Chiao Tsai
Chiao (Qiao) Tsai (Cai), Chinese physiologist (Jieyang, Guangdong Province 10 November 1897 – 29 July 1990) Authored over 100 papers Discovered ventral tegmental area of Tsai, the central region in the visual sense and eyeball motional function The optic tracts and centers of the opossum Didelphis virginiana. Journ. Comp. Neurol. 39(2):173-216, 1925 The descending tracts of the thalamus and midbrain of the opossum Didelphis virginiana. J. Comp. Neurol. 392:217-48, 1925 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A comparative study of retention curves for motor habits. Comp. Psych. Monog. 2(11):29-121, 1924 The relative strength of the sex and hunger motives in the albino rat. J. Comp. Psych. 5:407, 1925 Carbohydrate metabolism of the liver. I. Glycogen and other carbohydrates in decapitated cats. Chin. J. Physiol. 7:215-26, 19 With Chun Yu Ling. The relative diffusibility of CO2 and O through various animal membranes. Chin. J. Physiol. 14(2):187-9, 1939 With C.Y. Ling. The density of animal tissues. Chin. J. Physiol. 14:39, 1939 The nature of antihemolytic substance in the plasma. Chin. J. Physiol. 16(2):165-78, 1941 With T.I. Chen. The mechanism of haemostasis in peripheral vessels. J. Physiol. 107:280-8, 1947 The action of narcotics on the conduction of nerve impulses from a single end-organ. J. Physiol. 173:382, 1981
Cheng Kui Tseng
Cheng Kui Tseng, Chinese phycologist and mariculture expert (Xiamen, Fujian Province 18 June 1909 – 20 January 2005) Regarded as an authority on industrial and feeding properties of marine algae Coined the term phycocolloid (1945) Developed culture system for marine algae on scientific foundations With Chaoyuan Wu produced a book on brown algae Laminaria japonica being the first even written work on cultivation of a single species of marine algae (1962) DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Valid Genera Parenchymorpha 1984 with Hua (Cyanophyta) Sinocladia 2005 with Li (Rhodophyta) Sinosiphonia 1983 with Zheng (Rhodophyta) Species At least 117 HONORS Tsengia Fan & Fan 1962 (Rhodophyta) Tsengiella Zhang & Xia 1987 (Rhodophyta) Chenkuizengella Cao, Guo, Du, Das, Saren, Jiang, Dunlap, Rooney, Yu & Li 2017 (Bacteria)
Chen Lu Tsou
Chen Lu Tsou or Chenglu Zou, Chinese biochemist (Qingdao, Shandong Province 17 May 1923 – Beijing 23 November 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS Concluded that enzyme succinate dehydrogenase is an electron carrier First purified enzyme succinate dehydrogenase Established the quantitative relationship between the modification of the side chain functional groups, the inactivation of the proteins and the kinetics of enzyme modification reactions Proposed an equation for calculation of essential groups in proteins (Zou equation) Conceived Tsou Chen Lu plot and Tsou Chen Lu statistical method Relation between modification of functional groups of proteins and their biological activity. I. A graphical method for the determination of the number and type of essential groups. Scientia Sinica 11:1535-58, 1962 Showed that the concept of substrate-inhibitor competition applies to both reversible and irreversible cases Showed the apparent rate constant for the irreversible modification step can be obtained in one experiment (widely used and cited in the literature) Proposed the flexibility of enzyme active sites
Charles Henry Tyler Townsend
Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, US-born Brazilian entomologist (Oberlin, Ohio State 05 December 1863 – Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo State 17 March 1944) Authored about 650 papers Applied Entomology First to identify the insect vector of Peruvian warts and Oroya fever (Lutzomyia verracarum) La titira es la transmisora de la verruga. La Cronica Medica 29:640-3, 1913 A Phlebotomus the practically certain carrier of verruga. Science 38:194-5, 1913 The history, etiology and transmission of verruga peruana, with an outline of the asexual cycle of its causative organism (1917) Found an effective biological control for the cotton square-weevel (1912) Cyanogas, calcium cyanide for the control of Atta sexdens L. in Brazil. J. Econ. Entomol. 18(6):840-2, 1925 Others A new application of taxonomic principles. Ann. Entomol. Soc. America 6(2):226-32, 1913 A simple and convenient system of keeping general entomological records. J. Econ. Entomol. 4(2):249-52, 1911 Papers in top journals Proposals for new basic physical postulates. Nature 152(3854):308, 1943 On the reproductive and host habits of Cuterebra and Dermatobia. Science 42:253-5, 1915 The relation between lizards and Phlebotomus verrucarum as indicating reservoirs of verruga. Science 40:212-4, 1914 On the identity of verruga and Carrión disease. Science 39:99-100, 1914 On the history of cottons and cotton weevils. Science 37:638-9, 1913 Genotypes are the species upon which genera are based. Science 34:116-8, 1911 On muscoid and specially tachinid synonymy. Science 33:860-3, 1911 Antarctica as a former land connection between the continents. Science 32:759-60, 1910 The trinomial question in nomenclature. Science 21(525):105, 1893 On biological nomenclature. Science 20:164, 1892 The systematic position of the Diptera. Science 19:320, 1892 Taxonomy Published the monumental work Manual of Myiology (1934-42) comprising 3,760 pages and 94 plates in 12 parts about taxonomy and systematics of Diptera DESCRIBED NEW ARTHROPODA TAXA 1,491 genera (about 1,000 are considered valid) 1, 574 valid species of Diptera New species of ticks, Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Neuroptera Fossil Five new genera of fossil Ostreomuscaria (Diptera). Ent. News 49:166-7, 1938 Some new Muscoid genera, ancient and recent. Insec. Inscit. Menst. 9:132-4, 1921 Lithohypoderma, a new fossil genus of oestrids Insec. Inscit. Menst. 4(10-2):128-30, 1917 HONORS (Diptera) Townsendia Williston 1895 Townsendmyia Prado & Fonseca 1932 Townsendisca Souza Lopes 1973
Charles Chia Chu Tao
Charles Chia Chu Tao, Taiwanese entomologist (1911-1999) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Aulacophoroides 1976 Chaetogeica 1958 with Remaudiere Chuansicallis 1964 Chuaspis 1982 with Wong Chucallis 1964 Ericolophium 1963 Kaochiaoja 1963 Maacoccus 1983 with Wong & Chang Microunguis 1966 Myzosiphum 1964 Neoacyrthosiphon 1963 Neorhopalomyzus 1963 Neosaissetia 1983 with Wong & Chang Omeimegoura 1963 Paracardicoccus 1978 Paraphorodon 1938 with Tseng Paraxanthogramma 1971 with Chiu Podoparalecanium 1983 with Wong & Chang Saccharipulvinaria 1983 with Wong & Chang Sinocallis 1938 with Tseng Sinocolopha 1970 Sinonipponaphis 1966 Sinosiphoniella 1963 Sumoia 1963 Taiwanomyzus 1963 Taiwansaissetia 1983 with Wong & Chang Tuberoaphis 1938 with Tseng HONORS Taoia Quednau 1973 (Hemiptera)
Catarina Satie Takahashi
Catarina Satie Takahashi, Brazilian geneticist (Bauru, São Paulo State 20 April 1942 – From Japanese ancestry Showed that low doses of radiation are able to induce chromosome breaks enhancing the rate of chromosomal translocations Cytogenetical studies of the effects of high natural levels in Tityus bahiensis (Scorpiones, Butidae) from Morro do Ferro, Brazil. Radiation Research 67:371-81, 1976 With S. Ichikawa observed that scattering radiations display mutagenic action more efficient than direct radiations (1977) With Cristiano Profeta patented an electric trough for electrophoresis in slides (2013)