Mário Schenberg
Mário Schenberg (Schonberg), Brazilian theoretical physicist (Recife 02 July 1914 – São Paulo 10 November 1990) Son of Russian Jewish immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 114 works A new type of Fourier generalized integrals Sobre um novo tipo de integrais generalizadas de Fourier. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 9:328, 1937 Proposed URCA mechanism for explaining supernovae collapse using neutrinos behavior With G. Gamow. Neutrino theory of Stellar Collapse. Physical Review 59:539-47, 1941 Proposed angular momentum for gravitational field Physical Review 60:46, 1941 Proposed non-conservation of parity in strong interactions involving mesons Physical Review 60:468, 1941 With G. Wataghin, M. D. S. Santos & G. Occhialini first observed the phenomenon of mesons production in groups simultaneously emitted in an one nuclear process (1941) Proposed Chandrasekhar-Schonberg limit With S. Chandrasekhar. On the evolution of the main sequence stars. Astrophys. Journal 96:161-72, 1942. Presented a dinamical variational principle (1944) obtained by F. Rohrlich in 1959 Introduced the idea of indistinguishability of particles in a classical context and the Fock spaces in classical statistical mechanics (1952-3) With S. Godsack & G. Vanderhaeghe. Possible example of a new mode of disintegration of the neutral meson. Nuovo Cimento 10:1480, 1953 Demonstrated a link between the quantized motion of the Madelung fluid and the trajectories of the de Broglie-Bohm theory (1954) Suggested a new idempotent to the Heisenberg algebra (1958) Published the paper Quantum Mechanics and Geometry in Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 29, 1957 and 30, 1958 in 5 parts in which anticipated super symmetry principle before Soviet physicists (1969) and introduced 2 Grassmann algebras extensions (commutative and anticommutative) known as Grassmann-Schonberg algebras Brought up ideas about “primary physical continuum” in Proceedings of International Conference on Elementary Particles, Kyoto, Japan, 1965. Showed spin geometrical origin Explained mesonic origin of cosmic rays Proposed an unity between classical and quantum treatment of matter Presented a new conception on octet’s model Obtained original results about stars types seen in nuclear emulsions and about Auger effect in negative mesons capture Discovered a phenomenon that occurs in the collision of a meson with an atomic nucleus Presented a new aspect of Einstein unified field (1971)
Mustafa Shameel
Mustafa Shameel, Pakistani phycologist (Rudauli, Uttar Pradesh 03 July 1941 – Karachi 13 May 2013) Authored over 330 papers and 7 books Expert on marine benthic algae Developed the concept of phycochemistry and coined the term (1990) Presented a new concept of barobiology of seaweeds (1972) First reported the effects of high hydrostatic pressure on the physiology and biochemistry of marine algae Described 28 new taxa of marine algae (being at least 11 species) Isolated 24 new secondary metabolites of marine algae LINKS http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/45(4)/00.pdf
Miguel Fernando Soria
Miguel Fernando Soria, Argentine palaeontologist (Buenos Aires 24 December 1952 -25 October 1990) DESCRIBED MAMMALIAN FOSSIL TAXA Orders Eolitopterna 2001 Notopterna 1989 Families Notonychoptidae 1989 Sparnotheriodontidae 1980 Genera Eoastrapostylopsis 1981 Lambelaconops 2001 Mesungulatum 1985 with Bonaparte Neobrachytherium 2001 Neodolodus 1986 with Hoffstetter Notonychops 1989 Pternoconius 1983 with Cifelli Salladolodus 1983 with Hoffstetter Satshatemnus 1989 Sparnotheriodon 1980 Taubatherium 1989 with Alvarenga Thadanius 1983 with Cifelli Thoatheriopsis 2001 Species 21 HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Miguelsoria Cifelli 1983 Soriacebus Fleagle, Powers, Conroy & Walters 1987 Soriamys Kramarz 2001
Miguel Angel Soto
Miguel Angel Soto Arenas, Mexican orchidologist (Torreón, Coahuila State 12 July 1963 – Torreón, Coahuila State 27 August 2009) Described over 160 orchid species and subspecies HONORS Sotoa Salazar 2010 (Orchidaceae)
Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha, Indian physicist (Seoratali, Dhaka, Bengal 06 October 1893 – New Delhi 16 February 1956) ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY On a new theorem in elasticity. J.Asiatic Soc. Bengal (NS) 14:421, 1918. Developed Saha-Bose equation of state for a nonideal gas (1918) First to recognize the theory of thermal ionization for interpretation of stellar spectra Derived Saha thermal ionization equation used to investigate stellar spectra Ionization of Solar Chromosphere. Phil. Mag. 40:472, 1920. With R.C. Majumder. On new methods in statistical mechanics. Phil. Mag. 9:584, 1930 Enunciated Saha phenomenon and derivated Dirac-Saha equation from Dirac’s quantization condition for magnetic monopoles The origin of mass in neutrons and protons. Ind. J. Phys. 10:145, 1936 With Amarnath Tandon. A new model demountable vacuum furnace. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India 6:212, 1936. Invented a device for measuring weight and pressure from Sun rays First to point out the need to make astronomical observations from outside the earth’s atmosphere (1937) Predicted the 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen from the hyperfine structure independent from Van de Hulst (1944) HONORS Saha Moon crater Physics Nobel Prize nominee (1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1951 & 1955) See WWW.saha.ac.in/cs/archive.mns/mns2.htm
Mayandy Sivadasan
Mayandy Sivadasan, Indian botanist (1948 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Nanooravia 2013 with Kiran Raj Thymocarpus 1981 with Nicolson & Steyermark Species Amorphophallus bognerianus 2009 with Jaleel Amorphophallus bonaccordiensis 1994 with Mohanan Amorphophallus nicolsonianus 1986 Amorphophallus smithsonianus 1989 Arisaema agasthyanum 1987 with Kumar Arisaema muricaudatum 1985 Arisaema nilamburense 1983 Arundinella thirumelliensis 2014 with Sunil & Ratheesh Chrysopogon narayaniae 2017 with Sunil & Ratheesh Dimeria raviana 2015 with Kiran Raj Dimeria veldkampii 2008 with Kiran Raj Dysoxylum swaminathanianum 2001 with Anil Kumar Eriocaulon vandaanamense 2014 with Sunil & Ratheesh Fimbristylis pokkudaniana 2016 with Sunil & Ratheesh Impatiens minae 2011 with Ratheesh & Anil Kumar Impatiens theuerkaufiana 2013 with Ratheesh Isachne edamalayarensis 2016 with Sunil & Naveen Kum. Ixora agasthymalayana 1991 with Mohanan Lagenandra keralensis 2001 with Jaleel Miliusa gokhalaei 2012 with Ratheesh, Sujanapal & Anil Kumar Oberonia wynadensis 1990 with Balakrishnan Pavetta bourdillonii 1999 with Mohanan Pothos crassipedunculatus 1989 with Mohanan Rotala dhaneshiana 2014 with Sunil & Ratheesh Sida ravii 1996 with Anil Kumar Sonerila gadgiliana 2015 with Ratheesh Sonerila janakiana 2017 with Ratheesh & Sunil Sonerila veldkampiana 2013 with Ratheesh & Mini Theriophonum fischeri 1981 Thymocarpus cannoides 1981 with Nicolson & Steyermark Typhonium blumei 1981 with Nicolson Others 2 subspecies and 3 varieties HONORS Sivadasania Mohanan & Pimenov 2007 (Apiaceae)