Rafael Andres Toro
Rafael Andrés Toro, Puerto Rican mycologist and plant pathologist (San Germán 29 November 1897 – 1981) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Placoasterina 1930 Punctillina 1934 Kerniomyces 1939 Mirandia 1934 Ticomyces 1952 Species 95 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (Plant pathology) A study of the tropical American “black mildews”. Thesis, George Washington University (1951) Nueva sombra para los cafetales. Rev. Agric. Puerto Rico 32(4):489-92, 1940 Plant disease notes from the Central Andes. II. Phytopathology 19:969-74, 1929 Algunos insectos de la papa em Cundinamarca. Rev. Ind. 6(62):39-40, 1929 Un nuevo parasito del café en Cundinamarca. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(13):437-8, 1929 Una epifitotia del café en Cúcuta. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(5-6):171-3, 1929 La roya del frisol. Educ. Publ. Antioqueña 71-2:399-401, 1928 With C.E. Chardón. Plant disease notes from the Central Andes. Phytopathology 17(3):147-53, 1927 The influence of the environment in the protection of plants against disease. Porto Rico Insul. Exp. Sta. Circ. 90:10, 1925 Una enfermedad importante de las cebollas en Puerto Rico (1923) HONORS Toroa Sydow 1926 (Fungi)
Purnesh Kumar Talwar
Purnesh Kumar Talwar, Indian ichthyologist (14 November 1934 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Dayella 1971 with Whitehead Daysciaena 1971 Garo 1981 with Yazdani Lipocheilus 1977 with Anderson & Johnson Species Ariosoma gnanadossi 1977 with Mukherjee Atrobucca alcocki 1980 Atrobucca trewavasae 1975 with Sathiarajan Cephaloscyllium silasi 1974 Garo khajuriai 1977 with Yazdani & Kundu Gaterin rayi 1972 with Menon Glyptothorax indicus 1991 Gobiopteris smithi 1972 with Menon Johnius gangeticus 1991 Odontanthias perulimai 1976 Oligolepis dasi 1982 with Chatterjee & Dev Roy Owstonia whiteheadi 1973 Zebrias annandalei 1967 with Chakrapany
Puicheung Tam
Puicheung Tam / Peixiang Tan, Chinese botanist (1919 – 1991) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Rhododendron Rhododendron apricum 1982 Rhododendron chaoanense 1978 with Wu Rhododendron crassimedium 1982 Rhododendron cretaceum 1983 Rhododendron fangchengense 1982 Rhododendron florulentum 1982 Rhododendron huguangense 1982 Rhododendron hunanense 1982 Rhododendron hypoblematosum 1982 Rhododendron jingangshanicum 1982 Rhododendron litchiifolium 1978 with Wu Rhododendron longifalcatum 1982 Rhododendron loniceriflorum 1982 Rhododendron meridionale 1983 Rhododendron mitriforme 1982 Rhododendron nanpingense 1982 Rhododendron pinetorum 1982 Rhododendron polyraphidoideum 1982 Rhododendron rhuyuenense 1983 Rhododendron rupivalleculatum 1982 Rhododendron spadiceum 1982 Rhododendron subcerinum 1982 Rhododendron subenerve 1983 Rhododendron subestipitatum 1982 Rhododendron subflumineum 1982 Rhododendron taipaoense 1982 Rhododendron tenuilaminare 1983 Rhododendron tianlinense 1983 Rhododendron tingwuense 1978 Rhododendron unciferum 1982 Rhododendron viscigemmatum 1983 Rhododendron yangmingshanense 1982 Rhododendron ziyuanense 1982 Other Thesium brevibracteatum 1981 Thesium orgadophilum 1981
Pui Chi Tsoong
Pui Chi Tsoong or BuQiu Zhong, Chinese botanist (1900 – 1981) Described the genus Mimulicalyx 1979 (Scrophulariaceae) and 124 new plant species
Phillip Valentine Tobias
Phillip Valentine Tobias, South-African physical anthropologist (Durban 14 October 1925 – Johannesburg 07 June 2012) Authored over 600 papers and 33 books With J.R. Napier & L.S.B. Leakey described Homo habilis (1965) Described Paranthropus boisei (1967) HONORS Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee for three times Balzan Prize for Physical Anthropology (1987) Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1997)
Peisong Tang
Peisong Tang, Chinese plant physiologist (Xishui, Hubei Province 12 November 1903 – 06 September 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 200 scientific papers First Chinese biologist who published in famous magazines Nature and Science Proved the existence of cytochrome oxidase in plants (1932) First experimentally proved the existence of carbonic anhydrase in plants First to prove the existence of inducible enzymes in plants With H.Y. Wu. Adaptive formation of nitrate reductase in rice seedlings. Nature 179:1355-6, 1957 Proposed that there exist various interconnected respiratory metabolic pathways and electron transfers at the same plant or proposed the concept of multiple pathways in respiratory metabolism Firstly put forward the concept of control of respiration by enzyme reactions and respiratory control of physiological activities in living and intact tissues (1950s) With Zhu Xi Wang (J.S. Wang) enunciated the theory of cellular water potential and applied the term water potential to cellular water relations With J. S. Wang. A thermodynamic formulation of the water relations in an isolated living cell. J. Phys. Chem. 45:443-53, 1941 Developed a respirometer vessel for study of metabolism of seeds (1932) Papers in Nature & Science With S.L. Chen, B.L. Cheng & W.K. Cheng. An atibiotic substance in the Chinese water chestnut Eleocharis tuberosa. Nature 156:234, 1945 With W.S. Loo. Polyploidy in soybean, pea, wheat and rice, induced by colchicine treatment. Science 91(2357):222, 1940 Eponym of Tang’s equation See www.hlhl.org.cn/english/showsub.asp?id=147