fluorescein. Arch. Ophthal B. Aires 40(11):363-82, 1965 With A.C. Cremona. Pliegues falciformes congenitos de la retina. Arch. Oftal. B. Aires 40:79, 1965 Retinitis pigmentosa en sectores simetricos. Arch. Oftalm. Bs Aires 40:72, 1965 Unilateral manifestations of tapeto-retinal degeneration, vitiligo, poliosis, grey hair and hypoacusia. Ophthalm. 147:409-19, 1964 With E. Manzitti. Syndrome dyscephalique de François. Ann. Ocul. 196:456-65, 1963 With E.Q. Cremona & H. Antelo Romero. Radio de curvatura córnea inestable. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 37(7):148-51, 1962
Arnaldo Acosta
Andrés Arnaldo Acosta Nuñez, Paraguayan gynecologist and obstetrician Authored over 80 papers and 10 books He was Adjunct Professor at Baylor College of Medicine Presented Acosta classification for pelvis With V. Buttram, P. Besch, R. Malinak, R. Franklin & J. Vanderheyden. A proposed classification of endometriosis. Obstet. Gynecol. 42:19-25, 1973 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Velasquez & S.G. Mendoza. Menstrual cyclicity after metformin therapy in polycystic ovary syndrome. Obstet. Gynecol. 90:392, 1997 With G. DiZerega, R.H. Kaufman & A.L. Kaplan. Solid teratoma of the ovary (1975) With G.C. Stransky, A.I. Kaplan & J.A. Friedman. Reticulum cell sarcoma of the cervix. Obstet. Gynecol. 41:183-7, 1973 With A.Kaplan & R. Kaufman. Gynecologic cancer in children. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 112:944, 1972 With C. Mabray & R. Kaufman. Intrauterine pregnancy and coexistent pelvic inflammatory disease. Obstet. Gynecol. 37:282, 1971 Complicaciones medicas del embarazo With S. Warman. Endometriosis y embarazo. Conceptos Actuales en Fertilidad HONOURS President, Federation International of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2003-6) Annual Award, American College of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2008)
ARGENTINA
Juan Pedro Baigorri Velar, Argentine engineer and geophysicist (Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 March 1972) Invented the pluviógeno, a rainmaking apparatus (1926-38) with worldwide repercussion José Antonio Balseiro Lahore, Argentine nuclear physicist (Cordoba 26 March 1919 – Bariloche, Rio Negro Province 26 March 1962) países From Spanish father and French-descent mother Father of physicist Carlos Antonio Balseiro Authored a work about optical properties of blood plasma that received comments in a bibliographic note of Nature With Antonio E. Rodríguez. The absorption spectrum of blood plasma and its stability with various agents. Publ. Fac. Cien. Fis. Mat. La Plata 3:77-91, 1944 With D. Canals Frau. Un fenômeno de fluctuaciones en la radiación. Ciencia e Investigación 2:444, 1946 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Formulación covariante de la electrodinamica cuantica. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 18(2), 1957 Descripción cuantica de trenes de onda. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 18(2), 1957 Acerca de una transformación canonica del campo de radiación. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 13 Angular momentum of photons. Rev. Unión Mat. Arg. 12:153-67 & 209-24 Transformation theory applied to a radiation field. Phys. Rev. 73(11):1346-8, 1948 Problemas sobre la teoria de los campos, vibraciones de moléculas en cristales y sobre fenómenos de transporte Propagación de ondas electromagneticas en la guia axial excentrica Impulso angular del campo de radiación HONORS Minor planet 6109 Balseiro Juan Antonio Bussolini, Argentine astrophysicist and jesuit (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 1905 – San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province 10 September 1966) Honored in asteroid 2490 Bussolini León Elkin, Jewish Argentine surgeon (1898 – 1969) CREATED Equipment for indirect laryngoscopy Apparatus and method for press vocal chords José Mario Fallotico, Argentine citizen (San Vicente, Santa Fe Province 10 October 1897 – Buenos Aires 07 June 1962) Invented a staff for blind ones (1921) before US George Benham Julio Hirschhorn Grinstein, Jewish Argentine agronomist (Colón, Entre Ríos Province 21 June 1895 – ?) Brother of mycologist and plant pathologist Elisa Hirschhorn Developed new rice cultivars such as Chacarero (1935) HONORS Juliohirschhornia Hirschhorn 1986 (Fungi) Hebe Dina Gay Cocucci, Argentine mineralogist (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba Province 26 January 1927 – Cordoba 25 June 2018) From Italian descent With Demartin, Gramaccioli & Pilati codescribed the mineral species benyacarite (1990; described in 1997) With T. Pilati, C. Gramaccioli & F. Demartin. A structural model for the minerals of the Paulkerrite group (1991) Honored in mineral species gayite Kampf, Colombo & Gonzalez del Tanago 2010 Ignacio Lucio Imaz Apphatie, Argentine physician With Emilio Lorentz improved the Ghedini procedure for serum diagnosis of echinococcosis (1908) Developed a new diagnostic method for showing the blood incompatibility in transfusion Juan (Ivan) Jagsich, Croatian-born Argentine geodesist and meteorologist (Oslip, Burgenland 28 April 1886 – Gualeguay, Cordoba 03 April 1956) Aauthored over 70 works of which Meteorologia Fisica (1954) Eponym of Jagsich method for joined determination of geographical coordinates (1955) and Jagsich formulae Luis Miguel Japas, Argentine surgeon (1925 – August 2000) Authored over 100 works With L.M. Japas. Un signo clínico de displasia rotuliana. Rev. Asoc. Arg. Ortop. Traum. 58(4):500-1, 1993 Eponym of Japas osteotomy or procedure RELEVANT PAPERS With C.E. Ottolenghi. Fractures latérales du col du fémur, varieté extradigitale. Rev. Chir. Ortop. 50:389-98, 1964 Surgical treatment of pes cavus by tarsal V-osteotomy. J. Bone Joint Surgery 50ª:927-44, 1968 With F. de Schant. La biopsie par ponction et aspiration du corps vertebral dorsal. Rev. Chir. Ortop. 56:763-70, 1970 Francisco Martín Jauregui, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 04 July 1876 – Buenos Aires 1961) Gained international recognition for his studies on yellow fever and syphilis Authored the book La fievre jaune (1911) With Luis Lancelotti proposed the syphilis serumtherapy (1924) Worked joined to famous names like Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff Correspondent Member, Societé Zoologique de France Juan Mazar Barnett, Argentine ornithologist (Buenos Aires March 1975 – Buenos Aires 20 November 2012) Authored 51 works of many types (papers, books, monographs, records) about behaviour, ecology and biogeography of birds He was involved in the description of new bird species With D. Buzzetti discovered three species possibly new to science in Brazilian Northeast lands leading to discovery and description of Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti 2014 HONORS Mazaria Claramunt 2014 (Aves) Juan José Nissen, Argentine astronomer (Paraná, Entre Rios Province 31 May 1901 – San Juan 09 June 1978) From German descent SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observatorio de Cordoba. Memoria correspondiente al año 1939. Rev. Astron. 12(1), 1939 Las novae. Rev. Astron. (1935) Vörläufige Orter des Eros. Astron. Nachr. 256(16), 1935 With J. Bobone. Resultados de 277 placas del asteroide Eros, tomadas de enero a mayo de 1931 HONORS 2124 Nissen (Minor planet) Atanasio Quiroga, Argentine chemist (San Juan 17 June 1853 – Buenos Aires 14 August 1916) Invented devices for analysing and extraction of gases El tasímetro. Doctoral Thesis (1888) Extractor baro-termico (nuevo aparato para extraer los gases de sus soluciones especialmente de las aguas) 1910 Elsa Maria Gutierrez de Rodríguez Pardina, Argentine astronomer (1921 – ?) Expert on celestial mechanics Honored in 4914 Pardina (asteroid) Wenceslao Tejerina Fotheringham, Argentine surgeon and clinical pathologist (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba Province 02 June 1901 – Rosario 1985) From British ancestry Eponym of Tejerina Fotheringham sign in appendicitis José Pedro Uslenghi Pella, Argentine radiologist (Carmen de Areco, Buenos Aires Province 03 August 1890 – 12 July 1958) Nueva tecnica para la investigación radiologica de las glândulas salivales. Sem. Med. 41:27, 1925 Normas generales para el examen y la interpretación radiologica de la tuberculosis pulmonar. Arch. Tisiol. 9:6-13, 1933 Martín Vince, Argentine lab technician (fl.1962) Participated in discovery and study of Saltsaurus loricatus (1975-7) Co-described the genus Mussaurus 1979 with Bonaparte (Fossil Reptilia) Honored in genus Vincelestes Bonaparte 1986 (Fossil Mammalia)
Apolinar Maria
Nicholas Seiler (Apolinar Maria), French-born Colombian Catholic missionary and naturalist (Sarreguemines, Alsace 05 November 1867 – Bogotá 24 December 1949) Authored 92 publications Collected and discovered about 300 species between animals and plants (described by other researchers) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Species Colias fassli 1944 Diaethria marginata 1928 Heliconius colombiana 1927 Heliconius leucosticta 1926 Heliconius mixta 1927 Heliconius xanthosticta 1926 Lymanopoda viventieni 1924 Morpho nigromarginata 1942 Papilio oberthuri 1916 Subspecies 18 Varieties 13 HONORS Apolinaria Rehn 1950 (Orthoptera) Seileria Dognin 1923 (Lepidoptera)
Antonio Julián Baldomero Acunã Galé
Antonio Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé, Cuban botanist, agronomist and plant pathologist (Camaguey 27 November 1900 – Ciudad de Mexico 24 July 1973) ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated the transmission of Hoja Blanca virus by hemipteran Sogatodes oryzicola (Muir) With L. Ramos-Ledon & Y. López Cardet. Sogata oryzicola Muir, vector de la enfermedad virosa hoja blanca del arroz en Cuba. Agrotecnica 23-24, 1958. Version in English: Sogata oryzicola Muir, vector of the hoja blanca virus disease of rice in Cuba. Agrotecnica 4(2):8-15, 1966 DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Kodalyodendron 1973 with Borhidi Species Basiphyllaea wrightii Byrsonima luacesii 1953 with Roig Byrsonima moensis 1953 with Roig Castela leonis 1950 with Roig Castela victorinii 1950 with Roig Exostema lancifolium 1971 with Borhidi Hornemannia alainii 1956 with Roig Kodalyodendron cubensis 1973 with Borhidi Lyonia leonis 1956 with Roig Lyonia maestrensis 1956 with Roig Malpighia martiana 1953 with Roig Malpighia wrightiana 1953 with Roig Margaritopsis agustinae 1962 Muscarella obliquipetala 1938 with Schweinfurt Ocotea bucherii 1949 with Roig Ocotea victorinii 1956 with Roig Palicourea alainii 1962 with Roig Palicourea moralesii 1962 with Roig Palicourea ponce-leonis 1962 with Roig Palicourea torrei 1962 with Roig Palicourea vanhermannii 1962 with Roig Persea galeae 1949 Psychotria byrsonimifolia 1962 with Roig Psychotria lopezii 1962 with Roig Schmidtottia scabra 1972 with Borhidi Spachea maritima 1953 with Roig Vaccinium alainii 1956 with Roig Vaccinium leonis 1956 with Roig Vaccinium shaferi 1956 with Roig HONORS Acunaeanthus Borhidi, Jarai-Komlódi & Moncada 1981 (Rubiaceae)
Antonio Eugenio de Area Leão
Antonio Eugenio de Arêa Leão, Brazilian medical mycologist (Teresina 13 November 1895 – 1971) Authored at least 117 works Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis With Fernando Terra, Magarinos Torres & O. da Fonseca. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 36(2):368-78, 1922. Developed the first specific skin test for paracoccidiodomycosis With O. da Fonseca. Reaction cutanee specifique avec le filtrat de cellule du Coccidioides immitis. Comp. Rend. Seances Soc. Biol. 97:1796-7, 1927 Laid the foundations for control of mites that attack fungal cultures employing kerosene With M. T. de Mello & V. Mayor. Acarinos infestadores de cultura de cogumelos. Biologia, classificação e métodos de combate. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 42(3):559-608, 1945 Conceived a vaccine for tinea A new method for searching fungi in biological material Tecnica micologica. Novo metodo para exame de pêlos, escamas, etc. Acad. Med. 4:75-9, 1939 Established a new process for direct examination of the pus With M.A. Goto. A esporotricose. Observação e estudo de um novo caso. O Hospital 30:409-17, 1946 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA PATHOGENIC TO MAN Genus Piedraia 1928 with Fonseca Species Acremoniella lutzi 1939 with J. Lobo Acremoniella rugulosa 1934 Cephalosporium recifei 1934 with J. Lobo Cladosporium langeronii 1927 with Fonseca & Nogueira Coelomyces ciferii 1965 with Pedroso Lacazia loboi 1940 with Fonseca Piedraia hortae 1928 with Fonseca Trichosporon minor 1940