Juan Crisostomo Gómez Nuñez, Venezuelan tropical physician and medical entomologist (Maracay 08 September 1924 – 1987)

Son of former president Juan Vicente Gómez

Developed a method for assessing household infestation by vector of Chagas disease Rhodnius prolixus (Gomez Nunez method) employing a box trap of his own invention (Gomez Nunez box)

Desarrollo de un nuevo metodo para evaluar la infestación intradomiciliar por Rhodnius prolixus. Acta Cient. Venez. 16:26-31, 1965.