José Francisco da Silva Lima
José Francisco da Silva Lima, Portuguese-born Brazilian physician (Vilarinho, Portugal 15 January 1826 – Salvador 10 February 1910) ACHIEVEMENTS Described ainhum or Silva Lima disease (dactylolysis spontanea) identifying it as a distinct clinical entity Estudo sobre o ainhum, moléstia ainda não descripta, peculiar à raça ethipoica e affectando os dedos mínimos dos pés. Gaz. Med. Bahia 1(13):146-51, 1867 Classified beriberi in three clinical forms accepted worldwide First to call attention to development of second heart sound in beriberi Ensaio sobre o beribéri no Brasil (1872) Performed pioneer studies about clinical forms of Bancroftian filariasis Created the term microfilaria Nouvelle phase de la question relative à la nature parasitaire de la chylurie. Decouverte du representant adult de la Filaria de Wucherer. Arch. Med. Nav. 28 (12):439-047, 1877 Authored important studies on yaws LINKS www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/limajossil.htm (complete bibliography)
Jose Vicente Scorza
José Vicente Scorza Benítez, Venezuelan parasitologist (Caracas 08 July 1924 – Merida 18 August 2016) From Italian ancestry Proposed identification of Leishmania braziliensis, L.mexicana and L. garnhami species by location of kinetoplast With H. Urdaneta. Experimental basis for the identification of American Leishmania spp. by morphometry of amastigotes. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz (1982) Developed ulamine, a pentavalent antimonial for leishmaniasis With Y. Petit de Peña, N.Vicuña Fernandez, S. López Rangel, L. Vasquez, P. Carrero, J.V. Scorza Dagert & C. Rondón. Antimony speciation in human blood samples from patients treated with ulamine: a novel experimental drug for leishmaniasis. Metal. Ions In Biol. Med. 8:560-3, 2004 DEVELOPED METHODS With J. Marquez & N. Añez. Coconut water as a monophasic liquid medium for cultivating Trypanosomatidae. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hum. (1987) With J.C. Sanchez Marquez & M.M. Nin Marquez. La densidad de Lutzomyia townsendi (Diptera:Phlebotominae) adultos estimada fototacticamente mediante el marcado con fluorocromos (1984) A new method for isolating Schistosoma japonicum eggs by enzymes (1961) With A. Alvarez, I. Ramos, C. Dagert, A Díaz Vasquez & J.F. Torrealba. New rapid method for the diagnosis of Chagas disease in its chronic phase (Application of the Sabin-Feldman dye test). Arch. Venez. Med. Trop. Parasitol. Med. 3(1):122-35, 1959 DESCRIBED Protozoa Cercaria allotropicalis 1966 Hepatozoon legeri 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza Hepatozoon didelphidis Leishmania garnhami 1979 with Valera, Scorza, Carnevali, Moreno & Lugo Hernandez Plasmodium pifanoi 1956 with Dagert Plasmodium torrealbai 1957 with Dagert Sarcocystis cervi 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Sarcocystis didelphis 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Toxoplasma serpai 1956 with Dagert & Iturriza Arocha Trypanosoma ocumarensis 1955 with Dagert Diptera (with Ortiz 1963) Subgenus Pifanomyia Brumptomyia devenanzii Lutzomyia ottolinai Nemopalpus torrealbai Scorpiones Neochactas orinicensis 1954 Teuthraustes carmelinae 1954 Tityus urbinai 1954 Tityus valeriae 1954 Others Chordodes lichyi 1954 Klossiella tejerai 1957 with Torrealba & Dagert Peripatus (Epiperipatus) torrealbai 1953
Jose Luis Sersic
José Luis Sersic, Argentine astronomer (Bella Vista, Corrientes Province 06 May 1933 – Carlos Paz, Cordoba Province 10 July 1993) From Croatian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 129 works with at least 10.000 citations Enunciated Sersic profile law, a generalization of Vaucouleurs law Influence of the atmospheric and instrumental dispersion on the brightness distribution in a galaxy. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 6:41, 1963 Codiscovered Sersic-Pastoriza nuclei and Sersic-Pastoriza galaxies With M.G. Pastoriza. Peculiar Nuclei in Galaxies. PASP 77:287, 1966. EPONYMY Sersic index or parameter Sersic magnitudes Sersic function Sersic surface Sersic galaxies Sersic spheroids
Jorge Sahade
Jorge Sahade Kassab, Argentine astronomer (Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province 23 February 1915 – La Plata 18 November 2012) Son of Syrian immigrants Expert on astrophysics and stellar spectroscopy Authored more than 190 works Studied Struve-Sahade effect (1962) Discovered spectral features in various systems Authored A systematic effect in the radial velocities determined with an oscilloscope-type comparator HONORS President, International Astronomical Union (1985-8) Asteroid Sahade 2605 Diploma of Recognition, NASA (1994) Distinguished Foreign Scholar, Mid-State American Universities, Nebraska university (1988) LINKS http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/b979-jorge_sahade
Jorge André Swieca
Jorge André Swieca or Jerzy Andrzej Swieca, Polish-born Brazilian mathematical physicist (Warsaw 16 December 1936 – São Paulo State 22 September 1980) With E.C. Marino demonstrated a general theorem that proved that a fractioned topologic load necessarily lead to an infinite action (1978) Developed a quantization method of solitons employing order-disorder variables (1982) Named Schwinger-Higgs mechanism Proved Swieca screening theorem (1975) With J.H. Lowenstein authored Quantum Electrodynamics in Two Dimensions (1970) EPONYMY Swieca phenomenon (1967) Koberle-Swieca amplitude Koberle-Swieca mass ratios Lowenstein-Swieca operator solution (1971) Swieca theorem Haag-Swieca conjecture Haag-Swieca compactness property
John Sanderson
John Sanderson, Scottish-born South African botanist and horticulturist (Greenock, near Glasgow 16 October 1820 – Durban 04 March 1881) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Aerides savageana 1891 Heliconia sanderi 1899 Watsonia ardernei 1899 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Authored the report of his voyages in J. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 30:233-55, 1860 Rough notes on the flora of Natal (1868) Notes in connection with stone implements from Natal. J. Anthr. Inst. (1878) HONORS Sandersonia Hooker 1853 (Colchicaeae)