Johannes Smuts
Jacobus Johannes Smuts, South African zoologist (Cape Town 11 June 1775 – Cape Town 16 June 1834) DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIAN TAXA (1832) Genus Graphiurus Subgenus Graphiurus Species Grammomys dolichurus Manis (Smutsia) temminckii Myosorex varius HONORS Subgenus Smutsia Gray 1865 (Mammalia)
Joaquim Jeronimo Serpa
Joaquim Jerônimo Serpa, Brazilian physician and botanist (Recife 13 September 1773 –Olinda 17 July 1842) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Topografia desta cidade do Recife (1842) Vegetais que servem para uso caseiro na província de Pernambuco (1842) Utilidade dos jardins botânicos (1837) Compendio de Botânica, para uso dos alunos que querem se dedicar ao estudo desta ciência (1836) Da criação de bichas e sanguessugas medicinais (1834) Tratado da Educação Psico-Moral dos Meninos (1828) Receituário (1823-9) NOT PUBLISHED Compendio de agricultura apropriada ao clima desta província Two volumes of human anatomy drawings (1834) HONORS Hieronyma Freire Allemão 1848 (Phyllanthaceae)
Joaquim Gomes de Souza
Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Brazilian mathematician and writer (Itapecuru Mirim, Maranhão State 15 February 1829 – London 01 June 1864) Enunciated theorems about linear equations of partial derivatives Enunciated a general theorem about motion propagation in elastic means (1849) Presented new methods for solving differential equations and a method for solving numerical equations Generalized a theorem about compositions of functions from a differential partial equation Treated vibrating air motion in curvilinear tubes and in variable temperature Exposição Sucinta de um método de integrar equações diferenciais parciais por integrais definidas. Rev. Guanabara (1850) Memoire sur La determination des fonctions inconnues que entrent sous le signe d’integration definie / On the determination of unknown functions which are involved under definite integrals (1855) (this work was presented and commented by physicist George Gabriel Stokes in England) Memória sobre um teorema de cálculo integral e suas aplicações a soluções de problemas de física-matemática (1855) Demonstração de alguns teoremas gerais para a comparação de novas funções transcendentes Memória sobre a teoria do som (1855) OTHERS O modo de indagar novos astros sem auxílio das observações directas. Doctoral Thesis (1848) Resolução das equações numéricas. Rev. Guanabara (1850) Memória sobre os métodos gerais de integração (1851) e uma adição a esta memória Construção de algumas fórmulas somatórias e redução a somas finitas das diferentes séries Melanges de Calcul Intégral. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1882 (posthumous; contains all works) UNPUBLISHED OR LOST Memória sobre 2 especies de cálculos novos, compreendendo toda a teoria das características, e sobre os princípios fundamentais da análise geral Memória sobre a propagação do movimento nos meios elásticos, compreedendo o movimento dos meios cristalóides e teoria da luz Memória sobre a vibração nos meios elásticos Memória sobre resoluções algébricas ou transcendentes por integrais definidas Filosofia geral das Ciências Matematicas e Unificação dos métodos analíticos Sobre o calculo dos resíduos Memória sobre aplicações da análise à Física Matemática com aplicações a muitas questões gerais Sobre a determinação das constantes, que nos problemas de Física Matemática, entram nas integrais das equações diferenciais parciais, em função do estado inicial do sistema
Joaquim Candido da Costa Sena
Joaquim Candido da Costa Sena, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (Conceição do Mato Dentro, Minas Gerais State 13 August 1852 – Belo Horizonte 20 June 1919) Introduced improvements to portable geologist compass SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Aguas minerais do município de Araxá. Ann. Esc. Minas Ouro Preto (1921) Minérios de ferro no Brasil, principalmente no Estado de Minas Gerais. Anais Esc. Minas Ouro Preto 10:19-34, 1908 A riqueza petrolífera de Angola. Considerações gerais sobre o petróleo e a sua extração. Indicações sobre a localidade onde se conhece a existência de betumes e petróleo. Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lisboa (1908) Condições geraes sobre a geologia do Brasil. O Brasil (Centro Ind. Brasil.) 1:429-519, 1907 The Tapera gold deposits. Brazil. Min. Rev. 1(10):221, 1904 Notes sur un gisement d’actinolite aux environs d’Ouro Preto, à Minas Gerais (Brésil). Bull. Soc. Franc. Min. 19:65, 1896 Uber ein Vorkommen von Strahlstein in der Umgebung von Ouro Preto, Minas Geraes (Brasilien) (1895) Sobre la presencia del oro en las esquistas. Acta Soc. Scient. Chili (1895) Note sur l’hydrargilite des environs d’Ouro Preto. Bull. Soc. Min. France (Paris) 7:220, 1884 Noticia sobre a geologia e a mineralogia de uma parte norte e nordeste da Província de Minas Geraes. Anais Esc. Minas (1883) Analyse do phosphato de cal da ilha Rata (Fernando de Noronha). Ann. Esc. Minas Ouro Preto 2:143-6, 1883 Viagem de estudos metalúrgicos no centro da província de Minas Gerais. Ann. Esc. Minas p.95-128, 1881 Note sur scorodite des environs d’Ouro Preto With A.O. S. Pires. O Brasil e suas riquezas naturais. SOME OTHER FACTS ABOUT HIM Acting governor of Minas Gerais State (1902) Submitted samples of magnetic pyrite used in studies about ferromagnetism by Pierre Weiss HONORS Senaea Taubert 1893 (Gentianaceae) Senaite Hussak & Prior 1898 (Mineral)
Joao Semir
João Semir, Brazilian botanist (Palmital, São Paulo State 24 August 1937 – Campinas, São Paulo State 08 November 2018) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Burlemarxia 1991 with Menezes Lychnophorella 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Species Adenocalymma ubatubensis 1999 with Assis Bulbophyllum involutum 1998 with Borba & F. Barros Burlemarxia pungens 1991 with Menezes Burlemarxia rodriguesii 1991 with Menezes Calibrachoa eglandulata 1998 with Stehmann Calibrachoa missionica 2005 with Sethmann Ceiba lupuna 2002 with Gibbs Chronopappus lanatus 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Colobus argenteus 2018 with Monge Critoniopsis canaliculata 2019 with Monge Critoniopsis hermogenesii 2019 with Monge Elephantopus piauiensis 2003 with Barros Euploca krapovickasii 2009 with Melo Euploca pottii 2009 with Melo Euploca rodaliae 2006 with Melo Genipa infundibuliformis 1995 with Zappi Griffinia angustifolia 2017 with Campos Rocha & Dutilh Heterocoma gracilis 2013 with Loeuille& Nakajima Heterocoma robinsoniana 2013 with Loeuille & Nakajima Hippeastrum diniz-cruziae 2013 with Dutilh Hoffmannseggella viridiflora 2007 with Verola Ichthyothere matogrossensis 2000 with Pereira Ichthyothere perfoliata 2001 with Pereira Lepidaploa aurata 2018 with Monge Lepidaploa congesta 2019 with Monge Lessingianthus squamosus 2018 with Monge Lychnophora grisea 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Lychnophora haplopappa 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Lychnophora nanuzae 2014 Lychnophora rupestris 2014 Lychnophorella jacobinensis 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Minasia lweinsohnii 2004 with de Jesus Minasia ramosa 2011 with Loeuille & Robinson Nicotiana mutabilis 2002 with Stehmann Petunia secreta 2005 with Stehmann Pictocarpa barbata 2018 with Volet Piptolepis campestris 2012 with Loeuille Piptolepis riparia 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Pleurothallis fabiobarrosii 2000 with Borba Prestelia espeletoidea 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Proteopsis hermogenesii 2019 with Loeuille & Pirani Tessaria andina 2018 with Monge & Anderberg Vernonanthura spathulata 2018 with Monge HONORS Semiria D.J.N. Hind 1999 (Asteraceae)
Joao Evangelista Steiner
João Evangelista Steiner, Brazilian astrophysicist (São Martinho, Santa Catarina State 01 March 1950 – São Martinho, Santa Catarina State 10 September 2020) From German descent His mother, Alzira Boeing, was a relative to brothers Wilhelm (that founded Boeing) and Werner Boeing ASTROPHYSICS Discovered 20 quasars and the pulsar HD7758 Vela X-1 (1977) With J.E. Grindlay, W.R. Forman, J. McClintock & C.R. Canizares. Discovery of low redshift x-ray quasars: a possible new key to the QSO phenomenon. Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 12:777, 1979 With T. Chebowski & J. Halpern. Discovery of a cataclysmic variable near Sirius (1980) With M.G. Watson, I.M. McHardy, J.P. Pye, F.J. Jablonski & I.C. Busko. A new x-ray cataclysmic variable. Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 12:885, 1980 With T. Chebowski & J.P. Halpern. Discovery of a new x-ray emitting dwarf nova. Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 12:885, 1980 With J. Stocke, J. Liebert, T. Maccacaro & R.E. Griffiths. Discovery of a narrow line quasar. Astrophys. J. 252:69-74, 1982 With J.E. Grindlay & T. Maccacaro. Discovery of two active galactic nuclei in clusters of galaxies. Astrophys. J. 259:482-5, 1982 Formulated a theory that the galaxies display a black hole in their nuclei With J. Halpern. Low ionization active galactic nuclei: x-ray or shock heated? Astrophys. J. 269:37-41, 1983 With Francisco Jablonski discovered a dwarf star (VY) that describes a circular path around another star in only 97 minutes (1984) With M. Garcia, J. Patterson, D.A. Schwartz, R.S. Warwick, M.G. Watson & J.E. McClintock. Identification of two hard x-ray emitting Be stars using the HEAO-1 Scanning Modulation Collimator. Astrophys. J. 280:688-94, 1984 Proposed the theory of LINERS explaining such common objects as mini-quasars With F.J. Jablonski. NSV12615: an eclipsing cataclysmic variable with ultrashort period. Astrophys. J. 313(1):376, 1987 Proposed the existence of a new class of stars called V Sagittae Stars and explained their luminosity as due to hydrostatic nuclear reactions on the surface of accreting white dwarfs With M.P. Díaz. The V Sagittae stars. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 110 (745):276-82, 1998 With D. Cieslinski, F.J. Jablonski & G.R. Hickel. BY Apodis: a new Mira variable. Inform. Bull. Variable Stars 4528:1, 1997 First to observe the sudden death phenomenon of binary stars With A.S. Oliveira, D. Cieslinski & T.V. Ricci. Assisted stellar suicide in V617 Sgr. Astron. Astrophys. 447(2):1-4, 2006 With R.B. Menezes & T.V. Ricci. Discovery of an Hα emitting disk around the supermassive black hole of M31. Astrophys. J. Lett. 762:L29, 2013 Showed the mechanism of formation of ionized gas winds in black holes With D. May. A two-stage outflow in NGC 1068. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469(1), 2017 Proposed an universal outflow mechanism by black holes With D. May, R.B. Menezes, D.R.A. Williams & J. Wang. The nuclear architecture of NGC4151: on the path toward a universal outflow in light of NGC1068. Mont. Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 496(2):1488-1516,2020 METHODS A spectrophotometric classification of low-redshift quasars and active galactic nuclei. Astrophys. J. 250:469-77, 1981 With R. Baptista. Improving the eclipse mapping method. Astron. Astrophys. 277:331, 1993 With R.B. Menezes, T.V. Ricci & A.S. Oliveira. Mapping low and high density clouds in astrophysical nebulae by imaging forbidden line emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 396(2), 2009 With R.B. Menezes, T.V. Ricci & A.S. Oliveira. PCA tomography: how to extract information from data cubes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 395(1):64-75, 2009 With R.B. Menezes & T.V. Ricci. A treatment procedure for Gemini North/NIFS data cubes: application to NGC4151. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 438:2597-20, 2014 With R.B. Menezes, P. da Silva & T.V. Ricci. A treatment procedure for VLT/SINFONI data cubes: application to NGC5643. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450:369-96, 2015 With R.B. Menezes, T.V. Ricci & P. da Silva. A treatment procedure for GMOS/IFU data cubes: application to NGC2835. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2019)