Charles A. Brewer Carias, Venezuelan explorator, anthropologist, geographer and naturalist  (Caracas 10 September 1938 –

From British descent

ACHIEVEMENTS

Discovered world’s largest quartzite cave (2004)

Discovered one of the greatest sinkholes on Earth at Sarisariña Tepui (1974)

Discovered biospeleothems, a new phenomenon in Nature (2006)

HONORS 

Brewcaria Smith, Steyermark & Robinson 1984 (Bromeliaceae)

Many taxa in plants and animals bear his name

See http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/I_UBC/CVCharlesBrewer.pdf