Rodolpho Albino Dias da Silva
Rodolpho Albino Dias da Silva, Brazilian pharmacist (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro 05 August 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1931) Performed studies about plant chemistry aiming its medicinal uses Described anatomically and microscopically one hundred plants of Brazilian flora First to study microscopic preparations of Brazilian plant drugs First to proposed figures of histological sections in a Pharmacopea (1927) but it wasn’t realized Authored alone the first Brazilian pharmacopeia titled Farmacopéia dos Estados Unidos do Brasil (1908-20). This work earned him international renown Authored formulations of a number of medicines for Laboratórios Granado Showed that sapucainha (Carpotroche brasiliensis) oil as an alternate to chaulmoogra oil due to isolating chaulmugric and hydnocarpic acids from this oil SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A coroba (Jacaranda tomentosa R. Brown). Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm. 1(2):25, 1920 O guaicuru (Statice brasiliensis Boissier). Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm 1(1), 1920 Questões sobre nomenclatura chimica. Bol. Assoc. Bras. Farm. 11(1), 1921 Peroba (Aspidosperma peroba Fr. Allemão). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(2):58, 1921 Plumbagináceas brasileiras (1923) Estudo botânico e farmacognóstico da Muirapuama (Ptychopetalum olacoides Benth.). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm. 1(1):37, 1925 Cipó caboclo (Davilla rugosa Poirier). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 1(2):137, 1925 Pipi (Petiveria tetrandra Gomes). Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 1(4-6):329, 1925 Sapucainha. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 2 (10-11):627-46, 1926 O chaulmoograto de ethylio. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 2(6):399, 1926 Doseamento da alcalinidade do líquido de Dakin. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 3(7-8):337, 1927 & 2(4):244, 1926 Oleo de capivara. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(7-9):493, 1926 & 2(5):313, 1920 Xarope de Grindelia. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(11):119, 1926 Xarope de Tolu. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 2(3):175, 1926 Catuaba (Anemopegma mirandum (Chamisso) De Candolle. Rev. Bras. Med. Pharm. 3(1-2):55-62, 1927 Oleo de capivara contém o vitasterol A. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm. 3(9-12):422, 1927 Reações coloridas para pesquisa das vitaminas. Rev. Bras. Med. Farm 5:291, 1929 Monografia das falsas poaias do Brasil. Rev. Syniatrica 5-6, 1940
Roberto Sampaolesi
Roberto Sampaolesi Bouzón, Argentine ophthalmologist (Caleufu, La Pampa Province 08 September 1925 – Buenos Aires 08 November 2015) Described new signs such as Sampaolesi wave line or sign 2 New signs which are specific for the so-called syndrome of “capsular exfoliation of the crystalline”. Ann. Ocul. 192:839-48, 1959 New gonioscopic sign in congentital glaucoma of late onset. Arch. Oftalmol. Bs. Aires 37:161-5, 1962 & Bibli. Ophthalmol 74:106-23, 1968 With J.M. Muñoz. Simple method for the determination of protein in aqueous humor. Doc. Ophthalmol. Proc. Ser. 11:106-12, 1957 Showed diurnal intraocular pressure curve as best method to evaluate intraocular pressure (1961) Proposed that trabeculotomy combined with echometry was the surgical procedure of choice in refractory congenital glaucomas (1972) Showed that most reliable mode to check glaucoma in newborn and infants was the measurement of length of the globe using echometry as long as intraocular pressure had to be measured under general anesthesia with all its sources for errors (1973) With J. Zarate & O. Croxatto described the clinical picture of the chamber angle in capsular glaucoma (1988) With J.R. Sampaolesi developed Buenos Aires staging system (BASS) which classifies optic nerve damage in five phases (1995)
Roberto Salmerón
Roberto Aureliano Salmerón, Brazilian/French nuclear physicist (São Paulo 16 June 1922 – Paris 17 June 2020) From Spanish and Italian ancestry Published nearly 150 works With A. Zichichi et al discovered neutral tau meson reported in Nuovo Cimento 4:1433, 1956 With others obtained the first K meson associated production reported in Nuovo Cimento 5:1388, 1957. OTHERS First Non-European Member of Permanent Staff of CERN Founder, Ecole d’Eté de Physique de Particules de Gif sur Yvette, CERN (1969)
Rita Schiapelli
Rita Delia Esther Schiapelli, Argentine arachnologist (1906 – 1976) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA (with Pikelin) Genera Amaloxenops 1958 Bolostromoides 1945 Melloleitaoina 1960 Paracleocnemis 1942 Pycnothelopsis 1942 Simonida 1958 Xenoplectus 1958 Species About 165
Rigoberto Soler
Rigoberto Soler Gisbert, Spanish-born Brazilian automobile designer (near Valencia, Spain 1926 – São Paulo 15 November 2004) DESIGNED Cars Capeta 1963 Brasinca Uirapuru (1965) FEI XI (1968) FEI X2 Hovercraft FEI X3 Lavinia (1971) FEI X9, a protoype of Formula one driving car (1974) Lafer LL (1976) DKW Others Delta transport system TAL (Transporte Automático Leve) TALAV (Trem Aerodinâmico de Alta Velocidade) 1972 VA (Veículo Aerodeslizante) Uiraquitan, a model of urban bus (1972)
Ricardo Sureda
Ricardo José Sureda Leston, Argentine geologist, mineralogist and petrologist (Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province 1946 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERALS Catalanoite (2002) with Ruiz Brodtkorbite (2002) with Paar, Roberts, Criddle & Amann Jagueite (2004) with Paar, Topa, Makovicky, Brodtkorb, Nickel & Putz Coiraite (2008) with Paar, Moelo, Mozgova, Brodtkorb et al. HONORS Suredaite Paar, Milletich, Topa, Criddle, Brodtkorb, Amthauer & Tippelt 2000 (Mineral)