Pedro Scalabrini
Pedro Scalabrini, Italian-born Argentine paleontologist and fossil collector (Como, Lombardy 21 August 1849 – Buenos Aires 24 April 1916) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Drytomomys typicus 1889 Testudo paranensis 1884 Xenosuchuis paranensis 1887 HONORS Scalabrinitherium Ameghino 1883 (Fossil Mammalia)
Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic
Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic Villa, Argentine paleobotanist and stratigrapher (Buenos Aires 06 June 1921 – Buenos Aires 02 December 2008) Authored about 70 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Plants Dictyophyllum barrealensis with Menendez Dictyophyllum castellanosi with Menendez Dictyophyllum tenuifollium 1949 with Menendez Hausmannia feltisiana with Menendez Saportaea intermedia with Bonetti Animals Notobatrachus degiustoi 1955 with Reig Xenocephalites herreroduclouxi 1966 HONORS Stipanicicia Reig 1956 (Fossil Mammalia)
Pedrito Silva
Pedrito Silva, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Salvador 1917 – Salvador December 1990) Recognized as a world expert on cacao entomology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cacau e lagartão ou vassoura de bruxa. Bol. Tecn. CEPLAC 146, 1987 Combate aos insetos do cacau armazenado na Bahia. Cacau Atualidades 11(3):8-12, 1974 Informações e parecer sobre a cigarrinha dos pastos. A Granja 219:34, 1966 Tripes do cacaueiro: causador da “queima” da folha e da “ferrugem” do fruto. CEPLAC (1964) Tingídeos da Bahia. Bol. Inst. Biol. Bahia 3(1):10-77, 1960 Um novo ácaro nocivo ao tomateiro na Bahia (1954) The Coccids of Cacao in Bahia, Brazil. Bull. Entomol. Research 41(1):119-20, 1950 Controle biológico da traça do cacau pelo Microbracon hebetor (Say). Bol. Tecn. Inst. Cacau (1947) Stenoma decora Zeller (Lep. Stenomatidae): uma nova praga potencial do cacaueiro na Bahia, Brasil (1946) A formiga de enxerto (1945) Insect pests of cacao in the state of Bahia (Brazil). Trop. Agric. 21(1):8-14, 1944 Novo registro e o primeiro hospedeiro de Promasipoda pinguioides T.T. (Diptera, Exoristidae) no Brasil. Rev. Ent. 15:153-61, 1944 Novas pragas do cacaueiro no Recôncavo da Bahia HONOURS Honored in United States for his work about biological control of cacao moth (1990) Genus Silvanana Metcalf 1947 (Hemiptera)
Paulo Seabra
Paulo Seabra, Brazilian pharmacist (Resende, Rio de Janeiro State 03 January 1899 – Rio de Janeiro 02 June 1968) ACHIEVEMENTS Modified Loele staining process (Loele-Seabra method) for detecting acid-fast bacilli Oxidase and Lipase of the Leukocyte. Annals of New York acad. Sci. 59:1022-51, 1955. Developed lipase index of tuberculosis Sugestão de um cadastro lipásico para a profilaxia da tuberculose. Bol. Campanha Nac. Contra Tuberc. Junho, 1952. Lipasekataster. Zeit. Hyg. 140:573-7, 1955. Created Seabra lipasic reagent Established oxidase index, a numerical expression of the leukocytic oxidase Indice de Oxidase. Resultado de 334 determinações. Bol. Acad. Nac. Medicina 3(9):, 1939. Worked out a photo-oxidase test Developed a radiokymograph Ein Röntgenkymograph. Rev. Bras. Tuberculose 6:737-47, 1937. Contribuição para o estabelecimento de um processo para preparação do acido nítrico Um gotinyector Um radioquimógrafo Vaselina liquida como protetor anti-oxigenio Obtained colloidal cupric salts from acids of chaulmoogra oil developing 2 pharmaceutical products (Karpotran and Gadusan) that were employed in worldwide hospitals Performed important researches on biological and psychological effects of high-altitude flying Oxidase in biology and in flying research. Med. Times, 1943. Oxidase and aviation. Influence of atmospheric decompression on the blood oxidase and resistence to infection. Aviat. Med. 18:289-96, 1947. Patented Anti-rheumatic mixture and method of preparing. US2790746A (1954)
Paulo Sawaya
Paulo Sawaya, Brazilian comparative physiologist and marine zoologist (Carmo do Rio Claro, Minas Gerais State 11 September 1903 – São Paulo 29 October 1995) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 300 publications DESCRIBED ANIMAL TAXA Thyone naideae 1955 with Ancona Lopez (Echinodermata) Siphonops annulatus marmoratus & Siphonops paulensis maculatus 1937 (Amphibia) Balanoglossus eufrosinoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus nonatoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus catharinensis 1953 with Forneris Performed studies with pharmacological approach in animal physiology Demonstrated a cardiotoxic protein compound (siphonopsin) from nasal mucosa of Siphonops Sobre o veneno das glândulas cutâneas, a secreção e o coração de Siphonops annulatus. Bol. Fac. Cien.Letras Univ. S. Paulo 4:207-70, 1940 On a bioassay for acetylcholine and on some properties of the longitudinal muscles of Holothuria grisea (Echinodermata).Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras U. São Paulo (ser. Zool.) 24(24), 1962 With G.A. Edwards and the couple Souza Santos found that muscles from different regions of the insect present differences in fibrillar structure and that the insect fibril differs considerably from that of vertebrate (1953) Described a technique of induced aestivation With N. Shinomyia. Biologia da Tambaki-m’boya, Lepidosiren paradoxa (Fitz, 1836). Bol. Zool. Biol. Mar. NS 29:1-44, 1972 With R.Y. Tsukamoto, N.S. Takahashi & F. Takashima. A modified silver impregnation procedure for ploidy assessment in fish (1987) An incretory organ in the head of Ligia exotica Roux (Crustacea Isopoda). Proc. 8th Amer. Sci. Congr. 3:487-90, 1942 Discovered a new organ in Plecostomus sp. Sobre um órgão novo do peixe cascudo (Plecostomus) e sua provável função (1960) Discovered a new function of uro-pituitary in teleostean fishes (1967) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With O. Machado de Sousa. Capillares sanguíneos intraepitheliaes na mucosa da urethra humana. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. S. Paulo 11(6-7), 1928 Annotações craneológicas. I. Participação do vômer à constituição do paladar duro em um Cebus macrocephalus Spix. Ann. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 10(2), 1934 Sobre a mudança de cor nos crustáceos. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo 13:1-109, 1939 The tail of a fish larva as a respiratory organ. Nature 149:169-70, 1942 Metabolismo respiratório de anfíbio Gymnophiona, Typhlonectes compressicauda (Dum. et Bibr.). Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Let. Univ. São Paulo, 1947 Contribuição para a fisiologia do aparelho de apreensão dos alimentos e da glândula do intestino médio de ostracodo. Ação de substâncias colinérgicas (1949) With N. Ambache. Use of Holothuria grisea for acetylcholine assays of electric organ extracts from Narcine braziliensis (Olfers). Physiol. Comp. Oecol. 3:53-6, 1953 With G.A. Edwards, P. de Souza Santos & H.L. de Souza Santos. Electron microscope studies of insect muscle. Flight and coxal muscle of Hydrophilus piceus. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 47:343-54, 1954 With H.L. de Souza Santos, G.A. Edwards & P. de Souza Santos. Electron microscopy of insect tracheal structures. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 26:309-15, 1954 With R.S. Pereira. Contribution a l’etude de la composition chimique du sang de certains selaciens du Bresil (1957) With R.S. Pereira. Ions in the blood of elasmobranchs. Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Univ. S. Paulo Zool. 21:85-92, 1957 With B. Oliveira Filho & P. Souza Santos. A organização submicroscópica do músculo longitudinal de Holothuria. Cien. Cult. 11:152, 1959 With L.M.Petrini. Sobre a presença de cloaca e respiração intestinal no cascudo (Loricariidae: Plecostomus plecostomus (Linn.). Bol. Fac. Filos. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo Zool. 1(23): 5-20, 1960 With J. Khouri. A miogenia do coração de moluscos (Mytilus perna). Cien. Cult. 15(4):279, 1963 With F.B. de Jorge, J.A. Petersen & A.S. Ditadi. Iodine accumulation by Balanoglossus gigas. Science 150(3700):1182-3, 1965 With F.B. de Jorge, A.S.F. Ditadi, J.A. Petersen & A.B. Ulhoa Cintra. Biochemical studies on the giant earth worm Glossoscolex giganteus (Leuckart). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 16:491-6, 1965 With K. Johansen & A.W. Martin. Some circulatory characteristics of the three-toad sloth, Bradypus tridactylus. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1966) With I.N. Cipolli. Ação do calico e efeito das drogas sobre o músculo liso despolarizado de moluscos opistobrânquios. Cien. Cult. (1967) Aspectos interessantes do encéfalo de grandes peixes da família Siluridae (Jaú, pintado e Mandi) dos rios do Estado de s. Paulo. Cien. Cult. 19(2):350, 1967 With A.L.V. Favaretto, S.O. Petenusci & R.J. Lopes. Determinação do volume sanguíneo em condições aéreas de cascudo Plecostomus regani (Ihering, 1905). Pisces, Loricariidae. Biologica 2(1):30, 1976 With M.V. Val Sella & F. Fava de Moraes. Cell types and glycoprotein cytochemistry in the carp adenohypophysis (Cyprinus carpio L.). Cell. Mol. Biol. 3:225-31, 1978 With J. Boschini Jr., Ocorrencia de microplacas escamóides na epiderme de Typhlonectes compressicaudus (Dumeril et Bibron, 1841), Amphibia Apoda (1978) With R. Spiropulos Piccolo. Blood vascular and respiratory systems of Synbranchus marmoratus Bloch, 1795 (Air breathing teleost fish). Some morphological and physiological aspects. Bol. Fisiol. Animal Univ. São Paulo 5:59-73, 1981 With P. Pasquarelli & E.G. Mendes. The action of parotoid venom on the heart of the toad (Bufo ictericus ictericus Spix 1824) and its effects on the inhibition caused by vagal stimulation. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 87(2):393-9, 1987 Sobre a histophysiologia dos órgãos excretores de alguns insectos HONORS Sawayaella Marcus 1939 (Protozoa: Apicomplexa) Paulosawaya Martínez & D’Andretta 1957 (Coleoptera) Palmes Académiques (France)
Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, Indian biostatistician (Satara District, Maharashtra State 27 July 1911 – Pune, Maharashtra State 28 January 1997) Authored over 200 papers Showed that any U-statistic with a bounded kernel from a distribution whose density function is continuous at the median is bivariate normal (1957) Proposed formulae for the estimation of required sample size (1970) With Sheldon Margen formulated Sukhatme-Margen hypothesis “at low levels of calorie intake, energy is used with greater metabolic efficiency and efficiency is decreased as the intake increases over the applicable range” DEVELOPED Statistical models for assessing the dimensions of hunger and future food supplies in the world Methods for measuring the size and nature of the protein gap Scientific techniques of random sampling in crop cutting surveys for the estimation of crop production Likelihood ratio tests (1936) EPONYMY Sukhatme theorem (1937) Darling-Sukhatme theorem (1972) Sukhatme test (1957) Sukhatme d-statistic