Rodrigo Zeledón Araya
Rodrigo Zeledón Araya, Costa Rican parasitologist, medical entomologist and microbiologist (Puntarenas 15 February 1930 – Authored over 240 papers, 4 monographs, 9 books and 15 book chapters First to obtain in vitro culture of Dermatobia hominis larvae With R. Brenes elucidated the complete life cycle of trematode species Paragonimus mexicanus Discovered and described the phenomenon of nymphs of Triatoma dimidiata hide itselves in the dust of houses Described a sensitive skin test for chronic Chagas disease in With C. Ponce. A skin test for the diagnosis of Chagas disease. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 68:414-5, 1974 Developed a culture medium for distinguishing Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli First to demonstrate that flagellates protozoan bind favouredly to cells surface of insects rectal glands Demonstrated the relationship between the physiology of Leishmania mexicana and the body temperature of Guinea pig Developed a method to isolate Leishmania panamensis from Phlebotomus sp. Proposed the utilization of an antigen from Crithidia oncopelti in Montenegro intradermal test Presented a new treatment of Costa Rican cutaneous leishmaniosis with drug infiltration into lesion Proposed visting vectors index, a d risk parameter First to describe the possibility of spontaneous cure for Chagas disease With J.C.P. Dias, A. Brilla Salazar, J.M. Rezende, L.G. Vargas & A. Urbina. Does a spontaneous cure for Chagas disease exist? Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. 21:15-20, 1988 DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Protozoa Leishmania herreri 1979 with Ponce & Murillo Leptomonas costaricensis 2006 with Yurchenko et al. Trypanosoma leonidasdeanei 1969 with Rosabal Arthropoda Triatoma ryckmani 1972 with Ponce HONORS Zelonia Shaw, Camargo & Teixeira 2016 (Protozoa) LINKS http://www.conicit.go.cr/sector_cyt/cientificos/especialistas/RodrigoZeledon.pdf (Spanish)
Peishan Zhang
Peishan Zhang or Pei-Shan Chang, Chinese geologist, mineralogist and geochemist (Tengxian County, Shandong Province June 1925 – With Z.M. Yang & K.J. Tao. New varieties of Na-Ca-Ba-RE Fluorocarbonate series minerals. J. Rare Earths 12(4):289-93, 1994 DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES Bafertisite 1959 with Semenov Huanghoite -(Ce) 1961 with Semenov Zhonghuacerite -(Ce) 1981 with Tao & Li Aeschynite -(Nd) 1982 with Tao Cebaite -(Nd) 1986 with Tao Parisite -(Nd) 1986 with Tao A Nd-Nb-Ti silicate 1986 with Tao Fergusonite -(Nd) 1987 with Tao Fluorokinoshitalite & Fluorotetraferriphlogopite 2011 with Miyawaki, Shimazaki, Shigeoka, Yokoyama, Matsubara, Yurimoto & Yang HONORS Zhangpeishanite Shimazaki, Miyawaki, Yokoyama, Matsubara & Yang 2008 (Mineral)
Pedro Elías Zadunaisky
Pedro Elías Zadunaisky, Argentine astronomer and mathematician (Rosario 10 December 1917 – Buenos Aires 07 October 2009) Authored over 40 publications such as A Guide to Celestial Mechanics Authored A determination of the orbit of Phoebe, ninth satellite of Saturn. Astron. J. (1954), with gained international repercussion Computed the Halley comet with accuracy The motion of Halley’s comet during the return of 1910. Astron. J. (1966) METHODS Developed Zadunaisky iterated defect correction A method for estimation of errors propagated in the numerical solution of a system of ordinary differential equations. The theory of orbits in the Solar System and in Stellar Systems. Proc. Symposium Intern. Astron. Union 25, 1964 Un metodo de interacción para la resolución de sistemas de ecuaciones lineales algebricas. Rev. Union Mat. Arg. (1955) With V. Pereyra. On the convergence and precision of a process of successive differential equations (1965) With Rodolfo Rodríguez. A stable method to estimate perturbations in differential equations. Computers & Mathematics with Aplication (1986) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Small perturbations on artificial satellites as an inverse problem. Trans. Aerosp. Electr. Systems IEEE 39(4):1270-6, 2003 HONORS Asteroid Zadunaisky 4617
Otto Zoellner
Otto Zoellner, German-born Chilean botanist (Hanau, Hesse State 21 November 1909 – Quilpué 01 December 2007) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Chrysocoryne 1973 Species Bowlesia macrophysa 1973 Culcitium albifolium 1970 Ephedra trifurcata 1975 Leucocoryne conferta 1972 Porophyllum tarapacanum 1979 Varieties Leucocoryne coquimbensis var. alba 1972 Prosopis reptans var. chilensis 2001 with Olivares HONORS Zoellneralium Crosa 1975 (Amaryllidaceae)
Nicim Zagury
Nicim Zagury, Jewish Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 09 March 1934 – Gained international recognition for his work on quantum optics Predicted the existence of ressonance in mesons and the K’ meson existence (1960) With A.L.L. Videira & J. Tiomno. Possible existence of a new (K’) meson. Physical Review Letters 6:120, 1960 With P.L. Ferreira presented new models of quarks restriction (1977) With S. Haroche & L. Davidovich proposed the counting method of non-quantum breakdown photons (1992) With L. Davidovich & Aharonov introduced the notion of quantum walks Quantum random walks. Phys. Rev. A 48(2):1687-90, 1993 First proposed an experimental solution employing particles entanglement for performing quantum teleportation of atoms in laboratory With L. Davidovich, M. Brune, J.M. Raimond & S. Haroche. Teleportation of an atomic state between two cavities using nonlocal microwave fields. Physical Review A 50(2):895-8, 1994 With L. Davidovich & M. Orszag. Quantum diagnosis of molecules: a method for measuring directly the Wigner function of a molecular vibrational state. Physical Review A 57(4):2544-9, 1998 With P. Milman showed that a parameter governing the dynamics of two-level system is the ratio between the classical field’s intensity and the quantized mode detuning (2011)
Mohammed Zaka ur Rab
Mohammed Zaka ur Rab, Indian entomologist (28 December 1936 – DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Aciura kashmirica 1977 (Diptera) Craspedoxantha indica 1961 (Diptera) Dacus (Callantra) munroi 1961 (Diptera) Zakaella alami 1963 (Hymenoptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Morphology Morphology of the male terminalia of Aedes aegypti Linnaeus, the yellow fever mosquito (Diptera: culicidae). Beitr. Ent. 30(1):9-14, 1980 Morphology of the male terminalia of Sphaerophoria indiana Big. (Diptera, Syrphidae). Zool. Jb. Anat. 101:397-403, 1979 Morphology of the male genitalia of Hippobosca maculata L. (Diptera: Hippoboscidae). Zool. Anz. 203:182-8, 1979 Morphology of the male terminalia of Basilia (Paracyclopodia) burmensis (Theodor) (Diptera: Nycteribiidae). Zool. Anz. 203:177-81, 1979 Morphology of the male terminalia of Scatophaga stercoraria L. (Diptera, Scatophagidae). J. Entomol. Res. 3:25-31, 1979 Morphology of the head capsule of Bathyaulax alami Zaka (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zool. Jahrb. Abteil. Anat. Ontog. Tiere 199:421-36, 1978 Morphology of the head of the mature larva of the lemon butterfly (sic) Papilio demoleus L. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) with special reference to skeleto-muscular mechanism. Zool. Anz. 201(3-4):260-72, 1978 Studies on the tracheal system of the mature larva of the melon fly, Dacus (Strumeta) cucurbitae Coquillett (Diptera:Trypetidae). Beitr. Ent. 28(2):257-62, 1978 Skeleto-muscular mechanism of the cephalo-pharyngeal skeleton of the mature larva of the melon fly Dacus (Strumeta) cucurbitae Coquillett. Beitr. Ent. 28(2):251-5, 1978 Studies on the morphology of the male genitalia in Diptera with observations on their role in the classification of the order. Thesis (1974) Morphology and internal anatomy of Dacus (Strumeta) cucurbitae Coq., the Indian fruit fly. Alig. Mus. Univ. Publ. (Zool. Ser.) 8:1-184, 1971 Skeleto-muscular mechanism of the halteres of the melon fly, Dacus (Strumeta) cucurbitae Coquillett (Diptera:Trypetidae). Beitr. Ent. 20:43-50, 1970 Observations on the facial sclerite of the larva of Papilio demoleus L. (Lepidotera: Papilionidae). Proceed. Royal Entomol. Soc. London Ser A. Gen. Entomol. 39(1-3):34-40, 1964 Musculature of the sucking pump of Argina cribaria Clerck (Lepidoptera: Hypsidae). Beitrage zur Ent. 13(5-6):654-7, 1963 Torsion of the postabdomen in male Diptera. Naturwissenschaften 50:24-5, 1963 Skeleto-muscular system of the sucking pump of Papilio demoleus L. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Curr. Sci. 30:301-2, 1961 Morphology and life history of Dacus (Strumeta) cucurbitae Coq. (Indian fruit fly) with observations on the behaviour of the adult. PhD. Thesis, Alig. Musl. Univ. India (1961) Agricultural Entomology & Others Leaf mining Coleoptera of the Indian subcontinent. J. Entomol. Res. 15(1):20-30, 1991 Host plants of the fruit flies (Diptera:Tephritidae) of Indian subcontinent, exclusive of the subfamily Dacinae (1984) Cystiphora taraxaci (Diptera:Cecidomyidae) mining the leaves of Taraxacum officinale (Compositae) in Kashmir, India. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. (1981) Studies on Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Kashmir, India, some interesting palaearctic species. Bull. Lab. Entomol. Agraria Filippo Silvestri 38:133-7, 1981 The cornelian Deudorax epijarbas Moore (Lepidoptera: Lyaenidae) as a seroius pest of pomegranate fruits in Kashmir. J. Entomol. Res. 4:233-5, 1980 Pemphigus bursarius Linn producing galls on Lambardy poplar in Kashmir. Curr. Sci. 44(6):203-4, 1975 Record of Syrphus confrater Wiedmann as predaceous on woolly aphid Eriosoma lanigera (Hausmann). Indian J. Entomol. 34(4):348, 1972 Arachnoid parasites and predators of Insecta: a bibliography of literature. Beitr. Ent. 13:873-89, 1963 A redescription of Tephritis zonogastra Bezzi 1913 (Diptera – Trypetidae). Beitr. Ent. 13(5-6):657-60, 1963 HONORS Zakaella Haider, Ahmad & Shujauddin 2003 (Hymenoptera)