Augusto Etienne Teisseire
Augusto Etienne Teisseire, French-born Uruguayan naturalist and archaeologist (Gémenos, Bouches du Rhone 14 May 1882 – Montevideo 15 January 1950) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Au sujet de quelques objets façonnés par les premiers habitants de la rive uruguayenne du río de La Plata. Actas XXV Intern. Congr. Americanists (1932) Sobre malacologia de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (región de Colonia). Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 1:223-8, 1930 Nueva faz del ingenio charrúa. Moluscos fósiles utilizados por índios. 1st Congr. Nat. Hist. Montevideo (1928) Contribución al studio de la geología y de la paleontología de la Republica O. del Uruguay (Región de Colonia) 1928 Expedición a los departamentos de Colonia y Soriano. Rev. Soc. Amigos Arqueol. 1:47, 1927 Curiosos objetos de barro hallados en Colonia. Rev. Soc. Amigos Arqueol. 1:1-8, 1927 HONORS (Fossil) Teisseiria Kraglievich 1932 (Mammalia) Teisseirei Roselli 1938 (Lepidoptera) LINKS http://www.mec.gub.uy/munhina/pdf/Teisseire_biobiblio.pdf
Au-chin Tang
Au-chin Tang, Chinese theoretical chemist (Yixing, Jiangsu Province 18 November 1915 – 15 July 2008) Authored over 300 papers and 8 books ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained the molecular weight distribution function of addition polymers Proposed a new method for computing the potential function of molecular internal rotation (1950s) Introduced the coupling coefficients from the three-dimensional rotation group to the point group and developed irreducible tensor method from the continuous groups to the point groups (1960s) Established 3 foundational graph theorems in Hückel approximation on the characteristic polynomials (1970s) Proposed the topology conjugate relations of boron and carbon clusters and clarified the characteristics of chemical bonds and structural rules With Q.S. Li proposed a topological rule for polyhedral boranes and heteroboranes (2004) LINKS http://www.iaqms.org/deceased/tang.php
Arturo Luis Terán
Arturo Luis Terán, Argentine agricultural entomologist DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Coleoptera Subgenus Serratibruchus 1977 with Kingsolver Species Eubaptus planifrons 1964 Megacerus acerbus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus alabani 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus albomaculatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus araguato 2002 with Johnson Megacerus codonophagus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus columbinus 1993 with Kingsolver Megacerus curupaonis 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus deceptor 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus elongates 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus euryglossus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus ferruginosus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus ferrugineosignatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus gilvovittatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus insulatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus pubescens 1993 with Kingsolver Megacerus similibus 2002 with Johnson Megacerus tessarespilus 1977 with Kingsolver Pseudopachymerina grata 1990 Stator exturbatus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator furcatus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator harmonicus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator pacarae 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator postumus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Hemiptera Species Ceroplastes leonardianus 1973 Paraleyrodes proximus 1979 HONORS Terania Pirán 1963 (Hemiptera)
Arnold Theiler
Arnold Theiler, Swiss-born South African veterinarian (Frick, Canton Aargau 26 March 1867 – London 24 July 1936) Father of Nobel Prize winner virologist Max Theiler (1899-1972) Authored over 250 papers and booklets Proposed heartwater was caused by a rickettsial organism Demonstred ticks as vectors of horse piroplasmosis (1906) Cleared up the aetiology of cattle redwater and biliary fever of horses Established the vectors (ticks) of many cattle diseases First to realise that there was a plurality of strains in the horse sickness virus and produced the first crude vaccine against it Developed the first effective vaccine for rinderpest (1896) Proposed the use of Anaplasma marginale v. centrale could be used to immunize against gallsickness of cattle (1910) DISEASES With C.P. Lounsbury identified and described Theileria parva as causative agent of East Coast Fever (1904) Described Theiler’s disease (1919) Discovered the cause of lamsiekte disease (a manifestation of botulism) The cause and prevention of Lamziekte (1920) With J. McFadyean & T. Edgington discovered African horse sickness virus, the first orbivirus known (1900) With J. Spruell demonstred that bluetongue of sheep was a virosis (1902-6) Discovered a very simple and effective method of vaccination for bluetongue of sheep (found that subinoculating the virus from sheep to sheep) (1907) Described an infectious foot disease in sheep DESCRIBED PARASITES Discovered Trypanosoma theileri (1902) and Spirochaeta theileri described by others researchers Genus Anaplasma 1909 Species Anaplasma marginale (1909), the first rickettsial pathogen known Parabotulinus bovis (1927) with Robinson Parabotulinus equi 1927 with Robinson Theileria mutans 1906 Hartertia gallinarum 1919 OTHERS Proved the link between poisonous plant species like Senecio, Crotalaria, Pachystigma, Geigeria and Vangueria sp. and cattle diseases Developed a remedy for treatment of wireworm and other worm infections (1912) Devised a vat-side arsenic tester Un nouveau medicament pour le traitement des piroplasmoses. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 23:506, 1930 Clarified the aetiology, histopathology and nomenclature of bone lesions besides defining rickets, osteomalacia and osteodystrophia fibrosa Untersuchungen uber den Bau normaler and durch calcium-and phosphorarme Nahrung veranderter Rinderknochen (1932) HONORS / EPONYMS Theilera E.P. Phillips 1936 (Campanulaceae) Theileria Bettencourt, França & Borges 1907 (Protozoa) Theilerization, consisting of infection with virus from an animal naturally affected and the subsequent intravenous injection of trypanblue or ichthargan
Armando Dias Tavares
Armando Dias Tavares, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 27 February 1917 – Rio de Janeiro 26 February 1988) Gave an electronic interpretation for thermodielectric effect suggesting a quantum theory such as semiconductor conductivity theory Developed a method for experimental study of thermodielectric effect New method for the determination of space charge in dielectrics. J. Chem. Phys. 59(4):2154-5, 1973 A theorem on a real function of a real variable. Rev. Cient. 1(1):91-11, 47, 1951 Imagined a spherical kind of Geiger counter SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Costa Ribeiro effect and allied phenomena. J. Molec. Liquids 39:171-94, 1988 Experimental proof of the existence of the double space charge developed in dielectrics by the Costa Ribeiro effect. Phys. Status Solidi 21(2):717-24, 1974 Resistivity measurements in organic semiconductors. Physica Status Solidi 15(2):559-64, 1973 Contribuição ao estudo do efeito Costa Ribeiro. Thesis, Universidade do Brasil (1961) Crescimento de cristais. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 30(4), 1958 Cargas espaciais residuais em eletretos naturais. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 30(4): 1958 Um efeito fotoelétrico em cristais de naftaleno. Thesis, Universidade do Distrito Federal (1955) Further quantitative experiments on the Costa Ribeiro effect. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 25(4), 1953 On a possible explanation of the Costa Ribeiro effect. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 25(1), 1953 Some consequences of “an electronic explanation of the Costa Ribeiro effect”. Rev. Cientifica 4(1-2):75-9, 1953 The thermodielectric constant of water. Rev. Cientifica 3(12):39-41, 1952
Antonio Tossolini
Antonio Olivo Tossolini, Argentine mechanic and carpenter (1900 – Bell Ville, Cordoba Province 22 June 1959) From Italian parentage With Juan Valbonesi (Italian-born commercial employee died 1970) and former soccer player Luis Romano Polo Tonello (Unión Cordoba 01 February 1901 – Unión Cordoba 25 July 1957) patented Superball, the first leather lace-free soccer ball with perfect roundness that revolutionized the sport Argentine patent 35.779 (1931) Valbonesi patented it in United Kingdom (Improvements in inflatable balls for use in ball games such as football GB number 19,285 (1931) and Italy Invented Topoval, the first hand inflator of the world (1948) Improvements in/or relating to liquid supply pumps particularly for liquid fuel mixtures With his brothers Eduardo & Eugenio developed a number of inventions