Wenying Zhuang
Wenying Zhuang, Chinese mycologist (Beijing 27 July 1948 – DESCRIBED SOME CAUSATIVE AGENTS OF PLANT DISEASES Botrytis sinoviticola 2014 (gray mold disease of table grapes) Botrytis sinoallii 2010 (grey mould of Allium) Botrytis fabiopsis 2010 (chocolate spot of broad bean) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera (11; incomplete) Calycellinopsis 1990 Chaetopsinectria 2010 with Luo Deltosperma 1988 Eoaleurina 1986 with Korf Kimbropezia 1991 with Korf Pfistera 1991 with Korf Rhizoscyphus 2004 with Korf Volutellonectria 2012 with Luo Xeromedulla 1987 with Korf Species About 180 Subspecies 18 HONORS Wenyingia Wang & Pfister 2001 (Fungi) Wenyingzhuangia Liu, Liu, Liu, Zhou, Qi & Liu 2014 (Bacteria)
Sibte Hasan Zaidi
Sibte Hasan Zaidi, Indian pathologist and toxicologist (Jarwal Village, Uttar Pradesh State 15 April 1918 – New York 05 April 2008) Established the pathogenesis and etiology of progressive massive fibrosis of the coal workers Showed the role of small amounts of free silica in the pathogenesis of pneumoconiosis Demonstrated the requirement of a mucus barrier in the prevention of peptic ulcer disease (1957) With S. Nityanand developed rodent models of atherosclerotic heart disease and experimental myocardial infarction (1963) LINKS http://insaindia.org/BM/BM36_0908.pdf
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)