# Neglected Science

> Expanding the Horizons of Science


## Posts

- [Honoria Sison Acosta](https://neglectedscience.com/honoria-sison-acosta/): Honoria Sison Acosta, Philippine gynecologist (Calasiao, Pangasinan 30 December 1888 – 19 January 1970) Gained international renown for her publications on hydatidiform mole, chorionic malignancy,  toxemias of pregnancy and trophoblastic diseases Performed contributions on the origin of the lower uterine segment (1928 & 1935) Observed that hydatidiform mole cases are predisposed to pre-eclampsia Observed that choriocarcinoma may be the direct product of conception 
- [Hernán Alessandri Rodríguez](https://neglectedscience.com/hernan-alessandri-rodriguez/): Hernán Alessandri Rodríguez, Chilean surgeon (Santiago 07 April 1900 – Santiago 23 April 1982)  Brother of former president Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed with H. Ducci improvements in Bodansky technique of alkaline phosphatase. Published more than 200 scientific papers, between them Treatment of acute hepatitis with cortisone and antibiotics in Gastroenterology 29(3): 381-390, 1955 with Hector Ducci Claro and Ricardo Katz Ugarte. This paper was regarded as year golden paper by publishers of Gastroenterology review. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Ducci & J. Millán. La prueba del benzoato de sodio en el estudio de la insuficiencia hepatica. Rev. Med. Chile 68:873, 1940.  With R.
- [Hermogenes Alvarez](https://neglectedscience.com/hermogenes-alvarez/): Hermogenes Alvarez Bengoa, Uruguayan ginecologist and obstetrician (Nico Perez, Florida Department 1905 – Montevideo 1984) WITH CALDEYRO-BARCÍA First obtained records of intrauterine amniotic pressure during childbirth defining intensity, contraction rate, inner tonus and uterine activity (1947). These were the first records of human uterus activity during labor Established the descending triple gradient law (1949) Developed Montevideo unit of uterine performance (1949) First recorded intramiometrial pressure in distinct parts of uterus during childbirth establishing the source and propagation of wave of uterine contraction (1950) Established two kinds of contraction during pregnancy Established the concept of uterine tonus, its effects and variations Described
- [Henrique Aragão](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-aragao/): Henrique Beaurepaire Rohan de Aragão, Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 21 December 1879 – Rio de Janeiro 26 February 1956) From French ancestry Authored 171 papers Considered as world authority on Myxomatosis and Mite Systematics  VIROLOGY/PARASITOLOGY Individualized the etiologic agents of alastrim and chickenpox (1911) Described smallpox, chickenpox and milkpox viroses Demonstrated the existence of elementary bodies in chickenpox known as Aragão bodies (1911) and in rabbit myxoma (1912) Discovered the etiologic agent of rabbit’s myxoma characterizing it as a virosis Characterized the myxoma infection steps Showed that rabbit’s myxoma could be transmitted mechanically by mosquito bites
- [Heitor Annes Dias](https://neglectedscience.com/heitor-annes-dias/): Heitor Annes Dias, Brazilian internist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 19 July 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 07 November 1943) ACHIEVEMENTS Presented his theory on convulsive uremia (1922)  Proposed two new symptoms, the stomatic mycosis and hiccough of the uremic people to cardiac asthma (1926) Described clinical forms of acidosis and related spondylosis to nutritional disturbances First to describe peritoneal syndrome of acidosis and duodenal colic Described Annes Dias syndrome combining hiccough, acidosis and oral candidiasis in Lições de Clinica Medica II serie, 1933.
- [Hassan Hamed Attiah](https://neglectedscience.com/hassan-hamed-attiah/): Hassan Hamed Attiah, Egyptian agricultural entomologist (fl.1955-2002) DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Chelachecaropsis 1973 Floridatarsonemus 1970 Metatarsonemus 1970 Species Caloglyphus betae 1971 Cenopalpus lanceolatisetae 1956 Chelachecaropsis bakeri 1973 Chelacheles bakeri 1971 Ctenoglyphus hughesi 1971 Daidalotarsonemus seitus 1970 Daidalotarsonemus somalatus 1970 Daidalotarsonemus venustus 1970 Deleonia floridanus 1970 Diptilomiopus fícus 1969 Eriophyes oculivitis 1967 Eutetranychus citri 1967 Eutetranychus palmatus 1969 Eutetranychus pyri 1969 Fungitarsonemus peregrinosus 1970 Fungitarsonemus pulvirosus 1970 Glycyphagus aegyptiacus 1971 Glycyphagus oryzae 1971 Lupotarsonemus floridanus 1970 Lupotarsonemus inornatus 1970 Lupotarsonemus minutus 1970 Lupotarsonemus mumae 1970 Lupotarsonemus paraunguis 1970 Lupotarsonemus spicatus 1970 Lupotarsonemus spinosus 1970 Metaculus mangiferae 1955 Rhynchotarsonemus citri 1970 Rhynchotarsonemus floridanus 1970 Schizotetranychus sayedi 1969 Tarsonemus citri 1970 Tarsonemus ingeus 1970 Tarsonemus longitibialis 1970 Tarsonemus simplicissimus 1970 Tarsonemus undulatus 1970 Tetranychus arabicus 1967 Tetranychus ludenensis 1969
- [Harry Acquatella](https://neglectedscience.com/harry-acquatella/): Joseph Harry Acquatella Monserratte, Venezuelan cardiologist (Ciudad Bolivar, Bolivar State 04 September 1936 – Authored over 100 scientific works and 30 book chapters Internationally known for his contributions to stress echocardiography  ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered increased natriuresis during acute saline loading in Chagas disease (1969) Developed South American solution for kidney maintenance With J. Morales, M. Perez-Gonzalez & G. Whittembury. Ionic and histological changes in the kidney after perfusion and storage for transplantation: use of high Na-versus high K-containing solutions. Transplantation 14(4):480-9, 1972   With D. Paniagua, J.A. Condado, J. Besso, M. Velez et al. presented the first human case of retrograde transcatether implant
- [Hamdi Suat Aknar](https://neglectedscience.com/hamdi-suat-aknar/): Hamdi Suat Aknar, Turkish pathologist (Harput-Elazig 1873 – Istanbul 13 Nov 1936) Developed Hamdi’s solution for preserving histological specimens. Defined coelothelioma
- [Gloria Alencaster](https://neglectedscience.com/gloria-alencaster/): Gloria Alencaster Ybarra, Mexican paleontologist (Ciudad de Mexico 05 March 1926 – 09 August 2018) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Family Chiapasellidae 1971 Genera  Douvillelia 1998 with Pantoja-Alor  Guzzyella 1999 Huasteca 2013 with Vicens, Pons, Oviedo, Aguilar & García-Barrera Huetamia 1998 with Pantoja-Alor Jalpania 1996 with Aguilar-Perez Jerjesia 1986 Muellerriedia 1999 Pantojaloria 1996 Potosites 2010 with Pons, Vicens, Pichardo, Aguilar, Oviedo & Garcia Barrera Trechmannites 2013 with Vicens, Pons, Oviedo, Aguilar & García-Barrera Species Amphitriscoelus pluriloculata 2004 with Pantoja-Alor Anatina (Cercomya) burckhardti 1963 Anisocardia coxi 1963 Anisocardia subquadrata 1963 Antillocaprina trilobata 1999 com Omaña, Avendano & García Barrera Astarte ajuriana 1965 with Buitrón Caprina massei 1996 with Pantoja-Alor Cassiope mullerriedi 1956 Corbula oaxaquena Craginia floresi Crenotrapezium hayamii 1963 Dentalium ixhuatlanensis 1950 Douvillelia
- [Giacomo Albanese](https://neglectedscience.com/giacomo-albanese/): Giacomo Albanese, Italian-born Brazilian geometer (Geraci Siculo, Palermo 11 July 1890 – São Paulo 08 June 1948) Obtained international renown due to important works about algebraic varieties Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1928) EPONYMY Albanese variety Albanese morphism Albanese map Albanese dimension  Albanese functor  Albanese manifolds  Albanese method (used to solving the problem of singularity from algebraic varieties) Albanese pencil Albanese torus BIBLIOGRAPHY See http://math.unipa.it/~brig/sds/prima%20pagina/tirocinio/Albanese%20Giacomo%20biblio.htm
- [George Arnold](https://neglectedscience.com/george-arnold/): George Arnold, Rhodesian entomologist from British origin (Hong Kong 1881 – Rhodesia 09 August 1962) Recognized as a World authority on Ethiopian Shegidae and Pompilidae and Formicidae of Southern and South-Central Africa Described 68 Hymenoptera genera HONORS Arnoldiella Brauns 1925 (Coleoptera) Arnoldtilla Nonveiller 1996 (Hymenoptera) Arnoldita Pate 1948 (Hymenoptera)
- [Garfield de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/garfield-de-almeida/): Garfield Augusto Perry de Almeida, Brazilian sanitarist (Rio de Janeiro 02 March 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 01 July 1942) Proposed desensitization method for sera (1913) independently of French/Ukraininan A. Besredka Developed a balneo-therapeutic method Eponym of Garfield de Almeida sign (reddish points on posterior wall of pharynx in measles)
- [Ganga Prasad Agarwal](https://neglectedscience.com/ganga-prasad-agarwal/): Ganga Prasad Agarwal, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (1926 – DESCRIBED NEW FUNGI Valid Genus Pycnothera 1974 with Sharma Species Alternaria plumbaginis 1974 with Sharma Asbolisia indica 1974 with Sharma Bagnisiella shoreae 1991 with Rajak & Pandey Biharia smilacis 1960 Catenulaster smilacis 1974 with Sharma Cercospora anisochilicola 1962 Cercospora boraginis 1973 with Sharma Cercospora caesalpiniae 1973 with Sharma Cercospora elaeodendri 1961 with Hasija Cercospora garuga 1966 with Hasija Cercospora mimosae 1973 with Sharma Cercospora simarubaciensis 1973 with Sharma Cercospora sterculiae 1964 with Hasija Coniella citri 1974 with Sharma Curvularia verruciformis 1963 with Sahni Cytospora cedrelina 1974 with Sharma Cytospora mangiferae 1974 with Sharma Dactylaria indica 1977 with Chowdhry Deightoniella jabalpurensis 1962 with Hasija Diaporthe ipomoeae 1991 with Rajak & Pandey Eutypa allamandae 1988
- [Galal Hafez Awad](https://neglectedscience.com/galal-hafez-awad/): Galal el Din Hafez Awad, Egyptian geologist and palaeontologist (fl. 1938-75) First to report a miniature pillar effect oriented perpendicular to the bedding planes With M.Y. Hassan. Evidence of rain erosion in the Kharga Oasis. Bull. Inst. Desert d’Egypte 7(2):55-8, 1975 DESCRIBED Genus Praecardiomyia 1952 Species Ancilla abdoi 1967 with Abed Dracomya nagaensis 1945 Euspira morisi 1967 with Abed Gyrodes amini 1967 with Abed Heligmotoma dakhlensis 1967 with Abed Ispharina tarturensis 1967 with Abed Mesalia gigantia 1967 with Abed Mesalia paleocenica 1967 with Abed Mesalia zitteli 1967 with Abed  Myophoria coxi 1946 Nerinea dentiloba 1952 Nerinea hallalensis 1952 Nerinea mandhourensis 1952
- [Gabriel Alvial Caceres](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriel-alvial-caceres/): Gabriel Alvial Caceres, Chilean physicist (Santiago 08 November 1922 – Santiago 26 September 2001) Authored over 60 works ACHIEVEMENTS With L. Grimaldi, J. Riquelme, E. Silva & S. Stanic. A method to determine the charge of nuclei with nuclear emulsions. Nuovo Cimento 15(10):25-30, 1960 With L. Grimaldi & E. Riquelme first to measure little delta-rays (1958-9) Discovered nuclei heavier than iron hitherto regarded as the heaviest Discovered a daily pulsation of the low troposphere located between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean (1976) HONORS Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences 
- [Frederico Abath](https://neglectedscience.com/frederico-abath/): Frederico Guilherme Coutinho Abath, Brazilian parasitologist and molecular biologist (1956 – Recife 01 March 2007) Authored over 80 papers DEVELOPED METHODS/TECHNIQUES With G. Souza, A.M.P. Almeida, A. Farias & N.C. Leal. Development and evaluation of a single tube nested PCR based approach (STNPCR) for the diagnosis of plague. Adv. Exper. Med. Biology 603:351-9, 2007 With A.L.V. Gomes, F.L. Melo & R.P. Werkhauser. Development of a real time polymerase chain reaction for quantitation of Schistosoma mansoni DNA. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 101:133-6, 2006 With L.M.L. Montenegro, R.A. Montenegro, A.S. Lima, A.B. Carvalho & H.C. Schindler. Development of a single-tube hemi-nested PCR genus specific detection
- [Francisco Radler de Aquino](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-radler-de-aquino/): Francisco Radler de Aquino, Brazilian military (New York, USA 23 January 1878 – Rio de Janeiro 08 October 1954) Considered a world authority in navigational studies. His navigation tables were adopted by English and United States naval services METHODOLOGY Published navigation altitude and azimuth tables, adopted by Marine Ministery in United States The “newest” navigation altitude and azimuth tables for facilitating the determination of lines of position and geographical position at sea: the simplest and readiest in solution, plane and spherical traverse table for solving all problems of navigation (1918); New log and versine altitude tables (1912) A new way of
- [Francisco Praxedes de Andrade Pertence](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-praxedes-de-andrade-pertence/): Francisco Praxedes de Andrade Pertence, Brazilian surgeon and obstetrician (Rio de Janeiro 21 July 1823 – Rio de Janeiro 03 August 1886) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY De gastro-hysterotomia dissertatio. Thesis, quam apud fluminensem medicinae facultatem, die 1 decembris, anno 1845 doctoratu consequendo tuebatur & Fluminis Januarii, 1845. Das luxações da coxa, anatomicamente estudadas: These de concurso ao logar de lente substituto da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, 1852. 
- [Francisco João de Azevedo Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-joao-de-azevedo-jr/): Francisco João de Azevedo Jr., Brazilian inventor (João Pessoa 04 March 1814 – João Pessoa 26 July 1880)  INVENTIONS Engraving system on iron An Ellipsograph (1866) Wind propelled Land vehicle  Machine to benefit from sea waves and apply to ship’s motion (1875) Type writing machine (1861)      A more efficient mill for sugarcane 
- [Francisco Freire Allemão](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-freire-allemao/): Francisco Freire Allemão e Cisneiros, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 24 June 1797 – Rio de Janeiro 11 November 1874) Performed studies on plant phytography, histology and physiology Authored 104 works Described molluscan species Vaginulus reclusus 1850 Described the mechanism behind the stinging nettle’s ability to induce irritation and itching Da estrutura e funções dos pelos excretores da nossa urtiga braba, Urtica nítida (1855) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genera Andradaea 1845 (Nyctaginaceae) Geissospermum 1846 (Apocynaceae) Hexadenia 1857 (Euphorbiaceae) Hyeronima 1848 (Euphorbiaceae) Myracrodruon 1862 (Anacardiaceae) with M. Allemão Myrocarpus 1847 (Fabaceae) Ophthalmoblapton 1849 (Euphorbiaceae) Vicentia 1844 (Combretaceae) Species Acacia viarum Amburana cearensis Andradaea floribunda 1845 Arariba rubescens Aspidosperma eburneum Basiloxylon brasiliensis Brosimum
- [Francisco Ferreira de Abreu](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-ferreira-de-abreu/): Francisco Ferreira de Abreu, baron of Teresópolis, Brazilian physician and chemist (Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul 18 November 1823 – Paris, France 14 July 1885) ACHIEVEMENTS Modified the Marsh apparatus for metallic poisons.  Generalized the Duflos-Millon process for all metallic poisons.  Methode pour rechercher par une seule operation l’arsenic, l’antimoine, le mercure, le cuivre, le plomb, le zinc et l’argent. Journal de Chimique Medicale, Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, 1848. (Method for research in one only step the arsenic, antimony, mercury, copper, lead, zinc and silver).  New process for researches about main metallic poisons. (Novo processo para a pesquiza dos principais
- [Francisco de Albear y Fernandez de Lara](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-de-albear-y-fernandez-de-lara/): Francisco José Higino de Jesus de Albear y Fernandez de Lara, Cuban civil engineer (La Habana 11 January 1816 – La Habana 22 October 1887) Designed and build the Habana aqueduct that earned him international recognition Memorias sobre el Proyecto de Conducción a La Habana de las aguas de los manantiales de Vento (1856) Memoria del proyecto de deposito de recepción y de distribución de las aguas del Canal de Vento (1876) His La Habana Master Plan was one of the most proeminent urban plannings in the world incorporating surveying, topography and land planning into a master piece of cartography (1861-4;
- [Francisco C. Arrillaga](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-c-arrillaga/): Francisco Cirilo Arrillaga Segurola, Argentine physician (Tandil, Buenos Aires 09 January 1886 – Mar del Plata 21 September 1950) Described Ayerza-Arrillaga disease Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (cardiacos negros). Thesis. Buenos Aires, 1912.  Arrillaga-Taquini sign With A. Taquini. La cyanose des compressions du mediastin. Comp. Rend. Soc. Biol. CXVII:1238-9, 1934 Proposed universal thoracic heartbeat (Arrillaga-Davobe sign) as a diagnostic way of retro cardiac aorta aneurisms  With A.C. Taquini. Battement thoracique universal: nouvel element de diagnostic pour les anévrismes de l’aorte retrocardiaque (1933)  Arrillaga-Dabove sign (described in 1931) With Julio C. Dabove. Latido toracico universal en los
- [Francisco Amendola](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-amendola/): Francisco Amendola, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Campinas, São Paulo State 03 October 1897 – 29 December 1963) Described Amendola’s syndrome, a variant of foliaceous pemphigus (1947) Noticed the iris presenting a bloody spongiform in foliaceous pemphigus or Amendola sign  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Considerações sobre o tratamento das complicações oculares na lepra. Rev. Leprol. São Paulo (Spec. Number) 108-114, 1935.  Contribuição a therapeutica das affeções oculares lepróticas. Rev.Bras. Leprol. 6:233, 1937-8.     Catarata no penfigo foliaceo. (Nota prévia). Rev. Paul. Med. 26:286, 1945.  Glândula lacrimal na lepra ocular. Rev.Bras. Leprol. XIII, 1945. Ocular manifestations of pemphigus foliaceous. American Journal Ophthal. 32:35-44, 1949.  Estado Atual da Lepra
- [Francisco Alzola](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-alzola/): Francisco Alzola Victorero, Cuban agronomist (fl.1940-57) DEVELOPED A new process of continuous alcoholic fermentation (1940-1) A continuous alcoholic fermentation process with an unique tower-shaped dorn (1945) Un proceso para agitar mostos en fermentación (1945) PATENTS Equipment and procedure of carrying out continuous fermentations or System of continuous fermentation US 2,371, 208 (1945) Apparatus for continuous fermentation US2450218A (1946) Vinegar Jupiter (1947) Aparato para la aplicación eficiente de abono (1956)
- [Floriano Paulo de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/floriano-paulo-de-almeida/): Floriano Paulo de Almeida, Brazilian medical mycologist (São Paulo 25 January 1898 – Taubaté, São Paulo State 10 July 1977) ACHIEVEMENTS With E. Souza Campos distinguished North American blastomycosis from South American blastomycosis know as Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease (1927) With C.S. Lacaz first to isolate Histoplasma capsulatum (1939) With C.S. Lacaz obtained antigen paracoccidiodin for skin test of South American blastomycosis (1941) With C.S. Lacaz, S. Sampaio & J.C. Fernandes presented the first report about cat to man transmission of sporotrichosis (1955) Developed Almeida-Silva Lacaz yeast sporulation medium With Barros developed method for genetic determination of levuliform fungi   With C. S. Lacaz. Nova técnica
- [Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-flavio-marques-de-almeida/): Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, Brazilian geologist (Rio de Janeiro 18 February 1916 – São Paulo 02 August 2013) Authored over 250 works  ACHIEVEMENTS Described first Pre-Cambrian fossils in South America Collenia itapevensis (1944)  Defined South American platform (1969) Described the first moutonnée rock with presence of striated surface A rocha “moutonée” de Salto, Estado de São Paulo. Bol. Geol. Mineral. 5:112-8, 1948 Co-authored a paper with great repercussion that confirmed the geochronological correlation between Brazil and Africa continent With P.M. Hurley, G.C. Melcher, U.G. Cordani, J.R. Rand, K. Kawashita, P. Vandoros, W.H. Pinson & H.W. Fairbarn. Test of continental drift by means
- [Fernando Arens Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-arens-jr/): Frederico Guilherme Fernando Arens Jr., Brazilian civil and industrial engineer (Campinas, São Paulo State 18 April 1880 – São Paulo 05 September 1942) From German ancestry Possibly he was the First to apply the hydraulic fill in the world (1914) Developed a drying process for bananas (Banana Passa later renamed Banana Flakes) in 1932 Method of casting pipes employing centrifugal process (1913) Invented and patented the production of cast-iron tubes by centrifugation (1915) with D. Sensaud de Lavaud; it is known in most countries as De Lavaud process PATENTS Brazilian Novo descascador cônico com chapas de diamante (1905) with his Father
- [Fernando Altamirano](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-altamirano/): Fernando Guilebaldo Isabel Juan Jose María de Jesus Altamirano Carbajal, Mexican physician and naturalist (Aculco, Mexico State 07 July 1848 – Ciudad de Mexico 07 October 1908) A cousin of botanist Manuel Urbina Authored over 250 scientific works mainly on physiology and pharmacology of Mexican plants A botanical collector discovered new plant species described by other botanists Discovered Ambystoma altamirani, a new axolotl species (1895) With F. Domínguez showed the paralyzing properties of seeds extracts from Erythrina species (1857) and discovered the curarizing action of Erythrina americana in Gaceta Med. Mex. 12:77-91, (1877) Introduced the use of following species in economic botany or medicine: candelilla (wax producer), Parthenium
- [Felix Aguilar](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-aguilar/): Felix Aguilar Rojo, Argentine astronomer and geodesist (San Juan 02 May 1884 – La Plata 28 September 1943) Una solución del metodo Gauss generalizado a más de 3 astros y tablas auxiliares para tiempo sidéreo y acimut en el instante de la observación (1942) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Empleo de la luz difusa en la medición angular geodesica. Anales Acad. Nac. Ciencias Exactas 7:7-15, 1940 La hora en la Republica Argentina. Rev. Astron. (1938) Bestimmung von Breite und Uhrstand aus der Beobachtung der Zeiten gleicher Hoehe von 3 Sternen (Methode von Gauss). Astron. Nachrichten 266:331, 1938 Determinación de los coeficientes de densidad y
- [Federico Ahlfeld](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-ahlfeld/): Federico (Friedrich) Adolf Ernst Ahlfeld, German-born Bolivian geologist and mineralogist (Marburg an der Lahn 06 October 1892 – La Paz 09 January 1982) Authored 186 works Described the mineral species ramdohrite (1930) & angelellite (1959) With R. Herzenberg described the mineral blockite (1935) from which others researchers described and named penroseite (1937) With J. Muñoz Reyes first to describe the mineral mandarinoite but didn’t named it (1955) With J. Muñoz Reyes first to observe and describe the mineral selenolite (1955) later described and named downeyite SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Mineralogia Boliviana (1966) Geologia de Bolivia. Rev. Museo La Plata (1946) Estudios geológicos de yacimientos
- [Farhad Ardalan](https://neglectedscience.com/farhad-ardalan/): Farhad Ardalan, Iranian physicist (Tehran 03 November 1939 – Internationally recognized for his work in superstring theory With F. Mansouri proposed the para-string theory (1974) With H. Arfaei classified 11-dimensional supergravity solutions with a quotient structure (1986) With M. Abolhassan constructed modular invariant partition functions for Wess-Zumino-Witten-Novikov models via orbifold method (1994) Discovered non-commutativity in D-branes of string theory (1999) Co-discovered a new boson with a mass of 125 GeV (2012) 
- [Erol Akyol](https://neglectedscience.com/erol-akyol/): Erol Akyol, Turkish palynologist (1934 – 2002) DESCRIBED FOSSIL POLLEN/SPORAE TAXA Genera Auriculimembranospora 1978 Cadiosporites 1967 with Agrali Echinatosporites 1964 Heliosaccipollenites 1967 with Agrali   Hezarfenosporites 1975 Kyrtomisporites 1967 with Agrali Lunatipollenites 1967 with Agrali Rhizomapollenites 1967 with Agrali Species About 130 (1964-99) HONORS Akyolisporites Agrali 1969 (Fossil Pollen/Sporae)
- [Enrique Acosta Mayor](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-acosta-mayor/): Enrique Acosta Mayor, Cuban microbiologist (La Habana 15 April 1861- La Habana 16 October 1911) A new procedure for preparation of gelatin of culture media With F. Grande. Medios de cultivo. Nuevo procedimento para preparar a gelatina. Cron Med-Cir. 14, 1892 With F. Grande Rossi described the fungal species Cladothrix invulnerabilis (1893) With F. Grande. Ureometro pratico (1892) With J.N. Davalos developed an improved procedure of Emile Roux for production of antidiphtheria vaccine (praised by Roux) (1894)
- [Elias Humberto Alves](https://neglectedscience.com/elias-humberto-alves/): Elias Humberto Alves, Brazilian logician and philosopher (Guaranésia, Minas Gerais State 17 February 1936 – São Paulo 04 November 2013) Demonstrated the independence of axioms of the propositional calculus C1 axioms (1976) Introduced the first systems of natural deduction for the logics Cn Developed higher-order versions of Da Costa paraconsistent predicate logics Solved definitely the problem of the decidability of logics Cn based on the semantics of quasi-matrices (1976) Demonstrated the decidability of the propositional logics Cn (1976) With A. Loparic modified certain conditions in valuation definition (1980) With A. Loparic introduced a bivalent semantics and a decision method for Da Costa
- [Edward Ayensu](https://neglectedscience.com/edward-ayensu/): Edward Solomon Ayensu, Ghanaian botanist and economist (Sekondi 28 Aug 1935 – Accra 22 April 2023) Papers / books with more than 100 citations With J. Duke. Medicinal plants of China (1984) Medicinal plants of West Indies (1981) With A.L. Stoffers, B. Meggers & W. Duckworth. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review (1973) With J. Hutchinson, J. Dalziel, R. Keay & F. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Asia (1972) With D. Coursey. Guinea yams: the botany, ethnobotany, use and possible future of yams in West Africa. Economic Botany (1972) Plant anatomy Leaf anatomy and systematics of
- [Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-aguirre-pequeno/): Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño y Yuriria, Mexican biologist (Hualahuises, Nuevo León State 14 March 1904 – Monterrey 18 July 1988) Proved that the causative agent of pinta was Treponema carateum (1939) and developed treatment for it Developed a diagnostic method for Plasmodium vivax at microscope Found Bufo valliceps Wiegmann for biological pregnancy test (1948) 
- [Eduardo Acosta Bendek](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-acosta-bendek/): Eduardo Francisco Acosta Bendek, Colombian obstetrician (Sitio Nuevo, Magdalena Department 24 July 1919 – Barranquilla 27 December 2017) Discovered Culex fatigans as a vector of Wuchereiria bancrofti Reported  fetus crying in uterus in Obst. Ginec. Latinoamericana 14:255, 1956 Proposed the use of intrauterine oxygen as a contrast medium for placental location (1958) Demonstrated that fetus swallows intrauterinally Discovered and recorded the breath motionsin uterus Developed a suture with separating points of uterine segment for cesarean section Developed a technique and a teaspoon for molar pregnancy Nuevo instrumento: cucharilla molar. Rev. Col. Obst. Gin. 19:447, 1968
- [Edmundo Navarro de Andrade](https://neglectedscience.com/edmundo-navarro-de-andrade/): Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, Brazilian forester (São Paulo 02 January 1881 – São Paulo 01 December 1941) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as authority of world renown in reforestation with exotic specimens HONORS Grand Medaille de Saint-Hilaire, Societé Nationale d’Aclimatation de France (1928) Meyer Medal, American Association of Genetics (1941) MEMBERSHIP   Correspondent member, Reale Accademia di Agricoltura di Fiorino, Italy  Member, American Foresters Society  CURIOSITIES/TRIVIA  Founded Museu do Eucalipto (today Museu Edmundo Navarro de Andrade) in Rio Claro, São Paulo State (1916). This museum is the only one in the world totally dedicated to eucalyptus. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A cultura do eucalipto, 1909; A cultura
- [Driss Aboutadjine](https://neglectedscience.com/driss-aboutadjine/): Driss Aboutadjine, Moroccan information and telecommunications engineer (30 December 1953 – Beni Mellal, Rabat 04 March 2017) CONTRIBUITIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Elmoutahdi & S. El Fikhi. Fingerprint identification based on hierarchical triangulation. J. Inform. Process Systems 14(2):435-47, 2018 With H.A. Abdelali, F. Essannouni & L. Essannouni. Fast and robust object tracking via accept-reject color histogram based method. J. Vis. Comm. Image Repres. 34:219-29, 2016 With M. Benyoussef, S. Mabtoul & M. El Marraki. Robust ROI watermarking scheme based on visual cryptography: application on mammogram. J. Inform. Process Systems 11(4):495-508, 2015 With C. Anibou & M.N. Saidi. Classification of textured images based on
- [Donato Alarcón Segovia](https://neglectedscience.com/donato-alarcon-segovia/): Donato Alarcón Segovia, Mexican physician (Ciudad de Mexico 06 May 1935 – Ciudad de Mexico 21 December 2004) Authored over 300 papers, 14 books and 99 book chapters World Pioneer on studies of immune regulating circuits and analysis of pathogenic role of antinuclear and anti-phospholipids antibodies With D.G. Alarcón reported the first detailed description of pleuropulmonary manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (1961) Studied lupus drug-induced syndromes, described its clinical aspects and auto antibodies that feature it (1969) First to suggest that antinuclear antibodies could be natural antinuclear auto antibodies (1970) before Avrameas   With A. Ruiz Arguelles & E. Fishbein first described
- [Dharani Dhar Awasthi](https://neglectedscience.com/dharani-dhar-awasthi/): Dharani Dhar Awasthi, Indian mycologist and lichenologist (Naret, Askote, Uttaranchal 29 September 1922 – 21 August 2011) DESCRIBED LICHENIZED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Cyclographina 1979 Heppsora 1977 with K.P. Singh Parmelaria 1987 Species About 100 HONORS (Lichenes) Awasthia Esslinger 1978 Awasthiella Singh 1980 HONOURS Acharius Medal (1992)
- [Devendra Kumar Agarwal](https://neglectedscience.com/devendra-kumar-agarwal/): Devendra Kumar Agarwal, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (13 December 1945 – Authored more than 450 research publications, articles and book chapters beyond 3 books DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Beltraniomyces 2003 with Manoharachary & N.K. Rao Corynecercospora 2006 with V.K. Pal, Akhtar, Ahmad & Kamal Cylindromyces 2004 with Manoharachary & N.K. Rao Diatrypoidiella 2005 with Manoharachary & Kunwar Ectoendomeliola 2006 with Hosagoudar Hawksworthia 2004 with Manoharachary &, N.K. Rao & Kunwar Manoharacharomyces 2005 with N.K. Rao & Kunwar Sivanesaniella 2004 with Gawande Vanibandha 2006 with Manoharachary &, N.K. Rao & Kunwar Species More than 350 New diseases (com A.K. Sarbhoy) A new leaf spot disease of Ficus elastica L. var schyveriana caused by Lasiodiplodia theobromae.
- [David Paul Annecke](https://neglectedscience.com/david-paul-annecke/): David Paul Annecke, South African agricultural entomologist (Durban 08 June 1928 – Pretoria 24 February 1981) His father, Dawid Hugo Siegfried Annecke, South African medical entomologist (Aliwal North 25 February 1895 – 05 August 1955), served on the council of experts on malaria for the World Health Organization DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Allencyrtus 1973 with Mynhardt Anasemion 1967 Argutencyrtus 1974 with Prinsloo Bregmencyrtus 1974 Callaincyrtus 1979 with Prinsloo Coccopilatus 1963 Decamymar 1961 Doutiella 1961 Hadrencyrtus 1973 with Mynhardt Hesperencyrtus 1971 Homosemion 1967 Insleyia 1979 with Prinsloo Lounsburyia 1961 with Compere Macchiencyrtus 1971 Ptilomymar 1961 with Doutt Swazencyrtus 1979 with Prinsloo Tanaomymar 1961 with Doutt Zemicamptoptera 1961 with Ogloblin Species 238 HONORS Anneckella Chappuis & Delamare Debouteville 1967 (Crustacea) Anneckeida Boucek 1987 (Hymenoptera) Anneckecoris Slater
- [Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-afedzi-akyeampong/): Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong, Ghanaian mathematician (Senya Beraku 24 November 1938 – Legon, Accra 07 March 2014) Authored 26 publications With R. Delbourgo discovered a new PCAC law (1973) With R. Delbourgo showed how to extract the famous axial anomalies using the technique of dimensional regularization and to obtain the anomalies in the trace of the canonical stress tensor (1973) With R. Delbourgo demonstrated that the exponential superpropagator is characterized by a minimal singularity in four dimensions (1974) Proposed the use of helicity basis for studying tensor harmonics (1979)
- [Dalcy & Isolda Albuquerque](https://neglectedscience.com/dalcy-isolda-albuquerque/): Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque, Brazilian entomologist (Cuiabá 02 August 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 03 October 1982) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera    Hylemyioides 1949 Macquartiopsis 1949 Magma 1949 Souzalopesmyia 1951 Agenamyia 1953 Bocainamyia 1953 Arthurella 1954 Cholomyioides 1954 Cordiluroides 1954 Haroldopsis 1954 Hemixanthomyia 1954 Petrmyia 1954 Pilispina 1954 Plumispina 1954 Pachyceramyia 1955 Paradexiopsis 1955 Sarconesiomima 1955 Noelia 1957 Phaonantho 1957 Levallonia 1958 Odontocladius 1974 Itatingamyia 1979 Anthojuba 1981 (with Couri) Neomusciniopsis 1982 with Souza Lopes Sarconesisca 1982 (with Souza Lopes) Scatogera 1984 Species    126 HONORS Albuquerquea Pinto de Melo 1967 (Diptera) Dalcyella Carvalho 1989 (Diptera) His wife, Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 27 January 1931 – DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA TAXA   Genera Aseucina 1963 (with Gurney) Helgaia 1963 (with Gurney) Alvarengaia 1977 (with de Aguiar) Species   183 valid   HONORS  Isoldaia Gurney
- [Cleber Jose Rodrigues Alho](https://neglectedscience.com/cleber-jose-rodrigues-alho/): Cleber José Rodrigues Alho, Brazilian ecologist and helminthologist (Santarém, Pará State 1937 – Authored more than a hundred scientific papers on ecology DESCRIBED VERMES TAXA Valid Genus Podocnemitrema 1964 with Vicente (Trematoda) Species Atractis conciliatus 1964 Diaphanocephalus jacuruxi 1965 Parapharyngodon largitor 1963 with Rodrigues Podocnemitrema papillosus 1964 with Vicente Strongyluris freitasi 1969 Strongyluris travassosi 1969 HONORS Cleberia Arandas Rego 1980 (Cestoda)
- [Carlos Leopoldo Azcuy](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-leopoldo-azcuy/): Carlos Leopoldo Azcuy, Argentine palynologist and palaeobotanist (23 August 1932 – DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL TAXA Plantae Genus Bumbudendron 1981 with Archangelsky & Wagner Malanzania 1981 with Archangelsky & Wagner Species Bumbudendron nitidum 1981 with Archangelsky & Wagner Bumbudendron paganzianum 1981 with Archangelsky & Wagner Gilboaphyton argentinum 2006 with Carrizo Malanzania nana 1981 with Archangelsy & Wagner Nothorhacopteris kellaybelenensis 1993 with Suarez-Soruco Protohaploxypinus riojanus Sporae & Pollen Genera Ancistrospora 1972 with Menendez Circumplicatipollis 1998 with Ottone Irmosporites 1969 with Menendez Species Acanthotriletes plicatus 1975 Anapiculatisporis argentinensis 1975 Anaplanisporites variornatus 1990 with Ottone Ancistrospora inordinata 1972 with Menendez Ancistrospora spinosa 1972 with Menendez Ancistrospora verrucosa 1972 with Menendez Apiculatisporis variornatus 2003 with Di Pasquo & Souza Apiculatasporites caperatus 1969 with Menendez Apiculatasporites parviapiculatus 1975 Apiculiretusispora
- [Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-guillermo-aguayo-y-castro/): Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro, Cuban malacologist & entomologist (Habana 19 December 1899 – 12 February 1982) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera  Haitia 1932 (with Clench) Pseudopineria 1938 Jaumeia 1943 Torreviana 1943 Bathyspira 1946 (with Borro) Canimarina 1946 (with Borro) Climacina 1946 (with Borro) Parachondrodes 1946 (with Clench) Cupulella 1948 (with Jaume) Glyptemoda 1950 (with Clench) Guladentia 1951 (with Clench) Bakerviana  1957 (with Jaume) Semitrochatella 1958 (with Jaume) Species More than 100 species and subspecies in Living / Fossil Mollusca Described 10 new species of Cuban Hymenoptera too. HONORS Aguayoaster Roig 1952 (Fossil Echinodermata)  Aguayoina Bermudez 1939 (Foraminifera) Aguayomiris Maldonado Capriles 1987 (Hemiptera) Aguayodiscus Jaume & Borro 1946 (Mollusca) Subgenus Aguayotudora Torre & Bartsch 1941 (Mollusca) Subgenus Aguayoceramus Torre &
- [Candido Macasaet Africa](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-macasaet-africa/): Candido Macasaet Africa, Philippine parasitologist and tropical physician (Lipa, Batangas 02 October 1895 – Manila 12 February 1945) Published 69 scientific papers ACHIEVEMENTS He was the first in the world to describe and report cases of heterophydiasis in human heart First report of Cheilospirura hamulosa parasitizing the man With E. Y. Garcia. A new nematode parasite (Cheilospirura sp.) in the eye of man in the Philippines. J. Phil. Is. Med. Assoc. 16:603-7, 1936  DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genus Heterophyopsis 1938 with Tubangui Species Candidotrema loossi 1930 Carneophallus brevicaeca 1935 with Garcia Haplorchis vanissimus 1938 Heterophyopsis expectans 1938 with Tubangui Plagiorchis philippinensis 1937 Procerovum calderoni 1935 with Garcia Stictodora manilensis 1935 with Garcia SOME
- [Bulent Agrali](https://neglectedscience.com/bulent-agrali/): Bulent Agrali, Turkish geologist and palynologist (fl.1963-2012) DESCRIBED FOSSIL POLLEN / SPORAE TAXA Genera Akyolisporites 1969 Artuzisporites 1969 Bellisporites 1965 Cadiosporites 1967 with Akyol Egemenisporites 1969 Ergonulisporites 1969 Guthoerlipollenites 1965 Heliosaccipollenites 1967 with Akyol Kyrtomisporites 1967 with Akyol Lunatipollenites 1967 with Akyol Microlagenoisporites 1964 Okayisporites 1969 Pekmezcileripollenites 1969 Perisaccipollenites 1965 Potoniepollenites 1965 Rhizomapollenites 1967 with Akyol Spinosipollenites 1969 Stenozonisporites 1965 Tokaysporites 1969 Yahsimanisporites 1969 Species Over 140   
- [Brother Alain](https://neglectedscience.com/brother-alain/): Henri Eugene Alain Liogier (brother Alain), French botanist in Caribbean lands (Chomelix 31 January 1916 – Fort Worth, Texas 09 November 2009) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera   Anacaona 1980 (Cucurbitaceae) Caribea 1960 (Nyctaginaceae) Casabitoa 1980 (Simarubaceae) Cubacroton 1960 Ximeniopsis 1980 (Olacaceae) Species   About 390 species from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
- [Bert Geoffrey Achong](https://neglectedscience.com/bert-geoffrey-achong/): Bertrand Geoffrey Achong, English pathologist and electron microscopist born in Trinidad & Tobago (Port of Spain, Trinidad 06 December 1928 – England 20 November 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered Epstein-Barr virus, the first human tumour virus With M.A. Epstein & Y.M. Barr. Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma. The Lancet 283(7335):702-3, 1964. Discovered human foamy virus, the first retrovirus infecting man. With P.W.A. Mansell, M.A. Epstein & P. Clifford. An unusual virus in cultures from a human nasopharyngeal carcinoma. J. Natl.Cancer Inst. 46:299-307, 1971. 
- [Bal Krishan Anand](https://neglectedscience.com/bal-krishan-anand/): Bal Krishan Anand, Indian physiologist (Lahore 17 September 1917 – 02 April 2007) ACHIEVEMENTS First described the presence of a “feeding center” and “satiety center” in the hypothalamic region of rat brain With John R. Brobeck. Hypothalamic control of food intake in rats and cats. Yale J. Biol. Med. 24:123-40, 1951 Discovered that the synthesis of acetylcholine declines in winters and that small amounts of acetylcholine accelerate rather than slow down the heart Influence of temperature on vagal inhibition and liberation of acetylcholine in frog hearts. Am. J. Physiol. 168:218, 1952 Established the regulation of various visceral responses from the limbic
- [Augusto Aldave Pajares](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-aldave-pajares/): Augusto Aldave Pajares, Peruvian phycologist (Trujillo, La Libertad 21 April 1937 – Trujillo, La Libertad 28 April 2022) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cushuro. Algas azul-verdes utilizadas como alimento en la región alto andina peruana. Boletín de la Sociedad Botanica de La Libertad 1(2), 1969. Nuevos generos de desmídias para el Peru. Boletín de la Sociedad Botanica de La Libertad 2:1-34, 1970. With E. Hegewald and E. Schnepfe. Investigations on the lakes of Peru and their phytoplankton. 5. The algae of Laguna Piuray and Laguna Huaypo, Cuzco, with special reference to Franceia, Oocystis and Scenedesmus. Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 56, Algological Studies 25:387-420, 1980.  Algas andino peruanas como recurso
- [Attia Abdel Salam Ashour](https://neglectedscience.com/attia-abdel-salam-ashour/):  Attia Abdel Salam Ashour, Egyptian mathematician and geophysicist (Dumyat/Damietta 13 September 1924 – Cairo 17 April 2017) One of the few world experts on the mathematical theory of electromagnetic induction Showed that any current distribution in the ionospheric shell tends to rotate about the magnetic dipole axis With V.C.A. Ferraro. Induction of electric currents in a uniform anisotropic ionosphere. Nature 196 (4851):260, 1962 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.S. Abou-Dina. Exact solutions for certain two-dimensional problems of induction in thin non-uniform sheets. Geophys. Res. 95:17547-53, 1990 With M.S. Abou-Dina. A general method for evaluating the current system and its magnetic field of a
- [Atiqur Rahman Ansari](https://neglectedscience.com/atiqur-rahman-ansari/): Muhammad Atiqur Rahman Ansari, Pakistani entomologist and parasitologist (Punjab, India 15 November 1911 – Lahore 07 March 1979) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mallophaga Genera Alcediniphilus 1951 Columbimenopon 1951 Galliferrisia 1951 Gallilipeurus 1944 Painjunirmus 1947 Picophilopterus 1947 Picusphilus 1951 Traihoriella 1947 Ululoecus 1951 Species About 180 Protozoa Species Giardia marginalis 1951 Giardia nycticoris 1952 Giardia pseudoardeae 1951 Giardia recurvirostrae 1951 Retortamonas testudae 1955 Hemiptera Species Aonidia ziztyphi 1941 Mercetaspis peshawarensis 1941
- [ASIA](https://neglectedscience.com/asia/): O. Arunlakshana, Thai pharmacologist (fl.1949-59) Established a practical and rigorous procedure for the operational classification of competitive antagonism (Arunlakshana-Schild method for determining Kb of an antagonist)   With H.O. Schild. Some quantitative uses of drug antagonists. Br. J. Pharmacol. Chemother. 14(1):48-58, 1959 Authored Studies of indigenous drugs. I. Pharmacological study of the leaves of Cassia siamea. Siriraj Hosp. Gaz. 1:434-44, 1949 Dayananda Bajracharya, Nepalese plant physiologist (Maru Tole, Kathmandu 22 September 1945 – Kathmandu 11 November 2013) Authored 35 original research articles and 10 books With P. Schopfer first to observe signals originating in plastids regulating light-mediated development of peroxisome (1970s) Established that
- [Arturo Jorge Amos](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-jorge-amos/): Arturo Jorge Amos, Argentine geologist and paleontologist (Temperley, Buenos Aires Province 06 March 1927 – Buenos Aires 29 December 1999) DESCRIBED FOSSIL BRACHIOPODA TAXA Genus Sanjuania 1958 Species Ancillotoechia cooperensis 1971 with Noirat Azurduya chavelensis 1958 Beecheria patagonica 1958 Eocoelia quebecensis 1963 with Boucot Leptocoelia nunezi 1963 with Boucot Lissochonetes jachalensis 1961 Nudirostra cuyana 1961 Reticularia punillana 1958 Sanjuania dorsisulcata 1958 Spirifer chubutensis 1958 Syringothyris feruglioi 1957 HONORS (Fossil) Amosia Simanauskas 1996 (Brachiopoda) Amosiceras Sabattini, Riccardi & Pagani 2006 (Cephalopoda) Amosina Boucot 1975 (Brachiopoda) Amosius Gonzalez & Waterhouse 2004 (Mollusca) Amosioxylon Cesari, Archangelsky & Vega 2005 (Plantae) DID YOU KNOW? Competed in gymnastics at London Olympic Games (1948)  
- [Arturo Dárdano de Andrade Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-dardano-de-andrade-lima/): Arturo Dárdano de Andrade Lima, Brazilian botanist and phytogeographer (João Pessoa 12 September 1919 – Aracaju 13 September 1981) Created the main herbarium about flora of Caatinga formation that obtained international projection  Described two valid plant species Canistrum pickelii with L.B. Smith & Tovomita excelsa 1974 with Mariz   His complete bibliography can be obtained in Brittonia 34(3):351-4, 1982
- [Arturo Alberto Alezzandrini](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-alberto-alezzandrini/): Arturo Alberto Alezzandrini Brauer, Argentine ophthalmologist (Buenos Aires 24 November 1932 – Described Alezzandrini syndrome With A.M. Casalá. Vitiligo, poliosis unilateral com retinitis pigmentaria y hipoacusia. Arch. Arg. Dermatol. 9:449, 1959 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Toxoplasmosis ocular aguda adquirida (Nueva forma de inoculación). Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 59:135, 1984 Sindrome de “Morning Glory”. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 58:46-9, 1983 La retino-fluoresceinografia en las alteraciones del epitelio pigmentario de la retina. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 46:13-20, 1971 Macular degeneration and pits of the optic disc. Mod. Prob. Ophthalm. 9:171, 1971 L’angiomatose miliaire retinniene de Leber et la rétinite de Coats. Diagnostic différentiel par la retinophotographie apres injection
- [Arnaldo Acosta](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-acosta/): Andrés Arnaldo Acosta Nuñez, Paraguayan gynecologist and obstetrician Authored over 80 papers and 10 books He was Adjunct Professor at Baylor College of Medicine Presented Acosta classification for pelvis With V. Buttram, P. Besch, R. Malinak, R. Franklin & J. Vanderheyden. A proposed classification of endometriosis. Obstet. Gynecol. 42:19-25, 1973 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Velasquez & S.G. Mendoza. Menstrual cyclicity after metformin therapy in polycystic ovary syndrome. Obstet. Gynecol. 90:392, 1997 With G. DiZerega, R.H. Kaufman & A.L. Kaplan. Solid teratoma of the ovary (1975) With G.C. Stransky, A.I. Kaplan & J.A. Friedman. Reticulum cell sarcoma of the cervix. Obstet. Gynecol.
- [ARGENTINA](https://neglectedscience.com/argentina/): Juan Pedro Baigorri Velar, Argentine engineer and geophysicist (Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 March 1972) Invented the pluviógeno, a rainmaking apparatus (1926-38) with worldwide repercussion  José Antonio Balseiro Lahore, Argentine nuclear physicist (Cordoba 26 March 1919 – Bariloche, Rio Negro Province 26 March 1962) países From Spanish father and French-descent mother Father of physicist Carlos Antonio Balseiro Authored a work about optical properties of blood plasma that received comments in a bibliographic note of Nature With Antonio E. Rodríguez. The absorption spectrum of blood plasma and its stability with various agents. Publ. Fac. Cien. Fis. Mat. La
- [Apolinar Maria](https://neglectedscience.com/apolinar-maria/): Nicholas Seiler (Apolinar Maria), French-born Colombian Catholic missionary and naturalist (Sarreguemines, Alsace 05 November 1867 – Bogotá 24 December 1949) Authored 92 publications Collected and discovered about 300 species between animals and plants (described by other researchers) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Species Colias fassli 1944   Diaethria marginata 1928 Heliconius colombiana 1927 Heliconius leucosticta 1926 Heliconius mixta 1927 Heliconius xanthosticta 1926 Lymanopoda viventieni 1924 Morpho nigromarginata 1942 Papilio oberthuri 1916 Subspecies 18 Varieties 13 HONORS Apolinaria Rehn 1950 (Orthoptera) Seileria Dognin 1923 (Lepidoptera)
- [Antonio Julián Baldomero Acunã Galé](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-julian-baldomero-acuna-gale/): Antonio Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé, Cuban botanist, agronomist and plant pathologist (Camaguey 27 November 1900 – Ciudad de Mexico 24 July 1973) ACHIEVEMENTS  Demonstrated the transmission of Hoja Blanca virus by hemipteran Sogatodes oryzicola (Muir)   With L. Ramos-Ledon & Y. López Cardet. Sogata oryzicola Muir, vector de la enfermedad virosa hoja blanca del arroz en Cuba. Agrotecnica 23-24, 1958.  Version in English: Sogata oryzicola Muir, vector of the hoja blanca virus disease of rice in Cuba. Agrotecnica 4(2):8-15, 1966 DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Kodalyodendron 1973 with Borhidi Species Basiphyllaea wrightii Byrsonima luacesii 1953 with Roig Byrsonima moensis 1953 with Roig Castela leonis 1950 with Roig Castela victorinii 1950 with Roig Exostema
- [Antonio Eugenio de Area Leão](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-eugenio-de-area-leao/): Antonio Eugenio de Arêa Leão, Brazilian medical mycologist (Teresina 13 November 1895 – 1971) Authored at least 117 works Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis With Fernando Terra, Magarinos Torres & O. da Fonseca. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose por Acrotheca com associação de leishmaniosa. Bras.Med. 36(2):368-78, 1922.  Developed the first specific skin test for paracoccidiodomycosis With O. da Fonseca. Reaction cutanee specifique avec le filtrat de cellule du Coccidioides immitis. Comp. Rend. Seances Soc. Biol. 97:1796-7, 1927  Laid the foundations for control of mites that attack fungal cultures employing kerosene With M. T. de Mello & V. Mayor. Acarinos infestadores de cultura de cogumelos.
- [Antonio Dacio Franco do Amaral](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-dacio-franco-do-amaral/): Antonio Dácio Franco do Amaral, Brazilian parasitologist (1905 – São Paulo July 1994) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Amaral culture medium Nova modificação em meio de cultura para Endamoeba histolytica. An. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo  21:175-6, 1945 With A.C.R. Ramalho developed a protozoan staining method by ferric haematoxilin Developed Amaral-Mayrink ferric haematoxilin staining With W. Mayrink. Diagnóstico de laboratório de protozooses intestinais: modalidade prática para o emprego do fixador de Schaudinn. Rev. Paul. Med. 1-3, 1957 Modified Faust method for permanent preparation of amoebae Algumas contribuições do laboratório para o estudo da amebíase. Thesis, Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo (1944) DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Endolimax
- [Antonio Austregésilo](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-austregesilo/): Antonio Austregésilo Rodrigues Lima, Brazilian neurologist and author (Recife 21 April 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 23 December 1960) ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated how the endocrine syndromes appear associated and rarily separated (1903) Syndrome pluriglandular endocrine. Neurol. Clinic Series (1917) Demonstrated that camphor bromide produce epilepsy Ataques epileptoides produzidos pelo uso do brometo de canfora. Brasil Medico 57: 74, 1909 Described Austregesilo-Esposel sign With Faustino M. Esposel. Le phénomene de Babinski provoqué par éxcitation de la cuisse. L’Encéphale 7:429-36, 1912.  Published the first case of post traumatic dystonia in world literature With A. Marques. Dystonies. Rev.Neurol. 2:562-575, 1928. Described epidemic neuromyelitis or Austregésilo
- [Antonio Aleixo](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-aleixo/): Antonio Aleixo, Brazilian dermatologist (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State 02 February 1884 – Belo Horizonte 08 June 1943) Proposed a therapeutic process for tropical ulcer employing iodoform (Aleixo method) Padronização da bismutoterapia na sífilis e mais particularmente em face de alguns aspectos graves ou insólitos da infecção. Bras. Med. 57(12-3):131-44, 1943 His studies about pathological dactyloscopy had great international repercussion Dactiloscopia patologica. Brasil Medico 59:309-32, 1936 Developed Bismution, a bismuth preparation for treating syphilis (1923) Formulated rice powder Malvane and the soaps Haya & Araxá for Perfumaria Marçola SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Lepra e traumatismo. Folha Médica 20:277, 1936 Exame prenupcial como elemento de
- [Antonia Cecilia Zaccagnini Amaral](https://neglectedscience.com/antonia-cecilia-zaccagnini-amaral/): Antonia Cecília Zaccagnini Amaral, Brazilian marine zoologist (São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 15 November 1948 – DESCRIBED MARINE INVERTEBRATE TAXA Annelida Polychaeta Genera Articulatia 2003 with nogueira & Hutchings Morgana 2001 with Nogueira Nonatus 1980 Species Amphicorina schlenzae 2000 with Nogueira Arabella aracaensis 2009 with Steiner Articulatia aberrans 2003 with Nogueira & Hutchings Bhawania brunnea 1981 with Morgado Biarmifer nesiotes 2023 with Cunha & Fonseca Capitella aracaensis 2017 with da Silva Capitella biota 2017 with da Silva Capitella iatapiuna 2016 with da Silva, Shimabukuro, Alfaro-Lucas, Fujiwara & Sumida Capitella nonatoi 2017 with da Silva Diopatra hannelorae 2020 with Steiner Diopatra marinae 2020 with Steiner Diopatra pectiniconicum 2020 with Steiner Diopatra victorae 2020 with
- [Angel M. Andreetta](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-m-andreetta/): Angel M. Andreetta, Italian-born Ecuadorian Salesian missionarian and orchidologist (Castions di Zoppola, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1920 – Yumancay, Paute Canton, Azuay Province 13 September 2011) Discovered and described new species of Ecuadorian flora Performed botanical collections in this country DESCRIBED ORCHIDAE SPECIES (all with Luer except one) Alaticaulia carolloi 1980 Alaticaulia descendens 1988 Alaticaulia don-quijote 1985   Alaticaulia draconis 1988 Alaticaulia excelsior 1981 Alaticaulia guerrieroi 1978 Alaticaulia mayaycu 1989 Alaticaulia pinocchio 1978 Alaticaulia portillae 1978 Alaticaulia virens 1980 Alaticaulia virgo-cuencae 1978 Dracula gigas 1978 Dracula hirsuta 1980 Dracula psyche 1978 Dracula ubangina 1978 Luzuma berthae 1989 Luzuma expers 1988 Luzuma machinanzae 1989 Luzuma sanchezii 1980 Masdevallia ampullacea 1979 Masdevallia bottae 1980 Masdevallia echinata 1978 Masdevallia eurygonaster 1988 Masdevallia glomerosa 1991 Masdevallia hirtzi 1982 with Dodson Masdevallia instar 1978 Masdevallia morochoi 1989
- [Angel Alcala](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-alcala/): Angel Chua Alcalá, Philippine herpetologist and marine ecologist (Cauayan, Negros Occidental Province 01 March 1929 – Dumaguete, Negros Oriental Province 01 February 2023)   DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Reptilia Valid Species Brachymeles bicolandica 2011 with Siler, Fuiten, Jones & Brown Brachymeles brevidactylus 2011 with Siler, Fuiten, Jones & Brown Brachymeles cobos 2011 with Siler, Fuiten, Jones & Brown Brachymeles libayani 2011 with Siler, Fuiten, Jones & Brown Brachymeles minimus 1995 with Brown Brachymeles praeforum 2011 with Siler, Fuiten, Jones & Brown Draco palawensis 2000 with McGuire   Eutropis cumingi 1980 with Brown Eutropis indeprensa 1980 with Brown Gekko athymus 1962 with Brown Gekko coi 2011 with Siler, Oliveros, Diesmos & Brown Gekko gigante 1978 with Brown Gekko romblon 1978
- [Angel Aballí Arellano](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-aballi-arellano/): Angel Arturo Aballí Arellano, Cuban pediatrician (Matanzas 30 September 1880 – La Habana 22 July 1952) Authored over 100 articles and 2 books (such as Lecciones de Patologia y Clinicas Infantiles, 1922) Colaborated with Schlossman & Pflaunder in their encyclopedic treatise of Pediatrics SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medula osea en la anemia experimental (1902) Estudio de las hemoconias (1902) Sobre el metodo de coloración de Goldhorn (1902) Contribución al estudio de la atrofia infantil. Aparato digestivo y anexos en el atrofico (1903) Nota experimental sobre la decapsulación del riñon (1903)  With J. Guiteras. Anatomia patológica de la fiebre amarilla (1904) Esclerema en la
- [Anelio Aguayo](https://neglectedscience.com/anelio-aguayo/): Anelio Aguayo Lobo, Chilean mammalogist (Curepto, Talca Province, Maule Region 21 August 1933 – Pioneered ecological studies on cetaceans of America Showed that whales migrates to Antartic waters in the winter With R. Bernal, C. Olavarría, V. Vallejos e R. Hucke-Gaete. Observaciones de cetaceos realizadas entre Valparaiso e isla de Pascua, Chiler, durante los inviernos de 1993, 1994 y 1995. Rev. Biol. Mar. Ocean. 33(1):101-23, 1998 First to report these colour patterns for this species With J. Acevedo & D. Torres. Rare piebald and partially leucistic Antartic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica. Polar Biol. 32(1):41-5, 2009 Reported
- [André Audant](https://neglectedscience.com/andre-audant/): André Audant, Haitian agricultural entomologist (Jérémie 05 October 1909 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Experiments on the practical control of stored grain insects with a revolving drum-type heater (1931) La chenille du cotonnier (Alabama argillacea Hubner) en Haiti (1933) With A. Occenard. The Mexican cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) in Haiti. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 21:69-76, 1937   With A. Hulsizer. Relevé de la pêche (1943) Identification des insectes d’Haiti par leur noni creole. Rev. Soc. Hist. Geogr. Haiti 12 (42):51-55, 1941  Insectes du mais (1945) La lutte contre les rats. Bull. Agri. Haiti 1(7):13-16 & (9):13-16, 1951 HONORS  Audantia Cochran 1934 (Reptilia) 
- [Andres Angulo](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-angulo/): Andrés Angulo Ormeño, Chilean entomologist (Osorno 01 April 1942 – 24 September 2022) Tecnica histologica para huevos incubados de Orthoptera (1967) Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción 41:207, 1969 With G. T. Weigert. Nuevos tipos de huevos en noctuídeos chilenos (Lepidoptera: Noctuiudae). Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción 51(1):289-98, 1977 DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA TAXA Lepidoptera Genera Albirenia 1999 with Olivares Austrandesiina 1990 with Olivares Brachyvalva 2005 with Olivares Curvalia 2000 with Olivares Eltafia 1998 Euryclasper 2010 with Olivares Gentiliana 2010 with Olivares Helicocervix 1999 with Olivares Inequivalva 2005 with Olivares Janaesia 1993 Koehleriana 2015 with Olivares Magnagrotis 1998 with Badilla Missio 1998 Neopersectania 2006 with Rodríguez Pehuenquenia 1999 with Olivares Plicata 2004 with Olivares Seravilo 2006 Tenera 2000 with Rodríguez Species 60 Diptera Species
- [ANDEAN COUNTRIE](https://neglectedscience.com/andean-countrie/): Canuto Cardona Alvarez, Colombian plant geneticist (Pacora, Panama District 31 January 1919 – April 1977) With S.H. Orozco & L.H. Camacho developed Diacol Nima variety of beans (1959) With R.L. Skiles. Mancha gris, a new leaf disease of bean in Colombia (1959) (gray leaf spot of beans) Teobaldo Llosa Paredes, Peruvian plant pathologist (Arequipa 1908 – 04 July 1996) Una nueva enfermedad en los Eucalyptus (1937) (a disease by Pestalozzia) Investigaciones referentes al wilt del agodonero y nuevo metodo para aislar hongos del tipo Verticillum o Fusarium de plantas atacadas por el “wilt” del algodonero (1938) Alejandro López Restrepo, Colombian engineer and economist (Medellín 04 June
- [Anastasio Alfaro Gonzalez](https://neglectedscience.com/anastasio-alfaro-gonzalez/): Anastasio de Jesus Alfaro Gonzalez, Costa Rican naturalist, ethnologist and archaeologist (Alajuela 16 February 1865 – San José de Costa Rica 19 January 1951) Collected birds, insects, plants and  minerals Described valid avian species Aegolius ridgwayi 1905 and its subspecies Aegolius ridgwayi ridgwayi 1905  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Investigaciones Cientificas (1935) El delfín de Corubicí (1964) Antiguedades de Costa Rica (1896) Arqueologia criminal americana (1906) Mamiferos de Costa Rica (1897) Etnologia Centro-americana (1893) with Manuel María Peralta Orquídeas MEMBERSHIP/HONOURS Correspondant Member, American Ornithological Union (1888) & Geographic Society of Nurenberg (1924) Life Member, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1932) First Class of Royal Order of Vasa,
- [Ameghino brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/ameghino-brothers/): Florentino Ameghino, Argentine paleontologist (Luján, Buenos Aires Province 18 September 1854 – La Plata 06 August 1911) Son of Italian parents. Some say that his name was Juan Bautista Fiorino José Ameghino and that was born in Italy.  ACHIEVEMENTS   Gained world renown for his studies about Terciarian and Quaternarian mammalia from Argentina   Discovered over 6,000 fossil species being most of  them new to science (of these 450 were new species of Fossil Mammalia) Created and named 35 suborders of Fossil Mammalia Described 3 orders, 1 suborder, 3 families, 6 genera e 2 subspecies of Living Mammalia Joined to his brother Carlos
- [Alvaro Osorio de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-osorio-de-almeida/): Alvaro Osorio (Ozorio) de Almeida, Brazilian physiologist (Porto Alegre 06 November 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 06 May 1952) Brother of physiologist Miguel Osorio de Almeida ACHIEVEMENTS Created a phenolphthalein relative, the nephthol-β and developed a new treatment method for ancylostomiasis employing it (1912) Invented ureterovenous anastomosis L’anastomose urétero-veineuse. Nouvelle technique pour l’étude de certaines fonctions du rein. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 96:383-4, 1927 Established the oxygen tolerance range under pressure in little mammals Demonstrated that radiations produce pathological changes in tissues through free radicals formation Recherches sur l’action toxique des hautes pressions d’oxygene. Comp. Rend. Mem. Soc. Biol. 115:1225-7, 1934
- [Alvaro Alvim](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-alvim/): Alvaro Freire de Villalba Alvim, Brazilian radiologist (Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro State 16 April 1863 – Rio de Janeiro 21 May 1928) ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained the first radiography of xiphopagus in the world (1897) permitting Chapot-Prevost perform his operation.  Invented leaded paper  His father, Carlos Freire de Villalba Alvim, Brazilian Army officer (Rio de Janeiro State 1833 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1909) From Uruguayan father BRAZILIAN PATENTS (with Jorge Alberto Vinchon) Açougues volantes, systema Villalba nº876 (1890) Carroças, systema Villalba, destinadas a transporte de lixo (1890) Novo systema de tilburys para duas pessoas denominado Tilburys Federaes nº 939 (1890) Novo
- [Ali Al-Rawi](https://neglectedscience.com/ali-al-rawi-2/): Ali Al-Rawi, Iraqi botanist (fl. 1955 – 1987) HONORS Alrawia Perss & Wendebo (Asparagaceae) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.S. Daoud. Flora of Kuwait. Vol 1 (1985) Flora of Kuwait. Vol 2 (1987) With H.L. Chaakravarty. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Bulletin n. 146, Ministry of Agriculture and Technology, Baghdad. 1964  Wild Plants of Iraq with their distribution. Government Press, Baghdad, 1964.  Poisonous plants of Iraq. Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Iraq. Government Press. Baghdad, 1966.  With A.A. Al-Salih. A study of the cytology of two female cultivars of date palm. Date Palm Journal 5:123-142, 1987.   
- [Ali Al-Rawi](https://neglectedscience.com/ali-al-rawi/): Ali Al-Rawi, Iraqi botanist (fl. 1955 – 1987) HONORS Alrawia Perss & Wendebo (Asparagaceae) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.S. Daoud. Flora of Kuwait. Vol 1 (1985) Flora of Kuwait. Vol 2 (1987) With H.L. Chaakravarty. Medicinal Plants of Iraq. Bulletin n. 146, Ministry of Agriculture and Technology, Baghdad. 1964  Wild Plants of Iraq with their distribution. Government Press, Baghdad, 1964.  Poisonous plants of Iraq. Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Iraq. Government Press. Baghdad, 1966.  With A.A. Al-Salih. A study of the cytology of two female cultivars of date palm. Date Palm Journal 5:123-142, 1987.   
- [Alfonso Roque Albanese](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-roque-albanese/): 3 (Lamina duodeno-mesentero-mesocólica derecha described in 1959 Proposed the concept of axillo-ganglionic vertices (1975) Reported the first cases in the world in Tetralogia de Fallot y dextrocardia (1948) Reported the first case in literature of congenital cardiopathy with surgical solution employing preserved artery Cirugia de las cardiopatias congenitas. 215 operados (1952) TECHNIQUES/METHODS A technique for supraumbilical median incisional hernias Eventración mediana xifoumbilical gigante: metodo para su tratamiento. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 65:376, 1951 Albanese operation (escoplage and tuboescoplage) Escoplage: a new surgical technique for treatment of venous disorders   Created cervico-mediastinal biopsy method Developed original methods for dissection and presentation of anatomical
- [Alfonso Arguello](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-arguello/): Alfonso Arguello Cervantes, Nicaraguan surgeon and anatomist (León 29 September 1901 – León 1977) Discovered paravesical ganglia (under the supervision of Henri Rouviere) Clarified the lymph drainage of prostate Les lymphatiques de la vessie. Ann. Anat. Path. 5:209-75, 1928
- [Alejandro J. Arvia](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-j-arvia/): Alejandro Jorge Arvia Stupenengo, Argentine electrochemist (La Plata 14 January 1928 – Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires Province 22 April 2021) Authored over 800 papers, 19 books and many book chapters Established new methodologies for quantitative management of biological data With H.J. Schumacher authored pioneer works in the field of gas phase reaction kinetics in the presence of flourine Gave contributions to matter transport theories on rotative, cylindric and conic electrodes with many citations Developed mono-oriented noble-metal surfaces by simple application of periodic electrical potential disturbances  DEVELOPED/DISCOVERED With W.A. Egli, A. Visintin & W.E. Triaca. The development of faceting and roughening at platinum polyfacetted-single crystal electrodes
- [Aldo Andreoni](https://neglectedscience.com/aldo-andreoni/): Aldo Andreoni, Brazilian naval engineer (São Paulo 14 February 1917 – São Paulo 12 July 2005) CONTRIBUTIONS Aplicações do pinho Paraná em pequenas embarcações. Rev. Politecnica S. Paulo 47 (160):27-30, 1951 Peso especifico das madeiras verdes. Diagrama para sua determinação. Anuario Bras. Econ. Florestal 10:301-6, 1958 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY/OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS O catamarã Paicará (1972) Resultado das provas de resistência à propulsão do modelo de um navio hidrográfico de 45 m (1966) Influência da forma e da profundidade na resistência a propulsão dos barcos para o Rio Tocantins (1964) Comparative tests of three similar models of river boat. Int Shipbuild. Progress 11:115, 1964
- [Alcidio Abrão](https://neglectedscience.com/alcidio-abrao/): Alcídio Abrão, Brazilian physical chemist (São José da Bela Vista, São Paulo State 18/08/1925 – São Paulo 03/03/2011) Authored over 180 works DEVELOPED A method to obtaining uranium with pure nucleus via ionic exchange (1961) with F.W. Lima;  patented in 1968 Amidoxine resin A process for semi quantitative identification of gallium using ionic resin (1995) Methods for lithium determination in amblygonite and other compounds Described a single procedure for isolating the short half life thallium 208 from common thorium salts in Radiochemical separation of thallium from thorium by anion exchange resin: A 208TI reservoir. J. Chem. Educ. 41(11), 1964   PATENTS/PROCESSES    With
- [Alberto Arellano](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-arellano/): Alberto Ricardo Arellano Valadez, Mexican paleontologist and stratigrapher (Aguascalientes 08 November 1908 – 1971) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   With G.A. Cooper. Stratigraphy near Caborca, northwets Sonora, Mexico. AAPG Bulletin. 30(4):606-11, 1946 With Kirk Bryan. Datos geológicos sobre la antiguedad Del hombre em La cuenca de Mejico. Memoria del 2ndo Congresso Mexicano de Ciências Sociales. Tomo V, 1946. El elefante fosil de Tepexpam (Tepexpan) y El hombre primitivo. Ver. Mexicana de Estudios Antropologicos. 8(1-3); 1946. La composición de las rocas vulcanicas em la parte sur de la cuenca de Mejico. Bol. Soc. Geol. Mexicana 13(1):81-2, 1948. With Florencia Müller. La Cueva Encantada de Chimacatlán,
- [Agustín Andrade y Pastor](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-andrade-y-pastor/): Agustín Andrade y Pastor, Mexican surgeon (Paris 03 May 1833 – Ciudad de Mexico 05 December 1886) One of the first surgeons (if not the first) to use metal channeling of the posterior segment of the eye for the cure of retinal detachment Designed some surgical instruments such as a trocar for puncturing retro-uterine abscesses (1882) First to propose employing molar teeth as a mean for identifying people of Indian races (1864)
- [Agustin Ayala Castañares](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-ayala-castanares/): Agustín Ayala-Castañares, Mexican micropaleontologist (Mazatlán, Sinaloa 28 August 1925 – 23 November 2005) First to use satellite technology applied to marine geology With F.B. Phleger. Processes and history of Terminos Lagoon, Mexico. Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 55(12):2130-40, 1971 DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA Species Orbitoides villasensis 1963 with Seiglie Orbitolina morelensis 1960 Reophax encantoensis 1954 with Eternod & Castello Stomiosphaera cardiiformis 1962 with Seiglie Sulcoperculina diazi 1963 with Seiglie Sulcoperculina minima 1963 with Seiglie Subspecies Vaughnanina cubensis minor 1963 with Seiglie Vaughnanina cubensis globosa 1963 with Seiglie HONORS Associated Researcher, Scripps Institute, USA (from 1968) Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Bordeaux (1988) Life Member, Pacific Science and Technology Congress (PACON) 1992
- [AFRICA](https://neglectedscience.com/africa/): Ahmed Abdel-Rassoul, Egyptian radiochemist (Alexandria March 1929 – Developed analytical schemes based on nuclear activation Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, Ghanaian mathematical physicist (Saltpond, Mfantsiman 09 August 1932 – Accra 02 November 2017)  First to introduce electron hole scattering resonances effect on soft x-ray spectroscopy known as Allotey formalism or principle Proposed the use of carbon nanotubes as thermoelements for refrigeration With S.Y. Mensah, N.G.Mensah & G. Nkrumah. Giant electrical power factor in single-walled chiral carbon nanotube. Superlattices & Microstructures 33 (3):173-80, 2003 HONOURS Doctor Honoris Causa, Karlstad University, Sweden (2006) Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe, Ghanaian physician, anthropologist and writer (Keta, Volta Region 12
- [Afranio do Amaral](https://neglectedscience.com/afranio-do-amaral/): Afranio Pompilio Bastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (Belém 12 January 1894 – São Paulo 29 November 1982) Gained world renown in herpetology and zoological nomenclature Created the term solenotodont for a kind of maxillary dentition in snakes Reported the first case of necrophilism among snakes in scientific literature Sobre um caso de necrofilia heteróloga na jararaca. Bol. Biol. 1(1):1-2, 1933 Notas sobre chromatismo de ofídios. III. Um caso de xanthismo e um novo de albinismo, observados no Brasil. Mem. Inst. Butantan 8:149, 1934 DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA   Genera Leptodrymus 1927 Drymoluber 1929 Uromacerina 1929   Anotosaura 1932 Colobodactylus 1932 Tapinurus 1932 Lioheterophis 1934 Mastigodryas 1934 Calamodontophis 1936 Species 46 Subspecies 
- [Adeodato family](https://neglectedscience.com/adeodato-family/): José Adeodato de Souza, Brazilian gynecologist and obstetrician (Cachoeira, Bahia State 12 December 1873 – Salvador 16 October 1930) Authored over 50 works Described Adeodato occult menstruation (1913) known as Pozzi obstructive amenorrhea or apparent amenorrhea too Modified ligamentous hysteropexy of Gilliam (Gilliam-Adeodato hysteropexy) José Adeodato de Souza Filho His son, José Adeodato de Souza Filho, gynecologist and obstetrician (Salvador 25 February 1907 – 07 August 1984) Authored over 100 papers plus 2 books and 4 theses Authored a classical work about trichomoniasis With A. Dourado. Trichomoniasis in female. Rev. Gynec. Et d’obst. 1:680-91, 1938 Developed the first vaccine for protozoan (trichomoniasis)
- [Adem brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/adem-brothers/): José Adem Chahin, Mexican mathematician (Tuxpan, Veracruz State 27 October 1921 – Ciudad de Mexico 14 February 1991) Son of Lebanese immigrants Developed formulae about Steenrod algebras worldwide known With S. Gitler & Y.K. Lam defined secondary operations Performed important contributions to immersion problem An elementary solution of a problem of anisotropic elasticity (1949) Adem relations, Adem formula, Adem extension theorem, Adem phenomenon, Adem cohomology operations, Adem cocyclic operations, Adem-Cartan álgebras & Adem-Cartan operads The iteration of the Steenrod squares in algebraic topology. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sciences USA 38:720-6, 1952 Relations on iterated reduced powers. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sciences USA 39:636-8,
- [Abreu Fialho family](https://neglectedscience.com/abreu-fialho-family/): José Antonio de Abreu Fialho, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Aracaju 20 January 1874 – Rio de Janeiro 17 March 1940) Authored over 200 works (many of them in German) Described an unique case in ophthalmology Ueber eine ausgedehnte luetische Erkrankung des Auges mit Mitbetheligung der Conjunctiva (1901) Proposed a trial frame Tratado de Ophtalmologia. Anomalias da refração ou defeitos ópticos do olho (1926) Developed Abreu Fialho method for treatment of detached retina Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Netzhautablösung. Klin. Mlbd. Augenheilk. 104:525-33, 1940 Modified the Prokhorow method for treating of ocular syphilis Tratamento da syphilis (ocular) pelo método de Prokhorow modificado. Gaz. Clin. (1906)
- [Abraão Akerman](https://neglectedscience.com/abraao-akerman/): Abraão (Abraham) Akerman, Russian-born Brazilian neurosurgeon (Petrograd, Russia  27 February 1908 – Rio de Janeiro 19 July 1985) ACHIEVEMENTS Gained international recognition for his studies concerning central nervous system diseases Described Alajouanine-Akerman ataxic unstable hand With T. A.J. Alajouanine. Attitude de la main dans une poussée monobrachiale astéréognosique de la sclérose en plaques. Rev. Neurol. 1:318-322, 1931. Published with Paulo Niemeyer and Barreto Neto the paper Arterite de célula gigante (Arterite Temporal). Med. Cirurgia e Farm. (Rio de Janeiro) 252:117, 1957, that gained success in United States and USSR.  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Clinica das discinesias. Med. Cir. Farm. 231:306-28, 1955 Tratamento da
- [Abel Ayerza](https://neglectedscience.com/abel-ayerza/): Abel Teodato Ayerza Zabala, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 21 May 1861 – Buenos Aires 14 July 1918) Authored over 200 medical works Reported Arrillaga-Ayerza syndrome (cardiacos negros) in a lecture at 20 August 1901 ( Arrillaga published a full description of the disease in 1925) Described a variety of policitemia vera or Ayerza disease (1901)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cardiopatia consecutiva a la escarlatina. Ann.Circ.Med. Arg 10:297, 1887  With H.G. Piñero. “Coup de chaleur”. Contribución a su estudio. Rev. Soc.Med. Arg. 7:417-53, 1899 Radiografia del neumotorax. Rev.Soc.Med.Arg (1900) Ulcera gastrica traumatica: hernia diafragmatica. Ann.Cir.Med.Arg 25:426, 1902 With J. Vitón. El sindroma hematico de la ankylostomiasis
- [A. Amaro](https://neglectedscience.com/a-amaro/): Alcides Amaro Verissimo, Brazilian protozoologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 May 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1973) Methods in the general biology of the Opalinid Protozoa. Ann. Biol. Teacher 29 (7): 546-51, 1967 Nota prévia sobre um meio para o cultivo de protozoários enterozoicos de anuros. Atas Soc. Biol. Rio de Janeiro 9:13-4, 1965 DESCRIBED PROTOZOAN TAXA Families Nyctotheridae 1972 Sicyaphoridae 1972 Genera Acuminata 1966 Aduncuperistomatus 1968 with Sena Antunesia 1966 Caudicula 1966 Caudiculata 1966 Cornucopioides 1966 Curviperistomatus 1967 with Sena Filliformis 1966 Globoides 1966 Longa 1966 Nipponica 1966 Orientalis 1966 Ovalis 1966 Paucinucleata 1966 Phrynomantidis 1966 Plata 1966 Plurinucleata 1966 Promitotica 1966 Pulchra 1966 Rectiperistomatus 1968 with Sena Recurviperistomatus 1967 with Sena Sigmaperistomatus 1968 with Sena Spinifera 1966 Spiroperistomatus 1968 with Sena Xysteroides 1966
- [Sergio Archangelsky](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-archangelsky/): Sergio Archangelsky, Argentine paleobotanist and biostratigrapher (Casablanca, Morocco 27 March 1931 – Buenos Aires 10 July 2022) Son of Russian immigrants First in the world to study ultrathin cuts of epidermic cuticles employing transmission electron microscope. With T.N. Taylor & M.H. Kurmann. Ultrastructural studies of fossil plant cuticles. Ticoa harrisii from the early Cretaceous of Argentina. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 92(2):101-16, 1986 With E.J. Romero. Early Cretaceous Angiosperm leaves from Southern South America. Science 234 (1783):1580-2, 1986 DESCRIBED/NAMED Family Ferugliocladaceae 1987 (with Cuneo) Fossil Plants Austrocalyxaceae 2001 with Vega Genera (Others) Antulisporites 1966 (with Gamerro) Palynology Heliosporites 1966 with Gamerro (Palynology) Balmeiopsis 1979 (Palynology) Gamerroites 1988 (Palynology) Alkastrobus 2005 (with
- [Samime Artuz](https://neglectedscience.com/samime-artuz/): Fatma Samime Artuz, Turkish palynologist (1925 – 1982) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE/POLLEN TAXA Genera Aculeispores 1957 Bellispores 1957 Ibrahimispores 1957 Oguzisporites 1964 with Ibrahim Potoniespores 1957 Schlehanispores 1959 Sinuspores 1957 Species Acanthotriletes echinatoides 1957 Aculeispores aculeus 1957 Alatisporites erimi 1957 Apiculatisporites punctaornatus 1957 Apiculatisporites subspinosus 1957 Auroraspora erimi 1957 Bellispores bellus 1957 Camptotriletes maculosus 1957 Converrucosisporites arali 1964 with Ibrahim Converrucosisporites crassipunctatus 1957 Converrucosisporites idili 1964 with Ibrahim Converrucosisporites tuberoornatus 1957 Cristatisporites splendidus 1957 Cyclogranisporites aureolus 1957 Cyclogranisporites carinatus 1957 Cyclogranisporites elatus 1957 Densosporites belliatus 1957 Densosporites crassigranifer 1957 Densosporites flavus 1957 Densosporites formosus 1957 Densosporites marginata 1957 Densosporites microanatolicus 1957 Densosporites microponticus 1957 Densosporites microsilvanus 1957 Dictyotriletes fragilis 1957 Ibrahimispores microhorridus 1957 Leiotriletes grandiculus 1955 Leiotriletes microtriangulus 1957 Lophotriletes faithi 1957 Lophotriletes granoornatus 1957 Lycospora lepidus 1957 Lycospora microcarbonica 1957 Lycospora nitida 1957 Lycospora paulula 1957 Lycospora tenuireticulata 1957 Lycospora uzunmehmedi 1957 Oguzisporites uzulmezi 1964
- [Sami Arap](https://neglectedscience.com/sami-arap/): Sami Arap, Brazilian urologist (14 July 1934 – São Paulo 15 March 2018) From Turkish descent Correlated dermatomyositis in childhood to ureteral necrosis With M. Borrelli, M.J. Prado, P. Cordeiro & E.R. Wroclawski. Ureteral necrosis in dermatomyositis. J. Urol (1998) With E. David Neto, D.S. Ribeiro, L.E. Ianhez, S. Palomino, L.B. Saldanha & E. Sabbaga. Acute interstitial nephritis of plasma cells: a new cause of renal allograft loss. Transpl. Proceed. 25(1)Pt2:897-9, 1993 Described the first case of complete triplication of the ureter associated with an ectopic ureterocele With R.N. Lopes, A.I. Mitre & G.M. Góes. Complete triplication of the ureter associated with an
- [Salvador Armendares](https://neglectedscience.com/salvador-armendares/): Salvador Armendares Sagrera, Spanish-born Mexican human geneticist and genetical anthropologist (Villafranca del Penedés, Barcelona 07 July 1925 – Ciudad de Mexico 28 January 2010) Authored over 130 papers and 29 books Described new genetic and chromosomal syndromes such as partial trisomy of short arms of 2, 10 & 12 chromosomes With J.M. Cantu Garza & L. Buentello. Cp trisomy: a new syndrome. Ann. Genet. 14(3):177-86, 1971 With F. Salamanca, S. Nava, S. Ramírez & J.M. Cantu. The 12 p trisomy syndrome. Ann. Genet. 18(2):89-94, 1975 With F. Salamanca. Characterization of the new syndromes of genetic origin. Gac. Med. Mex. 113(7):321-34, 1977  Described
- [Saad El Din Ansary](https://neglectedscience.com/saad-el-din-ansary/): Saad El Din Mostafa al Ansary, Egyptian micropaleontologist (fl.1950-77) DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA SPECIES Anomalina fayoumensis 1955 Anomalina hofensis 1963 with Ismail Ceratobulimina sinaensis 1966 Discorbis bakrensis 1966 with Tewfik Discorbis simplex 1966 with Tewfik Flabellina gahannamensis 1955 Gaudryina matulaensis 1966 with Tewfik Gyroidina aegyptiaca 1955 Halophragmoides frizzelli 1966 with Tewfik Halophragmoides orbanensis 1966 with Tewfik Halophragmoides zeitensis 1966 with Tewfik Lacosteina maquawilensis 1958 with Fawhr Nonion fayoumensis 1955 Nonion maadiensis 1955 Nonion trompi 1955 Planulina synaensis 1955 Pseudoglandulina synaensis 1955 Robulus trompi 1955 Saracenaria barnardi 1955 With Emara (1966) Ammobaculites hensoni Ammobaculites sinaensis Ammomarginulina curvatura Ammomarginulina elongata Anomalina sinaensis Bolivinoides beckmanni Bolivinoides minsheraensis Bolivinoides shatai Ellipsoidina osmani Epistominella ghorabi Flabellammina bielevata Marginulina paleocenica Pseudoclavulina gigantea Robulus ellisi Vaginulina subtaylorana Valvulineria
- [Rubens de Azevedo](https://neglectedscience.com/rubens-de-azevedo/): Rubens de Azevedo, Brazilian amateur astronomer (Fortaleza 30 October 1921 – Fortaleza 17 January 2008) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a Transitory Lunar Phenomenon (TLP) involving crater Aristarch in the Moon (1969); it was confirmed by astronaut Edwin Aldrin.  Discovered one Lunar valley near crater Grimaldi (1963). It was confirmed by Chilean astronomers a year after. One suggested that the valley should be called Vallis Azevedo or Vallis Brasiliensis. It is object of controversy   MEMBERSHIP Active Member, Lunar International Observers Network, NASA. Member, Societé Astronomique de France Member, Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomia Fellow Member, International Lunar Society. A good biography: http://astronomiaemfortaleza.blogspot.com/2008/02/61anos-da-criao-da-sbaasociedade.html (in Portuguese)  
- [Rosario Averna-Sacca](https://neglectedscience.com/rosario-averna-sacca/): Rosario Averna-Saccá, Italian-born Brazilian agronomist and plant pathologist (1883 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 11 August 1951) Reported the symptoms of magnesium deficiency in cotton, coffee, citrus and vine plants with the indication to correct them by applying dolomitic lime Chlorosis of orange and other plants on ferruginous soils. Bol. Agric. S. Paulo  13(2):129-50, 1912 First to verify in vine plant that the amplitude of the angles formed by central rib and the laterals as a fixed character of the races (190?) With O. Comes established correlation between the acidity of cell sap and biochemical phenomena L’ acidita dei succhi delle
- [Romualdo Ferreira d'Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/romualdo-ferreira-dalmeida/): Romualdo Ferreira d’Almeida, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 February 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 24 August 1969) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA  Subtribe Dircennina 1941 Genera Languida 1922 Mansueta 1922 Rhadinoptera 1922 Placidina 1928 Diogas 1938 Epityches 1938 Garsaurites 1938  Rhodussa 1939 Gelotophye 1940  Lonia 1945   Dulcedo 1951 Ceratiscada 1970 (with Brown) Species About 175 Others 15 subspecies and 5 varieties  EPONYMY   Almeidaia Travassos 1938 (Lepidoptera) Almeidella Oiticica 1946 (Lepidoptera) Romualdia Rego Barros 1957 (Lepidoptera) Romualdisca D’Andretta & Travassos 1946 (Lepidoptera)  HONORS   Alcides d’Orbigny Prix (1929), Societé Entomologique de France.  A good biographical note in http://peabody.research.yale.edu/jls/pdfs/1970s/1974/1974-28(3)293-Mielke.pdf
- [Roger Pierre Hippolyte Arlé](https://neglectedscience.com/roger-pierre-hippolyte-arle/): Roger Pierre Hippolyte Arlé, French-born Brazilian entomologist (1909-2001) Respected as world authority on soil ecology GENERA DESCRIBED Cenobiopelma 1934 (with Mello-Leitão) Arachnida Abernessia 1947 Hymenoptera Tupiaporus 1947 Hymenoptera   Brachystomellides 1959 Collembola Ctenocyrtinus 1959 Collembola Micronella 1959 Collembola Organella 1959 Collembola  Paranurella 1959 Collembola Nothobrya 1961 Collembola Halachorutes 1966 Orthoptera Hylaeanura 1966 Orthoptera Pseudostachia 1968 Collembola Najtia 1986 (with Mendonça) Collembola Described at least 73 Collembola species from Brazilian fauna HONORS Arlea Womersley 1939 (Collembola) Arlesia Handschin 1942 (Collembola) Arlesiella Delamare-Deboutteville 1951 (Collembola) Arlesminthurus Bretfeld 1999 (Collembola) Arlemiris Carvalho 1984 (Hemiptera)
- [Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras](https://neglectedscience.com/rodrigo-alvarez-cambras/): Rodrigo José Alvarez Cambras, Cuban orthopedic surgeon (Candelaria, Pinar del Rio 22 December 1934 – La Habana 02 March 2023) Authored 95 papers and 7 books Described 9 new surgical techniques such as Ralca external fixator mounting for treatment of hip fracture  With O.M. de Cardenas Centeno, F.A. Croas Fernandez, M. Guzmán Vazquez, S. Hernandez Masón & M León Garcia. Presentación de un protocolo para la artroplastia total de rodilla. Rev. Cuban. Ortop. Traumatol. 22(2), 2008 Clinical validation of a new simple photon apparatus bone densimeter in hip fractures: patients and controls. Osteoporosis Intern. 7(3), 1997  With F. Lorenzo Garcia, A.
- [Renato Lion de Araújo](https://neglectedscience.com/renato-lion-de-araujo/): Renato Lion de Araújo, Brazilian entomologist (Lambari, Minas Gerais State 29 August 1912 – Rio de Janeiro 07 September 1978) Authored about 66 works on entomology and applied entomology DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Isoptera Genera Dihoplotermes 1961 Cyranotermes 1970 Species Angularitermes orestes 1970 Cortaritermes rizzinii 1971 Cyranotermes timuassu 1970 Dentispicotermes conjunctus 1969 Dihoplotermes inusitatus 1961 Embiratermes transandinus 1977 Labiotermes emersoni 1954 Neocapritermes araguaia 1968 with Krishna Neocapritermes guyana 1968 Neocapritermes talpoides 1968 with Krishna Neocapritermes taracua 1968 with Krishna Neocapritermes utiariti 1968 with Krishna Orthognathotermes insignis 1977 Paracornitermes emersoni 1954 Paracornitermes hirsutus 1954 Tauritermes vitulus 1979 with Fontes Hymenoptera Genus Angiopolybia 1946 Species Metapolybia azteca 1945 Metapolybia bromelicola 1945 Coleoptera Atractocerus almeidai 1941 Tiphaura annonae 1946 HONORS Genera Araujotermes Fontes 1982 (Isoptera) Araujoa Artigas & Papavero 1991
- [Reinout Altman](https://neglectedscience.com/reinout-altman/): Reinout Ferdinand Alexander Altman, Dutch-born Brazilian chemist (Indonesia 08 March 1909 – Rio de Janeiro 24 September 1993) CONTRIBUTIONS With G.M. Kraay. Isolation and identification of lecithins from Hevea latex. Arch. Rubbercultuur. 24:58-73, 1940 Development of a general scheme of analysis. Arch. Rubbercultuur 25:1-13, 1941 Rubber metabolism in plant life. Development of a new theory. Intern. Congr. Biochem. Abst. Commun. Cambridge p.496-7, 1949  With P.M. Cotias & L. Spoladore. BUSP: a slowly growing experimental fibrosarcoma. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 71(4):485-92, 1973 A simple method for the rapid production of atherosclerosis in rats. Experimentia 25:256, 1973 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Chemistry With S.F.A. Souto. Duas
- [Rango Krishna Asundi](https://neglectedscience.com/rango-krishna-asundi/): Rango Krishna Asundi, Indian molecular spectroscopist (Dharwar District, Karnataka State 14 August 1895 – Bombay 02 February 1982) Discovered an electronic band system in molecular spectrum of carbon monoxide (Johnson-Asundi-Herzberg bands) A new band system of carbon monoxide (31S→21P), with remarks on the Angstrom band system.Proceed. Roy. Soc. A 123(792), 1929 A new band system of carbon monoxide. Nature 123:47-8, 1929 Discovered a second band system known as Asundi bands New bands in the triplet carbon system. Proceed. Ind. Acad. Sciences Sect A 491(12), 1940 Discovered the diffuse emission bands of halogens Showed that high pressure carbon bands had the same final
- [Ramón Aveledo Hostos](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-aveledo-hostos/): Ramón Aveledo Hostos, Venezuelan ornithologist (04 July 1922 – 2002) DESCRIBED VALID AVES SUBSPECIES  Adelomyia melanogenys debellardiana 1994 with Pérez Amazilia cupreicauda laireti 1988 with Phelps Jr. Buthraupis montana venezuelana 1989 with Pérez  Catharus aurantiirostris barbaritoi 1952 with Gines Chloroceryle americana bottomeana 1994 with Pérez Cinnycerthia unirufa chakei 1952 with Gines Coccycua minuta barinensis 1994 with Pérez Colibri thalassinus kerdeli 1991 with Pérez Conirostrum sitticolor pallidum 1989 with Pérez Dromococcyx pavoninus perijanus 1950 with Gines Drymophila caudata aristeguietana 1994 with Pérez  Dysithamnus mentalis viridis 1953 with Pons Euphonia xanthogaster lecroyana 1994 with Pérez Formicarius analis griseoventris 1954 with Medina Formicarius rufipectus lasallei 1952 with Gines Henicorhina leucophrys manastarae 1952 with Gines Icterus icterus metae 1966 with Phelps Jr.
- [Ramón Araya Echeverría](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-araya-echeverria/): Ramón A. Araya Echeverría, Chilean physician (1856 – 19 November 1919) Regarded as one of inventors of electrical anesthesia Invented a electroanesthesia machine (1881) that was exhibited in VI International Congress of Electrology and Medical Radiology, Prague (1912) Despite the fact the machine and method were a great success, they soon became obsolete with the advent of new techniques SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY L’électro-anesthésie par le courant d’Araya (1926) Nouveau traitement des maladies fonctionnelles du systeme nerveux au moyen de l’electro-anesthésie expérimentalement démontré dans la 1re et la 8e séance du Congrès de Prague (1912) Leyes y aplicaciones de la electro-anestesia (1899) La
- [Ramón Abarquez Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-abarquez-jr/): Ramón Fabella Abarquez Jr., Philippine cardiologist (09 July 1928 – 10 January 2018) Discovered two pathways of hypertension: the slow and the rapid onset Proposed the concept that family members living together share the same hypertensive risk factors First proved clinically that nifedipine (a calcium channel blocker) was as potent as beta blockers (1981) Suggested 140/90 mark to level for hypertension 20 years before it was recognized (1979) Found that by treating hypertensive patients with medication and digitalis or digoxin, the onset of left ventricular hypertrophy can be prevented (1967) Promoted the use of thrombolysis as an approach to acute myocardial infarction (1960s)
- [Rafael Arango y Molina](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-arango-y-molina/): Rafael Arango y Molina, Cuban malacologist (La Habana 1837 – La Habana 13 August 1893) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA SPECIES Alcadia nuda 1866 Annularia uncinata 1884 Annularops tryoni 1879 Annularops vannostrandi 1876 Annularopsis coronadoi 1867 Badiofaux gutierrezi 1876 Bialasmus imparata 1882 Callocoptis abdita 1880 Chondropoma cisnerosi 1876 Chondrothyra gundlachi 1862 Cistula jimenoi 1864 Cochlodinella atropurpurea 1882 Colobostylus arguisi Coryda nigropicta 1867 Cylindrella contentiosa 1884 Cylindrella stearnsi 1880 Cysticopsis luzi 1868 Eutrochatella nodae 1862 Gongylostoma colorata Gongylostoma confusa 1882 Helicina cisnerosi 1879 Hemitrochus sauvallei 1866 Hendersonina hamlini 1882 Hipponix arangoi 1880 Liocallonia infortunata 1882 Liocallonia patruelis 1876 Liocallonia triplicata 1882 Macroceramus blaini 1866 Macroceramus clerchi 1866 Macroceramus minor 1866 Macroceramus parallelus 1866 Melaniella pichardi 1862 Nesocoptis prima 1882 Nodilittorina hidalgoi 1880 Obeliscus paradoxus 1881 Opisthosiphon aguilerianum 1876 Organocoptis remota 1880 Pfeiffericoptis machoi 1876 Poecilocoptis crassilabris 1882 Poecilocoptis incerta 1881 Pycnoptychia torrei 1876 Sagracoptis consanguinea 1882 Sagracoptis
- [Pedro Narciso Arata](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-narciso-arata/): Pedro Narciso Arata Unzué, Argentine pharmacist and organic chemist (Buenos Aires 29 October 1849 – Buenos Aires 05 November 1922) From Genoese father Performed studies on bromatology, phtochemistry and agricultural chemist CHEMICALS  With Italian Francesco Canzoneri isolated sesquiterpene winterene from Wintera aromatica (1890) and first prepared pilijanine in pure state (1891) With F. Canzoneri isolated alkaloid moradeine from Pogonopus tubulosus With Carlos Gelzer isolated and characterized morrenol from Morrenia sp. (1891) Isolated alkaloid baccharine from Baccharis coridifolia Isolated and identified alkaloid saccharine from Baccharis cordifolia Lam. (1877) Identified the quebrachitannic acid from quebracho colorado Sobre el acido quebratànico? quebrachitânico? (asi dice antes) del quebracho colorado (Lozopterigium lorentzi Gris.) 1879 Isolated and identified
- [Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-francisco-da-costa-alvarenga/): Pedro Francisco da Costa Alvarenga, Brazilian physician radicated in Portugal (Oeiras, Piaui State 1826 – Lisboa 14 July 1883) ACHIEVEMENTS  Discovered double crural murmur or Duroziez murmur in 1855 (translated to French in 1856), before Duroziez that described it in 1861. Due to this fact some Brazilian authors call it Alvarenga-Duroziez murmur or sign.  Memoria sobre a insuficiência das válvulas aórticas e considerações gerais sobre as moléstias do coração (1855).   Sur l’insuffisance des valvules aortiques. Paris, 1856.  Described the phenomenon of sensation changes on tongue in thiamine deficient patients  Remarques sur les ectocardies à propos d’ une variété encore non décrite
- [Pedro Baptista de Andrade](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-baptista-de-andrade/): Pedro Baptista de Andrade, Brazilian chemist and pharmacist (Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 08 October 1848 – São Paulo 06 October 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS Pioneer in industrial exploitation of a number of products from Brazilian flora Obtained more than 50 products and subproducts from coffee plant Isolated mannitol from coffee plant  Isolated many products from peppertree Created 12 recipes for wines, liqueurs and other industrial products from orange  Obtained alkaloids from a number of species of Brazilian flora such as abrusin Discovered alkaloid cayaponin from Cayaponia cabocla that gave him fame in international scientific circles (1885) Improved the recipe of guaraná soda from Pereira Barretto
- [Paulo Ribeiro de Arruda](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-ribeiro-de-arruda/): Paulo Ribeiro de Arruda, Brazilian electrical engineer (Itapetininga, São Paulo State 30 May 1909 – São Paulo 22 November 1985) Developed an absolute method for determination of frequencies in radio electrical spectrum at his doctoral thesis (1939) Authored Sobre um acessório electromecânico para o oscilógrafo de raios catódicos (1948) Discovered a new type of motion that named caterpillar type Introduced new improvements to electron microscope Developed a number of devices that were not patented PATENTS Polyanalyzer, an electromechanical device that enables the observation and simultaneous record of many periodic signs or phenomena on the screen of a single oscillograph   Microtome for
- [Paulo de Toledo Artigas](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-de-toledo-artigas/): Paulo de Toledo Artigas, Brazilian parasitologist and helminthologist (São Paulo 09 January 1904 – 08 September 1992) Authored Mounting of helminths and small arthropods. A new, simple and efficient method. Mem. Inst. Butantan 10:71, 1935-6 Novo método simples e eficiente. Montagem de helmintos e pequenos artrópodes. Mem. Inst. Butantan 10:65-70, 1935/6 DESCRIBED TAXA Families Bieriidae 1969 with Perez (Trematoda) Rhigonematidae 1930 (Nematoda) Genera Prototravassosia 1938 (with Unti) Protozoa Teratotrema 1928 (with Travassos & Pereira) Trematoda   Chiostichorchis 1932 (with Pacheco) Trematoda Westella 1943 (with Ruiz & Leon) Trematoda Paraibatrema 1981 (with Silva Cordeiro, Ueta & Deberaldini) Trematoda Rondonema 1926 Nematoda Ichthyocephalus 1926 Nematoda Cruznema 1927 Nematoda Clementeia 1930 Nematoda Dudekemia 1930 Nematoda  
- [Paulo de Tarso Alvim](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-de-tarso-alvim/): Paulo de Tarso Alvim Carneiro, Brazilian agronomist and plant physiologist (Ubá, Minas Gerais State 23 February 1919 – Ilhéus, Bahia State 18 February 2011) ACHIEVEMENTS Internationally known as world authority in production physiology of coffee and cacao plants.   Showed the importance of zinc in cacao production Showed that is possible discover a condition of moisture deficiency in the plant from measurements of the degree of opening of stomata (1956) First to demonstrate that many tropical plants require a cycle of dehydration-hydration in order to flowering or renew the foliage. Described the phenomenon in Moisture stress as a requirement for flowering of
- [Paulo Cesar de Azevedo Antunes](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-cesar-de-azevedo-antunes/): Paulo Cesar de Azevedo Antunes, Brazilian sanitarian and medical entomologist (São Paulo 25 May 1901 – 15 January 1974) Authored 23 works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Subgenus Lophopodomyia 1937 Species Abebaeus crassus 1938 with Lane Aedes pennai 1938 with Lane Anopheles (Lophopodomyia) squamifemur 1937 Coquillettidia shannoni 1937 with Lane   Culex soperi 1937 with Lane Goeldia lanei 1937 Haemagogus tropicalis 1938 with Cerqueira Kangoropus tuberculifer 1938 with Lane Lutzomyia evandroi 1936 with Costa Lima Lutzomyia lloydi 1937 Lutzomyia  whitmani 1939 with Coutinho Mansonia shannoni 1937 with Lane Neaedus elegans 1938 with Lane Taeniorhynchus shannoni with Lane Trichoprosopon lanei 1937 Trichoprosopon evansae 1942 HONORS Antunesia Amaro 1966 (Protozoa) Subg. Antunesmyia Lane & Cerqueira 1942 (Diptera)
- [Paulo Abib Andery](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-abib-andery/): Paulo Abib Andery, Brazilian mining engineer and metallurgist (Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais State 26 September 1922 – São Paulo 24 October 1976) From Lebanese parents World pioneer on mining systems in automation Verified the possibility of milling secondary crusher material in only one stage and yielding an minimum of sludge DEVELOPED Serrana process of separation and concentration of phosphates in minerals with low phosphate content or alkaline rocks employing flotation (1961-73) A process for exploitation of chalky stocks A process for concentration of oxidized lead ore and adapted it for residual ores from carbonatite Movable plants established on skids that follow
- [Pastor Alayo](https://neglectedscience.com/pastor-alayo/): Pastor Fortunato Alayo Dalmau, Cuban zoologist (Santiago de Cuba 01 June 1915 – 02 February 2001) DESCRIBED Genus Enacantha 1966 with Donelly (Odonata) About 65 species in Arthropoda (Insects and Arachnids) HONORS  Alayocimex Hernandez & Cruz 1994 (Heteroptera) Alayotityus Armas 1973 (Arachnida) Subgenus Alayoapis Michener 1966 (Hymenoptera)
- [Pablo Anduze](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-anduze/): Pablo José Anduze Díaz, Venezuelan explorer, ethnologist and entomologist (Puerto España, Trinidad 21 August 1902 – Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas 20 November 1989) Authored the most complete study about Yanomami people until that day    He was Governor of Amazonas State (1960-3; 1974-6) DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES Anopheles aquasalis 1948 Anopheles delta 1948 Anopheles guarao 1950 with Capdevielle Anopheles guarauno 1948 Anopheles tachirensis 1947 Anopheles upatensis 1944 with Hecht Culex albertoi 1943 Culex beauperthuyi 1943 Culex creole 1948 Culex ernsti 1948 Culex kukenan 1942 Culex mathesoni 1942 Culex pifanoi 1948 Culex surucumensis 1941 Culex terepaima 1948 Culex venezuelensis 1948 Culex vogelsangi 1948 Sabethes paraitepuyensis 1941 Simulium matteabranchium 1947 Toxorhynchites mara 1942 Wyeomyia taurepana 1941 Others (Siphonaptera) Subgenus Avesopsylla 1947 with Fox Subspecies Dasypsyllus (Avesopsylla) lasius venezuelensis 1947 with
- [Pablo Acosta Ortíz](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-acosta-ortiz/): Pablo Acosta Ortiz, Venezuelan surgeon (Barquisimeto 21 March 1864 – Paris 13 February 1914) ACHIEVEMENTS Published Du traitement chirurgical des aneurismes du tronc brachiocephalique et de la crosse de l’aorte. Doctorate Thesis, Faculté de Medicine de Paris, 1892 (under prof. Le Dentu); it received highly in French medical environment. Authored another book Lecciones de Clinica Quirurgica (1911) HONORS Honored in a bust at Hall of Fame, International College of Surgeons, Chicago, USA.
- [Otto de Alencar e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-de-alencar-e-silva/): Otto de Alencar e Silva, Brazilian mathematician (Fortaleza 03 August 1874 – Rio de Janeiro 25 February 1912) CONTRIBUTIONS Gave a new demonstration of Stokes formula La formule de Stokes. Rev. Esc. Pol. Rio de Janeiro 2(9-10):156-61, 1898 Developed a Zinger-like method for time determination using even height of two distinct stars Memoria sobre a determinação da hora (1906) Enunciated that propagation of vibratory motion in a indefinite gaseous mass  is independent of acceleration and velocity of its molecules De l’Action d’ une force accélératrice sur la propagation du son. Jornal das Ciências Matemáticas e Astronômicas do Porto (1901) Solved the Bertrand
- [Oscar Arredondo](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-arredondo/): Oscar Paulino Arredondo y de la Mata, Cuban zoologist and paleontologist (La Habana 18 July 1918 – La Habana 20 July 2001) Authored 134 papers DESCRIBED  FOSSIL & LIVING VERTEBRATE TAXA Fossil Mammalia Subfamily Mesocninae 1988 Genera Cubacyon 1974 with Varona Galerocnus 1997 with Rivero de la Calle Indocyon 1981 Neocnus 1961 Neomesocnus 1961 Paralouatta 1991 with Rivero de la Calle Paramiocnus 2002 with Arredondo Species Capromys acevedoi 1958 Capromys antiquus 1979 with Varona Capromys barbouri 1979 with Varona Capromys beatrizae 1979 with Varona Capromys delicatus 1979 with Varona Capromys gracilis 1979 with Varona Capromys jaumei 1979 with Varona Capromys kraglievichi 1979 with Varona Capromys latus 1979 with Varona Capromys minimus 1979 with Varona Capromys robustus 1979 with Varona
- [Oscar Amoedo](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-amoedo/): Oscar Luis Amoedo y Valdez, Cuban dentist radicated in France (Matanzas 10 November 1863 – Paris 27 September 1945) Authored over 120 papers Regarded as founder of the forensic stomatology  ACHIEVEMENTS Authored first treatise on human identification using dental archs The role of the dentists in the identification of the victims of the catastrophe of the “bazar de la charité”, Paris, 4th of May, 1897. The Dental Cosmos 39:905-12, 1897 First to describe a paradental epithelial rest constant in human Developpement des dents permanents; ebauche d’une troisieme dentition chez l’homme (1887) Imagined a method for treating dead teeth Tratamiento de los dientes muertes y
- [Oluwafeyisola Sylvester Adegoke](https://neglectedscience.com/oluwafeyisola-sylvester-adegoke/): Oluwafeyisola Sylvester Adegoke, Nigerian geologist and paleontologist (Ondo 09 July 1937 – World authority on post-Cretaceous stratigraphy of West Africa Authored about 100 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCAN TAXA Families (1977) Ewekoroiidae Heligmotomidae Vanpalmeriidae Genera Adekunbiella 1967 (in honor to his wife Adekunbi Adegoke) Afranodontia 1977 Afrocimonia 1977 Afrocornulina 1977 Afrollonia 1977  Afrovolutilithes 1977 Douvilletoma 1977 Druidwilsonia 1977 Eamesidura 1977 Ewekoroia 1977 Ewekorolaxis 1977 Ewekoromeris 1977  Nigerapana 1977 Nigerialaxis 1977 Nigerithium 1977 Parkeristoma 1977 Platylaxis 1977 Ravnostoma 1977  Reymentella 1977 Sootryenella 1977 Swiftopecten 1969 Vanpalmeria 1977 Vincenturris 1977 Wendella 1977 Wyattella 1967 Species About 200 FOSSIL SPORES/POLLEN (with Jan du Chene) Species Bacutricoliptes potiskumensis 1978 Cranwellipolis gambeensis 1978 Densoisporites jamataensis 1978 with Adediran & Petters Foveomonocolpites bauchiensis 1979 Longapertites microfoveolatus 1957 Psilastephanocolporites gongolaensis 1978  HONORS Adegokeastraea Ogbe 1976 (Fossil Cnidaria)
- [Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe](https://neglectedscience.com/oladipo-olujimi-akinkugbe/): Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe, Nigerian physician (Ondo 17 July 1933 – Internationally known for his studies on hypertension management Authored many papers on hypertension and renal diseases (over 100 papers on medicine, tertiary healthcare and higher education) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Glycosuria and raised blood glucose during intravenous infusion of angiotensin in the unanaesthetized rabbit. Physiol. 178:16-17, 1965 With W.C.B. Brown & W. Cranston. The direct renal action of angiotensin in the rabbit. Clin. Sci. 30:259, 1966 Profuse haematuria in sickle cell trait (With a note on renal papillary necrosis). W. Afr. Med. J. 15:151, 1966  Response to angiotensin infusion before and after adrenalectomy
- [Nilamber Awasthi](https://neglectedscience.com/nilamber-awasthi/): Nilamber Awasthi, Indian palaeobotanist (Pithoragarh, Uttar Pradesh 06 June 1937 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Alangioxylon 1969 Calophylloxylon 1965 with Lakhanpal Canarioxylon 1974 with Prakash & Brezinová Carallioxylon 1984 Careyoxylon 1970 Chrysophylloxylon 1977 Cordioxylon 1984 Deccanostrobus 2007 with Kapgate & Chitaley Duabangoxylon 1970 with Prakash Euphorioxylon 1982 with Guleria & Lakhanpal Gonystyloxylon 1984 with Panjwani Heritieroxylon 1981 with Lakhanpal & Prakash Holigarnoxylon 1970 with Prakash Holopteleoxylon 1977 Hopenium 1980 Mangiferoxylon 1966 Mesuoxylon 1964 with Lakhanpal Millettioxylon 1967 Pericopsoxylon 1979 Schleicheroxylon 1982 with Guleria & Lakhanpal Siderinium 1970 with Prakash Stereospermoxylon 1982 with Prakash
- [Neusa Amato](https://neglectedscience.com/neusa-amato/): Neusa Margem Amato, Brazilian physicist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 29 August 1926 – Rio de Janeiro 03 May 2015) Daughter of Lebanese immigrants Obtained world renown on nuclear emulsions Authored 116 works Showed using nuclear emulsions pion decay in muon With E. Frota-Pessoa. Sobre a desintegração do méson pesado positivo. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22:371-83, 1950 With E. Frota Pessoa & M. B. Aragão. A new radioactive method for marking mosquitoes and its application. Proc. Geneve Conference on Peaceful Applications of Atomic Energy. page 40, 1955 With C. Lattes, W.A. Rodrigues Jr., F.M. O. Castro, J.B. Filho, J.L. Cardoso, J.A.
- [Mário Paulo Autuori](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-paulo-autuori/): Mário Paulo Autuori, Brazilian entomologist (São Paulo 10 December 1906 – São Paulo 01 July 1982) ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained international renown in studies concerning biology and nest structure of sauba ants species (about 60 works on sauba ants Atta sp.) Created the first in the world ant hole exposed to public visitation (1980) Published the first paper with predators exclusion in scientific literature Proposed conversion factor, a formula to estimate agricultural losses due to sauba ants attacks being a ratio between cutted material mass and waste material produced by sauba ant colonies   HONORS Genus Autuoria Silvestri 1946 (Coleoptera) Invited by Nobel Prize winner Karl Von Frisch
- [Muzaffer Ahmad](https://neglectedscience.com/muzaffer-ahmad/): Muzaffer Ahmad, Pakistani entomologist (India 20 September 1920 – Lahore 22 November 2016) DESCRIBED ISOPTERA TAXA Genera Aciculioditermes 1968 Coxocapritermes 1981 with Akhtar Eleanoritermes 1968 Kenneritermes 1981 with Akhtar Malaysiocapritermes 1981 with Akhtar Malaysiotermes 1968 Oriencapritermes 1981 with Akhtar Orientotermes 1976 Proaciculitermes 1968 Subulioiditermes 1968 Syncapritermes 1981 with Akhtar Species About 50 HONORS Ahmaditermes Akhtar 1975 (Isoptera) Muzafferiana Ahmad & Perveen 1983 (Hemiptera)
- [Muhammad Saeed Akhtar](https://neglectedscience.com/muhammad-saeed-akhtar/): Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Pakistani entomologist (17 April 1944 – Authored Novel swarming pattern of termites of Hazara (2006) DESCRIBED ISOPTERA TAXA Genera Ahmaditermes 1975 Coxocapritermes 1981 with Ahmad Kemneritermes 1981 with Ahmad Malaysiocapritermes 1981 with Ahmad Oriencapritermes 1981 with Ahmad Syncapritermes 1981 with Ahmad Species Ahmaditermes pyricephalus 1975 Amitermes baluchistanus 1974 Amitermes paravilis 1999 with Ravan Anacanthotermes baluchistanicus 1974 Anacanthotermes gurganensis 1999 with Ravan Anacanthotermes iranicus 1993 with Ravan Anacanthotermes peshawarensis 1974 Angulitermes emersoni 1975 Angulitermes punjabensis 1974 Bulbitermes johorensis 1986 with Pervez Bulbitermes pronasutus 1986 with Pervez Bulbitermes porosae 1986 with Pervez Bulbitermes puyriformis 1986 with Pervez Coxocapritermes orientalis 1981 with Ahmad Cryptotermes karachiensis 1974 Discupiditermes minutus 1992 with Riaz Epicalotermes pakistanicus 1974 Glyptotermes arshadi 1975 Glyptotermes teknafensis 1975 Glyptotermes ukhiaensis 1975 Hospitalitermes proflaviventris 1986 with Bakr
- [Muhammad Akhtar](https://neglectedscience.com/muhammad-akhtar/): Muhammad Akhtar, Pakistani biochemist (Batala, Punjab 23 February 1933 – Defined the complete substrate stereochemistry of at least a dozen enzymes Elucidated the mode and site of binding of the retinal chromophore in bovine rhodopsin (1969-83) First to describe the structure of bovine rhodopsin in terms of trans-membrane segments (1978) With J.N. Wright discovered that P-450 group of enzymes catalyze a diverse range of generic reactions at a single active site (1982)
- [Mohammed Fathy Abdel-Wahab](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-fathy-abdel-wahab/): Mohammed Fathy Abdel-Wahab, Egyptian biochemist (Salamut 27 March 1925 – ?) Developed a scheme for use of radioisotopes in biochemistry problems (1958) With G. Esmat, M. Milad, S. Abdel-Razzak & G.T. Strickland. Characteristic sonographic pattern of schistosomal hepatic fibrosis. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 40(1):72-6, 1989  First to employ thiourea S35 to humans With M. Salah Ibrahim. Part I. An appraisal of new radioisotope techniques in the study of iodine metabolism. Isotopenpraxis: Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 3(7):279-83, 1967  Methods With Y.M. Megahed, A.A. Ismail & A.A. Abdel-Hafiz. Incorporation of radioiodine in thyroid hormones for the determination of T3/T4 ratio using
- [Mohammad Abdullah](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-abdullah/): Mohammad Abdullah, Pakistani entomologist (Allahabad, British India 08 July 1938 – DESCRIBED NEW COLEOPTERA GENERA Abdullahia 1968 (in honor to his wife Abida Abdullah) Abdullahius 1968 with Qureshi (in honor to his daughter Shameema) Anwarullahia 1969 with Qureshi Archescraptia 1964 Ashrafia 1968 with Qureshi Crichtonia 1967 with Abdullah Crowsonium 1964 Duboisius 1961 Entomophaga 1974 Hameedia 1968 with Qadri Macdonaldium 1967 with Abdullah Neoatysa 1968 with Qureshi Neobledius 1968 with Qureshi Neoclitena 1968 with Qureshi Neoeurygenius 1963 Neolycaria 1969 with Qureshi Neopedilus 1969 Neoplatystethus 1970 with Qadri Neopolypria 1964 Neopotanina 1969 with Qureshi Neopyctocraerus 1970 with Qadri Neosastra 1968 with Qureshi Neostereopalpus 1967 Palaeosemum 1967 Palaeolobrathium 1968 with Abdullah Palaeopyrochroa 1965 Palaeoscraptia 1964 Protomacratria 1964 Protomeloe 1965 Pseubobactrocerus 1963 Pseudoplatystethus 1970 with Qadri Pseudopyctocreerus 1970 with Qadri Pseudostereopalpus 1965 Qadrius 1964 Rilettius 1964 Salimuzzamania 1968
- [Moacyr Eyck Alvaro](https://neglectedscience.com/moacyr-eyck-alvaro/): Moacyr Eyck Alvaro Marques da Silva da Cunha e Fernandes, Brazilian ophthalmologist  (Santos, São Paulo State 12 August 1899 – São Paulo 19 July 1959) Presented possibly the first case of transitory tremulous lens in literature (1937) TECHNIQUES  Developed Moacyr Alvaro technique or operation for correcting vertical and horizontal declinations in ocular muscles insertions   Described the correction of hypertropia by vertical displacement of horizontal rectus muscles of the same eye and the first to suggest transposition of both horizontal rectus muscles for hypertropia  Simultaneous surgical correction of vertical and horizontal deviations. Ophthalm. 120:191-7, 1950 Novo método de enucleação permitindo perfeita movimentação
- [Moacyr Alvarenga](https://neglectedscience.com/moacyr-alvarenga/): Moacyr Alvarenga, Brazilian military and entomologist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 10 August 1914 – 20 July 2010) GENERA DESCRIBED  Specialist in Erotylidae family (Coleoptera) Apolybas 1965 Micrischyrus 1965 Neacronotus 1965 Nebarytopus 1965 Neoogaster 1965 Neopriotelus 1965  Tritomapara 1970 Kakoia 1971  Neomorphoides 1977 Lycocephala 1986 (with Martínez)  EPONYMY Alvarenga Carrera 1962 (Diptera) Alvarenganiella Viana & Martínez 1971(Coleoptera) Alvarengius Frey 1975 (Coleoptera) Alvarengaia Rocha e Silva & de Aguiar 1977 (Orthoptera) Alvarengamiris Carvalho 1991 (Hemiptera) Besourenga Vaz de Mello 2008 (Coleoptera) Moaciria Freitas 1956 (Nematoda)  More than one hundred new insect species named after him.
- [Misael Acosta Solís](https://neglectedscience.com/misael-acosta-solis/): Misael Acosta Solís, Ecuadorian botanist, forester, ecologist and plant collector (Ambato 16 December 1910 – Quito 16 April 1994) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Articles Botanica de las Cinchonas. Flora (Quito): 29-55, 1945  Habitat y distribución de las Cinchonas en el Ecuador. Flora (Quito): 8-19, 1945 Tagua or vegetable ivory- a forest product of Ecuador. Economic Botany 2:46-57, 1948.  Primera lista numerada de las maderas y leñosas del Ecuador colectadas por el prof.dr. M. Acosta Solis. Flora (Quito) 7(17-20):7-77, 1950  Galápagos observado fitologicamente. Anales Univ. Central. 302, 1961 Palmas Economicas del Noroccidente Ecuatoriano. Natyuraleza Ecuatoriana 1(2): 80-163, 1971   Plantas indigenas para forrajicultura tropandina. Rev.
- [Miguel Osorio de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-osorio-de-almeida/): Miguel Osorio (Ozorio) de Almeida, Brazilian physiologist and biomathematician (Rio de Janeiro 01 August 1890 – Rio de Janeiro 02 December 1953) Brother of physiologist Alvaro Osorio de Almeida Authored about 250 works ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed a modified least squares method Formulated mathematical theory of cineradiotherapy (1937) Demonstrated definitely the existence of transversal excitation of nerves Sur l’ excitation transversal des nerfs. C.R. Soc. Biol. CVIII: 1092, 1931 Developed a power theory of muscular work A lei da conservação da energia e a theoria energética do trabalho muscular (1916) Showed the variations of maximal contraction height in function of excitant current Introduced
- [Miguel Arrojado Ribeiro Lisboa](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-arrojado-ribeiro-lisboa/): Miguel Arrojado Ribeiro Lisboa, Brazilian engineer, geologist and geographer (Rio de Janeiro 18 August 1872 – Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 28 July 1932) Gained international renown for his studies about manganese and monazitic sands SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P.F. Kerr & A.I. Erichsen. Nota de campo sobre a ocorrência de diamante no distrito de Diamantina. Min. Metal. 32:54-63, 1941 O problema das secas (1940) A Bacia do Gurupi e suas minas de ouro (1935) Preliminary report of the manganese ore-deposit of Urucum (1918) Relatório preliminar sobre as jazidas de minérios de manganês e ferro de Urucum (1918)   Permian geology of Northern
- [Miguel Alvarez del Toro](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-alvarez-del-toro/): Miguel Carlos Francisco Alvarez del Toro, Mexican zoologist, taxidermist and ecologist (Colima 23 August 1917 – Chiapas 02 August 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS Gained world renown in ecology and vertebrate conservation  Described 6 valid reptilian species and one subspecies (with H.M. Smith)  Abronia lythrochila 1963  Anolis microlepis 1956  Anolis parvicirculatus 1956  Anolis pygmaeus 1956  Anolis spilorhipis 1956 Lepidophyma lipetzi 1977 Norops tropidonotus spilorhipis 1956  Co-described one avian subspecies Chordeiles minor neotropicalis 1955 (with Selander)  BIBLIOGRAPHY   A complete bibliography can be found in http://www.alvarezdeltoro.com/articulos.pdf HONORS (in the following species) Ceratozamia alvarezii Perez-Farrera, Vovides & Iglesias 1996 (Cycadaceae) Troglopedetes toroi Palacios-Vargas 1985 (Collembola) Pulex alvarezi Barrera Marín 1955 (Siphonaptera) Diaethria mixteca alvarezi Maza & Maza 1985 (Lepidoptera) Dismorphia
- [Michael Eric Anderson](https://neglectedscience.com/michael-eric-anderson/): Michael Eric Anderson, US-born South African ichthyologist (1946 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Anacanthobythites 2008 Dieidolycus 1988 Esselenichthys 2003 Eucryphycus 1988 Letholycus 1988 Leucogrammolycus 2008 with Mincarone Plesienchelys 1988 Seleniolycus 1988 Tetragondacnus 2007 with Satria Species 67 (until 2018) HONORS Ericandersonia Shinohara & Sakurai 2006 (Pisces)
- [Mary Therese Kalin de Arroyo](https://neglectedscience.com/mary-therese-kalin-de-arroyo/): Mary Therese Kalin de Arroyo, New Zealander-born Chilean botanist (New Plymouth 12 November 1944 – Authored about 150 papers and 5 books With T. Ruiz Zapata. First records of self-incompatibility for the families Polygonaceae and Olaceaeae. Incompat. Newsl. 8:15-6, 1978 Showed that breeding systems aren’t necessarily closed linked to pollinator availability at the community level DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Genus Nassauvia 1988 with Marticorena Section Harpalyce sect. Brasilianae 1976 Species Acosmium cardenasii 1974 with Irwin Camptosema douradense 1974 with Irwin Harpalyce sousai 1976 Justicia stipitata 1976 with Wasshausen Moldenhawera nitida 1974 with Irwin Nassauvia coronipappa 1988 with Marticorena Ourisia confertifolia 1984 Ourisia goulandiana 1984 Ourisia remotifolia 1984 Ourisia spathulata 1984 Periandra gracilis 1972 with Irwin Sclerobium
- [Marton Laszlo Aczél](https://neglectedscience.com/marton-laszlo-aczel/): Marton (Martín) Laszlo (Ladislao) Aczél, Hungarian-born Argentine entomologist (Budapest 08 June 1906 – Tucumán 28 April 1958) DESCRIBED DIPTERA GENERA & SUBGENERA  Beckerias 1939 Dorylomorpha 1939 Jassidophaga 1939 Tomosvaryella 1939 Anacephalops 1940 Claraeola 1940 Collinias 1940 Eudorylas 1940 Heringina 1940 Metanephroceros 1948 Protoverrallia 1948 Cressonius 1949 Henniginus 1950 Protylos 1950   Eoneria 1951 Parapterocalla 1951 Rhagoletotrypeta 1951 Serpentinographa 1951 Cryptoplagia 1952 Haywardina 1952 Ceratitoedaspis 1953 Chrysaciura 1953 Lilloaciura 1953 Teloneria 1954 Tomoplagiodes 1954 Allopyrgota 1956 Carrerapyrgota 1956 Descoleia 1956 Furciseta 1956 Idiopyrgota 1956 Congopyrgota 1958 Steyskalia 1959 Eoloxozus 1961 Imrenerius 1961 SPECIES About 170 HONORS Aczelia Carrera 1955 (Diptera) Aczelopria Fabritius 1968 (Hymenoptera)
- [Margarida de Mello Aires](https://neglectedscience.com/margarida-de-mello-aires/): Margarida de Mello Aires, Brazilian physiologist (São Paulo 30 November 1935 – São Paulo 04 April 2019) Pioneer in studies of the evaluation of hormonal mechanisms involved in the regulation of the acid base balance and extracellular volume of the organism, with numerous fundamental scientific works Showed that the organism maintains the extracellular volume at the expense of pH Pointed out the pCO2 balance in kidney Showed how aldosterone acts on proximal tubule cells Showed how arginine vasopressin acts on Na+/H+ exchanger via V2 luminal receptor and it is inhibited by peritubular v1 receptor Authored Fisiologia (1991), a textbook about physiology used
- [Manzoor Ahmed](https://neglectedscience.com/manzoor-ahmed/): Manzoor Ahmed / Ahmad, Pakistani entomologist and acarologist (1931-1999) ACHIEVEMENTS (Hemiptera genera described) Afrakeura 1979 (with Einyu) Andrabia 1970 Ayubiana 1969 Benglebra 1969 (with Mahmood) Byphlocyta 1971 Domelia 1971 (with Waheed) Evansioma 1969 Fusiplata 1969 Hameedia 1972 Havelia 1971 Hazaraneura 1979 (with Samad) Hussaininana 1969 (with Mahmood) Jalalia 1970 Karachiota 1969 Kwempia 1979 Mahmoodiana 1971 (with Waheed) Mandera 1971   Pakeasta 1971 Paratyphlocyba 1985 Quercinirvana 1970 Ramsisia 1979 (with Einyu) Sylhetia 1972 Toroa 1979 Viridophara 1992 (with Mustafa & Mahmood) Youngama 1969 Acari Species Amblydromella caudex 1992 with Chaudhri & Akbar Amblydromella curtus 1993 with Chaudhri & Akbar Amblydromella erema 1992 with Chaudhri & Akbar Amblydromella illotus 1992 with Chaudhri & Akbar Amblydromella micans 1993 with Chaudhri & Akbar Amblydromella opacatus 1992 with
- [Manoel Dias de Abreu](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-dias-de-abreu/): Manoel Dias de Abreu, Brazilian radiologist (São Paulo 04 January 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 30 January 1962)  He was chief of Central Laboratory of Radiology at Hotel Dieu. ACHIEVEMENTS Idealized simultaneous tomographies technique (1947) Developed a device for taking photographs from gastric mucosa Demonstrated that mediastinal contours radiological view are due to its anatomic contact to pulmonary transparence and contrast surface extent (1924) Enunciated radiogeometry principles in Estudos Radiológicos sobre o pulmão e o mediastino (1924)  Developed densimetry and realized the first experiments involving pulmonary densimetry Developed a technique for distinguishing pericardial effusion from cardiac hypertrophy  Created fluoroscopic écran, Abreu collective micrometer
- [Manoel de Arruda Camara](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-de-arruda-camara/): Manoel de Arruda Câmara, Brazilian botanist (Pombal, Paraiba State 1752 – Goiana, Pernambuco State 02 February 1810) ACHIEVEMENTS Described new species of insects in Brazilian Northeast at Nova Insetologia Built a kind of cotton gin and a machine to sack cotton Memoria sobre a cultura dos algodoeiros e sobre o método de o escolher e ensacar etc. em que se propõem  alguns planos novos para o seu melhoramento. Oficina da Casa Literária do Arco do Cego, Lisbon, 1799.   Described a perfected model of still in Um tratado sobre destilação   Described agricultural machines that invented or perfected in Compendio de Agricultura Brasiliense A almécega e a carnaúba
- [Mangalathayil Ali Abdu](https://neglectedscience.com/mangalathayil-ali-abdu/): Mangalathayil Ali Abdu, Indian-born Brazilian geophysicist (Kerala State 07 July 1938 – Authored 291 papers and one book (about 5,200 citations; h=39) Significant discoveries pertaining to equatorial electrodynamics, the global coupling processes in the ionosphere-thermosphere-magnetosphere systems Authored the most cited papers 2005-10 by Elsevier in Atmospheric, Planetary and Petroleum Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom Planetary wave signatures in the equatorial atmosphere-ionosphere system, and mesosphere-E and F-region coupling. J. Atmos. Solar Terrestr. Physics South Atlantic magnetic anomaly ionization: a review and a new focus on electrodynamics effects in the equatorial ionosphere  First to investigate equatorial ionospheric responses during magnetic storms of moderate intensity With I.S.
- [Man Mohan Agarwal](https://neglectedscience.com/man-mohan-agarwal/): Man Mohan Agarwal, Indian entomologist (Nagla Padam Village, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh State 05 February 1937 – Aligarh 31 December 1996) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA GENERA Parachrysopophagus 1965 Alamella 1966 Neoaenasioidea 1966 Praleuroceros 1974   Cheilonicetus 1975 (with Shafee & Alam) Neoadelencyrtus 1975 (with Hayat & Alam) Neocharitopus 1975 (with Hayat & Alam) Prochiloneuroides 1975 (with Hayat & Alam) Proleuroceroides 1975 (with Shafee & Alam) Pseudanasius 1975 (with Hayat & Alam) Pseudmicroterys 1975 with Shafee & Alam Sabirella 1980 (with Agarwal & Khan) Indosema 1983 (with Husain) HONORS (Hymenoptera) Agarwalencyrtus Hayat 1981 Manmohanencyrtus Singh 1995 Mohaniella Khan 1995
- [Luiz Felipe Freire de Aguiar](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-felipe-freire-de-aguiar/): Luiz Felipe Freire de Aguiar, Brazilian pharmacist (Rio de Janeiro 23 August 1852 – Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 13 July 1913) Created a modified English water (1888) and creolin Freire de Aguiar PATENTS With E. Duceux paper production employing bamboo (1890) With Emile Duceux. A new application of bromeliads fibers to spinning and weaving  (1890) With J. Geraud & C.N. Magalhães mica or malacacheta as electrical insulating (1891) With J.C.P. Cotrim phosphated milky paste (1895) Production of a derivative from distillation of coal (1901) Flushing cistern with latrine sanitizer (1902) Sanitizer with flushing cistern (1902) Urinal disinfectant (1902) Disinfectant for cart
- [Luisa Zulema Ahumada](https://neglectedscience.com/luisa-zulema-ahumada/): Luisa Zulema Ahumada, Argentine botanist (1930- DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Aristolochia albertiana 1972 Aristolochia andahuaylensis 1979 Aristolochia burkartii 1979 Aristolochia cabrerae 1989 Aristolochia castellanosii 1968   Aristolochia chachapayensis 1979 Aristolochia ginzbergeri 1978 Aristolochia hatschbachii 1979 Aristolochia hutchisonii 1979 Aristolochia manaosensis 1978 Aristolochia marianensis 1979 Aristolochia oranensis 1968 Aristolochia pucarensis 1979 Aristolochia robertii 1975 Aristolochia schreiteri 1968 Aristolochia schulzii 1968 Croton camarcensis 1999 Croton cordobensis 1999 Croton curuguatyensis 1998 Croton eskuchei 1999 Croton ituzaingensis 1986  Croton landoltii 1986 Croton laureltyanus 1999 Croton multirameus 1999 Croton pedersenii 1998 Croton ramellae 1992 Croton ruderalis 1999 Croton tatacuensis 1999 Croton troncosoi 1999
- [Luis F. de Armas](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-f-de-armas/): Luis Florencio de Armas Chaviano, Cuban invertebrate zoologist (Ranchuelo Municipality, Villa Clara Province 03 January 1945 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Arachnida Genera Alayotityus 1973 Antillostenochrus 2002 with Teruel Antillotrecha 1994 Belicenochrus 2010 with Víquez Bucinozomus 2015 with Rehfeldt Caribezomus 2011 Cokendolpherius 2002 Colombiazomus 2012 with Delgado Santa Guanazomus 2002 with Teruel Heteronochrus 2010 with Víquez Kenyazomus 2014 Lawrencezomus 2014 Mayacentrum 2006 with Víquez Ravilops 2005 with Víquez Reddellzomus 2002 Tityopsis 1974 Valeriophonus 2005 with Víquez Wayuzomus 2006 with Colmenares Subgenus Parvabsonus 1974 Species Over 200 Crustacea Genera/Subgenus (with Juarrero de Varona) Cuzcodinella 1999 Matazonellus 1996 Potrerillo 1999 Species Cuzcodinella alejandroi 2016 with Rodríguez Cabrera Cuzcodinella oryx 1999 with Juarrero de Varona Matazonellus eglisi 1996 with Juarrero de Varona Matazonellus turquinensis 1996 with Juarrero de Varona Pseudarmadillo (Potrerillo)
- [Luis Alvarez Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-alvarez-garcia/): Luis Aureo Alvarez Garcia, Paraguayan-born Puerto Rican plant pathologist (1903 – ?) Described Phyllosticta swietenia A mahogany seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Forester 1;23-4, 1939 First report of Phyllachora balansae on Cedrela sp. A cedar seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Carib. Forester 1(2):26, 1940 Described Acrotheca basellae that causes Acrothecium leaf spot Acrothecium leaf of Basella rubra L. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 27:159-60, 1943 Fusarium bulbigenum v. coffeae today Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. coffeae as a new variety causing a coffee fusarium wilt Studies on coffee root disease in Puerto Rico. I. A Coffee fusarium wilt. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 29(1):1-29, 1945 Described Pleospora tetrasepta 1945 Described a foot-root gummosis with distinctly
- [Luis Agote](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-agote/): Luis María Agote García, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 22 September 1868 – Turdera, Buenos Aires Province 12 November 1954) Discovered the use of sodium neutral citrate as anticoagulant (1914) independent from Belgian A. Hustin and US Richard Lewinsohn Developed an apparatus to perform blood transfusion (Agote apparatus) Nuevo metodo sencillo para realizar transfusiones de sangre. MCM (1914) Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusión de la sangre. Ann. Inst. Clin. Med. 1:24-31, 1915 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Historia clinica de um caso de mixedema infantil. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 7(23):1-248, 1899 Neuropatologia. Nuevo metodo grafico para fijar la herencia. Rev. Iberoam. Cien. Med. 7:402-7, 1902 Diagnostic precoce
- [Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada](https://neglectedscience.com/lucas-ignacio-alaman-y-escalada/): Lucas Ignacio José Joaquín Pedro de Alcantara Juan Bautista Francisco de Paula Alamán y Escalada, Mexican scientist, historian and politician (Guanajuato 18 October 1792 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 June 1853)  Studied botany under famous A. De Candolle with who corresponded sending Mexican plant collections. Studied mining in School of Mines at Freyburg.  Employed sulfuric acid in separating gold and silver.  HONORS Alamania Lexarza (Orchidaceae) TRIVIA/CURIOSITIES Ruled Mexico as member of a triunvirate (1829-30)
- [Lorenzo Francisco Aristaraín](https://neglectedscience.com/lorenzo-francisco-aristarain/): Lorenzo Francisco Aristaraín Pellerano, Argentine mineralogist (Buenos Aires 22 February 1926 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES (with Hurlbut) Ameghinite (1967) Beusite (1968) Olsacherite (1969) Rivadavite (1967) Teruggite (1968) HONORS Aristarainite Hurlbut & Erd 1974 (Mineral)
- [Libero Domenico Antonaccio](https://neglectedscience.com/libero-domenico-antonaccio/): Libero Domenico Antonaccio, Brazilian organic chemist (Rio de Janeiro 12 February 1924 – Rio de Janeiro after 2012) DISCOVERED AND DESCRIBED NEW PLANT ALKALOIDS With B. Gilbert, J.C. Braekman, C. Hootele, C. Van Moorleghem, M. Kaiser & J. Pecher. Indole alkaloids. XVII. Five dihydroindole alkaloids from Aspidosperma verbascifolium. Bull. Soc. Chim. (1969) With B. Gilbert, N.A. Pereira, H. Vorbuegger, H. Budzikiewicz, J.M. Wilson, L.J. Durham & C. Djerassi. Alkaloid studies. XXXIII. Mass spectrometry in structural and stereochemical problems. VI. Polyneuridine, a new alkaloid from Aspidosperma polyneuron, and some observations on mass spectra of indole alkaloids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 84(24):5001, 1962 With H. Budzikiewicz. Harman
- [Leandro Aristeguieta](https://neglectedscience.com/leandro-aristeguieta/): Leandro Simon Aristeguieta Capella, Venezuelan botanist (Guasipati, Bolivar State 20 November 1923 – Caracas 06 October 2012) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Pseudephedranthus 1969 (Annonaceae)  About 75 species 4 varieties  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Presencia de alcaloides en plantas de Venezuela. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Natur. 32:23-34 & 132-3, 1976 El bosque caducifolio seco de los Llanos Altos Centrales. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Natur. 27:395-38, 1968 Consideraciones sobre la flor de los morichales llaneros al norte del Orinoco, Venezuela. Acta Bot. Venez. 3:19-38, 1968 With E. Medina. Protección y quema de la sabana llanera. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Natur. 26:129-39, 1966 Plantas indicadoras de incêndios anuales. Bol. Soc.
- [Laurent Ake Assi](https://neglectedscience.com/laurent-ake-assi/): Laurent Aké-Assi, Ivorian botanist, ethnobotanist and phytochemist (Agboville 10 August 1931 – Abidjan 14 January 2014) Authored 134 works SOME PHYTOCHEMISTRY (new chemical species) With S. Fayez, T. Bruhn, D. Feineis, S.Awale & G. Bringmann. Ancistrosecoline A-F, unprecedented seco-naphthyisoquinoline alkaloids from the roots of Ancistrocladus abbreviatus, with apopotosis-inducing potential against HeLa cancer cells. J. Natur. Products 83(4):1139-51, 2020 With S. Fayez, J. Li, D. Feineis, M. Kaiser, R. Brun, M.A. Anany, H. Wajant & G. Bringmann. A near-complete series of four atropisomeric jozimine A2 type naphthylisoquinoline dimers with antiplasmodial and cytotoxic activities and related alkaloids from Ancistrocladus abbreviatus. J. Natur. Products 82(11):3033-46, 2010
- [Karl Arens](https://neglectedscience.com/karl-arens/): Karl Arens, German-born Brazilian plant physiologist and ecologist (Munsterschwarzach, Bayern 01 January 1902 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 1981) ACHIEVEMENTS Observed that substances loss through cuticle was a generalized phenomenon in plants Die kutikuläre exkretion der laubblatter. Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 80:284-300, 1934 Developed a new method for direct determination of osmotic pressure in a plant cell with a gauge Um novo methodo de determinação directa de pressão osmótica numa cellula vegetal com manômetro (1938) Proposed the hypothesis of active membrane (1948) The “active membrane”: an hypothesis to explain the transfer of water and solutes in plants, as depending upon respiration. Rev. Canad. Biol. 8:157-72,
- [Kamaluddin Ahmad](https://neglectedscience.com/kamaluddin-ahmad/): Kamaluddin Ahmad, Bengali biochemist and nutritionist (Gohira, Chittagong 01 September 1923 – Manila, Philippines 04 July 2004) Discovered a new transport method for Actinomycin-A Discovered ramnacin, a crystalline antibiotic and numerous other drugs derived from plant products for curing diseases Produced the first experimental case of lathyrism in animals LINKS http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/07/09/d40709100477.htm
- [Julio Franco do Amaral](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-franco-do-amaral/): Julio Franco do Amaral, Brazilian plant pathologist (Boa Esperança do Sul, São Paulo State 21 July 1911 – Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State 27 July 2004) First or one of first to report Cylindrocladium spp. attacking Eucalyptus sp. Fungo (Cylindrocladium) atacando mudinhas de Eucalyptus. O Biológico 8:148, 1942 With V.O. Guida. Técnica de conservação de fungos em areia estéril. Arq. Inst. Biol. 19, 1949 With C.G. Teixeira & E.D. Pinheiro described Pseudomonas garcae A bactéria causadora da mancha aureolada do cafeeiro. Arq. Inst. Biol. 23:151-5, 1956 Mancha aureolada, nova moléstia bacteriana do cafeeiro. Biológico 22(6):93-8, 1956 Idealized the super wet chamber test for detecting bacteriae in
- [Juan Nepomuceno Adorno](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-nepomuceno-adorno/): Juan Nepomuceno Adorno, Mexican philosopher, mechanic and inventor (Ciudad de Mexico 16 May 1807 – Ciudad de Mexico 1880) Performed studies on meteorology, hydrography and hygiene   INVENTIONS Melography, a new musical writing in Melographie or nouvelle notation musicale (1855) Melograph piano or pianola Devices for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars and shredded tobacco (1846) Weapons (e.g. a weapon that could fire up to 70 rounds of ammunition per minute) A superdynamic railway A kaleidoscopic machine to prevent falsification of official documents Three-wheeled anti-rollover armored vehicles Detachable buildings   Devices for pumping flood-water from dwellings A terrestrial globe capable of separation into pieces and 12 convex
- [Juan Luis Arentsen](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-luis-arentsen/): Juan Luis Arentsen Sauer, Chilean ophthalmologist (Punta Arenas 14 July 1916 – Santiago 28 November 2004) From Norwegian father and Danish mother Authored 78 papers and 5 books With M. Durán. Nuevo modelo de contensor de ojos enucleados para estudios docentes y de investigación. Arch. Chil. Oftal. 31:23, 1974 With M. Durán. Stereotaxic device for experimental eye surgery. Invest. Ophthal. 15(1):34-6, 1976 Ptosis palpebral: nueva tecnica en la miectomia del musculo elevador del parpado (1951) Arentsen method (Dissolved penicillin into novocaine employed by local infiltration) Penicilina en solución de novocaína para el tratamiento de procesos inflamatorios. Nueva tecnica de aplicación  
- [Juan de Acosta](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-de-acosta/): Juan de Acosta, Cuban shipbuilder (died La Habana 1748) Regarded as one of the foremost Spanish shipbuilders of his day Built / headed the building of the most important ships of Spanish Navy (11) Proposed variations to ship models Introduced important innovations to production of boats
- [Juan Carlos Ahumada Sotomayor](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-ahumada-sotomayor/): Juan Carlos Ahumada Sotomayor, Argentine gynecologist (La Plata 17 April 1890 – Buenos Aires 29 May 1976) ACHIEVEMENTS  Described Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome  Ahumada, J.C., Del Castillo, E.B. Sobre un caso de galactorrea y amenorrea. Boletín de la Sociedad de Obst. y Ginecol. de Bs. Aires 11: 64-72, 1932 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.E. Nogues & H.L. Guixa. Patologia quirurgica ginecológica de la vejez. Dia Med. 22:2567-72, 1960 Carcinoma de la vulva. Rev. Argent. Cancer 1:7, 1959 With J.L. Sardi & L.A. Arrighi. Endometriosis genital y embarazo. Obst. Ginecol. Lat. Am. 15:15, 1957 With A.E. Nogues & C. Donovan. Hysterography in the diagnosis
- [João de Aguiar Pupo](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-de-aguiar-pupo/): João Bueno de Aguiar Pupo, Brazilian dermatologist (Itatiba, São Paulo State 12 May 1890 – São Paulo 23 August 1980) With E. Rabello identified lepromatous and tuberculoid polar-types First to prescribe penicillin for syphilis Introduced sodium arsenite in the treatment of leishmaniasis Introduced aminoarsenophenol (arsenical) in the treatment of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (1926) With L. Cunha Motta described blastomycotic paronychia (1936) Verified immunoallergic dissociation phenomenon Reported the occurrence of two kinds of multiform erythema in leprosy (papulous and nodous) in 1930 First to show the epidemiological importance of uncharacteristic forms of the leprosy (1940)  EPONYMY Aguiar Pupo moriform ulcerous stomatitis, an
- [José T. Acosta Jiménez](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-t-acosta-jimenez/): José T. Acosta Jiménez, Cuban zoologist (fl. 1939-1961) DESCRIBED FORAMINIFERA TAXA Species Acostata mariae 1940 Acostina pyramidale 1940 Ammobaculites exiguus 1940 Ammobaculites howelli 1940 Ammobaculites josephi 1940 Ammoscalaria morenoi 1940 Cassidulina palmerae 1940 with Bermudez Chrysalogonium brodermanni 1940 with Bermudez Chrysalogonium ritae 1940 Cystammina aguayoi 1940 with Bermudez Quinqueloculina torrei 1939 Stilostomella obsoleta 1940  Triloculina bermudezi 1940 Triloculina fiterrei 1940 Uvigerina bermudezi 1940 Subspecies/Varieties Triloculina fiterrei meningoi 1940 Karreriella subcylindrica var. caribae 1940 Gaudryina quadrangularis var. antillana with Bermudez SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Quinqueloculina torrei, un nuevo foraminifero de la costa de Cuba. Torreia 1(1-3). 1939 Triloculina eburnea d’Orbigny. Torreia [Havana] 2. 1-4. 1939. Nuevos foraminiferos de la costa sur de Cuba. Torreia 3(25-26).1940 Triloculina bermudezi, un nuevo foraminifero de las Islas Bahamas. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana d Historia
- [José Martiniano de Azevedo Netto](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-martiniano-de-azevedo-netto/): José Martiniano de Azevedo Netto, Brazilian civil and sanitary engineer (Mococa, São Paulo State 21 October 1918 – São Paulo 26 June 1991) His Manual de Hidráulica (Handbook of Hydraulics) was translated into Russian language Proposed Brazilian or Azevedo Netto method for retention and distribution of stormy waters Aproveitamento de aguas de chuva para abastecimento. Rev. Bras. San. Meio Ambiente (Bio) 3(2), 1991 With Carlos A. Richter proposed a flocculation in porous media and in meshes or grids  (1991) Derived a formula to compute maximum speed in hydraulic conduits   Proposed a slow sand filter for domestic use With E.R. Yassuda &
- [José de Oliveira Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-de-oliveira-almeida/): José de Oliveira Almeida, Brazilian immunologist and serologist (Barretos, São Paulo State 13 December 1912 – 14 November 1993) Gained international recognition for his improvements to quantitative complement fixation test METHODS Described a new antigen and improved a quantitative reaction of complement fixation for Chagas disease With J.L.P. Freitas. Nova técnica de fixação de complemento para a moléstia de Chagas (reação quantitativa com antígeno “gelificado” de culturas de Trypanosoma cruzi. O Hospital (R. Janeiro) 35(6):787-800, 1949 Developed an innovative serological reaction for Chagas disease With J.L.P. Freitas & A.F. Siqueira. Capacidade reativa específica do antígeno em reações de complemento para moléstia de Chagas.
- [José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-bonifacio-de-andrada-e-silva/): José Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, Brazilian politician and  naturalist (Santos, São Paulo State 13 June 1763 – Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 06 April 1838) ACHIEVEMENTS   Studied in Academy of Mines in Freiberg being a disciple of Abraham G. Werner (1792-4) Contributed to discovery of lithium since the element was discovred in a mineral sample that collected.   Identified in Scandinavia 4 new species (petalite, spodumene, cryolite e scapolite) and 7 new varieties of minerals (wernerite, acanthicone, sahlite, coccolite, indicolite, aphrizite and alocroite). Alocroite later became andradite.    Proposed the use of suffix -ite in mineral nomenclature Stablished volcanic nature of obsidian Distinguished astronomical climate from
- [José Arechavaleta y Balpardo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-arechavaleta-y-balpardo/): José Cosme de Arechavaleta y Balpardo, Spanish-born Uruguayan botanist and microbiologist (Urioste, Bilbao 27 September 1838 – Montevideo 16 June 1912) Described nearly 160 species, 55 varieties, 14 forms of plants besides new insect species in according to IPNI site
- [José Arce](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-arce/): José Arce y Arce, Argentine physician and diplomat (Lobería, Buenos Aires Province 15 October 1881 – Buenos Aires 27 July 1968) Authored over 200 works (112 papers) Un nouveau procédé commun à la gastrostomie et a la jejunostomie. Rev. Chir. (Paris) 32:335, 1905 Um nuevo procedimiento para el acortamiento de los ligamentos redondos en el tratamiento de las retrodesviaciones uterinas fijas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 15:185, 1907 An endothoracic operation with preliminary pneumothorax known as operative pneumothorax or Arce method (1936) With Ivanissevich proposed surgical methods for hydatid cysts A new gastrostomy technique for digestive obstruction Perfected the Alquié-Alexander-Adams method  Eponymy Arce ligamentopexy
- [José Antonio de Alzate](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-de-alzate/): José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Mexican cleric, scientist, historian and cartographer (Ozumba, Mexico State 21 November 1737 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 February 1799) Founded the following scientific journals: Diario Literario de Mejico (1768), Asuntos Varios sobre Ciencias y Artes (1772-3) and Observaciones sobre la Fisica, Historia Natural y Artes Utiles (1787-8) renamed Gaceta de Literatura (1788-95). The majority of his writings was published in these journals.  INVENTIONS A bath floater which named automatic floating stopper (1790)  A cotton gin  A ring shaped bell Improved method for drying gunpowder MEMBERSHIP Foreign Associate Member, French Academy of Sciences. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Nuevo
- [José Alvarez del Villar](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-alvarez-del-villar/): José Alvarez del Villar, Mexican ichthyologist (Zamora, Michoacán State 30 May 1908 – 1986) Authored about 80 scientific works DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Algansea barbata 1964 with Cortés Allotoca meeki 1959 Allotoca regalis 1959 Atherinella schultzi 1952 with Carranza Chapalichthys pardalis 1963 Chapalichthys peraticus 1963 Chirostoma melanoccus 1963 Chirostoma reseratum 1963 Cynodontichthys hendrichsi 1952 with Carranza Cyprinodon beltrani 1949  Heterophallus echeagarayi 1952 Hyporhamphus mexicanus 1959 Poblana letholepis 1950 Poblana squamata 1950 Poecilia sulphuraria 1948 Priapella compressa 1948 Priapella intermedia 1952 with Carranza Tampichthys ipni 1953 with Navarro Tapatia occidentalis 1972 with Arriola (Fossil) Tetrapleurodon geminis 1964 Xiphophorus clemenciae 1959 His son, José “Ticul” Alvarez Solorzano, vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist (Ciudad de Mexico 26 February 1935 – Ciudad de Mexico 2001) Authored 132 papers DESCRIBED VALID
- [Jose de Anchieta](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-de-anchieta/): José de Anchieta Díaz, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit writer, cronist and naturalist (San Cristóbal de La Laguna Municipality, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands 19 March 1534 – Anchieta, Espirito Santo State 09 June 1597) From Basque father and Jewish ancestry from maternal side Authored Arte da gramática da língua mais usada na Costa do Brasil (1595), the first study on Tupi language ACHIEVEMENTS Described the haemorrhagic effect of Bothrops jararaca venom Identified that the neurotoxic venom of rattlesnake as responsible by double vision of bite victims (1560) Described the emetic action of ipecac, the antiseptic and cicatrizant properties of copaiba balsam and other properties of a
- [Jose Adsuar](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-adsuar/): José Adsuar Miró, Puerto Rican plant pathologist (San Juan 16 July 1907 – Rio Piedras 06 June 1997) A new virus disease of papaya (Carica papaya) in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 56(4):397-402,, 1972 With J. Enrique Perez & A. Cortés Monllor. A new disease virus of peppers in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 55(4), 1971 A mosaic disease of cowpea (Vigna sinensis Savi) in Puerto Rico. J. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico 48(3):264, 1964 (reported a mosaic disease of cowpea transmitted to Desmodium distortum) A disease of tomato in Puerto Rico resembling the Brazilian curly top of tomatoes. J.
- [Jorge Washington Abalos](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-washington-abalos/): Jorge Washington Abalos Urieta, Argentine entomologist, arachnologist and writer (La Plata 20 September 1915 – Cordoba 28 September 1979) Authored about 60 scientific works Established technical basis for Chagas disease prophylaxis employing residual action insecticides (i.e. Gammexane or BHC in 1947) independently from Pellegrino & Dias With C. Romaña. Acción del “Gammexane” sobre los triatomídeos. “Control” domiciliario. An. Inst. Med. Reg. Tucumán 2:95-106, 1948 Described genus Vachonia 1954 (Arachnida) and 18 new species in Insecta and Arachnida With Baez & Nader described snake species Epicrates alvarezi 1964 HONORS Abalosia Reig & Quintana 1991 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Jorge Artigas](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-artigas/): Jorge Narciso José Artigas Coch, Chilean entomologist (Santiago de Chile 21 March 1929 – Concepción 13 December 2022) Developed a staining method for protozoa Tecnica de tinción por hematoxilina molibdica para protozoos en trotis de deposiciones preparadas en fijador con alcool polivinilico. Bol. Chil. Parasitol. 10:57-8, 1955 DIPTERA GENERA DESCRIBED Aymarasilus 1974 Coleomyia 1971   Leptochelina 1970 Lochyrus 1970 Martintella 1996 Menexenus 1970 Nomomyia 1970 Rhadinosoma 1970 Zoticus 1970 Eretomyia 1971 Euthrixius 1971 Neoderomyia 1971 Papaverellus 2014 with Vieira  Paralochmorhynchus 2010 with Carrera-Suarez  DESCRIBED WITH PAPAVERO Albibarbefferia  1997 Aphractia 1991 (with Serra) Apolastauroides 1988 Araucopogon 1988 Araujoa 1991 Archilestroides 1991 Argyropogon 1990 Aridefferia 1997 Caribaricus 1991 Carinefferia 1997 Cenomyioides 1991 Chrysotriclis 1997 (with da Costa) Cochleariocera 1997 (with da Costa) Cymbipyga 1997 (with da Costa) Cyphomyiactia 1991 (with Serra) Grajahua 1991 Gymnotriclis (with
- [Jorge Alvarez Lleras](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-alvarez-lleras/): Jorge Alvarez Lleras, Colombian civil engineer, astronomer and geographer (Bogotá 16 April 1885 – 20 April 1952) Relative of bacteriologist Federico Lleras Acosta INVENTIONS/PATENTS Reflection bi-telescope   A magneto-electric pendulum   Contact electrical aneroid With Tomas Aparicio V. Improvements in automotive propulsion by electrical means (1922) With Fernando Garavito & Carlos J. Garrido. Substance that eliminate toxins through pasteurization or filtration (1923)
- [Jorge Acosta Villaveces](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-acosta-villaveces/): Jorge Acosta Villaveces, Colombian mathematician and engineer (Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca State 27 July 1891 – Bogotá 01 March 1965) Authored 37 publications CONTRIBUTIONS Estudio de una formula para el calculo aproximado de una suma de los términos de uma serie. Anales Ingenieria 53(594-7):51-63, 1945 Sobre una generalización de las fórmulas de interpolación. Anales Ingenieria 42(484):44-50 & 42(485):126-7, 1934 Informe sobre un nuevo método para determinación de coordenadas geográficas. Anales Ingenieria 35(410):369-82, 1927 Formula practica para el calculo de la sección de los cables de los puentes suspendidos. Anales Ingenieria 24(281-2):26-30, 1916 
- [Jorge Aceves Ruiz](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-aceves-ruiz/): Jorge Aceves Ruiz, Mexican neuropharmacologist (Tapachula, Chiapas State 12 November 1929 – Authored over 66 papers (until 2009) Performed contributions to knowledge of Parkinson disease physiological pathology developing a number of experimental models Authored classical papers on pharmacology of dopamine action Developed a technique for studying dopamine action at the level of nervous terminals employing radioactivity   Demonstrated the adrenergic action on cardiac tissues through the opening of calcium channels in Nature 215, 1967
- [Jorge Abulafia](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-abulafia/): Jorge Abulafia Bendjuya, Argentine dermatologist (Zarate 06 January 1921 – Buenos Aires 07 May 2006) Internationally respected as a great name in dermatopathology Authored 210 works and 7 books With R. Vignale, J. Araujo & G. Pascal et al described histologic and immunohistochemical features of Van der Woude syndrome (1998) With C.A. Kaminsky, A.R. de Kaminsky & S.E. Costantini presented possibly the first report of an eosinophilic panniculitis due to gnathostomiasis (1989) With D. Grinspan & A.L. Reis named facial midline malignant syndrome (1988)   With A.M. Casalá, A.M. Kowalczuk, C.A. Bianchi & O. Bianchi described the unilateral multiple perifolicular fibromes and its histogenesis
- [Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-maria-albarran-y-dominguez/): Joaquín María Albarrán y Domínguez, Cuban-born French urologist (Sagua, La Grande 09 May 1860 – Paris 17 January 1912) ACHIEVEMENTS   Authored more than 317 publications First to perform surgical retreat of kidney and prostate First to insert urethral catheter on a bougie at the renal pelvis level First performed planned nephrostomy  First to perform uretherolithotomy First to note the importance of nephrostomy drainage in calculous annuria First diagnosed cellular carcinoma in transition of renal pelvis (1903) Created renal functional exploration Described an oral hydraulic test for detecting tubular epithelial injury Proposed early nephrectomy as treatment of unilateral renal tuberculosis (1897) Described Escherichia
- [Joaquín Argonz](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-argonz/): Joaquín Argonz Robecchi, Argentine clinician and gynecologist (Rosario, Santa Fé Province 22 November 1898 – 1971) From Spanish father and Italian mother  He was governor of Santa Fé Province (1941-43)  ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced vitamin A in treatment of premenstrual tension.  With Carlos Abinzano. Premenstrual tension treated with vitamin A. J. Clin. Endocrinol.  10:1579-90, 1950 Described new syndromes.  With E.B. del Castilo. A syndrome characterized by estrogenic insufficiency, galactorrhea and decreased urinary gonadotropin. J. Clin. Endocrinol. 13:79-87, 1953.  Found the changes observed in smears of the urinary sediment closely parallel those seen in vaginal smears    With E. B. del Castillo & C. Galli-Mainini.
- [Jean Prosper Abraham](https://neglectedscience.com/jean-prosper-abraham/): Jean Prosper Abraham, Malagasy forester, ecologist and botanical collector (Antsahanoro, Antalaha 01 January 1930 – Périnet May 1996) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.U. Ganzhorn, S. Sommer, M. Ade et al. Mammals of the Kirindy Forest with special emphasis on Hypogeophis antimena and the effects of logging on the small mammal fauna. Primate Report 46(1):215-32, 1996 With R. Benja, M. Randrianasolo. J.U. Ganzhorn, V.Jeannoda & E.G. Leigh. Tree diversity on small plots in Madagascar: a preliminary review. Revue d’Ecologie (La Terre et la vie) 51:93-116, 1996 Guide pour la reconnaissance de quelques espéces d’arbres de la réserve à Indri d’Analamazoatra-Andasibe (1996) With J.U. Ganzhorn. A possible
- [Javier Arías Stella](https://neglectedscience.com/javier-arias-stella/): Javier Angelo Arías-Stella, Peruvian pathologist (Lima 02 August 1924 – Lima 25 February 2020) Authored over 150 publications on general, surgical and gynecological pathology and on the biology and pathology at high altitudes Described Arias Stella phenomenon, reaction or effect and Arias Stella cells Atypical endometrial changes associated with the presence of chorionic tissue. Arch. Pathol. 58:112-8, 1954  With Dante Peñaloza presented the concept that sustained hypoxia could induce anatomic narrowing of the pulmonary arteries distinguishing from acute hypoxic vasoconstriction (1962) With D. Peñaloza demonstrated that was persistent ventricular hypertrophy in high-altitude dwellers from the postnatal period to adulthood in 6
- [Itty Achudem](https://neglectedscience.com/itty-achudem/): Itty Achudem, Indian Ayurvedic physician (Kodakkarapalli of Karappurma, Cherthala, Kerala State c.1640-?) His name is given as Itty Achuthan or Itti Achuden He aided Hendrik Van Rheede to compile ethnomedical information in Hortus Malabaricus. HONORS  Achudemia Blume 1856 (Urticaceae)
- [Imtiaz Ahmad](https://neglectedscience.com/imtiaz-ahmad/):  Imtiaz Ahmad, Pakistani entomologist (Gaya, Bihar Province 03 January 1941 – DESCRIBED INSECTA GENERA Hemiptera Ameenocoris 1990 with Moizuddin Bakerorandolotus 1978 with Kamaluddin Bloeteocoris 1965 Brancucciana 1986 with Zaidi Dollingiana 1986 with Kamaluddin Froeschnerocoris 1986 with Kamaluddin Grossiana 1980 with Khan Grossimenia 1989 with Kamaluddin Heissocoris 1979 with Afzal Izharocoris 1981 with Afzal Kamaliana 1989 with Zaidi Knightiella 1980 with Khan Lestonocoris 1980 with Ali Mohammad Linnavuorius 1994 Lodosia 1996 with Onder Lodosiana 1986 with Abbas Lodosocoris 1986 Longicoris 1968 Manoriana 1978 with Kamaluddin Munshiana 1987 with Kamaluddin Muzafferiana 1983 with Perveen Nazeeriana 1978 with Kamaluddin Neoboizus 1992 with Moizuddin Neodorpius 1989 with Afzal Neohalys 1982 with Perveen Nelodosocoris 2002 with Memon Neophysopelta 1987 with Abbas Neoplautia 1981 with Rana Neoriazocoris 2012 with Zahid Neoschyzops 1990 with Kamaluddin Oryzocoris 1965 Paranotocoris 1973 with
- [Ignacio Alvarado](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-alvarado/): Ignacio Alvarado, Mexican physician (Ciudad de Mexico 14 May 1829 – Veracruz 1904) With R. Lucio described a form of lepromatous leprosy with diffuse infiltration of skin and without nodules known as diffuse leprosy of Lucio-Alvarado-Latapí or simply Lucio leprosy With R. Lucio described necrotizing erythema seen in Lucio leprosy known as Lucio phenomenon Opusculo sobre el mal de San Lazaro ó elefancíasis de los griegos (1851) Created a prophylactic procedure for syphilis  
- [Humayun Abdulali](https://neglectedscience.com/humayun-abdulali/): Humayun Najmuddin Abdulali, Indian ornithologist (Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan 19 May 1914 – Mumbai, Maharashtra 03 June 2001) Authored 348 scientific notes DESCRIBED AVIAN SUBSPECIES Dumetia hyperythra navarroi 1959 Ploceus megarhynchus salimalii 1961 Irena puella andamanica 1964 Ducula aenea andamanica 1964 Tachymarptis melba dorabtatai 1965 Perdicula asiatica vellorei 1965 with Reuben Aplonis panayensis albiris 1967 Aviceda leuphotes andamanica 1970 with Grubh Alauda gulgula dharmakumarsinhjii 1976 Oriolus xanthornus reubeni 1977 Macropygia rufipennis tiwarii 1979  Ninox affinis rexpimenti 1979 Amaurornis phoenicurus midnicobarius 1979 Pellorneum ruficeps pallidum 1982
- [Hugo Aréchiga](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-arechiga/): Hugo Hernando Aréchiga Urtuzuastegui, Mexican neurophysiologist and chronobiologist (Culiacán, Sinaloa State 11 March 1940 – Smirna, Turkey 15 September 2003) Authored 126 papers and 47 book chapters Developed methods for continuous recording of activity of single neurons and analyzing cyclical variations in many experimental conditions (in Cambarellus sp.) Discovered changes in retinal sensitivity associated to photoperiod, anatomical correlation between visual entities and its projection in optical nerve and the importance of retinal accessory pigments as regulation mechanism of light entry in retina With A. Martínez Palomo & A. Huberman discovered neurodepressing hormone that regulates the excitability of nervous system in Crustacea (1977) With E. Frixione discovered
- [Horacio Abascal](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-abascal/): Horacio Abascal y Vera, Cuban dermatologist and medicine historian (La Habana 06 November 1899 – La Habana 08 April 1964) Authored over 450 works Described cutaneous diseases such as lentiform pontogenic tuberculid (1936)  Described Abascal triad Maculas y cicatrices en los toxicomanos. Rev. Med. Sevilla 48(2):993-8, 1930 Cutaneous triad for the diagnosis of chronic toxicomania. Vida Nueva 22:371-9, 1935 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Diagnostico de las toxicomanias por la tríada cutanea (1964) Los casos de rinoescleroma estudiados en Cuba. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. 23:200-3, 1939 El “corte” da erisipela. RBC 34:236-42, 1934 Das keloid bei der schwarzen Rasse. Cronica Med. Quir. Habana (1933) With J.M. Baralt.
- [Eleodoro Bellido](https://neglectedscience.com/eleodoro-bellido/): Eleodoro Bellido Bravo, Peruvian geologist (Huaytará, Huancavelica 03 July 1918 – 1982) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geologia de los yacimientos de Tambo Grande, Piura (1965) Geologia de los yacimientos de fierro de Huancavelica (1956) Geología del curso medio del río Huaytará (1956) Geologia de los yacimientos de tungsteno de La Victora y Nuevo Mundo (1954) Los recursos minerales del sur del Perú HONORS Bellidoite de Montreuil 1975 (Mineral)
- [Edward Button](https://neglectedscience.com/edward-button/): Edward Button, English-born South African explorer and gold prospector (Brundish, Suffolk 24 May 1836 – Pietermaritzburg 24 May 1900) Collected plants and seeds Authored a paper Explorations in the gold regions of the Limpopo. Report Brit. Assoc. Advanc. Science (1872) HONORS Buttonia McKen ex. Bentham 1871 (Orobanchaceae) LINKS https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=439
- [Eduardo Braun-Menendez](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-braun-menendez/): Eduardo Braun-Menendez, Chilean-born Argentine physiologist (Punta Arenas, Chile 16 January 1903 – Mar del Plata 16 January 1959) Worldwide respected as an authority on hypertension Discovered angiotensin and angiotensogen With J.M. Muñoz, J.C. Fasciolo & L.F. Leloir. Hypertensin: the substance causing renal hypertension. Nature 144:980, 1939.   With L.F. Leloir, J.C. Fasciolo and A. Taquini described enzymatic nature of renin-angiotensin system and its link to arterial hypertension With J.M. Muñoz, A. Taquini, J.C. Fasciolo & L.F. Leloir. Metodo para la medición de la renina humana. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 19:321-31, 1943 With Oscar Orías published Los Ruidos Cardíacos en condiciones normales y
- [Eduardo Blanco Acevedo](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-blanco-acevedo/): Eduardo Blanco Acevedo, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 14 March 1884 – 07 July 1971) Brother in law of physician Francisco Soca Developed an operation for treatment of acute encephalitis (Blanco Acevedo incision) Developed a procedure for prevention of hydatid anaphylaxis     SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cancer primitivo del apéndice (1926) Evolución de las apendicitis agudas (1933-4) With C.M. Domínguez. La radiografia de la mamma dinamica. Anales Dept. Cient. Salud Publ. 2:1, 1935 Posibilidad en el tratamiento del cancer del cuello uterino. Rev. Med. Hond. 7(70):253-61, 1936 Litiasis del colédoco. Anales Ateneo Clin. Cir. 5:279, 1939 Paralisis radial producida por una inyección mercurial em El brazo. Rev.
- [Dorairajan Balasubramanian](https://neglectedscience.com/dorairajan-balasubramanian/): Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Indian cytologist and molecular biologist (Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu State 28 August 1939 – Authored over 450 publications (6 books) Showed that biochemical damage to visual proteins compromise lenticular transparency and lead to cataract Isolated limbal stem cells of eye cornea Showed the importance of optineurin in regulating the process of endocytic recycling
- [Donglu Bai](https://neglectedscience.com/donglu-bai/): Donglu Bai, Chinese organic chemist (Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province 08 February 1936 – CONTRIBUTIONS With X. Xiao developed an efficient and selective method for hydrolysis of acetonides (2010) With L. Zhou, Q. Yang, Y. Wang et al. designed novel isopropanolamine derivatives (2008) With L. You, S. Feng, R. An & X. Wang developed a new method to synthesize β-amino amide (2008) With Z. Liu, D. Li, S. Li et al. described a method for the synthesis of 5,6-disubstituted furo[2,3d]pyrimidine derivatives (2006) With J. Li, J. Chen, Z. Li et al. reported a novel quinoxaline derivative as a potent human cyclophilin A
- [Donald George Broadley](https://neglectedscience.com/donald-george-broadley/): Donald George Broadley, English-born Zimbabwean herpetologist (Stanford, Lincolnshire 29 May 1932 – Bulawayo, Matabeleland 10 March 2016) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE TAXA (Living & Fossil) Family Prosymnidae 2009 with Kelly, Barker & Villet (Fossil) Genera & Subgenera Afronaja 2010 with Wallach & Wuster Afrotyphlops 2009 with Wallach Cryptolycus 1968 Gracilima 2018 with Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum Limaformosa 2018 with Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum Megatyphlops 2009 with Wallach Montatheris 1996 Perretia 1989 Proatheris 1996 Xyelodontophis 2002 with Wallach Species & Subspecies 115 (being 103 of them are valid) HONORS Broadleysaurus Bates, Tolley, Edwards, Davids, da Silva & Branch 2013 (Reptilia) LINKS https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325450946_Donald_George_Broadley_Bibliography_taxonomic_discoveries_and_patronyms
- [Domingos Baggio](https://neglectedscience.com/domingos-baggio/): Domingos Baggio, Brazilian parasitologist (fl.1963-2000) Developed a vaccine for allegry caused by mites Developed a chemical for fighting mites Described Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome or Brazilian Lyme-like disease With N.H. Yoshinari, P.J.L. Barros, F.C.M. Cruz, L.K.Oyafuso, M. Mendonça et al. Clinica e sorologia da doença de Lyme no Brasil. Rev. Bras. Reumatol. 32 (Suppl.):57, 1992 DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA  (with Perez-Iñigo) Genera Belemacarus 1997 Brasilobates 1980 Brasiloppia 1986 Dinoxenillus 1980 Furcodamaeus 1980 Minasbates 1996 Pseudogalumna 1994 Xenilloides 1989 Species & Subspecies 91 species and 4 subspecies 
- [Domingo Marcolino Braile](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-marcolino-braile/): Domingo Marcolino Braile, Brazilian cardiovascular surgeon (Nova Aliança, São Paulo State 08 April 1938 – São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 22 March 2020) From Italian ancestry Authored over 450 papers and 25 book chapters Introduced flexible band for the use in mitral insufficiency Developed a muscle stimulator which helps in cardiomyoplasty Developed an innovative technique of cardiomioplasty DEVELOPED DEVICES Bovine pericardium valve and patch (1977) Human umbilical vein graft (1977) Bovine tubular pericardium graft (1983) Valved tubular aorta graft Forked bovine pericardium arterial graft (1988) Homologous vein graft using human saphenous vein (1989) Prosthesis for geometric reconstruction of
- [Djalma da Cunha Batista](https://neglectedscience.com/djalma-da-cunha-batista/): Djalma da Cunha Batista, Brazilian physician and essayist (Tarauacá, Acre State 20 February 1916 – Manaus 20 August 1979) Performed studies on public health concerning tuberculosis and parasitary diseases Authored publications on human aspects of Amazonas State HONORS Djalmabatista Fittkau 1968 (Diptera)
- [Dinesh Chandra Bharadwaj](https://neglectedscience.com/dinesh-chandra-bharadwaj/): Dinesh Chandra Bharadwaj, Indian palynologist and bryologist (Biswan, Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh 13 November 1923 – Lucknow 09 February 1995) Proposed the first phylogenetic classification of sporae dispersae with worldwide recognition DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA Sporae/Pollen Angulisporites 1954 Barakarites 1964 with Tiwari Bokarosporites 1970 with Tiwari Boshisporites 1973 with Tiwari & Venkatachala Brevitriletes 1969 with Srivastava Callumispora 1969 with Srivastava Clavisporis 1961 with Venkatachala Corbulispora 1961 with Venkatachala Crescentipollenites 1974 with Tiwari & Kar Cyclobaculisporites 1955 Densipollenites 1962 Distriamonocolpites 1969 with Sinha Distriatites 1962 Distriomonosaccites 1962 Eupunctisporites 1962 Faunipollenites 1962 Fossulatisporites 1971 with Tiwari Foveolatisporites 1955 Gondisporites 1962 Gravisporites 1954 Gulatriletes 1970 with Tiwari Guthoerlisporites 1954 Hindipollenites 1962 Hindisporis 1969 with Sinha Horriditriletes 1964 with Salujha Imucogosporis 1976 with Kar & Navale Indospora 1962 Insignisporites 1977 with Dwivedi Iugisporis 1961
- [Dillman Samuel Bullock](https://neglectedscience.com/dillman-samuel-bullock/): Dillman Samuel Bullock, US-born Chilean naturalist, philologist, historian and archaeologist  (Elba, Michigan State 25 November 1878 – Angol, Malleco Province 05 April 1971) DISCOVERED (sent to other researchers)   One musci specie   More than 100 new insect species  6 fish species One frog species 3 bird races  4 mammalian species   El Vergel cultural complex (archaeology) HONORS Bullockia Arratia, Chang, Menu-Marque & Rojas 1978 (Pisces) Bullockiella & Dillmania Urra 2017 (Lepidoptera)
- [Diamante Bennati](https://neglectedscience.com/diamante-bennati/): Diamante Bennati Scorzoni, Uruguayan physiologist (Montevideo 03 April 1899 – La Paz, Canelones 19 October 1973) With J. Gautrelet performed studies on secretion and metabolic actions of adrenaline With R. Gayet authored relevant contributions to knowledge of carbonic anhydride effect on carotid sinus With G. Bourguignon first to study the chronaxy in neuromuscular physiology of human being SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Mazzella. Recording of skeletal muscular pressure during contraction nervous and muscular diseases (1961) With C.W. Ghiggino. Efecto de hipertensión arterial provocado por la occlusion temporaria de arterias del area esplacnica (The arterial hypertensor effect caused by temporary occlusion of the arteries
- [Debabrata Basu](https://neglectedscience.com/debabrata-basu/): Debabrata Basu, Indian statistician (Dacca, Bengal 05 July 1924 – Calcutta 24 March 2001) Introduced the concept of maximal ancillary (1959) EPONYMY Basu paradoxes Basu theorem (1955) Basu lemma Basu-Ghosh structure
- [Dario Birolini](https://neglectedscience.com/dario-birolini/): Dario Birolini, Italian-born Brazilian surgeon (Fiume, Italy 02 November 1937 – Authored about 153 papers and 24 books Co-described abdominoperineal rectosigmoidectomy with delayed colorectal anastomosis (Cutait operation) With D. E. Cutait, F.J. Figlioni, P.D. Branco, P. Altenfelder, M. Speranzini, S.M. Campos, E.A.B. Ferreira, I. Fujimura, M.R. Oliveira & E.S. Bastos. Experiência com o tratamento do megacólon adquirido pela retossigmoidectomia e descrição da técnica da anastomose colo-retal retardada. Rev Ass Med Bras. 11:429-34, 1965 DEVELOPED METHODS AND OTHERS With A. Ferreira, M.C. Machado, M.R. Oliveira et al. Method for obtaining portal blood by percutaneous puncture. Rev. Paul. Med. 62:145-148, 1963 With F.B. Jatene,
- [Darbhe Jayarama Bhat](https://neglectedscience.com/darbhe-jayarama-bhat/): Darbhe Jayarama Bhat, Indian mycologist (1949 – DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Order Fuscoporellales 2016 with Yang & Hyde Genera Bahusutrabeeja 1977 with Subramanian Benjpalia 1987 with Subramanian Bharatheeya 2002 with D’Souza Blastocatena 1987 with Subramanian Brachysporiellina 1987 with Subramanian Ceeveesubramaniomyces 2004 with Pratibha & Hyde  Kumbhamaya 2000 with Jacob Natarajania 2005 with Pratibha Neohelicomyces 2017 with Luo & Hyde Paradischloridium 1985 with Sutton Parahelminthosporium 1987 with Subramanian Peethambara 1978 with Subramanian Pustulomyces 2014 with Dai & Hyde Putagraivan 1978 with Subramanian Sporisdemina 1987 with Subramanian Sporisdemiopsis 1987 with Subramanian Vamsapriya 2006 with Gawas Vanakripa 1993 with Kendrick & Nag Raj Vittalia 2007 with Gawas Weufia 1985 with Sutton Xenoheteroconium 1993 with Kendrick & Nag Raj HONORS (Fungi) Bhatiellae Wanasinghe, Camporesi & Hyde 2018 Jayarambhatia Pratibha
- [Danko Brncic](https://neglectedscience.com/danko/): Danko Brncic Juricic, Chilean geneticist (Punta Arenas, Magallanes 31 August 1922 – Santiago de Chile 24 April 1998) From Croatian descent Authored over 120 works First to show that biological fitness depends on inner and relational balance of genes in chromosome Heterosis and integration of the genotype in geographic populations of Drosophila pesudoobscura. Genetics 39:77-88, 1954 Performed classical studies on genetical ecology of Drosophila (1957-72) DESCRIBED NEW TUMORS  Un Nuevo tumor hereditario de la Drosophila melanogaster tu49h. Biologica 11:69-83, 1949 With G. Hoecker. Nuevo sarcoma transmisible de la gallina. Rev. Sudam. Morfol. 7:56-74, 1949 DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Subgenus Chusqueophila 1957 Species Drosophila acroria 1962 with Wheeler & Takada Drosophila alei  1962
- [Cyro Corte Brilho](https://neglectedscience.com/cyro-corte-brilho/): Cyro Corte Brilho, Brazilian agricultural engineer (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 29 April 1900 –  Campinas, São Paulo State 05 November 2002) With S.R. Santos & A.J.D. Pinto. Vaso IAC separador de óleos essenciais mais leves do que a água (A new essential oil separator). Bragantia 21, 1962  DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGY FOR Harvesting sugar cane Processing cotton, tea and sisal plants Canning corn, beans and peas Jams production Extraction of Aromatic essential oils Improvements in harvesters, manure spreaders and agricultural planters Paper making with sugarcane bagasse
- [Cosme Bueno](https://neglectedscience.com/cosme-bueno/): Francisco Antonio Cosme Bueno y Alegre, Spanish-born Peruvian physician, mathematician and geographer (Belver de Cinca, Aragón 09 April 1711 – Lima 11 March 1798) ACHIEVEMENTS Anticipated the discovery of Phlebotomus sp. as etiologic agent of bartonellosis and leishmaniasis El conocimiento de los tiempos. Epheméride del año 1761, bisiesto: en que van puestos lós principales aspectos de luna com los astros, y de ellos entre sí. (1764) Reported the first reference of association between goitre and deafness (1769) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Disertación physico experimental sobre la naturaleza del aire, y sus propriedades (1750) Disertación sobre lós antojos de las mujeres preñadas (1760 & 1794) Tablas
- [Consuelo Bazan de Segura](https://neglectedscience.com/consuelo-bazan-de-segura/): Consuelo Bazán de Segura, Peruvian plant pathologist (1914 – 2001?) Born Consuelo Bazán Pizarro Una nueva enfermedad del haba (Vicia faba L.) en el Peru. Agronomia 10(42):49-52, 1945 (Phoma sp.) Carica papaya, another possible host of Phytophthora cinnammomi. Plant Dis. Reporte 35(5):335, 1951 With A. Quevedo first report about potato smut on Solanum stoloniferum (1955) Stated that the causal organism of Verticillium wilt of potato in Peru was Verticillium albo-atrum (1958) Reported a wilt of chile pepper caused by Phytophthora citrophthora (1958) Corticium salmonicolor and Pellicularia koleroga on various species of Eucalyptus in Turrialba, Costa Rica. Turrialba 20(2):254-5, 1970 (first report of pink disease on Eucalyptus) Attack of Phytophthora blight of macadamia by Phytophthora palmivora. Turrialba 20:375-6, 1970 (first report of
- [Claudio Barros Rodríguez](https://neglectedscience.com/claudio-barros-rodriguez/): Fernando Claudio Barros Rodríguez, Chilean reproductive biologist (Santiago 23 October 1936 – 27 October 2008) Regarded as a world leader in sperm biology Authored studies on reproductive biology of mammals and invertebrates and gamete cryopreservation Showed that the mammalian oocyte and the spermatozoon fuse together side by side SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.I. de los Reyes & J.A. Palomino. Effect of human chorionic gonadotrophin supplementation during different culture periods on in vitro maturation of canine oocytes. Theriogen. 64(1):1-11, 2005  With M.R. Solovera & J.A. Stuardo Rosales. Efecto del medio de cultivo sobre el desarollo embrionario bovino in vitro (Effect of culture medium on in
- [Clare Rilloraza Baltazar](https://neglectedscience.com/clare-rilloraza-baltazar/): Clare Rilloraza Baltazar, Philippine entomologist (San Fernando, La Union 01 November 1927- DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA   Genera/Subgenus  (Incomplete) Barthasis 1972 Hybomischos 1961 (synonym) Hypsotypos 1963 Ischnobracon 1963 Pachymelos 1961 Millironia 1964 Sychnostigma 1961 Triancyra 1961 Species   108 HONORS   Baltazaria Townes 1961 (Hymenoptera)
- [Christian Neethling Barnard](https://neglectedscience.com/christian-neethling-barnard/): Christiaan Neethling Barnard, South African cardiothoracic surgeon (Beaufort West 08 November 1922 – Paphos, Cyprus 02 September 2001) Born from Dutch father ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the world’s first human heart transplant (03 December 1967). He is first to choose as a heart donor a brain-dead accident victim (1967)  Defined the concept of brain death First successfully implanted artificial arteries (1969) Developed technique of heterotopic heart transplantation with Jacques Losman (1974) First to attempt xenograft transplantation in a human patient (1977) With J.H. Louw showed how intestinal atresia resulted from vascular block Discovered that congenital intestinal atresia is caused by an inadequate blood
- [Charles Brewer Carías](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-brewer-carias/): 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
- [Chander Kanta Banerjee](https://neglectedscience.com/chander-kanta-banerjee/): Chander Kanta Banerjee, Indian pathologist Described Banerjee syndrome With D.J. Girling & J.S. Wigglesworth. Pulmonary fibroplasia in newborn babies treated with oxygen and artificial ventilation. Arch.Dis. Child. 47:509, 1972. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With V.R. Sarode, K. Savitri, K.L. Narasimharao & A. Khajuria. Primary extrarenal Wilm’s tumour: identification of a putative precursor lesion. Histopathology 21(1):76-8, 1992 With K. K. Vayshei  & B.N. Dutta. Malpighian corpuscles of spleen in infancy and childhood. Indian J. Path. Microbiol. 34(3):193-9, 1991 With K.V.S. Bhaskar & K. Joshi. Hepatoblastoma with glomerulocystic disease – a mere coincidence or an association. Nephron 54:273-4, 1990    With S. Roy, K. Joshi, R.A.
- [Ceslaw Maria Biezanko](https://neglectedscience.com/ceslaw-maria-biezanko/): Czeslaw Odrowaz Marian Biezanko, Polish-born Brazilian entomologist (Kielce, Poland 22 September 1895 – Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 March 1986) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Forbesiopsis 1957  Alberticoides 1963 (with Ruffinelli) Blancharditia 1963 (with Ruffinelli) Zolessia 1968 (with Monne) Species  Acanthermia carbonelli 1959 Apatura strandi 1924 Cataspilates zolessii 1968 Colias almeidai 1950 Colias costalimai 1950 Colias forbesi 1950 Colias lutzi 1950 Colias schweizeri 1950 Colias sitowskii 1950 Colias travassosi 1950 Colias williamsi 1950 Ematurga latelineata Fabriciana prufferi 1922 Herminodes carbonelli 1959 Hoplotarache ruffinellii 1959 Hypopta matana 1957 with Ruffinelli & Carbonell Lypsimena navarroi 1956 with Bosq Megacyllene insignata 1956 with Bosq Mnasitheus strandi 1973 Mormo ojcoviensis 1924 Nymphalis nigroflava 1924 Pellicia cyanea 1973 with Mielke Perichares forbesi 1973 with Mielke Psygmatocerus vagleri 1956 with Bosq Stichelia pelotensis 1978
- [Cesar Bergadá](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-bergada/): Cesar Bergadá, Argentine pediatric endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 08 June 1929 – Buenos Aires 08 April 2005) Presented original hypothesis about anomalies of sexual differentiation With I. Bergadá, G. Del Rey, P. Lapunzina, M. Fellous & S. Copelli. Familial occurrence of the IMAGe association: additional clinical variants and a proposed mode of inheritance. J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 90:3186-90, 2005 Described Bergada syndrome or Rudimentary testes syndrome With W.W. Cleveland, H.W. Jones Jr & L. Wilkins. Variants of embryonic testicular dysgenesis: bilateral anorchia and the syndrome of rudimentary testes. Acta Endocrinol 40:521-36, 1962.     DESCRIBED DISEASES With S. Iorcansky, N. Altschuler & M. Cullen.
- [Cassio Bottura](https://neglectedscience.com/cassio-bottura/): Cássio Bottura, Brazilian cytogeneticist and hematologist (Matão, São Paulo State 20 January 1920 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 26 January 1988) ACHIEVEMENTS Published nearly 60 works Co-authored the first publication reporting a megaloblastic change that complicated the course of hemolytic anemia in sickle cell anemia, 8 years ahead of international literature The first report about sickle cell anemia without gastric achylia With M. Jamra & L.M. Ferreira. Anemia falciforme: considerações em torno de um caso (1944) Introduced the use of glycose and insulin for the treatment of acute alcoholism  With D. Pfuhl Neves & L. Marques de Assis. Tratamento do
- [Carlos Guido Bollini](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-guido-bollini/): Carlos Guido Bollini, Argentine physicist (Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province 15 January 1926 – Buenos Aires  12 October 2009) Authored over 100 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Invented analytical regularization method With J.J. Giambiagi & A. Gonzalez Dominguez. Analytic regularization and the divergence of quantum fields theories. Nuovo Cimento 31:550-61, 1964  Invented dimensional regularization method With J.J. Giambiagi. Dimensional Regularization. J. Nuovo Cimento 12 B:20, 1972 Eponym of Bollini-Giambiagi potential  OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With J.J. Giambiagi. A differential equation for the self-energy in momentum space. Phys. Lett. 10(2):219-21, 1964 With F.F. Grinstein. A summation procedure for expansions in orthogonal polynomials. Rev. Bras. Física (1977)
- [Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-eduardo-de-mattos-bicudo/): Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo, Brazilian phycologist and lymnologist (São Paulo 28 November 1937- DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Genera Bjornbergiella 1966 (Cryptophyceae) Prescottiella 1976 (Chlorophyceae) Tetranephris 1977 (Chlorophyceae) with C.R. Leite Pseudocryptomonas 1988 (Cryptophyceae) with G. Tell Croasdalea 1993 (Zygnemaphyceae) with C.T.J. Mercante Species Bjornbergiella hawaiiensis 1966 Bourrellyodesmus guarrerae 2004 with Faustino Bourrellyodesmus jolyanus with AZevedo Cosmarium brancoi 1967 Cosmarium lapeanum with Ventrice Cosmarium subtruncatum with Ventrice Cryptomonas brasiliensis with Castro & D. Bicudo Dispora globosa with R. Bicudo Euastrum vitalianum with R. Bicudo Hemidinium brasiliense with Skvortzov Hemidinium montanum with Skvortzov Hemidinium pseudochraceum with Skvortzov Ichthyocercus manauensis 1986 Katodinium fontinalis with Skvortzov Katodinium sanctipaulense with Skvortzov Mallomonas kristianseni 1993 with Wujek Micrasterias croasdaleana with Sormus Micrasterias prescottiana with Sormus Micrasterias sanctipaulensis with Sormus Oocystis apicurvata 2015
- [Carlos do Prado Barbosa](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-do-prado-barbosa/): Carlos do Prado Barbosa, Brazilian amateur mineralogist (Alfenas, Minas Gerais State 07 January 1917 – Belo Horizonte 17 April 2003) With Paulo A. Matioli found the mineral brumadoite (1993), described later by Atencio, Roberts, Matioli et al (2008) DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Bahianite 1978 with Moore & Gaines Minasgeraisite 1986 with Foord, Gaines, Crock & Simmons SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.U. Falster, W.B. Simmons, K.L. Webber, J. Nizamoff & R.V. Gaines. Minerals of the Brumado magnesite deposits, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, Brazil. Rocks and Minerals 75:32-9, 2000 With P.J. Modreski & E.E. Foord. Crystal chemistry of uvitedravite from the Brumago magnesite deposits, Bahia,
- [Carlos Burckhardt](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-burckhardt/): Karl Emmanuel Burckhardt, Swiss-born Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Basle 26 March 1869 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 August 1935) Authored 44 publications DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA GENERA Durangites 1912 Idoceras 1906 Mazapilites 1919 Nebrodites 1910 Proniceras 1919 Pseudoctenostreon 1930 Species More than 100 HONORS Burckhardtia Frech 1907 (Fossil Mollusca) Burckhardtites Humphrey 1949 (Fossil Mollusca) Burckhardtite Gaines, Leavens & Nelen 1979 (Mineral) See http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/epoca02/1936-9-1burckhardt.pdf  (in Spanish; with bibliography)
- [Carlos Bruch](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-bruch/): Franz Karl (Carlos) Bruch, German-born Argentine entomologist and archaeologist (Munich 01 April 1869 – Vicente Lopez, Buenos Aires Province 03 July 1943) Authored about 220 publications   Studied old buildings of Calchaquí Valley  ARCHAEOLOGY Apuntes sobre antropometria de cuatro naturales del Noroeste argentino. Rev. Museo La Plata 18:47-52, 1911-2 Exploraciones arqueológicas en las províncias de Tucumán y Catamarca (1911) With F.F. Outes. Os aborígenes de la Republica Argentina (1910) Descripción de algunos sepulcros Calchaquies. Resultado de las excavaciones efectuadas em Hualfín (Pcia de Catamarca). Rev. Museo La Plata 11:11-27, 1904 La piedra pintada del Manzanito (Territorio del Rio Negro). Rev. Museo La
- [Carlos Botelho](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-botelho/): Carlos José Botelho Junior, Brazilian physician (São Paulo c.1884 – São Paulo 12 April 1960) Observed that citric acid enables iodine in potassium iodide to precipitate proteins and sera more readily in the serum of cancer patients that in that of normal subjects (1916) and developed Botelho reaction or test based on it that was improved by Ichikawa (1928) Presented Botelho reaction at Academie des Sciences de Paris (1917)  Improved the Botelho reaction employing refractometry Proposed a formula to use in Botelho’s reaction (Q=40/i, being Q the desired amount of serum and i the refractometric index of serum in albumin equivalents)   
- [Carlos Bonorino Udaondo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-bonorino-udaondo/): Carlos Guillermo Bonorino Udaondo, Argentine gastroenterologist (Buenos Aires 04 December 1884 – Buenos Aires 15 November 1951) Authored over 500 scientific works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El diagnostico clinico del cancer de estomago. Prensa Med. Arg. (1951) With V. D’Alotto & H. Resano. Sindrome de Plummer-Vinson. Arch. Mal. Appl. Dig. 39:478-83, 1950 With M.R. Castex. Le trophisme osseux chez les gastrectomisés. Presse Med. 73:847, 1947 With M.R. Castex & V.D’Alotto. Cancer primitive del duodeno. Consideraciones sobre siete observaciones personales. Prensa Med. Argent. 33:1419-25, 1946 With J. Nasio. Incidencia de la ulcera gástrica y duodenal en las profesiones y ofícios. Revisión de 2557 casos. Prensa Med.
- [Carlos Berg](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-berg/): Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Berg, German-born Argentine zoologist and paleontologist (Tuckum, Courland, today Latvia 02 April 1843 – Buenos Aires 19 January 1902) Described Aeolus pyroblaptus a new plague for wheat (1892)  ACHIEVEMENTS Named genus Anomochilus 1901 and species Philodryas baroni 1895 (Reptilia) Described 3 valid genera (Gilbertidia 1898, Mataeocephalus 1898 and Parona 1895)  and 10 valid species of fishes Described Odontophrynus occidentalis 1896 (Amphibia) Described 24 Lepidopteran genera HONORS Bergiopteris Kurtz 1921 (Fossil Plants) Bergolix Linnavuori 1959 (Hemiptera) Bergallia Oman 1938 (Hemiptera) Bergalna Boulard & Martinelli 1996 (Hemiptera) Bergemesa Wygodzinsky 1950 (Hemiptera) Bergmiris Carvalho 1984 (Hemiptera) Cromobergia Bourquin 1937 (Lepidoptera) Bergiaria Eigenmann & Norris 1901 (Fishes) Bergidora Kerremans 1903 (Coleoptera) Bergidia Breddin 1897 (Hemiptera)
- [Candido Bolivar y Pieltaín](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-bolivar-y-pieltain/): Candido Luis Bolívar y Pieltaín, Spanish/Mexican entomologist and speleologist (Madrid 15 April 1897 – Ciudad de Mexico 22 November 1976) Son of world-famous Spanish entomologist Ignacio Bolivar y Urrutia and son-in-law of Spanish surgeon José Goyanes Capdevila GENERA DESCRIBED   Orthoptera Balsasia 1942 Borneacris 1944 Burrinia 1930 Calliphonides 1940 Chescirtypus 1930 Ebneridia 1930 Gomerina 1940 Karnydia 1930 Kirbyita 1916 Manowia 1914 Meltripata 1923 Noliba 1922 Odontomastax 1944 Paedomastax 1930 Palaciosa 1930 Piezomastax 1914 Schulthessiella 1914 Seyrigacris 1932 Thericlella 1914 Tuberomastax 1944 Uvarovia 1930 Coleoptera Albridarollia 1963 with Jimenez Asua & Martínez Escalerina 1926 Hygroduvalius 1941 Iberoxenos 1926 Mexaphaenops 1943 Pseudoplatyderus 1940 Spelaeorhadine 1944 Trichocalathus 1940 Hymenoptera Mercetina 1934 Crustacea Speocirolana 1950 HONORS Candidosia Collado & Alonso-Zarazaga 1996 (Coleoptera) Bolivaresmus Chamberlin 1942 (Myriapoda) Bolivaridia Bonet 1942 (Protura) Pieltainellus Pelaez 1970 (Hemiptera) Pieltainerianthus Descamps 1975 (Orthoptera) Pieltainidia Ramme 1925 (Orthoptera)
- [Buddhadeb Biswas](https://neglectedscience.com/buddhadeb-biswas/): Buddhadeb Biswas, Indian geologist, stratigrapher and micropalaeontologist (fl.1954-99) DESCRIBED PALYNOLOGICAL GENERA Alismataceapites 1962 Birbalipites 1962 Caryophyllaceaepites 1962 Cushmanipites 1962 Dorreenipites 1962 Erdtmanipites 1962 Gentianaceaeformis 1962 Grevilloideaepites 1962 Knoxipites 1962 Lemnaceaepites 1962 Medlicottipites 1962 Monsteroideaepites 1962 Oldhamisporites 1962 Paleoaraliaceaepites 1962 Paleocaesalpiniaceaepites 1962 Paleoficus 1962 Paleorubiaceaepites 1962 Paleosantalaceaepites 1970 Palmaepites 1962 Papaveraceaepites 1962 Polyforipites 1962 Polypodiceaesporites 1962 Potamogetonoceaepites 1962 Rhamneapites 1962 Santalaceaepites 1962 Sapindaceaepites 1962 Triporipites 1962 Ulmaceaepites 1962 Umbelliferaepites 1962 Wadiapites 1962 HONORS Biswasiaspora Kar & Saxena 1981 (Fossil Sporae)
- [Bruno & Elba Baldis](https://neglectedscience.com/bruno-elba-baldis/): Bruno Alberto Juan Baldis Pollacino, Argentine geologist and paleontologist (Buenos Aires 27 March 1937 – San Juan 28 May 1997) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Argentinites 1975 with Rossi de Garcia Argentobolbina 1975 with Rossi de Garcia Argentopyge 1972 Australomyttonia 1995 with Pothe de Baldis Australops 1972 Bancroftolithus 1995 with Pothe de Baldis Belobeyrichia 1977 with Rossi de Garcia Cordobesia 1977 with Pothe de Baldis Dillobellopsis 1975 with Rossi de Garcia Downiea 1975 with Pothe de Baldis Guaranites 1980 with Hansen Guayakinites 1980 with Hansen Harringtonacaste 1978 with Blasco Helieranella 1984 with Gonzalez & Perez Hunickenolithus 1995 with Pothe de Baldis Jujuyops 1978 with Blasco Kainisiliellina 1987 with Gonzalez Kloedenellopleura 1975 with Rossi de Garcia Makaspis 1980 with Hansen Malimanaspis 1979 with Longobucco
- [Brij Bhushan Bhatia](https://neglectedscience.com/brij-bhushan-bhatia/): Brij Bhushan Bhatia, Indian parasitologist and protozoologist (Mathura, Uttar Pradesh State 11 March 1935 – DESCRIBED NEW PARASITE SPECIES Protozoa Eimeria ailuri 1981 with Agrawal, Ahluwalia & Chauhan Eimeria aurei 1981 with Agrawal, Ahluwalia & Chauhan Eimeria bazi 1970 with Chauhan Eimeria cheetali 1968 Eimeria dawari 1973 with Chauhan, Arora & Agrawal Eimeria mayurai 1966 with Pande Eimeria mrigai 1972 with Pande, Chauhan & Arora Eimeria pictus 1968 Eimeria ramgai 1970 with Pande, Chauhan & Garg Eimeria sardari 1973 with Agrawal, Chauhan & Arora Eimeria teetari 1966 with Pandey & Pande Eimeria tragocamelis 1968 Eimeria varani 1972 with Chauhan Hoareosporidium pellerdyi 1972 with Pande & Chauhan Isospora cheeli 1970 with Garg & Pande Isospora graculai 1973 with
- [Brieva brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/brieva-brothers/): Jorge Alfonso Brieva Bustillo, Colombian geologist, paleontologist and anthropologist (1935 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Villarroel & C. Macia. Formación Venado, nueva unidad litoestratigrafica del Ordovicico colombiano. Geol. Colomb. 22:41-9, 1997 With C. Villarroel & A. Cadena. La fauna de mamiferos fosiles del Pleistoceno de Jutua, Municipio de Soata (Boyacá, Colombia). Geol. Colomb. 21:81-7, 1996  With C. Villarroel, T. Setoguchi & C. Macia. Geology of the La Tatacoa “desert” (Huila, Colombia): Precisions on the stratigraphy of the Honda Group, the evolution of the “Pata High” and the presence of the La Venta fauna. Mem. Fac. Scien. Kyoto Univ. Ser. Geol. Miner.
- [BRAZIL](https://neglectedscience.com/brazil/): Jessé Santiago Accioly Lins, Brazilian physician (Porto Calvo, Alagoas State 21 September 1921 – Salvador 24 July 1996) Formulated the inheritance mechanism of sickle anemia independent of J. Neel Anemia falciforme: relato de um caso com infantilismo. Arq. Fac. Med. Univ. Feder. Bahia 2:169-98, 1947  Pedro de Almeida Magalhães, Brazilian physician (Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro 27 November 1864 – Benjamin Constant, Minas Gerais State 13 February 1909) Described Almeida Magalhães sign Percussão da fosseta de Mohrenheim para o diagnóstico precoce da tuberculose First to report intermittent splitting in second heart sound and bruit de gallop in beriberi (Almeida Magalhães sign) O coração no beriberi
- [Bravo Hollis sisters](https://neglectedscience.com/bravo-hollis-sisters/): Helia Bravo Hollis, Mexican botanist (Ciudad de Mexico 30 September 1901 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 September 2001) From Mexican father and English mother Described 57 new taxa in Cactaceae plants and named 61 recombinations HONORS Bravocactus Doweld 1998 (Cactaceae) Bravothrips Johansen 1986 (Thysanoptera) 9 other taxa in plants and animals Margarita Bravo-Hollis, Mexican helminthologist (Ciudad de Mexico 10 June 1911 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 December 2011) DESCRIBED PARASITE HELMINTHOLOGICAL TAXA 1 new family Neotetraonchidae 1968 7 subfamilies 26 genera 105 species HONORS (Trematoda Genera) Bravocotyle Lamothe-Argumedo 1968 Bravohollisia Bychowsky & Nagibina 1972 Bravotrema Groschaft 1972 Margotrema  Lamothe-Argumedo 1972
- [Boris Ivan Balinsky](https://neglectedscience.com/boris-ivan-balinsky/): Boris Ivan Balinsky, Ukrainian-born South African zoologist, embryologist and geneticist (Kiev 10 September 1905 – 01 September 1997) Performed important studies of comparative embryology and published An Introduction to Embriology (1960) gaining world renown Discovered the limb induction in Amphibia GENERA Described 34 Lepidopteran genera and many new species of Odonata and Plecoptera  Abachausia 1994 Afromyelois 1991 Afromyela 1994 Afropsipyla 1994   Ambetilia 1994 Aspithroides 1994 Azanicola 1991 Bahiria 1994 Cabotella 1994 Candiopella 1994 Cantheleamima 1994 Canthelearaima 1994 Ceuthelea 1994 Cunibertoides 1991 Flabellobasis 1991 Hobohmia 1994 Kivia 1994 Leviantenna 1994 Macrovalva 1994 Magiriamorpha 1994 Miliberta 1994 Nakurubia 1994 Namibicola 1991 Namibiopsis 1994 Nonphycita 1994   Paralaodamia 1994 Phycitophila 1994 Proancylosis 1991 Pseudogetulia 1994 Pseudographis 1989 Pylamorpha 1994 Quasiexuperius 1994 Ramosignathos 1994 Shebania 1991   HONORS Honored in genus Balinskycercella Stevens & Picker 1995 (Plecoptera) www.microscopy.org.za/Documents/Members%20info/Boris.pdf South African Journal of Science 101:309-12, 2005 (available
- [Bolus family](https://neglectedscience.com/bolus-family/): Harry Bolus, English-born South African botanist and explorer (Nottingham, England 28 April 1834 – Oxford, Surrey 25 May 1911) DESCRIBED Dermatobotrys 1890 (Scrophulariaceae) Guthriea 1873 (Achariaceae) Phyllosma 1897 (Rubiaceae) Schlechteria 1897 (Rubiaceae) HONORS Bolusanthus Harms 1906 (Fabaceae) Bolusafra Kuntze 1891 (Fabaceae) Bolusia Bentham 1873 (Fabaceae) Bolusiella  Schlechter 1918 (Orchidaceae) Neobolusiella Schlechter 1895 (Orchidaceae) His niece Harriet Margaret Louisa Kensit Bolus, South African botanist  (Burgersdorp, Cape Province 31 July 1877 – Cape Town 05 April 1970) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Amphibolia 1971 (Aizoaceae) Berresfordia 1932 (Aizoaceae) Esterhuysenia 1967 (Aizoaceae) Jacobsenia 1954 (Aizoaceae) Leipoldtia 1927 (Aizoaceae) Maughaniella 1961 (Aizoaceae) Namaquantus 1954 (Aizoaceae) Neohenricia 1938 (Aizoaceae) Orthopterum 1927 (Aizoaceae) Ottosonderia 1958 (Aizoaceae) Pillansia 1914 (Iridaceae) Ruschianthus 1960 (Aizoaceae) Skiatophytum 1927 (Aizoaceae) Stayneria 1960 (Aizoaceae) Tritoniopsis 1929 (Iridaceae) Vanheerdea 1992 (Aizoaceae)
- [Biswamoy Biswas](https://neglectedscience.com/biswamoy-biswas/): Biswamoy Biswas, Indian ornithologist (Calcutta 02 June 1923 – Calcutta 10 August 1994) DESCRIBED AVIAN TAXA Psittacula roseata 1951 Psittacula roseata roseata 1951 Psittacula roseata juneae 1951 Zoothera citrina amadoni 1951 Dendrocopus mahrattensis pallescens 1951 Treron sphenurus delacouri 1951 Hirundapus cochinchinensis rupchandi 1951 Dendrocopus mahrattensis koelzi 1951 Picus flavinucha marianae 1952 Pteruthius ripleyi 1960 HONORS Biswamoyopterus Saha 1981 (Mammalia, Rodentia)
- [Bir Bahadur](https://neglectedscience.com/bir-bahadur/): Bir Bahadur, Indian plant morphologist (05 April 1938 – Authored about 250 papers and 10 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With T. Yugandhar, B. Krishna Babu & N. Ramaswamy. Spectral characteristics of stigmatic exudates in three distylous Rubiaceae. Adv. Pl. Sci. 17(1):23-6, 2004 With C.G.K. Ramanujam, G.V.S. Murthy, S. Goverdhan & T.P. Kalpana. A representative analysis of LM and SEM studies of Jatropha L. pollen (Euphorbiaceae). Geophytology 28(1-2):69, 2000 With J.S. Aburi Raju, K. Rama Das, J.B. Atluri & C.S. Reddi. Sexual system and pollination in distylous Hugonia mystax L. (Linaceae). J. Palyn. 33:185-202, 1997 With R.N. Pratap & N. Ramaswamy. Heterostyly and pollen dimorphism in Reinwardtia indica Dum.
- [Bihari Lal Bhatia](https://neglectedscience.com/bihari-lal-bhatia/): Bihari Lal Bhatia, Indian protozoologist (Amritsar, Punjab 14 August 1884 – 16 July 1941) DESCRIBED PROTOZOA TAXA Families Aikinetocystidae 1930 Allantocystidae 1930 Diplocystidae 1930 Dixiidae 1930 Rhynchocystidae 1930 Stomatophoridae 1930 Syncystidae 1930 Zygocystidae 1930 Genera Caulocephalus 1924 with Stena Contortiocorpa 1935 with Setna Deuteromera 1938 with Setna Echinocystis 1925 with Chaterjee Grebneckiella 1938 Orthodonella 1936 Peritromoides 1936 Species Ascogregarina tripteroidis 1938 Babesia tropicus 1938 Caulocephalus crenata 1924 with Setna Cepedea sialkoti 1927 with Gulati  Chilodonella spiradentalis 1930 with Mullick Coleps kenti 1922 Contortiocorpa prashadi 1935 with Setna Deuteromera cleava 1938 with Setna Echinocystis globosa 1925 with Chatterjee Eimeria gupti 1938 Euglena srinagari 1930 Garnhamia aciculata 1938 Haemoproteus cerchneisi 1938 Haemoproteus corvi 1937 Hirmocystis parapeneopsisi 1934 with Setna Hoplitophrya indica 1916 Isospora calotesi 1938 Lepistomaphila cornwalli 1938
- [Bicalho brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/bicalho-brothers/): Francisco de Paula Bicalho, Brazilian civil engineer (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 18 July 1847 – Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State 18 November 1919) With Aarão Reis designed and built Belo Horizonte city (1883-97) Headed the works that improved Rio de Janeiro harbor (1904-10) Managed the works of Rio Grande inlet (1909-15), recognized as the one of world’s most notable works in hydraulic engineering A Barra e o Porto de Rio Grande – uma vitória da engenharia brasileira. Pedro C. Da Silva Telles. Rev. Mar. Braz. p.117-22, 2001 (in Portuguese) Due to these works related above gained fame abroad
- [Bertoni family](https://neglectedscience.com/bertoni-family/): Moisés Santiago Bertoni, Swiss-born Paraguayan naturalist (Lottigna, Ticino Canton 15 June 1857 – Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná State, Brazil 19 September 1929) His original name was Mosé Giacomo Bertoni Authored works on agronomy, botany, zoology, meteorology, ethnography and language of Guarani people (nearly 540 publications) ACHIEVEMENTS Agriculture Developed new agricultural methods Nuevo metodo para el cultivo del banana: práctica del “rozado sin quemar”  (1911) Plant Pathology Uma nueva enfermedad del cafeto. La Rhizoctonia del cuello de la raiz. Rev. Agron. Cienc. Aplic. 1(4-5):211-23, 1897 La rizoctonia del cuello de la raiz (Rhizoctonia subepigea n.sp.): uma nueva seria enfermedad del cafeto (1898) La
- [Bernardo Beiguelman](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardo-beiguelman/): Bernardo Beiguelman, Jewish Brazilian human geneticist (Santos, São Paulo State 15 May 1932 – São Paulo 05 October 2010) Authored 428 scientific works between papers, communications, books and book chapters. ACHIEVEMENTS Performed first studies in the world about resistance and hereditary susceptibility to leprosy First to demonstrate that resistance and susceptibility to Virchowian Hanseniasis is genetically determined Aspectos geneticos da resistência a lepra (1965) Demonstrated that the lepromin reaction has a familial pattern Hereditariedade da reação de Mitsuda. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 30(4):153-72, 1962 Described recessive juvenile glaucoma With Durval Prado. Recessive juvenile glaucoma. J. Genet. Hum. 12:53-54, 1963.  METHODS AND OTHERS With M.F.
- [Benjamin Vinelli Baptista](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-vinelli-baptista/): Benjamin Vinelli Baptista, Brazilian anatomist (Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1901 – 21 October 1983) BIBLIOGRAPHY   Do Nervo grande hipoglosso. Thesis, Rio de Janeiro, 1925.  Caso raríssimo de aplasia bilateral da clavícula. Boletim Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro. 44:73-75, 2 Abb, 1928. Des valvules sigmoides aortiques. Assoc. Anat. Comptes Rendus 26: 42-46, 1931. Musculus Sternalis. Rev. Univ. do Rio de Janeiro, série 1:1, 1932.   Varieté anatomique du sternum. Arquivo de Anatomia e Antropologia (Lisbon). 14: 629-633, 1933.  Contribution a l’etude des anomalies du coeur. Un cas de vraie transposition dês arteres de la base du coeur. Ann. D’anat.path. 10:1212, 1933. A
- [Benjamin Berisso](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin/): Benjamín Berisso, Argentine microchemist and pharmacist (Santa Fé 31 March 1897 – Rosario 1979) ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Described slide tests for alkaloids Described a new microchemical reaction for urotropine in Sobre una nueva reacción microquimica de la urotropina. Publ. Inst. Inves. Microquim. Arg. 18(19), 1954  Proposed a new reagent (sodium iodide + piperazine) to study lead and gold (1956) Described Berisso reaction Modified Deniges method for hydrocyanic acid With A. Martini. Microchemical detection of hydrocyanic acid in forensic investigations. Mikrochemie 26:241-4, 1939. Cloridrato de cocaína como reactivo microquímico do cationio ouro. Rev. Col. Farm. Nac. Argentina 1:3, 1945 Sobre una nueva reacción especifica
- [Baruj Benacerraf](https://neglectedscience.com/baruj-benacerraf/): Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born US immunologist (Caracas 29 October 1920 – Boston, Massachusetts 02 August 2011)  Son of Sephardic Jews that came from North Africa His wife Annette Dreyfus was niece of Nobel Laureate Jacques Monod ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered genes that regulate immune responses and traced it to a region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in 1969 Studied the chemistry of suppressor T lymphocytes leading to understand the possibility to control autoimmune diseases With B. Levine showed that immune response was due to the presence of a gene (Ir gene) With G. Biozzi developed mathematical equations that describe the amount of foreign material
- [Axel Oscar Bachmann](https://neglectedscience.com/axel-oscar-bachmann/): Axel Oscar Bachmann Eberle, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 07 March 1927 – 10 February 2017) From German descent Expert on aquatic insects Authored over 138 papers, 23 book and book chapters DESCRIBED NEW ARTHROPODA TAXA Coleoptera Subgenus Paramegadytes 1980 with Tremouilles Species Andogyrus anta 1965 Andricus bioteriae 1999 with Pujade-Villar Helobata confusa 1987 with Fernandez Helobata corumbataensis 1987 with Fernandez Helobata perpunctata 1987 with Fernandez Helobata quatipuru 1987 with Fernandez Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) acutidens 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) brasiliensis 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) caratinga 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) costera 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) denticulata 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) franca 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) iguazu 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) irinoides 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) mucajai 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) paraensis 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) paulista 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) praesumptapolita 1988 Hydrobiomorpha (Hydrobiomorpha) solitaria 1988
- [Avelino Barrio](https://neglectedscience.com/avelino-barrio/): Avelino Barrio Perez, Spanish-born Argentine herpetologist and toxinologist (La Coruña, Spain 10 August 1920 – Buenos Aires 30 June 1979) Gained international recognition for his studies on snake venoms  Authored about 100 papers Co-discoverer of rattlesnake neurotoxin called gyroxin (1931) With Vital Brazil discovered veratrine properties of venom from Crotalus durissus (1950s) With O. Vital Brazil described an apparatus for obtaining bird spider venom employing electrical stimulus Discovered that the green coloration in frogs of the families Centrolenidae, Hylidae and Pseudidade is due partly to the pigment biliverdin (1965-8) Performed important contributions to the study of anuran songs DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Genus
- [Augusto Chaves Batista](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-chaves-batista/): Augusto Chaves Batista, Brazilian mycologist, lichenologist and phytopathologist (Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia State 15 June 1916 – Recife 30 November 1967) Considered in both Brazil and abroad as outstanding name of mycology in 20th century. Despite this fact he is in great esteem unknown in his own country ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 5 books and 700 papers Described at least 2 families (Astronateliaceae & Polyetronaceae), 170  valid genera of Fungi, 26 valid genera of Lichenes and 410  other taxa of Fungi and Lichen. A important part of these species related to plant and human diseases Described at least 750 new fungal species With
- [Auguste Bravard](https://neglectedscience.com/auguste-bravard/): Pierre Joseph Auguste Bravard, French/Argentine paleontologist and cartographer (Issoire, Puy de Dome 18 June 1803 – Mendoza 28 March 1861) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Arctotherium 1857 Budomys 1843 Cainotherium 1857 Camelotherium 1857 Cardiodus 1857 Cynodictis 1850 with Pomel Eutemnodus 1858 Neomys 1843 Opistorhinus 1857 Platyodon 1853 Plesiarctomys 1852 HONORS  Bravardia Hauthal 1902 (Fossil Plant)
- [Arturo Erhardo Burkart](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-erhardo-burkart/): Arturo Erhardo Burkart, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 25 September 1906 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province 25 April 1975) Son of German immigrants   Authored over 170 works (papers and books) about botany, plant genetics and agriculture  Considered as the foremost world authority on legume taxonomy Named the term catenated fruits Estudios sobre las leguminosas-hedisareas de la Republica Argentina y regiones adyacentes. Darwiniana 3:117-302, 1939  DESCRIBED/NAMED TAXA Genera Lophocarpinia 1957 (Fabaceae) Mimozyganthus 1939 (Mimosaceae) Piptadeniopsis 1944 (Mimosaceae) Prosopidastrum 1964 (Mimosaceae) Yucaratonia 1969 (Fabaceae) Skujaephyconema 1959 (Cynanophyceae) Others About 113 new Fabaceae species A number of intraspecific taxa HONORS Houssay Prize, OAS (1974) Genus Burkartia Crisci 1976 (Asteraceae) 
- [Archimede Busacca](https://neglectedscience.com/archimede-busacca/): Archimede Busacca, Italian-born Brazilian ophthalmologist (Basico, Messina 27 January 1893 – São Paulo 25 March 1971) Authored 155 papers and 4 books Recognized as one of the world’s leading ocular pathologists Became world-famous for his contributions to biomicroscopy of the living eye Systematized the study of fundus biomicroscopy and its illuminating modes With H. Goldmann & S. Schiff-Werthemer. Biomicroscopie du corps vitré et du fond de l’oeil (1957) Performed magistral works on trachoma and the pannus First to describe the presence of microbes on trachoma and developed a method for obtaining biopsies of trachomatous cornea in Rev. Biol. Hyg. 86 (1934) On a form of
- [Antonio Beguez Cesar](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-beguez-cesar/): Antonio M. Beguez César, Cuban pediatrician (Santiago de Cuba 12 March 1895 – Santiago de Cuba 11 February 1975) Discovered (1933) and described (1943) Beguez Cesar disease or Chediak-Higashi before Steinbrinck (1948), Chediak (1952) and Higashi (1954) Neutropenia cronica maligna familiar con granulaciones atipicas de los leucocitos. Boletín Soc. Cubana Pediatria 15(12):900-22, 1943  
- [Anil Kumar Bhattacharya](https://neglectedscience.com/anil-kumar-bhattacharya/): Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian statistician (01 April 1915 – 17 July 1996) Proposed a measure of similarity between two multinomial distributions (Bhattacharya coefficient) Defined a cosine metric for distance between distributions or measured the divergence between two probability distributions (Bhattacharya distance) On a measure of divergence between two statistical populations defined by their probability distributions. Bull. Cal. Math. Soc. 35:99-109, 1943 Established lower bounds to the variance of an unbiased estimator Introduced the concept of affinity between two laws of probability EPONYMY Bhattacharya affinity Bhattacharya bounds (1946) Bhattacharya centroid Bhattacharya clustering Bhattacharya matrix Cramer-Rao-Bhattacharya inequalities 
- [Anibal Alves Bastos](https://neglectedscience.com/anibal-alves-bastos/): Annibal Alves Bastos, Brazilian engineer and geologist (died Rio de Janeiro 04 August 1986) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Posição do carvão nacional no panorama econômico brasileiro. Bol. Geol. Metal. 21:92-155, 1960 Oil shale in Brazil in fuel and energy resources. Proceed. U. Nations Sci. Conf. Conservation and Utilization of Resources 3:62-4, 1951 Secção geológica de Cascavel a São João Batista. Relat. An. Dep. Nac. Prod. Min. Serv. Geol. Mineral. (1939) Alta Sorocabana. Relat. An. Dep. Nac. Prod. Min. Serv. Geol. Mineral. (1939) Exploração do rio Ivaí. Relat. An. Dep. Nac. Prod. Min. Serv. Geol. Mineral. (1936) With P. de Moura. Reconhecimentos geológicos no rio
- [Andrew Geddes Bain](https://neglectedscience.com/andrew-geddes-bain/): Andrew Geddes Bain, Scottish-borm South African geologist, paleontologist and road engineer (Thurso, Caithness, Scotland May 1797 – Cape Town 20 October 1864) Discovered and collected a large amount of fossil mammal-like reptiles (synapsids) that proved later to be new species such as the first dicynodon Obtained the first substantial collection of invertebrate remains from the Bokkeveld Group Discovered and/or described the fossil plant species Archaeosigillaria caespitosa, Haplostigma irregularis & Schizoneura africana SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the geology of southern Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. London 7:175-232, 1845-56 Account of the geology of Namaqualand (1854) Geology of South Africa: reminiscences and anecdotes connected with the history of geology
- [Americo Braga](https://neglectedscience.com/americo-braga/): Américo de Souza Braga, Brazilian veterinarian (Santarém, Pará State 18 January 1889 – Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 09 July 1947)  Authored nearly 80 works, between them a four-tome book named Soros, Vacinas, Alérgenos e Imunógenos (1940-2), gaining international repercussion Developed a lipoidic vaccine for anthrax With V. Brazil. Da importância dos lipoides no preparo da vaccina contra o carbúnculo hemático. Bol. Inst. Vital Brazil 17:1-21, 1935 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Affonso Fonseca. Noções sobre a tristeza parasitária dos bovinos (1923) Diagnóstico de uma doença no Estado do Espirito Santo. Bol. Soc. Bras. Med. Vet 1:3, 1924 With A. Fonseca. Boophilus microplus e sua possível secreção
- [Alwine Bertels](https://neglectedscience.com/alwine-bertels/): Alwine Bertels Psotka, Argentine micropalaeontologist (Rafaela, Santa Fe Province 10 January 1930 – 23 November 2001) Authored 65 publications between papers and books chapters DESCRIBED Fossil Ostracoda Subfamily Rocaleberidinae 1969 Genera Huantraiconella 1968 Neoveenia 1969 Rocaleberis 1969 Wichmannella 1969 Protocosta 1970 Harringtonia 1975 Frenguellicythere (with Martinez) 1999 Fossil Foraminifera Genus Hiltermannella 1971 HONORS  Bertelsiana Rossi de Garcia & Proserpio 1980 (Fossil Ostracoda) Woman of Year, International Biographic Center, Cambridge (1992-3)
- [Alvino Braun](https://neglectedscience.com/alvino-braun/): Alvino Bertholdo Braun, Brazilian jesuit, naturalist, folklorist and journalist (Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul State 21 September 1901 – Florianópolis 28 July 1964) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudo sobre as Phalloidea rio-grandenses (1932) Elementos de Mineralogia e Geologia Alguns dados sobre o relevo de Santa Catarina. Rev. Inst. Hist. Geogr. Santa Catarina 13:95-105, 1944 HONORS Brauniella Rick 1955 (Fungi)
- [Aluizio Licinio de Miranda Barbosa](https://neglectedscience.com/aluizio-licinio-de-miranda-barbosa/): Aluizio Licinio de Miranda Barbosa, Brazilian geologist and petrologist (Alto do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais State 03 July 1916 – Belo Horizonte 23 September 2013) Co-described mineral species moraesite With M.L. Lindberg & W.T. Pecora. Moraesite, a new hydrous beryllium phosphate from minas gerais, Brazil. American Mineralogist 38:1126-33, 1953 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.H. Grossi Sad. Batólito granítico da Serra dos Órgãos, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Contribuição a geologia e petrologia. Bol. Espec. Nucleo Minas Gerais (1985)  Reservas de minérios de ferro da Jazida de Periquito, Itabira, MG (1974) With J.H. Grossi Sad & J.V. N. Dorr II. The “consanguineous”
- [Alfredo Barrera Marín](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-barrera-marin/): Alfredo Barrera Marín, Mexican entomologist (Merida, Yucatán 11 May 1926 – Merida, Yucatán 03 December 1980) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Siphonaptera Genera Alloctenus 1966 with Traub Gephyropsylla 1952 Hechtiella 1952 Species Anomiopsyllus traubi 1951 Atyphloceras multidentatus 1963 Cediopsylla tepolita 1966 Ctenophthalmus caballeroi 1960 with Machado-Allison Ctenophthalmus cryptotis 1966 with Traub Ctenophthalmus expansis 1966 with Traub Ctenophthalmus myodosus 1966 with Traub Dactylopsylla megasoma 1954 Foxella macgregori 1953 Hoplopsyllus pectinatus 1966 Hystrichopsylla orophila 1952  Kohlsia pelaezi 1956 Orchopeas howardii 1955 Peromyscopsylla zempoalensis 1954 Phalacropsylla nivalis 1965 Pleochaetis apollinaris 1954 Plusaetis aztecus 1954 Plusaetis ponsi 1955 Plusaetis sibynus 1955 Plusaetis soberoni 1958 Pulex alvarezi 1955 Rhadinopsylla mexicana 1952 Strepsylla dalmati 1955 with Traub Strepsylla machadoi 1963 with Traub Strepsylla schmidti 1955 with Traub Strepsylla villai 1955 with Traub Coleoptera Genera Loberopsyllus 1966 with Martínez Streptopinodes 1968 with
- [Alfonso Bovero](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-bovero/): Alfonso Bovero, Italian/Brazilian anatomist (Pecetto Torinese, Piemonte 26 November 1871 – Torino 09 April 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored an unpublished case in medical literature Persistenza della vescicola ombelicale e della circolazione onfalo-mesenterica nel feto uma a termine. Internat. Monatschr. F. Anat. U. Phys. 12:191, 1895. Studied Bovero’s muscle (cutaneo mucous muscle) Richerche morfologiche sul musculus cutaneo-mucosus labii. Memorie della R. Acad. Delle Scienzi di Torino. Tomo LII, 1902.   Described interdigastric muscle in his doctoral thesis Concluded that lingual mucosa display individual traits Described a median sagital salience in tongue that named torus lingualis longitudinalis (with Locchi) With R. Locchi. Torus longitudinalis et
- [Alexandre Curt Brade](https://neglectedscience.com/alexandre-curt-brade/): Alexandre Curt Brade, German-born Brazilian botanist (Forst (Lausitz), Brandenburg Province 19 June 1881 – São Paulo 17 July 1971) Authored 86 papers DESCRIBED GENERA Orchidaceae Duckeella 1940 with Campos Porto Pleurothallopsis 1937 with Campos Porto Pseudolaelia 1935 with Campos Porto Pygmaeorchis 1939 Thysanoglossa 1940 with Campos Porto Others Dolichoura 1959 (Melastomataceae) Loricalepis 1938 (Melastomataceae) Magdalenaea 1935 (Scrophulariaceae) Standleya 1932 (Rubiaceae) Described at least 56 new Orchids species from Brazilian flora and discovered 60 new fern plants from Costa Rica HONORS Bradea Standley 1932 (Rubiaceae)
- [Alexander Bierig](https://neglectedscience.com/alexander-bierig/): Alexander Bierig, German-born Costa Rican entomologist and painter (Karlsruhe 15 January 1884 – San Jose de Costa Rica 17 May 1963) Worked in Cuba (1919-39) and Costa Rica (1939-63) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Agaribiota 1937 Apteronetes 1933 Argoderus 1933 Brachycantharus 1939 Cylindroxystus 1943 Diaboligenus 1939 Dibelophacis 1933 Dolichoderma 1938 Ehomalolinus 1934 Euremus 1934 Exoctavius 1934 Glenothorax 1937 Guajira 1938 Heteronetes 1933 Indoacylophorus 1938 Labrocharis 1933 Labroporus 1933 Litozoon 1939 Melanetes 1933 Microbrachida 1939 Neoacylophorus 1938 Neobrachychara 1939 Oligotergus 1937 Paracylophorus 1938 Parapalaminus 1943 Platybrathium 1933 Ponticulus 1931 Pterygolaetus 1937 Stenolinus 1937 Stiliphacis 1938 Suniosaurus 1938 Thrichidryas 1939 Torrentomus 1934 Xenaster 1939 Xenasteres 1939 Xenobiota 1938 Xenocharis 1934 Species More than 150 LINKS http://www.caribbeanahigroup.org/genaropdf/1999bierig.pdf (in Spanish with bibliography)
- [Alberto Leopoldo Barton Thompson](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-leopoldo-barton-thompson/): Alberto Leopoldo Barton Thompson, Peruvian bacteriologist of English ancestry (Buenos Aires 18 July 1870 – Lima 25 October 1950) Discovered etiological agent of Carrion disease or Oroya fever in 1905 but published in 1909. Strong et al. confirmed his finding and named the genus Bartonella in his honor. Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en los enfermos de fiebre de verruga. Cronica Medica 26:7-10, 1909.  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La plaga de los cocales del Departamento de La Libertad. Mem. Est. Exp. La Molina (1929) La lucha contra el paludismo (1927) Disenteria bacilar. Cron. Med. Lima (1915) Un caso de distomatosis pulmonar contraida en el Peru.
- [Alberto Breyer](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-breyer/): Alberto Breyer, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 24 March 1890 – Buenos Aires 12 February 1963) Authored over 40 works Described two Lepidoptera genera Sellota 1957 and Tessella 1957 HONORS   Breyeriana Orfila 1957 (Lepidoptera)
- [Alberto Brenes](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-brenes/): Alberto Manuel de Jesus Brenes Mora, Costa Rican botanist (San Ramón de Alajuela 02 September 1870 – San Ramón de Alajuela 28 May 1948) Discovered, collected and sent over 71 new plant and fungi species from Costa Rica flora that were described by other researchers HONORS Genus Brenesiella Sydow 1929 (Fungi) At least 19 species  bears his name
- [Alberto Boerger](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-boerger/): Alberto Carlos Boerger, German-born Uruguayan plant breeder (Foerde, Grevenbrück, Westphalia 04 November 1881 – Colonia del Sacramento 28 March 1957) Developed Avena 1095a, a variety of oat DEVELOPED NEW WHEAT VARIETIES Americano 25e, 26n, 44d or Universal II, 25 c & Pelón 33c (1918) Artigas (1924) Porvenir, Renacimiento & Centenario (1933) Litoral 1 & 2, Precoz, Multiplicación 11 & 14 BIBLIOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTIONS Adaptación de Trifolium subterraneum al ambiente productivo del Uruguay (1952) Adaptación de variedades uruguayas de Triticum vulgare (Vill.) a las exigencias de un periodo de siembra dilatado (1938) Observaciones sobre agricultura. Quince anos de trabajos fitotecnicos en el Uruguay (1928) Orientation a donner aux
- [Alberto Betim Paes Leme](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-betim-paes-leme/): Alberto Betim Paes Leme, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (Rio de Janeiro 15 November 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 01 July 1938) Authored 34 scientific works First to describe total energy technique, a spectrographic technique used traditionally in mineral analysis (1918) Sur un nouveau procédé d’analyse quantitative. Comptes Rendus Hebd. Seances Acad. Sciences 166:466-7, 1918 Procédé cinématique d’analyse spectrale quantitative appliqué aux mineraux. Boletim Museu Nacional 9(3):53-104, 1933 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Historia física da Terra – vista por que a estudou no Brasil (1943) O tectonismo da Serra do Mar. A hipótese de uma remodelação terciária. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 3:143, 1930 Etat
- [Aimé Bonpland](https://neglectedscience.com/aime-bonpland/): Aimé Jacques Alexandre Goujaud Bonpland, French-born Argentine botanist (La Rochelle 22 August 1773 – Santa Ana, Misiones Province 04 May 1858) DESCRIBED PLANT GENERA Aegopogon 1806 (Poaceae) with Humboldt Angelonia 1809 (Scrophulariaceae) Bertholletia 1808 (Lecythidaceae) Ceroxylon 1804 (Arecaceae) Culcitium 1808 (Asteraceae) Elyonurus 1806 (Poaceae) with Humboldt Eriope 1833 (Lamiaceae) with Humboldt Eudema 1813 (Brassicaceae) Exostema 1807 (Rubiaceae) Leucophyllum 1812 (Scrophulariaceae) Lilaea 1808 (Juncaginaceae) Limnocharis 1807 (Butomiaceae) Machaonia 1806 (Rubiaceae) Marathrum 1806 (Podostemaceae) Matisia 1805 (Bombacaceae) Menodora 1812 (Oleaceae) Platycarpum 1811 (Rubiaceae) Pleopeltis 1810 (Pteridophyta) with Humboldt Podopterus 1812 (Polygonaceae) Polybotrya 1810 (Pteridophyta) with Humboldt Retiniphyllum 1806 (Rubiaceae) Saccellium 1806 (Boraginaceae) Salpianthus 1807 (Nyctaginaceae) HONORS Bonplandia Cavanilles 1800 (Polemoniaceae) Bomplandiella Spegazzini 1886 (Fungi) Bonpland crater in Moon
- [Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt](https://neglectedscience.com/agesilau-antonio-bitancourt/): Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt, Brazilian plant pathologist and mycologist (Manaus 06 June 1899 – São Paulo 17 June 1987) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored nearly 300 works Proposed an equation for anthill growth  Expressão matemática do crescimento de formigueiros de Atta sexdens rubropilosa representada pelo aumento do número de olheiros. Arq. Inst. Biol. 12:229-36, 1941  Authored a formula Theoretical distribution of lesions on leaves or fruits caused by insects and other animals or by infectious agents transmitted by vectors. Arq. Inst. Biol. 24(17):243-52, 1943 Described Citrus false exantema With J.P. da Fonseca & M. Autuori. Manual de Citricultura (2nd part) 1933   Described zonate chlorosis in citrus With
- [Adrian Bengolea](https://neglectedscience.com/adrian-bengolea/): Adrián Jacobo Bengolea Demaría, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 27 October 1887 – Buenos Aires 15 July 1950) CONTRIBUTIONS First use of microscopic examination of probing extracted duodenal fluid for diagnosis of fascioliasis With J. Bacigalupo & C. Velasco Suarez. Distomatosis por Fasciola hepatica. Arch. Argent. Enferm. Apar. Diges. Nutr. (1927) Described Bengolea-Velasco Suarez sign for neoplasic obstruction and or compression of biliary ducts With C. Velasco Suarez. La obstrucción biliar completa, signo de obstrucción o de compresión neoplasica de las vias biliares. Sem. Med. 45(2):1282, 1928 Una nueva tecnica para la cura radical de las hernias umbilicales del adulto. Rev. Asoc. Med. 27:23,
- [Achille Bassi](https://neglectedscience.com/achille-bassi/): Achille Bassi, Italian-born Brazilian geometer (Mondovi, Cuneo, Piemonte 09 August 1907 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 29 November 1973) Gained international recognition for his studies about Betti numbers Proposed a theorem about the Betti numbers of closed, connected and orientable manifolds Sopra l’esistenza di una varietá topologica con numeri di Betti essegnati. Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1949) Proposed the theory of topological groups (since 1947) developed by his pupil Gilberto F. Loibel in his doctoral thesis of 1959 Developed the theory of general duality A dualidade nas algebras de Boole topológicas e suas consequências. Thesis (1961) Developed the theory of topological polynomials
- [Zilton Andrade](https://neglectedscience.com/zilton-andrade/): Zilton de Araújo Andrade, Brazilian pathologist (Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia State 14 May 1924 – Salvador 22 July 2020) Authored over 300 scientific works and 37 book chapters ACHIEVEMENTS Observed the immunological modulation of hepatic granulomas in schistosomiasis  With K.S. Warren. Mild prolonged schistosomiasis in mice. (Alterations in host response with time and the development of portal fibrosis). Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 58:53-7, 1964 Described an experimental, evolving lung disease with an immune basis With J. A. Laus Filho & H.L. Oliveira Filho. Lesões pulmonares que acompanham a glomerulonefrite experimental produzida em ratos por soro anti-rim. Rev. Paul. Med;
- [Zhisheng An](https://neglectedscience.com/zhisheng-an/): Zhisheng An, Chinese paleoclimatologist and stratigrapher (Zhijiang County, Hunan Province 25 September 1941 – His research on paleoclimate intercomparison between the Southern and Northerh Hemisphere was internationally recognized Explored the connection between the climate change in high-low latitude regions and Northern-Southern hemispheres Presented law for the instability and sudden events of winter monsoon climate in last glacial period and interglacial period Proposed a dynamical model for the evolution history of Asian monsoon-arid environment in China and its relationship with the arounds of Tibetan plateau Suggested that the natural laws of vegetation distribution should be followed in the bio-environment remediation Demonstrated that
- [Yousry Attia](https://neglectedscience.com/yousry-attia/): Yousry S. Attia, Egyptian vertebrate paleontologist (1952 – 11 October 2008) DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL TAXA Mammalia Family Arsinoeidae 2002 with Simons, Seiffert & Chatrath Genera Abuqatrania 2002 with Simons, Seiffert & Chatrath Eochrysochloris 2007 with Seiffert, Simons, Ryan & Bown Ghamidtherium 2007 with Sanchez-Villagra, Seiffert, Martin, Simons & Gunnell Jawharia 2007 with Seiffert, Simons, Ryan & Bown Karanisia 2003 with Seiffert & Simons Saharagalago 2003 with Seiffert & Simons Species Abuqatrania basiodontos 2002 with Simons, Seiffert & Chatrath Biretia fayumensis 2005 with Seiffert, Simons, Clyde, Rossie, Bown, Chatrath & Mathison Biretia megalops 2005 with Seiffert, Simons, Clyde, Rossie, Bown, Chatrath & Mathison Eochrysochloris tribosphenus 2007 with Seiffert, Simons, Ryan & Bown Ghamidtherium dimaiensis 2007
- [William Guybon Atherstone](https://neglectedscience.com/william-guybon-atherstone/): William Guybon Atherstone, English-born South African physician and geologist (Nottingham, England 27 May 1814 – Grahamstown, Cape Colony 26 June 1898) ACHIEVEMENTS Did some original work studying horse sickness and tick fever (with his father) Collected fossils, minerals and other geological specimens, vertebrates and molluscs, plant specimens and seeds from South Africa and sent specimens to British institutions Identified the first diamond in South Africa (1867) With A.G. Bain foun the first dinosaur fossil in South Africa (1844) Discovered Tapinocephalus atherstonii in 1871, studied and described in 1876 Observed a lunar occultation of star nu-Geminorum (1850) BIBLIOGRAPHY Nuggets of the Gouph.
- [Walter Radamés Accorsi](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-radames-accorsi/): Walter Radamés Accorsi, Brazilian agronomist and phytotherapist (Taquaritinga, São Paulo State 09 October 1912 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 05 April 2006) Son of Italian immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Gained world renown by his studies about Brazilian medicinal plants. Studied and popularized the therapeutic action from ipê roxo (Tabebuia avellanedae) in 1967 Showed the presence of two annex cells of the stomata as anatomical family character of Rubiaceae A ocorrência das células anexas dos estômatos na família Rubiaceae. Part I. O Solo 33 (1941) A ocorrência das células anexas dos estômatos na família Rubiaceae. Part II. Anais Esc. Sup. Agric. Luiz de Queiroz
- [Waldemar Ferreira de Almeida](https://neglectedscience.com/waldemar-ferreira-de-almeida/): Waldemar Ferreira de Almeida, Brazilian toxicologist and microbiologist (Campinas, São Paulo State 06 March 1918 – São Paulo 10 May 1996) With C. Pereira described the protozoan genus Amylophorus (1942) Verified that the reduction of methylene blue could be used in standardization of BCG vaccine With D.M. Cardoso. Padronização do BCG. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 18:633-44, 1950 Described a simple and fast method for standardization of BCG vaccine With G. Nazario, J. Planet do Amaral & D.M. Cardoso. Padronização do BCG. II. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 20:583-92, 1952 Observed that the vitamin B12 content from stools and rumen varies according to food conditions of cattle
- [Victorio Angelelli](https://neglectedscience.com/victorio-angelelli/): Victorio Angelelli, Italian-born Argentine mining and economic geologist (Fabriano, Ancona, Italy 20 February 1908 – Buenos Aires 05 August 1991) Authored 63 papers   DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES   Sarmientite (1941) with S. Gordon Sanmartinite (1948) with S. Gordon   Sanjuanite (1968) with M.E.J. de Abeledo, M.A.R. de Benyacar and C. Gordillo HONORS     Angelellite Ramdohr, Ahlfeld & Berndt 1959 (Mineral) LINKS http://www.geologica.org.ar/archivos_usuarios/2010/09/Angelelli-AGA1.pdf (bibliography)
- [Victor Armand Ugón](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-armand-ugon/): Victor Armand Ugón, Uruguayan surgeon (Colonia Valdense, Colonia Department 14 May 1900 – 08 October 1972) With S. Piovano & D. Tomalino first reported the hydatid in thymus (1959) Described a radiological sign for simple primitive hydatid Developed surgical techniques for tuberculosis   A method to determinate the most curved part of pleural cul de sac employing lipiodol or Ugón method (1935) Described subtotal lobectomy of gaseous cyst for tretament of dyspnea (1937) A technique for treatment of hyaline hydatid in lungs known as hydatid labor or Armand Ugón procedure (1946)
- [Tulio Arends](https://neglectedscience.com/tulio-arends/): Tulio Ramón Arends Wever, Venezuelan hematologist (Coro, Falcón State 11 November 1918 – Caracas 15 May 1990) Authored over 200 scientific papers Discovered Diego blood factor, the first practically confined to people of Mongoloid origin With M. Layrisse & R. Domíguez Sisco. Nuevo grupo sanguíneo encontrado en descendientes de indios. Acta Med. Venez. 3:132, 1955 With M. Layrisse, M.L. Gallango, J. Wilbert & H.D. Heinen. Albumin Warao: new type of human alloalbuminemia. Blood 33(3):414-20, 1969 With M.L. Gallango, W.C. Parker & A.G. Bearn. A new variant of human transferrin in a Venezuelan family. Nature 196:477-8, 1962
- [Tuan Haji Abdul Majid](https://neglectedscience.com/tuan-haji-abdul-majid/): Tuan Haji Abdul Majid bin Haji Mohammed Shahid Malaysian forester (Ipoh, Perak 25 May 1917 – 1996) HONORS Abdulmajidia Whitmore (Lecythidaceae)
- [Tarakad Vaidyanatha Ramakrishna Ayyar](https://neglectedscience.com/tarakad-vaidyanatha-ramakrishna-ayyar/): Tarakad Vaidyanatha (Vythinatha) Ramakrishna Ayyar, Indian entomologist (Malabar July 1880 – 13 February 1952) With M.S. Kylasam. A new disease of cardamom (Elatteria cardamoni) apparently due to insect damage in South India. Bull. Entomol. Research 26(3):359-61, 1935 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Thysanoptera Genera Chiridothrips 1939 with Margabandhu Euryaplothrips 1931 with Margabandhu   Gnomonothrips 1939 with Margabandhu  Mallothrips 1928 Megaphysothrips 1939 with Margabandhu  Neocorynothrips 1939 with Margabandhu Thilakothrips 1928 Veerabahuthrips 1932 Species 55 Hymenoptera Eridontomeroidella 1920 Eutropobracon 1928 Iphioilta 1928 HONORS (Thysanoptera) Ayyaria Karny 1926 Ayyarothrips Ananthakrishnan 1972 Ramakrishnaiella Karny 1925  LINKS http://entosym2014.zohosites.com/files/Dr.%20Ayyar.pdf (bibliography)
- [Taracad Narayanan Ananthakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/taracad-narayanan-ananthakrishnan/): Taracad Narayanan Ananthakrishnan, Indian entomologist and chemical ecologist (Mangalore, Kar 25 December 1925 – New Jersey, USA 07 August 2015) Authored about 400 works  ACHIEVEMENTS Described 76 Thysanoptera genera, 3 Arachnida genera and 1 Hemiptera genera Described 320 Thysanoptera species (1954-77) HONORS   Ananthakrishnana Bhatti 1967 (Thysanoptera) Ananthakrishnanothrips Bournier 1985 (Thysanoptera)  
- [Syed Mehdi Ali](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-mehdi-ali/): Syed Mehdi Ali, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (fl.1948-82) DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera Ameeria 1961 Aspiculus 1960 Aviabronema 1961 Buckleynema 1954 with Singh Cordonicola 1969 with Farooqui Indocucullanus 1956 Indodorylaimus 1974 with Prabha Isospiculus 1957 Monospiculus 1957 Neocamallanus 1957 Neotylocephalus 1969 with Farooqui & Tejpal Oostenbrinkia 1973 with Suryawanshi & Ahmed Pelecanascaris 1970 with Farooqui Pseudaspidorella 1969 with Desmukh Sureshia 1966 with Shinde Taphozoia 1967 with Lovekar Species Ameeria sultanae 1961 Aproctoides papillatus 1957 Blattophila aurangabadensis 1971 with Shrisunder Bolbophorus deodhari 1971 with Karyakarte Buckleyfilaria skrjabini 1957 Buckleynema buckleyi 1954 with Singh Chandlerella singhi 1957 Chevreuxia leiperi 1961 with Singh Cordonicola blaberi 1969 with Farooqui Cyrnea ameerae 1961 Cyrnea chabaudi 1961 Cyrnea daleri 1961 Cyrnea hyderabadensis 1961 Cyrnea magnipapillatum 1961 Cyrnea singhi 1961 Cyrnea suraiyae 1961 Cyrnea waheedae 1961 Desmidocercella singhi 1957 Discolaimum azji 1973 with Suryawanshi & Prabha
- [Syed Irtifaq Ali](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-irtifaq-ali/): Syed Irtifaq Ali, Pakistani botanist (Lucknow 14 September 1930 – DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Paracalyx 1968 (Fabaceae)   Species Abutilon pakistanicus 1966 with Jafri Astragalus clarkeanus 1967 Astragalus flemingi 1958 Astragalus gilgitensis 1966 Astragalus imitensis 1960 Astragalus khalifatensis 1960 Astragalus laspurensis 1960 Astragalus neospinosus 1966 Astragalus oihorensis 1967 Astragalus pseudochlorostachys 1965 Astragalus pseudopsilacanthus 1958 Astragalus sultani 1973 Astragalus toppinianus 1958 Gagea alexii 2007 with Levichev Gagea baluchistanica 2006 with Levichev Gagea bashoensis 2006  Gagea drummondii 2006 with Levichev Gagea jispensis 2007 with Levichev Gagea leosii 2007 with Levichev Gagea mergalahensis 2007 with Levichev Gagea pakistanica 2006  Gagea punjabica 2007 with Levichev Gagea quettica 2007 with Levichev Gagea rawalpindica 2006 with Levichev Gagea rubinae 2006 Gagea wallichii 2006 with Levichev Indigofera himalayensis 1958 Indigofera linnaei 1958 Millettia pequensis 1968 Oxytropis birirensis 1973 Oxytropis chitralensis 1959
- [Syed Ali Akhtar](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-ali-akhtar/): Syed Ali Akhtar (Kazimi), Pakistani helminthologist, parasitologist and botanist (1899 – 1983) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera/Subgenera Anaspicularis 1955 Aspiculurus 1955 Cephaluris 1947 Labiostomum 1941 Paraspiculuris 1955 Paracephalobolus 1962 Pikaeuris 1953 Pseudaspiculuris 1955 Subaspiculurus 1955 Species Alaeuris rifkii 1947 Ascaridia razia 1937 Aspiculuris (Aspiculuris) lahorica 1955 Aspiculuris (Paraspiculuris) pakistanica 1955 Cephalobus litoralis 1962 Cephaluris alaskensis 1958 Cephaluris collaris 1958 Cephaluris hashmi 1956 Cephaluris ochotonae 1947 Chabertia rishati 1937 Citellina bashiri 1956 Dispharynx alata 1955 Eugenuris talkeetnaeuris 1956 Labiostomum rauschi 1956 Labiostomum naimi 1941 Metaphelenchus sacchari 1962 Paracephalobolus litoralis 1962 Pikaeuris pikaeuris 1953 Sublura kabulanus 1937 Syphacia lahorea 1955 Syphatimeria (Quentenora) lahorea 1955 Tachygonetria inflatocervix 1937 Thubunaea baylisi 1939 Botany Species Acanthophyllum montanum Consolida kabuliana 1938 Gypsophila erinacea var. acuminata 1940 Gypsophila scapiflora 1940 Haplophyllum afghanicum
- [Sultan Ahmad](https://neglectedscience.com/sultan-ahmad/): Sultan Ahmad, Pakistani mycologist (Ladhar, Sheikhupura, Punjab 06 June 1910 – Lahore 11 November 1983) DESCRIBED NEW FUNGI Valid Genera Suttoniella 1961 Verrucariella 1967 Species About 420 HONORS (Fungi) Ahmadia Sydow 1939 Ahmadiago Vanky 2004 LINKS HTTP://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/abstracts/26(2)/01.html
- [Spencer Correia de Arruda](https://neglectedscience.com/spencer-correia-de-arruda/): Spencer Correia de Arruda, Brazilian plant pathologist (Tietê, São Paulo State 23 July 1912 – after 1989) First to report castor wilt by a Fusarium species With R.D. Gonçalves. A “murcha”, uma nova doença da mamona em São Paulo. O Biológico 3:232-5, 1937 First description of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ricini   With J. Deslandes. A murcha da mamoneira do Nordeste. O Biológico 6:144-8, 1940 First to report Cylindrocladium sp. as causal agent on Eucalyptus (1936) Estiolamento de mudinhas (Cylindrocladium) de eucalipto. O Biológico 6:161-2, 1940 Developed methods for growing sugarcane healthy seedlings (1949-53)
- [Silvio Arías Cazorla](https://neglectedscience.com/silvio-arias-cazorla/): Sergio Arías Cazorla, Venezuelan human geneticist (Caracas 10 June 1933 – Described Arias syndrome With V.B. Penchaszadeh, J. Pinto-Cisternas & S. Laurrauri. The IVIC syndrome: a new autosomal dominant complex pleiotropic syndrome with radial ray hypoplasia, hearing impairment, internal ophthalmoplegia and thrombocytopenia. Am. J. Medical Genetics 6:25-9, 1980  Described Waardenburg syndrome type II and a biometrical method for diagnosing it Genetic heterogeinity in the Waardenburg syndrome. Birth Def. Orig. Art. Ser. 7(4):87-103, 1971 Described another new syndrome With M. Mota & J. Pinto Cisternas. L’osteochondrodysplasie spondyloepiphyso-metaphysaire type Irapa. Nouveau nanisme avec rachis et metatarsiens courts. Nouv. Presse Méd. 5:319-23, 1976 Demonstrated that retinoblastoma displays
- [Shreepad Laxman Ajrekar](https://neglectedscience.com/shreepad-laxman-ajrekar/): Shreepad (Shripad) Laxman (Lakshman) Ajrekar, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Ajra, Maharashtra 28 March 1883 – 02 February 1954) Described fungal species Mycosphaerella tinosporae 1938 With Shaw made the first report on the incidence of Botrytis grey molud disease on chickpea (1915) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With K. Dharmarajulu. A study of the Mucorineae of the City of Bombay. J. Ind. Bot. Sci. 10:29-34, 1954 With J.D. Oza. A study of Cercospora tinosporae Syd. and its associated pycnidial and perithecial stages (1936)  With V.N. Likhite. Observations on Tolyposporium penicillariae Bref. (the bajra smut fungus). Curr. Sci. 1:215, 1933 With S.A. Parandekar. Observations on the life history of the rust fungus Uromyces species on Jasminum
- [Maria Angelica Rodriguez de Benyacar](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-angelica-rodriguez-de-benyacar/): María Angélica Rodríguez de Benyacar, Argentine crystallographer and mineralogist (08 December 1928 – Co-described the mineral species sanjuanite With M.E. J. de Abeledo, V. Angelelli & C.E. Gordillo. Sanjuanite, a new hydrated basic sulphate-phosphate of aluminium. Amer. Minera. 53:1-8, 1968 Described a new clinical entity With J.C. Marcos, O.M. Garcia Moreno, A.S. Arturi, J.A. Maldonado Cocco & V.H. Morales. Condrocalcinosis familiar por depósitos de cristales de hidroxiapatita: uma nueva entidad clinica (1982) Patent With H.A. Huck, A.E. Jech, R. Righini, E.B. Halac & J.A. Nicolai. Procedure for forming on a solid substrate, a film with properties similar to those of diamonds,
- [Manuel Barros](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-barros/): Manuel Barros, Argentine physician and botanist (1880-1973) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Andesia haumaniana 1950 Bulbostylis amambayensis 1942 Bulbostylis aphylla 1941 Bulbostylis closii 1941 Bulbostylis smithii 1959 Carex argentina 1948 Carex boelckeiana 1969 Carex castellanosi 1950 Carex minutissima 1960 Carex nelmosiana 1957 Carex sorianoi 1949 Cyperus meridionalis 1938 Eleocharis argentina 1947 Eleocharis haumaniana 1928 Eleocharis kleinii 1966 Eleocharis parodii 1928 Eleocharis spegazzinii 1928 Eleocharis tucumanensis 1947 Juncus achalensis 1953 Juncus burkartii 1953 Juncus cordobensis 1953 Juncus diemii 1952 Juncus ernesti-barrosii 1953 Juncus kleinii 1962 Juncus llanquihuensis 1953 Juncus mendocinus 1953 Juncus ramboi 1957 Juncus timotensis 1953 Luzula castellanosii 1953 Luzula correae 1969 Luzula mendocina 1953 Luzula parvula 1953 Luzula ruiz-lealii 1953 Oxychloe castellanosii 1950 Oxychloe mendocina 1953 Oxychloe simulans 1953 Rynchospora catharinensis 1967 Scirpus boliviensis 1959 Scirpus kunkelii 1962 Scirpus spegazzinius 1954 Scleria schulzi 1945
- [Manuel Balado](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-balado/): Manuel Juan María Balado Fernandez, Argentine neurosurgeon (Buenos Aires 06 May 1897 – Buenos Aires 24 March 1942) Authored about 150 papers Described the topography of optical tract, visual pathway and geniculate bodies With Elizabeth Franke. Das Corpus Geniculatum Externum – Eine Anatomisch-Klinische Studie (1937) with international acclaim Described idiopathic optico-chiasmatic arachnoiditis (Balado syndrome) First to explore the optochiasmatic region in patient with optical neuritis With P. Satanowsky. Tratamiento quirurgico de la atrofia de la papila. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 4:71, 1929 With J. Malbrán. Arachnoiditis quiasmatica. Arch. Arg. Neurol. 8:96-106, 1933 With R. Morea & C. Donovan conceived iodine ventriculography for
- [Manoel Bruno Lobo](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-bruno-lobo/): Manoel Bruno Alipio Lobo, Brazilian virologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 December 1921 – Canelas, Rio Grande do Sul State 22 March 2009) Brother of histologist Francisco Bruno Lobo Coined coxsackioses for diseases With P. de Góes. Coxsackie infections. Lancet 263(6824): 1245, 1954  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With P. de Góes. Sobre o comportamento do anticorpo heterólogo ocorrente na doença de Chagas. Arch. Bras. Med. 40(9-10): 307-317, 1950. With J. Travassos, P. de Góes & H.G. Pereira. Comportamento imunológico de soros de grávidas de cancerosos sobre O Proteus OX19 e Rickettsiae. An. Microbiol. 1:21, 1951. With J. Travassos, D. de Paola, J.S. Echanis, J.V.
- [Manickavasagar Balasegaram](https://neglectedscience.com/manickavasagar-balasegaram/): Manickavasagar Balasegaram, Malaysian surgeon (Selangor State 15 April 1929 – Kuala Lumpur 05 May 2014) Son of Ceylonese immigrants Invented Balasegaram liver clamp to control bleeding (1971) and designed other surgical instruments SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.E. Lie-Injo, C.G. Lopez & A.R. Herrera. Hepatitis B virus DNA in liver and white blood cells of patients with hepatoma. DNA 2:299-01, 1983 With S.K. Joishy. Hepatic resection: the logical approach to surgical management of major trauma to the liver. Am. J. Surg. 142:580-3, 1981 With S.K. Joishy. Hepatic resection: pillars of success built on the foundation of 15 years of experience. Am. J. Surg.
- [Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu](https://neglectedscience.com/manali-kallat-vainu-bappu/): Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, Indian astronomer (Madras 10 August 1927 – Munich, Germany 19 August 1982) Discovered Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet (1949) Observed that width of emission lines of ionized calcium in the chromosphere of late type-stars was proportional to the absolute luminosity of these stars known as Wilson-Bappu effect (1957)  Showed that behavior of sodium emission in comets near perihelion passage as influenced by solar wind effects HONORS    Donohue Comet Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1949) for discovery of Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet Honorary Foreign Member, Belgium Alcademy of Sciences Honorary Member, American Astronomical Society Honorary Associate Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society President, International
- [Mahendra Nath Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/mahendra-nath-bose/): Mahendra Nath Bose, Indian palynologist and palaeobotanist (Jainagar-Majilpur, West Bengal 03 March 1925 – Gurgaon, Haryana 27 April 2011) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae/Pollen With Kar Aleteverrucopsispora 1976 Berckmaniates 1976 Boutakoffites 1966 Bulbospinosa 1976 Caheniasaccites 1966 Cyclodendronoisporites 1967 Disparispora 1976 Divaricrassus 1976 Elilasaccites 1966 Enigmaspora 1976 Fundispora 1976 Fusacolpites 1966 Greinervillites 1967 Hoeegiasaccites 1966 Katangaites 1967 Kibambaites 1967  Leioplicates 1976 Luenaites 1967 Lukugasporites 1967 Lutorimites 1976 Mabuitasaccites 1966 Monoletesaccites 1976 Neocalamospora 1976 Pachytriletes 1966 Passauisaccites 1966 Psilaplicates 1976 Punctacolpites 1967 Punctasaccites 1966 Valiasaccites 1966 Varlamoffites 1966 Walikalesaccites 1966 Zaireacolpites 1976 With others Cirrabaculisporites 1969 with Maheshwari Duosporites 1955 with Hoeg & Manum Gondwanipollenites 1968 with Maheshwari Kagulubeites 1968 with Maheshwari Walikalia 1960 with Hoeg Plantae Cycadophytites 1958 with Rao  Farndalea 1955 Glottolepis 1970 with Srivastava Kachchhia 1984 with Banerji Lorumformophyllum 1984 with Banerji Marwaria 1974 with Sukh Dev  Morrisia 1959 Nidia 1973 with Srivastava Nidistrobus 1973 with Srivastava
- [Luiz Pereira Barretto](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-pereira-barretto/): Luiz Pereira Barretto, Brazilian farmer, physician, philosopher, sociologist and agronomist (Resende, Rio de Janeiro 11 January 1840 – São Paulo 11 January 1923) Corresponded with many European wine experts and became renowned viticulturist Developed Bourbon coffee variety Discovered beneficial properties of guarana devising a processing method to produce guarana syrup and a recipe of guarana soda (1905). This recipe of soda guarana was improved by Pedro Baptista de Andrade and is marketed under the name Guarana Antarctica   
- [Luiz Muniz Barreto](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-muniz-barreto/): Luiz Muniz Barreto, Brazilian geophysicist and astronomer (Rio de Janeiro 02 April 1925 – 12 April 2006) With E.P. Lopes, E.P. Lopes & J. M. Barreto. A new selective filter for improving the performance of geotomographic algorithms (1997) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observações de estrelas variáveis. Primeira série 1959/1960. Publ. Serv. Astr. Rio de Janeiro 13:1-28, 1960   Ocultações lunares. J. Intern. Lunar Soc. 1(7):183-7, 1960 With J.J. D. Nogueira & M. Migon. Occultations of stars by the Moon. Acta Astron. 21(1), 1970 Secular variation and geomagnetic normal field modeling in Brazil. Deutsch. Hydrogr. Zeitsch. 4, 1988 With A.L. Orozco. Magnetic effects during the
- [Luiz Marino Bechelli](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-marino-bechelli/): Luiz Marino Bechelli, Brazilian leprologist (Pirambóia, São Paulo State 25 March 1912 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 16 August 2004) Considered in the world as a great name in leprology Authored nearly 300 publications Proposed Bechelli-Pacheco test for studying vasomotor cutaneous reflex in leprosy With J. Novo Pacheco. A simples picada com agulha como elemento subsidiário de diagnóstico das máculas lepróticas hipocrõmicas e acrômicas. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 11(1):57, 1943.   Developed Rotberg-Bechelli technique for preparation of Mitsuda antigen Tratado de Leprologia II. Etiopatogenia e Anatomia Patológica (1944) With V. Martínez Domínguez. Disability index for leprosy patients. Bull. World Health Org. 44(5):709-13,
- [Luiz Bevilacqua](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-bevilacqua/): Luiz Bevilacqua, Brazilian structural engineer (Rio de Janeiro 26 February 1937 – His theoretical work on approximate algorithms for variational methods is known worldwide Proposed a new method of fractal dimension via dynamic response With J. Lugon Jr & A. Silva Neto. Solution of fourth order diffusion equations and analysis using the second moment. Defect Diff. Forum 399:10-20, 2020  With E.Y. Veslin, M.S. Dutra, L.S.C. Raptopoulos, W.S. Andrade & J.G.M. Soares. Development of a closed-loop BMI for elbow movement assistance based on kinematical decoding. J. Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Engin. 41:91-105, 2019 With M.S. Jiang, A. Silva Neto, D.C. Knupp &
- [Luis Alberto Bulla](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-alberto-bulla/): Luis Alberto Bulla, Argentine-born Venezuelan ecologist (21 April 1942 – Described the genera Argentagrion 1971 and Andinagrion 1973 of Odonata DEVELOPED Models With J. Rodríguez & G. Innis. Modelo de decomposición y dinamica de la materia organica en una sabana inundable. Ecotropicos 2:14-21, 1989 With J. Pacheco & R. Miranda. A simple model for the measurement of primary production in grasslands. Bol. Soc. Ven. Cien. Natur. 139:281-304, 1981 Methods With R. Ringuelet. Un nuevo artefacto para el muestreo estratificado de plancton en ambientes someros. Physis 32:499-23, 1974 With R. Miranda. A new method for the measurement of dead organic matter decomposition. Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci.
- [Luigi Bogliolo](https://neglectedscience.com/luigi-bogliolo/): Luigi Bogliolo, Italian-born Brazilian pathologist (Sassari, Sardegna Island 18 April 1908 – Belo Horizonte 06 September 1981) Authored about 400 scientific works  Characterized in a precise way the anatomical figure of liver in hepatosplenic form in mansonic schistosomiasis First to describe the anatomical figure of liver in prepostural stage of helminthiasis Described the anatomical figure of toxemic acute form of mansonic schistosomiasis Described Bogliolo sign of schistosomal portal hypertension Described a new form of liver fibrosis which may develop in mansonic schistosomiasis (1957) Distinguished cirrhosis and hepatic fibrosis (1958-9) Established the parasitic life of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (1946) Described apical dental granuloma (1960), a manifestation
- [Ludwig Buckup](https://neglectedscience.com/ludwig-buckup/): Ludwig Buckup, Brazilian carcinologist (São Paulo 25 March 1932 – Porto Alegre 22 February 2021) From German descent  DESCRIBED TAXA Crustacea With G. Bond-Buckup (1994) Aegla grisella Aegla inconspicua Aegla inermis Aegla intercalata Aegla itacolomiensis Aegla jarai Aegla lata Aegla leptochela Aegla ligulata Aegla longirostris Aegla marginata Aegla microphthalma Aegla obstipa Aegla parva Aegla ringueleti Aegla rossiana Aegla septentrionalis Aegla spinipalma Aegla spinosa Aegla violacea With G. Bond Buckup Aegla pomerana 2010 Aegla muelleri 2010 Aegla renana 2010 Aegla leachi 2012 Aegla lancinhas 2015 With A. Rossi Aegla camargoi 1977 Aegla franciscana 1977 Aegla lenitica 1977 Aegla leptodactyla 1977 Aegla plana 1977 Aegla serrana 1977 Parastacus laevigatus 1980 With P. B. Araújo Novamundoniscus meridionalis 1994
- [Louis Daniel Beauperthuy](https://neglectedscience.com/louis-daniel-beauperthuy/): Louis Daniel Beauperthuy, French-Venezuelan physician (St. Rose, Guadalupe Island 26 July 1807 – Kaow Island, Mazaruni River, Guyana 03 September 1871) ACHIEVEMENTS Established mosquitoes as vectors of paludism and yellow fever (1854) Pointed out Aedes aegypti as a yellow fever vector Observed choleric bacillus (1854) First to describe scabies as a parasitic infection Suggested a new leprosy treatment  involving Van Swieten liquor (1860s) Conceived first experimental hospital in the world for leprosy treatment (1871) Beauperthuy method for leprosy treatment employing mercury bichloride SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   With A. de Roseville. Lettre sur la presence d’animalcules dans diverses secretions et excretions de l’homme malade. Comptes Rendus
- [Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra](https://neglectedscience.com/lieuwe-dirk-boonstra/): Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra, South African paleontologist (Volkrust, Transvaal Province 1905 – Cape Town 1975) About 90 scientific papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL REPTILIA GENERA Aelurosauroides 1934 Agnosaurus 1952 Arctognathoides 1934 Avenantia 1952 Haughtoniana 1938 Hipposauroides 1952 Koupia 1948 Maraisaurus 1953 Micranteosaurus 1954 Neomegacyclops 1953 Nochelesaurus 1929 with Haughton Paranteosaurus 1954 Pristerognathoides 1954 Pristerosaurus 1954 Pseudohipposaurus 1952 Ptomalestes 1954 Riebeeckosaurus 1952 Robertia 1948 Scaloporhinus 1953 Stagonosuchus 1953 Struthiocephalellus 1955 Struthiocephaloides 1952 Struthionops 1952 Tangagorgon 1953 Therioides 1953 Zinnosaurus 1964
- [Leonardo Branisa](https://neglectedscience.com/leonardo-branisa/): Leonardo Branisa, Slovak-born Bolivian paleontologist and archaeologist (Dol’any (Ompital) 02 January 1911 – 1999) DESCRIBED GENERA AND SUBGENERA Fossil Brachiopoda Babinia 1985 with Racheboeuf Incorthis 1980 with Havlicek Notorthisina 1980 With Havlicek Paralenorthis 1980 with Havlicek Trilobites Andinacaste 1979 with Eldredge Andinopyge 1965 Belenops 1980 with Eldredge Bolivianaspis 1973 with Vanek Chacomurus 1973 with Vanek Chiarumanipyge 1973 with Vanek Curuyella 1979 with Eldredge Deltacephalaspis 1980 with Eldredge Fenestraspis 1973 with Vanek Francovichia 1960 Gamonedaspis 1973 with Vanek  Kozlowskiaspis 1973 with Vanek Prestalia 1979 with Eldredge Romaniella 1979 with Eldredge Romanops 1980 with Eldredge HONORS Branisaspis Pribyl & Vanek 1980 (Trilobites) Branisella Pribyl & Vanek 1981 (Trilobites) Branisamyopsis Candela 2003 (Fossil Mammalia) Branisamys Hoffstetter & Lavocat 1970 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Lajos Biro-Bagoczky](https://neglectedscience.com/lajos-biro-bagoczky/): Lajos Biró-Bagozcky, Hungarian-born Chilean geologist and paleontologist (21 June 1929 – Concepción 24 August 1993) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Aspidoceras altum 1980   Corongoceras involutum 1980 Pterolytoceras magnum 1980 Pygurus andinus 1985 Spiticeras tripartitus lovaldesensis 1980 Titanites chilensis 1976 HONORS Biropristis Suarez & Cappetta 2004 (Fossil Pisces) 
- [Ladislao Biro](https://neglectedscience.com/ladislao-biro/): Laszlo Jozsef Biro, Jewish Hungarian-born Argentine inventor (Budapest 29 September 1899 – Buenos Aires 24 October 1985) INVENTIONS (300 with 32 patents) Ballpoint pen (1931) patented in 1938 A fountain pencil (1928) Ballpoint pen ink Mechanical machines and retractor for ballpoint pens   A bottle labeling line and device for the same purpose  A phenol-based resin A continuous process for phenolic resins (1944) A mechanical gearbox (1932) A washing machine activated by home kitchen-generated energy (1930) Inviolable lock Clinical thermograph (1943) A link for curtains Devices for recording blood pressure A process for amelioration of iron ramrods resistance in concrete (1944) Application of
- [Krishna Das Bagchee](https://neglectedscience.com/krishna-das-bagchee/): Krishna Das Bagchee, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Tanti Bandha, Bangladesh 19 January 1898 – Dehra Dun 06 January 1973) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Coleosporium barclayense 1950 Cronartium himalayense 1933 Macrophoma shoreae 1953 Melampsora oblonga 1950 Peridermium himalayense 1929 Poria rhizomorpha 1953 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS New and noteworthy diseases of trees and decay in timber in India. Indian For. 80:246-51, 1954 An unrecorded parasite of teak (Tectona grandis Linn. f.) reported from Dehra Dun, U.P.. Indian For. 73(7):332-4, 1947 HONORS Bagcheea Muller & Menon 1954 (Fungi)
- [Krishan Sahai Bilgrami](https://neglectedscience.com/krishan-sahai-bilgrami/): Krishan Sahai Bilgrami, Indian phycologist and mycologist (Bilgram, Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh 09 July 1933 – Lucknow 31 December 1996) Codescribed with S.M. Reddy the genus Pseudohansfordia (Fungi) in 1975 HONORS Bilgramia Panwar, Purohit & Chouhan 1974 (Fungi) Bilgramia Yadava 1990 (Chlorophyceae)
- [Keppel Harcourt Barnard](https://neglectedscience.com/keppel-harcourt-barnard/): Keppel Harcourt Barnard, English-born South African zoologist (London 31 March 1887 – Cape Town 22 September 1964) DESCRIBED 105 genera of Crustacea 14 genera of Trichoptera 8 genera of Mollusca   8 genera of Diptera 1 genus of Plecoptera   6 valid genera and 27 valid species of Ephemeroptera 10 valid genera and  41 valid species of Fishes HONORS   Barnardara Provonsha & McCafferty 1995 (Ephemeroptera) Barnardichthys Chabanaud 1927 (Fishes) Barnardoscia Taiti & Ferrara 1982 (Crustacea) Barnardromia McLay 1993 (Crustacea) Keppelius Manning 1978 (Crustacea)
- [Kanwar Bahadur](https://neglectedscience.com/kanwar-bahadur/): Kanwar Bahadur, Indian microscopist (Simla 13 April 1925 – With E. W. Muller, published the first image of individual atoms by means of a field ion microscope in Physical Review 102(3):624-31, 1955 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With K.L. Chaudhary. Crystallization of amorphous antimony films prepared by vacuum evaporation. Appl. Physics Letters 15(9):277-9, 1969 With P.V. Sastry. On the extra reflections in electron diffraction patterns from thin evaporated films of some of the face-centred cubic metals. Proc. Phys. Soc 78(5):594, 1961 With E.W. Muller. Velocity distribution in field ion emission (1957) With E.W. Muller. Field ionization of gases at a metal surface and the resolution of the
- [Julio Martín Borda](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-martin-borda/): Julio Martín Borda Lascuraín, Argentine dermatologist (Buenos Aires 05 May 1907 – 05 January 1984) With G. Stringa & R. Mancini described the first cases of calcium deposits in late cutaneous porphyria or porphyric calcinosis (1954) Described ampullary and erosive porphyria of adult (1950) Described melanotic prurigo or Pierini-Borda prurigo With L.E. Pierini. Prurigo melanótico. Rev. Arg. Dermat. 3:32, 1947 EPONYMS Borda syndrome (a skin genetic condition associated with hydrocystoma, xanthelasma and dental dysplasia) Borda sign (marked actinic damage in porphyria cutanea tarda) 
- [Juan Luis Benedetto](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-luis-benedetto/): Juan Luis Arnaldo Benedetto, Argentine paleontologist and stratigrapher (January 1945 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA (mainly invertebrates) Brachiopoda Genera Anchoramena 1995 Chaniella 2009 Chilcatreta 2016 with Lavié Chilcorthis 2015 Famatinobolus 2019 with Lavié Gatosella 2012 Gondwanorthis 2016 with Muñoz Huacoella 1993 with Herrera Lampazarorthis 2016 with Muñoz Lesserorthis 2007 Lipanorthis 2002 Mollesella 2003 Niquivilia 1993 with Herrera Notodedzetina 1998 with Franciosi Oepikoides 1995 Parallelostrophia 2003 Parvitritoechia 2003 Pinatotoechia 2001 Protorthisina 2007 Punastrophia 2001 Sanjuanella 1987 with Herrera Suriorthis 2003 Trigonostrophia 2003 Torobolus 2015 with Muñoz Tunariorthis 2014 Trilobita Genera Aguilarella 1979 Australoacaste 1978 with Martel Paraplicatolina 1979 Pericopyge 1978 Pseudotalbotina 1979 Crustacea Genus Austrolobollia 1995 with Vannier & Racheboeuf Pisces Genus Archaeopycnodon 1980 with Sanchez Species About 180 HONORS Benedettia Toro & Mondali 1981 (Trilobita)
- [Juan Jacinto Burgos](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jacinto-burgos/): Juan Jacinto Burgos Almirall, Argentine agricultural meteorologist  (Godoy Cruz, Mendoza Province 15 March 1915 – Buenos Aires 27 November 1999) Authored over 180 scientific works and 20 books Developed classifications for agricultural phenology and climatology Proposed Burgos method for agroclimatic zonification of species Agroclimatic classifications and representations. Report of the applications value of climatic and agroclimatic classification for agricultural purposes (1958) Proposed a cryokindinoscopic index A cryokindionoscopic index useful in agroclimate research. Com. Meteorol. Agr. Toronto (1947) Others El termoperiodismo como factor bioclimatico en el desarrollo de los vegetales. Meteoros 2(3-4), 1952 HONOURS IMO Prize (1983) 
- [Juan Carlos Baro Graf](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-baro-graf/): Juan Carlos Baro Graf, Argentine microchemist DISCOVERIES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Sobre una nueva reacción microquímica de grupo para la identificación de los cationes trivalentes (1939) Sobre unas nuevas reacciones topoquimicas aplicadas a la diferenciación microanaliticas de varios aniones (1941) A new reaction for cupric ion employing a solution of benzoic acid in pyridine Sobre nuevas reacciones microquímicas del cobre y del paladio. Publ. Inst. Inv. Microquim Arg. 16:6-10, 1952 Sobre una nueva reacción microquímica del oro (A new microchemical test for gold). Publ. Inst. Inv. Microquim Arg. 17:246-50, 1953 Sobre una nueva reacción microquímica del Fe3+. Publ. Inst. Inv. Microquim Arg. 18(19):105-8, 1954 El
- [Juan Bruggen](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-bruggen/): Juan Brüggen, German-born Chilean geologist (Lübeck, Germany 25 April 1887 – Santiago de Chile 07 March 1953) Authored 71 works on geology and mining SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Fundamentos de la geologia de Chile (1950) Contribución a La geologia de lós volcanes y termas de Chillán (1948) El origen de las águas minerales de Chile (1947) El volcán Antuco y la geologia glacial del Valle de Laja (1942) Geologia de las guaneras de Chile (1939) El salitre. Bol. Minero 50:737-54, 1938 La água subterranea en la Pampa de Tamarugal y morfologia general de Tarapacá. Rev. Chil. Hist. Geogr. 80(80), 1936 Zur glazialgeologie der chilenischen Anden.
- [Juan Brethes](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-brethes/): Juan (Jean) Brèthes, French-born Argentine entomologist (Saint Sever, Landes 24 February 1871 – Buenos Aires 02 July 1928) Authored about 220 works DESCRIBED GENERA 96 in Hymenoptera 49 in Coleoptera 28 in Diptera 5 in Lepidoptera 3 in Hemiptera 1 in Thysanoptera HONORS Brethesiamyia Maia 2010 (Diptera) Brethesiella Timberlake 1920 (Hymenoptera) Brethynnus Genise 1991 (Hymenoptera)
- [Juan Balme](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-balme/): Juan Balme Giraud or Jean Pierre Balme, French-born Mexican horticulturist and botanical explorer (1880 – 1964) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Orquídeas mexicanas. Bol. Soc. Bot. Mexico 10:16-25, 1950 Laelias mexicanas. Bol Soc. Bot. Mexico 4:2-9, 1946 Algunos datos sobre orquídeas colombianas (1939) Quelques notes sur um arbre fruitier mexicain le Crataegus mexicana (1939) Algunos datos sobre el cultivo de la piña en Mexico. Revista Agrícola 3:117-51, 1921 La viticultura em Mexico. Revista Agricola 5:581-3, 1920 HONORS   Balmea Martínez 1942 (Rubiaceae)
- [Juan Bacigalupo](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-bacigalupo/): Juan D. M. Bacigalupo Brignole, Argentine parasitologist (Buenos Aires 29 December 1891 – Buenos Aires 24 August 1956) Authored 207 works First use of microscopic examination of probing extracted duodenal fluid for diagnosis of fascioliasis With A.J. Bengolea & C. Velasco Suarez. Distomatosis por Fasciola hepatica. Arch. Argent. Enferm. Apar. Diges. Nutr. (1927) Demonstrated that Hymenolepis nana could display two types of life evolution presenting an indirect larval form (1928) With A. Palacios Costa. Nueva espiroquetosis vaginal provocada por la Espiroqueta rawsoni, n.sp. Rev. Med. Trop. Parasitol. 4(6):319-21, 1938 (Spirochaeta rawsoni) Described a new parasite Dibothriocephalus taenioides 1945 With Marcos Fischman. Botriocefaliasis por um nuevo parasito (Diancyrobothrium
- [João José Bigarella](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-jose-bigarella/): João José Bigarella, Brazilian geologist (Curitiba 23 September 1923 – Curitiba 05 May 2016) From Italian and Bohemian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 212 works Authored over 20 books such as Estrutura e origem das paisagens tropicais e subtropicais (4 vols, 1,500 pages, 2nd edition 2007) Performed studies on palaeogeography, sedimentology, geomorphology and stratigraphic correlation Introduced the concept of colluviums ramps With M.R. Mourinho. Considerações a respeito dos terraços fluviais, rampas de colúvio e várzeas. Bol. Paran. Geogr. 16-17:153-97, 1965. With M.R. Mousinho & J.X. da Silva. Pediplanos, pedimentos e seus depósitos correlativos no Brasil. Bol. Paran. Geogr. 16-7:117-51, 1965 Created the term scaled
- [João Barbosa Rodrigues](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-barbosa-rodrigues/): João Barbosa Rodrigues, Brazilian naturalist (São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais State 22 June 1842 – Rio de Janeiro 06 March 1909) Performed studies about botany, etnography, archaeology, climatography and phytogeography ACHIEVEMENTS Botany Discovered 538 orchid species that were described by Martius in Flora Brasiliensis Described 20  valid genera of plants in Brazilian flora (being 16 of them from Orchidaceae family ), 347 new species of Orchidaceae family and 382 new species of Arecaceae plants Published Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, that attained international repercussion (1903) Published Genera et specie orchidearum novarum (1877-82), with diagnoses of more than 700 orchid species, recognized with a Gold Medal from Academie des Sciences
- [José Vicente Bustillos](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-vicente-bustillos/): José Vicente Bustillos y Maceira (Mazeira, Maseira or Maseyra), Chilean naturalist and chemist (Valparaíso 14 April 1800 – Santiago 27 March 1873) INVENTIONS A device for vacum distillation A new building material for street paving Bustillos-Vazquez method for preserving meat employing lime acetate SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Formulario Nacional de Medicamentos para el uso de los Hospitales del Ejercito (1869) Observaciones botânicas, terapêuticas y análisis de la Witheringia crispa. Rev. Farm. 4:280-96, 1865 Relación de las observaciones cientificas hechas por Bustillos en compañia de don Anjel Vazquez en el sur de la Republica. Anales Sco. Farmacia 2:357 & 401, 1864 Memoria sobre la hidrofobia. Anales Soc.
- [José María de la Barrera](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-de-la-barrera/): José Maria de La Barrera Errecalte, Argentine hygienist and bacteriologist (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 21 February 1892-?) Isolated the Junín virus, causative agent of hemorrhagic Argentine fever With D.J. Greenway, H.R. Rugiero, M. Frigerio, A.S. Parodi, N. Nettler, F. Garzón, M. Boxaca, L.B. Guerrero & N.R. Nota. Sobre la etiologia del brote epidémico de Junin. El Dia Medico 30:2000-10, 1958 Described three Siphonaptera genera: Gephyropsylla 1952, Hechtiella 1952 and Alloctenus 1966 (with Traub)   HONORS Barreropsylla Jordan 1953 (Siphonaptera)
- [José María Bustamante](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-bustamante/): José María de Bustamante y Septién, Mexican geographer, naturalist, physicist and astronomer (Guanajuato 1786 – Ciudad de Mexico 1834) SCIENTIFIC LEGACY Inventions A barometer/thermometer used to measure altitudes An aerometer for measuring specific weights of bodies A gravimeter (1831)  Bustamantine theodolite   Hydraulic pumps for waters from mines  Performed studies about plants of Mexican flora Studied rocks and mineral species, discovering a new mineral that sent to Brongniart and in his honor was called bustamite     His nephew, Miguel José de la Luz Ignacio Francisco Bustamante Chico, engineer (Ciudad de Mexico 28 December 1833 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 February 1911) Patented a machine for
- [José María Barceló de Villagrán](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-barcelo-de-villagran/): José María Barceló de Villagrán, Mexican surgeon (Querétaro 12 November 1819 – Ciudad de Mexico 05 September 1872) Modified some operative procedures and invented surgical instruments such as paracentesis trocars  Enunciated operative concepts on thoracic strokes First to report rapid post-expansion pulmonary oedema (1864-6) Performed first anorectal extirpation (1871) before European surgeons 
- [José Julián Bravo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-julian-bravo/): José Julián Bravo Bresani, mineralogist, micropetrographer and paleontologist (Lima 17 April 1874 – Washington, US 25 May 1927) Described a new mineral patronite (1906) and fossil crinoid species Holectypus paulckei 1905 Honored in mineral variety of pyrite called bravoite by Hillebrand 1907 
- [José G. Basnuevo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-g-basnuevo/): José G. Basnuevo Artíles, Cuban parasitologist (Colón, Matanzas Province 25 June 1903 – La Habana 27 October 1968) Authored over 300 monographs and papers  With P. Kouri & R. Arenas proposed the application of emetine hydrochloride in Fasciola hepatica infection (1934) With P. Kouri, Alvare y Lezcano. Tecnica para el estudio de la anatomia de la Fasciola hepatica. Rev. Parasitol. Clin. Lab. 1(2):191, 1935 A new technique for concentration of helminth eggs in feces With V. Anido. La solución aceto-formo-azucarada en el enriquecimiento de huevos de parasitos en las heces fecales. Med. Hoy 1:49-50, 1936 With V. Anido & R. Sutter described a rapid
- [José Brandmayr](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-brandmayr/): José Brandmayr, Argentine engineer and geologist (died 1953) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al conocimiento geológico del extremo Sudoeste del Territorio de Santa Cruz (región Cerro Cazador – Alto Rio Turbio). Bol. Inform. Petroleras 256 (1945) Informe sobre la región preandina a Este de los lagos Sarmiento y Maravilla y del Seno de Ultima Esperanza (Patagonia Austral) 1937 Informe sobre los estúdios efectuados a lo largo de la costa entre Monte Observación y Puerto Coyle (Territorio de Santa Cruz) 1936 Informe sobre la continuación de los anticlinales XV-Y-XVI hacia el Rio Deseado (1936) Informe sobre una gira de estudios a la región al sud
- [José Belbey](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-belbey/): José Belbey Chapo, Argentine coroner (Paraná, Entre Rios Province 01 January 1894 – Buenos Aires 27 September 1960) Described a sign in purulent stomatitis (with Rojas)  With Pedro Magnin developed a inner translumination hymenoscope With Rojas developed a method for treating drug addiction employing adrenaline injections many times a day (1926) Developed a treatment for morphine addiction With N. Rojas. La adrenalina en la desmorfinización. Sem. Medica 33(2):705-7, 1926 With J. Llambías. Diferenciación histologica de las quemaduras vitales y cadavericas. La Sem. Med. (Histological differentiation of vital and cadaveric burns)
- [José Barbeito López](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-barbeito-lopez/): José Barbeito López, Spanish-born Cuban anatomical pathologist (La Coruña ? – Cuba 198?) Developed Barbeito López trichrome stain A new staining method for histologic sections. Preliminary report. Am. J. Clin. Pathol (Techn. Sect.) 10:53-56, 1946
- [Jose Luiz Bezerra](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luiz-bezerra/): José Luiz Bezerra, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (Bom Conselho, Pernambuco State 02 January 1940 – PHYTOPATHOLOGY With C.M. Gonçalves, R.M.F. Silva, W.P. Pinto Neto, R.J. Oliveira & G.A. Silva. First Record of a Agaricales species as endophytic in Sorghum bicolor (2016) With A.C. Firmino, Q.S Novaes, H.J. Tozze Jr., GG Rocha Sobrinho & E.L. Furtado.  First report of Ceratocystis fimbriata causing fruit-rot of Passiflora edulis in Brazil. New Disease Reports 27:4-4, 2013 With M. E. Caliman, C.S.L. Oliveira & J. Pereira. First report of Glomerella cingulata causing leaf spot on Dieffenbachia seguine in Brazil. Agrotrópica (Itabuna) 25:125-8, 2013 With C. S. L. Oliveira, M. E. Caliman & J. Pereira. Colletotrichum gloesporioides causing leaf spot
- [Jose Luis Badano Repetto](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luis-badano-repetto/): José Luis Badano Repetto, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 10 December 1918 – ?) A novel surgical “zipper”  for use in laparotomy operations (1984) Proposed a drainage treatment of liquids in ascites for serosa strokes (improved in 1980) Tratamiento sintomático de la ascitis. Drenaje com tubo de piel al tejido celular del abdômen. Dia Med. Uruguay 269:801, 1955 A new radiologic diagnostic procedure with an opaque gas. Arch. Urug. Med. 45:115, 1954 A procedure for determination of blood amount lost during surgeries    With G. López. Determinación de la cantidad de sangre perdida en el acto operatório (procedimento para determinarla). Rev. Cir. Uruguay 29(6):365-82, 1938 
- [Jose Fernando Bonaparte](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-fernando-bonaparte/): José Fernando Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (Rosario, Santa Fe Province 14 June 1928 – Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province 18 February 2020) From Italian father Authored over 120 works Internationally respected as one of foremost experts on dinosaurs Described Carnotaurus sastrei the first known carnivore dinosaur with horns (1983) DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA GENERA (most of them Reptilia) Abelisaurus 1985 with Novas Agustinia 1999 Alamitherium 2002 (Mammalia) Alvarezsaurus 1991 Amargasaurus 1991 with Salgado Andesaurus 1991 with Calvo Andescynodon 1969 (Mammalia) Argentinosaurus 1993 with Coria Austrotriconodon 1986 (Mammalia) Barberenia 1990 (Mammalia) Bondesius 1990 (Mammalia) Brandonia 1990 (Mammalia) Brasilitherium 2003 with Martinelli, Schultz & Rubert (Mammalia) Brasilodon 2003 (Mammalia) Cargninia 2010 with Schultz, Soares & Martinelli Carnotaurus 1985 Casamiquelia 1990 Chaliminia 1980 Coloradisaurus 1979 Comahuesuchus 1991 Cromptodon 1973 Dinheirosaurus 1999 with Mateus Escribania 1993 with
- [Jose Brito Passos](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-brito-passos/): José Pinheiro de Brito Passos or José Britto Pinheiro Passos, Brazilian industrial chemist (Maranhão State 24 October 1904 – Recife 19 March 1988) Developed an integral recovery process for vinasse (1934) Improved technology for production and extraction of sugar in plants Developed technology for mechanization and purification of sugar Improved method for purifying anhydrous alcohol BRAZILIAN PATENTS Novo decantador contínuo para separação de matérias sólidas em suspensão em líquidos industriais nº 26.140 (1938) known as Passos decanter Novo processo e aparelhagem para fabricação de adubo orgânico-mineral utilizando como matéria-prima o líquido residual das distillarias, regionalmente denominado calda, vinassa, tiborna, vinhaça ou
- [Jorge Broggi](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-broggi/): Jorge Alberto Broggi Morel, Peruvian geologist and geophysicist (Lima 05 November 1888 – 02 June 1966) From Swiss descent MEMBERSHIP Honorary Member, Royal Geological Society of London Honorary Member, Geological Society of America HONORS Broggite Fester & Cruellas 1935 (variety of asphaltite or asphaltum)
- [Jorge Boshell Manrique](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-boshell-manrique/): Jorge Boshell Manrique, Colombian medical entomologist and hygienist (Subachoque, Cundinamarca 08 October 1903 – Bogotá 06 March 1976) Demonstrated that Haemagogus spp. are arboreal mosquitoes With J.C. Bugher, E. Osorno & M. Roca García. Epidemiology of jungle yellow fever in Eastern Colombia. American J. Hygiene 39:16-51, 1944 First to describe the vertical stratification of mosquitoes in the wild (1940s) Realized the possibilities of the method of maintaining Haemagogus adults isolated in individual tubes Described genus Moyanella (Acari) and 25 Acari species with Kerr (1942) Described Diptera species Aedes scutellalbum HONORS   Kerriboshellia Gabrys 1999 (Acari)  Subgenus Boshkerria Fauran 1959 (Acari)
- [Jorge Bobone](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-bobone/): Francisco Jorge Emilio Bobone Vera, Argentine astronomer (Córdoba 22 July 1901 – Córdoba 21 October 1958) Obtained new parameters for observation and determination of comets, minor planets and satellites internationally adopted  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observaciones de cometas y de Pluto tomadas en El Observatorio Nacional Argentino (1932) Posiciones fotograficas del cometa 1936c (Jackson). Astron. Nachr. 261:225-6, 1936 Ocultaciones de estrellas por la Luna. Astron. Nachr. 262:215-6, 1937 Tablas del VI satelite de Jupiter. Astron. Nachr. 262 (6279-80):321-46, 1937 Tablas del VII satelite de Jupiter. Astron. Nachr. 263:401-12, 1937 Orbita definitiva del cometa 1936a (Peltier). Astron. Nachr. 264:163-4, 1937 Movimiento proprio de la estrella
- [John Brereton Barlow](https://neglectedscience.com/john-brereton-barlow/): John Brereton Barlow, South-African cardiologist (Cape Town 24 October 1924 – Johannesburg 10 October 2008) Known for his work on the pathogenesis and mechanisms of late systolic murmurs and mitral non-ejection clicks showing that these were usually due to billowing of the mitral valve and also described associated features Described mitral valve prolapse or Barlow syndrome With W.A. Pocock, P. Marchand & M. Denny. The significance of late systolic murmurs. Am. Heart J. 66:443-52, 1963 With C.W.Barlow, Z.A. Ali, E. Lim & F.C. Wells. Modified technique for mitral repair without ring annuloplasty. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 75(1):298-300, 2003 HONORS Seymour Medal, Wesley
- [Johannes Bisse](https://neglectedscience.com/johannes-bisse/): Johannes Bisse, German-born Cuban botanist (Cottbus 30 October 1935 – La Habana 19 December 1984) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Pseudogonocalyx 1984 with Berazaín Species Arceuthobium cubense 1983 with Leiva Ayenia cubensis 1985 with Rodríguez Ayenia spinosa 1985 with Rodríguez Brya microphylla 1975 Bucida subinermis 1974 Byrsonima orientensis 1975 Calophyllum pinetorum 1974 Calophyllum rivulare 1974 Calophyllum utile 1974 Calyptranthes insularis 1983 Calyptranthes levisensis 1980 with Rodríguez Calyptranthes mirabilis 1980 with Rodríguez Calyptranthes peninsularis 1983 Calyptranthes pseudoapoda 1980 with Rodríguez Cameraria orientensis 1975 Carpodiptera mirabilis 1974 Cassine lippoldii 1974 Cassine nipensis 1974 Cassine trinitense 1974 Garcia moaensis 1975 Guatteria cubensis 1975 Guettarda baracoensis 1975 Linum cubense 1984 Magnolia cristalensis 1974 Myrtekmania intermedia 1983 Ocotea acunaina 1974 Ocotea cristalensis 1974 Ocotea libanensis 1974 Ocotea moanensis 1974 Pimenta urquiolae Protium baracoense 1974 Protium maestrense 1974 Pseudanamomis
- [Johann Becker](https://neglectedscience.com/johann-becker/): Johann Becker, Brazilian entomologist and ecologist (Salvador 27 June 1932 – 11 April 2004) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera (with Carvalho 1957) Aterpocoris Caiganga Leptomiris Lestoniella Species (with Carvalho) Acrorrhinium brincki 1960 with Dutra Aterpocoris usingeri 1957 Caiganga antennata 1957 Cyrtopeltis (Engytatus) andinus 1958 Garganus insularis 1957 Jobertus gracilentus 1959 Leptomiris mexicanus 1957 Lestoniella compacta 1957 Renodaeus gibbicollis 1959 Stenotus pusillus 1960 with Dutra HONORS Beckeracris Amedegnato & Descamps 1979 (Orthoptera) Beckeresia Soares 1970 (Arachnida)
- [Jogendra Chandra Bardhan](https://neglectedscience.com/jogendra-chandra-bardhan/): Jogendra Chandra Bardhan, Indian synthetic organic chemist (Swarnagram, Bangladesh 15 October 1896 – Calcutta 23 December 1964) Authored 41 papers Synthesized Balbiano’s acid and established its structure (1928)  Created Bardhan-Sengupta synthesis of phenanthrene With S.C. Sengupta. Resin acids. Part I. Synthesis of phenanthrene hydrocarbons derived from d-pimaric acid, and a new route to phenanthrene. J. Chem. Soc. 2520-6, 1932 First to obtain a ketone that presents cyclical system of estrogenic hormones (nor-deoxydehydro-equilenine) in Nature 134:217, 1934 Obtained the first partial synthesis of estrone methyl ether (1935) Developed a new synthesis of hydrophenanthrene derivatives (1936) Developed a new route for preparation of
- [Jitendravir Singh Bhatti](https://neglectedscience.com/jitendravir-singh-bhatti/): Jitendravir Singh Bhatti, Indian entomologist (02 February 1939 – DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Families Allidothripidae 1992 Andrethripidae 1992 Aulacothripidae 2006 Caliothripidae 2006 Euceratothripidae 2006 Indothripidae 1999 Lonchothripidae 1988 Murphythripidae 1992 Parthenothripidae 2006 Projectothripidae 2006 Retithripidae 2006 Rhipiphorothripidae 2006 Xaniothripidae 1992 Genera Abacothrips 1986 Afrothripella 1990 Ahamothrips 2007 with Kumar & Tyagi Aiganothrips 1991 Ajothrips 1967 Akheta 1978 Alathrips 1969 Alerothrips 1995 Amerothrips 1989 Amomothrips 1978 Ananthakrishnana 1967 Anascirtothrips 1961 Apothrips 1967 Apsilothrips 2008 with Borbon Arathrips 1967 Arorathrips 1990 Ataliothrips 1995 Aurantothrips 1978 Bacathrips 1990 Bathrips 1962 Biltothrips 1973 Bournieriana 1995 Bournierothrips 1979 Brevithrips 1967 Capitothrips 1974 Corcithrips 1973 Croceithrips 1995 Danothrips 1971 Decorothrips 1973 Doonthrips 1993 with Veer & Chauhan Ednathrips 1976 Elbuthrips 1973 Ernothrips 1967 Eryngyothrips 1979 Fabothrips 1988 Faureana 1973 Flavidothrips 1978 Florithrips 1969 Foliothrips 1972 Furcithrips 1984 Gabanithrips 1992 with Mound Gelothrips 1967 Himalthrips 1979 Jakthrips 2006 with Ranganath Javathrips 1978 Jennythrips 1993 Kazinothrips 1973
- [Jean Louis Berlandier](https://neglectedscience.com/jean-louis-berlandier/): Jean Louis Berlandier, French-born Mexican naturalist (Fort de L’Ecluse, France 1805 – Matamoros, Tamaulipas State 1851) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored works on anthropology, geography, history, meteorology and natural sciences Collected animals and plants from Texas and Mexico Described mammalian subspecies Puma yagouaroundi cacomitli (1859) HONORS  Berlandiera De Candolle 1836 (Asteraceae) 60 animal and plants species bears his name
- [Jagdish Chandra Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/jagdish-chandra-bose/): Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian-Bengali physicist and biophysicist (Bikrampur, Munshiganj District, Bangladesh 30 November 1858 – Giridih, Jharkhand, India 23 November 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS Measured refractive index from a number of substances   Invented galen detector the first semiconductor and was the first to employ it as a detector of electric rays and radio waves  (1904) Demonstrated that electromagnetic waves weren’t obstructed by solid walls and it could be transmitted wireless (1895) Demonstrated radiotransmission independently of Marconi (1895) First to use semiconductor junction for detecting radio waves Suggested the existence of Sun electromagnetical radiation (confirmed in 1944) Discovered metal fatigue and retrieval   Showed that
- [Iwar Beckman](https://neglectedscience.com/iwar-beckman/): Iwar Beckman, Swedish-born Brazilian plant breeder (Linkoeping, Sweden 07 September 1896 – Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul 15 March 1971) Published circa 100 papers  CREATED WHEAT VARIETIES (27) Fronteira (1932) Frondoso Surpresa (1932) Rio Negro (1938) Frontana (1940) with worldwide repercussion  Bagé (1950) Lavras (1950) Fortaleza (1957) Preludio (1957) Carazinho (1957) B4 (1966) B15 (1974) B20 (1974) Centelha Centeira Cincana Florestana Colotana Guarany, Jesuíta, Minuano & Missões (1931) HONOURS Honorary Member, Geographic Society of Washington, USA (1931) 
- [Isaac Berconsky](https://neglectedscience.com/isaac-berconsky/): Isaac Berconsky, Russian-born Argentine cardiologist (Alexandrov, Russia 17 November 1899 – 1971) With Pedro Cossio and Tiburcio Padilla performed the fourth cardiac catheterization in the world and the first in American Continent (1932) With P. Cossio & T. Padilla. Sondeos del Corazón. Tecnica. Semana Medica 28(2):79-82, 1932. With P. Cossio. Insuficiência cardíaca inaparente (Nueva entidad fisiopatologica). Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 1, 1934 Non-apparent cardiac insufficience (new physiopathologic entity) Described Post tachycardia syndrome or Cossio-Berconsky syndrome Syndrome post-tachycardique (Post tachycardia syndrome). American Heart Journal 33:270, 1947. Cossio-Berconsky-Gonzalez Sabatié-Vedoya sign. An engorgement of left jugular vein by expansion of aortic crook   
- [Ignacio Machado Brito](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-machado-brito/): Ignacio Aureliano Machado Brito, Brazilian geologist and invertebrate paleontologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 July 1938 – Araguari, Minas Gerais State 18 September 2001) Son of Paraiba governor Gratuliano da Costa Brito Authored over 100 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Mollusca Species Bulimulus sommeri 1974 with Palma Coilopoceras lucianoi 1969 with Oliveira Coilipoceras mauryae 1969 with Oliveira Coilopoceras sergipensis 1969 with Oliveira Cortana carvalhoi 1967 Cyclodontina coelhoi 1974 with Palma Elobiceras brasiliensis 1970 Fagesia multiplex 1971 Hoplitoides brasiliensis 1969 with Oliveira Hoplitoides duartei 1969 with Oliveira Leiostracus ferreirai 1974 with Palma Mammites sergipensis 1969 with Oliveira Metengonoceras oliveirai 1967 Neithea bahiaensis 1967 Pseudotissotia benderi 1969 with Oliveira Spathites simplex 1969 with Oliveira Vortidfex fluminensis 1967   Echinodermata Species Agassizia eugeniae 1974
- [Hulusi Behçet](https://neglectedscience.com/hulusi-behcet/): Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist (Istanbul 20 February 1889 – 08 March 1948) Authored 196 articles DESCRIBED New forms of the actinomycetes that caused superficial eczematous lesions on the skin (1926) Pin sign in leishmaniasis (Behçet sign) Fig dermatitis or dermatitis figus carica (1932) Behçet disease (1936)
- [Homi Jehangir Bhabha](https://neglectedscience.com/homi-jehangir-bhabha/): Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist (Mumbai 30 October 1909 – Mont Blanc, France 24 January 1966) ACHIEVEMENTS Derived a correct expression for positron scattering probability by electrons known as Bhabha scattering The Scattering of positrons by electrons with exchange on Dirac’s theory of the positron. Proc. Roy. Soc. London 154 A: 195, 1936. Explained with W. Heitler that showers were formed by the cascade production of gamma rays and positive and negative electron pairs  With W. Heitler. The passage of fast electrons and the theory of cosmic showers. Proc. Roy. Soc. London 159 A: 432-458, 1937.  Obtained Bhabha-Corben equations With
- [Hermann Burmeister](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-burmeister/): Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister, German-born Argentine naturalist (Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State 05 January 1807 – Buenos Aires 02 May 1892) Authored about 300 works Performed important studies on paleontology and entomology   Decribed spiracular valves in insects (1832) Created terms like Cirripedia, Atlantic Forest (1853), metaboles and ametaboles DESCRIBED TAXA   Plants   6 subfamilies and 2 species in Plant Kingdom   Vertebrates 2 genera (Metachirus & Lycalopex), 7 species and 5 subspecies in living Mammalia 4 valid genera in Aves (Coryphistera, Nothocrax, Pygarrhichas & Saltatricula) and many species   5 valid species in Reptilia 4 valid species in Amphibia 5 valid species in Fishes Invertebrates 205 genera in Coleoptera 54 genera
- [Herbert Franzoni Berla](https://neglectedscience.com/herbert-franzoni-berla/): Herbert Franzoni Berla, Brazilian acarologist and ornithologist (Rio de Janeiro 07 April 1912 – Rio de Janeiro 10 February 1985) From Swiss descent The one expert in Neotropical Analgesoidea in the world in his day DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Aves (Valid) Species Todirostrum tricolor 1946 Subspecies Touit surda ruficauda 1954 Acari Family Crypturoptidae 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Genera Allodectes 1963 with Gaud Allosathes 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Crypturalges 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Crypturolichus 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Dinatostomus 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Fainalges 1964 with Gaud Hemipterodectes 1959 Mesosathes 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Omphalosathes 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo Rhynchocaulus 1963 with Gaud Sternosathes 1972 with Gaud & Atyeo
- [Heraldo Antonio Britski](https://neglectedscience.com/heraldo-antonio-britski/): Heraldo Antonio Britski, Brazilian ichthyologist (Corumbataí, São Paulo State 29 August 1934 – DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA Valid Genera Aposturisoma 1983 (with Isbrücker, Nijssen & Ortega) Corumbataia 1997 Kalyptodoras 1990 (with Higuchi & Garavello) Megalocentor 1991 (with de Pinna) Merodoras 2007 (with Higuchi, Birindelli & Sousa) Nematocharax 1986 (with Weitzman & Menezes) Pseudotothyris 1984 (with Garavello) Schizolecis 1984 (with Garavello) Trichogenes 1983 (with Ortega) Species  71 (until 2019) Described 4 species of genus Trypanosoma (1988)
- [Henry Clifden Burnup](https://neglectedscience.com/henry-clifden-burnup/): Henry Clifden Burnup, English-born South African malacologist (Newcastle-on-Tyne 21 April 1852 – Maritzburg 23 April 1928) DESCRIBED SPECIES Afrodonta farquhari 1912 Curvella straminae Enodonta novemlamellaris 1912 Eunea ponsonbyi 1914 Euonyma natalensis 1905 Gittenedouardia mcbeaniana 1905 Gulella arnoldi 1925 Gulella chi 1926  Gulella contingens 1925 Gulella inhluzaniensis 1912 Gulella isipingoensis 1925 Gulella mfomgosiensis 1925 Gulella viae 1925 Pupa tomlini 1911 Sculptaria corona 1923 Sculptaria framesi 1923 Truncatellina perplexa 1908 HONORS Burnupena Iredale 1918 (Gastropoda Mollusca) Burnupia Walker 1912 (Gastropoda Mollusca)
- [Henrique Bergamin Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-bergamin-filho/): Henrique Bergamin Filho, Brazilian analytical chemist (Piracicaba, São Paulo 03 September 1931 – 14 December 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS Suggested and introduced improvements in flow injection analysis (i.e. solvents extraction & reagents immobilization)  Invented an injection device using a hypodermic syringe without a needle (1975) the 80 µl phase separation chamber for solvent extraction the commutator for the merging zones approach the hydrodynamic injector for introducing down to 0.6 µl of sample the chamber for on-line electrolytic dissolution of alloys coupled flow analysis injection with a flame atomic absorption spectrometer (1976; published in 1979) introduced resin minicolumns for on-line preconcentration/separation (Extracted from Krug&Zagatto,
- [Henrique Antonio Batista](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-antonio-batista/): Henrique Antonio Baptista, Brazilian military and naval engineer (Montevideo 05 May 1824 – Niterói 09 January 1899) Advocated the adoption of a length of 50 calibers for cannons intended to give a tense trajectory to their projectiles (universally adopted) Proposed improvements to Whitworth guns such as introduction of load guide and its suppression (1887) and breech block Perfected torpedo attack fuses and mortar-launched alumina projectiles Enunciated practical rules for finding the deviation of sea needles caused by iron FEATURED Invented a number of war artifacts such as Baptista system of naval trailer for gun repair (1857), as percussion fuzes (1874; patented
- [Harry Brailovsky](https://neglectedscience.com/harry-brailovsky/): Harry Urad Brailovsky Alperowitz, Jewish Mexican entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 30 May 1946 – His father (Moshe Brailovsky) was born in Ukraine and his mother (Evelyn Alperowitz) was from Lithuanian/Polish families Described at least 3 tribes, 155 genera and 1,000 new species in Hemiptera HONORS (Hemiptera) Harrisia Carvalho 1983 Brailovskyocoris Slater 1993 Brailovskiocoris Henry 1980 Brailovskysta Carvalho 1988 Brailovskylus Eger 2017 
- [Harry Blossfeld](https://neglectedscience.com/harry-blossfeld/): Harry Blossfeld, German-born Brazilian horticulturist, plant collector and botanical explorer (Postdam, Germany 27 February 1913 – São Paulo 07 July 1986) HONORS Herbert Medal, International Bulb Society (1979) Genus Blossfeldia Werdermann 1937 (Cactaceae)
- [H. Dick Brown](https://neglectedscience.com/h-dick-brown/): Hubert Dick Brown, South African entomologist (Pretoria 06 December 1930 – 14 December 2017) DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA TAXA Genera Afrotettix 1970 Armstrongium 2014 Atopotettix 1970 Damaracris 1972 Dirshacris 1959 Dirshia 1963 Dirshidium 1970 Hemiloryma 1973 Kalaharicus 1961 Karruhippus 1989 Limpopoacris 2011 Namatettix 1970 Occidentula 1967 Ovambohippus 1972 Subgenera Natalium 2017 Pondoidium 2013 Silvanidiella 2013 Silvanidium 2012 Species Acocksacris carpi 1962 Acocksacris geyeri 1962 Acocksacris karasensis 1962 Acocksacris namibensis 1962 Afrotettix fursti 1970 Afrotettix gariepensis 1970 Amblyphymus rubidus 1959 Aneuryphymus montanus 1960 Armstrongium pondoense 2014 Armstrongium viridipes 2014 Atopotettix megalocephalus 1970 Basutacris inflatifrons 1962 Basutacris minima 1962 Brownacris gariepensis 1972 Brownacris haackei 1972 Brownacris karruensis 1972 Brownacris namaquensis 1972 Brownacris robusta 1972 Damacris rupestris 1972 Devylderia acocksi 1960 Dirshacris aridus 1959 Dirshia abbreviata 1962 Dirshidium leucospilos 1970 Eneremius desertorus 1962 Eneremius punctifrons 1962 Eremidium (Eremidium) albaniense 2012 Eremidium (Eremidium) basuto 1962 Eremidium (Eremidium) manicaense 2012 Eremidium (Natalium) margaretae 2013 Eremidium
- [Guillermo Bosch Arana](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-bosch-arana/): Guillermo Santos Mariano Bosch Arana, Argentine orthopedic surgeon (Buenos Aires 01 December 1885 – Buenos Aires 04 July 1939) Authored over 100 works ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Described one case of amputation in the upper third of the femur regarded as unique in the world literature Bosch Arana method or cinematization of amputation stumps Bosch Arana method for treatment  of acute subungual hematoma Designed a kinematical prosthesis Nuova technica per le amputazioni cineplastica. Chir. Organ. Movim. 4:296, 1920 Nuovo ergografo per misurare la potenza dei motori cineplastici. La Clin. Chir. 5-6, 1920   Methode personnelle de cinematisation des inognons d’ amputations. J.Chir. 17:325-32, 1921 Eine
- [Guillermo Bodenbender](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-bodenbender/): Friedrich Wilhelm Bodenbender, German-born Argentine mineralogist, petrographer and stratigrapher (Meerholz, Hessen-Nassau 02 July 1857 – Cordoba 20 April 1941) Authored over 60 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Triasico y Terciario en la falda oriental de la Sierra Chica. Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cordoba (1929) Calchaqueño y los estratos de la Puna de Penck. Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cordoba 27(4):404-68, 1924 El nevado de Famatina (Provincia de La Rioja). Anales Min. Agric. Secc. Geol. Mineral. Miner. 16(1), 1922 Constitución geologica de la parte meridional de La Rioja y regiones limitrofes (Republica Argentina). Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien. Cordoba 19:1-220, 1911 Melafiros, basaltos y andesitas en la Sierra de
- [Guillermo Berraz](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-berraz/): Guillermo Berraz Gebhardt, Argentine chemist (Esperanza, Santa Fe Province 28 November 1899 – 10 April 1985) From Swiss ancestry Described a procedure for the separation of inorganic ions by the action of an electric current along a filter paper and suggested the term electrocromatography independently of Belgian H. Lecoq Electrocapillary analysis. Ann. Asoc. Quim. Argentina 31:96-7, 1943 & Anal. Inst. Invest. Cient. Technol. Univ. Nac. Litoral 12-3:67-9, 1943 DEVELOPED Viscosímetro rotativo electromagnetico (Rotary electromagnetic viscosimeter). Ann. Inst. Investig. Cient. Tecnol. 2:79-84, 1931  With E. Virasoro developed a new photo-electric pyrometer With Enrique Virasoro. Dispositivo para obtención de capas delgadas de selenio
- [Guido Beck](https://neglectedscience.com/guido-beck/): Guido Beck, Austrian physicist in Latin America (Reichenberg 29 August 1903 – Rio de Janeiro 21 October 1988) Worked in Argentina (1943-51; 1963-75) and Brazil (1951-63; 1975-88) First to explain the α-anomalous scattering  Demonstred that many features of photoelectric effect don’t mean evidence for the existence of photons independently of Wentzel (1927) With L. Horsley obtained a 1/v law independently of Fermi, Bethe, Perrin & Elsasser (1937) Described radioactive quantum field  One of the first to discuss the concept of quasiparticle momentum (1954) Proposed a new space-time (1953) With P.S.M. Macedo a new representation of the spin variables Gave the first exact solution
- [Gregorio Bondar](https://neglectedscience.com/gregorio-bondar/): Gregorio Grigorievich Bondar, Ukrainian-born Brazilian agronomist (Zolotonosha District, Poltava Governorate, Ukraine 18 November 1881 – Salvador 20 February 1959) Authored over 200 scientific works DESCRIBED  TAXA Plantae Attalea dahlgreniana 1957 Attalea pindobassu 1942 Syagrus ruschiana 1941 Syagrus vagans 1939 Coleoptera (35 genera) Abrachybaris 1946 (invalid) Ancylorhynchodes 1942 (invalid) Angelocentris 1949 Atorcus 1943 (invalid) Balanephayus 1941 (invalid) Balanepus 1941 (invalid) Baptobarinus 1949 Bignonibaris 1946 (invalid) Bondariella 1942 with Hustache Borgmeierius 1943 (invalid) Bromegeraeus 1942 Bromesia 1947 Cavibaris 1946 Coleobaris 1942 (invalid) Coleonertinus 1949 Dahlgrenia 1942 (invalid) Dioryserratus 1950 Euterpia 1942 Gladiosus 1949 (invalid) Glyptobaroides 1949 Gravatageraeus 1942 Heterosternus 1943 Hustachea 1942 Justus 1946
- [Graziela & Liberato Barroso](https://neglectedscience.com/graziela-liberato-barroso/): Graziela Maciel Barroso, Brazilian botanist (Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul State 11 April 1912 – Rio de Janeiro 05 May 2003) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA  Genera  Angelphytum 1980 Baccharidiopsis 1975 Brasilia 1962 Glaziovianthus 1947 Irwinia 1980 Monogereion 1971 (with Robinson) Morithamnus 1979 Praxeliopsis 1949 Schizosepala 1955 Species  101  HONORS Algrizea Proença & Nic Lughadha 2006 (Myrtaceae) Barrosoa King & Robinson 1971 (Asteraceae) Grazielia King & Robinson 1972 (Asteraceae) Grazielodendron Lima 1983 (Fabaceae) Grazielanthus Peixoto & Pereira-Moura 2008 (Monimiaceae) Honored at least in 25 species of plants   Millenium Botany Award, International Congress of Botany (1999) Married to botanist Liberato Joaquim Barroso (Fortaleza 15 August 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 09 October 1949), that described Schinus apparicianus 1947  and Dicranostyles falconiana 1945
- [Govind Dajiba Bhalerao](https://neglectedscience.com/govind-dajiba-bhalerao/): Govind Dajiba Bhalerao, Indian helminthologist (Wardha, Maharashtra State 10 December 1897 – 06 December 1948) GENERA DESCRIBED Trematoda Atrophacaecum 1940 Centrovitus 1926 Concinnus 1936 Conspicum 1936 Glossodiplostomoides 1942 Lubens 1936 Neocladorchis 1937 Pancreaticum 1936 Pneumotrema 1937 Skrjabinus 1936 Stunkardia 1927 Testifrondosa 1924 Testisaculus 1927 Travassosstomum 1938 Nematoda Bhalfilaria 1944 (with Krishna Rao) Varestrongylus 1932 Acanthocephala Leiperacanthus 1937 SPECIES At least 55 new helminth species HONORS (Trematoda) Bhaleraoia Srivastava 1948 Bhaleraopharynx Skrjabin & Antipen 1958
- [Gernot Bergold](https://neglectedscience.com/gernot-bergold/): Gernot Hildebrand Bergold, Austrian-born Venezuelan virologist (Oderfurt, Austria 19 June 1911 – Caracas 05 February 2003) Authored 85 works Described the rod-shaped nature of baculovirus virions (1943) First to demonstrate crystalline bodies of polyhedrosis under electron microscope (1947) First demonstrated yellow fever virus under electron microscope Identified and demonstrated the morphology of arenavirus group members such as Tacaribe, Junín, Machupo and others Demonstrated the ultrastructure of a number of arthropod-borne virus With F. Herold & J. Weihel isolated and demonstrated under electron microscope Rhabdoviruses in plants (1960) First demonstrated polyheder virus in electron microscopy in Isolation of the polyheder virus and the nature of polyheders.
- [Gerald Bedford](https://neglectedscience.com/gerald-bedford/): Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford, English-born South African entomologist (May 1891 – 28 January 1938) DESCRIBED GENERA Acari Nuttalliella 1931 Anoplura Bathyergicola 1929 Lemurphthirus 1927 Neolingognathus 1920 Mallophaga Allomenopon 1930 Ardeiphilus 1939 Austromenopon 1939 Bovidoecus 1929 Bucerophagus 1929 Cebidicola 1936 Ciconiphilus 1939 Colilipeurus 1930 Dasyonyx 1932 Eucolpocephalum 1930 Falcolipeurus 1931 Felicinia 1929 Harrisoniella 1929 Lorisicola 1936 Naubates 1930 Neomenopon 1920 Otidoecus 1931 Otilipeurus 1931 Plegadiphilus 1939 Procavicola 1932 Procaviphilus 1932 Protelicola 1932 Psittacomenopon 1930 Suricatoecus 1932 Tricholipeurus 1929 HONORS Bedfordiella Thompson 1937 (Phthiraptera)
- [George Meredith Branch](https://neglectedscience.com/george-meredith-branch/): George Meredith Branch, South African marine ecologist (Salisbury, Zimbabwe 25 September 1942 – CONTRIBUTIONS Developed a new concept related to the metabolic rate of intertidal organisms, the concept of “conservers” versus “exploiters” contrasting species which have low metabolic rates and thereby conserve energy with those that appear profligate in their metabolic rates With R.C. Newell. The influence of temperature on the maintenance of metabolic energy balance in marine invertebrates. Adv. Marine Biol. 17:329-96, 1980 First demonstration of feeding co-operatively in groups in a starfish With W.O. Blankley. Cooperative prey capture and unusual brooding habits of Anasterias rupicola (Verrill) (Asteroidea) at Sub-Antarctic Marion Island.
- [Fritz Berndt](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-berndt/): Fritz Berndt, German-born Bolivian mineralogist (14 November 1916 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES With P. Ramdohr & F. Ahlfeld. Angelellit, ein naturliches triklines Eisen-Arsenat, 2Fe2O3-As2O5. Neues Jahrb. f. Miner. Monats.p.145-51, 1959 (angelellite) With G. Moh. Two new natural tin sulfides, Sn2S3 and SnS2. Neues Jahrb. f. Miner. Monats.p.94-5, 1964  (ottemannite) HONORS Berndtite Moh 1964 (Mineral)
- [Friedrich Gustav Brieger](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-gustav-brieger/): Friedrich Gustav Brieger, German-born Brazilian plant geneticist (Breslau 11 October 1900 – Bad Dürrheim, Baden-Württemberg State 06 February 1985) Authored about 200 scientific works Authored The genetic basis of heterosis in maize. Genetics 35:420-45, 1950 STATISTICS Developed Brieger error ratio theta or theta test, a statistical test much similar to Snedecor F test (1946) Proposed index of variance Coeficiente de variação e índice de variança. Bragantia 2(9): 313-31, 1942 Developed an order test to permit a statistical analysis in cases where the rank correlation coefficient cannot be applied With S. Moreira & Z. Leme. Estudo sobre o melhoramento da laranja Bahia
- [Frederico Adolfo Simões Barbosa](https://neglectedscience.com/frederico-adolfo-simoes-barbosa/): Frederico Adolfo Simões Barbosa, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Recife 27 July 1916 – Recife 08 March 2004) ACHIEVEMENTS Published 220 scientific works Specialized in schistosomal epidemiology World Health Organization (WHO) expert on parasitary diseases (1960-70)  Reported interspecific competition in mollusks demonstrating species substitution in schistosomiasis (1973) Developed a quantitative coprological method for diagnosing schistosomiasis in Morbidade na Esquistossomose. Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Recife (1965)   Método para contagem de ovos de Schistosoma nas fezes. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 11(6):442-3, 1969A method for counting schistosome eggs in feces. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. 11(4):285-9, 1969 With J.M. Barbosa
- [Freddy Ba Hli](https://neglectedscience.com/freddy-ba-hli/): Freddy Ba Hli, Burmese electrical engineer (Moulmein, Mon Region 28 June 1922 – Sydney, Australia 01 July 2015) Invented a general method of time domain network synthesis for electric design communications networks (1953) Patented bamboo hardbd. manufacture  Showed a way of harnessing gravity to provide a powerful drive for space ships to accelerate them up to almost the speed of light (1958) A new solar cooker for the utilization of solar energy in Burma. J. Burma Research Soc. 38:107-11, 1955  
- [Francisco Saturnino Rodrigues de Brito](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-saturnino-rodrigues-de-brito/): Francisco Saturnino Rodrigues de Brito, Brazilian sanitary engineer (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 14 July 1864 – Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State 10 March 1929) ACHIEVEMENTS   Built innovative concrete bridges (1906-7) Developed a economic model of fluxible reservoir known as fluxible reservoir Saturnino de Brito (1900), used in Europe Continent Invented telehydrodynamics system for sewerage, presented in book Technologie Sanitaire Invented many devices used in water supply and sewerage systems, developing and introducing many improvements in sanitary apparatuses such as flexible siphon, radial junction, piece of radial conection, grease trap, self-ventilated siphons, between others Set up a system of districtal
- [Francisco Bruno Lobo](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-bruno-lobo/): Francisco Alipio Bruno Lobo, Brazilian histologist (22 February 1910 – 18 February 1988) Brother of virologist Manoel Bruno Lobo ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a new technique for impregnate nervous system (1937). Sobre uma nova técnica de impregnação do sistema nervoso. Patologia Geral 22:4-7, 1937 Developed a new reaction for premature diagnosis of pregnancy    Ensaio sobre uma nova reação para o diagnóstico precoce de gravidez. Annaes Bras. Ginecol. 1:267-73, 1936 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W. Berardinelli. Sobre os glomus de Masson. Communication to Medicine & Surgery Society of Rio de Janeiro. 12 December 1938.  Os glomus neuro-vasculares do tegumento humano. Thesis. Rio de Janeiro,
- [Francisco Bolivar Zapata](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-bolivar-zapata/): Francisco Gonzalo Bolívar Zapata, Mexican molecular biologist and biotechnologist (Ciudad de Mexico 07 March 1948 – Great grandson of entomologist Ignacio Bolívar and grandson of Candido Bolívar Authored over 240 works (over 16,000 citations) Regarded as a world pioneer on genetic isolation, characterization and manipulation of micro-organisms Isolated, characterized and manipulated genes of basic and industrial purposes Under the guidance of Herbert Boyer, designed and developed pBR322 plasmid (the multipurpose cloning vehicle) worldwide used With H. Boyer et al. first to demonstrate that it was possible to express mammalian proteins (insulin and somatostatin) in bacteria using recombinant DNA technology (1977-9) Proposed
- [Fortunato Blancas](https://neglectedscience.com/fortunato-blancas/): Fortunato Blancas Sanchez, Peruvian entomologist (Acolla, Jauja Province 21 April 1919 – Lima 02 September 1988) DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES Lutzomyia caballeroi 1989 with Caceres & Galati Phlebotomus bicornutus 1960  Phlebotomus gorbitzi 1960  HONORS Subgenus Blancasmyia 1995 (Diptera)
- [Felix Bacigalupo](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-bacigalupo/): Felix Antonio Bacigalupo Palomino, Peruvian agronomist (Lima 21 February 1927 – Developed a cotton seed flour and improved fish flour for human consumption Innovated on the utilization of potato, sweet potato and maize in pastamaking and breadmaking   INVENTIONS An automatic machine for feeding of milk cows in according to their vital requirements A slide rule for measuring even animal feeding  A food processor for human consumption that uses gases and eolic power A desaponifier of quinoa seeds producing quinoa flour and flakes
- [Federico Bonet](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-bonet/): Federico Bonet Marco, Spanish-born Mexican entomologist, speleologist and palaeontologist (Madrid 18 October 1906 – Ciudad de Mexico 10 June 1980) DESCRIBED GENERA Protura Bolivaridia 1942 Silvestridia 1942 Fossil Protozoa Calcisphaerula 1956 Colomiella 1956 Fossil Ostracoda Microcalamoides 1956 Collembola Acanthisotoma 1942 Acherontides 1945 Folsomiella 1930 Harlomillsia 1944 Mesogastrura 1930 Orchesellides 1930 Pachytullbergia 1947 Pararrhopalites 1947 (with Tellez) Parasinella 1934 Parasira 1930 Sinelloides 1942 Spelaeogastrura 1945 Tafallia 1946 HONORS Bonetiella Rzedowski 1957 (Anacardiaceae) Bonetocardiella Dufour 1968 (Fossil Protozoa) Bonetesmus Chamberlin 1942 (Myriapoda) Bonetogastrura Thibaud 1974 (Collembola) Bonetrura Christiansen & Bellinger 1980 (Collembola)
- [Federico Benetti](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-benetti/): Federico José Benetti Rossi, Argentine cardiosurgeon (Rosario, Santa Fe Province 29 November 1947 – Pioneered and developed the off pump coronary surgery (1978) Developed a technique for exclusion of the interventriucular septum (1986) Invented MIDCAB operation (1994; patented in 1999), being regarded as one of the founders of minimally invasive cardiac surgery with the North-Americans Richard M. Ferrari & Charles S. Taylor Developed most of the technology used today for off pump coronary surgery (1995) Performed a mitral valve replacement using 3D minimally invasive for the first time in the world (1996) Performed the aortic valve surgery through 2 or 3 intercostal
- [Everardo Eels Blanchard](https://neglectedscience.com/everardo-eels-blanchard/): Everardo Eels Blanchard, Argentine entomologist ( Buenos Aires 1899 – Buenos Aires 24 November 1971) DESCRIBED GENERA 82 Diptera 27 Hymenoptera 6 Hemiptera HONORS Blanchardaphis Ortego, Nieto Nafria & Mier Durante 1998 (Hemiptera) Blanchardiscus De Santis 1964 (Hymenoptera)   Noblanchardia Ghesquiere 1946 (Hymenoptera)
- [Esteban Boltovskoy](https://neglectedscience.com/esteban-boltovskoy/): Esteban Boltovskoy, Argentine oceanographer and micropalaeontologist (Warsaw 26 January 1912 – Buenos Aires 04 September 1997) From Russian ancestry ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 160 papers and 5 books  Provided first detailed hydrological schemes of surface circulation and water mixing processes in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean foraminifers indicators based in 1960s (later confirmed) Proposed filter method for the treatment of plankton samples Methods for sorting of foraminifera from plankton samples. Journal of Paleontology 40(5):1244-6, 1966 With S.B. Kotzian & F.L. Pedrozo. Some new techniques for the preparation and illustration of Polycystina (Radiolaria). Micropaleontology 29(4):382-90, 1983 Organized one of the largest Foraminifera collection in the
- [Esteban Bajaja](https://neglectedscience.com/esteban-bajaja/): Esteban Bajaja, Argentine radio astronomer (Santa Fe 07 October 1931 – 12 June 2015) Observed HII regions in the Southern Hemisphere With J. Pradas, J. Kerp, P.M.W. Kalberla, E.M. Arnal, R. Morras & W.G.L. Poppel. X-raying the galactic interstellar medium: first all-sky correlation of X-ray and HI data (2004) With W.G.L. Poppel & R. Morras. High velocity clouds: a model to explain their spatial distribution (1987) The short spacings problem in correlation interferometers and a procedure for solving it. Astrop. Space Science Library 76:59, 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E.M. Berkhuijsen & R. Beck. Co observations of a region strongly polarized radio-continuum
- [Erica Helena Buckup](https://neglectedscience.com/erica-helena-buckup/): Erica Helena Wortmann Buckup, Brazilian arachnologist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 July 1934 – DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA Genus Neopisinus 2011 with Marques & Rodrigues Species Achaearanea inops 1991 with Marques Achaearanea maraca 1991 with Marques Achaearanaea pydanieli 1991 with Marques Alpaida arvoredoi 2001 with Rodrigues Alpaida caramba 2001 with Rodrigues Cerocida ducke 1989 with Marques Chrosiotes perfidus 1997 with Marques Chrosiotes venturosus 1997 with Marques Chrysso calima 1992 with Marques   Chrysso rubrovittata 1996 with Marques Chrysso sulcata 1996 with Marques Cryptachaea amazonas 2012 with Marques & Rodrigues Cryptachaea bonaldoi 2010 with Marques & Rodrigues Cryptachaea brescoviti 2010 with Marques & Rodrigues Cryptachaea dalana 1991 with Marques Cryptachaea dea 2006 with Marques Cryptachaea digitus 2006 with Marques Cryptachaea
- [Enrique Beltrán Castillo](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-beltran-castillo/): Enrique Beltrán Castillo, Mexican protozoologist and conservationist (Ciudad de Mexico 26 April 1903 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 October 1994) Problemas en el cultivo de los tripansomatídeos y presentación de un nuevo medio esterilizable al autoclave. Gac. Med. Mex. 82(4):327-30, 1952 Papers in Science With L. Vargas. Culex quinquefasciatus, a new vector of Plasmodium gallinaceum. Science 94:389-90, 1941 The correct names of the parasites in human malaria. Science 100:384-5, 1944 DESCRIBED PROTOZOAN SPECIES Gruberia calkinsi 1933 Opalina hylaxena 1925 Zelleriella bolivari 1941 HONORS Enriquebeltrania Rzedowski 1980 (Euphorbiaceae) Subg. Beltranmyia Vargas 1953 (Diptera) LINKS http://repositorio.fciencias.unam.mx:8080/jspui/bitstream/11154/143236/1/30VCurriculumVitae.pdf (Curriculum Vitae)
- [Enrique Balech Capdeville](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-balech-capdeville/): Enrique Balech Capdeville, Argentine planktologist and oceanographer (Telen, La Pampa 17 August 1912 – Necochea, Buenos Aires 26 August 2007) From French parents ACHIEVEMENTS Described surface currents in southwestern Atlantic based on biogeographic studies of dinoflagellates later confirmed    Nuevas contribuciones a los esquemas de circulación oceânica frente a La Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 37(2);159-66, 1965.   Regarded as a world authority in Dinophyceae Modified Kofoid’s plate tabulation system First to recognize heterogeneity of genus Gonyaulax and proved the existence of a sulcus in Podolampas.   DESCRIBED DINOPHYCEAE/DINOFLAGELLATA TAXA Families Protoperidiniaceae 1988 Thecadiniaceae 1956 Genera Adenoides 1956 Clevea 1948 Ensiculifera 1967 Fragilidinium 1959 Neobursaridium 1941 Oblea 1964 Plagiodinium 1993 with Faust Prodinophysis 1943 Pseudometacylis 1968 Roscoffia 1956 Schuettiella 1988
- [Ennio Cosimo Damião Barbato](https://neglectedscience.com/ennio-cosimo-damiao-barbato/): Ennio Cosimo Damião Barbato, Brazilian cardiologist (São Paulo 23 June 1919 – São Paulo 22 March 1966) Authored about 60 works Worked in Instituto de Cardiologia (Mexico) and Michigan University (USA) ACHIEVEMENTS Attempted determining blood temperature in cardiac cavities, used in some European clinics. First to study intracavitary electric potentials Published with eminence Electrocardiographic Epicardic Mapping by direct electrodes in Circulation review.  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Zarco Caramelli. Significado Clínico da Nomenclatura Eletrocardiográfica, 1962 (book). A study on the ventricular excitation of the human heart. I-The spread of the stimulus in the normal heart. IV Congresso Interam. Cardiol. Buenos Aires, 1952.   Pneumonia
- [Emilio Henrique Baumgart](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-henrique-baumgart/): Emilio Henrique Baumgart, Brazilian civil engineer (Blumenau, Santa Catarina State 25 June 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 09 Oct 1943) Son of German father ACHIEVEMENTS Created sucessive fluctuactions system applied to building bridges and related in reinforced concrete (1930); the process gained international fame and was applied later to Alveley bridge, England (1937) Built A Noite edifice (Rio de Janeiro), world’s highest building in reinforced concrete of its day (1931) and the  Emilio Baumgart bridge (Santa Catarina), the world’s largest free span of this day in straight truss of full soul Built the Railway bridge on Mucuri river, world Record for straight beam for this
- [Emil Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/emil-bose/): Emil Bose (Boese), German-born Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Hamburg 08 June 1868 – Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas State 08 November 1927) With E. Wittich first to describe eugeosynclinal sequence (1913) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Mollusca Genera Adkinsia 1928 Budaiceras 1928 Coahuilites 1928 Marathonites 1917 Perrinites 1917 Plesioptygmatis 1906 Prothalassoceras 1917 Uddenites 1917 Vidrioceras 1917 Species At least 146 Brachiopoda Genera Pseudokingena 1900 with Schlosser Rhynchonellopsis 1894 Species 5 HONORS (Mollusca) Boesites Miller & Furnish 1940 Emilites Ruzhencev 1938 Subg. Boesites Young 1968 LINKS https://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/15-1/(1)Seibertz_1.pdf
- [Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/angelo-moreira-da-costa-lima/): Angelo Moreira da Costa Lima, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 June 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1964) World authority on Curculionidae Coleoptera Authored 344 works between them Insetos do Brasil (Insects of Brazil) that earned him international reputation (1939-62) With H. Aragão showed that yellow fever could be transmitted mosquito to mosquito  With H. Aragão performed studies about behavior of yellow fever virus in mosquito e its transmissibility requirements DESCRIBED GENERA Coleoptera Eusemio 1950 Geniatosoma 1940 Malacobius 1920 Melzerella 1931 Microscapus 1950 Paranaenomus 1914 Plaumanniola 1962 Pseudoecitoxenia 1932 Spermophthorus 1929 Diptera Microlynchia 1915 with Lutz & Neiva Neohexachaeta 1953 Paratrichobius 1921 Pintomyia 1932 Pseudophorellia 1934 Pseudopolionota 1935 Pseudostrebla 1921  Hemiptera Neoneella 1942 Penidoia 1940 Pessoaia 1940 Phacosemoides 1962
- [Angel Lulio Cabrera](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-lulio-cabrera/): Angel Lulio Cabrera Aguado, Spanish-born Argentine botanist and phytogeographer (Madrid 19 October 1908 – La Plata 08 July 1999) Son of zoologist and paleontologist Angel Cabrera y Latorre Authored about 250 works DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Actinoseris 1970 Amboroa 1956 Arnaldoa 1962 Aylacophora 1953 Baccharidastrum 1937 Chersodoma 1946 with Phil. Chiliotrichiopsis 1937  Chucoa 1955  Hoehnephytum 1950 Huarpea 1951 Liabellum 1954 Microlabium 1955 Neojeffreya 1978 Paleaepappus 1969 Phyllochidium 1937 Pseudobaccharis 1944 Pseudogynoxys 1950 Subgenus Archidasyphyllum 1959 Sections Andina 1949 Chenopodioides 1949 Dichroa 1950 Diclini 1939 Laevia 1989 Lanatocaulon 1978 with Ragonese Microstemon 1989 Moquiniastrum 1971 Myriocephalus 1949 Oreophyton 1949 Otites 1949 Pluricephali 1939 Repentes 1939 Xerophili 1939 Species About 500 Subspecies/varieties/forms About 100 HONORS (Asteraceae) Cabreriella Cuatrecasas 1980 Neocabreria King & Robinson 1972 Angelphytum  Barroso 1980 Lulia  Zardini 1980  Cabreraea Bonifacino 2009
- [Angel Cabrera y Latorre](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-cabrera-y-latorre/): Angel Cabrera y Latorre, Spanish-born Argentine zoologist and paleontologist  (Madrid 19 February 1879 – La Plata 07 July 1960) ACHIEVEMENTS World authority on mammalogy and zoological nomenclature  Created the term mastozoology for defining mammalian research (1922) Formulated the law of ecological incompatibility DESCRIBED One genus (Atelocynus 1940), 10 species and 31 subspecies in Living Mammalia (only valid taxa) The avian subspecie Galerida theklae aguirrei 1922 Fossil Mammalia  Aspidocalyptus 1939 Brandmayria 1936 Chasicotherium 1931 with Kraglievich Coscinocercus 1939 Cullinia 1931 with Kraglievich Elassotherium 1939 Epecuenia 1939 Exaeretodon 1943 Habromeryx 1929 Hemixotodon 1931 with Kraglievich Lycopsis 1927 Macrauchenidia 1939 Megatheridium 1929 Morenocetus 1926 Notiomastodon 1929 Oreailurus 1940 Paratrigodon 1931 with Kraglievich Phlyctaenopyga 1944 Phoberodon 1926 Typotheriopsis 1931 with Kraglievich Other fossil genera Gyrolepidoides 1944 & Haplospondylus 1927 (Fishes) Pelorocephalus 1944 (Amphibia)
- [Andre Mauricio Vieira de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/andre-mauricio-vieira-de-carvalho/): André Maurício Vieira de Carvalho, Brazilian botanist and plant collector (Ilhéus, Bahia State 05 October 1951 – Ilhéus, Bahia State 16 November 2002) From French and German ancestry DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Section Pseudecastaphyllum 1997 Species Dalbergia elegans 1997 Dalbergia grandistipula 1997 Dalbergia guttembergi 1997 Zollernia magnifica 1993 with Barneby Zollernia modesta 1993 with Barneby SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.M. Thomas, A.M. Amorim, J. Garrison & A.L. Arbelaez. Plant endemism in two forests in Southern Bahia, Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 7:311-22, 2008 With A.M. Amorim, W.M. Thomas & J.G. Jardim. Floristics of the Una Biological Reserve, Bahia, Brazil. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 100:67-146, 2008 With W.M. Thomas, A.M. Amorim,
- [Ana Maria Cetto](https://neglectedscience.com/ana-maria-cetto/): Ana María Cetto Kramis, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 18 February 1946 – From German father and Swiss-descent mother Authored 110 papers and 11 books With L. de la Peña developed a formalism in stochastic quantum mechanism that properly distinguishes classical from quantum stochastic processes Established various quantum effects of the zero-point field Made central contributions to stochastic electrodynamics being invited to write the book The Quantum Dice: An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics (1996) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (with L. de la Peña) With A. Valdés Hernandez. Quantum behavior derived as an essentially stochastic phenomenon. Phys. Scripta  T151 (2012) With A. Valdés Hernandez. Quantization as
- [Alvaro Santos Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-santos-costa/): Álvaro Santos Costa, Brazilian plant pathologist (Sorocaba, São Paulo State 09 January 1912 –Campinas, São Paulo State 18 August 1998) ACHIEVEMENTS Considered as one of leading plant virologists in the world Authored about 100 papers Performed classical and pioneer studies on survey, identification, characterization and epidemiological studies of viruses affecting horticultural crops Identified carrot motley dwarf virus Described bean golden mosaic disease (1965) Described Colletotrichum gossypii South var. cephalosporioides, the fungus that causes ramulosis disease of cotton (1935-6) Described cassava vein mosaic disease (1940) Described tomato yellow top virus (1949) Described Brazilian tomato curly top vírus (1949) with C.W. Bennett With C.W. Bennett described Euphorbia mosaic bigeminivirus
- [Aloysio de Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/aloysio-de-castro/): Aloysio de Castro, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 14 June 1881 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1959) Wrote about 50 pieces for voice and piano ACHIEVEMENTS First to use cinematography on lateral gait Used flank walk as a sign of ataxia Described the deviation of position of upper limbs during gait in athetosis First to use cinematography on runoff gait in beribéri Demonstrated that in some certain types of paralysia agitans there is a similarity with rhizomelic spondylosis (1911) independently from Tilne Pointed out the sign of the ocular sprocket in the side excursions of Parkinson’s syndrome Pointed out the
- [Alipio Correa Netto](https://neglectedscience.com/alipio-correa-netto/): Alipio Correa Netto, Brazilian thoracic surgeon (Cataguazes, Minas Gerais State 14 January 1898 – São Paulo 24 May 1988) ACHIEVEMENTS First to observe cases of cardiac thyreotoxicosis Distinguished between achalasia in megacolon of pylorus in adults and hypertrophic stenosis from newborn babies Idealized and realized the first rational rectosigmoidectomy Um caso de megacólon curado pela amputação perineal intra-esfincteriana do reto. Rev. Med. São Paulo 24: 29-39, 1940.   Proposed sphincterotomy of the pelvirectal and internal anal sphincters With E. Etzel. Le megaesophage et le megacolon devant la theorie de l’achalasie. Etude Clinique et anatomopathologic. Revista Sudamericana de Medicina y Cirurgia 5:395-421, 1934. Conceived Duhamel-Haddad
- [Alfredo Calcagno](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-calcagno/): Alfredo Domingo Calcagno Difilippi, Argentine psycho-pedagogue (Mercedes, Buenos Aires 26 October 1891 – 09 March 1962) Devised a number of apparatuses and dispositifs for anthropological and psychological studies such as hafiestesiômetro (for measuring tactile acuity) and axiestesiômetro (for measuring space muscle perception) With Mira López created axioesterômetro Described cranioencephalograph technique in Nuevos instrumentos de antropometria. Descripción y técnica del cráneo-encefalógrafo (1918)
- [Alfred Lawrence Capener](https://neglectedscience.com/alfred-lawrence-capener/): Alfred Lawrence Capener, South African entomologist (fl.1938-73) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Anchonastes 1972 Anchonobelus 1954 Anchonomones 1972 Aurinotus 1968 Bleccia 1968 Centrolobus 1968 Centrotobelus 1952 Colophorina 1973 Cornutobelus 1954 Daconotus 1968 Dagonotus 1972 Distantobelus 1954 Dukeobelus 1952 Farcicaudia 1968 Flexanotus 1968 Foliatrotus 1953 Izzardiana 1952 Jacobiana 1968 Joveriana 1968 Kallicrates 1968 Lanceonotus 1968 Leprechaunus 1950 Leptoceps 1954 Matonotus 1954 Menthogonus 1968 Pennavena 1968 Rachinotus 1968 Rexicornia 1968 Schoutedenotus 1954 Stalobelus 1954 Streonus 1968 Tyrannotus 1968 Vecranotus 1968 Yaponotus 1953 Zanzia 1968 Species About 175 HONORS Capenariana Boulard 1976 (Hemiptera) Capeneralus Deitz 1983 (Hemiptera) Capeneria Cobos 1953 (Coleoptera)
- [Alexandre Pinto Corrado](https://neglectedscience.com/alexandre-pinto-corrado/): Alexandre Pinto Corrado, Brazilian neuropharmacologist (01 January 1930 – Studied physiopathological implications of nociceptive responses induced by bradykinin With F.G. Graeff characterized resulting behavioral, autonomic and analgesic effects of intracerebroventricular application of bradykinin With A.O. Ramos & C.T. Escobar clarified the mechanism of potentiation caused by antibiotics amino glycosides to curare-induced neuromuscular block With O. Vital Brazil discovered neuromuscular action of antibiotics and the blocking mechanism of streptomycin in high doses (1957)
- [Alcides Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/alcides-carvalho/): Alcides Carvalho, Brazilian agronomist and plant geneticist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 20 September 1913 – Campinas, São Paulo State 18 April 1993) ACHIEVEMENTS Published 272 scientific papers about Coffea sp. Studied genetic improvement of coffee plant, developed varieties with more productivity in various environments and resistant to agricultural pests With M.N. Rhoades. A função e a estrutura dos plastídeos das células parenquimatosas que envolvem os feixes vasculares da folha do milho. Bragantia 6:189-202, 1946 With C.A. Krug, J.E.T. Mendes & A. Carvalho. A new type of coffee. Bragantia 10(1):11-25, 1950  With C. A. Krug & J.E.T. Mendes found many new varieties of coffee
- [Alceu Lemos de Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/alceu-lemos-de-castro/): Alceu Lemos de Castro, Brazilian carcinologist (Rio de Janeiro 13 November 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 27 September 1988) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Family Pudeoniscidae 1973 Genera Amazoniscus 1967 Benthanoides 1958 Benthanoscia 1958 Brasiloniscus 1973 Fritzianira 1977 (with Brasil Lima) Hemicepon 1980 (with Brasil Lima) Hileioniscus 1967 Microsphaeroniscus 1985 Paracymothoa 1955 Parischioscia 1967 Species At least 75 Described a dermapteran species Spongiphora moreirai 1947 with Machado HONORS Castrione Brasil Lima 1980 (Crustacea)
- [Alberto Pedro Calderón](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-pedro-calderon/): Alberto Pedro Calderón Cores, US / Argentine mathematician (Mendoza 14 September 1920 – Chicago 16 April 1998) Authored about 80 papers With Antoni Zygmund formulated the singular integrals and invented techniques that became  standard tools in harmonic analysis  Created pseudodifferential calculus Introduced Lipschitz spaces and parabolic Hp spaces Introduced the inverse conductivity problem With Aronszajn & Smith introduced Bessel potential operators First to obtain general theorems of unicity for equations systems in partial derivatives  With C.P. Calderón. A representation formula and its applications to singular integrals With R. Panzone developed the theory of Banach space valued singular integrals With A.I. Benedek &
- [Alberto Coy Otero](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-coy-otero/): Alberto Jesús Coy Otero, Cuban helminthologist (13 November 1942 – 28 November 2002) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Blaberinema 1988 with Garcia Carnoyachaeta 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Freitasia 1968 with Barus Jibacoa 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Turquinella 1989 Typhlopsia 1978 with Barus Species Abbreviata bahamensis 1990 with Moravec & Barus Abbreviata baracoa 1966 with Barus Aoruroides rosario 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Aoruroides travassosi 1993 with Garcia & Alvarez Aorurus fontenlai 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Aorurus guantanamo 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Aplectana rysavyi 1969 with Barus Blaberinema lacrimosus 1998 with Garcia Carnoya cubitas 1998 with Garcia & Ventosa Carnoya haiti 2001 with Garcia & Alvarez Carnoyachaeta singularis 1995 with Garcia & Alvarez Chiorchis groshafti 1989 Clementeia ariguanabo 1993
- [Alberto Ciancia](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-ciancia/): Alberto Osvaldo Ciancia Rochon, Argentine ophthalmologist (Puán, Buenos Aires Province 26 January 1924 – Buenos Aires 28 August 2021) Described Ciancia syndrome La esotropia con limitación de la abducción en el lactante. Arch. Oftalm. Buenos Aires 26:207, 1962 La esotropia em la lactante, diagnóstico y tratamiento. Arch. Chil. Ophth. 9:117, 1962 TECHNIQUES/OTHERS Proposed recession of the superior oblique muscles to correct A patterns of up to 35 PD, a technique used universally With J. Prieto Díaz. Retroceso del oblicuo superior (1970) A technique for en Z elongation of upper oblique tendon (1977) With N. Melek. A new treatment of anomalous correspondence
- [Alberto Carcelles](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-carcelles/): Alberto R. Carcelles, Argentine malacologist (Buenos Aires 18 July 1897 – Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province 23 January 1977) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Adelphotectonica uruguaya 1953 Cancilla larranagai 1947 Fuegotrophon amettei 1946 Fusinus frenguellii 1953  Minicymbiola corderoi 1953 Phalium iheringi 1953 Pleurotomella aguayoi 1953 Provocator corderoi 1947 Semicassis labiata iheringi 1953 Solariella patriae 1953 Terebra doellojuradoi 1953  Trophon clenchi 1953 HONORS Subgenus Carcellesia Perez Farfante 1952 (Mollusca Gastropoda)
- [Adelmar Faria Coimbra Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/adelmar-faria-coimbra-filho/): Adelmar Faria Coimbra Filho, Brazilian primatologist (Fortaleza 04 June 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 27 June 2016) Authored over 200 works Gained international renown for his studies on primates conservation mainly lion tamarins Founded the Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro, the world’s first institute to aim primarily primates conservation (1975) First to breed Lion tamarins in captivity Observed the habit of tree-gouging and gum-eating among the marmosets of Brazil Aspectos inéditos do comportamento de saguis do gênero Callithrix (Callithricidae, Primates). Rev. Bras. Biol. 32(4):505-12, 1972 With R. A. Mittermeier. Exudate-eating and tree-gouging in marmosets. Nature 262:630, 1976 Showed the inversion of reproductive phases
- [Abelardo Cantu Chapa](https://neglectedscience.com/abelardo-cantu-chapa/): Abelardo B. Cantu-Chapa, Mexican paleontologist and biostratigrapher (China, Nuevo León State 12 January 1935 – DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Acevedites 1967 Bejucoceras 1976 Caseyella 1976 Chignahuapites 2009 Chinamecaceras 2006 Colladites 1967 Cuetzalanites 2009 Djanelidzeites 2012 Eopaquiericeras 2006 Esiaticomanites 2018 with Zarazua, Sanchez & Morales Fierrites 1993 Galeanites 1998 Garcites 2001 Huastecoceras 1976 Kurdistanites 2012 Mazatepites 1967 Misantlites 2009 Novoleonites 1992 Parrasites 2009 Parvaites 2009 Peñaceras 1963 Peruvites 2012 Puebliceras 1993 Salinites 1968 Satoites 1966 Suarites 1967 Submazapilites 1963 Taraisites 1966 Veracruciceras 2006 Wiedmannites 2009 Species Acevedites acevedense 1967 Aegocrioceras eguiluzi 2009 Ataxioceras (Ataxioceras) lopeztichae 1991 Bejucoceras simplecostatum 1976  Bochianites thieuloidis 1976 Capeloites lajense 2009 Capeloites neoleonense 2001 Capeloites peyroullesense 2009 Chignahuapites chignahuapense 1990 Chinamecaceras maldonadoi 2006 Coahuilites bassae 1963 Coahuilites obregoni 1963 Cuetzalanites tonatiuhoides 2009 Dufrenoyia huastecensis 1963 Durangites (Parrasiella) galeanense 1968 Durangites juanense 1968 Durangites (Parrasiella) latiumbilicatum 1968 Durangites zigzagcostatus 2006 Eopaquiericeras pazi 2006 Eopaquiericeras peraltai 2006 Esiaticomanites rursiconstricta 2018 with
- [Abel Chifflet](https://neglectedscience.com/abel-chifflet/): Abel Guillermo Chifflet Gramatica, Uruguayan surgeon (Mercedes, Soriano Departament 18 April 1904 – 1969) From Italian and French descent Authored over 150 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Bases anatômicas para a cirurgia do câncer do reto. Rev. Bras. Cir. 37:232, 1959 With W. Suiffet. Supuración metastásica en la equinococcosis multiples. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 23:988, 1958 Anatomia del contenido pelviano masculino. Cirurgia del recto (1956) La exploración del colédoco en la colecistitis litiasica. Rev. Cir. Uruguay 26(3):405-12, 1955 Entrada quirúrgica entre el recto y la vejiga. Rev. Cir. Uruguay 26(1):9-21, 1955 La cirurgia de la diverticulitis del sigmoide. Dic. Med. Uruguay 21:602, 1955
- [Zhidong Bai](https://neglectedscience.com/zhidong-bai/): Zhidong Bai, Chinese mathematician (Laoting County, Hebei Province 27 November 1943 – Recognized as a world leading expert in random matrix theory and high-dimensional statistics Authored over 200 research papers With Y.Q. Yin & P.R. Krishnaiah showed that the largest eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix tends to a limit under certain conditions when both the number of variables and the sample size tend to infinity (1988) ACHIEVEMENTS/SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.C. Hui, D.D. Jiang, W.K. Wong, Z.Z.Zhu & S.R. Zheng. A new test of multivariate nonlinear casuality (2018) With G.M. Pan & Y.Q. Qin. A central limit theorem for sums of
- [Wolfgang Bucherl](https://neglectedscience.com/wolfgang-bucherl/): Wolfgang Bucherl, German-born Brazilian zoologist and toxinologist (Haberzeigen, close to Regensburg, Lower Bavaria  27 April 1911 – São Paulo 14 January 1985) Descendent from a German-Hungarian family  Authored about 150 works ACHIEVEMENTS Developed electro stimulation for obtaining spiders and scorpions venoms Novo processo de obtenção de veneno seco, puro de Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891) e titulação da DL 50 em camundongos. Mem. Inst. Butantan 25(1):153-7, 1953 Contribuição ao estudo dos órgãos sexuais externos das espécies do gênero Scolopendra Linne, mais frequentes no Brasil. Um novo método morfo-comparado para a sua sistematização. Mem. Inst. Butantan 16:37, 1942   Prepared anti Loxosceles venom  (1953) Developed techniques to keep scorpions in
- [Wladimir Besnard](https://neglectedscience.com/wladimir-besnard/): Wladimir Besnard, French/Brazilian oceanographer (Kiev, Ukraine, September 1890 – São Paulo 11 August 1960) Born in Russian Empire from French parents ACHIEVEMENTS With Theodore Monod discovered Asselar Man in Mali (1927) Developed 2 new devices employed in oceanography With A. Gruvel. Description et présentation d’ un appareil oceánographique. Communication à l’Academie des Sciences de Paris, 03 Mars 1920 Un nouveau dispositif pour mensuration dans les travaux biométriques. Boletim Inst. Oceanogr. 3(1/2):125-8, 1952. BIBLIOGRAPHY Sur les particularités morphologiques de la partie caudale du corps de l’ Orthagoriscus mola (published in Russia) Sur la biologie et la réproduction d’une méduse d’eau douce  du genre Microhydra, découverte
- [Wilson Teixeira Beraldo](https://neglectedscience.com/wilson-teixeira-beraldo/): Wilson Teixeira Beraldo, Brazilian pharmacologist (Silvianopolis, Minas Gerais State 20 April 1917 – Belo Horizonte 28 July 1998) ACHIEVEMENTS Known internationally as an expert in vasoactive polypeptides (about 2,000 citations) Co-discovered bradykynin With M. Rocha e Silva & G. Rosenfeld. Bradykynin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor released from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin. Am. J. Physiology 156:261-73, 1949. Demonstrated bradykinin release in anaphylactic and peptonic shocks   Reported the kinin-liberating activity of fibrinolysis (plasmin) Formation of bradykinin in anaphylactic and peptone shock. Am. J. Physiol. 163(2):283-9, 1950  Demonstrated urinary kallikrein is of renal origin  Substance U: a
- [Willy & Maria Luiza Beçak](https://neglectedscience.com/willy-maria-luiza-becak/): Willy Beçak, French-born Brazilian geneticist and biologist (Mulhouse 26 October 1932 – São Paulo 26 April 2023) Authored 176 papers  ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained metaphases in cultures of human chromosomes in Human chromosomes in short term cultures from peripheric blood leucocytes. Rev. Bras. Biologia 21:281-6, 1961 Performed classical studies in literature about sex determining mechanisms and evolution in cytogenetics With spouse M.L. Beçak authored the first comparative study about snakes sex chromosomes  (1964)  First to show the origin of sex chromosomes in lower vertebrates Estudo cariotípico e mecanismo cromossômico de determinação do sexo em ofídios sul-americanos. Doctoral Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo (1964) Constituição cromossômica e
- [William Roy Branch](https://neglectedscience.com/william-roy-branch/): William Roy Branch, English-born South African herpetologist (London 12 May 1946 – Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province 14 October 2018) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Genera Family Xenotyphlopidae 2010 with Vidal, Vences & Hedges Reptilia Afrogecko 1997 with Bauer & Good Broadleysaurus 2013 with Bates, Tolley, Edwards, Davids & da Silva Congolacerta 2001 with Greenbaum, Villanueva, Kusamba & Aristote Cryptactites 1997 with Bauer & Good Dixonius 1997 with Bauer & Good Epacrophis 2009 with Hedges & Adalsteinsson Goggia 1997 with Bauer & Good Guinea 2009 with Hedges & Adalsteinsson Haemodracon 1997 with Bauer & Good Inyoka 2001 with Kelly Karusasaurus 2011 with Stanley, Bauer, Jackman & Mouton Kinyongia 2006 with Tilbury & Tolley Mitophis 2009 with
- [Werner Bokermann](https://neglectedscience.com/werner-bokermann/): Werner Carlos Augusto Bokermann, Brazilian herpetologist  and entomologist (Botucatu, São Paulo State 04 July 1929 – São Paulo 01 April 1995) Considered as foremost expert on systematics and taxonomy of Neotropical frogs and toads Described at least 70 new Amphibian species Described 43 Coleoptera species (1961-64) HONORS Bokermannia Martínez 1963 (Coleoptera) Bokermannohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia et al. 2005 (Amphibia)  
- [Washington Buño](https://neglectedscience.com/washington-buno/): Washington Hector Buño Vazquez, Uruguayan histologist (03 November 1908 – 30 March 1990) Authored 74 papers on histology, embryology and endocrinology, 45 on history of medicine and 7 books Discovered phagocytosis by microglia Las relaciones entre a microglia y el sistema reticulo-endotelial. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 18:732-47, 1933 Discovered metaplasia ossification in Mammalia (1944) Sobre osificación de la falange ungueal y consideraciones sobre la osificación llamada metaplasica. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 12:75-88, 1946 Demonstrated special granulations in mast cells and their function Acción “in vitro” de la cortisona sobre los mastócitos de la rata. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 20:117-19, 1953 LINKS   
- [Walter Borzani](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-borzani/): Walter Borzani, Brazilian biotechnologist (São Paulo 07 November 1924 – São Paulo 28 February 2008) Authored about 200 papers Performed works with international repercussion about continuous alcoholic fermentation Developed a continuous process of alcoholic fermentation in a single fermenter (1955) With P.A.S. Podlech. An empirical correlation between the oil drop size distribution in hydrocarbon-water systems, oil concentration, and impeller speed. Biotechn. 18:141-2, 1976 Developed production process of fungal amylase, banana juice and protein concentrates of macrobiotic origin  With Falcone developed a banana medium for yeasts (1960) Developed the vital staining of dead yeast cells with methylene blue With M. Vairo. Quantitative
- [Walter Blumenfeld](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-blumenfeld/): Walter Blumenfeld, German-born Peruvian psychologist (Neuruppin 12 July 1882 – Lima 23 June 1967) Proposed improvements in Terman colective test (1946-7) Una modificación del test de Rorschach para evidenciar las características de la vida activa. Rev. Ciencias 6(5):215-25, 1948 Un nouvel appareil pour le examen de la reaction reflechie. Travail Human (1938) Ein neue “Anstelligkeitsprobe”. Indust. Psychotecnik 2:353-9, 1925 
- [Waldemar Berardinelli](https://neglectedscience.com/waldemar-berardinelli/): Waldemar Berardinelli, Brazilian endocrinologist (Jacareí, São Paulo State 27 June 1903 – Rio de Janeiro 26 January 1956) Described Seip-Berardinelli syndrome or congenital total lipodystrophy Nova sindrome endocrino metabolica (segundo caso e ulteriores considerações). Resenha Clin. Cien. 22:219, 1953 An undiagnosed endocrinometabolic syndrome: report of 2 cases. J. Clin, Endocrinol. Metab. 14 (2):193-204, 1954.   A variety of this disease is Berardinelli-Hummel syndrome Described Berardinelli disease or pos-matrimonial jaundice (1934) Described a new endocrine and metabolic syndrome related to somatotropin With J.G. Cordeiro, D. Albuquerque & A. Couceiro. Nova síndrome endocrinometabolica provavelmente ligada à hiperfunção global da somatotropina. Arch. Bras. Endocrinol. 2(2):97-121, 1953
- [Vitor Osmar Becker](https://neglectedscience.com/vitor-osmar-becker/): Vitor Osmar Becker, Brazilian entomologist (Brusque, Santa Catarina State 1944 – From German ancestry   Have a collection of 320,000 specimens of Lepidoptera representing over 35,000 species  DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Acailandica 2016 with Razowski Acarolella 1983 with Razowski Albadea 2002 with Razowski Anielia 1983 with Razowski Atrigalleria 2022 Auchenancylis 2015 with Razowski Aulonophora 2024 Banhadoa 1983 with Razowski Belemclepsis 2000 with Razowski Belemgena 1994 with Razowski Biclonuncaria 1993 with Razowski Brasilnotia 2017 with Razowski Brazeulia 2000 with Razowski Brusqeulia 2000 with Razowski Caraccochylis 2007 with Razowski Ceritaenia 2000 with Razowski Characovalva 2000 with Razowski Chirotes 1999 with Razowski Chlorosema 2014 Cincorunia 2002 with Razowski Cirrothaumatia 1986 with Razowski Clemira 2009 (in honor to his wife Clemira Ordoñez Souza) Corneulia 1999 with Razowski Cornuclepsis 2000
- [Vital Brazil](https://neglectedscience.com/vital-brazil/): Vital Brazil Mineiro da Campanha, Brazilian toxinologist (Campanha, Minas Gerais State 28 April 1865 – Rio de Janeiro 08 May 1950) Authored 114 works ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated the specifity of anti snake serum (1899) A defesa contra o ofidismo (1911) Published in French Le defense contre ophidisme, attaining international repercussion (1914) With Bruno Rangel Pestana prepared anti Elaps serum and noted that species presenting great  sensibility to venoms are that which produce more antibodies (1910) First to develop anti scorpion serum (1908) First to introduce polivalents sera    With Jean Vellard showed the role of lipoids in immunology (1927) and developed anti arachnid serum (1925-6)
- [Visut Baimai](https://neglectedscience.com/visut-baimai/): Visut Baimai, Thai medical entomologist (Sukhothai Province 01 April 1942 – Authored over 150 scientific papers Expert on Diptera cytogenetics and biology Discovered several groups of sibling species complexes of the Oriental Anopheles including Anopheles maculatus, Anopheles minimus and Anopheles barborostris DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES Drosophila bocki 1979 Drosophila pseudomayri 1970 Simulium curtatum 2008 with Jitklang, Kuvangkadilok, Takaoka & Adler Simulium doisaketense 2008 with Jitklang, Kuvangkadilok, Takaoka & Adler Simulium trangense 2008 with Jitklang, Kuvangkadilok, Takaoka & Adler Zaprionus silvistriatus 1967 with Bock HONORS Subgenus Baimaia Harbach, Rattanarithikul & Harrison 2005 (Diptera)
- [Victor Manuel Badillo](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-manuel-badillo/): Victor Manuel Badillo Franceri, Venezuelan botanist (La Guaira 15 October 1920 – Maracay, Aragua State November 2008) DESCRIBED VALID GENERA   Freya 1985 (Asteraceae) Horovitzia 1993 (Caricaceae) Tamananthus 1985 (Asteraceae) Species 143 new plant species   HONORS Badilloa King & Robinson 1975 (Asteraceae)
- [Victor L. Badillo](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-l-badillo/): Victor Lasala Badillo, Philippine amateur astronomer (23 January 1930 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY VHF Scintillations and TEC at Manila (1981) With W.R. Barron, E.W. Cliver & D.A. Guidice. An Atlas of selected multi-frequency radio bursts from the twentieh solar cycle (1980) Solar microwave bursts accompanying proton events (1979) Low latitude PC3 and PC4 micropulsations (1977) Possible Fermi mechanism of solar cosmic rays (1976) Moro Gulf Tsunami of 17 August 1976 With J.E. Salcedo & R.A. Panotes. Solar effects on geomagnetic micropulsations and VLF phase shifts (1975) With J.E. Salcedo. Solar radio studies at Manila Observatory (1973) Solar microwave scintillation. Radio Science 5(6):979-82,
- [Victor Bertullo](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-bertullo/): Victor Hugo Bertullo, Uruguayan veterinarian (Dolores 30 March 1919 – Montevideo 01 July 1979) Specialized in fisheries, surveying and fishing technology ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a new yeast species, Hansenula montevideo in marine fishes (1951) Developed Bertullo-Perez Hettich fish silage method With F. Pérez-Hettich. El ensilado de pescado. Anales de La Facultad de Veterinaria 4(4):141-9, 1956. Conceived a new treatment for presence of Demodex in dogs. With Theodore Pilz. Un nouveau traitement de la Demodexie canine. Recueil de Medicine Vétérinaire. Tome CXXXII, 1956.  With Pérez Hettich patented Protein Hydrolysis US Patent 3000789 (1961) With Aquiles H. Delfino invented Bio-Proteo-Catenulated (BPC), a protein food of high
- [Victor Benavides Caceres](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-benavides-caceres/): Victor Edilberto Benavides Caceres, Peruvian geologist and paleontologist (Arequipa 23 February 1928 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCAN SPECIES (1965) Acanthoceras chasca Acanthoceras pollocense Acanthoceras sangalense Amonites ollonense Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) kayi Barroisiceras (Forresteria) basseae Beudanticeras chimuense Coilopoceras jenksi Coilopoceras newelli Heterotissotia bucheri Hoplitoides inca Knemiceras ovale Knemiceras triangulare Neodeshayesites inti Neodeshayesites nicholsoni Neolobites kummeli Parahoplites quilla Parengonoceras champaerense Parengonoceras haasi Pseudaspidoceras reesidei Sharpeiceras occidentale Thomasites fisheri Tissotia hedbergi Venezoliceras harrisoni HONORS  Subgenus Benavidesites Cooper 1982 (Fossil Cephalopoda)
- [Vera Lucia Ramos Bononi](https://neglectedscience.com/vera-lucia-ramos-bononi/): Vera Lucia Ramos Bononi, Brazilian mycologist and ecologist (1944 – Proposed the use of Basidiomycetes to decolor textile efluente dyes and bioremediation of organochlorine contaminated soil (1990s) METHODS/PATENTS With D.R. Matheus, K.M.G. Machado & C. Fabris. Protocol for selection of Basidiomycetes to be applied in contaminated soils remediation systems (1998) With D.R. Matheus, K.M.G. Machado, R.A. de Nadai, R.T.R. Monteiro & L.K. Okino. Processo de biorremediação de materiais sólidos contaminados com compostos orgânicos clorados, utilizando fungos basidiomicetos ligninocelulolíticos. PI9702847-9 A2 (1997) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genus Skvortzovia 1987 with Hjortstam Species Melzericium rimosum 1987 with Hjortstam Psilocybe microcystidiata 1984 with Guzmán Psilocybe ramulosa 1984 with Guzmán 
- [Upendranath Brahmachari](https://neglectedscience.com/upendranath-brahmachari/): Upendranath Brahmachari, Indian physician  (Jamalpur, Bihar, West Bengal 19 December 1873 – 06 February 1946) ACHIEVEMENTS Synthesized carbostibamide (urea stibamine) and determined that it was effective in the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (1922) Described a new disease, post-kalaazar dermal leishmanoid (Brahmachari disease) Concluded that Burdwan fever was a combination of malaria and kala-azar (1911) Showed that in Blackwater fever the largest amount of haemolysis occurred in the liver during the active stage of the disease and prepared an antihaemolytic solution of quinine for treatment of certain cases. Developed a sorological reaction for diagnosis of kala-azar (1907) known as Brahmachari reaction or Brahmachari-Ray
- [Thomaz Borgmeier](https://neglectedscience.com/thomaz-borgmeier/): Thomaz Borgmeier, German-born Brazilian entomologist and Franciscan friar (Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia State 31 October 1892 – Rio de Janeiro 11 May 1975) His real name was Heinrich Fritz Hermann Borgmeier Known worldwide for his studies on ants, Coleoptera and Phoridae Diptera Authored 243 scientific papers DESCRIBED 96 genera and over 1000 species in Diptera 35 genera and at least 91 species in Coleoptera 10 genera and about 100 species of ants (Hymenoptera) HONORS Borgmeieria Pires do Prado 1976 (Diptera) Borgmeieriphora Pires do Prado 1976 (Diptera) Borgmeierisca Souza Lopes 1972 (Diptera) Borgmeierimyia  Townsend 1935 (Diptera) Borgmeierella Enderlein 1924 (Diptera) Borgmeierina  Wygodzinsky 1949 (Hemiptera) Borgmeierea Carvalho 1956 (Hemiptera) Thomazia Toledo Piza 1976
- [Tagea Kristina Simon Bjornberg](https://neglectedscience.com/tagea-kristina-simon-bjornberg/): Tagea Kristina Simon Bjornberg, Brazilian marine zoologist (São Vicente, São Paulo State 20 September 1925 – São Sebastião, São Paulo State 25 June 2023) From Swedish, Danish and English descent First to characterize and identify initial stages of development in marine Copepoda (1968) DESCRIBED (Crustacea) Genera Spionicola 2006 (with Radashevsky) Species Anomalocera manicauda 1963 Arietellus mohri 1975 Bathycalanus eltaninae 1968 Bathycalanus inflatus 1968 Bathycalanus unicornis 1968 Bradycalanus pseudotypicus 1968 Carcinocaris minipedia 2009 (with C. Santos) Catinia rosea 2006 (with G. Kawauchi) Choniomyzon libiniae 2004 (with C. Santos) Delibus sewelli 1982   Euaugaptilus fagettiae 1975 Galagaophonte alvaroi 2014  Gaussia assymmetrica 1988 (with Campaner) Landrumius thorsoni 1975 Laophontisochra terueae 2014   Myzomolgus sipunculensis 2007 (with T.C. Kihara & G. Y.Kawauchi) Oithona oligohalina 1976
- [Suri Bhagavantam](https://neglectedscience.com/suri-bhagavantam/): Suri Bhagavantam, Indian physicist (Agiripalli, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh 14 October 1909 – 06 February 1989) Authored about 300 research papers ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered the quantum photon spin (1932) With C.V. Raman. Experimental proof of the Spin of the Spin. Nature 129:22, 1932. Performed the first serious study of Raman spectrum of diamond   First to record Raman spectrum of hydrogen under high pressures Proposed an empirical rule that the rotatory  lattice modes gives rise to strong Raman bands Derived Bhagavantam equation Invented wedge method of exciting ultrasonic waves in solids Introduced familiar factor-group analysis (Bhagavantam-Venkatarayudu method) and proposed the basic theory for the vibrational
- [Sunil Kumar Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/sunil-kumar-bose/): Sunil Kumar Bose, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (1922 – 1983) DESCRIBED DISEASES A leaf-spot disease of the dwarf hill date palm Phoenix humilis caused by Apiosphaera indica sp.nov. Ind. Phytopathol. 28:574-5, 1975 With A.J. Roy. Leaf spot disease of pear in Kumaon caused by Mycosphaerella chaubahattiensis sp.nov. Progr. Hortic. 1(4):57-62, 1970 With S.C. Mathur. A new leaf spot disease of Castor, Ricinus communis L. Curr. Sci. 18:210-1, 1949 OTHERS With A.K. Hazra & B.C. Guha. A rapid method of surveying fungi of cellulolytic power. Sci. Cult. 24:39-40, 1958 With S.K. Majumdar. Mycobacillin, a new antifungal antibiotic produced by Bacillus subtilis. Nature 181:134, 1958 DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Acantharia quercus dilatataea 1965
- [Stephen Cole Bruner](https://neglectedscience.com/stephen-cole-bruner/): Stephen Cole Bruner, US / Cuban phytopathologist and entomologist (Raleigh, North Carolina 18 August 1891 – Loma Linda, Los Angeles 27 August 1953) Described eucalypt canker disease caused by Cryphonectria cubensis Una enfermidad gangrenosa de los eucaliptos. Boletín, Estación Exper. Agr. 37:1-38, 1917 Authored with L.C. Scaramuzza & A.R. Ortero Catalogo de insectos que atacan a las plantas econômicas de Cuba (A catalogue of insects that attack economic plants of Cuba) in 1945 that obtained international repercussion Described and co-described 31 genera in Hemiptera insects and some fungi species HONORS Brunerella Young 1952 (Hemiptera) Stephembruneria Castañeda 1988 (Fungi)
- [Simón Beker](https://neglectedscience.com/simon-beker/): Simón Beker Gorenstein, Venezuelan gastroenterologist and hepatologist (Maracaibo 06 February 1929 – 16 August 1997) From a Jewish Moldavian family  Authored 170 papers and 5 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Radiologia de la schistosomiasis mansoni en su forma hepatoesplénica. GEN 22(1):17, 1956 With A.E. Read. Familial Dubin-Johnson syndrome. Gastroent. 35:387-9, 1958 With J. Valencia Parpacén, L. Carbonell, V. Bosch, N.F. de Bosch & R.P. Moncada. Estudios funcionales y histopatologicos en el síndrome de malabsorción intestinal. G.E.N 15:461-76, 1961 With J. Valencia Parpacén. Contribution to the knowledge of portal hypertension: analysis of 116 patients. GEN 17:15, 1962-3 With J. Valencia Parpacén, A. Rivas Gómez & P.R. Moncada.
- [Silvio Bonansea](https://neglectedscience.com/silvio-bonansea/): Silvio José Bonansea, Italian agronomist, veterinarian and conservationist in Mexico and Colombia (Bibiana, Turin Province 1869 – Bogotá c.1946) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.L. Herrera, A.F. Rangel, L. de Barreda & O. Téllez. El gusano de La fruta Instrypetas ludens (IDB). Bol. Com. Paras. Agr. 1:145-70, 1901. Contribución al studio de algunas enfermedades criptogamicas de los cereals cultivados en Mexico. Mem. Rev. Soc. Cien. Antonio Alzate 18:128-42, 1902. Borregos. La sarna, roña o costra. Revista Agricola 18:165, 1902.    El Blanco del melón (Sphaerotheca castagni Lév.). Bol. Com. Parasit. Agric. 1(9):430-1, 1902. Pajaros e insectos: Apuntes sobre la utilidad de los pajáros como destructores de insectos (1904)
- [Shashi Bhushan Bhatia](https://neglectedscience.com/shashi-bhushan-bhatia/): Shashi Bhushan Bhatia, Indian geologist, biostratigrapher and micropaleontologist (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 18 March 1930 – Panchkula, Haryana State 01 May 2021) Authored over 250 publications  With D.B. Sikka, M.N. Saxena &S.P. Jain. Occurrence of graywackes in Lower Sialiks, Simla Hills. Nature 192:61, 1961 With U.K. Bassi & P. Janvier. The peripathetic fossils. Part 4. Nature 341:13-6, 1989 DESCRIBED FOSSIL INVERTEBRATA TAXA Ostracoda Genera Jainella 1979 with Kumar Lankacythere 1979 with Kumar Neohenryhowella 1979 with Kumar Species Actinocythereis levinsoni 1960 with Mandwal Bairdia haydeni 1972 with Jain & Gupta Cavellina wadiai 1972 with Jain & Gupta Cyprideis westi 1971 with Khosla Darwinula straubi 1977 with Singh Geffenina jhingrani 1972 with Jain
- [Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar](https://neglectedscience.com/shanti-swarup-bhatnagar/): Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, Indian chemist (Bhera, Shahpur District, West Punjab 21 February 1894 – New Delhi 01 January 1955) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 100 papers Gave original contributions to colloidal physical chemist and magneto-chemistry Showed that the temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibilities are different for symmetric molecules, associative liquids and aromatic compounds Provided definitive evidence for the existence of ionic micelles by the study of magnetic rotation of solutions of salts of higher fatty acids in water and alcohol (1934) Established a method to detect the inversion points and the exact amount of electrolytes required to inversion Established that emulsification is influenced
- [Shankar Abaji Bhise](https://neglectedscience.com/shankar-abaji-bhise/): Shankar Abaji Bhise, Indian technologist (Mumbai 29 April 1867 – New York 07 April 1935) Developed about 200 inventions being 40 US patents INVENTIONS Bhise type caster An automatic machine capable of composing 3000 characters per minute  Rotary multiple type-caster A machine for casting leads and rules Automatic weighing and packing machine for railways Shella or Rola soap (1917) Automatic bicycle stand with a lock An automatic dwell machine Vertolite sign lamp Autotoilet flusher An electrical gadget which separated various gases from air An engine which derived electric power energy directly from sunlight A single process for transmitting photos telegraphically Antimalarial
- [Satyendra Nath Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/satyendra-nath-bose/): Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian nuclear physicist (Calcutta 01 January 1894 – Calcutta 04 February 1974) ACHIEVEMENTS Produced a new chemical used as collyrium Developed Bose–Einstein statistics, a set of laws that describe o statistical behavior of photons maintained at determined temperature  (1924); derived from the same work Bose-Einstein condensate, Bose-Einstein correlations and Bose gas; described in Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese. Zeitschrift für Physik 26:178, 1924.  EPONYMY  Bose-Hubbard model Bose-Fermi mixtures Bose operator Bose fields Boson (particle)  Saha-Bose equation of state for a nonideal gas (1918)   Bose symmetry Physics Nobel Prize nominee (1956, 1959 & 1962) A good biography can be read
- [Rudolf Barth](https://neglectedscience.com/rudolf-barth/): Rudolf Barth, German-born Brazilian zoologist (Dortmund 30 March 1913 – Brazil, January 1978) Published about 200 scientific papers, mainly about anatomy and histology of insects and ecology of marine invertebrates.   ACHIEVEMENTS Modified and perfected a number of methods in entomological anatomy and histology. Developed a simple method for preparation of butterflies wings (1956) With J. Jurberg. Técnica utilizada para evidenciar a estrutura das conchas em possíveis aplicações. Notas Tecn. Inst. Pesq. Marinha 17:1-21, 1965 Métodos usados em microanatomia e histologia entomológica. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 56(2):453-71, 1958 Discovered a new sensory organ in Triatominae in Estudos anatômicos e histológicos sobre a subfamília
- [Rodolfo R. Brenner](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-r-brenner/): Rodolfo Roberto Brenner Wiebeck, Argentine biochemist (Banfield 17 July 1922 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 03 July 2018) His uncle grandfather was president of Swiss Confederation  Authored over 300 papers, 12 books and book chapters  Performed important contributions to knowledge of the role of fatty acids in animal feeding and numerous discoveries in the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids Realized seminal studies on the desaturation of essential precursors forming highly unsaturated fatty acids Demonstrated the role of insulin and other hormones in the unsaturated fatty acid synthesis and cellular composition Demonstrated the existence of fatty acid families Demonstrated the relationship
- [Roberto de Bellis](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-de-bellis/): Roberto de Bellis Louzan, Uruguayan hematologist (Montevideo 31 October 1938 – Montevideo 31 January 2007) Authored over 200 publications Pioneered the use of antiangiogenic agents for treatment of host x graft disease With M Nese, A. Carneiro, J. di Landro, A. Miller & G.W. Santos Vogelsang. Graft versus host disease prophylaxis using cyclosporine and steroids with / without thalidomide. Blood J. Amer. Soc. Hemat. 76(10), 1990 With M. Nese, I. Rodríguez, R. Ferrando, J. Di Landro, N. Passano et al. Un nuevo factor causal de anemia en las linfopatias tumorales. Anales Fac. Medicina (1978) With M. Nese, I. Rodríguez, R. Ferrando,
- [Roberto Beder](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-beder/): Roberto Beder, Swiss-born Argentine geologist and mineralogist (Zurich 16 February 1885 – Cordoba 19 November 1930) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Los yacimientos de minerales de manganeso en el Norte de la Prov. de Cordoba y sur de Santiago del Estero, Anales Museo Nac. Hist. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia 36:431-502, 1931 With J. Olsacher. Sobre un caso de cinc nativo. Rev. Minera 2 (1930) La Sierra Norte de Cordoba. Riel y Fomento (1930) Sobre la existência de platino en una serpentina de Alta Gracia, Prov. de Cordoba. Rev. Minera 2 (1930) Los yacimientos de mármol de Quilpo, Dep. Cruz del Eje, Prov. de Cordoba. Rev.
- [Robert Broom](https://neglectedscience.com/robert-broom/): Robert Broom, Scottish-born South-African paleontologist (Paisley, Scotland 30 November 1866 – Pretoria 06 April 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered Australopithecus robustus (1938) First to find septo-maxilla in the skull of tetrapods (1897) Showed that in a foetal marsupial the cartilaginous coracoids process of the shoulder girdle reaches and articulates with the sternum (1897) Gave first essentially complete account of the skeleton of any mammal-like reptile (1901) Described new families and orders in Fossil Reptilia DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Reptilia  About 220 Mammalia Burramys 1895 Dinopithecus 1937  Elephantomys 1937 Gorgopithecus 1949 with Robinson Gypsorhynchus 1930 Karoomys 1903 Mylomygale 1946 with Schepers Notochoerus 1925 Palaeopetaurus 1896 Palaeopetromys 1946 Palaeotomys 1937 Palaeotragiscus 1930 Proamblysomus 1941 Prohyrax 1930 Prototomys 1948 Telanthropus 1949 with Robinson Tetracynodon 1948 with Robinson Amphibia Batrachosaurus 1903
- [Rinchen Barsbold](https://neglectedscience.com/rinchen-barsbold/): Rinchyengiin (Rinchen) Barsbold, Mongolian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Ulaanbaatar 21 December 1935 – 28 August 2025) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Reptilia Orders Ornithomimosauria 1976 Oviraptorosauria 1976 Families Garudimidae 1981 Harpymimidae 1984 with Perle Oviraptoridae 1976 Genera Adasaurus 1983 Aepyornithomimus 2017 with Tsogtbaatar, Chinzorig, Currie, Kobayashi & Watabe Anserimimus 1988 Ceratonykus 2009 with Alifanov Citipati 2001 with Clark & Norell Conchoraptor 1986 Enigmosaurus 1983 Gallimimus 1972 with Osmolska & Roniewicz Garudimimus 1981 Gobiraptor 2019 with Lee, Lee, Chinsamy-Turan, Tsogtbaatar & Lu Gobivenator 2014 with Tsuihiji, Watabe, Tsogtbaatar, Chinzorig, Fujiyama & Suzuki Harpymimus 1984 with Perle Ingenia 1981 Khaan 2001 with Clark & Norell Nemegtonykus 2019 with Lee, Lee, Kim, Tsogtbaatar, Park & Lu Nomingia 2000 with Osmolska, Watabe, Currie &
- [Ricardo Renzo Brentani](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-renzo-brentani/): Ricardo Renzo Brentani, Italian-born Brazilian clinical biochemist (Trieste, Friuli-Veneza Giulia 21 July 1937 – São Paulo 29 November 2011) From Italian, Jewish and Austrian ancestry Performed studies on cancer biochemistry and cytology Authored about 200 papers with more than 5,000 citations DISCOVERIES/METHODS Demonstrated the presence of messenger RNA in nucleolus With I. Raw & M. Brentani. Role of nucleolar ribonucleic acid in incorporation of ribosomal amino acid. Nature 201:1130, 1964 With G. Vignolas & L.C.U. Junqueira. A simple and sensitive method for the quantitative estimation of collagen. Anal. Biochem. 94:96-9, 1979 Developed Picrosirius polarization method or Junqueira staining With G. Vignolas
- [Ricardo Bressani Castignoli](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-bressani-castignoli/): Ricardo Bressani Castignoli, Guatemalan food expert (Ciudad de Guatemala 28 September 1926 – Ciudad de Guatemala 30 January 2015) Authored over 500 publications between papers, monographs, book chapters and conference memoirs Discovered that certain coumponds found in soybean help digestive processes in man Developed cotton, legume, platan and cereal flours such as Incaparina (1959), Vitatol, Bienestarina and Innovarina Developed other food products like cookies HONOURS Babcock Hart Award, Institute of Food Technologists, USA (1970) McCollum Award, American Society of Clinical Nutrition (1971) Doctor Honoris Causa, Purdue University (1976) Albert Einstein World Award of Science, World Cultural Council (1984) Danone International Prize for Nutrition
- [Ramchandra Kashinath Bhide](https://neglectedscience.com/ramchandra-kashinath-bhide/): Ramchandra Kashinath Bhide, Indian economic botanist (fl.1912-35) SOME CONTRIBUTIONS With S.G. Bhalerao. The Kolamba rice of the North Konkan and its improvement by selection. India Dept. Agr. Mem. Bot. Ser. 14:199-245, 1927 With S. G. Bhalerao. Correlation studies in rice. Mem. Dept. Agric. Ind. 14(7):78-83, 1927 Inheritance and correlation of certain characters in rice crosses. Poona Agric. Col. Mag. 18:76-85, 1926 A cause of sterility in rice flowers. Agr. Jour. India 17:584-6, 1922 Two important problems in rice and how to solve them. Poona Agric. Coll. Mag. 11:33-6, 1919 Preliminary note on the study of the rice varieties. Poona Agr. Col.
- [Raj Chandra Bose](https://neglectedscience.com/raj-chandra-bose/): Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician in United States (Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh 19 June 1901 – Fort Collins, Colorado 31 October 1987) Regarded as a founder of mathematical basis for experimental design With D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri and independent of Hocquenghem invented BCH codes (1960) With S.S. Shrikhande constructed a Greek-Latin square of size 10 disproving a 1782 Euler conjecture (1959) Introduced Bose-Mesner algebra (1959) With T. Shimamoto coined the term association scheme (1952) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1950) Eponym of Bose theorem (1934), Bose distribution (1935) and Bose-Burton theorem (1966)
- [Raimundo Braz Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/raimundo-braz-filho/): Raimundo Braz de Souza Filho, Brazilian natural products chemist (Pacatuba, Ceará State 19 April 1935 – Obtained rufescidride, a new arylnaphthalene type lignan and the first containing an unusual anhydride moiety (2004) With C.R.S. Feitosa, R.C. Silva, J.E.S. A. Menezes et al. reported new ceramides for the first time in Cucurbitaceae (2011) With D. Oevstedal, T. Fossen, R.G. Oliveira Jr, A.P. Oliveira et al. isolated the first flavonoid from Bromeliaceae Family ((2014) DISCOVERED NEW COMPOUNDS (incomplete list) A new type of chalconoid dimers (2003) Darcyribeirine, a pentacyclic indole alkaloid (2002) Velloziolide, a diterpene with a novel skeleton (1982) Muscicapines, a class of guaiane-type sesquiterpene
- [Rafael Barahona Andrade](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-barahona-andrade/): Rafael Barahona Andrade, Ecuadorian physician and surgeon (Quito 30 September 1827 – Quito 01 March 1898) ACHIEVEMENTS   Created Barahona draught (tonic) and Indian draught (against paludism). Devised a continuous extension and counterextension apparatus for femur fractures (1853). This apparatus arrived France in 1894 where was commended highly by Paul Jules Tillaux. See http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo14/b3.htm (in Spanish)   
- [Radovan Borojevic](https://neglectedscience.com/radovan-borojevic/): Radovan Borojevic, Croatian-born Brazilian morphologist and developmental biologist (Varazdin 16 November 1940 – Established the presence of one ancestral system of totipotent stem cells in cellular differentiation in Porifera Etude experimentale de la differentiation des cellules de l’eponge au cours de son developpement. Devel. Biol. 14:130-53, 1966 Recognized as a world reference in Calcarea class described and named 7 families, 10 genera and 34 valid species of Porifera With A.N. Monteiro, S.A. Vinhas, G.B. Domont, P.A. Mourão et al.  Establishment of a continuous cell line from fibrotic schistosomal granulomas in mice livers. In vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 21(7):382-90, 1985 With S.A.
- [Pushpa Mitra Bhargava](https://neglectedscience.com/pushpa-mitra-bhargava/): Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, Indian biochemist (Ajmer District, Rajasthan State 22 February 1928 – Hyderabad 01 August 2017) Authored over 125 research papers ACHIEVEMENTS First report on the identification of genus Pseudomonas from Continental Antarctica With S. Shivaji, N. Shyamala Rao, L. Saisree, V. Sheth & G.S.N. Reddy. Isolation and identification of Pseudomonas spp. from Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Appl. Environ. Microb. 55:767-70, 1989 With V.N. Rao. Isolation, characterisation and possible mode of action of antiseminalplasmin, a new protein that inhibits the antimicrobial activity of seminalplasmin. Biochem. J. 227:609-19, 1985 Four new and unusual proteins from bovine seminal plasma. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 9:540-3, 1981 Discovered semilplasmin or
- [Pio Buck](https://neglectedscience.com/pio-buck/): Pio Buck, Swiss-born Brazilian jesuit and amateur entomologist (Hochdorf, Lucerne Canton 22 July 1883 – Porto Alegre 21 August 1972) HONORS (Coleoptera) Buckelater Costa 1993 Buckia Cobos 1956 Buckibrotica  Bechyné & Bechyné 1969 Piobuckia  Bechyné 1956
- [Pierre Joseph Auguste Bravard](https://neglectedscience.com/pierre-joseph-auguste-bravard/): Pierre Joseph Auguste Bravard, French/Argentine paleontologist and cartographer (Issoire, Puy de Dome 18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861) Introduced new concepts in the field of taphonomy SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogue des especes d’animaux fosiles recueillies dans l’Amerique du Sud de 1852 a 1860 (1860) Monografia de los terrenos marinos terciarios de las cercanias del Paraná (1858) Observaciones geologicas sobre diferentes terrenos de transporte en la hoya del Plata (1857) Geologia de las pampas (1857) Mapa geologico y topografico de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca (1857) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Arctotherium 1857 Budomys 1843 Cainotherium 1857 Camelotherium 1857 Cardiodus 1857 Cynodictis 1850 with Pomel Eutemnodus 1858 Neomys 1843 Opistorhinus 1857 Platyodon 1853 Plesiarctomys 1852 HONORS
- [Pedro Joaquin Bermudez](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-joaquin-bermudez/): Pedro Joaquín Bermudez Hernandez, Cuban / Venezuelan micropaleontologist and malacologist (Vega Alta, Las Villas Province 24 February 1905 – Caracas 03 September 1979) DESCRIBED / NAMED NEW TAXA Living Mollusca Species / Subspecies With Torre Cerion cuspidatum Cerion dickersoni Cerion filiale Cerion guajabensis Cerion kemperi Cerion macrodon Cerion minae Cerion minae enriquis Cerion romanoensis Cerion sanctamariae Cerion scopulorum Cerion sifontesi Cerion versatile Cysticopsis puncticulata Opisthosiphon delectum scopulorum Urocoptis aguadensis Urocoptis asinorum Urocoptis camagueyana 1938 Urocoptis cardenensis Urocoptis cleti Urocoptis concolor Urocoptis costellaris Urocoptis costellaris purioensis Urocoptis delectabilis eudasta Urocoptis depressicostata Urocoptis fortiuscula Urocoptis guajenensis Urocoptis heteosculpta michaelis Urocoptis jovae Urocoptis laeviuscula Urocoptis obscura Urocoptis
- [Pedro Belou](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-belou/): Pedro O. Belou, Uruguayan-born Argentine anatomist and surgeon (Minas, Uruguay 19 February 1884 – Buenos Aires 06 September 1954) Son of French immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Published more than 200 scientific works Performed studies about human ear, biliary system and vasculature. Gold Medal laureate, Medical Section of International Fair of California (1918) for his studies about ear’s anatomy Published  Atlas Anatomico del organo de oído y de las regiones con el vinculadas (1923), being laureated with Testut Prize from Academie de Medicine de Paris in 1931 Presented Atlas Estereoscopico de la Anatomía de las Arterias (1928-34) received highly by anatomical authorities in Europe and USA.      Developed a
- [Pedro Baptista Netto](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-baptista-netto/): Pedro Baptista de Oliveira Netto, Brazilian anatomist (?-?) Conceived a new cephalostat A radiocraniometria como processo de identificação antropológica – idealização e emprego de um cefalostato. Arqu. Inst. Benj. Baptista 5:357-62, 1939 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Observações anatômicas: dois casos de formação baixa de nervo mediano com ausência de nervo perfurante de Casserius. Arch. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 3:119-53, 1937  Observações anatômicas: formação variável da alça do hipoglosso, 2 casos. Arch. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 3:135-47, 1937 Observações anatomicas. Arq. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 3: 155-159, 1937  Dois casos de variação arterial em indivíduos brasileiros. Arch. Inst. Benjamin Baptista 3:171-3, 1937  Do nervo trigêmino (1938)  Observações anatômicas:
- [Paulo Roberto Gomes Brandao](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-roberto-gomes-brandao/): Paulo Roberto Gomes Brandão, Brazilian mining engineer (Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais 26 January 1944 – With T.M. G. Ribeiro. Development and validation of graphitic carbon analysis of graphite ore samples. Tecnologia em Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineração 14:183-9, 2017 DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Carlosbarbosaite with Atencio, Roberts, Cooper, Menezes Filho, Coutinho, Stirling, Venance, Ball, Moffatt, Chaves & Romano 2012 Cesarferreiraite with Scholz, Chukanov, Menezes Filho, Atencio, Lagoeiro, Belotti, Chaves, Romano, Belakovskiy & Pekov 2014 Almeidaite with Menezes Filho, Chukanov, Rastsvetaeva, Aksenov, Pekov, Chaves, Richards, Atencio, Scholz, Krambrock, Moreira, Guimarães, Romano, Persiano, de Oliveira & Ardisson 2015 HONORS Brandaoite Menezes Filho, Chaves, Cooper,
- [Paulo Emidio Barbosa](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-emidio-barbosa/): Paulo Emidio de Freitas Barbosa, Brazilian physical chemist (Fortaleza 04 June 1919 – Rio de Janeiro April 1997) With F. Feigl. A new procedure for detecting acidity. Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. 14(6):519-21, 1942 Um metodo para aumentar a precisão de análises espectrográficas quantitativas. An. Assoc.Quim. Brasil 9:40-6, 1950 With L..M.A. Barbosa. Sugestões sobre calibração de chapas em fotometria fotográfica. Bol. Lab. Prod. Mineral 35 (1949) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With L. Barreto Filho. Qualitative and quantitative spectrography: limit of identification. Anais Assoc. Quim. Brasil 4 (1947) & Bol. Lab. Prod. Mineral 26:25-51, 1947 Determination of beryllium by means of 8-hydroxy-quinoline. Bol. Lab. Prod.
- [Paulo Benedetti](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-benedetti/): Paolino Michellini Benedetti, Italian-born Brazilian filmmaker, photographer and inventor (Bernalda, Basilicata Region, Matera Province 18 August 1863 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1944) His name is given as Paulo Cianelli Benedetti and his birth place as Lucca, Tuscany in many sources DEVELOPED / INVENTED A new natural color film process with a device adaptable to any camera (1927; not patented) Panchromatic film development technique replacing orthochromatic film A microphone An improved sound reproduction system Superimposition of subtitles over scenes projected on the screen BRAZILIAN PATENTS Um dispositivo para a obtenção fácil e rápida de reservas em fitas cinematographicas (1930) Systema
- [Patricia Berjak](https://neglectedscience.com/patricia-berjak/): Patricia Berjak, South African seed biologist (Johannesburg 29 December 1939 – Durban 21 January 2015) Married to botanist Norman W. Pammenter Authored over 140 papers Recognized as a world leader on the study of seeds mainly recalcitrant ones Elucidated the nature of varied responses of recalcitrant seeds to desiccation and the role of calcium in rehydration   Described a modified procedure for the preparation of maize root tips for electron microscopy (1968) During his doctoral thesis discovered the means to substantially reduce fungal growth in maize seeds that result from poor storage conditions (1969) Defined the role of the deteriorative seed-associated fungi in
- [Pablo Buriticá](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-buritica/): Pablo Elías Buriticá Cespedes, Colombian plant pathologist and mycologist (Honda, Tolima Department 29 March 1943 – Described the etiologic agent of rust of Jatobá tree (Crossospora hymenaea) With J. Hennen & J. Dianese. The rust of Jatobá: a new Crossospora species from Neotropica on Hymenaea (Leguminosae). Fitopatol. Bras. 19(4):588, 1994 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Family Uncoleaceae 2000 Genera Aeciure 1996 with Hennen Campanulospora 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Ceratocoma 1991 with Hennen Hennenia 1995 Macabuna 1994 with Hennen Malupa 1992 with Ono & Hennen Morispora 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Peridipes 1994 with Hennen Scalarispora 1994 with Hennen Scutelliformis 2007 with Salazar & Pardo Cardona Uncol 2000 with Rodríguez Gavíria Uredendo 1994 with Hennen Uredostilbe 1994 with
- [Pablo Biolley](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-biolley/): Paul Auguste Biolley, Swiss-born Costa Rican naturalist (Neuchatel 16 February 1862 – San José de Costa Rica 16 January 1908) With H.F. Pittier described about 100 species in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera (1895) As only author named Hyporhicnoda carinata 1900 (Blattodea) and the genus Leptinotarsa 1897 (Coleoptera) HONORS Biolleya Saussure 1897 (Blattodea) Biolleyana Distant 1909 (Hemiptera)
- [Otto Guilherme Bier](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-guilherme-bier/): Otto Guilherme Bier, Brazilian bacteriologist and immunologist (Rio de Janeiro 26 March 1906 – São Paulo 22 November 1985) From German descent Authored over 100 works ACHIEVEMENTS Performed important contributions on studies of antigen-antibody reactions and complement system With M. Siqueira found that antigen-antibody complexes can act even at the site of passive cutaneous anaphylaxis reactions evoked by unrelated antigen-antibody systems Hemorrhagic reactions at sites of passive cutaneous anaphylaxis in guinea pig after intravenous inoculation of unrelated immune complex. Proceed. Soc. Exper. Biol. Med. 107(4):779-84, 1961   With M. Siqueira & G. Biozzi observed that immunological competence develops eventually, even in bursectomized
- [Oswaldo Baca](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-baca/): Oswaldo Baca Mendoza, Peruvian chemist (Cuzco 05 August 1908 – Cuzco 12 April 1962) Introduced the term binode ENUNCIATED LAWS A quantitative law about periodic law of chemical elements Law of successive formation of immediate nucleus Law of limitation of periods Law of groups Leyes geneticas de los elementos químicos (Genetic laws of the chemical elements). Nuevo sistema periódico (New periodic system) 1953 Law of electronic configurations development, that rules the rise and development of electronic systems that form peripheral  configurations in atoms Ley de configuraciones electronicas (presented in 1959; published in 1965) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La thio semicarbazida reactivo de ions selenito
- [Osvaldo Boelcke & Maevia](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-boelcke-maevia/): Osvaldo Boelcke, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 05 November 1920 – Béccar, Buenos Aires Province 06 June 1990) DESCRIBED Genera Lithodraba 1951 (Brassicaceae) Skottsbergianthus 1984 (Brassicaceae) Species Coronopus leptocarpus 1975 Descurainia adpressa 1994 Exhalimolobos burkartii 1982 with Romanczuk Lepidium burkartii 1984 Lepidium tandilense 1964 Menonvillea famatinensis 1951 Polypsecadium grandiflorum 1982 with Romanczuk Rorippa ventanensis 1967 Sisymbrium ventanense 1964 Skottbergianthus sorianoi 1984 Werdermannia mendoncina 1984 HONORS Boelckea Rossow 1992 (Plantaginaceae) His second wife Maevia Noemí Correa, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 14 February 1914 – Buenos Aires 18 April 2005) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Odontorrhynchus (Orchidaceae) 1953 Species  Adesmia adrianii 1984 Adesmia burkartii 1981 Adesmia dubia 1984 Adesmia neglecta
- [Oscar Brunser](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-brunser/): Oscar Brunser Tesarschu, Argentine-born Chilean pediatric gastroenterologist (Buenos Aires 24 November 1935 – From Moldavian father Authored relevant studies about jejunal mucosa in infant malnutrition-mental With A. Reid, O. Brunser, A. Maccioni & I. Contreras. Jejunal biopsies in infant malnutrition with special reference to mitotic index. Pediatrics 38:605-12, 1966 With A. Reid, O. Brunser, A. Maccioni & I. Contreras. Jejunal mucosa in infant malnutrition. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 21:976-83, 1968 Showed that tropical sprue was an infection consequence With S. Eidelman & F.A. Klipstein. Intestinal morphology in rural Haitians. A comparison between overt tropical sprue and asymptomatic subjects. Gastroenterol. 58:665-8, 1970
- [Orlando Baiocchi](https://neglectedscience.com/orlando-baiocchi/): Orlando Baiocchi, Brazilian gynecologist and obstetrician (Goiás 08 April 1915 – Goiânia 06 April 1997) From Italian descent DEVELOPED A new technique for pregnancy diagnosis The method of clinical integration (1957) INVENTED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Cold cautery Tubular speculum  A rotary electric forceps for biopsy of cervical lesions (1957)
- [Oreste Berta](https://neglectedscience.com/oreste-berta/): Oreste Santiago Antonio Berta, Argentine automobile engineer and designer (Rafaela, Santa Fe Province 29 September 1938 – Gained world fame for his racing cars With Jan Balder & Henrique Iwers developed a special kit for Passat alcohol-powered engines DESIGNED Engines Berta V8 Torino OHC (1973) F3 by Berta (2005) TRV6 by Berta Duratec by Berta (2006) Cars Berta BA3 Cosworth (1974) Berta LR (1970) (one of the world’s first computer-aided designed cars) Berta VW (1980) Hollywood Berta Ford (1975) Maverick Berta (1974) Torino F-5000 (with an innovative suspension)
- [Olavo José Boock](https://neglectedscience.com/olavo-jose-boock/): Olavo José Boock, Brazilian agronomist (São Paulo 28 March 1915 – Campinas, São Paulo State 09 August 2004) Published circa 100 papers related to potato culture and breeding Created Aracy variety (IAC-2) that became international standard of resistance to Alternaria solani, fungus causating “pinta preta” disease (1951) Described witches broom of cassava With R.D. Gonçalves & E.S. Normanha. O “superbrotamento” ou “envassouramento” da mandioca (1942)  With L.G.E. Lordello & A.P.L. Zamith described the valid nematode species Nacobbus bolivianus and Pratylenchus andinus (1961) 
- [Octavio Barbosa](https://neglectedscience.com/octavio-barbosa/): Octavio Barbosa, Brazilian geologist (Ituverava, São Paulo State 29 April 1907 – Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State 31 January 1997) Authored over 200 scientific papers about mineralogy, petrography, economic geology, applied geology, stratigraphy and palaeontology Described fossil plant species Spongiophyton lenticulare (1949) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geologia econômica de parte da Região do Médio São Francisco, Nordeste do Brasil. Bol. Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral, DNPM (1970) With J.R. de Andrade Ramos & F.G. de Andrade. Geologia estratigráfica, estrutural e econômica da área do Projeto Araguaia. Monogr. Div. Geol. Mineral. Rio de Janeiro (1966) Geologia básica e econômica da área do médio Tapajós. Bol. Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral
- [Nicolau Victorio Banzatto](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolau-victorio-banzatto/): Nicolau Victorio Banzatto, Brazilian agronomist and plant breeder (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 01 January 1931 – With J.A. Bernardi, A. Savy Filho, S.A.H. Kurachi, J.A.S. Costa, R.A.D. Mello Moraes & C.A. Moreira. Desenvolvimento de colhedora de mamona.(1991) DEVELOPED NEW VARIETIES / CULTIVARS Sesame With A. Savy Filho & D.H.C. Lasca. IAC Ouro (1983) Castor bean With A. Savy Filho, R.F. A. Veiga, M.P. Campana & A. Pettinelli Jr. IAC226 (Tarabay) With V. Canechio Filho & A, Savy Filho. Mamoneira Guarani (1977) With A. Savy Filho, R.F. A. Veiga, A.A. Veiga & A. Pettinelli Jr. IAC80 (Brasil-Integração) 1984 Upland rice With B. Germeck IAC
- [Nelida Maria Bacigalupo](https://neglectedscience.com/nelida-maria-bacigalupo/): Nélida Maria Bacigalupo, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 13 October 1924 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province 28 February 2019) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Amphipetalum 1988 Scandentia 2001 with Cabral Species Aeschynomene lorentziana 1984 with Vanni Amphipetalum paraguayense 1988 Anacampseros kurtzi 1990 Borreria amapaensis 2004 with Cabral Borreria burchellii 2000 with Cabral Borreria flavovirens 1998 with Cabral Borreria guimaraesensis 2004 with Cabral Borreria multibracteata 2004 with Cabral Borreria paraensis 1999 with Cabral Borreria paranaensis 2000 with Cabral Borreria paulista 1997 with Cabral Borreria pazensis 2005 with Cabral Borreria rosmarinifolia 1997 with Cabral Borreria santacruciana 2005 with Cabral Borreria tocantisiana 2004 with Cabral Crassula caudiculata 1983 with Rossow Elatine opposita 1970 Euphorbia burkartii 2005 Galianthe humilis 1997 with Cabral Galianthe polygonoides 1997 with Cabral Galianthe souzae 2000 with
- [Nambiyath P. Balakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/nambiyath-p-balakrishnan/): Nambiyath Puthansurayil (or Puthnapurayil) Balakrishnan, Indian botanist (27 July 1935 –  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Subfamily  Hippomanoideae 2007 with Chakrabarty  Genera Jainia 1980 Kurziodendron 1966 Santapaua 1964 with Subramanian Subgenus Epiphylloides 2010 with Binojkumar  Sections Gymnathemum 1992 with Chakrabarty  Rostratae 1995 with Susila Longistylae 2010 with Binojkumar  Species / Subspecies (77) Varieties (17)
- [Muhtar Basoglu](https://neglectedscience.com/muhtar-basoglu/): Muhtar Basoglu, Turkish herpetologist (Odemis, Izmir Province 06 April 1913 – Karsiyaka, Izmir Province 1982) DESCRIBED VALID SPECIES Reptilia Eremias suphani 1968 with Hellmich Amphibia Lyciasalamandrana antalyana 1976 with Baran Lyciasalamandrana atifi 1967 Lyciasalamandrana fazilae 1974 with Atatur HONORS Muhtarophis Avcy, Ilgaz, Rajabizadeh, Yylmaz, Uzum, Adriaens, Kumlutab & Olgun 2015 (Reptilia)
- [Mohan Balwant Bande](https://neglectedscience.com/mohan-balwant-bande/): Mohan Balwant Bande, Indian palaeobotanist (1948 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA Amooroxylon 1984 with Prakash Atalantioxylon 1978 with Lakhanpal & Prakash Bischofinium 1974 Callistemonites 1986 with Mehrotra & Prakash Callistemonoxylon 1986 with Mehrotra & Prakash Euphorbiocarpon 1983 with Mehrotra & Prakash Garcinioxylon 1980 with Khatri Gomphandroxylon 1980 with Khatri Heyneoxylon 1980 with Prakash Hydnocarpoxylon 1980 with Khatri Hyphaeneocarpon 1982 with Prakash & Ambwani Lophopetalumoxylon 1983 with Mehrotra & Prakash Machilusoxylon 1971 Monocotylostrobus 1981 with Lakhanpal & Prakash Musophyllum 1979 with Prakash & Ambwani Ormosioxylon 1980 with Prakash Polyalthioxylon 1973
- [Mohammed Bensaid](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-bensaid/): Mohammed Bensaid, Moroccan geologist and paleontologist (c. 1940 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Valid Genera Atlantoceras 1977 Dorcadungula 1979 with Termier, Termier & Vachard Pseudoprobeloceras 1974 Species Afromaenioceras sulcatostriatum 1974 Atlantoceras tataense 1977 Bensaidites crassus 1974 Dorcadungula bouchberensis 1979 with Termier, Termier & Vachard Extropharciceras applanatum 1974 Koenenites juvenocostata 1977 Merigoniatites meridionalis 1974 Meropharciceras disciforme 1974 Pseudoprobeloceras nebechense 1977 HONORS Bensaidites Korn 2002 (Fossil Mollusca)   
- [Mohammad Abdul Basir](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-abdul-basir/): Mohammad Abdul Basir, Indian helminthologist (1916-1966) An easy method for the preparation of en face view of small nematodes. Trans. Am. Microscop. Soc. 58:123-6, 1949 DESCRIBED NEMATODA GENERA Blattelicola 1940 Cameronia 1948 Chitwoodiella 1948 Desmicola 1956 Galebiella 1941 Gryllocola 1942 Gryllophila 1942 Johnstonia 1956 Linstowiella 1956 Mirzaiella 1942 Periplaneticola 1940 Schwenkiella 1956 Setarospiculum 1939 with Mirza Talpicola 1942 HONORS   Basiria Siddiqi 1955 (Cestoda) Basirella Ahmed & Jabin 1966 (Nematoda) Subgenus Basirolaimus Shamsi 1979 (Nematoda) Subgenus Basirotyleptus Jairajpuri 1964 (Nematoda)
- [Milka Kronegold de Brodtkorb](https://neglectedscience.com/milka-kronegold-de-brodtkorb/): Milka Aniela Sofía Kronegold de Brodtkorb, Argentine mineralogist (Buenos Aires 05 July 1932 – Cordoba 18 July 2019) From German parents DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Suredaite (2000) with Paar, Topa, Miletich, Criddle, Amthauer & Tippelt Angelaite (2004) with Topa, Makovicky & Paar Jagueite (2004) with Paar, Topa, Werner, Makovicky, Sureda, Nickel & Putz Coiraite (2005) with Paar, Moelo, Mozgova, Organova, Stanley, Roberts, Culetto, Effenberger, Topa, Putz & Sureda HONORS Brodtkorbite Paar, Topa, Roberts, Criddle, Amann & Sureda 2002 (Mineral)  
- [Metry Bacila](https://neglectedscience.com/metry-bacila/): Metry Bacila, Brazilian biochemist (Palmeira, Paraná State 22 June 1922 – Curitiba 03 May 2012) From Lebanese and Egyptian descent  ACHIEVEMENTS Published 419 works Discovered the galactoseoxidase and polyoldehydrogenase of Candida sp.  Determined the existence of enzyme galactokinase in animal tissues Studied at molecular level biochemical and Physiological behavior in Antarctic animals concerning adaptation mechanism at extreme temperature, achieving international repercussion.  Authored with Bernard L. Horecker & Andrés O.M. Stoppani the book Biochemistry and Genetics of Yeasts:Pure and Applied Aspects. New York Academic Press, 1978.   Under L.F. Leloir head clarified the initial phase of galactose’s metabolism in the liver (1947)  Demonstrated that cortical
- [Max Birabén & Maria Isabel](https://neglectedscience.com/max-biraben-maria-isabel/): Maximiliano Leon Pedro Birabén Losson, Argentine zoologist (Buenos Aires 24 August 1893 – 1977) DESCRIBED Described at least 2 genera (Fernandezina 1951 and Neoxyphinus 1954) and 12 species of Arachnida, beyond 1 Crustacea genus (Phallocryptus 1951) At all at least 31 new species HONORS Birabena Drake & Poor 1945 (Hemiptera) Birabenella Grismado 2010 (Arachnida) Maxchernes Feio 1960 (Arachnida) His wife, Maria Isabel Hylton Scott, Argentine malacologist  (full name Maria Isabel Sofia Hylton Scott y Pacheco (Córdoba 16 August 1889 – La Plata 01 September 1990)) DESCRIBED Mollusca Genera Cochleornata 1975 Hirtudiscus 1973 Kuschelenia 1951 Paracochlea 1967 Pilsbrylia 1952 Stephadiscus 1981 Ulpia 1955 Described at least 1 family, 47 species and 4 subspecies of Mollusca  
- [Mauro Pereira Barretto](https://neglectedscience.com/mauro-pereira-barretto/): Mauro Pereira Barretto, Brazilian parasitologist (Guaratinguetá, São Paulo State 25 March 1912 – São Paulo 02 January 1996) Developed staining methods for intestinal protozoa (e.g. Barretto-Zago Filho phosphomolybdic haematoxilin)   With G.A. Silva & H. Zago Filho. Estudos sobre a amebíase retossigmoidiana. I. Diagnóstico de laboratório das lesões. Rev. Bras. Gastroenterol. 12:147-60, 1960  With H. Zago Filho. Estudos sobre a coloração de protozoários intestinais. II. Métodos rápidos que empregam mordentes e corantes em soluções preparadas. Rev. Bras. Biol. 20:131-8, 1960  A culture medium for Entamoeba histolytica With A.C. Baptista. Novo meio para o cultivo da Entamoeba histolytica. Rev. Bras. Biol. 22-3, 1960 Developed a
- [Mary Elizabeth Bernardes de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/mary-elizabeth-bernardes-de-oliveira/): Mary Elizabeth Cerruti Bernardes de Oliveira, Brazilian paleobotanist and stratigrapher (Mogi Mirim, São Paulo State 18 December 1945 – Signed for some time as Oliveira-Babinski DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Family Protananaceae 2005 with Leme, Brown, Dilcher, Siqueira & Salas Genera Notoangaridium 1977 Arberiopsis 1978 Ponsitheca 1980 Endressinia 2004 with Mohr Priscowelwitschia, Welwitschiophyllum & Welwitschiostrobus 2005 with Dilcher, Pons & Lott Protananas 2005 with Leme, Brown, Dilcher, Siqueira & Salas Iara 2006 with Fantoni, Riccardi-Branco & Dilcher Novaolindia 2007 with Kunzmann & Mohr Cariria 2008 with Kunzmann, Mohr & Wilde Pluricarpellatia 2008 with Mohr & Taylor Cearania 2009 with Kunzmann & Mohr Duartenia 2012 with Mohr, Schultka & Süss Schenkeriphyllum 2013 with Mohr & Coiffard Jaguariba 2013 with Coiffard & Mohr
- [Martha Erps Breuer](https://neglectedscience.com/martha-erps-breuer/): Martha Magdalena Elisabeth Erps Breuer, German-born Brazilian laboratory technician (Frankfurt am Main 29 September 1902 – São Paulo 14 June 1977) Former wife of world-famous architect and designer Marcel Breuer Authored 20 papers Co-authored a paper about species Telenomus fariai (1944) with international acclaim With A. Dreyfus. Chromosomes and sex determination in the parasitic hymenopteran Telenomus fariai Lima. Genetics 29:75-82, 1944 With C. Pavan proposed that puffs in the polytene chromosomes could be a cytologic manifestation of genes in activity and showed that the genes are the same in all tissues of a given individual however distinct genes are turned on in distinct tissues or
- [Mario Hector Burgos](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-hector-burgos/): Mario Hector Burgos Asborno, Argentine histologist and microscopist (Buenos Aires 21 June 1921 – Mendoza 22 September 2012) His papers were milestones in the cell biology, reproduction and endocrinology of those times With D.W. Fawcett authored the first studies about ultrastructure of Golgi complex and its role in spermatogenesis (1955) With G. di Paola. Eosin test for the evaluation of sperm vitality. Obst. Gynec. Surv. 7(3):445, 1952 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.W. Fornés, M.A. Sosa & F. Bertini. Vesicles of rat epididymal fluid. Existence of two populations differing in ultrastructure and enzymatic composition. Andrologia 27(4):233-7, 1995 Gossypol inhibits motility of Arbacia sperm. Biol. Bull.
- [Mario Costa Barberena](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-costa-barberena/): Mário Costa Barberena, Brazilian paleontologist (Santa Vitoria do Palmar, Rio Grande do Sul State 17 April 1934 – Porto Alegre 16 December 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA Families Therioherpetidae 1975 (Fossil Reptilia) Australerpetonidae 1998 (Fossil Amphibia) Genera Australerpeton 1998 (Amphibia) Bageherpeton 2001 with Dias (Amphibia) Prozostrodon 2001 with Bonaparte (Reptilia) Rastosuchus 1980 with Correia & Aumond (Reptilia) Therioherpeton 1975 with Bonaparte (Reptilia) Species Australerpeton cosgriffi 1998 Bageherpeton longignathus 2001 with Dias Exaeretodon riograndensis 2002 with Abdala & Dornelles Massetognathus ochagaviae 1974 Proterochampsa nodosa 1982 Prozostrodon brasiliensis 1987 with Bonaparte & Teixeira Rastosuchus hammeri 1980 with Correia & Aumond Therioherpeton cargnini 1975 with Bonaparte HONORS (FOSSIL)   Barberenia Bonaparte 1990 (Mammalia) Barberenasuchus Mattar 1987 (Reptilia) Barberenachampsa Kischlat 2000 (Reptilia)
- [Mariano Barcena y Ramos](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-barcena-y-ramos/): Mariano Santiago de Jesús de La Bárcena y Ramos, Mexican scientist (Ameca, Jalisco 23 July 1842 – Ciudad de Mexico 10 April 1899) Authored 65 scientific works ACHIEVEMENTS Performed botanical, geological, paleontological, anthropological, topographical and geographical studies Unearthed the Peñon de los Baños man (1884) with A. del Castillo Described livingstonite mineral (1874) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Plantae Exogonium olivae Gaudichaudia enrico-martinezii Hiraea barredae Petrea subserrata Petunia villadiana Fossil Animalia Ammonites iamesdanae 1895 Crania Rio Lozi Hippurites calamitiformis Hippurites mexicana Nerinea anguillina 1875 (with Castillo) Nerinea castilli Nerinea hieroglyphica Spheroma burkartii   HONORS Colubrina sect. Barcena (Rhamnaceae) Barcenite Mallet 1878 (Mineral)
- [Guoda Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/guoda-chen/): Guoda Chen or Kuo-ta Ch’en, Chinese geologist and geophysicist (Xinhui County, Guangdong Province 22 January 1912 – Changsha, Hunan Province 07 April 2004) Developed theories of structural geology and movement of the earth’s crust that have been internationally adopted such as Diwa Geodepression Theory (1956) Proposed Diwa metallogeny (1960) Proposed the concept of Danxia landform (1939) with Jinglan Feng Diwa (Geodepression Region) – a new type of active region of Post Platform Stage. Problems on Geotectonics of China (1965) Crustobody – a new concept of integrative geotectonics. Geotectonica et Metallogenia 19(1):1-21, 1995 HONORS Chenguodaite Gu, Watanabe, Xie, Peng et al. 2008 (Mineral)
- [Guillermo Covas](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-covas/): Guillermo Covas, Argentine agronomist (La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 01 February 1915 – Santa Rosa, La Pampa Province 31 August 1995) Authored about 180 works With Benno Schnack and others made chromosome counts on over two hundred species of the vascular flora of Argentina Found that pollen diameter: length of pollen tube ratio display taxonomic value in Angiosperms With B. Schnack. El valor taxonomico de la relación “longitude del pistilo : volumen del grano de polen”. Darwiniana 7(1):80-90, 1945 Contributed to the knowledge of the origin of cultivated plants, especially barley and canary seeds, which were appreciated abroad DEVELOPED CULTIVARS (about
- [Guillermo Chong](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-chong/): Guillermo Baltazar Chong Díaz, Chilean geologist and paleontologist (Arica 29 November 1936 – From Chinese father DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Chilenophoberus 1976 with Forster (Crustacea) Domeykodactylus 2000 with Martill, Frey & Bell (Reptilia) Ichnhippus 1975 with Casamiquela (Mammalia) Protoclupea 1975 with Arratia Fuentes & Chang Garrido (Pisces) Species Benthoctopus longibrachus 2006 with Ibañez & Sepulveda (Mollusca) Chilenophoberus atacamensis 1976 with Forster (Crustacea) Domeykodactylus ceciliae 2000 with Martill, Frey & Bell (Reptilia) Ichnhippus cotaposi 1975 with Casamiquela (Mammalia) Leedsichthys notocetes 1999 with Martill, Frey & Caceres (Pisces) Leptolepis opercularis 1975 with Arratia & Chang (Pisces) Mesturus cordillerae 1998 with Martill & Pardo (Pisces) Metriorhynchus casamiquelai 1977 with Gasparini (Reptilia) Pholidophorus domeykanus 1975 with Arratia & Chang (Pisces)
- [Guilherme Schüch, baron of Capanema](https://neglectedscience.com/guilherme-schuch-baron-of-capanema/): Guilherme Schüch, baron of Capanema, Brazilian engineer, physicist, chemist and naturalist (Mariana, Minas Gerais State 17 January 1824 – Rio de Janeiro 28 July 1908) Son of Austrian father and Swiss mother  ACHIEVEMENTS  Described the genus Phyllostylon of Ulmaceae plants (1851) Pioneer in observations about rocks decomposition processes in moist tropical climates Proved that thick layer of red clays that covers mountains result from tropical weathering (1854) Demonstrated that granitic boulders on the slopes and mountain regolith were the result of weathering of the underlying rocks (1854) Described algal species Protococcus or Haematococcus mammillosus 1858 Obtained lycanine, a chemical extracted from Lycania incana
- [Giuseppe Cilento](https://neglectedscience.com/giuseppe-cilento/): Giuseppe Cilento, Italian-born Brazilian photochemist (Sorrento, Italy 21 July 1923 – São Paulo 31 October 1994) ACHIEVEMENTS Published some 150 papers Acknowledged worldwide for his studies on the formation of electronically excited products in biochemical systems. First gained international fame for his study about expansion of electronic layers in sulphur valency Discovered that some reactions produce light due chemical excitation in biological systems, identifying the way that the phenomenon occurs and that it may occur without the existence of radiation, introducing the notion of photochemistry in lightless Demonstrated biochemical formation of excited products in triplet state Realized important works about charge
- [Gilberto Campello Brasil](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-campello-brasil/): Gilberto Campello Brasil, Brazilian public servant and amateur ichthyologist (São Paulo 15 June 1945 – missing since 07 November 2008) BRAZILIAN PATENT Processo de produção de fosfato bicálcico desfluorizado a partir de fosfato natural PI 9105182-7 A2 (1991) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES (all of them with J.E.M. Costa) Atlantirivulus nudiventris 1991 Campellolebias chrysolineatus 1989 with Lacerda Campellolebias dorsimaculatus 1989 with Lacerda Cynolebias griseus 1990 with Lacerda Cynolebias leptocephalus 1993 Cynolebias microphthalmus 1995 Cynolebias perforatus 1991 Hypsolebias alternatus 1994 Hypsolebias fasciatus 2006 Hypsolebias flavicaudatus 1990 Hypsolebias fulminantis 1993 Hypsolebias gibberatus 2006 Hypsolebias magnificus 1991 Hypsolebias marginatus 1996 Hypsolebias multiradiatus 1994 Hypsolebias notatus 1990 with Lacerda Hypsolebias radiosus 2004 Hypsolebias stellatus 1994 Hypsolebias trilineatus 1994 Hypsolebias virgulatus 2006 Maratecoara formosa 1995 Melanorivulus planaltinus 2008 Plesiolebias filamentosus 2007 Simpsonichthys punctulatus 2007
- [Gerson Cotta Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/gerson-cotta-pereira/): Gerson Cotta Pereira, Brazilian morphologist (Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State 18 August 1942 – 02 January 2010) Authored over 80 works With J.F. David Ferreira described in detail the intraepithelial cels of mouse seminal vesicle concluding that are identical to lymphocytes With Portuguese F. Guerra Rodrigo and J.F. David-Ferreira performed the first studies in the world about elastic system of extracelular matrix (1970s) Observed that the oxytalan, elaunin and elastic fibers are present simultaneously in normal adult human dermis With S. Bittencourt Sampaio. Distribuição das fibras elásticas, elaunínicas e oxitalânicas na derme superior em pele humana. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 46(4):333, 1971
- [Gabriel Chuchani](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriel-chuchani/): Gabriel Chuchani Davara, Israeli-born Venezuelan physical chemist (Jerusalem 31 May 1924 – Caracas 30 April 2017) Authored over 220 papers Gained international recognition for his studies on kinetics and mechanisms of gas phase reactions of organic molecules   Performed important research on inhomogenous, unimolecular gas phase pyrolysis or elimination of organic molecules and their mechanisms and kinetics SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Luiggi, J.R. Mora, M. Loroño & T. Córdova. Theoretical calculations on the gas-phase thermal decomposition kinetics of selected thiomethyl chloroalkanes: A new insight of the mechanism. Comput. Theoret. Chemistry (2014) With J.R. Mora, J. Lezama, N. Berroteran & T. Córdova. Density functional theory
- [G. P. Channabasavanna](https://neglectedscience.com/g-p-channabasavanna/): Gulur Puttappa ChannaBasavanna, Indian agricultural entomologist and acarologist (Gulur, Baramulla District, Jammu & Kashmir State 08 September 1920 – 01 May 2000) DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Neocalarus 1966 Neosuidasia 1983 with Ranganath  Paratetra 1966 Tenuipalponychus 1977 with Lakundi Species At least 54 HONORS Channabasavannella Bagdasaryan 1975 (Acari)
- [Frank Wang Co-Tui](https://neglectedscience.com/frank-wang-co-tui/): Frank Wang Co-Tui, Chinese physician (Jinjiang, Fujian Province 24 June 1897 – November 1983) Lived most of his life in USA and Philippines. ACHIEVEMENTS Established standardized rabbit pyrogenicity test (1942) with Schrift Eponym of Co-Tui treatment for gastric ulcer employing protein hydrolysates and Co-Tui method of removing pyrogens by adsorptive filtration  
- [Francisco Mendes de Oliveira Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-mendes-de-oliveira-castro/): Francisco Mendes de Oliveira Castro, Brazilian mathematician (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro 19 May 1902 – Rio de Janeiro 30 May 1993) Brother of biologist Gustavo Mendes de Oliveira Castro Solved the Volterra integral equation using iterated nuclei method that earned him world renown Zur theorie der dielektrischen Nachwirkung . Z. Physik Sonderabdruck 114(1-2):116-26, 1939 Solved the Schrödinger equation for harmonic oscillator in finite differences Showed that random distribution of nucleons under interactions is ruled by Poisson distribution Poisson statistics and the diffusion-equation of nucleons and charged pions in the atmosphere. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 49, 1977 With H.M. Portella & N.
- [Francisco José de Caldas](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-jose-de-caldas/): Francisco José de Caldas y Tenorio, Colombian geographer, botanist and political personality (Popayán, New Granada 04 October 1768 – Bogotá 28 October 1816) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed astronomical, botanical, vulcanological and anthropological observations With Alexander Von Humboldt is claimed as a founder of geobotany for anticipating many problems about botanical geography in “Discurso sobre el calendario rural del Nuevo Reino” (1801) Developed an original formula relating the boiling point of water to elevation employing a hypsometer (Caldas hypsometric law of formula) and developed Caldas hypsometric thermometer  Draft of a new method to measure the altitude of mountains by means of the thermometer and
- [Francisco de la Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-de-la-cruz/): Francisco de la Cruz, Spanish-born Argentine physicist (Barcelona 01 May 1938 – Authored over 150 works First to determinate configurations and longitudes of superconductive vortices Found that vortices provide an excellent model to study how an elastic hexatic structure responds to the presence of a structural rigid perturbation Developed a methodology to measure the effective length of a vortex (1996) Determinated experimentally the vortex melting and properties in layered superconductors Discovered a new structural type of vortex Explained the importance of coupling between layers in laminar superconductors  Performed innovative application of vortices imaging techniques to a number of important problems Developed and
- [Francisco Carrasco Zamora](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-carrasco-zamora/): Francisco Carrasco Zamora, Peruvian agricultural entomologist  (fl.1959-1995) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Insectos de importancia economica em la Región del Cusco. Rev. Centro Estud. Biol. Univ. Nac. Cusco 1:23-31, 1959 Sistematica y biologia del gorgojo de los Andes Premnotrypes latithorax (Pierce, 1914). Rev. Per. Entomol. Agr. 4(1):30-42, 1961 Coccinellidos predatores em la Región del Cusco. Rev. Per. Entomol. Agr.5(1):91-93, 1962 Lista preliminar de insectos del Departamento de Entomologia. Rev. Fac. Ciencias Univ. Nac. Cusco 2:177-92, 1968 Contribución al estudio de Triatoma infestans (Reduviidae, Heteroptera) en el Perú. Rev. Per. Entomol. Agr. 13(1):9-14, 1970 Tabanos del Peru. Rev. Per. Entomol. Agr. 15(2):317-23, 1972 Catalogo de La família Ichneumonidae peruanos. Rev. Per.
- [Francisco Campos Rivadeneira](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-campos-rivadeneira/): Francisco Campos Rivadeneira, Ecuadorian entomologist (Guayaquil 11 January 1879 – Guayaquil 05 May 1962) Discovered and/or described over 150 new species  DESCRIBED SPECIES Achryson galapagoensis 1921 Aplatacris arborineurus 1927  Ormenis albigyna 1931 Psalidognathus whimperi 1921 Sphex camposi 1922 Trychopeplus ortholamellatus 1926 MEMBERSHIP  Honorary Member, Smithsonian Institute HONORS Camposiana Townsend 1915 (Diptera) Camposiella Hebard 1924 (Orthoptera) Campostrecha Mello Leitão 1937 (Arachnida) LINKS http://www.diccionariobiograficoecuador.com/tomos/tomo11/c4.htm
- [Fonchii Chang](https://neglectedscience.com/fonchii-chang/): Fonchii Ingrid Chang Matzunaga, Peruvian ichthyologist (1963 – Alto Amazonas Province, Loreto Department August 1999) From Chinese and Japanese ancestry  DESCRIBED FISH SPECIES                                          Crossoloricaria bahuaja 1999 with Castro Myoglanis koepckei 1999 Cyphocharax derhami 2006 with Vari HONORS (Fishes) Fonchiiichthys Isbrücker & Michels 2001 Fonchiiloricaria Rodríguez, Ortega & Covain 2011
- [Flavio Pires de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/flavio-pires-de-camargo/): Flávio Pires de Camargo, Brazilian orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist (São Paulo 03 February 1916 – São Paulo 24 March 1999) He was a cousin of orthopedist Francisco Elias de Godoy Moreira Conceived a modification of Kuntscher pin that gave rise to interlocking nail Osteossíntese intramedular nas fraturas do 1/3 distal do fêmur. Modificação do pino de Kuntscher. Rev. Hosp. Clinicas (1951)  Internationally recognized as pioneer in the use of methylmethacrylate as adjuvant in the treatment of benign cavitary bone lesions (1972; printed in 1987, after Swedish Persson in 1982) With E.N. Cordeiro, R.C. Costa, J.G. Carazzato & O.P. de Camargo. Surgical
- [Fernando Lobo Carneiro](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-lobo-carneiro/): Fernando Luiz Lobo Barbosa Carneiro, Brazilian engineer (Rio de Janeiro 28 January 1913 – Rio de Janeiro 15 November 2001) Authored 22 works in congresses, 11 papers and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS Elaborated a process for rational dosage of reinforced concrete (INT method) Dosagem de Concreto (1943) Developed a method to compute resistance to traction of reinforced concrete by diametric compression test known as Splitting tensile test or Brazilian test in 1943 published in 1947 (irrespective of Japanese Tsuneo Akazawa) Resistance à la traction des bétons – Une nouvelle method pour la determination de la resistance à la traction des betons. Presented to Reunion
- [Fernando Chiang](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-chiang/): Fernando Chiang Cabrera, Mexican botanist (Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche State 31 March 1943 – DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE SPECIES Amyris carterae 2005 with Rebman Bourreria tuxtlae 2010 with Campos Bourreria veracruziana 2010 with Campos Casimiroa calderonii 1981 with Medrano Citharexylum danirae 2004 with León de la Luz Decazyx esparzae 1982 Helietta lottiae 1984 Lycium arochae 1979 with Wendt & Lott Lycium isthmense 1975 Megastigma balsense 2014 with Jimenez Sechium chinantlense 1992 with Lira Triumfetta martinezalfaroi 2011 with Gual HONORS Chiangiodendron Wendt 1988 (Achariaceae)
- [Fernando Cervigón](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-cervigon/): Fernando Cervigón Marcos, Spanish-born Venezuelan ichthyologist (Valencia, Spain 15 May 1930 – Caracas 15 May 2017) DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Ebinania costaecanariae 1961 Oxynotus caribbaeus 1961 Batrachoides manglae 1964 Emblemariopsis randalli 1965 Coryphopterus venezuelae 1966 Mycteroperca cidi 1966 Protemblemaria punctata 1966 Stellifer griseus 1966 Cynoscion similis 1968 with Randall Jenkinsia parvula 1978 with Velazquez Calliclinus nudiventris 1979 with Pequeño Achirus novoae 1982 Anchoviella manamensis 1982 Citharichthys minutus 1982 Micropogonias cevegei 1982 Sparisoma griseorubrum 1982 Citharichthys valdezi 1986 Anchoviella perezi 1987 Emblemariopsis ramirezi 1999
- [Felisberto Cardoso de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/felisberto-cardoso-de-camargo/): Felisberto Cardoso de Camargo, Brazilian agronomist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 10 September 1896 – 09 August 1977) Developed the first ecologically based ideas for utilization of the Amazon region (1960s)  Created the first intraspecific hybrids and botanical intravarieties in Ananas genus DESCRIBED Ananas fritzmuelleri 1943 Ananas parguazensis 1968 with L.B. Smith Ananas microstachys Lindm. var. typicus 1942 HONORS Felisbertia Viegas 1944 (Fungi)
- [Evandro Chagas](https://neglectedscience.com/evandro-chagas/): Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas, Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1905 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1940) Son of Carlos Chagas ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered American Visceral Leishmaniasis and described Leishmania chagasi   With A.M. Cunha. Estudos sobre o parasite. In: Leishmaniose Visceral Americana, nova entidade mórbida do homem na América do Sul. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:239-337, 1937. Created a serum-agglutination test for diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis   HONORS Evandromyia Mangabeira Filho 1941 (Diptera)
- [Eusebio Corazao](https://neglectedscience.com/eusebio-corazao/): Mariano Eusebio Corazao Quintanilla, Peruvian mathematician (San Pedro de Calca, Cusco 15 December 1845 – Cusco 04 January 1913) Enunciated three theorems about circle quadrature in 1905 (published in Boletín del Centro Cientifico del Cusco 13, 1907) Derived a new general formula for rule of simple interest Developed a new system of deduction in arithmetic   Eponym of Corazao number  (16/π2)
- [Eurico Alves de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/eurico-alves-de-camargo/): Eurico Alves de Camargo, Brazilian ornithologist (Araraquara, São Paulo State 21 April 1896 –Araraquara, São Paulo State 25 April 1985) DESCRIBED AVIAN SUBSPECIES (with O. Pinto) Accepted Sittasomus griseicapillus transitivus 1948 Nyctiprogne leucopyga majuscula 1952 Schistochlamys ruficapillis sicki 1952 Furnarius tricolor araguaiae 1952 Campylorhamphus trochilirostris guttistriatus 1955 Chordeiles pusillus saturatus 1957 Xiphorhynchus teutoni gracilirostris 1957 Momotus momota marcgravianus 1961 Cyanocorax chrysops insperatus 1961 Non-accepted Tachornis squamata orientalis 1961 Selenidera gouldii baturitensis 1961 Picumnus pygmaeus distinctus 1961 Picumnus limae saturatus 1961
- [Ergasto H. Cordero](https://neglectedscience.com/ergasto-h-cordero/): Ergasto Hector Cordero Sloan, Uruguayan zoologist (Montevideo 09 Abril 1890 – Montevideo 20 September 1951) From Spanish and Irish descent Authored 63 papers DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATE TAXA Genera Diaguita 1942 (Annelida) Eudevoscolex 1944 (Cestoda) Proichthydium 1918 (Gastrotricha) Subgenus Lophomyidium 1929  (Diptera) Species Acanthodrilus doelloi-juradoi 1942 Alassostoma venezuelensis 1940 with Vogelsang Aspidosiphon brasiliensis 1954 with Mello Leitão Aspidosiphon trinidensis 1952 with Mello Leitão Austrocalicotyle macrocotyle 1944 Atrichopogon uruguayensis 1929 Cepedea brumpti 1928 Chaetonotus formosus 1918 Chaetonotus montevideensis 1918 Cimex furnarii 1928 with Vogelsang Cladorchis heteroxenus 1940 with Vogelsang Diaguita michaelseni 1942 Distomum xenodontis 1928 with Vogelsang Eudevoscolex vogelsangi 1946 Eukerria tucumana 1942 Eukerria weyenberghi 1942 Glossoscolex bonariensis 1942 Glossoscolex boriemis 1942 Glossoscolex uruguayensis 1942 Haematoloechus iturbei with Vogelsang Haementeria dissimilis 1937 Helobdella montevidensis 1937 Hydra iheringi 1939 Ichthyobdella tentaculata 1937  Lutzomyia
- [Enrique de Carles](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-de-carles/): Enrique de Carles, Spanish-born Argentine geologist and traveling naturalist (1861?-1934) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Noticias sobre un viaje a Tarija (Bolivia). Boletín Inst. Geogr. Arg. 9:35-40, 1888 Ensayo geologico descriptive de las guayquerias del sur de Mendoza (Depto. de San Carlos). Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 22:77-95, 1911 Contribución al estudio de las geodas ferruginosas de entre Ríos, Corrientes, Misiones, etc., a proposito de varias coleccionadas por la comisión exploradora a laguna Iberá, bajo los auspícios de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina. Anal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 23:411-5, 1912 Breve noticia sobre los sedimentos cuaternarios com restos humanos y animales extinguidos del
- [Enrique Chavira](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-chavira/): Enrique Chavira Navarrete, Mexican astronomer (Ciudad de Mexico 05 June 1925 – Tonantzintla, Puebla State 23 November 2000) Codiscovered the Haro-Chavira comet (1954) With G. Haro & B. Iriarte discovered a great number of planetary nebulae or T-Tauri stars With S. Torres & G. Haro. A fluor-like new variable star in Orion. Infor. Bull. Variable Stars (1985) DISCOVERED NEW STARS (with B. Iriarte) New blue giants between galactic coordinates 1=345º to 1=35°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(11):27, 1954 (176) Gigantes azules entre 1=330° y 1=35°. Bol. Obs. Tonantzintla Tacubaya 2(13), 1955 (110) Nuevas estrellas de tipos espectrales tempranos con Hα en emission
- [Enrique Cabrera](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-cabrera/): Enrique Cabrera Cosio, Mexican cardiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 15 July 1917 – Moscow 09 January 1964) Demonstrated that Einthoven triangle is not an equilateral triangle (1945) With Sodi Pallares, Vizcaíno & Soberón showed intracavitary potential in man and dog under normal conditions (1947) With Sodi Pallares enunciated the concept of endocardioelectric deductive electrocardiography  First related hemodynamics to electrocardiography (1950-2) Introduced the physiologic, clinical and electrocardiographic data for systolic and diastolic overloading  With J.R. Monroy Jr. Systolic and diastolic loading of the heart. I. Physiologic and clinical data. Am. J. Heart 43:661-8, 1952 With J.R. Monroy Jr. Systolic and diastolic loading of
- [Elsimar Coutinho](https://neglectedscience.com/elsimar-coutinho/): Elsimar Metzker Coutinho, Brazilian gynecologist (Pojuca, Bahia State 18 May 1930 – São Paulo 17 August 2020) From Portuguese and Austrian descent Authored over 350 papers and 10 books ACHIEVEMENTS First to report myoma regression followed by pregnancy (1982) Described the role of calcium and magnesium ion like secondary agents of progesterone action  Described action of gestrinone in the non-surgical treatment of fibroid tumours Described the contraceptive effects of medroxiprogesterone  Discovered the contraceptive effects of gossypol that lead to first male non-hormonal contraceptive pill  DEVELOPED Treatment of infertilitas provoked by endometriosis and myomatosis  The first contraceptive pill containing Norgestrel (1966) with J.O.
- [Eduardo Hernán Charreau](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-hernan-charreau/): Eduardo Hernán Charreau, Argentine molecular endocrinologist (San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province 27 May 1940 – Buenos Aires 23 March 2019) Authored over 200 works Discovered novel metabolic pathways in normal and pathologic tissues  First to describe some molecular insulin and prolactin induced mechanisms about steroid metabolism of Leydig and luteal cells and in accessory sexual glands Characterized the receptor for luteinizing hormone and prolactin in Leydig cells Discovered that ovary resistance syndrome is due to circulating antibodies that affect the follicle stimulating hormone Developed and characterized a prostagen induced mammary carcinogenesis model  Demonstrated that prostagens can reproduce their proliferative effects  through 4
- [Eduardo Chapot-Prevost](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-chapot-prevost/): Eduardo Chapot-Prevost, Brazilian physician and surgeon (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro 25 July 1864 – Rio de Janeiro 19 October 1907) From French father and Belgian mother Introduced improvements in production of agar medium plates With F. Fajardo. Nota sobre uma simplificação na confecção das placas de agar-agar ou gelose. Tecnica Bacteriol. (1894) Performed the first successful operation for separation of siamese twins in the world (1900) Designed a special operating table for Siamese twins Possibly the first use of surgical mask (1900) Idealized a process of hepatic suture employing nailing of deep points Un nouveu procédé de reséction du foie. Arch.
- [Eduardo Calleri](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-calleri/): Eduardo M. Calleri Garmendia, Uruguayan surgeon (Fray Bentos 21 May 1901 – Durazno 21 July 1971) Invented and modified a number of operative techniques Designed many surgical instruments Identified visor sign for hepatic hydatid cyst
- [Eduardo Cabana](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-cabana/): Enrique Mario Cabaña Perez, Uruguayan mathematician and statistician (Florida 02 December 1937 – Proposed extending the notion of stochastic integral and Brownian motion to separable Hilbert spaces (1966 & 1969) Generalized the Itô lemma and solved differential stochastic equations independently of Russian Daletzky (Daletzky-Cabaña integral) in 1960s Devised the immersion method  With M. Wschebor. On the barrier problem for stationary Gaussian processes. Publ. Inst. Mat. Estatis. 4:123-8, 1969 Defined Brownian leaf The vibrating string forced by white noise. Z.W. Gebiet. 15:111-30, 1970 Introduced barrier problem to solutions in stochastic analysis On the barrier problem for the vibrating noise forced by white
- [Eduardo Caballero y Caballero](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-caballero-y-caballero/): Eduardo Caballero y Caballero, Mexican helminthologist and parasitologist (Villahermosa, Tabasco State 26 October 1904 – Ciudad de Mexico 30 December 1974) Authored over 211 works DESCRIBED GENERA  Trematoda Botulisaccus 1955 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Cheloniotrema 1957 with Cerecero & Grocott Choanophorus 1942 Haroldmanteria 1972  with Bravo-Hollis Ichthyotrema 1952 with Bravo-Hollis Irinaia 1965 with Bravo-Hollis Kamchatkinella 1972 with Bravo-Hollis Langeronia 1949 with Bravo-Hollis Macrovalvitrema 1957 with Bravo-Hollis Manteria 1950 Maxbraunium 1942 with Cerecero Ochoterenatrema 1943 Parachiorchis 1943 Pseudoacanthostomum 1953 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Pseudomazocraes 1955 with Bravo-Hollis Pseudoparvumcreadium 1957 Pseudopodocotyle 1972 with Rodríguez Pterinotrema 1954 with Bravo-Hollis & Grocott Pterinotrematoides 1955 with Bravo-Hollis Monogenea (all with Bravo-Hollis) Ahpua 1973 Bychowskimonogenea 1972 Helixaxine 1965 Mexicana 1960 Paracalceostoma 1960 Paramicrocotyle 1972 Parancylodiscoides 1961 Pseudoeurysorchis 1962 Pseudotetrancistrum 1961 Digenea Dermaskrjabinia 1974 with Caballero R. Ornithotrema 1963
- [Edilberto Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/edilberto-campos/): Edilberto de Souza Campos, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Lagarto, Sergipe State 04 September 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 02 April 1971) DEVELOPED NEW TECHNIQUES Novo meio de conservar os instrumentos cortantes. Soc. Med. Bras. Med. 06 June 1925 Método simples e prático de esterilizar instrumentos cortantes. Brasil Medico 23(1):291, 1925 Ciclodiálise transcorneal, simplificação da operação de Heine. Brasil Médico 55(26):445-51, 1941 Nova orientação na operação de pterygio: ressecção sub-mucosa. Brasil Medico 50:42, 1936 Nova orientação na operação de pterygio. II. Bol. Acad. Nac. Med. 108 (3):754, 1936 OTHERS Contribution á l’etude des complications du pterygion. La Clin. Ophtalm. (1909) His son, Evaldo de Mendonça
- [Dorival Macedo Cardoso](https://neglectedscience.com/dorival-macedo-cardoso/): Dorival Macedo Cardoso, Brazilian biochemist (São Paulo 14 July 1907 – São Paulo 16 February 1966) Collaborated with famous studies about the vitamin B in cell oxidations of nervous tissue With P.E. Galvão. Estudos sobre as oxidações na avitaminose B e no jejum. Arch. Inst. Biol. 3:219-48, 1930 Developed hypohysation method (Von Ihering method) for spawning of piracema fishes, used worldwide in fish-farming stations (1934) With R. Von Ihering, P. Azevedo, J. Pereira Jr., Hypophysis and fish reproduction. Intern. Physiol. Congr. 15:211-2, 1935 or Sechenov J. Physiol. Of USSR 21(5-6):211-2, 1935  Verified that the reduction of methylene blue could be used in standardization
- [Domingos Fernandes da Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/domingos-fernandes-da-costa/): Domingos Fernandes da Costa, Brazilian astronomer and geographer (São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro State 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 1956) Started series of micrometrical measurements on double stars (1921-1926) whose results were sent to Robert T.A. Innes, director from Meteorological Observatory in Johannesburg, and included in general catalogue of Southern Hemisphere.   Authored observations about Reid, Tempel and Ensor comets in Astronomische Nachrichten (1925) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medidas micrométricas de estrelas duplas efectuadas durante os anos de 1924 a 1926 na equatorial de Cooke de 46 cm (1927) Levantamento magnético do Valle do Rio São Francisco. Relatório e resumo dos resultados
- [Domingo Cozzo](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-cozzo/): Domingo Cozzo Vasi, Argentine forester (Buenos Aires 06 October 1918 – Buenos Aires 10 August 2003) From Sicilian ancestry Authored over 180 scientific works PLANT ANATOMY Una particular anomalia anatomica que sirve a la identificación de la madera del “guatambu” blanco (Balfourodendron riedelianum Engl.) 1960 The structure and diagnostic significance of crateriform bordered pits in the vessels of Cercidium. J. Arnold Arboretum 34:187, 1953 Identification of woods by means of punch cards. Cien. Invest. 6(4):159-64, 1950 Estructura leñosa estratificada no registrada en gêneros de leguminosas argentinas. Lilloa 16 (1948) OTHERS Un recipiente con perforaciones que facilita la manipulación de secciones histológicas libres. Bol. Soc. Arg.
- [Diva Diniz Correa](https://neglectedscience.com/diva-diniz-correa/): Diva Diniz Correa, Brazilian marine zoologist (Avaré, São Paulo State 10 May 1918 – São Paulo 28 April 1993) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA    Nemertinea Genera Algonemertes 1954 Corsoua 1963 Dushia 1963 Evelineus 1954 Flaminga 1957 Itanemertes 1957  Pussylineus 1956 Species Algonemertes alba 1954 Amphiporus tuba 1957  Cerebratulus tageae 1957 Coenemertes caravela 1966 Correanemertes bioculatus 1958  Coursoua kristenseni 1963 Emplectonema osceolai 1961 Evelineus tigrillus 1954 Flaminga xama 1958 Itanemertes nonatoi 1957 Lineus copus 1958 Lineus picus 1958 Obuergeria palma 1954 Otonemertes marcusi 1958 Ototyphlonemertes brevis 1948 Ototyphlonemertes erneba 1950 Ototyphlonemertes evelinae 1948 Ototyphlonemertes fila 1953 Ototyphlonemertes lactea 1954 Ototyphlonemertes parmula 1950 Pussylineus gabriellae 1956   Tetrastemma basinum 1957 Tetrastemma cincum 1957 Tetrastemma enteroplecta 1954 Tetrastemma herthae 1963 Tetrastemma lilianae 1958 Tetrastemma merula 1954 Tetrastemma piolinum 1957 Tetrastemma primum 1954 Tetrastemma turdum 1957   Tetrastemma worki 1961 Tubulanus rhabdotus 1954 Zygonemertes cocacola 1961 Zygonemertes fragariae 1954 Zygonemertes
- [Diogenes de Almeida Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/diogenes-de-almeida-campos/): Diógenes de Almeida Campos, Brazilian vertebrate paleontologist (Irará, Bahia State 12 September 1943 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Albertwoodemys 2011 with Gaffney, Meylan, Wood & Simons Angaturama 1996 with Kellner Anhanguera 1986 with Kellner Austroposeidon 2016 with Bandeira, Simbras, Machado, Oliveira & Kellner Baurutitan 2005 with Kellner & Trotta Brasilotitan 2013 with Machado, Avilla, Nava & Kellner Candidodon 1989 with Carvalho (Mammalia) Caninemys 2009 with Meylan & Gaffney Caryonosuchus 2011 with Kellner, Riff & Andrade Cearachelys 2001 with Gaffney & Hiraya Cordichelys 2011 with Gaffney, Meylan, Wood & Simons Feilongus 2005 with Wang, Kellner & Zhou Gegepterus 2006 with Wang, Kellner & Zhou Hongshanopterus 2008 with Wang, Zhou & Kellner Labidiosuchus 2012 with Kellner, Figueiredo & Azevedo Lapparentemys 2011 with
- [Deolindo Couto](https://neglectedscience.com/deolindo-couto/): Deolindo Augusto de Nunes Couto, Brazilian neurologist and writer (Teresina 11 March 1902 – Rio de Janeiro 29 May 1992) Described Deolindo Couto’s pseudo-myopathic syndrome SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With B. Couto. Schistosomiasis of the spinal cord. Rev. Neurol. 20:315-25, 1962 Polineuropatias alcoholicas perifericas. Rev. Neurol. Bs. Aires 18(11):67-78, 1960 With P.W. Longo. Le traitement médicale des maladies dites extrapyramidales (1957) With N. Costa. Esquistossomose da medula. J. Bras. Neurol. 2:89, 1949 With A. Austregésilo, F. Austregésilo & N. Costa. Algumas observações clinico-patologicas acerca das neuroviroses observadas no Brasil. J. Bras. Neurol. 1:363-75, 1949 With R.L. Cavalcanti. Gargoilismo, lipocondrodistrofia, doença de Hurler, disostose
- [Daniel Pedro Ferro Cardoso](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-pedro-ferro-cardoso/): Daniel Pedro Ferro Cardoso, Brazilian engineer and inventor (Natal 08 October 1837 – Rio de Janeiro 05 April 1899) INVENTIONS/PATENTS   INVENTIONS/PATENTS Pneumatic coffee-grain dryer (1877) and 4 improvements on it (e.g. Ferro Cardoso dryer 1886) Melhoramento na máquina de secar café, denominada secador Ferro Cardoso nº 8701 (1882) Melhoramento no secador Ferro Cardoso (1882) Aparelho de secar café denominado “secador pneumático pela condensação” nº6645 (1877) With J. Sherrington. Aparelho destinado a secar café nº6603 (1877) Other patents in 1879 and 1886 Machine for peeling coffee grains An apparatus for lower the temperature indoor Aparelho para baixar temperatura no interior dos edifícios
- [Daniel Alcides Carrión](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-alcides-carrion/): Daniel Alcides Carrión García, Peruvian physician (Quiullacocha, Cerro de Pasco 13 August 1857 – Lima 05 October 1885) Demonstrated clinically and experimentally that Peruvian wart and Oroya fever were 2 evolutive steps of bartonellosis (1885)  Eponym of Carrión disease or bartonellosis (1885)
- [Daher Elias Cutait](https://neglectedscience.com/daher-elias-cutait/): Daher Elias Cutait, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 28 September 1913 – São Paulo 06 June 2001) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 120 papers, 40 book chapters, 3 books and about 100 surgical films With E.B. Montenegro. Construction of a new esophagus by means of the transverse colon and its applications for caustic atresia, carcinoma and varices of the esophagus. Surgery 44:785, 1958 First advocated direct suture rectopexy Sacro-promontory fixation of the rectum for complete rectal prolapsed. J.R. Soc. Med. 52:105-6, 1959 (Suppl) Developed abdominoperineal pullthrough resection with delayed colorectal anastomosis called Cutait-Turnbull  pull-through method or Swensson-Cutait surgery Megacolo: Nova técnica
- [Cruz-Coke family](https://neglectedscience.com/cruz-coke-family/): Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe, Chilean biochemist (Valparaiso 22 April 1899 – Santiago 18 March 1974) From French mother and English grandfather ACHIEVEMENTS   Developed the idea that molecular fluctuations exert a major influence on cells rather than that exerted by thermodynamics  anticipating J. Monod Las transformaciones de la energia en los organismos vivos. Rev. La Clinica  4:517-30, 1927 Discovered tyrosine molecule in angiotensin Identified a factor of “energy yield” in oxidation reactions Factores componentes del metabolismo. Rev. Med. Chile 68:159-62, 1940  With J. Mardones & M. Plaza de los Reyes proposed a scheme of a number of biochemical reactions in renal hypertension mechanism METHODS Developed
- [Clodoveo Carrion Mora](https://neglectedscience.com/clodoveo-carrion-mora/): Clodoveo Augusto David Baltazar Carrión Mora, Ecuadorian naturalist (Loja 11 June 1883 – Guayaquil 09 December 1957) Discovered and collected specimens of fossil plants and fishes, arthropods, reptiles, amphibians and birds from which new species were described SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudios cientificos: insectos fósiles en la hoya de Loja. Revista Mediodía CCE 11:1-14, 1935 Breves consideraciones sobre la paleontologia de Loja. Rev. Cient. Liter. Colegio Bernardo Valdiviezo 1(1):313-6, 1935 Contribución a la paleontologia de las provincias de Azuay y Loja. Rev. Universitaria 2(2-3):150-61, 1934 Breves consideraciones sobre la flora y fauna de la Provincia de Loja (1930) El chirimoyo (Annona cherimolia). Rev. Cient.
- [Cleofe Elsa Calderón](https://neglectedscience.com/cleofe-elsa-calderon/): Cleofe Elsa Calderón, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 26 October 1929 – Buenos Aires 19 March 2007) DESCRIBED POACEAE TAXA (With Soderstrom) Tribe Streptogynaeae 1980 Genera Maclurolyra 1973 Leptophyllochloa 1978 Arberella 1979 Otatea 1980 Species Arberella dressleri Chusquea angustifolia Chusquea circinata Chusquea coronalis Chusquea longiligulata Chusquea scabra Chusquea vulcanalis Koeleria fueguina Koeleria vurilochensis Maclurolyra tecta HONORS Calderonella Soderstrom & Decker 1973 (Poaceae)
- [Cleide Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/cleide-costa/): Cleide Costa, Brazilian entomologist (22 October 1940 – With E.J. H. Bechara & P. Colepicolo Neto showed the ecological role of fireflies bioluminescent larvae for termite nest and around it (1986) With S. Vanin & P. Colepicolo Neto. Larvae of Neotropical Coleoptera, XIV: First Record of bioluminescence in the family Staphilinidae (Xantholinini). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 30:101-4, 1986 DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Subfamily Campyloxeninae 1975 Tribes Euplinthinii 1975 Platycrepidiini 1993 with Casari-Chen Subtribes Compsoplinthina 1975 Euplinthina 1975 Hapsodrilina 1975 Nyctophyxina 1975 Genera Afrocerophytum 2014 with Vanin & Rosa Agnostelater 1975 Arcanelater 1975 Brachycerophytum 2003 with Vanin, Lawrence & Ide Bucklelater 1973 Coctilelater 1975 Compsoplinthus 1975 Cryptolampros 1975 Deilelater 1975 Euplinthus 1975 Fulgeochlizus 1975 Hapsodrilus 1975
- [Claudio Costa Neto](https://neglectedscience.com/claudio-costa-neto/): Cláudio Costa Neto, Brazilian chemist (Rio de Janeiro 11 December 1932 – PROPOSED Uma notação linear para moléculas orgânicas explicítas em grupamentos funcionais e esqueletos hidrocarbônicos. Anais Acad, Bras. Ciencias 66:23, 1994 Theoretical organic geochemistry. I. An alternative model for the epimerization of hydrocarbonic chiral centers in sediments. Organic Geochem. 10:834-8, 1988 Um modelo de não-equilíbrio para o comportamento cromatográfico. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 37:580, 1965 METHODS/PATENTS With F. Feigl spot test for diketones and quinines based on catalytic effect (1956) A synthetic procedure of pyrazinamide using acetate and ethyl acrylate (patented) Perfected process for preparation of phosphoric triesters (1991) Process
- [Claudio Canut de Bon](https://neglectedscience.com/claudio-canut-de-bon/): Claudio Canut de Bon Urrutia, Chilean industrial mining engineer (1937 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Cucurella & M.E. Cisternas. Pyrobitumen related to silver-copper deposits in a Cretaceous volcanic-sedimentary sequence: Talcuna district, Coquimbo, Chile. Mineral. Polonica 36(1):9-21, 2005  With R. Coenraads. Lapis lazuli from the Coquimbo Region, Chile. Gems & Gemology 36(1):28-41, 2000 With E. Gilabert, B. Lavielle, R.B. Scorzelli, I. Souza Azevedo, G. Poupeau. The Morro de la Mina H Chondrite: a noble gas study and Mossbauer spectroscopy evidences for terrestrial alteration. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34 Suppl. p.A43 (1999) With R. Ardila, E.R. Carrascal, S. Canchaya & R. Collao. Geologia
- [Claudio Antonio Ferraz de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/claudio-antonio-ferraz-de-carvalho/): Cláudio Antonio Ferraz de Carvalho, Brazilian anatomist (Araraquara, São Paulo State 12 March 1932 – From Portuguese father Described in a systemic manner the venous vascular behavior of esophagogastric transition segment Contribuição para o estudo da angioarquitetura da zona de transição esofagogástrica e sua interpretação funcional. Doctoral Thesis (1963) Sur l’angio-architecture veineuse de la zone de transition oesophago-gastrique et son interpretation fonctionnelle. Acta Anat. 64:125-62, 1966 With C.L. Chih & A.J. Rodrigues Jr. A nervous connection between the hepatic plexus and right atrium in man, Gegenbaurs Morphol. Jahrb. 130:353-61, 1984 First to use membrane preparations for studying the myenteric plexus of
- [CHINA](https://neglectedscience.com/china/): Ping-tse Kao, Chinese astronomer (Shanghai 23 December 1888 – Taipei 23 March 1970) He was cousin of Physics Nobel prize winner Charles K. Kao’s father Honored in lunar crater Kao  Dongsheng Yan, Chinese materials scientist (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 10 February 1918 – Shanghai 18 September 2016) Developed carbon fiber reinforced composite and a new technology of bismuth germanate crystal growth  Received Life Time Membership from American Ceramic Society  Jici Yan, Chinese optician (Dongyang, Zhejiang Province 1900 – Beijing 1996) First to determine exactly the phenomenon of quartz piezoelectric laws   Honoured in minor planet 10611 Yanjici Zhifu Ni, Chinese engineer and inventor (Shanghai
- [CHILE, PARAGUAY & URUGUAY](https://neglectedscience.com/chile-paraguay-uruguay/): Arturo Atria Osorio, Chilean physician (Coquimbo 05 October 1880 – Santiago 01 April 1936) Discovered a method of isolating the smallpox vírus (1921) Developed a new teaching method for children Silabario biologico: Nuevo metodo para enseñar a leer, escribir y dotar al niño simultaneamente de los conocimientos fundamentales para la vida (1925)  Mariano Balbino Berro Bustamante, Uruguayan botanist and chronist (Lavalleja Department 08 December 1833 – 26 August 1919) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La vegetación uruguaya (1899) Las gramineas de Vera (1906) Vegetales de Uruguay: nombres vulgares (1915) HONORS Berroa Beauverd 1913 (Asteraceae) Juan Alberto Eirale Bergero, Uruguayan physician (Montevideo 04 November 1870 – 1952) Patented planes
- [Chediak Ahuayda brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/chediak-ahuayda-brothers/): Moisés Chediak Ahuayda and Alejandro Chediak Ahuayda were Cuban hematologists and serologists from Lebanese descent  Moisés Chediak Ahuayda (Santiago de Cuba 06 January 1903 – Miami, USA 02 March 1993)  Described the Chediak-Higashi disease despite the fact that the disease was discovered by Cuban A. Beguez Cesar in 1943 Chédiak, M. Nouvelle anomalie leucocytaire de caractere constitutionelle et familial. Rev. Hematologie 7:362-367, 1952. Alejandro Chediak Ahuayda (23 October 1904 – Miami, USA 13 March 1996) Developed the Chediak test for syphilis serum diagnosis using only one drop of blood  Chediak, A. El diagnostico de la sifilis practicado en una gota de sangre
- [Chaves family](https://neglectedscience.com/chaves-family/): Diocleciano Chaves López, Nicaraguan naturalist, taxidermist, folklorist and archeologist (Managua 07 April 1844 – Managua 28 October 1936) Collected plants, animals, popular names, legends, old objects and medicinal uses along Nicaragua Sent plant specimens to botanist William Maxon and Smithsonian Institute in United States Invited by diplomat English Edward J. Thorson to work at British Museum (1904) Obtained a silver medal in World Fair of Paris for high quality in dissected animals Scientific collaborator, Kokaido Imperial Academy, Japan SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Apuntes de Botanica desde el punto de vista medicinal Lepidopteros del Museo Nacional de Nicaragua Parrafitos de Geologia y Botanica Centroamericana
- [Cesco family](https://neglectedscience.com/cesco-family/): Carlos Ulrrico Cesco Marenzi, Argentine astronomer (General Arenales, Buenos Aires Province 15 September 1910 – San Juan 05 November 1987) Discovered or co-discovered at least 19 asteroids and the Cesco comet (1974) Honored in Asteroid Cesco 1571 His brother, Reynaldo Pedro Cesco Marenzi, mathematician and celestial mechanics (General Arenales, Buenos Aires Province 15 September 1905 – La Plata 11 March 1974) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P.C. Riú. Sobre el problema restringido elíptico de los tres cuerpos (1967) Deducción directa de las ecuaciones planetarias (1966) Sobre la solución general del problema de los tres cuerpos (1963) Sobre algunos teoremas y resultados de la
- [Cesar Leopoldo Camacho](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-leopoldo-camacho/): Cesar Leopoldo Camacho Manco, Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician (Lima 15 April 1943 – Internationally respected as one of great names in the field of complex dynamical systems  ACHIEVEMENTS  Established the essential analytic and geometric properties of solutions of complex differential equations Proposed a generalization of theory of real dynamical systems in his doctoral thesis  Established a generalization of Poincaré-Bendixson theorem (1973) Defined the concept of hyperbolic fixed point of an action (1973) Demonstrated that local structural stability is not a generic property for fields of lineal complex vectors and established a complete topological classification of these fields (1978) With A. Lins Neto introduced
- [Cesar Carrera](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-carrera/): Cesar José Mario Carrera, Argentine plant pathologist (1903 – after 1974) Fusarium oxysporum Schl. f. crotalariae n.f., nuevo parasito vascular de Crotalaria. Bol. Soc. Bras. Agron. 9:242-4, 1946 Estudio de una nueva enfermedad del gladiolo en la Republica Argentina. Inst. Sanidad Veg. Ser. A 3(34), 1947 Procedimientos para combatir la sarna o verruga de los citrus, Sphaceloma fawcetti. Inst. Sanid. Veg. Dept. Fitopatol. 15 (1947) Una nueva enfermedad de la caña de azucar. Inform. Invest. Agr. 2(16):15, 1949 Liquid media for the preservation of phytopathological specimens and fruits intended for the Carpological Museum. Bol. Fac. Agron. Vet (1950) El genero Fusarium: spp nuevos o criticos de la
- [Central America & Caribbe](https://neglectedscience.com/central-america-caribbe/): Gerardo Antonio del Carmen Herrera Chacón, Costa Rican plant explorer, collector and botanist (1948 –  Discovered a hundred of plant new species to science sent to researchers in your country and United States DESCBRIBED NEW PLANTAE SPECIES (with Hodel & Cascante 1997) Chamaedorea incrustata Chamaedorea piscifolia Chamaedorea rosibeliae Chamaedorea rossteniorum  John Lunan Jr, Jamaican clergyman, political personality, judge and farmer (December 1769 – 23 December 1838)  Authored Hortus Jamaicensis (1814) Honored in genus Lunania Hooker 1844 (Salicaceae) Ignacio Mullan Mena, Spanish-born Cuban naval architect (c.1750-c.1774) With father Matthew (Mateo) Mullan (Ireland ? – La Habana October 1767) & Pedro de Acosta (died 1768) designed and built
- [Castor Cartelle](https://neglectedscience.com/castor-cartelle/): Castor Cartelle Guerra, Spanish-born Brazilian paleontologist  (Puente Barjas, Orense 24 February 1938 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIA TAXA Genera Australonyx 2009 with De Iuliis & Pujos Caipora 1996 with Hartwig Eschatornis 2026 with Machado, Vasconcelos, Santos, Dutra, Camara, Dantas & Degrange Mylodonopsis 1991 Simomylodon 2010 with Saint-André, Pujos & McDonald Xenorhinotherium 1988 with Lessa Species Ahytherium aureum 2008 with De Iuliis & Pujos Alouatta mauroi 2008 with Tejedor & Rosenberger Australonyx aquae 2009 with De Iuliis & Pujos Caipora bambuiorum 1996 with Hartwig Eremotherium eomigrans 1999 with De Iuliis Eschatornis aterradora 2026 with Machado, Vasconcelos, Santos, Dutra, Camara, Dantas & Degrange Glossotherium phoenensis 2019 with de Iuliis, Boscaino & Pujos Mylodonopsis ibseni 1991 Pampatherium paulacoutoi 1984 with Bohorquez
- [Castellanos Gonzalez brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/castellanos-gonzalez-brothers/): Agustín Walfredo Castellanos Gonzalez, Cuban pediatrician and cardiologist (La Habana 12 September 1902 –Miami 07 December 2000) From Chinese and Mexican descent Authored 335 papers and monographs Created intravenous angiocardiography or radio opaque angiography (1937) With R. Pereira Valdés & A. Garcia López. La angio-cardiografia radio-opaca. Arch. Soc. Est. Clin. 523:31, 1937   Performed the first retrograde dye injection into aorta (chest retrograde aortography) and developed an automatic apparatus for rapid injection of the dye With R. Pereira Valdés & A. Garcia López. L’angiocardiographie chez l’enfant. Presse Med. 46:1474, 1938     With R. Pereira developed lower and upper cavographies Proposed quantified angiography (1939)
- [Castellanos brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/castellanos-brothers/): Alfredo Castellanos Camara, Argentine paleontologist, stratigrapher and geographer (Buenos Aires 25 July 1893 – Rosario 22 June 1975) Authored studies on paleontology, paleoanthropology, stratigraphy and geomorphology   DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Berthawyleria 1940 (in honor to his wife Bertha Wyler de Castellanos) Chlamyphractus 1940 Daedicuroides 1941 Dasypodon 1927 Eosclerophorus 1948 Glyptocoileus 1948 Glyptopedius 1953 Glyptostracon 1953 Hoffstetteria 1957 Isolinia 1951 Kraglievichia 1927 Lomaphorops 1932 Nonotherium 1942 Palaeodaedicurus 1928 Paraglyptodon 1932 Parahoplophorus 1932 Peiranoa 1946 Plaina 1937 Plohophoroides 1929 Pseudoplohophorus 1926 Pseudothoracophorus 1951 Rohnia 1957 Stromatherium 1953 Urotherium 1926 Xiphuroides 1928 HONORS Castellanosia Kraglievich 1932 (Fossil Mammalia) See www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/fisiografia/PAB/P64.pdf His brother, Alberto Castellanos Camara, botanist (Cordoba 02 December 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 05 September 1968) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Condalia megacarpa 1957 Condalia montana 1939 Deuterocohnia haumanii 1929 Deuterocohnia schreiteri 1929 Dyckia mitis 1929 Dyckia ragonesei 1944 Eriocaulon
- [Cassiano Conzatti](https://neglectedscience.com/cassiano-conzatti/): Cassiano Conzatti, Italian-born Mexican botanist (Comune di Civezzano, Trento Province 13 August 1862 – Oaxaca 02 March 1951) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Bumelia eloxochitlensis 1941 with R.E. Schultes Bumelia eriocarpa 1912 with Greenman Croton zavaletae Cyperus penicillatus 1943 Dictyanthus tigrinus 1924 with Standley Habenaria arachnea 1947 Habenaria rotundifolia 1947 Heliconia pochutlensis 1947 Iresine herrerae 1918 with Blake Jacquemontia sinuata 1897 with L.C. Smith Polypodium oaxacanum 1946 Sysirinchium longispathum 1947 HONORS Conzattia  Rose 1909 (Fabaceae)
- [Carmen Lelia Cristobal](https://neglectedscience.com/carmen-lelia-cristobal/): Carmen Lelia Cristóbal Cañé, Argentine botanist (Tafi Viejo, Tucuman Province 01 December 1932 – Married to botanist Antonio Krapovickas DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Sterculiaceae Genera Megatritheca 1965 Rayleya 1981 Sections 6 Species 87 Malvaceae Section Lebretonia (1962) with Krapovickas Species 20 espécies HONORS Cristobalia Morillo, Caceres & Keller 2015 (Apocynaceae)
- [Carlos S. Carbonell](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-s-carbonell/): Carlos Salvador Carbonell Mas, Uruguayan entomologist (Montevideo 22 December 1917 – Montevideo 15 August 2019) DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA GENERA Albinella 2002 Albrechtia 1978 with Descamps Atacamacris 1972 with Mesa Baeacris 1977 with Fraser & Rowell Carrascotettix 1995 Costalimacris 1988 with Seabra Digamacris 1989 Episomacris 1978 with Descamps Eucosmetacris 1978 with Descamps Eulampiacris 1978 with Descamps  Haroldgrantia 1967 with Ronderos & Mesa Hippariacris 1978 with Descamps Illapelia 1972 with Mesa Jagomphacerus 1995 Kyphiacris 1978 with Descamps Lamiacris 1978 Leptoteracris 1978 with Descamps Limacridium 1988 with Seabra Nepiopteracris 1978 with Descamps Orotettix 1994 with Ronderos  Pseudaristia 2002 Radacridium 1984  Rehnuciera 1969  Ronderosacris 1978 with Descamps Rowellia 2002  Scyllinula 1995 Staleochlora 1992 with Roberts Stenelutracris 1978 with Descamps Tepuiacris 2002  Tingomariacris 1978 with Descamps HONORS  Carbonellia Mateu 1968 (Coleoptera) Salvadoracris Costa 2006 (Orthoptera) Carbonellis Bentos Pereira 2006 (Orthoptera)
- [Carlos Eugenio Chardon](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-eugenio-chardon/): Carlos Eugenio Chardon Palacios, Puerto Rican plant pathologist and mycologist (Ponce 28 September 1897 – San Juan 07 March 1965) From French descent  Discovered Aphis maidis as the vector of sugar cane mosaic virus (1922) With Raphael A. Veve. The transmission of sugar cane mosaic by Aphis maidis under field conditions in Puerto Rico. Phytopathology 13:24-9, 1923 Um nuevo “Smut” de Puerto Rico. Rev. Agr. 6(4):21, 1921 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Order Coryneliales 1926 with Seaver Valid Genera Dictyochorina 1932 Glabrotheca 1939 Leptosporina 1939 Species More than a hundred HONORS (Fungi) Chardonia Ciferri 1930 Chardoniella Kern 1939
- [Carlos Eugenio Cardini](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-eugenio-cardini/): Carlos Eugenio Cardini Bellati, Argentine biochemist (Buenos Aires 09 December 1911 – Buenos Aires 10 August 1992) From Italian grandparents With R. Caputto, L.F. Leloir and A. Paladini discovered sugar nucleotides, determined its chemical nature and showed that play a key role in sugar interconversion and polysaccharides synthesis (1948) With L.F. Leloir established that in plant tissues two reactions can lead to synthesis of sucrose (1953-5) With L.F. Leloir suggested the involvement of uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine in chitin synthesis (1953) With L.F. Leloir and J. Chiriboga synthesized sucrose (1955) With L.F. Leloir described an alternative mechanism for synthesis of glycogen from UDP-glucose and
- [Carlos Clemente Cerri](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-clemente-cerri/): Carlos Clemente Cerri, Brazilian biogeochemist and pedologist (São Carlos, São Paulo State 10 November 1946 – Piracicaba, São Paulo 21 April 2017) Authored more than 250 papers, 6 books and 40 book chapters CONTRIBUTIONS With B.J. Feigl, F. Andreux, B.P. Eduardo, T. Chone & M.T.C. Piccolo. Incubador para estudo da decomposição de materiais orgânicos no solo. Rev. Bras. Cient. Solo 18:1-5, 1994 With B. Volkoff & A. Polo. Characteristiques biochimiques des acides humiques des sols tropicaux du Brésil, distinction fondamentale entre les sols equatoriaux et les sols des regions a climat tropicaux contrasté. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 307:95-100, 1988 With C.
- [Carlos Charlín Correa](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-charlin-correa/): Carlos Charlín Correa, Chilean ophthalmologist (Santiago 23 April 1885 – Santiago 31 August 1945) Gained international recognition for his studies on etiology of papilla edema Described iatrogenic diseases in ophthalmology Described pseudodeaf sign in hysterical blinds patients (Charlin Sign) Described Charlin syndrome El Nuevo Síndrome del Nervio Nasal y sus Formas Larvadas. El Dia Medico 4:35, 1931 Le syndrome du nerf nasal, Ann. Ocul. 168:86-102, 1931 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Syphilis of Orbit And Skull. Rev. Med. Chile 47:816, 1919 With C. Lobo Onell & S. Barrenechea. Albuminuric retinitis. Arch. Oftal. Hisp. Amer. 36:549-63, 1926 Symptomenkomplex bei Lasionen des N. nasalis. Arch. Oftalm. Buenos Aires 5:132,
- [Carlos Chagas Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-chagas-filho/): Carlos Chagas Filho, Brazilian biophysicist (Rio de Janeiro 12 September 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 16 February 2000) Son of Carlos Chagas (filho means son in Portuguese)  ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 200 scientific papers Described action of curare and curare-like action substances in electro plaque Discovered that electro plaques have 2 kinds of excitability  Explained operating mechanism of Electrophorus electricus electrical organ    Discovered central nucleus that commands electrical discharges in medula oblongata of the eel Described micro heterogeneity of desmin in electrical organ of poraquê (Electrophorus electricus)  Identified nicotinic receptor in poraquê (Electrophorus electricus) Showed that acetylcholine played a role in the process of electric
- [Carlos Chagas](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-chagas/): Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das Chagas, Brazilian physician (Oliveira, Minas Gerais State 09 July 1878 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1934) Regarded as world authority on hygiene and tropical pathology ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered and described Chagas disease (1909), identifying etiologic agent (Trypanosoma cruzi), studying its biology and morphology, way of transmission, clinical manifestations, general principles of its epidemiology, its wild reservoir and intermediate host Nova tripanozomiase humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen; n.sp; ajente  etiologico de nova entidade mórbida. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 1:159-218, 1909.  Described Chagasic cardiopathy (1922) With Eurico Villela. Forma cardiaca da tripanosomiase Americana.
- [Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-goncalves-da-cruz/): Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, Brazilian herpetologist and ichthyologist (1944 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Amphibia Genus Phasmahyla 1990 Species Aplastodiscus arildae 1987 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus cavicola 1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus flumineus1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus ibirapitinga 2003 with Pimenta & Silvano Aplastodiscus leucopygius 1985 with Peixoto Aplastodiscus lutzorum 2017 with Berneck, Giaretta, Brandão & Haddad Aplastodiscus sibilatus 2003 with Pimenta & Silvano Aplastodiscus weygoldtii 1987 with Peixoto Boana bandeirantes 2013 with Caramaschi Boana beckeri 2004 with Caramaschi Boana botumirim 2009 with Caramaschi & Nascimento Boana buriti 1999 with Caramaschi Boana ericae 2000 with Caramaschi Boana jaguariaivensis 2010 with Caramaschi & Segalla Boana latistriata 2004 with Caramaschi Boana phaeopleura 2000 with Caramaschi Boana stenocephala 1999 with Caramaschi Bokermannohyla gouveai 1992 with Peixoto Brachycephalus pulex 2011
- [Carlos Alberto Castaño](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-castano/): Carlos Alberto Castaño Bazterrica, Argentine gynecologist (Buenos Aires 26 December 1887 – Buenos Aires 1964) CONCEPTS Proposed the concept of uterine pseudo-fibroma With A.J. Risolia named ovariopatic metrorrhagies in Prensa Med. Arg (1921) Pointed out that gonorrhea may produce genuine syphilitic adnexitis Syphilitic lesions in uterine adnexa. Semana Medica 25(44), 1918 Nuevo concepto etiopatogenico de los fibromiomas uterinos. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. Univ. Buenos Aires 1(2):35-9, 1925 Etiologie et pathogenie des fibromyomes uterins. Conception nouvelle. Bull. Soc. Obst. Gyn. Paris 3:174, 1926 SIGNS Proposed Castaño sign or pudendal point (erotic pain) for pelvic varicocele Un nuevo signo para el diagnostico de la
- [Camargo family](https://neglectedscience.com/camargo-family/): Theodureto Leite de Almeida Camargo, Brazilian pedologist and agricultural chemist (São Carlos, São Paulo State 22 September 1880 – São Paulo 05 May 1958) Authored works with great repercussion in the country and abroad Proposed a recipe for manuring orangeries Developed Theodureto Camargo method for dosage of nitrogen of caffeine and mono and diaminate acids (1921) With pomologist João Herrmann first to designate soybean as green fertilizer for depleted lands (1930) Proposed a method for determining NaOH or KOH in titrated liquids With R. Hottinger. Determinação da soda ou potassa nos líquidos titulados. Rev. Soc. Cient. S. Paulo 2(9-10):129-32, 1907 SOME
- [Birendra Singh Chauhan](https://neglectedscience.com/birendra-singh-chauhan/): Birendra Singh Chauhan, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh 02 May 1915 – Narsinghapur, Madhya Pradesh 04 February 2007) Authored more than 80 papers  DESCRIBED HELMINTHS TAXA Subfamilies Priceinae 1953 Aspidogasterinae 1954 Cotylaspidinae 1954 Genera Ahemiuris 1954 (Trematoda) Baughbilharzia 1974 with Srivastava (Digenea) Bilaterocotyle 1945 (Trematoda) Pricea 1945 (Trematoda) HONORS Chauhanea Ramalingam 1953 (Trematoda) Chauhanotrema Zhukov 1972 (Trematoda) Chauhanocotyle Khoche & Dad 1975 (Monogenea) Chauhanellus Bychowsky & Nagibina 1969 (Monogenea) Birendracoccus Ali 1975 (Homoptera) 
- [Benjamin David Cabrera](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-david-cabrera/): Benjamin David Cabrera, Philippine parasitologist (Tarlac 18 March 1920 – 07 August 2001) Authored over 100 scientific works concerning medical parasitology and public health Elucidated the epidemiology and life cycles of filarial parasites Proposed a model to control ascariasis Developed innovations in drug treatments against parasitic diseases 
- [Beatriz Lydia Coira](https://neglectedscience.com/beatriz-lydia-coira/): Beatriz Lydia Luisa Coira, Argentine petrologist (1941- SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E.O. Zappettini, J. Santos, C.E. Cisterna, E.A. Belousova. Combined U-pb and Lu-Hf isotope study from the Las Lozas volcanic, northwestern Argentina: Evidence of juvenile Cryogenian-derived, lower Pennsylvanian volcanism in western Gondwana. J. South Amer. Earth Sciences 59:13-8, 2015 With P. Mulcahy, C. Chen, S.M. Kay, L.D. Brown, B.L. Isacks, E. sandvol. B. Heit & X. Yuan. Central Andean mantle and crustal seismicity beneath the Southern Puna plateau and the northern margin of the Chilean-Pampean flat slab. Tectonics 33:1636-58, 2014  With S.M. Kay, P.J. Caffe & C.H. Chen. Regional chemical diversity, crustal
- [Banawari Lal Chaudhuri](https://neglectedscience.com/banawari-lal-chaudhuri/): Banawari Lal Chaudhuri, Indian ichthtyologist (1866-1931) DESCRIBED FISH TAXA  Genera Aborichthys 1913 Species Aborichthys kempi 1913 Amblyceps murraystuarti 1919 Bangana almorae 1912 Barilius bonarensis 1912 Batasio merianiensis 1913 Bathygobius ostreicola 1916 Botia birdi 1909 Botia lohachata 1912 Channa burmanica 1919 Devario annandalei 1908 Devario naganensis 1912 Labeo yunnanensis 1911 Lepidocephalichthys annandalei 1912 Monopterus hodgarti 1913 Mystus dibrugarensis 1913 Mystus pulcher 1911 Olyra kempi 1912 Poropuntius cogginii 1912 Rasbora kobonensis 1913 Schistura manipurensis 1912 Schizothorax molesworthi 1913 Semiplotus cirrhosus 1919 Trixiphichthys weberi 1910 HONORS  Chaudhuria Annandale 1918 (Fishes)
- [Baatar Chadraa](https://neglectedscience.com/baatar-chadraa/): Baatar Chadraa, Mongolian nuclear physicist (1939 – 2016)   Discovered Dh resonance at proton-proton interaction Observed unprecedented nuclear reactions in the interaction between photo emulsion and cosmic rays Developed methodology for improving bubble chambers   
- [Augusto Manuel Casalá](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-manuel-casala/): Augusto Manuel Casalá, Argentine dermatologist (? – 20 December 2014)  Co-described Alezzandrini syndrome With A.A. Alezzandrini. Vitiligo, poliosis unilateral com retinitis pigmentaria y hipoacusia. Arch. Arg. Dermatol. 9:449, 1959 Proposed  itching purpura as a separated identity With S.J. Mosto. Disseminated pruriginous angiodermatitis (itching purpura). Arch. Dermatol. 91(4):351-6, 1965 With J. Abulafia, A.M. Kowalczuk, C.A. Bianchi & O. Bianchi described the unilateral multiple perifolicular fibromes and its histogenesis (1983) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.B. Cannavó, M.C. Kien & H.L. Squiquera. Mancha mongolica y otras melanocitosis dermicas. Arch. Arg. Dermatol. 36(6):375-81, 1986 With R. Galimberti, E.N. Chouela & V. Flores. Ketoconazol suspension oral adultos
- [Augusto Cicare](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-cicare/): Augusto Ulderico Cicaré Ercoli, Argentine mechanical engineer (Polvaredas, Saladillo Department, Buenos Aires Province 25 May 1937 – Saladillo Department, Buenos Aires Province 26 January 2022) From Italian ancestry Regarded as a world reference in this field and a world pioneer in ultralight helicopters Many helicopter companies have based their developments on ultra-light helicopters developed by his company DESIGNED A new four-strokes engine with 4-V cylinders for use in DKW automobiles (1960s) A new fuel axial type injection pump for Diesel engines (1987) A four cylinder, two strokes aircraft engine with 60HP Oil recovery pumps that can be found in most racing
- [Asim Cenani](https://neglectedscience.com/asim-cenani/): Asim Cenani, Turkish pediatrician and geneticist (Gaziantep 24 May 1931 – First reported case of a female patient mosaic for a supernumerary small marker chromosome derived from X With A. Silahtaroglu, S. Hacihanefioglu, S. Yilmaz, Y. Tarkan-Arguden & Z. Turner. A small supernumerary marker chromosome X identified by in situ hybridization. Clin. Genet. 47(5):270-3, 1995 DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES With W. Lenz. Totale syndaktylie und totale radio-ulnare Synostose bei zwei Bruedern. Z. Kinderheilkd. 101 (3):181-90, 1967 (Cenani-Lenz syndactyly) With A.N. Mindikoglu & A. Erginel. An unknown syndrome of nose deformity, oxycephaly, aplasia of the nasolacrimal ducts, and symmetrical cyst formation on the upper
- [Ascensión Laurentino Cabrera](https://neglectedscience.com/ascension-laurentino-cabrera/): Ascención Laurentino Cabrera, Argentine astronomer and geodesist (1917 – 27 February 2003) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Feinstein & J.J. Claria. Multicolor photometry of the open cluster NGC 2287 (1978) With A. Feinstein & J.C. Forte. The total lunar eclipse of May 24-25 (1975) HONORS Asteroid Cabrera 2997
- [Arturo Curbelo](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-curbelo/): Arturo Curbelo Hernandez, Cuban bacteriologist (Pinar del Río 01 September 1901 – La Habana 21 April 1973) Authored 264 papers and 11 books Discovered the etiology of epidemic ileocolitis Proposed Havana doctrine or Escherichia coli pathogenicity Metodo ideal de administración del Lactobacillus acidophilus con fines terapeuticos. Rev. Med. Cubana (1931) With Reinaldo Marquez Camacho discovered new serotypes: Salmonella cubana (1945) & Salmonella havana (1937) Authored the book chapter Fever due to rat bite including sodoku in Clinical Laboratory Methods and Diagnosis by Robert Gradwohl (1943)
- [Arturo Carrion](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-carrion/): Arturo Lorenzo Carrión Pacheco, Puerto Rican medical mycologist and epidemiologist (Rio Piedras 15 August 1893 – San Juan October 1990) Described the fungal species Rhinocladiella compacta 1935 Reported that Fonsecaea pedrosoi could be the etiological agent of chromomycosis (1935) With C.W. Emmons. A spore form common to three etiologic agents of chromoblastomycosis. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:114, 1935 Chromobiomycosis: new clinical type caused by Hormodendron compactum. Puerto Rico J. Publ. Health Trop. Med. 11:663, 1936 Cephalosporium falciforme sp.nov., a new etiologic agent of maduromycosis. Mycologia 43:522-3, 1951 Chromoblastomycosis and related infections. New concepts, differential diagnosis and nomenclatural implications. Int. J. Dermat. 14:27-32, 1975 Eponym of
- [Armando & Candida Helena Conagin](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-candida-helena-conagin/): Armando Conagin, Brazilian biostatistician (Campinas, São Paulo State 19 January 1922 – Campinas, São Paulo State 14 May 2018) DEVELOPED / MODIFIED STATISTICAL TESTS With D. Barbin & C.G.B. Demetrio. Modified Dunnett’s test for a randomized complete block design. Rev. Bras. Biom. 29(4):559-610, 2011 With D. Barbin & C.G.B. Demetrio. Modifications for the Tukey test procedure and evaluation of the power and efficiency of multiple comparison procedures. Scientia Agricola 65:428-32, 2008 With D, Barbin. Bonferroni’s and Sidak’s modified tests. Scientia Agricola 63:70-6, 2006 With L.A. Ambrosio. Delineamento 1/8 (44) em blocos de 16 unidades. Braz. J. Agric. 81(2), 2006 Discriminative power
- [Aristides Marques da Cunha](https://neglectedscience.com/aristides-marques-da-cunha/): Aristides Marques da Cunha, Brazilian protozoologist (Rio Grande do Sul State 18 February 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 29 August 1949) ACHIEVEMENTS With J. Muniz definitely showed the existence of chromatin in bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) Studied in details the endomixia in Ciliata (with J. Muniz & G. de Freitas) Showed that the pandemic flu was a virosis independently With O. Magalhães & O. Fonseca. Estudos experimentais sobre a influenza pandemica. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 10:174-91, 1918 Discovered American Visceral Leishmaniasis and described Leishmania chagasi  With E. Chagas. Estudos sobre o parasita. In: Leishmaniose Visceral Americana, nova entidade mórbida do homem na América
- [Antonio Paes de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-paes-de-carvalho/): Antonio Paes de Carvalho, Brazilian electrical physiologist and entrepneur (Rio de Janeiro 13 June 1935 – Rio de Janeiro 17 September 2021) Authored at least 28 papers, 5 books and 10 book chapters Obtained the first record of cellular electrical activity in atrioventricular node   With Brian F. Hoffman. Transmembrane potential of single fibers of the atrioventricular node. Nature 181:66-7, 1958 Discovered the specialized pathways of atrial conduction and characterized its electrical activity With W.C. Mello & B.F. Hoffman. Electrophysiological evidence for specialized fiber types in rabbit atrium. Am. J. Physiol.  196:483-8, 1959 First description of mechanism of puncture and slow conduction by
- [Antonio Frederico Campaner](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-frederico-campaner/): Antonio Frederico Campaner, Brazilian carcinologist (São Paulo State 1945 – 18 August 1989) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Family Phyllopidae 1977 Genera Paracomantenna 1978 Sarsarietellus 1984 Species Paramisophria giselae 1977 Brachycalanus bjornbergae 1978 Bradyidius plinioi 1978 Paracomantenna magalyae 1978 Xanthocalanus marlyae 1978 Scolecitrichopsis pseudoculata 1979 Gaussia asymmetrica 1988 with Bjornberg HONORS Campaneria Ohtsuka, Boxshall & Roe 1994 (Crustacea)
- [Antonio del Castillo](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-del-castillo/): José Antonio del Castillo Patiño, Mexican geologist, paleontologist and mineralogist (Pungarabato, Michoacán State 17 June 1820 – Ciudad de Mexico 27 October 1895) Authored 79 scientific works Described and named 2 new mineral species, guanajuatite (1873) and the variety guadalcazarite (1865) With M. Barcena discovered Peñon man (1884) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Mammalia Palauchenia mexicana 1869 Mollusca (with Aguilera 1895) Aptychus mexicanus Aspidoceras alamitosensis Cucullaea catorcensis Cyprimeria mexicana Cyprina coteroi   Exogyra potosina Goniomyia calderoni Haploceras carinata Haploceras catorcensis Haploceras mazapilensis Hoplites bifurcatus Hoplites cohglani Hoplites exceptionalis Hoplites heilprini Hoplites mexicanus Lucina coetoi Lucina potosina Lytoceras potosina Nautilus burkarti Olcostephanus potosinus Perisphinctes alamitosensis Perisphinctes
- [Antonio de la Cal y Bracho](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-de-la-cal-y-bracho/): Antonio de La Cal y Bracho, Spanish-born Mexican pharmacist and botanist  (Anguix, Ribera de Duero, Burgos 1764 – Puebla, July 1833) Authored Ensayo para la material medica mexicana (1832), Tablas botanicas (1825) and many studies about culture and uses of hemp plant Honored in genus  Calibrachoa La Llave & Lexarza 1825 (Solanaceae)
- [Antonio da Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-da-costa/): Antonio da Costa, Brazilian surgeon (Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1816 – Rio de Janeiro 07 July 1860) Published 32 works in Portuguese and French some of which were presented in Academie de Medicine de Paris Invented surgical instruments for lithotomy French surgeon Alfred Velpeau nicknamed him Brazilian Lisfranc
- [Antonio Carlos Martins de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-carlos-martins-de-camargo/): Antonio Carlos Martins de Camargo, Brazilian biochemist (São Carlos, São Paulo State 19 January 1937 – Authored over 190 papers Isolated and characterized two peptidases correspondent to a new class of proteases (EOPA/NUDEL and Prolyloligopeptidase) and the first kininases from nervous tissue With R. Shapanka & L.J. Greene. Preparation, assay and partial characterization of a neutral endopeptidase from rabbit brain. Biochem. 12:1838-44, 1973 With E.B. Oliveira & A.R. Martins. Isolation of brain endopeptidases: influence of size and sequence of substrates structurally related to bradykinin. Biochem. 15:1967-74, 1976  Isolated and characterized the precursor of bradykinin-potentiating peptides and C-type natriuretic peptides from snake
- [Antonio Carini](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-carini/): Antonio Carini, Italian / Brazilian microbiologist and parasitologist (Sondrio, Lombardy Region 17 September 1872 – Milano 09 April 1950) ACHIEVEMENTS Described lamellar ichthyosis or Carini syndrome Di una forma attenuate della cosidetta “ittiosi sebacea” (I. lamellare). Giorn. Ital. delle Malad. Ven. Pelle 82, 1895 Demonstrated that swine croup (garrotilho dos porcos) is blood anthrax (1909) Described a generalized mycosis in frogs and toads analogous to verrucous dermatitis Sur une moissisure qui cause une maladie spontane de Leptodactylus pentadactylus. Ann. Pasteur (1910) With Parreiras Horta discovered that bats can transmit rabies (1911). This fact was confirmed by German scientists in 1914 Sobre a epizootia da raiva observada
- [Antonio Brito da Cunha](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-brito-da-cunha/): Antonio Brito da Cunha, Brazilian geneticist (São Paulo 17 June 1925 – Brasilia 02 December 2019) Proposed the adaptive polymorphism (genetic variability correlated to degree of ecological diversity of environment that species live) With H. Burla & T. Dobzhansky. Adaptive chromosomal polymorphism in Drosophila willistoni. Evolution 4(3):212-35, 1950 Others Developed a cage for Drosophila populations Genetic analysis of the polymorphism of color pattern in Drosophila polymorpha. Evolution 3:239-51, 1949  With W.E. Kerr. A genetical theory to explain sex determination by arrhenotokous parthenogenesis. Forma et Functio 1:33-6, 1957 Developed a method for chromosomal analysis taking account the location of lethal factors and its interrelationships With L.E. Magalhães
- [Antonio Barros de Ulhoa Cintra](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-barros-de-ulhoa-cintra/): Antonio Barros de Ulhoa Cintra, Brazilian internist and endocrinologist (São Paulo 13 September 1907 – São Paulo 23 December 1998) DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES Described a new disease entity, a variation of Fanconi syndrome, characterized by lack of the glycosuric element in his thesis Doenças Osseas Metabólicas (1949) Reported the first case in the literature of the incidence in the male With A.L. de Almeida, H.L. de Oliveira & E. Mattar. Syndrome characterized by nanism, gonadal insufficiency and congenital deformities with normal function of the anterior pituitary. Arq. Clin. 10(2-3):94-102, 1950 Described a syndrome of amenorrhoea, galactorrhoea and primary hypothyroidism With A.R. Hennes
- [Antenor Leitão de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/antenor-leitao-de-carvalho/): Antenor Leitão de Carvalho, Brazilian zoologist (Barreira do Piquete, São Paulo State 15 April 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 11 December 1985) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Amphibia Genera Arcovomer 1954 Hamptophryne 1954 Hyophryne 1954 Macrogenioglottus 1946 Myersiella 1954 Paratelmatobius 1958 with Lutz Relictivomer 1954 Synapturanus 1954 Species Arcovomer passarellii 1954 Hyophryne histrio 1954 Macrogenioglottus alipioi 1946 Paratelmatobius lutzii 1958 with B. Lutz  Rhinella dapsilis 1945 with Myers Rhinella pygmaea 1952 with Myers Pisces Genera Sartor 1959 with Myers Simpsonichthys 1959 Species Simpsonichthys boitonei 1959 Simpsonichthys bokermanni 1987 with da Cruz Simpsonichthys myersi 1971 Fluviphylax pygmaeus 1955 with Myers Sartor respectus 1959 Reptilia Species Anolis phyllorhinus 1945 with Myers Siagonodon cupinensis 1946 with Bailey Subspecies Caiman latirostris chacoensis 1965 with Freiberg HONORS  Carvalhodesmus Schubart 1945 (Myriapoda)
- [Anisio Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/anisio-campos/): José Anisio Barbosa de Campos, Brazilian automobile designer (São Paulo 06 March 1933 – São Paulo 14 September 2019) Designed Puma models (GT, DKW & UW) that was the first Brazilian vehicle to be sold abroad to more than 50 countries The only model of a Brazilian company to be manufactured under license in another country (South Africa in 1973) The one national brand car on display at Volkswagen Museum at Wolfsburg, Germany DESIGNED CAR MODELS Puma GT DKW (1964) Carcará (1966) with Rino Malzoni (died 1979) & Jorge Lettry Simca Xangô (1966) AC biposto de corrida (1968) Puma GT 4R
- [Angsumarn Chandrapatya](https://neglectedscience.com/angsumarn-chandrapatya/): Angsumarn Chandrapatya, Thai agricultural acarologist (Bangkok 09 November 1950 –  Authored over 100 publications DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Areekulus 1998 Azimaberoptus 1993 Bachinius 1997 Bamboocarus 2002 Bangkophyes 2001 with Boczek Bischofius 2000 with Boczek Casearius 2001 with Boczek Chonburinus 2000 with Boczek Combretus 2001 with Boczek Criocarpus 2000 with Boczek Daengarius 2018 with Konvipasruang Duabangus 2000 with Boczek Ekaphyes 2000 with Boczek Garcinyes 2000 with Boczek Jaranasia 2000 with Boczek Jutarus 1989 with Boczek Kanphra 2018 with Konvipasruang Kasetsarus 1997 Khamproka 2015 with Konvipasruang Khanthongella 2015 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Kosacarus 2014 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Kradukarus 2016 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Lamyacarus 2016 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Lithocarus 2000 with Boczek Longanella 2016 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Makruta 2015 with Konvipasruang & Amrine Mangophyes 2001 with Boczek
- [Angelo Paes de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/angelo-paes-de-camargo/): Angelo Paes de Camargo, Brazilian agricultural climatologist (Paraibuna, São Paulo State 14 July 1916 – Campinas, São Paulo State 30 May 2008) ACHIEVEMENTS / METHODS Modified the Thornthwaite nomogram Contribuição para a determinação da evapotranspiração potencial no Estado de São Paulo. Bragantia 21:163-203, 1962 Presented a new equation for estimating potential evapotranspiration (Camargo technique) Balanço hídrico no estado de São Paulo. Boletim Inst Agron. Campinas 116, 1971 Proposed c, a new index of performance With P.C. Sentelhas. Avaliação do desempenho de diferentes métodos de estimativa da evapotranspiração potencial no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Rev. Bras. Agrometeor. 5(1):89-97, 1997 Defined the
- [Nelson Leandro Cerqueira](https://neglectedscience.com/nelson-leandro-cerqueira/): Nelson Leandro Cerqueira, Brazilian entomologist (Salvador 27 February 1901 – Manaus 24 June 1969) CONTRIBUTIONS Described the role of Phlebotominae diptera in leishmaniasis transmission Described mansonelliasis life cycle (1959-60) TECHNIQUES Developed Nelson Cerqueira mounting method for small insects and a fluid for this purpose Novo meio para a montagem de pequenos insetos em lâminas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 39:37-41, 1943  DESCRIBED DIPTERA Genera/Subgenera Antunesmyia 1942 with Lane Apicomyia 1943 with Shannon Cheilosia (Chilomyia) with Shannon 1943 Cruzmyia 1942 with Lane Davismyia 1942 with Lane Johnbelkinia 1942 with Lane Limamyia 1942 with Lane Shannoniana 1942 with Lane Trichoprosopon 1942 with Lane Vonplessenia 1942 with Lane Species At least 69 new species HONORS Cerqueirellum Py-Daniel
- [Nathaniel Costes](https://neglectedscience.com/nathaniel-costes/): Nathaniel Costes, French-born Chilean priest (1875 – 23 September 1924) Collector of mosses Authored Nomenclatura de los principales musgos de la Hoya de Marga-Marga (Quilpué – Provincia de Valparaiso). Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 130-2, 1921 Honored in genus Costesia Theriot 1917 (Musci)
- [N. Chandrasekharan Nair](https://neglectedscience.com/n-chandrasekharan-nair/): Narayana Pillai Chandrasekharan Nair, Indian botanist (Perunna, Kerala 19 August 1927 – Described at least 43 new plant species Honored in genus Chandrasekharania V.J. Nair et al. 1982 (Poaceae)
- [Mukunda Murari Chakravarty](https://neglectedscience.com/mukunda-murari-chakravarty/): Mukunda Murari Chakravarty, Indian protozoologist (Mymensingh, today Bangladesh 04 October 1904 – Calcutta 28 June 1976) DESCRIBED TAXA Suborder Aseptatorina Superfamilies Porosporicae 1960 Gregarinicae 1960 Family Sphaerocystidae 1960 Genera Hyalosporina 1935 Mesnilium 1972 with Misra & Haldar Monoductus 1933 with Ray Quadruspinospora Sarkar 1969 HONORS (Protozoa) Chakravartiella Misra & Raychaudhury 1973 Mukundaella Sarkar 1981
- [Mischa Cotlar](https://neglectedscience.com/mischa-cotlar/): Mischa Cotlar, Ukrainian-born Argentine mathematician (Sarny, Rivne Oblast Province 01 August 1913 – Buenos Aires 16 January 2007) His father, Ovsey Cotlar (1879-1952) is rembered in Lasker-Cotlar variant (chess)    ACHIEVEMENTS Enunciated the transfer principle in modern ergodic theory and ergodic Hilbert transform (1955) Introduced the notion of quasi-orthogonality Introduced quasi-orthogonal lemma for self-adjoint operators known as Cotlar-Stein lemma (1955) With C. Sadosky introduced the concept of generalized Toeplitz kernels (1979) and the notion of algebraic scattering systems (1987) Introduced the notion of “total”  EPONYMY Cotlar theorem Cotlar-Sadosky lifting theorem (1979) Cotlar-Sadosky extension theorem Cotlar-Sadosky algebraic scattering systems Cotlar inequalities Toeplitz-Krein-Cotlar triplets
- [Minchen Chow](https://neglectedscience.com/minchen-chow/): Minchen Chow or Ming-zhen Zhou, Chinese paleontologist (Shanghai 09 November 1918 – 04 January 1996) Authored over 100 scientific papers and 5 monographs DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA GENERA Mammalia Altilambda 1978 with Wang Bahomys 1965 with Li Bemalambda 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting 1973 Chailicyon 1975 Chungchienia 1963 Convallisodon 1978 with Qi Dissacusium 1977 with Zhang, Wang & Ding Eoentelodon 1958 Honanodon 1965 Hukoutherium 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Ilianodon 1961 with Xu  Juxia 1964 with Chiu Klamelia 1984 with Rich Kuanchuanius 1963 Lambdopsalis 1978 with Qi Lantianius 1964 Liaotherium 1991 with Chen & Wang Linnania 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Lofochaius 1973 with Chang, Wang & Ting Lophoodon 1973 with Li & Chang Lunania 1957 Lushiamynodon 1965 with Xu Lushius 1961 Metacoryphodon 1982 with
- [Miguel Rolando Covian](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-rolando-covian/): Miguel Rolando Covián Bello, Argentine-born Brazilian neurophysiologist (Rufino, Santa Fé Province 07 September 1913 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 05 February 1992) Known internationally for his studies on the limbic system physiology One of the discoverers of the endocrine system control by several suprahypothalamic brain structures    Obtained the first results indicating the importance of neural control of saline ingestion Established the importance of limbic area for brain circuitry that controls the sodium appetite and hydro-mineral balance (1975)
- [Miguel Couto](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-couto/): Miguel de Oliveira Couto, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 01 May 1865 – Rio de Janeiro 06 June 1934) ACHIEVEMENTS Created the notion of hematogenous jaundice   Described fatty degeneration of visceral organs or Couto’s disease Da Polysteatose visceral curavel. Arch. Bras. Med. 4:475-83, 1914. Described Miguel Couto circular murmur, a murmur with circular propagation in serious mitral insufficiency  Les bruits des souffle circulaires de l’insuffisance mitrale. arch. Malad. du Coeur, des Vaisseaux et du Sang, p.717, 1912.  Remembered in Miguel Couto’s sign seen in ascites        With Azevedo Sodré published a classical monograph about yellow fever Das Gelb-Fieber. In Nothnagel, H. Spezielle
- [Miguel Cerda](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-cerda/): Miguel H. Cerda Gonzalez, Chilean entomologist (Angol, Cautín Province, Araucania Region 1923 – Santiago de Chile 11 October 1996) DESCRIBED VALID COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Huequenia 1980 Paraholopterus 1986 with Cekalovic Vilchesia 1980 Species Acalodegma vidali 2002 with Elgueta Acanthinodera cummingi 1986 Apyrauna larsoni 1980 Brachychilus wagenknechti 1954 Callisphyris auriventris 1993 Callisphyris fritzi 1968 Callisphyris uretai 1963 Cerdaia testacea 1980 Emphytoecia camousseighti 1995 Emphytoecia eliquiensis 1995 Hephaestion auratum 1968 Hephaestion bullocki 1968 Hephaestion tolhuaca 1995 Huequenia araucana 1980 Malcho chilensis 1968 Paraectropsis decoratus 1953 Paraholopterus nahuelbutensis 1986 with Cekalovic Parepimelitta barriai 1968 Penessada chilensis 1963 Planopus octaviusbarrosi 1968 Pseudocephalus auromaculatus 1980 Stenophantes herrerai 1987 Stenophantes martinezi 1980 Stenorhopalus andinus 1968 Stenorhopalus monsalvei 1954 Stenorhopalus valdiviensis 1995 Stromatium chilensis 1968 Syllitus beltrani 1968 Syllitus elguetai 1991 Tacyba maculata 1988 Tillomorpha roitmani 1993 Tuberopeplus krahmeri 1980 Vilchesia valenciai 1980 Xenocompsa martinsi 1980
- [Miguel Canela](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-canela/): Miguel Francisco Canela Lazaro, Dominican anatomist and botanist (Santiago de los Caballeros 29 September 1894 – Santo Domingo 01 December 1977) From Chinese grandfather With H. Rouviere discovered peroneo-astragalo-calcaneo ligament or Rouviere-Canela ligament  With H. Rouviere, Le ligament Peroneo-Astragalo-Calcanee. Ann. Anat. Pahol. 9:745-50, 1932 Described the joint íleo superficial bundle of iliac sacrum ligament or Hakim-Canela bundle With M. Hakim. Recherches sur l’articulation sacro-iliaque chez l’homme et chez les anthropoides. Ann. Anat. Path. Anat. Norm. Med-Chir. (1937) Authored important studies about lymphatic system in Germany Connexiones ganglionaires de las lynfatiques del uterus. Presse Med. 76 (1934) Discovered anormal forms of renal
- [Messias Carrera](https://neglectedscience.com/messias-carrera/): Messias Cassaña Carrera, Brazilian entomologist (São Paulo 30 May 1907 – São Paulo 02 December 1994) Authored 68 papers DESCRIBED VALID DIPTERA TAXA  Genera Aczelia 1955 Alvarenga 1962 Aspidopyga 1949 Austenmyia 1955 Cleptomyia 1949 Eraxasilus 1959 Ichneumolaphria 1951  Leinendera 1945 Macahyba 1947 Neodiogmites 1949 Paramydas 1948 with D’Andretta Schizoceratomyia 1947 with Lane & Souza Lopes Seabramyia 1962 Stenasilus 1962 Tocantinia 1955 Species 115 HONORS (Diptera) Carreraia Correa 1947   Messiasia D’Andretta 1951   Carreraomyia Cole 1969  Carrerapyrgota Aczel 1956 
- [Melbourne Armstrong Carriker](https://neglectedscience.com/melbourne-armstrong-carriker/): Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr, US-born Colombian entomologist and ornithologist (Sullivan, Illinois State 14 February 1879 – Bucamaranga 27 July 1965) Recognized as a world authority on Neotropical genera of Mallophaga DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mallophaga Genera Ardeiphagus 1949 Austrokelloggia 1936 Colinicola 1945 Corvicola 1949 Cotingacola 1956 Cracimenopon 1954 Cuclotocephalus 1936 Cuclotogaster 1936 Desumenopon 1954 Discocorpus 1936 Ditopos 1956 Docophorocotes 1936 Eiconolipeurus 1945 Epiara 1954 Epicolinus 1945 Epipectus 1966 Epipsittacus 1944 Formicaphagus 1957 Formicaricola 1957 Furnaricola 1944 Heptagoniodes 1936 Heptapsogaster 1936 Heptarthrogaster 1936 Heptasus 1936 Heterogoniodes 1936 Heterokodeia 1954 Heteromenopon 1954 Heteropeosteus 1944 Hirundiniella 1963 Hoazinia 1940 Hypocrypturellus 1940 Kelloggia 1903 Lamprocorpus 1936 Megaginus 1936 Megapeosteus 1936 Mimemamenopon 1958 Nirmocotes 1936 Nothocotus 1936 Ornicholax 1903 Passonomedea 1944 Pseudocophorus 1940 Pseudolipeurus 1936 Pseudophilopterus 1936 Psittacobrosus 1954 Ramphasticola 1949 Rhyncothura 1936 Sakoskida 1953 Tinamicola 1936 Tinamotaecola 1944 Trichodomedea 1945 Trichodopeosteus 1936 Trochiliphagus 1960 Tyrannicola 1956 Families (4 subfamilies) Heptasogastridae 1936 Trochiliphagidae 1960 Species / Subespecies 866 Aves Species Anairetes alpinus 1933
- [Meemann Chang](https://neglectedscience.com/meemann-chang/): Meemann Chang or Miman Zhang, Chinese paleontologist (Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 17 April 1936 – Eponym of Chang apparatus, an organ of antiarch placoderms   DESCRIBED FOSSIL PISCES GENERA Chetungichthys 1974 with Chow Dezaoia 2021 with Su & Chen Diabolepis 1987 with Yu Diabolichthys 1984 with Yu Ecocarpia 2005 with Chen & Fang  Eoctenopharyngodon 2021 with Su & Chen   Eoprocypris 2015 with Chen & Liu  Eoxenocypris 1996 with Chen & Tong 1996 Erikia 1995 with Wang Fuchunkiangia 1974 with Chow Guiclupea 2021 with Chen, Wu & Liao   Hsianwenia 2007 with Wang, Liu, Miao, Zhao, Wu, Liu, Li, Sun & Wang   Huashancyprinus 2011 with Chen Huashia 1974 with Chow Jinjuichthys 2014 with Kim, Chang, Wu & Kim Kenichthys 1993 with
- [María Elena Caso](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-elena-caso/): Maria Elena Caso Muñoz, Mexican marine zoologist (Ciudad de Mexico 18 December 1915 –Ciudad de Mexico 23 October 1991) Daughter of famous philosopher Antonio Caso Andrade Authored over 60 works Her studies on echinoderms  earned international repercussion DESCRIBED ECHINODERM TAXA FAMILIES Platasteriidae 1945 Ophionereididae 1963 GENERA Paraholothuria 1964 Parathyonacta 1984 SPECIES Acanthaster pseudoplanci 1962 Amphiodia guillermosoberoni 1979 Astropecten caribemexicanensis 1990 Holothuria riojai 1963 Holothuria (Selenkothuria) portovallartensis 1954 Holothuria (Thymiosycia) zihuatanensis 1964 Ophioderma sodipallaresi 1985 Parathyonacta bonifaznunoi 1984 Psolus conchae 1984
- [Martín Cardenas](https://neglectedscience.com/martin-cardenas/): Martín Cardenas Hermosa, Bolivian agronomist and botanist (Villa Rivero, Punata Province, Cochabamba Department 12 November 1899 – Cochabamba 13 February 1973) DESCRIBED TAXA Genera (Cactaceae) Bolivicereus 1951 Castellanosia 1951 Samaipaticereus 1952 Others Described at least 223 species, 25 varieties and 20 forms mainly in Cactaceae and Solanaceae HONORS Cardenanthus Foster 1945 (Iridaceae) Cardenasiodendron Barkley 1954 (Anacardiaceae) Herbert Medal, International Bulb Society (1967) Mary Soper Pope Medal, Cranbook Science Institute (1951) LINKS www.univalle.edu/publicaciones/revista_salud/revista02/pagina18.htm (in Spanish)
- [Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer](https://neglectedscience.com/marjorie-courtenay-latimer/): Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer, South African ornithologist (East London, Eastern Cape 24 February 1907 – East London, Eastern Cape 17 May 2004) Discovered the the fish species coelacanth (1938) described by Smith Described a new bird subspecies (Saxicola torquatus clanceyi) On the races of the Stonechat occurring in the Cape Province, South Africa, with the description of a new form. Bull. Br. Orn. Club 81:114-7, 1961 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G.G. Smith, H. Bokelman & A. Batten. The flowering plants of the Tsitsikama forest and Coastal National Park (1967) Check list of the birds of the East London area. South African Avifauna
- [Mariano R. Castex](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-r-castex/): Mariano Rafael Ezequiel Pompeyo Castex Torres, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 10 April 1886 – Buenos Aires 30 June 1968) ACHIEVEMENTS Described hepatic reticular necrosis in prolonged obstruent jaundice Discovered ampullar cicatricial origin of spontaneous non-tuberculous hemopneumothorax With E.S. Mazzei. El hemoneumotorax espontaneo y tuberculosis. Rev. Tuberc. (1939) Described clinical triad of pneumothorax (Castex-Mazzei-Capdehourat triad) With E.S. Mazzei & E.L. Capdehourat. Hemoneumotorax espontaneo. Rev. Asoc. Med. Argent. 49:1127, 1936 With E.S. Mazzei. L’hemopneumothorax spontaneé. Presse Med. 104:2097-00, 1936 Described late postoperative atelectasis With E.S. Mazzei. Atelectasia pulmonar postoperatoria tardia: sindrome de atelectasia espástica tardia del lóbulo inferior izquierdo asociada a la dilatación colonioca segmentaria
- [Maria Pereira de Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-pereira-de-castro/): Maria Pereira de Castro, Brazilian acarologist and virologist (Mineiros, Goiás State 02 May 1921 – ?) DESCRIBED ACARI GENERA/SUBGENERA Flavionyssus 1948 Paraneonyssus 1948 Rhinoptes 1951 (with Pereira) Rochanyssus 1948 Travanyssus 1948 Vitznyssus 1948 Introduced new classification criteria of Rhinonyssidae mites   With Vicente do Amaral discovered that Toxoplasma gondii displayed division by schizogony Developed swine cellular lineage IB-RS-2 internationally used to replication of foot and mouth disease virus With R.C.B. Pisani. Swine renal cells as primary cultures and as an established cell line (RS-2) and their sensitivity to the foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV) 1963 Developed an argentic impregnation method for studying internal morphology of microscopic invertebrates With C.
- [Marcelo Nunes Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/marcelo-nunes-camargo/): Marcelo Nunes Camargo, Brazilian pedologist (Lorena, São Paulo State 26 June 1927 – Rio de Janeiro 07 July 1995)  CONTRIBUTIONS With A.P. de Carvalho, J.O. Larach & P.K.T. Jacomine. Critérios para distinção de classes de solos e de fases de unidade de mapeamentos: normas em uso pelo SNLCS (1988) With E. Klamt & J.H. Kauffman. Soil classification as used in Brazilian soil surveys (1987) With P.K.T. Jacomine, I.L.P. Olmos, F. Palmieri & T.E. Rodrigues. Conceituação sumária de algumas classes de solos recém-reconhecidas nos levantamentos e estudos de correlação do SNLCS (versão provisória) 1982 With J. Bennema. Some remarks on Brazilian latosoils in relation
- [Marcello de Moura Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/marcello-de-moura-campos/): Marcello de Moura Campos, Brazilian organic chemist (São Paulo 17 June 1921 – São Paulo 24 April 2016) With R.T. Arnold proposed the mechanism of bromolactone formation (1953) Developed methods for thioacetals preparation from carbonilic compounds (1950s) With N. Petragnani developed a number of reagents containing P-C-Se (selenophosphoranes) With N. Petragnani & Toscano first to synthesize species containing a P-Se-C binding With N. Petragnani described the addiction of tellurium tetrachloride to olefins (1962) With N. Petragnani & C. Thomé first to report the reduction of an organic substrate via a tellurium reagent (1960) With N. Petragnani first to use a tellurium
- [Marcelino Cereijido](https://neglectedscience.com/marcelino-cereijido/): Marcelino Cereijido Mattioli, Argentine-born Mexican cytologist (Buenos Aires 29 January 1933 – Expert on molecular and cell physiology Authored 350 papers and 14 books (with over 5,000 citations) Much of his work are regarded as citation classics   Developed experimental techniques for studying basic mechanisms of transport epithelium and elucidated them Discovered how cultured cells recognize each other, associate to close the surfaces between them and don’t let the entrance of certain substances With P. F. Curran developed a method for measuring K influx into the epithelial cells of frog skin from the inside solution in J. Gen. Physiol. (1965) With D.D. Sabatini introduced
- [Manuel Ferreira da Camara](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-ferreira-da-camara/): Manuel Ferreira da Câmara Bittencourt Aguiar e Sá, Brazilian mining expert (Santo Antonio de Itacambira Parish, Minas Novas do Araçuaí District, Minas Gerais State 26 April 1764 – Bahia State 13 December 1835) ACHIEVEMENTS Showed the volcanic feature of obsidian Sobre o comportamento da obsidiana sob o tubo de sopro. Bergmanniches J. 6(1):280-5, 1794 (in French) Carta do Sr Da Camara de Bethencourt ao Sr Hawkins acerca de alguns experimentos com obsidiana. Bergmanniches J. 6(2):239-49, 1794 (in French) Introduced improvements in diamond mining industry  Presented a new process of iron foundry Memorias sobre as minas de chumbo e prata e sobre
- [Manoel Amoroso Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-amoroso-costa/): Manoel Amoroso Costa, Brazilian mathematician and engineer (Rio de Janeiro 13 January 1885 – Rio de Janeiro 03 December 1928)  ACHIEVEMENTS   Showed that notion of mass center of universe can’t be extended to an infinite Newtonian universe A propos d’ une note de M. Borel. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 175(24):1190-1, 1922.  One of the first to systematize the Non-archimedean geometries in the world Presented entitled work “L’univers infini-Quelques aspects du problème cosmologique” in Collége de France (1928).  Performed interesting studies about Non-Archimedean Geometries that were displayed in one course in Université de Paris called “Les Géométries non-archimédiennes”  (1928).  Proposed a
- [Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo](https://neglectedscience.com/manfredo-perdigao-do-carmo/): Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo, Brazilian geometer (Maceió 15 August 1928 – Rio de Janeiro 30 April 2018) Published more than 60 scientific papers in top-quality reviews (2 of them in Annals of Mathematics) Published Differential geometry of curves and surfaces in English (1976), translated into Spanish, German and Chinese languages and used worldwide. ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced the concept of weak stability with Barbosa and Eschenburg (1988) Obtained a condition in order to Mn compact variety from Euclidean space Rn+p be included in Rn+1 published in Archiv der Mathematik with wide recognition  With M.F. Elbert proposed the notion of finite total curvature for
- [Luiz Heraldo Camara Lopes](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-heraldo-camara-lopes/): Luiz Heraldo da Camara Lopes dos Anjos, Brazilian chest surgeon (São Paulo 09 January 1919 or 19 January 1911 –São Paulo 01 December 1973) Standardized the radiological study of oesophagus Started the in vivo studies of oesophagic motility Developed a surgical technique for the treatment of advanced megaesophagus with subtotal esophagectomy and cervical esophagogastroplasty by retrosternal tunnelization or Camara Lopes operation later modified by Ferreira Santos Transposição retroesternal do estômago para anastomose esofagogástrica cervical, após esofagectomia subtotal (1955) Esofagoplastia com estômago por tunelização retrosternal. Rev. Paul. Med. 53:149, 1958 With H. T. Toledo. Nova via de acesso para o tratamento da
- [Luiz Felipe Coelho](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-felipe-coelho/): Luiz Felipe Coelho da Silva, Brazilian naval architect (1941 – With R. Castro Santos, L.M. Portela et al. built the first modern ship entirely designed in the country without any foreign assistance or project (1971) Developed technology for ship building design on computers With C.A. Monteath. Sistema P4: uma possibilidade de aplicação do computador a um sistema integrado de anteprojeto e orçamento de navios (1972) Developed CAD-CAM systems for oxycutting steel processing with numerical control in naval projects (1976)
- [Luis Humberto Camacho](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-humberto-camacho/): Luis Humberto Camacho Morales, Colombian plant breeder (Velez, Santander 23 July 1928 – DEVELOPED SOYBEAN VARIETIES Diacol Nima with S.H. Orozco & C. Cardona (1959) Diacol Calima com Orozco & Cardona (1964) ICA Bunsi with Orozco, G. Bastidas & F. Londoño (1968) ICA Pijao with Orozco, Bastidas, L. Buitrago, E. Guzmán & O. Agudelo (1974)
- [Luis Calvo Mackenna](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-calvo-mackenna/): Luis Calvo Mackenna, Chilean pediatrician (1883 – Santiago 02 December 1937) Described dolicho stenomelalgy or Calvo Mackenna syndrome (1915) and Calvo Mackenna sign in child acidosis (1919) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Baeza Goñi. Principios basicos para la organización y funcionamento de las gotas de leche. Rev. Chil. Pediat.  4(9):425-30, 1933 Formas clinicas de la acidosis (acetonemia) en la infância (1919) La tache bleue mongolique à Santiago du Chili. Archives Medecine des Enfants (1916) Sindrome hemorrágico como única manifestación de sífilis hereditária tardia. Arch. Lat. Amer. Pediatria (1911) Anestesia cloroformica con el aparato de Ricard (1907)
- [Luciano Catalano](https://neglectedscience.com/luciano-catalano/): Luciano Roque Catalano Vecchio, Argentine economic geologist (Buenos Aires 20 December 1890 – 1970) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Datos hidrológicos del desierto de Atacama. Publ. Decisión Minas Geol. 35:10-16, 1972 El hierro argentino de Zapla (Provincia de Jujuy), Calizas de León y San Juancito (Provincia de Jujuy), estúdio preliminar de geologia económica (1965) Reconocimiento geológico-económico de la sierra de Ancaján. Est. Geol. Min. Econ. Ser. Argentina 1, 1964 Boro-berilio-lítio: uma nueva fuente de energia natural. Estud. Geol. Mineria Econ. (1964) Estudio geológico-economico del Salar de Hombre Muerto. Minist. Economia 4, 1964 La mica en la Argentina, estudio geológico-economico. Pub. Inst. Fisiograf. Geol. 10,
- [Luciano Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/luciano-campos/): Luciano Elliot Campos Street, Chilean agricultural entomologist (São Paulo, Brazil 19 February 1927 – Santiago de Chile 01 January 1989) Authored over 60 works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA (with R. Cortes) Genera Androsoma 1971 Myiodexia 1971 Caltagironea 1974 Species Androsoma perhirsutum 1971 Archytas platonicus 1971 Belvosia barbosai 1971 Caltagironea scillina 1974 Caltagironea vera 1974 Chaetocnephalia andina 1971 Epalpodes malloi 1971 Gymnosoma neotropicale 1971 Incamyia cincerea 1971 Incamyia perezi 1971 Incamyia sandovali 1971 Lespesia leliae 1971 Lespesia nimia 1971 Myiodexia deserticola 1971 Prosopochaeta caliginosa 1971 Siphoactia peregrina 1971  Triachora barbosai 1971 Trichophoropsis sabroskyi 1971 Urodexodes elongatus 1974 Winthemia reliqua 1971 HONORS Camposodes Cortes 1967 (Diptera) LINKS Revista Chilena de Entomologia 17:109-112, 1989 (in Spanish; contains bibliography; available online)
- [Louis Hsiao Yun Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/louis-hsiao-yun-chen/): Louis Hsiao Yun Chen, Singaporean mathematician (1940 – Turned Stein concentration inequality concept into an effective tool for providing error bounds for the normal approximation in many settings Eponym of Stein-Chen method of Poisson approximation BIBLIOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTIONS With Q.M. Shaq. A non-uniform Berry-Esseen bound via Stein’s method. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 120 (92):236-54, 2001 An inequality for the multivariate normal distribution. J. Multiv. Anal. 12(2):306-15, 1982 With S.T. Ho. An Lp bound for the remainder in a combinatorial central limit theorem. Ann. Probability 6:231-49, 1978 An approximation theorem for convolutions of probability measures. Ann. Probab. 3:992-9, 1975 Ann approximation theorem for sums
- [Louis Ferdinand Cruls](https://neglectedscience.com/louis-ferdinand-cruls/): Louis Ferdinand Cruls, Belgian-born Brazilian astronomer and geodesist (Diest, Brabant 21 January 1848 – Paris 21 June 1906) ACHIEVEMENTS Determined the rotation period of Mars and measured apparent semi diameter of this planet Published a memoir about spots and the time of Mars rotation motion (1878) Made relevant studies about Jove rotation and its satellites and binary stars With E. Liais & emperor Pedro II determined semi-diameter of Sun and Mercury (1878) Saw the Great Comet of 1882 that was known as Cruls Comet (discovered by English-Australian astronomer Ellery) Performed the first spectroscopic analysis of comets (1882) by using spectroscope (British
- [Lila Castellanos](https://neglectedscience.com/lila-castellanos/): Lila Rosa Castellanos Serra, Cuban biotechnologist (18 September 1948 – Developed new original methods for the detection of proteins, nucleic acids and lipopolysaccharides on electrophoresis gels The methods developed in her laboratory on gel-staining technology are frequently cited in the international literature, and are now routinely employed by international scientific community Introduced the use of imidazole in combination with zinc salts for detection of proteins, nucleic acids, lipopolysaccharides and lipooligosaccharides CONTRIBUTIONS With Y. Ramos, V. Besadá, L.J. Gonzalez, Ya García et al. Double fractionation by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (DF-PAGE): new method for quantitative proteomics studies. Biotecn. Aplic. 34:4501-3, 2016 With Y. Ramos,
- [Leslie Edward Codd](https://neglectedscience.com/leslie-edward-codd/): Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, South African botanist (Vants Drift, Dundee District, KwaZulu-Natal Province 16 September 1908 – Pretoria, Gauteng Province 02 March 1999) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genera Hartogiella 1983 (Celastraceae) Pseudosalacia 1972 (Celastraceae) Rabdosiella 1984 (Lamiaceae) Subgenera (Lamiaceae) Calceolanthus 1975 Nodiflorus 1975 Xerophilus 1975 Species 54 new HONORS Coddia Verdcourt 1981 (Rubiaceae)
- [Leopoldo Caltagirone](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-caltagirone/): Leopoldo Enrique Caltagirone Zamora, US / Chilean  agricultural entomologist (Valparaiso 01 March 1927 – DESCRIBED SPECIES Phanerotoma inopinata 1965 Copidosomopsis (Pentalitomastix) plethorica 1966 Opsophagus cortesi 1966 Phanerotoma toreutae 1967 Tomicobia paratomicobia 1968 (with Hagen) Copidosomopsis tanytmemus 1985  Metaphycus haageni 1999 (with Daane) HONORS Caltagironea Cortes & Campos 1974 (Diptera)
- [Leonila Corpuz-Raros](https://neglectedscience.com/leonila-corpuz-raros/): Leonila Alzate Corpuz-Raros, Philippine agricultural entomologist (Gamu, Isabela Province 14 January 1941 – DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Tribe Eutetranychini 1996 with Rimando Genera/Subgenera Basiceremaeus 1979 Chaudhria 1997 with Rimando Hydroecocepheus 1979   Ischeloribates 1980 Kaibacepheus 2004 Kalayaan 1998 Makilingeria 1996 with Rimando Makischeloribates 1980 Mullederiopsis 1996 with Rimando Orinchobates 2017 with Miko & Ermilov Otopentacepheus 2007 Pentacepheus 2004 Philippicheyla 1972 Philippipalpus 1978 Philippizetes 1979 Philoribates 1980 Polillozotes 2009 Pseudoneoribates 2015 with Ermilov Rimandocepheus 1998 Samarocepheus 1990 Tutacheyla 1972 Wooderia 1997 with Rimando Zygepigynia 19085 with Gaud Species About 370  Discovered and named 13 species of aphids from North America
- [Leon Croizat](https://neglectedscience.com/leon-croizat/): Leon Camille Marius Croizat, French-born Venezuelan botanist and biogeographer (Torino,  Italy 16 July 1894 – Coro, Falcón State 30 November 1982) Acquired fame as developer of panbiogeography DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Family Austrobaileyaceae 1943 Genera (Euphorbiaceae) Moacroton 1945 Neoguillauminia 1938 Phyllanoa 1943 Sections (Euphorbiaceae) Armatocalli 1972 Ballyeuphorbia 1972 Deuterocalli 1972 Marniereuphorbia 1972 Rhizanthopsis 1972 Sterigmanthoides 1972 Elutanthos 1943 HONORS Genus Croizatia Steyermark 1952 (Phyllanthaceae) Subgenus Croizatius Osella 1980 (Coleoptera)
- [Kuo Tsian Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/kuo-tsian-chen/): Kuo Tsian Chen, US/Chinese mathematician (Chekiang 15 July 1923 – Urbana 23 September 1987) EPONYMY   Chen groups (1951) Chen integrals Chen symbol sums    Chen lemma
- [Ki Chul Choi](https://neglectedscience.com/ki-chul-choi/): Ki Chul Choi or Ki-ch’ol Ch’oe, South Korean ichthyologist (1910 – 2002) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES Iksookimia longicorpa 1976 with Kim & Nalbant Pseudopungtungia tenuicorpus 1980 with Jeon HONORS Kichulchoia Kim, Park & Nalbant 1999 (Pisces)
- [Julián Carrillo](https://neglectedscience.com/julian-carrillo/): Julián Antonio Carrillo Trujillo, Mexican maestro and composer (Ahualulco, San Luis Potosí 28 January 1875 – San Angel 09 September 1965) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as pioneer in use of microinterval in songwriting Discovered sonido 13, a product from sound scale division in minor interval than semitones (1895) Patented fifteen metamorphoser pianos for various tones (1940) Constructed instrumentation for producing microinterval  Suggested monosyllabic names to musical scale notes that were accepted by Musical International Congress at Paris (1900)   Created a numerical songwriting Conceived new chromatic scales Proposed microtonality, a new kind of musical notation Due to these performance was Physics Nobel Prize nominée in
- [Julio Rafael Contreras](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-rafael-contreras/): Julio Rafael Contreras Roqué, Argentine zoologist, biogeographer, ecologist and science historian (Buenos Aires 30 November 1933 – Buenos Aires 18 May 2017) Authored over 200 scientific works DESCRIBED TAXA Mammalia Akodon (Akodon) molinae 1968 Ctenomys dorbignyi 1984 Ctenomys osvaldoreigi 1995 Ctenomys pilarensis 1993  Ctenomys roigi 1988 Ctenomys scagliai 1999 Ctenomys validus 1977 (with Roig & Suzarte) Ctenomys yolandae 1984 (with Berry) Aves/Birds    Asthenes baeri neiffi 1980 Asthenes modesta navasi 1979 Geositta rufipennis giaii 1976 Geositta rufipennis hoyi 1980  HONORS Juliomys Gonzalez 2000 (Mammalia)
- [Juan Ubaldo Carrea](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-ubaldo-carrea/): Juan Ubaldo Carrea Zelaschi, Argentine orthodontist (Buenos Aires 06 May 1883 – Buenos Aires 14 April 1956) Authored 210 publications Developed a classification and notation system for rugae palatinae (1937) With E. Lanari developed cephalometric teleradiography (1923) Dispositives for treatment of fractures such as an immobilizer one for mandibular fractures    Carrea technique for block anesthesia of maxillary nerves (1921) after Mendel (1917) Named goniodentomentian plane and radius-chorda First to estimate odontometric data and related it to stature in Ensayos odontométricos. Thesis, Univ. Nac. Buenos Aires (1920)  Proposed the principle of bilateral symmetry (1920) Gaumenfalten – Fotostenogramme, ein neues Identifizierungsver-fahren. Dtsch. Zahnarztl.
- [Juan María Cespedes](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-maria-cespedes/): Juan María Luis Ceferino Céspedes Vivas, Colombian priest and botanist (Tuluá, Valle Del Cauca Department 26 August 1776 – Guasca, Cundinamarca Department 21 January 1848) Professor of Botany at Santa Fé de Bogotá MEMBERSHIP Member, Societé Linneenne de Paris Member, Horticultural Society of United States HONORS Cespedesia Goudot 1844 (Ochnaceae)
- [Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-manuel-cajigal-y-odoardo/): Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo, Venezuelan mathematician and engineer (Barcelona, Anzoategui 10 August 1803 – Yaguaraparo, Sucre 10 February 1856) Published Tratado de Mecanica Elemental and Curso de Astronomía y Memorias sobre integrales entre limites.  Honored in asteroid 12359 Cajigal  
- [Juan Jose Claria](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-claria/): Juan José Clariá Olmedo, Argentine astrophysicist (Cordoba 13 June 1945 – Discovered a number of variable stars and globular clusters Established empirical calibrations for determining fundamental parameters of stars Pointed out that Canis Major OB1 was a real stellar association with occurrence of a variety of processes of great astrophysical interest A study of the stellar association Canis Major OB1. Astron. Astrophys. 37:229-36, 1974 With A.E. Piatti, D. Geisler, E. Bica, J.F.C. Santos, A. Sarajedini & H. Dottori. Detección de una nueva fase en la evolución de estrellas gigantes rojas de la Nube Major de Magallanes. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 43:73-4, 1999
- [Juan Jose Cazzulo](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-cazzulo/): Juan José Cazzulo Marmissolle, Argentine biochemist (General Alvear, Buenos Aires Province 29 November 1941 – From Basque and Italian descent Authored over 200 papers Purified and characterized pyruvic carboxylase of yeast Carboxilasa piruvica de levadura de panaderia (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Purificación y propiedades (1967) With B.M. Franke showed the important role of a protease (cysteine proteinase) for the pathogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi (1984) Identified new metabolic pathways in trypanosomatids With A.J. Parodi elucidated the synthesis of glycoproteins in trypanosomatids (1981-2) With C. Nowicki elucidated the catabolism of aromatic amino acids in Trypanosoma cruzi (2008) Showed that halophilic enzymes may be allosterically ruled Papers in Nature With
- [Juan Carlos Cutropia](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-cutropia/): Juan Carlos Cutropia, Argentine surgeon (Mendoza 1940 – Mendoza 2018) Employed a technique of outer circulation in hepatic transplants. The second paper was the one written in Spanish that was quoted in Thomas Starzl’s book Clio Chirurgica Trasplante auxiliar homologo de fígado. Rev. Esp. Enf. Apar. Dig. (1971) With F. Coratolo, A. Spinetta, J. Keil et al. Trasplante hepático ortotopico experimental. Rev. Esp. Enf. Apar. Dig. 38:553-70, 1972 Developed an orthotopic technique for thyroparathyroids autotransplantation with vascular anastomoses in dogs With A. Riba, J. Keil, F. Coratolo & M. Bianchi. Autotrasplante de tiroparatiroides. Rev. Arg. Cir. 4(3-4):153-8, 1981 Researched a work
- [Juan Carlos Castilla](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-castilla/): Juan Carlos Castilla Zenobi, Argentine-born Chilean marine ecologist (Lincoln, Argentina 19 August 1940 – Authored over 305 papers Studied the ecological role of man in coastal ecosystems Developed the concept of experimental marine ecology Described two new Polychaeta species Australonupis violacea (1981) & Scolelepis anakenae 1988 (with Rozbaczylo) With C. Pacheco, M. Varas & V. Ortiz. The rocky intertidal plankton trap RIPT2: a modified device. Sarsia 86:37-41, 2002 HONOURS Honorary Member, Ecological Society of America (1991) International Prize of Fundación BBVA, Madrid (2007) Honorary Professor, Bangor University, United Kingdom (2008) Midori Prize for Biodiversity (2012)
- [Juan Capellín](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-capellin/): Juan Capellín, Spanish / Mexican miner (séc.XVI) Invented a new system of iron brazen mallets for increasing the capacity of milling (1567) Invented a device for recovering the mercury in the mining of pure silver. There is some controversy here. For some authors is a large bronze bell named capelline but for others isn’t this the device that he invented Invención para sacar la plata con azogue (1576) Improved amalgamation technique for silver mining (1582)
- [João Maria Franco de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-maria-franco-de-camargo/): João Maria Franco de Camargo, Brazilian entomologist (Anhembi, São Paulo State 20 July 1941 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 07 September 2009) Improved the artificial insemination technique for using a little amount of stain onto vaginal orifice of bees (1966) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Trichotrigona 1983 with Moure Meliwillea 1997 with Lobo & Roubik Paratrigonoides 2005 with Roubik Species 87 species in Meliponini Hymenoptera (2 Fossil) HONORS Camargoia Moure 1989 (Hymenoptera) LINKS HTTP://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/arq/r/pt/926/semblanza.pdf HTTP://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/arq/r/pt/926/lista.pdf
- [José Ribas Cadaval](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ribas-cadaval/): José Ribas Cadaval, Brazilian military, physician and inventor (Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul State 22 April 1863 – Rio de Janeiro 29 July 1920) Published Tratado de Aeronautica-Navegação Aerea (Aeronautics Treatise – Aerial Navigation) in 1911, the first treatise about aeronautics written by a Brazilian; laureated with prize from Belgian King INVENTIONS Aerocruiser Hermes (1908) Cadaval method for learning children and adults to read, write and count (1908) Acrenine, a compound used against paludism  Cadaval Bakery-Automobile  A dirigible glider balloon named Aerostoplano patented in France (n. 422.278) in 27 January 1911 Cadaval hydroplane 
- [José Porfirio da Costa Neto](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-porfirio-da-costa-neto/): José Porfírio da Costa Neto, Brazilian plant pathologist and mycologist (Taquari, Rio Grande do Sul State 05 September 1910 – 1978) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Scopulariopsis lingualis 1962 Cercospora caleifolii 1966 with Batista & Upadhyay Melanconium argutidentis 1966 with Batista & Upadhyay Phaeoseptoria stenocalycis 1966 with Batista & Upadhyay Phoma jasminomacrospora 1966 with Batista & Upadhyay Uredo hoveniae 1968 with Lindquist HONORS Costanetoa Batista & Bezerra 1963 (Fungi)
- [José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-moacyr-vianna-coutinho/): José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho, Brazilian mineralogist and petrologist (São Paulo 04 April 1924 – São Paulo 25 June 2021) Authored over 120 works CO-DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES Lindbergite with D. Atencio, P.A. Matioli & S. Graeser (2004) Matioliite with D. Atencio, J. Ellena & Y.P. Mascarenhas (2006) Ruifrancoite with N.V. Chukanov, L.A.D. Menezes Filho et al. (2007) Guimaraesite with N.V. Chukanov, D. Atencio, Zadov & L.A.D. Menezes Filho (2007) Brumadoite with D. Atencio, P.A. Matioli et al. (2008) Footemineite with D. Atencio, P.A. Matioli et al. (2008) Manganoeudialyite with S. Nomura, D. Atencio et al. (2010) Bendadaite with D. Atencio, L.A.D. Menezes
- [José María Carranza](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-carranza/): José María Carranza, Argentine plant pathologist (1922 – ?) Described new pathogenic fungi to plants Antracnosis del Aguaribay causada por Myxosporella schini sp. nov. en la Argentina. Rev. Fac. Agron. (1950) With J.C. Lindquist. Thecaphora frezii n.sp., parasita de Arachis sp. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 10:11-8, 1962 With Luttrell. An undescribed species of Exosporium on grain of Secale cereale. Mycologia 59(6):1097, 1967 (Exosporium pampeanum) Una Alternaria parasita de las coníferas en la Argentina. Lilloa 21:279-89, 1949 First to report the epidemiology of Botrytis grey mould disease on chickpea Wilt of chickpea (Cinerea arietinum) caused by Botrytis cinerea. Revta. Fac. Agron. Univ. Nac. La Plata 41:135-8, 1965  First to report Phytophthtora drechsleri on Cineraria Collar and roots
- [José Marques Correia Neves](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-marques-correia-neves/): José Marques Correia Neves, Portuguese / Brazilian geochemist and mineralogist (Oliveira do Hospital or Lagares da Beira, Portugal 29 March 1929 – Belo Horizonte 09 August 2011) Authored about 130 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.O. Chaves. Magmatism, rifting and sedimentation related to late Palaeoproterozoic mantle plume events of Central and Southeastern Brazil. J. Geodyn. 39:197-208, 2005 With H.A. Nalini Jr. & E. Bilal. Syncollisional peraluminous magmatism in the Rio Doce region: mineralogy, geochemistry and isotopic data of the Urucum site (eastern Minas Gerais State). Rev. Bras. Geocien. 30:120-5, 2000 With A.C. Pedrosa Soares & O.H. Leonardos. Tipologia dos pegmatitos de Coronel
- [José Isaac del Corral](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-isaac-del-corral/): José Isaac del Corral y Alemán, Cuban naturalist, mathematician and physicist (Cardenas, Matanzas 03 June 1882 – La Habana 14 December 1946) Developed new methods for solving number equations  in Nuevos metodos para resolver ecuaciones numericas (1912) Enunciated formulae for coordinates transformation Enunciated theorems and corollaries   Discovered a new involutive property of inscribed or circumscribed hexagon to a conic  Una nueva propriedad involutiva de poligonos afectos a una conica. Proposiciones originales de geometria remitidas al Congreso Cientifico Pan Americano de Washington (1915) Sobre un Nuevo metodo de calculo de las raices reales de una ecuación numérica. Rev. Soc. Cub. Ingen. 1913 Condiciones para
- [José Henrique Ciguel](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-henrique-ciguel/): José Henrique Godoy Ciguel, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (California, Paraná State 31 March 1957 – Curitiba 30 April 1991) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TENTACULITID SPECIES Recognized Tentaculites itacurubiensis 1988 Tentaculites rinconensis 1992 with Aceñolaza Skolithos ayalis 1987 with Rosler & Clerici (Ichnofossil) Non-recognized (described only in his doctoral thesis 1989) Dmitriella dutoitensis Dmitriella lundensis Heteroctenus cochabambensis Heteroctenus peruensis Homoctenis barbosensis Homoctenis carvalhensis Homoctenis gonzaguensis Homoctenis katzerensis Homoctenis kayserensis Homoctenis maackensis Homoctenis ribeirensis Homoctenis siemiradzkiensis Homoctenis wagonerensis Multiconus fraternalis Nowakia alamosensis Paranowakia lospiojensis Paranowakia petriensis Seretites boliviensis Seretites borbensis Seretites sanjuanensis Styliolina eschwegensis Styliolina langensis Tentaculites brannerensis Tentaculites burlamaquiensis Tentaculites capanemensis Tentaculites cataviensis Tentaculites clarkensis Tentaculites coutinhensis Tentaculites
- [José da Costa Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-da-costa-cruz/): José M. da Costa Cruz, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Belém 24 February 1894 – Rio de Janeiro 29 October 1940) Showed the toxigenic capacity of diphtheria bacillus depended on culture medium  (not published) Modified Ramon culture medium for production of diphtheric toxin  Established an agglutination optimum (1929) Proved the relationship between bacterial multiplication and phage power (1925) Demonstrated the phage sensitivity to oligodynamic action First to study the immune interference in bacterial lysis by phage (before Hauduroy) Performed important researches about phages that were cited in classical works of D’ Herelle Observed the destructive action of yellow fever virus on complement system and
- [José Candido de Melo Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-candido-de-melo-carvalho/): José Cândido de Melo Carvalho, Brazilian entomologist (Carmo do Rio Claro, Minas Gerais State 11 June 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1994) World authority on Hemiptera Miridae Authored over 500 papers DESCRIBED TAXA 267 genera and 1319 species in Hemiptera Genus Crypturoptes 1952 with Novaes (Acari) HONORS (all Hemiptera except one) Carvalhoana Schaffner 1980  Carvalhocoris Carpintero & Chérot 2002 Carvalhoia Kormilev 1951  Carvalhoiella de Carlo 1963 Carvalholeptis Soares 1970 Carvalhomiris Capriles & Ferreira 1971  Carvalhoma Slater & Gross 1977  Carvalhygia Brailovsky 1995  Carvalhotingis Froeschner 1995  Carvalhoisca Schaffner & Ferreira 1995  Carvalhodrymus Slater 1995  Carvalhofulvius Stonedahl & Kovac 1995  Carvalhopantilius Yasunaga 1995   Josemiris Eyles 1996  Joseocoris Henry 2013 Candidomiris Kerzhner & Schuh 1995 Melocarvalhosia Cobos 1957 (Coleoptera)
- [José Aristida Alfredo Caro](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-aristida-alfredo-caro/): José Aristida Alfredo Caro, Argentine botanist (1919 – 1985) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Subfamily Aristidoideae 1982 Tribe Lippieae 1982 Species  Aristida amplexifolia 1975 with Sanchez Aristida aristiglumis 1961 Aristida condylifolia 1966 Aristida flabellata 1961 Aristida minutiflora 1961 Aristida pubescens 1975 with Sanchez Aristida sayapensis 1961 Aristida venustuloides 1967 Cenchrus bambusoides 1967 with Sanchez Chloris affinis 1971 with Sanchez Chloris parvispicula 1971 Cotula cabrerae 1961 Cynodon affinis 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon aristiglumis 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon aristulatus 1972 with Sanchez Cynodon decipiens 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon distichloides 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon grandispiculus 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon iraquensis 1983 Cynodon laeviglumis 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon mucronatus 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon nitidus 1972 with Sanchez Cynodon parodii 1969 with Sanchez Cynodon pedicellatus 1983 Cynodon scabrifolius 1983 Gymnopogon glaber 1982 Larrea monticellia 1983
- [José Alberto Caeiro](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-alberto-caeiro/): José Alberto Caeiro Camilion, Argentine surgeon (Cordoba 27 August 1896 – Buenos Aires 11 November 1961) Created a hemostatic suture using a modified Von Haberer technique in Sutura hemostatica gastrica. Bol. Soc. Cir. Buenos Aires 22:12, 1938 Cardiospasm. Modified Heller operation. Bol. Soc. Cir. Buenos Aires 45:175-88, 19 Technic of valvular terminoterminal colo-enterostomy. Bol. Trab. Soc. Cir. 23:827-34, 1939   Tecnica de la extirpación doble de los meniscos por via anterior. Semana Medica 35(2):1240-5, 1928
- [José Adolfo Snajdauf de Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-adolfo-snajdauf-de-campos/): José Adolfo Snajdauf de Campos, Brazilian astronomer (01 May 1947 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.B. Silva, A.H. Andrei, S. Puliaev & M. Assafin. Light curves for Hipparcos Cepheids. Bol. Soc. Astron. Bras. 17;161, 1997 With C.I. Lagerkvist, P. Magnusson, H. Debehogne, M. Hoffmann, A. Erikson & G. Cutispoto. Physical studies of asteroids XXV: Photoelectric photometry of asteroids obtained at ESO and Hoher List Observatory. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Series 95(3);461-70, 1992 With B.E. Helt, E.A. Bibo, J. Cuypers & H. Debehogne. Stromgren six-colour photometry of SN 1987A- I. Days 1 to 330. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Series 89(2):399-409, 1991 Visual comet photometry. Mont.
- [Jose Miguel Cei](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-miguel-cei/): José Miguel Alfredo María Cei, Italian-born Argentine herpetologist (San Minato, Pisa Province 23 March 1918 – 08 January 2007) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Reptilia Species 48 valid Subspecies Atractus reticulatus scrocchii 1992 with Alvarez & Rey Chironius fuscus leucometapus 1993 with Dixon & West Chironius quadricarinatus maculoventris 1993 with Dixon & West Homonota darwinii macrocephala 1978 Liolaemus archeforus archeforus 1971 with Donoso Barros Liolaemus archeforus gallardoi 1982 with Scolaro Liolaemus kingii baguali 1983 with Scolaro Amphibia Species Alsodes neuquensis 1976 Alsodes pehuenche 1976 Atelognathus praebasalticus 1968 with Roig Atelognathus reverberii 1969 Atelognathus salai 1984 Atelognathus solitarius 1970 Lepidobatrachus llanensis 1963 with Reig Leptodactylus chaquensis 1950 Odontophrynus achalensis 1984 with Di Tada, Barla & Marton Odontophrynus barrioi 1982 with Ruiz
- [Jose Luis Casaseca](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luis-casaseca/): José Luis Agustín Casaseca y Silván, Cuban / Spanish chemist (Salamanca 25 August 1800 – Barcelona 08 October 1869) Discovered and analyzed mineral thenardite (1826) Analisis de una nueva substancia mineral, la thenardita. Annales Chimie Physique 23:308-15, 1826 TECHNIQUES/INVENTIONS Invented certain analytical techniques Nuevo método de pulverización de fósforo (New method of phosphorus pulverization). Journal de Pharmacie (1830) Proposed improvements in Payen decolorimeter Determination instantanée du cuivre dans le analyses quantitative des dissolutions cuivriques pures. Cuivrometre fondé sur cette methode à l’usage des ingenieurs des mines, des chimistes et des mineralogistes. Comptes Rendus 26:948, 1848 With Georges Sorve invented a system
- [Jose Joaquin Castaño](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-joaquin-castano/): José Joaquín Castaño Arenas, Colombian plant pathologist (Rionegro 16 August 1920 – Medellín 26 May 2014) Authored about 80 papers and 5 books DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES Pestalozzia sp.; un hongo aislado de las hojas del café y generalmente asociado con el Stilbum flavidum Cooke, causante de la enfermedad de la “gotera”. Bol. Inform. Cenicafé 2(18):44-5, 1951 Isolated the fungus Moniliophthora rorei from cacao Moniliasis del cacao en una región del Departamento de Caldas. Agric. Trop. 6:21-5, 1952 Identified the real causative agent of coffee llaga macana (Ceratocystis fimbriata) Patogenia y epifitologia en el estudio de llaga macana del cafeto. Bol. Cenicafé 4(39):17-24, 1953 Described the seedling
- [Jose Felipe Caldeira](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-felipe-caldeira/): José Felipe Carla Caldeira, Brazilian astronomer (1943 – Discovered new asteroids With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Posições astrométricas de asteroides identificados em fevereiro e março de 1981 no observatório europeu Austral, La Silla, Chile. Anu. Inst. Geocienc. 4:1-19, 1980 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Descoberta de elementos orbitais dos asteroides 1979 HB, 1979 P e 1979 YP. Bol. Soc. Astron. Bras. 4(2):8, 1981    With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. 363 precise positions of asteroids. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 8:19-27, 1983 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto,
- [Jorge Victor Crisci](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-victor-crisci/): Jorge Victor Crisci, Argentine botanist (Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province 22 March 1945 – Known as international leader in phylogenetics and historical biogeography DESCRIBED Genera Burkartia 1976 Marticorenia 1974 Species/Subspecies  Asterostigma fabrisii 1970 Leucheria graui 2008 with Katinas & Tellería Leucheria meladensis 2018 with Katinas & Marticorena Leucheria salina zollneri 1976 Moscharia solbrigii 1974 HONORS Criscia Katinas 1994 (Asteraceae) Criscianthus Grossi & Nakajima 2013 (Asteraceae)
- [Jorge Hugo Corbella](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-hugo-corbella/): Jorge Hugo Corbella Marti, Argentine geologist (fl.1969) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Vuillemin, D. Ariztegui, P.R. Leavitt, L. Buntyng, F. Anselmetti, P. Francus, A. Lucke, N.I. Maidana, C. Ohlendorf, F. Schabitz, S. Wastegard & B. Zolitschka. Recording of climate and diagenesis through sedimentary DNA and fossil pigments at Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina. Biogeosciences 13(8):2475-92, 2016 With B. Ercolano, A.M.J. Coronato, P.E. Tiberi & G.N. Marderwald. Glacial geomorphology of the tableland east of the Andes between the Coyle and Gallegos River Valleys, Patagonia, Argentina. J. Maps 12 (Suppl1):304-13,2016 With A.M.J. Coronato, B. Ercolano & P.E. Tiberi. Glacial, fluvial and volcanic lands cape evolution
- [Jorge Cerbon Solorzano](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-cerbon-solorzano/): Jorge Cerbón Solorzano, Mexican biochemist and microbiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 20 March 1930 – Proposed a model for regulation of lipidic composition comprising processes modulated by phosphoinositid degradation and/or transformation Explained the action mechanism of local anaesthetics due to its interaction with lipidic phase of cell membranes NMR evidence for the hydrophobic interaction of local anaesthetics. Possible relation to their potency. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 290:51-7, 1972 Described the bacterial species: Mycobacterium flavescens, Mycobacterium gordonae, Mycobacterium peregrinum, Mycobactrium runyoni & Mycobacterium acapulcensis 1962 with Bojalil & Trujillo With L.F. Bojalil. Scheme for the differentiation of Nocardia asteroides and Nocardia brasiliensis. J. Bact. 78:852-7, 1959
- [Jorge Carauta](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-carauta/): Jorge Pedro Pereira Carauta, Brazilian botanist (Marechal Hermes, Rio de Janeiro State 23 April 1930 – Rio de Janeiro 08 October 2013) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Sections Emygdioa & Sichinia 1976 Species Dorstenia albertii 1974 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia amazonica 1979 with Valente & Barth Dorstenia bonijesu 1983 with Valente Dorstenia capricorniana 1976 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia conceptionis 1974 Dorstenia contensis 1985 with Berg Dorstenia gracilis 1976 with Valente & Araújo Dorstenia grazielae 1973 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia heringeri 1975 with Valente Dorstenia hildegardis 1978 with Valente & Barth Dorstenia mariae 2002 with Albuquerque & Castro Dorstenia maris 1977 with Valente Dorstenia milaneziana 1974 with Valente & Sucre Dorstenia schulzii 1976 with Valente & Araújo Dorstenia
- [Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-cravioto-munoz/): Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz, Mexican pediatrician and nutritionist (Pachuca, Hidalgo 12 September 1922 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 April 1998) From Italian ancestry Authored 647 publications and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS  With F. Gómez & R. Ramos Galván characterized the child severe malnutrition   First described nutritional recovery syndrome With F. Gomez & R. Ramos Galván. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With F. Gómez, R. Ramos Galván & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With R. Ramos Galván established new
- [Joaquim Ribeiro da Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-ribeiro-da-costa/): Joaquim Ribeiro da Costa, Brazilian Army officer and mechanical inventor (Salvador 10 September 1857 – Rio de Janeiro 05 February 1937) Father of world-famous architect Lúcio Costa INVENTIONS A life-saving boat (acclaimed in World Fair of Paris) Lifeguard Raft and boat Directiophone, device devoted to know the direction of the sound of a steam whistle (prize-winner in World Fair of Paris 1900) Torpedo-boat semi-submarine New submarine torpedo  A rotating steam engine Another rotary engine An original steam engine (patented in France, Belgium, Germany, England & United States)  A new steam distribution without eccentric (patented in many countries) New steam engine for
- [Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoá](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-monteiro-caminhoa/): Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoá, Brazilian physician and botanist (Salvador 21 December 1836 – Rio de Janeiro 28 November 1896) Designed an adjuvant inhaler Sobre aparelhos anestésicos e, particularmente sobre um inalador adjuvante para os casos operatórios em que não houver cirurgião ajudante (1864) Performed studies in medical botany Predicted the existence of penicilin in his book Elementos de botânica geral e médica (1877) His thesis “Plantas tóxicas do Brasil” (1871) was translated into French (1880) With D. Freire Jr. patented conservation of fresh products employing an antiputrid gas (1888) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Botany Da vegetação nos diversos períodos da formação de nosso planeta e das
- [Joaquim de Souza Cavalcanti](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-de-souza-cavalcanti/): Joaquim de Souza Cavalcanti, Brazilian surgeon (Ipojuca, Pernambuco State 17 April 1918 – Recife 04 June 1956) Published 50 scientific works and 3 theses Proposed the ligadure of inferior mesenteric vein or mesenterization of the portal veins (1954) known as Cavalcanti operation Tratamento cirurgico da síndrome de Banti. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 2:15-24, 1955 WWW.fcmupe.com.br/~upload/FCM/Documentos/discurso-joaquim-cavalc.pdf
- [Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-da-costa-ribeiro/): Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 08 July 1906 – Rio de Janeiro 29 July 1960) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered thermo-dielectric effect or Costa Ribeiro effect in 1944. The discovery was presented in session of 14 November 1944 at Brazilian Academy of Sciences and published in On the thermo-dielectric effect. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22(3):325-348, 1950. Despite the priority US physicists E.J. Workman and S.E. Reynolds discovered the same phenomenon in 1950, that was known as Workman-Reynolds effect in literature.  Established laws about thermo-dielectric effect (Law of intensities and law of charges) in Sobre o fenômeno termo-dielétrico. Thesis (1945) Developed the
- [Jingrun Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/jingrun-chen/): Jingrun Chen, Chinese mathematician (Fuzhou, Fujian Province 22 May 1933 – 19 March 1996) Authored over 70 papers Proved Chen’s theorem On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and the product of at most two primes. J. Kexue Tongbao 17:385-6, 1966 Proved that every sufficiently large even number is the sum of a prime and a number with at most 2 prime factors (1973) Eponym of Chen primes HONORS Asteroid 7681 Chenjingrun
- [Jesus Calderón Tinoco](https://neglectedscience.com/jesus-calderon-tinoco/): Jesus Calderón Tinoco, Mexican immunologist and cytologist (Uruapán, Michoacán State 1943 – 07 May 2008) With E. Unanue & R.T. William discovered that macrophages release thymidine that inhibits EL-4 cells (1974) With E.R. Unanue described the existence of stimulating factors of T lymphocytes in Nature 253:359, 1975 Demonstrated the neutrophils as the main protective cell against amebiasis  With L. Muñoz & H. Acosta showed the regenerative capacity of Amoeba histolytica cell membranes as an effective evasion mechanism to host humoral response (1980) With José Tapia Ramírez & José Manuel Hernandez developed Porcimunesoa, the first vaccine for blue eyes swine disease 
- [Janira Martins Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/janira-martins-costa/): Janira Martins Costa, Brazilian entomologist (Olinda, Pernambuco State 05 December 1941 – Rio de Janeiro 08 February 2018) DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Cordulisantosia 2007 with Fleck Fluminagrion 2013 with Anjos Santos & Lozano Garrisonia 2007 with Penalva Navicordulia 1995 with Machado Species Chalcopteryx machadoi 2005 Cordulisantosia machadoi 2000 with Santos Cordulisantosia marshalli 1992 with Santos Cordulisantosia newtoni 2000 with Santos Cyanallagmna corbeti 2009 with Santos & Souza Epipleoneura angeloi 2010 with Pessalcq Garrisonia aurindae 2007 with Penalva Heteragrion muryense 2000 with Santos Lestes fernandoi 2006 with Souza & Muzón Macrothemis absimile 1991 Macrothemis newtoni 1990 Micrathyria pseudhypodidyma 2002 with Lourenço & Vieira Navicordulia amazonica 1995 with Machado Navicordulia atlantica 1995 with Machado Navicordulia kiautai 1995 with Machado Navicordulia leptostyla 1995 with Machado Navicordulia
- [James Robert Coleman](https://neglectedscience.com/james-robert-coleman/): James Robert Coleman, US / Brazilian botanist (Barberton, Ohio State 31 October 1934 – São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 03 March 2001) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Verbesina apiculata 1966 Verbesina chapmanii 1972 Verbesina tequilana 1966 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.A. Coleman. Apomixis in two triploid Brazilian species of Eupatorium: E. bupleurifolium and E. callilepis. Rev. Brasil. Genet. (1984) Chromosome numbers of angiosperms collected in the State of São Paulo. Rev. Brasil. Genet. 5:533-49, 1982 With M.A. Coleman. Reproductive biology of an andromonoecious Solanum (S. palinacanthum Dunal). Biotropica 14:69-75, 1982 With E.M. de Menezes. Chromosome numbers in Leguminosae from the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Rhodora 829831):475-81, 1980 Additional chromosome numbers in
- [Jair Correa de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/jair-correa-de-carvalho/): Jair Correa de Carvalho, Brazilian plant pathologist and helminthologist (Três Pontas, Minas Gerais State 1920 – São Paulo 25 December 1983) Considered as world-renowned  specialist in Mononchidae nematodes Authored 30 scientific papers on nematodes taxonomy and control   DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera Neochordodes 1942 Pseudochordodes 1942 Species  Chordodes moraisi 1942 Helicotylenchus elisensis 1957 Iotonchus risoceiae 1953 Mononchus coronatus 1956 Mononchus piracicaboides 1960 Mononchus soutoi 1956 Paragordius esavianus 1942 Pseudochordodes manteri 1942 Rotylenchus iperoiguensis 1956 Sporonchulus ibitiensis 1951 Xiphinema americanum 1956 Xiphinema itanhaense 1962 Xiphinema paulistanum 1965 See docentes.esalq.usp.br/sbn/perfisbn/1half/jair.pdf (in Portuguese)
- [Jacques Pierre Cassedanne](https://neglectedscience.com/jacques-pierre-cassedanne/): Jacques Pierre Cassedanne, French / Brazilian gemmologist and mineralogist (Paris 11 September 1928 – Luxembourg 08 September 2017) Authored over 280 publications Discovered a number of noble metal oxides Un nouveau matériau gemme: le quartzite à lazulite. Rev. Gemmologie 105:17-8, 1990 With M. Lasserre. Análise isotópica pelo método do chumbo de algumas galenas brasileiras: descrição do método utilizado. Min. Met. 69(293):215-24, 1969 HONORS Cassedanneite Cesbron, Giraud e Poullen 1988 (Mineral)  
- [Jacinto Convit](https://neglectedscience.com/jacinto-convit/): Jacinto Convit García, Venezuelan leprologist (Caracas 11 September 1913 – Caracas 12 May 2014) Internationally recognized as one of greatest leprologists of his day Authored over 300 papers   Described anergic diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis or Convit disease (1946) With P. Lapenta. Sobre un caso de leishmaniasis tegumentaria de forma diseminada. Rev. Policlin. Caracas 28(100):153-8, 1948 With F. Kerdel Vegas & G. Rodríguez. Erythema dyschromicum perstans: A hitherto undescribed skin disease. J. Invest. Dermatol. 36:457-62, 1961 Proposed armadillo as an experimental animal model in leprosy research (1975) With I. Campo-Aasen & C. Alemán. New organelle observed in Leishmania brasiliensis. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med.
- [Isidoro Caplan](https://neglectedscience.com/isidoro-caplan/): Isidoro Caplan, Argentine anatomist (Buenos Aires 01 March 1933 – 07 February 1992) Made original and detailed research into lymphatic topography Described some new nodes in the lymphatic system of the mammary gland and presented also a new classification of the axillary lymphatic nodes from an anatomical point of view Described new collecting tubes and lymphatic ganglia from thyroid gland Developed a Gerota-based technique for studying lymphatic system DESCRIBED NEW STRUCTURES IN LYMPHATIC SYSTEM Investigación de las corrientes linfoganglionares de la glandula tiroides. Su importância anatomo-clinico-quirurgica. Rev. Argent. Cir. 52:32, 1987 Linfaticos de la glandula mamaria. Estudio e investigación del pedículo
- [Isidoro Cabrera](https://neglectedscience.com/isidoro-cabrera/): Isidoro Cabrera Rodríguez, Colombian dendrologist and botanical collector (San Martín, Meta Department 17 April 1922 – Discovered and collected new plant species SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Ruiz Domínguez. Colecciones floristicas realizadas en la provincia del Chocó Biogeografico colombiano (2012) Las plantas y sus usos en las islas de la Providencia y Santa Catalina (2005) Datos fenologicos de espécies arbóreas colombianos. Cespedesia 7(25-6) Suppl.2: 101-60, 1978 HONORS Isidodendron Fernandez-Alonso, Perez-Zabala & Idarraga 2000 (Trigoniaceae) 
- [Io Chou](https://neglectedscience.com/io-chou/): Io Chou or Yao Zhou, Chinese entomologist (Wingbo 08 July 1910 – Yangling, Shaanxi Province 15 December 2008) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA GENERA Coleoptera Aeschrocera 1996 with Chen Diplura Atlasjapyx 1986 with Huang Gigasjapyx 1984 Hainanjapyx 1983 Shaanxijapyx 1983 Sinocampa 1981 with Chen Hemiptera Ambragaeana 1985 with Yao Boresinia 1983 Callogaeana 1985 with Yao Camelocentrus 1976 Curvicicada 1997 with Lu Dworakowskaia 1985 with Zhang Jingkara 1964 Linguacicada 1997 with Lu Nondenticentrus 1992 with Yuan Parastenaulophrys 1992 with Wu Parazyginella 1985 with Zhang Proretinata 1986 with Yao Protacepaspis 1982 Qinophora 1987 with Liang Scolopita 1997 with Lei Sinobelostoma 1989 Sinodemanga 1982 with Yuan Sulphogaeana 1985 with Yao Tibeta 1997 with Lei Tribulocentrus 1982 with Yuan Zigzagicentrus 1976 Hymenoptera Dactylonotum 1981 with Xiang Lepidoptera Bifiduncus 1988 with Hua Dactyloplusia 1979 with Lu Cerviplusia 1974 with Lu
- [Ignacio Chavez](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-chavez/): Ignacio Chavez Sanchez, Mexican cardiologist (Zirandaro, Guerrero State 31 January 1897 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 July 1979) Authored 189 medical publications and 7 books With Alejandro Celis & Narno Dorbecker first in the world saw cardiac coronary arteries in a human being and developed selective angiocardiography Direct intracardiac angiocardiography – its diagnostic value. Am. Heart J. 33:560-93, 1947 Described Chavez pulmonary complex in pulmonary hypertension Lecciones de Clinica Cardiologica (1931) Described Chavez-Rivero Carvallo sign Una nueva maniobra para diferenciar los soplos aórticos y los pulmonares. Arch. Lat. Amer. Cardiol. Hematol. 5:115, 1935 Eponym of Chavez-Aceves sign in deep post-inspiratory apnea  With
- [Ieuda Ciornai](https://neglectedscience.com/ieuda-ciornai/): Ieuda Ciornai, Jewish Brazilian chemist (1922 – Rio de Janeiro 22 January 1986) With P. Kubelka & C. Torok develop a method for extraction potassium salts from brine wastewater With F. Feigl, A. Espínola, P.W. West, H.E. Feigl et al. New methods of qualitative and quantitative analyses of selenium, titanium, chromium, cobalt and tin. Bol. Dept. Nac. Prod. Mineral 24 (1946-8) Disposição de ligações de um multivoltímetro eletrônico para fontes de tensão contínua de alta resistência interna (1959) PATENTS With C. Torok a process (1948) An electric milivoltmeter of high impedance input  
- [Humberto Carelli](https://neglectedscience.com/humberto-carelli/): Humberto Horacio Carelli Capece, Argentine radiologist (Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province 08 November 1882 – Buenos Aires 30 January 1963) Described pneumoretroperitoneum technique (translumbar perirenal insufflation) independent of Paul Rosenstein (1921) later improved (1947) El neumoperitoneo en la exploración radiologica del abdome. Anales Fac. Med. Bs. Aires (1921) Pneumoperitoneum. Amer. J. Roentgenol. 10:259-79, 1923   Developed pneumopyelography  With Enrique H. Sordelli. Un Nuevo procedimiento para explorer el riñon. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 34:424-5, 1921 With Roberto Gandulfo & Alberto Ocampo conceived ginecography (a combination of pneumoretroperitoneum and hysterosalpingography techniques) in 1924 before Stein & Arens (1926) La exploración radiologica en ginecologia. La Semana
- [Hugo Campos Cereceda](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-campos-cereceda/): Hugo Hermes Campos Cereceda, Chilean ichthyologist and limnologist (Santiago 30 May 1935 – Lake Atravesado, XI Region 15 May 1998) Authored 67 papers and 29 scientific reports Described the fish species Cheirodon kiliani 1982 HONORS  Camposimyia Reiss 1981 (Diptera) Camposea Schwoerbel 1986 (Water Mites) LINKS (in Spanish; contains bibliography) http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1998/3/Obituario_1998.pdf http://www.uantof.cl/recursos_mar/pdf/vol19/prefacio.pdf
- [Huakui Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/huakui-chen/): Huakui Chen, Chinese soil microbiologist (Beijing 11 January 1914 – 2002) Authored Production of Growth-substance by clover nodule bacteria. Nature 142:753, 1938 Discovered that a hormone secreted by Rhizobia was responsible for extending and curling root hair (1930s) Indicated that the amount of nitrogen fixation carried out by a nodulated plant depended on several factors succh as number of nodules, the volume of bacteroid-containing tissue in each and the time for which this tissue persisted With H.G. Thornton. The structure of ineffective nodules and its influence on nitrogen fixation. Proceed Roy. Soc. B 129:208-29, 1940 Proved that Astragalus sinicus and its root-nodule bacteria (Mesorhizobium huakuii)
- [Hsiang-Tung Chang](https://neglectedscience.com/hsiang-tung-chang/): Hsiang-Tung Chang or Xiang-Tong Zhang, Chinese neurophysiologist (Cheng-Ting, Hopei Province 27 November 1907 – Shanghai 11 November 2007) With J. Fulton first to show that voluntary muscles were all in the motor cortex in Representation of muscles in the motor cortex of the macaque. J. Neurophysiol. (1947) With D. Lloyd demonstrated that afferent fiber diameters of each muscle nerves were distributed into three groups in J. Neurophysiol. (1948) First to demonstrate an afferent-efferent neuronal circuit between the cortex and the thalamus (1948) Discovered photic potentiation effect or Chang effect (1950) Proposed that dendrites were able to conduct action potentials (1951) First
- [Horacio Martins Canelas](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-martins-canelas/): Horacio Martins Canelas, Brazilian neurologist (São Paulo 30 May 1919 – São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 14 December 1995) Authored internationally recognized contributions to copper and ceruloplasmin metabolism in Wilson disease  Developed a method for studying copper in blood  With F.B. De Jorge & Costa-Silva. Contribuição ao estudo do metabolismo do cobre.I: Metodologia da determinação do cobre em materiais biológicos. Rev Paul Med 61:350-355, 1962 Named neuroachylias or achylic demyelinizing neuropathies in neuroanaemic syndrome Disturbios neurologicos nos estados carenciais aquilicos. Arq. Neuro-Psiqu. 10:1-40, 1952 Proposed the search for metachromatic bodies in these regions as a help in diagnosis of
- [Horacio Homero Camacho](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-homero-camacho/): Horacio Homero Camacho Viale, Argentine micropaleontologist (Buenos Aires 02 April 1922 – 01 October 2015) Authored over 116 publications and communications DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Subfamily Struthiolarellinae 1980 with Zinsmeister  Genera  Austroimbricaria 1992 with Oliveira Austroproconulus 1994 with Reichler Austrosphaera 1949  Charenopus 1953 Iheringinucula 1996 with del Rio Macrotrigonia 1985 with Oliveira Monteleonia 1998 with del Rio Ortmannia 1995 with Chiesa & Parma Patagumbonium 1994 with Reichler Charenopus 1953 Protohemichenopus 1953 Species 65 Others Ophiura elegantoides 1949 with Furque (Echinodermata) HONORS Camachoaster Mooi, Martínez, Del Río & Ramos 2018 (Fossil Echinodermata)
- [Hildebranda Angela Castellaro](https://neglectedscience.com/hildebranda-angela-castellaro/): Hildebranda Angela Castellaro, Argentine paleontologist (Arrecifes, Buenos Aires Province 22 May 1913 – Buenos Aires 15 September 1995) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES With Leanza 1955 Astarte notica Chlamys subvacaensis Chlamys wayensis Crassatella chilena Cretirhynchia transatlantica Exogyra trivialis Homomya antofagastensis Homomya subandina Lucina subporrecta Pleuromya harringtoni Sarcinella occidentalis Volsella weaveri Alone Chonetes stappenbecki 1958 HONORS Castellaroina Boucot 1972 (Fossil Brachiopoda) 
- [Hervásio Guimarães de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/hervasio-guimaraes-de-carvalho/): Hervásio Guimarães de Carvalho, Brazilian physicist (Araguari, Minas Gerais State 10 July 1916 – Rio de Janeiro 17 November 1999) Published more than 150 papers in reviews of international transmission ACHIEVEMENTS Developed and perfected visual methods for measuring nuclear emulsions with aid of plates Discovered a new form of fission in 238 uranium, a greatly assimetric fission (1975)  With V. Davis & W. Tesh. Gradation development method for nuclear emulsions. Physical Review 91(1):224, 1953 Um viscosímetro de nível constante. Anais Assoc. Quim. Brasil 3(3):179-81, 1944  With W.M. Amorim. Dosagem de monazita pelo contador Geiger-Muller. Anais Assoc. Quim. Brasil 12:35, 1953 (a
- [Hernán Chaimovich](https://neglectedscience.com/hernan-chaimovich/): Hernán Chaimovich Guralnik, Chilean-born Brazilian biochemist (Santiago 07 August 1939 – From Jewish Russian ancestry Authored 136 papers  ACHIEVEMENTS First demonstrated that any enzyme behave such a specific manner  With A. Traverso-Cori & O. Cori. Kinetic studies and properties of potato apyrase. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 109(1):173-84, 1965 Developed models for quantitative analysis of micelles and other aggregates on reactions Described one of the first artificial surfactant systems forming vesicles Elaborated conceptual frameworks for the quantitative analysis of reaction rates in aggregated systems advancing the understanding of interfacial effects on chemical and biological reactivity  First described vesicle formation using synthetic amphiphiles with negative
- [Henrique Rodrigues da Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-rodrigues-da-costa/): Henrique Rodrigues da Costa, Brazilian marine zoologist (Rio de Janeiro 04 January 1936 – Ceará State 08 June 1982) Performed studies on carcinology and zonation of coastal fauna DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEAN SPECIES Chasmocarcinus peresi 1968 Costalambrus tommasii 1959 Megalobrachium walteri 1968 Pachycheles haigae 1960 Pinnotheres sebastianensis 1970 Ranilia saldanhai 1970 Solenolambrus sebastianensis 1961 HONORS Costalambrus Tan & Ng 2007 (Crustacea Decapoda)
- [Hector Croxatto](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-croxatto/): Hector Croxatto Rezzio, Chilean biochemist (Valparaiso 03 July 1907 – Santiago 28 September 2010) Authored over 300 works His works on kalikrein-kynin system gained world acclaim Discovered pepsanurin (1942) and PU-D1, a new kininogen-derived peptide  With R. Silva, X. Figueroa, R. Albertini, J. Roblero & M.P. Boric. A peptide released by pepsin from kininogen domain 1 is a potent blocker of AMP-mediated diuresis-natriuresis in the rat. Hypertension 30(4):897-904, 1997 Showed that the proteolytic hydrolysis of plasma proteins gave rise to potent peptides acting upon smooth muscles and kidney functions With G.B. Marini-Bettolo purified and characterized renal proteins presenting important biological activity Described a
- [Hamid Alexandre Cecin](https://neglectedscience.com/hamid-alexandre-cecin/): Hamid Alexandre Cecin, Lebanese-born Brazilian rheumatologist (Lebanon 07 February 1940 – Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 23 April 2018) Discovered naturally acquired immunity against tetanus  With R. Veronesi, A. Correa, J. Tavares, C. Moraes & O.J. Nascimento.  New approaches on tetanus immunization: naturally acquired immunity. Rev. Hosp. Clin. S. Paulo 28:1973 Discovered Cecin Sign (1996) described definitely in 2010 Sinal de Cecin (Sinal “X”): um aprimoramento no diagnóstico de compressão radicular por hérnias discais lombares. Rev. Bras. Reumatol. 50(1), 2010 Proposição de uma reserva anatomofuncional no canal raquidiano, como fator interferente na fisiopatologia das lombalgias e lombociatalgias mecânico-degenerativas. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras.
- [Gustavo Mendes de Oliveira Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-mendes-de-oliveira-castro/): Gustavo Mendes de Oliveira Castro, Brazilian biologist (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro 24 January 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 22 November 1978) ACHIEVEMENTS Enunciated law of phylogenesis and succession Filogenese e sucessão. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 18(2):121-5, 1946 Co-authored with Stanley A. Cain Manual of vegetation analysis (1959), an influent book on phytosociology With J.M. Pires & N.T. da Silva authored the paper Application of some phytosociological techniques to Brazilian rain forest. Amer. J. Bot. 43(10):911-41, 1956 with great repercussion in this field METHODS / DEVICES Um método de análise de populações vegetais. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 45(3):572-86, 1947 Developed a staining
- [Bernhard Dawson](https://neglectedscience.com/bernhard-dawson/): Bernhard Hildebrandt Dawson, US-born Argentine astronomer (Kansas City, Missouri State 21 September 1890 – 18 June 1960) Discovered Nova Puppis star or Dawson star (1942) Identified a nebula surrounding a variable star (1928) Two new variables. Astron. J. 30 (706):84, 1917 Forty-seven new double stars. Astron. J. 35(834):1478, 1924 METHODS An improved slide rule for the addition of squares. Science 104 (2688):18, 1946 A simple procedure for photographing eclipses. Pop. Astron. 41:292, 1933 A new method for calculation of binary stars orbits Un metodo abreviado de compensación (1948) Una simplificación en la determinación del tiempo y latitud HONORS D.B. Pickering Nova
- [Bernard De Winter](https://neglectedscience.com/bernard-de-winter/): Bernard De Winter, South African botanist (Pretoria 31 July 1924 – Pretoria 08 May 2017) DESCRIBED PLANTA TAXA Genera Diandrochloa 1960 Digitariella 1961 Kaokochloa 1961 Polevansia 1966 Sartidia 1963 Styppeiochloa 1966 Species Citrullus rehmii 1990 Digitariella remotigluma 1961 Diospyros austroafricana 1961 Diospyros glanduliufera 1961 Eragrostis acrae 1961 Eragrostis aristata 1961 Eragrostis comptonii 1990 Eragrostis glandulosipedata 1961 Eragrostis kingesii 1961 Eragrostis lamprospicula 1961 Eragrostis moggii 1966 Eragrostis omahekensis 1961 Eragrostis pygmaea 1969 Eragrostis remotiflora 1961 Eragrostis stapfii 1955 Kaokochloa nigrirostris 1961 Polevansia rigida 1966 Rogeria petrophila 1961 Royena acocksii 1958 Stipagrostis anomala 1958 Stipagrostis namibensis 1964 Stipagrostis pellytronis 1990 Stipagrostis ramulosa 1964 Stipagrostis seelyae 1990 HONORS Dewinteria Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2007 (Pedaliaceae)
- [B. Vasantharaj David](https://neglectedscience.com/b-vasantharaj-david/): B(aliah) Vasantharaj David, Indian entomologist (Insein, Myanmar 17 November 1934 – DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Aleuropapillatus 1993 with Regu Cockerelliella 1992 with Sundararaj Crescentaleyrodes 1987 with Jesudasan Fippataleyrodes 1992 with Sundararaj Hindaleyrodes 1994 with Meganathan Indoaleyrodes 1976 with Subramanian Kanakarajiella 1993 with Sundararaj Keralaleyrodes 1994 with Meganathan Lankaleyrodes 1993 Moundiella 1974 Orientaleyrodes 1993 Rositaleyrodes 1994 with Meganathan HONORS (Hemiptera)  Vasantharajiella Manidurai David & Manoharan 2000  Vasdavidius Russell 2000
- [Augusta Vera Duthie](https://neglectedscience.com/augusta-vera-duthie/): Augusta Vera Duthie, South-African botanist (Knysna, Western Cape Province 18 July 1881 – Knysna, Western Cape Province 08 August 1963) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Anthericum scariosum 1926 Chlorophytum tuberculatum 1926 Eriospermum appendiculatum 1940 Eriospermum fasciculatum 1924 Eriospermum graminifolium 1924 Eriospermum papilliferum 1940 Ornithogalum pygmaeum 1928 Urginea gracilis 1928 Urginea minor 1928 Urginea revoluta 1928 Urginea unifolia 1928 HONORS Duthiastrum De Vos 1975 (Iridaceae) Duthiophycus Tandy 1938 (Rhodophyta)
- [Asis Datta](https://neglectedscience.com/asis-datta/): Asis Datta, Indian molecular biologist (Kolkata, West Bengal 02 February 1944 – ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered the role of allosteric enzymes in the regulation of amino sugar metabolism in animal tissues (1970) First to report the presence of an enzyme inside the bacterial virus (RNA polymerase in bacteriophage PM2) in 1971-2 With S. Ochoa first to report the role of a new initiation factors for protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells (1977) First to report the presence of 2 translational inhibitors during plant embryogenesis Unravelled two molecular determinants of virulence in Candida albicans   Discovered a N-acetylglucosamine catabolic pathway in highly pathogenic Candida albicans (1979-93) First to demonstrate
- [Armando Leopoldo De Fina](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-leopoldo-de-fina/): Armando Leopoldo De Fina Donato, Argentine agricultural climatologist (Buenos Aires 29 January 1908 – ?) Developed methods With L.J. Sabella. La predicción de las áreas de lluvia por nuevo método casi objectivo. RDF INTA 61, 1958 Metodo gráfico e índice numérico para conocer la seguridad de eficiência de las variedades agrícolas. Rev. Fac. Agron. La Plata 25:21-54, 1943 Proposed agroclimatic districts Sistema practico para dividir los países en districtos agroclimaticos. Rev. Invest. Agricolas 4(4):341-55, 1950 Other contributions Las exigencias meteorológicas de los vegetales. Rev. Fac. Agron. La Plata 21:187-93, 1938  
- [Armando Dugand](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-dugand/): Armando Dugand Gnecco, Colombian geobotanist and ornithologist (Barranquilla 23 July 1906 – Barranquilla 05 December 1971) From French father Authored 109 papers on botany and 29 papers on ornithology DESCRIBED TAXA Plants Valid Genera Pseudobombax 1943 (Bombacaceae) Romeroa 1952 (Bignoniaceae) Saritaea 1945 (Bignoniaceae) in honor to his wife Sara Roncallo Uribea 1962 with Romero (Fabaceae) Species 165 species Aves Subspecies Aratinga  pertinax lehmanni 1943 Colinus cristatus bogotensis 1943 HONORS Research Fellow, Harvard University (1942)
- [Aristomenes Guimarães Duarte](https://neglectedscience.com/aristomenes-guimaraes-duarte/): Aristomenes Guimarães Duarte, Brazilian geologist and stratigrapher (died 10 April 1936) Described fossil brachiopod Magas sergipensis 1939  Named trilobite species Anisopyge antiqua (1938) renamed Phillipsia (Ameura) duartei SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Paleontologia da parte superior do Grupo Estrada Nova. Miner. Metal. 1(1):6-8, 1936 Petróleo e condições para a sua ocorrência no Estado de Sergipe. Miner. Metal. 1(3):116-7, 1936 Fósseis da sondagem de Therezina, Estado do Piauí. Serv. Geol. Miner. 2(2):1-3, 1936 Idade dos calcareos do morro do Chaves, Estado do Sergipe. Bol. Serv. Geol. Miner. 79, 1936 Notas geológicas sobre o município de Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul (1936) Fósseis carboniferous do rio Jatapu. Bol. Serv. Geol. Mineral.
- [Apparicio Pereira Duarte](https://neglectedscience.com/apparicio-pereira-duarte/): Apparicio Pereira Duarte, Brazilian botanist (Carandaí, Minas Gerais State 07 December 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 30 March 1984) Authored 28 papers Only one paper about phytochemistry With B. Gilbert, Y. Nakagawa, J.A. Joule, S.E. Flores, J. Aguayo Brissolese, J. Campello, E.P. Carrazzoni, R.J. Owellen, E.C. Blossey, K.S. Brown Jr & C. Djerassi. Alkaloid studies. LI. The alkaloids of twelve Aspidosperma species. Tetrahedron 21:1141-66, 1965 DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Aspidosperma divaricatum 1972 Aspidosperma ellipsocarpum 1968 Aspidosperma formopsanum 1973 Aspidosperma gilbertii 1968 Aspidosperma heringeri 1968 Aspidosperma williamsii 1972 Callisthene dryadum 1964 Callisthene elisha-florae 1968 Callisthene revoluta 1968 Haplostephium granmogolensis 1974 Haplostephium pinnifolium 1974 Kielmeyera rupestris 1973 Trymatococcus guanabarinus 1964 HONORS Alkaloid Apparicine, described by H.J. Monteiro, J.A. Joule,
- [Anil Kumar Datta Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/anil-kumar-datta-gupta/): Anil Kumar Datta-Gupta, Indian zoologist (30 October 1924 – 02 April 1988) DESCRIBED POLYCHAETA TAXA Genera Kurchatovus 1979 Charcotus 1981 Species Acanthobonellia rollandoe 1964 with Menon & Johnson Acanthobonellia vulgaris 1964 with Menon & Johnson Alomasoma rhynchollulus 1981 Anelassorhunchus chaetiferus 1963 with Menon & Johnson Anelassorhynchus fischeri 1964 Anelassorhynchus loborhynchus 1966 with Menon Bonellia plumosa 1981 Bonelliopsis minutus 1981 Charcotus charcotus 1981 Charcotus clavatum 1981 Eubonellia longistomum 1981 Eubonellia noratlanticum 1981 Ikeda pirotansis 1962 with Menon Jakobia similaris 1981 Kurchatovus epeedentatus 1986 Kurchatovus tridentatus 1979 Ochetostoma septemyotum 1963 with Menon & Johnson HONORS Dattaguptus Murina & Popokov 2000 (Echiura) 
- [Anil Kumar Das](https://neglectedscience.com/anil-kumar-das/): Anil Kumar Das, Indian astronomer (Chinsura Hoogly, West Bengal 01 February 1902 – Hyderabad 18 February 1961) Authored about 40 papers Explained a large number of solar phenomena Measured the temperature difference between the pole and equator of the Sun (1953) confirming the Bjerknes theory of 1926   Showed that the area of calcium prominences in Sun’s atmosphere was indeed maximum in January and minimum in July (1940) INSTRUMENTS With B.B. Roy & D.N. Das Gupta. A new upper air temperature indicator. Gerlands Beitr. Z. Geophys. 36:4-6, 1932 Simple instruments for studying temperature inversions in the free atmosphere. Gerlands Beitr. Z. Geophys.
- [Angel Diaz Celis](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-diaz-celis/): Angel Díaz Celis, Peruvian botanist (San Miguel de Cajamarca 02 October 1922 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.M. Rivera Mardones. Exploración del recurso medico tradicional en el departamento de Ucayali (2000) Guia para el cultivo y aprovechamiento de los algarrobos o trupillos Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) DC y Prosopis pallida (H&B ex Willd. ) H.B.K. (1997) Los algarrobos (1995) Estudio de las variedades nacionales de zapallos (1957) Estudio de la vegetación halofita de la llanura de Duro Tacla y lagunas de Porto Viejo (1953) HONORS Angeldiazia Dillon & Zapata 2010 (Asteraceae)
- [Andrés Manuel del Rio](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-manuel-del-rio/): Andrés Manuel del Rio Fernandez, Spanish-born Mexican chemist and mineralogist (Madrid 10 November 1764 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 March 1849) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered and isolated vanadium (1801); confirmed only in 1830 after Sefstrom rediscovery Discovered a natural gold-rhodium alloy (1825) and mercury selenide (1827) Discovered and described various mineral species (for example vanadinite) and the varieties herrerite (1830) and valencianite Established the foundations of geographical mineralogy (1804) Invented and improved mineral extraction methods for use in mining industry  Developed a water pump used in mines HONORS Delrioite Thompson & Sherwood 1959 (Mineral)
- [Alfredo Duges](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-duges/): Alfred Auguste Delsescautz Dugés, French-born Mexican physician and naturalist (Montpellier 16 April 1826 – Guanajuato 07 January 1910) Son of French obstetrician and naturalist Antoine Louis Dugés DESCRIBED TAXA ACARI Genus Alophus 1885 Amphibia Valid Species Ambystoma altamirani 1895 Ambystoma dumerili 1870  Ambystoma velasci 1888 Calotriton asper 1852 Phrynosoma taurus 1873 Sonora michoacanensis 1884 Reptilia Valid Genus Adelophis 1879 Valid Species Adelophis copei 1879 Bipes tridactylus 1894 Hypsiglena jani 1865 Mesoscincus altamirani 1891 HONORS Dugesia A. Gray 1882 (Asteraceae)
- [Alfonso Díaz Najera](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-diaz-najera/): Alfonso Díaz Najera, Mexican medical entomologist (Balsas, Guerrero State 19 January 1910 – 1992?) With G. Román y Carrillo & L. Vargas. New technics for studying the susceptibility of arthropods to persistent inseticides. I. Tests with four Mexican anopheline species raised in the laboratory, based on the definitive knock-down of the specimens. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 19:19-65, 1959 DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera  Dyarella 1946 with Vargas & Martinez Palacios Eubonetia 1953 with Vargas Grenieriella 1951 with Vargas Hearlea 1946 with Vargas & Martínez Palacios Lanea 1946 with Martinez Palacios & Vargas Mallochianella 1948 with Vargas Neosimulium 1946 with Vargas & Martinez Palacios Tlalocomyia 1970 with Wygodzinsky Species 62 
- [Alfonso Davalos](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-davalos/): Alfonso Davalos, Ecuadorian-born Venezuelan urologist With O.S. Lowsley & T.J. Kirwin. Urolocide, a new skin antiseptic and disinfectant for instruments. J. Urol. Davalos technique for surgical treatment of penile cancer (1931) Davalos technique of simultaneous bilateral-uretero-intestinal anastomosis (1945) Davalos bilateral ureteral transplantation (transplantation of the ureter into bowel) Davalos technique for total resection of penis and cavernous organisms 
- [Alfonso Dampf](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-dampf/): Alfons Alexis Ernst Michael Dampf, German-born Mexican entomologist (Dagö Island, Kerthell Village, Estonia 03 December 1884 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 March 1948) DESCRIBED SIPHONAPTERA TAXA Family Ceratophyllidae 1908 Genera Archaeopsylla 1908 Mesopsylla 1910 Sciuropsylla 1942 Species At least 15 new species Described Palaeopsylla klebsiana, the first fossil flea (1910) Others At least 10 new species of Diptera and a new species of Acari HONORS  Genera Dampfia Smit 1954 (Siphonaptera) Dampfiella Sellnick 1931 (Acari) Dampfaria Verhoeff 1932 (Myriapoda) Dampfius Pacheco 1964 (Coleoptera) Dampfiana DeLong & Hershberger 1948 & Alfonsiella Waterston 1920 (Hemiptera) Subgenera Dampfomyia Adis 1945 (Diptera) Dampfitrichia Mosely 1937 (Trichoptera)
- [Alex Du Toit](https://neglectedscience.com/alex-du-toit/): James Alexander Logie Du Toit, South African hydro-geologist and paleobotanist (Newlands, Rondebosch, near Cape Town 14 March 1878 – Pinelands, Cape Town 25 February 1948) Authored 86 works Most known as main supporter of Wegenerian continental drift theory in the early 1900s DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Eretmonia 1932 Moltenia 1927 Species Dicroidiopsis incisa  Eretmonia natalensis Glossopteris longicaulis Lepidopteris africana  Moltenia dentata Nilssonia brownii  Pseudoctenis capensis Pseudoctenis fissa Pseudoctenis lanciformis  Pseudoctenis spatulata HONORS Du Toit crater (on Mars) Genus Dutoitia Hoeg 1930 (Fossil Plantae) Genus Alexia Anderson & Anderson 2003 (Fossil Plantae) Genus Dutoitella Dingle 1981 (Ostracoda)
- [Alejandro Dalma Kende](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-dalma-kende/): Alejandro Dalma Kende, Jewish Mexican ophthalmologist (Ciudad de Mexico 06 January 1934 – From Hungarian parentage DEVELOPED METHODS With J. Dalma Weiszhausz & V. Franco Cardenas. Subretinal perfluorocarbon liquid for dissection of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. J. Ophthalm. Vis. Res. 7(4):350-4, 2012 With J. Dalma Weiszhausz & V. Franco Cardenas. A modified technique for extracting a dislocated lens with perfluorocarbon liquids and viscoelastics. Ophthalmic Surg. Lasers Imaging 41(5):572-4, 2010 With L. Sanchez Bulnes. Surgical treatment of retinal detachment. New developments in the technique of radial sclera resections. Am. J. Ophthalm. 61(5 Pt.2):1038-44, 1966 HONOURS Honor Award & Distinguished Service Award, American Academy of
- [Ai-yun Dai](https://neglectedscience.com/ai-yun-dai/): Ai-Yun Dai, Chinese carcinologist (Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province 06 February 1930 – 02 May 2005) Authored about 100 publications DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA GENERA Acartiapotamon 1999 Aparapotamon 1985 with Chen Apotamonautes 1993 Artopotamon 1985 with Chen Bottapotamon 1997 with Tuerkay Chinapotamon 1994 with Naiyanetr Hainanpotamon 1995 Heterochelamon 1997 with Tuerkay  Lacunapotamon 1975 with Song, He, Cao, Zu & Zhong Latopotamon 1997 with Tuerkay Lophopotamon 1999 Mediapotamon 1997 with Tuerkay Minpotamon 1997 with Tuerkay Neilupotamon 1997 with Tuerkay Neotiwaripotamon 1994 with Naiyanetr Paracyclestheria 1987 with Shen Pararanguna 1985 with Chen  Parapotamonoides 1990 Parvuspotamon 1995 with Bo Qianpotamon 1995 Tenuilapotamon 1984 Trichopotamon 1985 with Chen Vadosapotamon 1997 with Tuerkay  Xestopilumnus 1997 with Ng Yarepotamon 1997 with Tuerkay SPECIES More than 200 HONORS Daipotamon Ng & Trontelj 1996 (Crustacea)
- [Adolpho Ducke](https://neglectedscience.com/adolpho-ducke/): Walter Adolpho Ducke, Austro-Hungarian-born Brazilian botanist, entomologist and etnographer (Trieste, Italy 19 October 1876 – Fortaleza 05 January 1959) Authored about 180 papers and monographs DESCRIBED TAXA Plants Adiscanthis 1922 (Rutaceae) Aguiaria 1935 (Bombacaceae) Ampelozizyphus 1935 (Rhamnaceae) Anomalocalyx 1932 (Euphorbiaceae) Botryarrhena 1932 (Rubiaceae) Bracteanthus 1930 (Monimiaceae) Cedrelinga 1922 (Mimosaceae) Chromolucuma 1925 (Sapotaceae) Ctenardisia 1930 (Myrsinaceae) Dendrosipanea 1935 (Rubiaceae) Dinizia 1922 (Mimosaceae) Dodecastigma 1932 (Euphorbiaceae) Elaeophora 1925 (Euphorbiaceae) Glycydendron 1922 (Euphorbiaceae) Huberodendron 1935 (Bombacaceae) Jacqueshuberia 1922 (Fabaceae) Lacunaria 1925 (Ochnaceae) Lecointea 1922 (Fabaceae) Lepidocordia 1925 (Boraginaceae) Lorostemon 1935 (Clusiaceae) Nycticalanthus 1932 (Rutaceae) Parachimarrhis 1922 (Rubiaceae) Parahancornia 1922 (Apocynaceae) Paramachaerium 1925 (Fabaceae) Petaladenium 1938 (Fabaceae) Podandrogyne 1930 (Capparaceae) Polygonanthus 1932 (Anisophyllaceae) Recordoxylon 1934 (Fabaceae) Rinoreocarpus 1925 (Violaceae) Striolaria 1945 (Rubiaceae) Tovomitidium 1935 (Clusiaceae) Vataireopsis 1932 (Fabaceae) Species   762 new plant species    Hymenoptera Genera Anthrenoides 1907 Gastrohalictus 1902 Gymnopolybia 1914
- [Adolfo Doering](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-doering/): Adolfo Doering, German-born Argentine geologist, chemist and zoologist (Neuwaake, Hannover 22 January 1848 – Capilla del Monte, Córdoba, Córdoba Province 19 February 1925) Authored over 20 papers Described the mineral species brackebuschite (1880)  DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA/BRACHIOPODA TAXA Genera Adelopoma 1885 Clessinia 1874 Epiphragmophora 1874 Lyrodes 1885 Plagiodontes 1875 Scolodonta 1874 Species Agriolimax meridionalis 1875 Augochloropsis anesidora 1875 Austroborus cordillerae 1876 Bostryx conospirus 1879 Bostryx famatinus 1879 Bostryx peristomatus 1879 Bostryx tortoranus 1879  Bulimus dorbignii 1876 Bulimus lorentzianus 1876 Bulimulus centralis 1879 Bulimulus monticola 1879 Discoleus aguirrei 1884 Discoleus azulensis 1884 Epiphragmophora monographa 1878 Eudioptus avellanedae 1881 Eurycampta hidalgonis 1876 Helix hieronymi 1875  Helix tucumanensis 1878 Helix yocotulana 1875 Littoridina occidentalis 1884 Lyrodes guaranitica 1884 Naesiotus oxylabris 1879 Naesiotus centralis 1879 Odontostomus riojanus Omalonyx patera 1873 Patula stelznerae 1876 Peronaeus calchaquinus 1879 Plagiodontes brackebuschi 1876 Plagiodontes rocae 1881
- [Zulma Castellanos](https://neglectedscience.com/zulma-castellanos/): Zulma Judith Ageitos de Castellanos, Argentine malacologist and protozoologist (San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires Province 06 April 1922 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 29 August 2010) Born Zulma Judith Ageitos Deban Authored 115 scientific publications  DESCRIBED TAXA Mollusca Genera /Subgenera Bidentata 1982 Lisosavatieria 1975 with Fernandez Neocalliostoma 1976 with Fernandez Species Sole author Amphissa cancellata 1982 Antistreptus rolani 1986 Chlamys argentinensis 1973 Chlamys lahillei 1973 Chrysallida multituberculata 1982 Crassinella marplatensis 1970 Cumingia antarctica 1963 Illex argentinus 1960 Loligo brasiliensis 1967 Macromphalina argentina 1975 Mathilda argentina 1990 Odostomia (Bidentata) nova 1982 Odostomia puelchana 1982 Omalogyra taludana 1989 Proneptunea minuta 1992 Rocellaria carcellesi 1970 Turbonilla bahiensis 1982 Turbonilla paralaminata 1982 Turbonilla sanmatiensis 1982 With Rolán & Bartolotta (1987) Acteon elongatus  Cerithiella (Stilus) axicostulata 
- [Zhong Wei Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/zhong-wei-chen/): Zhong Wei Chen, Chinese microsurgeon and orthopedic surgeon (Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 01 October 1929 –Shanghai 23 March 2004) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 125 papers and 11 books Internationally known as father of replantation and founder of the replantation of digits Performed the world’s first reported hand replant (1963) With Yun-Qing Qian performed world’s first successful replantation of amputated limb (a distal forearm) in 1963 First to treat tibial pseudo-arthrosis with a vascularised fibula flap (1977) One of the first to recreate a missing thumb with a second toe (1980) Developed pedicled iliac crest transfer for treating femoral ahead aseptic necrosis in children (1982) Invented microanastomosis
- [Yun-tai Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/yun-tai-chen/): Yun-tai Chen, Chinese geophysicist (Xiamen, Fujian Province 10 August 1940 – Authored about 200 scientific publications Found that heterogeneities of both stress drop and cohesion are the main factors that control the growth, cessation, and healing of the crack and that the complexities in seismic radiation are caused by the complex healing process as well as complex rupture propagation Obtained a closed form expression for the static displacement field in a half-space by the dislocation in a rectangular fault for the case of unequal Lamé constants With S.G. Kim, Z.L. Wu & G.F. Panza. A mathematical theorem useful for the direct
- [Yuanting Chu](https://neglectedscience.com/yuanting-chu/): Yuanting Chu or Yuanding Zhu, Chinese ichthyologist (1896 – 1986) DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA Genera Atrilinea 1935 Atrobucca 1963 with Lo & Wu Herzensteinia 1935 Megalonibea 1963 with Lo & Wu Percocypris 1935 Species Apristurus gibbosus 1985 with Meng & Li Apristurus macrostomus 1985 with Meng & Li Apristurus micropterygeus 1986 with Meng & Li Apristurus sinensis 1981 with Hu Bythaelurus immaculatus 1982 with Meng Callechelys maculatus 1981 with Wu & Jin Centrophorus isodon 1981 with Meng & Liu Dasyatis laevigata 1960 Dipturus kwantungensis 1960 Fugu punctulatus 1963 with Hsu Johnius fasciatus 1963 with Lo & Wu Megalonibea fusca 1963 with Lo & Wu Neenchelys parrpectoralis 1981 with Wu & Jin Nibea semifasciata 1963 with Lo & Wu Ophichthys brevicaudatus 1981 with Wu &
- [Yong Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/yong-chen/): Yong Chen, Chinese seismologist (Chongqing, Sichuan Province 31 February 1942 – Revealed the effect of the stress path on the properties of rocks Developed the pulse-laser holographic interferometry applied to rock deformation measurements Found that the consistency of focal mechanisms of a group of earthquakes can be used to distinguish foreshocks and earthquake swarms Proposed the physical fractal method to analyse the seismic patterns His results of the thermal cracking were used in safety regulations of nuclear plants Compiled the world seismic hazard and risk map widely used   
- [Xavier Caicedo](https://neglectedscience.com/xavier-caicedo/): Xavier Caicedo Ferrer, Colombian mathematical logician (Cali, Valle del Cauca Department 03 December 1944 – Regarded as a world expert on the utilization of topological structures as models for obtaining logic theorems CONTRIBUTIONS Showed that any operation defined implicity by a system of quasi-identities in the variety of divisible relatively pseudo-complemented MV algebras is given by a term of variety With J. Iovino developed a maximality theorem that characterizes a class of [0,1](0,1]-valued logics in terms of a model-theoretic property (2014) With G. Metcalfe, R.O. Rodríguez & J. Rogger. A finite model property for Godel modal logics. Lecture Notes Comp. Science 8071:226-37, 2013 
- [Woon Young Chun](https://neglectedscience.com/woon-young-chun/): Woon Young Chun or Huanyong Chen, Chinese botanist (Hong Kong 22 July 1890 – 18 January   1971) From Cuban mother DESCRIBED VALID GENERA/SUBGENERA Cathaya 1962 with Kuang (Pinaceae) Cathayanthe 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Malania 1980 with Lee (Olacaceae) Merrillanthus 1941 with Tsiang (Asclepiadaceae) Peiantha 1982 with Chen (Lamiaceae) Raphiocarpus 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Tengia 1946 (Gesneriaceae) Zenia 1946 (Fabaceae) Species 478 new species HONORS Chunia Chang 1948 (Hamamelidaceae) Chuniophoenix Burret 1937 (Arecaceae)
- [Wlandemir de Albuquerque Cavalcanti](https://neglectedscience.com/wlandemir-de-albuquerque-cavalcanti/): Wlandemir de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian mycologist and lichenologist (fl.1961) DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Fungi Acanthorus 1967 Amerodiscosiellina 1966 with Batista Batistamnus 1967 with Bezerra Bullaserpens 1965 with Batista e Bezerra Byrsomyces 1972 Ceramoclasteropsis 1962 with Batista Chaetantromycopsis 1986 with Silva e Upadhyay Characonidia 1965 with Batista Clasteropycnis 1963 with Batista Dictyophrynella 1964 with Batista Elachopeltella 1966 with Batista Elattopycnis 1963 with Batista Haplopeltheca 1963 with Batista & Bezerra Johncouchia 1983 with Hughes Mycerema 1963 with Batista & Bezerra Orthobellus 1973 with Silva Pycnodactylus 1967 with Batista & Silva Pyripnomyces 1972 Scoliotidium 1963 with Batista Scothelius 1965 with Batista & Bezerra Stomiopeltopsis 1963 with Batista Symphysos 1967 with Batista Ventrographium 1986 with Upadhyay & Silva Lichenes Lagenomyces 1972 with Silva Phaeoantenariella 1969
- [William Gerson Rolim de Camargo](https://neglectedscience.com/william-gerson-rolim-de-camargo/): William Gerson Rolim de Camargo, Brazilian mineralogist and crystallographer (São Paulo 25 February 1920 – São Paulo 1987) Introduced variations on a number of analytical methods With J.B. Madureira Filho. New diagrams for physical determination of garnets. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 48:57-8, 1976 With I.M. Souza. A new crystal habit of tourmaline. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 42:219-2, 1970 With J.B. Madureira & W.H. Kerth. A mathematical approach for determination of molecular composition of transparent spinels   With C.R. Leite & I.M. Souza. Determinação precisa dos parâmetros unitários na câmara de precessão. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias (1969) With J.P. Algarte. Nova tabela para
- [William Callia](https://neglectedscience.com/william-callia/): William Ermete Primo Callia, Brazilian plastic surgeon (1927 – São Paulo 01 June 2003) Developed abdominal lipectomy or lipoabdominoplasty or Callia operation Contribuição para o estudo da correção em cirurgia do abdomen em pêndulo e globoso: técnica original. Thesis (1965) New technique for breast reconstruction in unilateral amastia (1960) Uma plástica para a cirurgia geral. Med. Hosp. 1:40, 1967 Nova técnica de reconstrução de rebordo de asa de nariz (Nota prévia) 1959 Nova técnica de postectomia Nova técnica de mamoplastia 
- [William Bartlett Calvert](https://neglectedscience.com/william-bartlett-calvert/): William Bartlett Calvert, Irish-born Chilean entomologist (Lurgan, Armagh County, Ulster Province 18 October 1856 – ?) DESCRIBED NEW LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genus Neorumia 1893 Species Agriocoma araucana 1893 Argentulia montana 1893 Argopteron puelmae 1888 Aloba cinereus 1895 Catocalopsis medinae 1891 Cherchiella andina 1894 Chloroclydon graphica 1890 Hyponomeuta rutila 1893 Incalvertia valdiviana 1893 Macaria alba 1893 Microclysia paulseni 1893 Microclysia philippii 1891 Neorumia gigantea 1893 Neorumia lutea 1893 Oporabia arenosa 1893 Perusia gracilis 1893 Pseudaleucis oyarzuni 1893 Pseudolucia andina 1893 Pucaraia izquierdoi 1893 Siona alba 1893 Stamnodes triangularia 1891 Synaxis strigata 1893 Tetracis ianthinus 1893 Triptiloides esmeralda 1893 HONORS Incalvertia Rindge 1986 (Lepidoptera) Calvertius Sharp 1891 (Coleoptera)
- [Wenxin Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/wenxin-chen/): Wenxin Chen, Chinese soil microbiologist (Liuyang County, Hunan Province 23 September 1926 – Beijing 07 October 2021) Authored over 80 papers ESTABLISHED The world’s largest rhizobia resource bank and database One of the two most important rhizobia classification laboratories in the world A set of scientific classification and identification of rhizobia technical methods and data processing procedures DISCOVERIES Proved the diversity of the symbiosis relationship between rhizobia and legumes (one plant can coexist with a variety of rhizobia) Revealed the biogeographical characteristics of rhizobia and related genomic differences Revealed the difference in the effectiveness of symbiosis between close-source strains and different
- [Wen Tang Chang](https://neglectedscience.com/wen-tang-chang/): Wen-Tang Chang or Wentang Zhang, Chinese geologist and paleontologist (Henan Province 10 January 1925 – Nanjing 20 October 2013) Described at least 109 genera in Trilobita and 22 genera in Fossil Crustacea MEMBERSHIP Titular Member, International Subcommission on Cambrian System Member, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature  HONORS   Changaspis Lee 1963 (Trilobite) Changicyathus Debrenne & Zhuravlev 1990 (Archaeocyatha)  Changchowilla Waisfeld, Vaccari, Chatterton & Edgecombe 2001 (Trilobite)
- [Wanchun Cheng](https://neglectedscience.com/wanchun-cheng/): Wanchun Cheng / Wanjun Zheng, Chinese botanist (Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province 24 June 1904 – Beijing 25 July 1983) Recognized as a world authority on gymnosperms taxonomy  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Metasequoia 1948 with Hu Parakmeria 1951 with Hu Paramanglietia 1951 with Hu Pseudotaxus 1947 Others  Tribe Amentotaxeae 1975 with Cheng & Du  Section Fissae 1988 with Chao  Section Trichocarpus 1963 Subsection Echinocastanopsis 1988 with Chao Species  Abies chayuensis 1975 with Fu  Abies nukiangensis 1975 with Fu  Acer amoenum 1948 with Hu Acer chienii 1948 with Hu Acer crassum 1948 with Hu Acer firmianioides 1949  Acer hilaense 1948 with Hu Acer kuikiangense 1948 with Hu Acer kwangnanense 1948 with Hu Acer liquidambarifolium 1948 with Hu Acer
- [Walter Oswaldo Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-oswaldo-cruz/): Walter Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian hematologist  (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 23 January 1910 – Rio de Janeiro  03 January 1967 ) Son of Oswaldo G. Cruz ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 130 papers Proposed that ancylostomotic anemia was due to disturbances in iron metabolism (1932) Verified that hemostasis depends on innervations With A.C. Oliveira showed the existence of a pulmonary role in hemostasis control and organism irrigation  Revealed a hemostatic activity of compounds such as lipoproteins Suggested that nervous control of vessels and the biochemical state of plasma in arterial blood play an important role in hemostasis With A. C. de Oliveira developed a device for
- [Vitoriano Paiva Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/vitoriano-paiva-castro/): Vitoriano Paiva de Castro Neto, Brazilian orchidologist (Santos, São Paulo State 07 January 1942 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA  Valid Genera (with R. Chiron) Dungsia 2002 Pseudencyclia 2003 Hybrid Genera (with Chiron 2002) Hadrocattleya Hoffmanncattleya Hoffmanncyclia Microcattleya Sections 10 Species 102
- [Vireshwar Nath Capoor](https://neglectedscience.com/vireshwar-nath-capoor/): Vireshwar Nath Capoor, Indian helminthologist and entomologist (1930 – 2006)  With S.K. Malhotra & R.S. Chauhan. Introduction of a new formula for the assessment of a new ecological parameter: “Gastroparasitic index”. 5th Congr. Zool. Bhopal, p. 168, 1980 DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Barbusa 1975 with Srivastava Bengalotrema 1989 with Malhotra, Nanda, Mukherjee, Ghosh & Sukul Columbia 1966 with Srivastava   Francolina 1987 with Sawada, Bhalya & Rastogi Gopalaia 1980 with Dixit & Rengaragu Humiditaenia 1986 with Bhalya Hymenocoelia 1966 with Srivastava Matiarensis 1986 with Dixit Ophryocotylus 1977 with Srivastava Sternolepis 1989 with Gautam, Rishi & Dixit Tortocephalus 1980 with Malhotra & Pundir Species About 60 new species HONORS Capooria Malhotra 1985 (Cestoda)
- [Vicente Cervantes](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-cervantes/): Vicente Cervantes Mendo, Spanish / Mexican botanist and pharmacist (Ledrada, Salamanca Province 17 February 1758 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 July 1829) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Genera Calibrachoa 1825 (Solanaceae) Castilla 1794 (Moraceae) Montanoa 1825 (Asteraceae) Section Mina 1824 (Convolvulaceae) Species  About 50 HONORS Cervantesia Ruiz & Pavón 1794 (Cervantesiaceae)
- [Umberto Giuseppe Cordani](https://neglectedscience.com/umberto-giuseppe-cordani/): Umberto Giuseppe Cordani, Italian-born Brazilian geologist (Milano 17 May 1938 – Known internationally as expert on geochronology and isotopic geology Authored over 120 papers and 20 books and book chapters (14,200 citations and h-index 64 in according to Google Academics) Co-authored a paper with great repercussion that confirmed the geochronological correlation between Brazil and Africa continent With P.M. Hurley, G.C. Melcher, U.G. Cordani, J.R. Rand, K. Kawashita, P. Vandoros, W.H. Pinson & H.W. Fairbarn. Test of continental drift by means of radiometric ages. Science 157 (3788):495-500, 1967  With C.E. Ganade de Araújo. D. Rubatto, J. Hermann, R. Caby & M.A.S. Basei. Ediacaran
- [Tso-hsin Cheng](https://neglectedscience.com/tso-hsin-cheng/): Tso-hsin Cheng or Zuoxin Zheng, Chinese ornithologist (Fuzhou, Changle County, Fujian Province 18 November 1906 – Beijing 27 June 1998) Authored 30 books, 20 monographs, 150 scientific papers and 260 popular articles DESCRIBED AVIAN SUBSPECIES Cyornis unicolor diaoluoensis 1981 with Yang & Lu Dendrocopos leucotos tangi 1956 Dendrocopos major wulashanicus 1975 with Xian, Zhang & Jiang Ficedula sapphira tienchuanensis 1964 Garrulax canorus mengliensis 1980 with Yang Garrulax courtoisi simaoensis 1982 with Tang Garrulax pectoralis pingi 1963 Lophura nycthemera omeiensis 1964 with Paradoxornis paradoxus taipaiensis 1973 with Lo & Chao Paradoxornis zappeyi erlangshanicus 1983 with Li & Zhang Passer rutilans batangensis 1963 with Tan Pomatorhinus ruficollis hunanensis 1974 Pteruthius ricketti lingshuiensis 1963 Sitta solangiae chienfengensis 1964
- [Trajano Augusto de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/trajano-augusto-de-carvalho/): Trajano Augusto de Carvalho, Brazilian naval engineer (Florianópolis 25 August 1830 – London 09 April 1898) Co-designed (with Samuda Brothers) battleships Riachuelo (1881) and Aquidaban (1883), whose models were copied in England and United States and were among the most advanced battleships in the world INVENTIONS An improved floating buoy or beacon. Mech.Mag. 1779:250, 1857 Conceived a new design for ship’s keel that provided minor resistance to movement (1868). He patented it in many European countries. It is said that British hydrodinamicist William Froude tested and approved the invention. The Trajano ship’s keel drew with prominence in Universal Fair of Wien
- [Tomas Cekalovic](https://neglectedscience.com/tomas-cekalovic/): Tomas Nicolás Cekalovic Kuschevich, Chilean entomologist and arachnologist (Punta Arenas 28 December 1928 – Concepción 04 January 2013) From Croatian descent Authored 88 papers Collected / discovered more than 350 species (described by other researchers) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA (incomplete list) Arachnida Genus Tehuankea 1973 Species Austropsopilio sudamericanus 2003 with Shultz Bothriurus dumayi 1974 Bothriurus mochaensis 1982 Bothriurus wilhelmi 1976 Brachistosternus artigasi 1974 Brachistosternus donosoi 1974 Brachistosternus negrei 1975 Brachistosternus pegnai 1969 Hesperopilio magnificus 2006 with Shultz Phoniocercus sanmartini 1968 Tehuankea moyanoi 1973 Urophonius paynensis 1968 with San Martín Urophonius tregualemuensis 1981 Urophonius tumbensis 1981 Coleoptera Genera Paraholopterus 1987 with Cerda Xalpirta 2001 with Skelley Species Acropsopilio normae 1974 Aegorhinus boniarde 1970 Callispyris semicaligatus 1954 Neoxestus cauquenes 2001 with Skelley Neoxestus lucile 2001 with Skelley
- [Tianqin Cao](https://neglectedscience.com/tianqin-cao/): Tianqin Cao or Tien-chin Tsao, Chinese biochemist (Beijing 05 December 1920 – Shanghai 08 January 1995) Discovered light chains in myosin (1953) Pioneered electron microscopic studies of tropomyosin and paramyosin Set up a series of analytic techniques for protein structures Designed a horizontal viscometer His father in law, Yuming Xie or Yuming Hsieh, Chinese spectroscopist (Quanzhou, Fujian Province 1895 – 1986) Father of physicist Xie Xide With W.V. Houston precisely measured the fine structure or spectrum of hydrogen atom (1934) Made predictions about the role of an electromagnetic radiation field 
- [Te-tzu Chang](https://neglectedscience.com/te-tzu-chang/): Te-Tzu Chang, Taiwanese plant geneticist (Shanghai 03 April 1927 – Tamsui Village, Northern Taiwan 24 March 2006) Authored over 250 articles Regarded as world authority on rice genetics and conservation Developed a new variety of dwarf rice (1962) and other rice varieties SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The management of rice genetic resources. Genome 31:825-31, 1989 The Ethnobotany of rice in Island Southeast Asia (1988) Preservation of crop germplasm. Iowa State J. Res. 59:365-78, 1985 Principles of genetic conservation. Iowa State J. Res. 59(4):325-48, 1985 With G.C. Loresto & J.C. O’Toole. Genetic analysis of root characters in rice. SABRAO J. 15:103-16, 1983 The origin, evolution,
- [Sung Shu Chien](https://neglectedscience.com/sung-shu-chien/): Sung Shu Chien or Songshu Qian, Chinese botanist (Jiaxing 1883 – 1965) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genus Changnienia 1935 (Orchidaceae) Species Ajuga lanosa 1932 with Sun Boehmeria lohwiensis Camelia tsofui 1939 Camellia tuberculata 1939 Camellia villicarpa 1939 Campylotropis reticulata 1932 Changnienia amoena 1935 Cornus (Swida) parviflora 1931 Cypripedium cathayenum 1930 Daphniphyllum longistylium 1933 Daphniphyllum oblongum 1933 Daphniphyllum salicifolium 1933 Girardinia chingiana Hemipila crassicalcarata 1931 Indigofera chenii 1934 Indigofera glabra 1932 Iris pseudorossii 1931 Lecanthus pileoides with Chen Liparis cucullata 1930 Litsea auriculata 1931 with Cheng Lonicera fangii 1940 Lonicera glandulifera 1940 Lonicera hopeiensis 1940 Lonicera tangiana 1940 Lysimachia huitsunae 1933 Lysimachia liui 1933 Lysimachia polycephala 1933 Maackia chekiangensis 1932 Nanocnide dichotoma Oreorchis intermedia 1930 Pertularia (Tulotis) whangshanensis 1931 Pilea longipedunculata with Chen Pilea secunda Pilea subedentata with Chen Platanthera bifolia Podophyllum (Dysosma)
- [Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar](https://neglectedscience.com/subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar/): Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, US/Indian astrophysicist (Lahore, 19 October 1910 – Chicago, Illinois 21 August 1995) Nephew of Nobel Laureate physicist C.V. Raman ACHIEVEMENTS Published nearly 400 papers and many books   Determined maximum mass of a star that can support itself against its own gravity without the aid of heat known as Chandrasekhar limit (1930) Enunciated important theorems about cosmic masses stability under gravity, rotation and magnetic fields Discovered  relativistic instability of radial oscillations in white dwarf stars Showed the phenomenon of dynamical friction Introduced the notion of a continuous distribution of matter with statistical fluctuations in density Introduced relaxation concept in stellar
- [Stephenson Caticha Ellis](https://neglectedscience.com/stephenson-caticha-ellis/): Stephenson Caticha Ellis, Uruguayan/Brazilian physicist and crystallographer (Melo 30 September 1927 – Campinas, São Paulo State 27 October 2003) Obtained international recognition for his studies on x-rays anomalous dispersion and dynamical diffraction Authored about 200 works METHODS/DEVICES First proposed multiple diffraction for determination of mosaic spread Described a method using real part of the dispersion correction in the x-ray atomic scattering factor for the solution of centrosymmetric crystal structures On the use of anomalous scattering of x-rays in the solution of centrosymmetric structures. Acta Crystall. 15(9):863-5, 1962 With Ariel Ramos & Luis R. Saravia. Use of primary filters in x-ray spectrography: a new
- [Srinivasan Chandrasekaran](https://neglectedscience.com/srinivasan-chandrasekaran/): Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, Indian organic chemist (Tamil Nadu 15 November 1945 – Developed and improved many new synthetic routes for a wide variety of chemicals SOME CONTRIBUTIONS With P.V. Balaji reported the first general method for the geminal amination and an intermolecular metal-free germinal amino oxygenation of vinylarenes using hypervalent iodine reagent (2016) Developed a simple method for the synthesis of a range of functionalized organoselenium compounds by nucleophilic ring opening of a variety of doubly activated cyclopropanes with diselenides under strictly nucleophilic conditions being the first report of a generalized procedure for the ring opening of various doubly activated cyclopropanes by using diselenides
- [Sixto Coscarón](https://neglectedscience.com/sixto-coscaron/): Sixto Coscarón Conejo (General Fernandez Oro, near Cipolletti, Rio Negro Province 06 AQugust 1926 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 06 January 2022) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Tribe Mycteromyini 1979 with Philip Genera/Subgenera Araucnephia 1973 with Wygodzinsky Araucnephioides 1973 with Wygodzinsky Archeomytes 1971 with Philip Austromyans 1971 with Philip Cnesiamima 1973 with Wygodzinsky Curumyia 1976 Eremulium 2020 with Gil-Azevedo Fairchildimyia 1971 with Philip Haematopotina 1967 with Philip Inaequalium 1984 with Wygodzinsky Mayacnephia 1973 with Wygodzinsky Nubiloides 1967 Paraustrosimulium 1962 with Wygodzinsky Pedrowygomyia 1998 with Miranda Esquivel Promycteromyia 1979 with Philip Species 164 valid Chilopoda Species / Subspecies Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) cavalcanti iberaensis 1955 Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) dolosus argentinensis 1955 Otostigmus (Parotostigmus saltensis 1955 Pectiniunguis argentiniensis 1955 with Pereira
- [Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar](https://neglectedscience.com/sivaramakrishna-chandrasekhar/): Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Calcutta 06 August 1930 – Bangalore 08 March 2004) Brother of material scientist Sivaraj Ramaseshan Relative of Nobel prize winners being nephew of physicist C.V. Raman and cousin of astrophysicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Predicted and discovered a new kind of liquid crystals, the discotic liquid crystals (1977) Proposed a new type of quadratic formula for the optical rotary dispersion of crystals Proposed and developed a simple method for estimating extinction effects experimentally in crystal analysis by the use of polarize x-rays (1960) With V.N. Madhusudana & P.P. Kant developed a simple and direct method to measure twist elastic constant (1973)
- [Shya Chitaley](https://neglectedscience.com/shya-chitaley/): Shyamala Dixit Chitaley, Indian / US palaeobotanist (Nasik, Maharashtra State 15 February 1918 – Ashland, Massachusetts, USA 31 March 2013) Born Shyamala Dixit DEVELOPED METHODS / TECHNIQUES With D.V. Chitaley. New technique of preparing specimens for herbarium. Sci. Cult. 30:341, 1964 An improved method of mounting fossil sections. Ann. Bot. 29:225-7, 1965 With S.U. Deshpande. A new method of pollen preparation. J. Palynol. 5(2):128, 1969 With M.Z. Patel. A new technique for permanent preparations of fossil microflora. Jour. Palyn. 5(2):132-3, 1970 With D.V. Chitaley. A new technique for preparing permanent stained microslides (1970) A technique of preserving fossilized material in coal balls
- [Shupeng Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/shupeng-chen/): Shupeng Chen, Chinese geographer and cartographer (Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province February 1920 – Beijing 25 November 2008) Developed geoinformation science Authored Geo-information science and digital earth (2004), maybe the first book specifically dedicated to the concept of digital earth Designed an information system Advocated the concept of geo-information Tupu, a new type of atlas (1990s) Proposed a raster coding system based on information mechanism (1986) Proposed the idea of geo-information mechanism (1994) HONOURS O.M. Miller Cartographic Award, American Geographical Society (1998) Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal, International Cartographical society (2001) Contribution Prize, International Karst Society (2001)
- [Shiing Shen Chern](https://neglectedscience.com/shiing-shen-chern/): Shiing Shen Chern, US / Chinese mathematician (Jia Xin, Chekiang Province 26 October 1911 – Tianjin 03 December 2004) Considered as founder of global differential geometry and integral hyperbolic geometry Introduced Hermitian geometry to multiple complexes Introduced the concept of Hermitian connections With E.H. Spanier proved Thom isomorphism independent from René Thom (1951) Enunciated Chern theorem  (1953) With Levine and Nirenberg defined intrinsic norm about complex manifold cohomology HONORS Mathematics Wolf Prize (1983) Mathematics Shaw Prize (2004) Asteroid Chern (29552) EPONYMY Chern characteristic class (1946) Chern forms Chern-Simons form   Chern-Moser invariants (1974) Chern-Simons invariants (1971) Chern-Simons secondary characteristic class   Bernstein-Heinz-Chern inequalities  
- [Shashikumar Madhusudan Chitre](https://neglectedscience.com/shashikumar-madhusudan-chitre/): Shashikumar Madhusudan Chitre, Indian astrophysicist (Mumbai 07 May 1936 – Mumbai 11 January 2021) Considered one of the leading international researchers in astrophysics   Made seminal contributions to understanding of solar oscillations in terms of the internal structure of the sun With J.V. Narlikar proposed the hypothesis of the gravitational curvature of radio waves due to the presence of galaxies (1978) Mapped the differential rotation of the solar interior Measured heavy elements abundances in the solar interior With Saslaw & Narasimha discovered Einstein rings   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Structure of Sunspots. Mon Not.Roy Astron Soc 123:431, 1963 With V. Canuto. Solidification of the
- [Shaila Chandra](https://neglectedscience.com/shaila-chandra/): Shaila Chandra, Indian palaeobotanist (fl.1970) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Plantae Bryothallites 1994 Chirimiria 1992 with Srivastava Denkania 1973 with Surange Handapaphyllum 1989 with Singh Indocarpus 1974 with Surange Jambadostrobus 1977 with Surange Karharbariospermum 1982 with Srivastava Kendostrobus 1972 with Surange Khania 1988 with Singh (de A.M. Khan) Leleopteris 1982 with Srivastava Palaeospiroxylon 1980 with Prasad Pantopteris 1982 with Rigby Partha 1973 with Surange Plumsteadiostrobus 1977 with Surange Saksenaphyllites 1995 Surangephyllum 1986 with Singh Talchirophyllites 1995 Talchirospermum 1982 with Srivastava Tatapania 2011 with Singh & Saxena Umariaphyllites 1995 Utkalia 1982 Venustrobus 1977 with Surange Pollen & Sporae Kendosporites 1972 Trilaevipellites 1974 with Lele Others Talchirichnus 1996 with Srivastva & Singh (Ichnofossil)
- [Severiano Antonio de Castilho](https://neglectedscience.com/severiano-antonio-de-castilho/): Severiano Antonio de Castilho, Brazilian military and naval engineer (Sacra Família do Tinguá, rio de Janeiro State 1860 – Rio de Janeiro 1940) INVENTIONS   An apparatus for breech ring A wedge system Castilho machine gun (1885), an improved Nordenfelt machine gun Castilho breech screw (English patent number 17491) from 1912 Castilho system for heat insulating (English patent number 4852) A projectile A combined primer Castilho system of barrage with mines for narrow pitches  An apparatus for salvage in burnings (English patent number 451852) from 1891 An apparatus for “turcos” of jolly-boat (1887) Brazilian patent number 512 The information was obtained in http://www.redetec.org.br/inventabrasil/metcast.htm
- [Serif Canga](https://neglectedscience.com/serif-canga/): Serif Hayri Canga, Turkish obstetrician and gynecologist (Istanbul 1906 – ?) Described Canga bead symptom in Kadyn Hastalyklarý Jinekoloji 1971 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos d’ un cas de foetus papyrace. Ankara Univ. Tip. Fak. Meçmuasi 5(1-2):61-9, 1951 With A. Esendal. Les complications du systeme urinaire dans les myomes(à propos d’un cas étudié). Ankara Univ. Tip. Fak. Meçmuasi 5(3-4): 223-36, 1951 A rare case of vesicovaginal fistula after coitus
- [Sergio Cevallos Ferriz](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-cevallos-ferriz/): Sergio Rafael Silvestre Cevallos-Ferriz, Mexican paleobotanist (Ciudad de Mexico 31 December 1954 – With R.A. Rodríguez de la Rosa first to report a fossil feather from Mexico (2003) With G.R. Hernandez Castillo first to report a floral cup in family Haloragaceae (1999) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Allenbya 1989 with Stockey Aphanocalyxylon 2023 with Alvarado, Cardenes, Ramírez, Huerta-Vergara, Bonilla & Guzmán Argapaloxylon 2009 with Castañeda Posadas & Calvillo-Canadell Bajacalifornioxylon 1994 with Barajas Morales Bauhcis 2005 with Calvillo-Canadell Calnania 2014 with Silva Pineda & Hernandez Catahoulea 2014 with Calvillo-Canadell & Sousa Sanchez Coahuilacarpon 2008 with Estrada Ruiz & Perez Hernandez Coahuilanthus 2016 with Calvillo-Canadell Coahuiloxylon 2010 with Estrada Ruiz &
- [Seiva Cherdman Cascon](https://neglectedscience.com/seiva-cherdman-cascon/): Seiva Cherdman Cascon, Romanian-born Brazilian plant chemist (1926-?) PHYTOCHEMISTRY Discovered asclepiasides, cardioactive  glucosides of genus Asclepias With W.B. Mors. Os glucosídeos cardíacos da Asclepias curassavica L., planta tóxica das pastagens brasileiras. Arch. Jard. Bot. 16:103-116, 1958 With W.B. Mors. Substancias isoladas da Palicourea marcgravii St.Hil. Uma nova síntese de N-metil-tiramina. Anais Assoc. Bras. Quim. 21:53-60, 1962 Isolated ichthyotherol, possibly the first toxic polyacetylene from a plant With W.B. Mors, B.M. Tursch, R.T. Aplin, L.J. Durham. Ichthyotherol and its acetate: the active polyacetylene constituents of Ichthyothere terminalis (Spreng) Malme, a fish poison from the Lower Amazon.Amer. Chem. Soc. J. 87:5237-41, 1965.    Isolated triterpene cabraleone  With K.S. Brown Jr. Biogenetically
- [Santiago Cortes](https://neglectedscience.com/santiago-cortes/): Felipe Santiago Cortés Sarmiento, Colombian naturalist (Bogotá 01 May 1854 – Boyacá, Cundinamarca Department 31 January 1924) Developed a leprosy treatment combining wound cauterization and the oral administration of látex and / or from various plant species which received comments in French journal L’ Anjou Medique d’Angers  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA (incomplete list; missing species of 1917) Genera Dimorphylia 1917 Garciamedinea 1917 Species Acacia baleni 1897 Acacia bayonia 1897 Bauhinia petiolata 1896 Mutis ex Cortés Bauhinia sessilifolia 1896 Mutis ex Cortés Calliandra osorii 1897 Cereus guasabara 1898 Cereus vulnerator 1897 Coursetia castañeda 1897 Cryptochaete andicola 1897 Dimorphylia icononciana 1917 Dioclea tequendamae 1897 Eugenia mollis 1897 Exostemma tapia 1917 Garciamedinea tricolor 1917
- [Samiran Chakrabarti](https://neglectedscience.com/samiran-chakrabarti/): Samiran Chakrabarti, Indian entomologist and acarologist (Mayani, Bangladesh 05 January 1946 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Hemiptera Genera Anocaudus 1970 with Ghosh, Chaudhuri & Raychaudhuri Heminipponaphis 1985 with Raha Indoidiopterus 1972 with Ghosh & Raychaudhuri Indoregma 1982 with Maity Indotetraneura 1978 with Maity Indotuberoaphis 1985 with Maity Longisiphoniella 1988 with Saha & Mandal Neothelaxes 1996 with Quednau Nudisiphon 1982 with Bhattacharya Propeaciota 2017 with Sur, Roy & Sarkar Serratocallis 1976 with Quednau Spinaephyes 2017 with Sur, Roy & Sarkar Subductophyes 2017 with Sur Subgenus Quednaucallis 1988 Species At least 107 Acari Bakeriella 1982 with Mondal Diptilorhynacus 1982 with Mondal & Ghosh Epiccidophyes 1982 with Mondal Indonotolox 1982 with Ghosh Indosetacus 1987 with Ghosh Indotegolophus 1980 with Mondal Isoannulus 2009 with Pandit Neocupacarus 1985 with
- [Salvador Contreras](https://neglectedscience.com/salvador-contreras/): Salvador Contreras Balderas, Mexican ichthyologist (Ciudad de Mexico 19 February 1936 – San Nicolás de lós Garza, Nuevo León 11 February 2009) Authored over 150 publications DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Algansea monticola 1968 with Barbour Bramocharax caballeroi 1985 with Rivera-Teillery Cyprinella alvarezdelvillari 1994 with Lozano-Villano Cyprinodon bobmilleri 1999 with Lozano-Villano Cyprinodon ceciliae 1993 with Lozano-Villano Cyprinodon inmemoriam 1993 with Lozano-Villano Cyprinodon longidorsalis 1993 with Lozano-Villano Cyprinodon veronicae 1993 with Lozano-Villano Fundulus philpisteri 2007 with Garcia Ramírez & Lozano-Villano Notropis aguirrepequenoi 1973 with Rivera-Teillery Rocio gemmata 2007 with Schmitter Soto Tampichthys mandibularis 1977 with Verduzco Martínez Xiphophorus marmoratus 1988 with Obregón Barboza Described a new crustacean species Speocirolana guerrai 1982 
- [Salomão Azar Chaib](https://neglectedscience.com/salomao-azar-chaib/): Salomão Azar Chaib, Brazilian surgeon (Teresina 25 September 1918 – São Paulo 26 November 1993) From Syrian ancestry  Authored about 45 works Created Chaib technique or azigo portal disconnection With S.L. Souza Lessa, I. Cecconello, V.N. Felix & E. Chaib. A new procedure for treatment of bleeding esophageal varices by transgastric azigo portal disconnection. Int. Surg. 68: 353, 1983 A modification of Heller operation Tratamento cirúrgico do megaesôfago, uma nova modificação da operação de Heller. Ver. Col. Bras. Cir. 10:169-73, 1983
- [Romualdo Cuervo](https://neglectedscience.com/romualdo-cuervo/): José Romualdo Cuervo Rubiano, Colombian explorer, naturalist and geographer (Guachetá, Cundinamarca 1801 – Lenguazaque, Cundinamarca Department 02 August 1861) Performed studies on geography and prehistory  Owner of a botanical garden and collections of curious and rare objects HONORS Cuervea Triana ex Miers 1872 (Celastraceae)
- [Rodolfo Casamiquela](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-casamiquela/): Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela Gerhold, Argentine paleontologist, anthropologist and archeologist (Ingeniero Jacobacci, Rio Negro Province 11 December 1932- Cipolletti, Rio Negro Province 05 December 2008) Authored over 400 publications and 24 books DESCRIBED Fossil Reptilia Family Pisanosauridae 1967 Genera Aetosauroides 1960 Argentinosuchus 1960 Chilenosuchus 1980 Herbstosaurus 1975 Neorotodactylus 1980 Pisanosaurus 1967 Protolacerta 1975 Fossil Amphibia Genera Gigantobatrachus 1959 Shelania 1960 Wawelia 1963 Ichnofossil Genera Ichnhippus 1975 with Díaz Ingerierichnus 1964 Megatherichnum 1974 HONORS Family Casamiquelidae Bonaparte 2002 (Fossil Mammalia) Genus Casamiquelichnus Coria & Carbajal 2004 (Ichnofossil) Genus Casamiquelia Bonaparte 1990 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-caldeyro-barcia/): Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, Uruguayan obstetrical physiologist (Montevideo 26 September 1921 – 02 December 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS With Hermógenes Alvarez First obtained records of intrauterine amniotic pressure during childbirth defining intensity, contraction rate, inner tonus and uterine activity (1947) . These were the first records of human uterus activity during labor Established the descending triple gradient law (1949) Developed Montevideo unit of uterine performance (1949) First recorded intramiometrial pressure in distinct parts of uterus during childbirth establishing the source and propagation of wave of uterine contraction (1950) Established two kinds of contraction during pregnancy Established the concept of uterine tonus, its effects and variations Described the
- [Robert Harold Compton](https://neglectedscience.com/robert-harold-compton/): Robert Harold Compton, English-born South African botanist (Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England 06 August  1886 – Cape Town 11 July 1979) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genera Alatoseta 1931 (Asteraceae) Arachnocalyx 1935 (Ericaceae) Austrotaxus 1922 (Taxaceae) Cromidon 1931 (Selaginaceae) Dymondia 1953 (Asteraceae) Eremiella 1953 (Ericaceae)   Globulariopsis 1931 (Scrophulariaceae) Silicularia 1953 (Brassicaceae) Urgineopsis 1930 (Liliaceae)  Species 188 new HONORS Comptonella Baker f. 1921 (Rutaceae)
- [Richard Austin Cooper](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-austin-cooper/): Richard Austin Cooper, South African chemist (1889 – 31 March 1972) Described mineral modderite (1924)  Developed the chlorine process for extraction of platinum metals (1929) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.W. Watson. The development of the chlorine process of extraction of platinum metals from ores (1929) A new platinum mineral in the Rustenburg norites. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 28:281-3, 1928 Platinum specimens from Onverwacht mine. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 26:228-30, 1926 Modderit. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:265, 1924 Mineral constituents of Rand conglomerates. Chem. Metall. Mining Soc. South Africa 24:90-3, 1924 Mineral constituents of the Rand banket.
- [Ricardo Libertario Carezani](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-libertario-carezani/): Ricardo Libertario Carezani, Argentine physicist (Cordoba 11 April 1921 – From Italian father Created the Autodynamics theory (1940-5) Bases fundamentals para una nueva mecanica relativistica: la autodinamica (1952) Autodynamics: fundamental basis for a new relativistic mechanics (1999) Proposed an universal gravity function (1955) Discovered that special relativity is a subset of autodynamics (1991) LINKS www.dehilster.com/docs/CarezaniFrameReduction.ppt  http://www.worldnpa.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_283.pdf
- [Ren Chang Ching](https://neglectedscience.com/ren-chang-ching/): Ren Chang Ching or Renchang Qin, Chinese botanist (Wujin, Jiangsu Province 15 February 1898 – Beijing 22 July 1986) World authority in pteridophytes DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Ceterachopsis 1940 Craspedosorus 1978 with Chu  Cyrtogonellum 1938 Cyrtomidictyum 1940 Cystoathyrium 1966 Dictyodroma 1964 Drynariopsis 1940 Dryoathyrium 1941 Emodiopteris 1978 with Wu Glaphyropteridopsis 1963 Holostachyum 1940 Lastreopsis 1938 Lepidogrammitis 1940 Lepisorus 1933 Lithostegia 1933 Macrothelypteris 1963 Metapolypodium 1978 Metathelypteris 1963  Neolepisorus 1940 Nothoperanema 1966 Parathelypteris 1963 Phanerophlebiopsis 1965 Platygyria 1980 with Wu Polypodiastrum 1978 Polypodiodes 1978 Protowoodsia 1975 Pseudocyclosorus 1963 Pseudophegopteris 1963 Pteridrys 1934 with Christensen Saxiglossum 1933   Sinopteris 1933 with Christensen Tricholepidium 1978  Trichoneuron 1965 HONORS Chingia Holttum 1971 (Pteridophyta)
- [Remolo Ciola](https://neglectedscience.com/remolo-ciola/): Remolo Ciola, Italian-born Brazilian industrial chemist (Roncegno, Trento Province, Italy 17 June 1923 – São Paulo 28 July 2010) Specialist in chromatography Published some 150 technical and scientific papers ACHIEVEMENTS Developed new catalyzers  and improved chromatographs Designed catalytic processes and analytical instrumentation  Proposed a new method for estimating equilibrium constants for reactions Developed a new catalyst for propylene oxidation Developed thermodynamical method for predicting chemical behavior of many substances La prediction des reactions chimiques à l’aide de la thermodynamique. Ind. Eng. Chem. 49(10):1789-92, 1957 Eine quantitative bestimmungsmethode der flüchtigen aldehyde in gasen und dämpfen. Experientia 13:206, 1957  With Cyro Marino. Oxidação
- [Reinaldo Augusto Carestia](https://neglectedscience.com/reinaldo-augusto-carestia/): Reinaldo Augusto Carestia, Argentine astronomer (San Juan 23 April 1932 – 23 August 1993) From Italian descent  METHODS  Global method for the astronomical determination of geographic coordinates in the CIO system. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 34:158-66, 1988  With R.A. Marquez & C.E. Svendsen. Lugares aparentes – Metodo vector transformación comparación APFS.  Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 28:131-8, 1984 With A. Zaragoza & M. Gallego. Procedimiento para la reducción en declinación de series FK4. Resultados obtenidos. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 23:384, 1981   With A. Zaragoza & M. Gallego. Procedures for the reduction in declination of the Kustner series. Results obtained with the meridian
- [Raymundo Martins de Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/raymundo-martins-de-castro/): Raymundo Martins de Castro, Brazilian dermatologist (São Paulo 14 July 1927 – São Paulo State 11 September 1993) Showed the effectiveness of amphotericin B for treating mucosal forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis With S. A. Sampaio, N.L. Dillon & J.E. Martins. Treatment of mucocutaneous (American) leishmaniasis with amphotericin B: report of 70 cases. Int. J. Dermatology, 1971    Classified clinically fogo selvagem (endemic pemphigus foliaceus) in 4 distinct phases with clinical and immunological characteristics  With N.G. Proença. South American pemphigus foliaceus. The Glaxo Volume 36:17-30, 1972 Distinguished immunopathologically fogo selvagem from other varieties of pemphigus With N.G. Proença. Ahnlichkeiten und untershiede zwischen
- [Raul Cortés](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-cortes/): Raul Eduardo Cortés Peña, Chilean entomologist (Coquimbo 18 March 1915 – Santiago August 2001) DESCRIBED DIPTERA GENERA Acroceronia 1951 Alexogloblinia 1944 Androsoma 1970 with Campos Aneriophora 1952 with Stuardo Araucogonia 1976 Baculocaptus 1968 Caltagironea 1974 with Campos Camposodes 1967  Comopsis 1986 Coscaronia 1979 Desantisodes 1973 Dischotrichia 1944 Gonzalezodoria 1967 Hypsomyia 1983 Irwinia 1967 Marnefia 1982 Myiochaeta 1967 Myiodexia 1970 with Campos Nothovoria 1989 Notoderus 1986 Oraeosoma 1976 Periostoma 1986 Phasmovora 1968  Proteloglutus 1972 with Valencia Ruiziella 1951 Schlingermyia 1967 Stuardomyia 1945 Telonotomyia 1986 Trichoraea 1975  Trichoceronia 1945 Species Over 100 HONORS Raulcortesia Artigas & Papavero 1991 (Diptera)
- [Ranwel Caputto](https://neglectedscience.com/ranwel-caputto/): Ranwel Caputto DeRosa, Argentine bio and neurochemist (Buenos Aires 01 January 1914 – Cordoba 19 April 1994) With R.E. Trucco. Neuramin-lactose, a new compound isolated from the mammary gland of rats. J. Biol. Chem. 206 (2):901-9, 1954 With H.J. Maccioni & A. Arce. A method of determining the sequence of incorporation of monosaccharides in the synthesis of the branched oligosaccharide chain of a structural compound. The biosynthesis of Tay-Sachs gangliosides. FEBS Lett 23(2):136-8, 1972  With R.E. Trucco, J. Tang & S. Wolf isolated and crystallized the gastricsin (1958) Characterized new enzymatic activities  DISCOVERED Codiscovered glucose 1,6 diphosphate as coenzyme of phosphoglucomutase (1948)
- [Ranjit Kumar Chandra](https://neglectedscience.com/ranjit-kumar-chandra/): Ranjit Kumar Chandra, Indian physician (Mailsi, Punjab Province, Pakistan  02 February 1938 – Authored about 200 papers Discovered Chandra-Ketharpal syndrome Levocardia with bronchiectasis and paranasal sinus abnormalities. Indian J. Pedia. 30:78-80, 1963 First established a direct link between nutritional deficiencies and immune system responses SOME INFLUENT PAPERS Prospective studies of the effect of breast feeding on incidence of infection and allergy. Acta Paediatrica Scand. 68:691-4, 1979 Excessive intake of zinc impairs immune responses. JAMA 252:1442-5, 1984 Nutrition and immunity: lessons from the past and new insights into the future. Amer. J. Clin. Nutr. 53:1087-1101, 1991 HONORS Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize
- [Ramón Carrillo](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-carrillo/): Ramón Carrillo Gómez, Argentine neuroscientist (Santiago Del Estero 07 March 1906 – Belém, Brazil 20 December 1956) Authored 140 monographs on neurology, psychiatry, histology and pathology of nervous system and history of medicine Performed the first comparative study of neuroglia and its development Discovered that neuroglia phylogenetically develops in parallel manner to vascular system Discovered that development of vessels presented a parallel trophic action on neurogliae layers a phenomenon that named vasculo-gliotaxis Reported original contributions in Anatomia functional del lobulo frontal and Leucotomia Selectiva    With C.A. Alvarado observed that the biology of Anopheles argentinus is distinct from that European species DESCRIBED
- [Ram Nath Chopra](https://neglectedscience.com/ram-nath-chopra/): Ram Nath Chopra, Indian pharmacist and chemotherapist (Gujranwala, Punjab 17 August 1882 – Srinagar, Kashmir 13 June 1973) Authored over 300 papers and a number of books Isolated the active principles of Indian medicinal plants and worked out their pharmacological action in experimental animals like Ispaghula, Kurchi, Bael, Chaulmoogra, Babchi, Rauwolfia and Psoralea Characterized the pharmacologically active constituents of the root of plant Rauwolfia serpentina (1940s) Developed new lines of treatment using indigenous drugs against parasitic diseases DEVELOPED Chopra antimony test or urea stibamine test (for leishmaniasis) Chopra aldehyde test for hyperglobulinemia With J.S. Chowhan a biological assay of digitalis preparations HONORS Honorary Fellow,
- [Phui Kong Chin](https://neglectedscience.com/phui-kong-chin/): Phui Kong Chin, Malaysian ichthyologist and fisheries biologist (Sandakan, Sabah State 26 November 1923 – DESCRIBED FISH SPECIES Paracrossochilus acerus 1962 with Inger Protomyzon aphelocheilus 1962 with Inger Nematabramis borneensis 1962 with Inger Gastromyzon danumensis 1989 with Inger Nemacheilus elegantissimus 1992 with Samat Gastromyzon fasciatus 1961 with Inger Wallago maculatus 1959 with Inger Pangio mariarum 1962 with Inger Parascolopsis melanophrys 1996 with Russell Phalacronotus parvanalis 1959 with Inger Gastromyzon pauciradiatus 1961 with Inger Gastromyzon punctulatus 1961 with Inger Pseudomystus robustus 1959 with Inger Labiobarbus sabana 1962 with Inger Hampala sabana 1962 with Inger Sundoreonectes sabanus 1990 Hemibagrus sabanus 1959 with Inger Kryptoterus sabanus 1959 with Inger Lepidocephalichthys sandakanensis 1962 with Inger
- [Phillip Alexander Clancey](https://neglectedscience.com/phillip-alexander-clancey/): Phillip Alexander Clancey, Scottish-born South African ornithologist (Glasgow 26 September 1917 – Durban 18 July 2001) Authored over 700 scientific papers, mostly on taxonomy and biogeography DESCRIBED AVES TAXA Genera & Subgenera Arcanator 1986 with Irwin Cryptolybia 1979 Dryocichloides 1974 with Irwin Gabelatrix 1977 Oreophilais 1991 Species Cisticola taciturnus 1982 Crithagra citrinipectus 1960 with Lawson Subspecies 320
- [Petronio Alves Coelho](https://neglectedscience.com/petronio-alves-coelho/): Petrônio Alves Coelho, Brazilian carcinologist (Recife 04 November 1937 – Recife 28 November 2011) Authored over 170 works DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEA SPECIES Acanthonyx dissimulatus 1993 Alarconia guinotae 1996 Anisonotus atlanticus 1997 Austinixa bragantina 2005 Austinixa leptodactylus 1997 Axiopsis brasiliensis 1991  with Ramos Porto Calastacus angulatus 1973 Calastacus spinosus 1973 Calastacus vicina 1991 with Ramos Porto Chasmocarcinus arcuatus 1998 with Coelho Filho Chasmocarcinus hirsutipes 1998 with Coelho Filho Chasmocarcinus meloi 1998 with Coelho Filho Clythroceros carinatus 1973 Deilocerus analogus 1973 Epialtoides rostratus 1972 Ericerodes minusculus 1972 Leptalpheus axianassae 1999 with Dworschak Lithadia conica 1973 Lithadia obliqua 1973 Lithadia vertiginosa 1973 Meticonaxius capricorni 1987 Meticonaxius minutus 1973 Paraxiopsis vicina 1991 with Ramos Porto Pinnixa gracilipes 1997 Pinnixa latissima 1997 Podochela brasiliensis 1972 Upogebia acanthura 1973 Upogebia marina 1973 LINKS http://www.crustacea.org.br/artigos/807_27_Article_9_-_Bezerra_&_Almeida_Petronio_Alves_Coelho_life_and_work_(1).pdf (in Portuguese)
- [Pedro Cossio](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-cossio/): Pedro Cossio Alurralde, Argentine cardiologist (San Miguel de Tucumán 17 August 1900 – Buenos Aires 15 November 1986) Authored 250 works With Isidro Perianes developed percutaneous tricuspid valvulotomy (1948) and proposed the inferior vena cava ligature for treatment of refractory cardiac failure Described a new sign for total auriculoventricular block With M. Lascalea. Un nuevo signo auscultatorio de bloqueo total auriculoventricular. Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 1:276, 1934 With I. Berconsky. Insuficiência cardíaca inaparente (Nueva entidad fisiopatologica). Rev. Arg. Cardiol. 1, 1934 Non-apparent cardiac insufficience (new physiopathologic entity) Described horizontal electrocardiographic derivations or Cossio-Bibiloni derivations Developed a tricuspid intravascular valvulotome (1949) Invented vision stethoscope
- [Pedro Chutro](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-chutro/): Pedro Chutro, Argentine surgeon (Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province 18 February 1880 – Buenos Aires 18 October 1937) Internationally respected as one of great surgeons of the world in his day DESCRIBED Syndrome of Acute edema of the hands Chutro sign in tuberculous peritonitis Chutro sign in acute appendicitis DEVELOPED Chutro-Phemister method for treatment of pseudoarthrosis (1918) Chutro technique for treatment of extra-articular hip arthrodesis Chutro technique of cartilaginous cranioplasties Chutro operation for treatment of osteomyielitis Chutro graft Chutro maneuver Chutro stirrups Chutro band Chutro-Posadas fracture A neurotomy technique An apparatus for extension in femoral fractures
- [Paulo Cavalcante](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-cavalcante/): Paulo Bezerra Cavalcante, Brazilian botanist (Nova Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte State 12 July 1922 – Belém 18 January 2006) DESCRIBED SPECIES Centrosema carajasensis 1970 Diospyros acreana 1966 Diospyros araripensis 1963 Diospyros cachimboensis 1960 with Pires Diospyros capimnensis 1960 with Pires Diospyros duartei 1963 Diospyros egleri 1960 with Pires Diospyros froesii 1977 Diospyros landii 1977 Diospyros manausensis 1966  Diospyros miltonii 1977 Diospyros piresii 1977 Diospyros uaupensis 1977 Simaba polyphylla 1983 HONORS Cavalcantia King & Robinson 1980 (Asteraceae)
- [Paulo Campos Porto](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-campos-porto/): Paulo Campos Porto, Brazilian botanist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 09 January  1889 – 06 November 1968) Grandson of naturalist João Barbosa Rodrigues DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA   Valid Orchidaceae Genera (with Brade) Duckeella 1940 Pseudolaelia 1935 Thysanoglossa 1940 Species Orchidaceae Capanema adelaidae 1937 with Brade Cattleya itatiayae 1918 with Brade Centrogenium janeirense 1940 with Brade Centrogenium schlechterianum 1940 with Brade Centroglossa nunes-limae 1940 with Brade Constantia cipoensis 1935 with Brade Duckeella adolphi 1940 with Brade Encyclia squamata 1935 with Brade Epidendrum duckei 1940 with Brade Epidendrum geraldoi 1935 with Brade Epidendrum janeirense 1940 with Brade Epidendrum magdalenense 1935 with Brade Epidendrum mantiqueranum 1940 with Brade Hapalorchis pauciflora 1937 with Brade Octomeria anceps 1937 with Brade Octomeria cucullata 1937 with Brade Octomeria
- [Paulino Franco de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/paulino-franco-de-carvalho/): Paulino Franco de Carvalho, Brazilian geologist (Minas Gerais State 11 July 1893 – Rio de Janeiro 06 November 1940) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Miranda & P.A. Alvim. Geologia de Mafra. Bol. Div. Geol. Miner. 105 (1942) O Devoniano do Paraná: geografia e suas relações com a geologia. Bol. Div. Geol. Miner. 109 (1941) Estrias glaciais em granodiorito sobposto ao Gondwana de Santa Catarina. Miner. Metal. 4(24):271-2, 1940 With E.A. Pinto. Reconhecimento geológico no Estado de Santa Catarina. Bol SGM/DNPM 92 (1938) With E.A. Pinto. Geologia da região de Perimbo, Estado de Santa Catarina. Geologia de Anitapólis (S. Catarina). Min. Met. 7 (1937)
- [Pan-Chieh Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/pan-chieh-chen/): Pan-Chieh Chen or Ban-jie Chen, Chinese bryologist (Zhejiang, Jiangsu Province 17 August 1907 – 28 February 1970) DESCRIBED VALID GENERA Bellibarbula 1941 (Musci) Bryoerythrophyllum 1941 (Musci) Reimersia 1941 (Musci) Pedinolejeunea 1964 with Wu (Hepaticae) HONORS (Musci) Chenia Zander 1989 Bryochenea Gao & Chang 1982
- [Oswaldo Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-cruz/): Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Brazilian sanitarist and microbiologist (São Luiz do Paraitinga, São Paulo State 05 August 1872 – Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 11 February 1917) His works on toxicology in Pasteur Institute were praised by famous scientists like Metchnikov, Roux and Nebert  Developed a method for extraction of toxic albumins from ricine seeds Etude toxicologique de la ricine. Ann. Hyg. Publ. Med. Legale XL (1898) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed techniques for combating Aedes aegypti Developed an efficient serum anti-plague Devised a water sampler  for microbiological studies  Proposed a type-mixed filter for microbes in water (Cruz filter) Invented a washing apparatus of fixed specimens
- [Oswaldo Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-costa/): Oswaldo Gonçalves Costa, Brazilian dermatologist and soccer player (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 03 December 1905 – 1996) Described idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis (1961) and polydysplastique oculo-cutané  Described acrokeratoelastoidosis Acroceratoses (ceratodermias palmo-plantares). Thesis. Fac. Med. Univ. Federal Minas Gerais (1952) Acrokeratoelastoidosis: a hitherto undescribed skin disease. Dermatologica 170:164-8, 1953 Described the parotid impairment in acute lupus erythematosus  Studied histochemically the juvenile hyaline fibromatosis classifying it as a subgroup of mucopolysaccharidosis   With R.C. Guimarães, L. Bogliolo, W.L. Tafuri & P.U. Costa. Fibromatosis hialina juvenil. Med. Cut. Iber. Lat. Amer. 5:331-40, 1975  As soccer player was goalkeeper of Clube Atletico Mineiro 
- [Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-rodrigues-da-cunha/): Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha, Brazilian herpetologist and paleontologist (Belém 06 April 1930 – Belém 11 March 2011) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Reptilia Genera Amapasaurus 1970 Colobosauroides 1991 with Lima & Lima-Verde Species Amapasaurus tetradactylus 1970 Atractus albuquerquei 1983 with Nascimento Atractus alphonsehogei 1983 with Nascimento Atractus snethlageae 1983 with Nascimento Colobosauroides cearensis 1991 with Lima & Lima-Verde Gonatodes eladioi 1987 with Nascimento & Ávila-Pires Liophis carajasensis 1985 with Nascimento & Ávila-Pires    Micrurus paraensis 1973 with Nascimento Placosoma cipoense 1966 Subspecies Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis 1993 with Nascimento Fossil Mollusca (with Ferreira) Astraea brasiliensis 1957 Atrina pirabensis 1959 Cymatium carlotae 1957 Cypraea macrovoluta 1957 Diodora fortalezensis 1957 Diodora siqueiirai 1957 Divaricella castelensis 1959 Modiolus domingosi 1959 Mytilus canoasensis vidali 1959 Strombus goeldii 1957 Turbinella amazoniana 1957 Turbinella
- [Osvaldo H. Casal](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-h-casal/): Osvaldo Hugo Casal, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 02 November 1931- Buenos Aires 17 October 1971) Authored about 80 papers DESCRIBED TAXA Hymenoptera Chasquitilla 1970 Darditilla 1965 Ephuamelia 1968 Ephuchaya 1968  Ephuseabra 1968 Ephusuarezia 1968 Gurisita 1970 Horcomutilla 1962 Huacotilla 1962 Jamaitilla 1965 Limaytilla 1964  Lynchiatilla 1963 Patquiatilla 1962  Seabratilla 1963 Suareztilla 1968 Tobantilla 1965 Vianatilla 1962 Diptera Subgenus Allimanta 1968 with Garcia At least 19 new species with Garcia
- [Osvaldo Cori](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-cori/): Osvaldo Cori Moully, Chilean biochemist (Antofagasta 11 August 1921 – Santiago de Chile 02 April 1987) From Italian father and Greek-born mother Demonstrated and characterized chemically 6-phosphogluconolactone an intermediate of oxidation of glucose 6 phosphate With F. Lipmann. The primary oxidation product of enzymatic glucose-6-phosphate oxidation. J. Biol. Chem. 194:417-25, 1952 Demonstrated the mechanism of phosphorylation at substrate level in Krebs cycle With S. Kaufman, C. Gilvarg & S. Ochoa. Enzymatic oxidation of alpha-ketoglutarate and coupled phosphorylation. J. Biol. Chem. 203:869-88, 1953 Performed studies about kinetic, metabolism mechanism and specificity of potato apyrase (1961-6) With A. Traverso-Cori & H. Chaimovich. Kinetic
- [Om Bahadur Chhotani](https://neglectedscience.com/om-bahadur-chhotani/): Om Bahadur Chhotani, Indian entomologist (1931 – ?) DESCRIBED ISOPTERA TAXA Genera Indocapritermes 1997 Krishnacapritermes 1997 Species Amitermes gallagheri 1988 Angulitermes kashmirensis 1971 with Roonwal Anguiltermes tilaki 1971 with Roonwal Anoplotermes shillongensis 1960 with Roonwal Brachymeria burksi 1966 Capritermes latignathus 1962 with Roonwal Coptotermes beckeri 1969 with Mathur Coptotermes kishori 1962 with Roonwal Cryptotermes roonwali 1970 Cryptotermes melloi 1970 Discupiditermes boseae Discupiditermes sisiri Euhamitermes aruna 1975 Euhamitermes kanhaensis 1965 with Roonwal Euhamitermes karnatakaensis 1965 with Roonwal Euhamitermes shillongensis 1960 with Roonwal Euhamitermes urbanii 1977 with Roonwal Euhamitermes wittmeri 1977 with Roonwal Eurytermes boveni 1966 with Roonwal Gomphidia ganeshi 1982 with Lahiri & Mitra Heterotermes balwanti 1969 with Mathur Heterotermes omanae 1988 Indocapritermes aruni Indotermes rongrensis 1962 with Roonwal Iswara rajasthanicus 1976 with Ray Krishnacapritermes maitii
- [Octavio de Carvalho](https://neglectedscience.com/octavio-de-carvalho/): Octavio Dias de Carvalho, Brazilian physician (São Carlos, São Paulo State 09 July 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 25 July 1973) Authored 261 publications CONTRIBUTIONS Described a left paraumbilical sore point on heavily skew Trendelenburg position (Carvalho sign) Ponto doloroso appendicular em Trendelenburg fortemente inclinado. Comunic. Soc. Med. Arg (1938) Described a sign of retrocecal appedincitis (1952) Developed treatment of angina pectoris and gastroduodenal ulcers by concentrated endovenous glucose solutions (1938) Described the hemorrhagic appendicitis as a consequence of Sanarelli phenomenon anticipating this author 23 years before Apendicites. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Med. 4(4):179, 1934 Authored the paper Sindromes Condicionadas estabilizadas em ritmos
- [Nylceo Marques de Castro](https://neglectedscience.com/nylceo-marques-de-castro/): Nylceo Marques de Castro, Brazilian histologist and cytologist (Santos, São Paulo State 06 November 1919 – Cananéia, São Paulo State 14 January 1970) First genetically sexual diagnosis of a human material With W. S. Sasso. A determinação do sexo na espécie humana através da estrutura nuclear somática. An. Fac. Farm. Odont. Univ. São Paulo 11. 249(1953) Standardized the study of sexual chromoleme With W. S. Sasso. Sex chromatin (chromoleme) in the Purkinje cells of some mammals. Nature 184:293, 1959 METHODS Nylceo Marques de Castro’s trichrome stain. A variant of Masson trichrome staining method   Castro, Nylceo Marques de & Camargo, José Sylvio de
- [Norma Maria Costa Cruz](https://neglectedscience.com/norma-maria-costa-cruz/): Norma Maria Melo da Costa Cruz (Van Boekel), Brazilian micropaleontologist and biostratigrapher (Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State 01 October 1938 – DESCRIBED Algae Genera Amazonites 1972 with Sommer Tapajonites 1963 with Sommer Species Tapajonites roxoi 1963 with Sommer Chitinozoa Genera Ramochitina 1964 with Sommer Sommerochitina 1985 with Quadros 1985 Spathachitina 1970 Pallachitina 1970 Species Ancyrochitina langei 1964 with Sommer Angochitina amazonica 1971 Angochitina scorzai 1971 Conochitina dissimilis 1974 Conochitina djalmai 1965 with Sommer Conochitina flavioi 1971 Conochitina pedunculosa 1971 Conochitina trombetensis 1974 Cyathochitina baculosa 1974 Cyathochitina brasilica 1971 Cyathochitina caputoi 1971 Cyathochitina sinuata 1971 Cyathochitina tenella 1974 Euconochitina carinata 1974 Euconochitina sulcata 1974 Pallachitina depressa 1970 Pallachitina rotunda 1970 Pallachitina wilhelmi 1970 Plectochitina tapajonica 1967 Ramochitina magnifica 1964 with Sommer Ramochitina ramosi 1964 with Sommer Sommerochitina langei 1985 with Quadros Spathachitina clarindoi 1970
- [Norma Chirichigno Fonseca](https://neglectedscience.com/norma-chirichigno-fonseca/): Norma Victoria Chirichigno Fonseca, Peruvian ichthyologist (La Libertad Department 21 October 1929 – DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Coryphaenoides delsolari 1977 with Iwamoto Ctenosciaena peruviana 1969 Epinephelus peruanus 1963 Medialuna ancietae 1987 Mustelus whitneyi 1973 Raja velezi 1973 Schedophilus haedrichi 1973 Stellifer ephelis 1974 Stellifer mancorensis 1962 Torpedo peruana 1963 Urobatis tumbesensis 1979 with McEachran
- [Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/newton-carneiro-affonso-da-costa/): Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa, Brazilian mathematical logic and science philosopher (Curitiba 16 September 1929 – Florianopolis 16 April 2024) From Portuguese, French, German and Danish descent Authored over 250 works between notes, papers and books Regarded as one of founders of paraconsistent logic His doctoral thesis Sistemas formais inconsistentes (1963) was abridged in English as On the theory of inconsistent formal systems in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (1974) and first presentation of paraconsistent logics Introduced the notion of Curry algebra (1967) Defined the concepts of pragmatic truth and pragmatic probability (1986) Conceived the critical pragmatism Created Cn, hierarchies
- [Adolfo Ernst](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-ernst/): Gustav Adolf Ernst, German-born Venezuelan ethnographer, archeologist, naturalist, explorer and geographer (Primkenau, Silesia 06 October 1832 – Caracas 12 August 1899) Authored over 478 works on botany, zoology, ethnography, geography, philology, physical anthropology, paleontology and archeology DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Genus Libanothamnus 1870 (Asteraceae) Species Asagraea caracasana 1871 Bacopa braunii 1870 Chrysosplenium aulacocarpum 1874 Chusquea spencei 1872 Cissus hahniana 1876 Cissus paucidentata 1870 Cissus sexangularis 1870 Clethra confertifolia 1874 Declieuxia alfredi 1887 Eremolepis microcalyx 1887 Eupatorium heteroneurum 1928 Goodyera neglecta 1877 Hibiscus geminiflorus 1888 Libanothamnus neriifolius 1870 Lysipoma bourgoini 1887 Micranthemum pilosum 1874 Montanoa excelsa 1870 Neea anisophylla 1874 Spiracantha denticulata 1874 Tabebuia globiflora 1887 Vallesia hypoglauca 1870 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Plantas interesantes de la flora caracasana (1870) Diatomaceous earth from the Lake of Valencia,
- [Adolfo Elias](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-elias/): Adolfo Ramón Elías Tallaferro, Argentine analytic chemist (Buenos Aires 07 August 1889 – Rosario 1968) Sobre un procedimento fotoquímico para la investigación de impresiones digitales. An. Asoc. Soc. Quim. Arg. 4:267-8, 1915  Um aparato para la determinación del tempo de coagulación de la sangre. Hemoaglutinina del rícino. Su rápida caracterización en las tortas de oleaginosas Investigación rápida y directa del bromato en el pan. An. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 30 (1942) Los cilindros urinários. Metodo a la tinta china para el examen de los sedimentos 
- [Yunjie Ding](https://neglectedscience.com/yunjie-ding/): Yunjie Ding, Chinese paleontologist (fl. 1960) DESCRIBED FOSSIL CNIDARIA GENERA Allotropiocarinophyllum 1985 Aulostrotion 1984 Bactrophyllum 1987 with Yu Carinoverbeekiella 1985 Cystoyatsengia 1991 with Yu Damuqiphyllum 1985 Diphycarinophyllum 1985 Huabeipora 1985 Liuzhaiphylloides 1995 Mandulapora 1985 Neogangamophyllum 1991 with Yu Neogrootia 1995 Neometriophyllum 1985 Neoremesia 1985 Neoszechuanophyllum 1991 with Yu Pseudoaxolithophyllum 1995 with Xu & Chen Pseudoheterocaninia 1995 with Xu & Chen Pseudomeniscophyllum 1985 Pseudowaagenophyllum 1985 Sanlichongophyllum 1991 with Yu Shaannanophyllum 1984 with Yu Shimenyaphyllum 1991 with Yu Sinoastraea 1985 Taiyuanopora 1985 Xikouphyllum 1984 with Yu Yangshanophyllum 1991 with Yu Zhesipora 1985 Zhurihephyllum 1980
- [Wilmar Dias da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/wilmar-dias-da-silva/): Wilmar Dias da Silva, Brazilian immunologist (Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 12 October 1930 – With I. Mota demonstrated that in low concentration of anti-histamine substances inhibit their release by mast cells and in high concentration occur the inverse (1960) With I. Mota First to show anaphylactic antibodies fixed to mast cells (1960) With I. Mota Showed that anaphylactic antibodies perform reactions only after binding to surface receptors on mast cells With O. Bier, I. Mota & N. Vaz, authored Imunologia Básica e Aplicada (Fundamentals of Immunology), translated into English and German (1973)  Proposed that anaphylatoxins rise from interactions between mast cells-polysaccharides-glycoproteins and complement
- [Werther Duque-Estrada](https://neglectedscience.com/werther-duque-estrada/): Werther Duque Estrada, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Rio de Janeiro 06 July 1912 – Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 16 March 2001) Created Duque-Estrada’s keratoplasty Technique of partial penetrating optic keratoplasty. Internal. Ophthal. Clinics 3(3):499-514, 1963.  HONORS Member, Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis G.Favaloro Golden Medal (1973) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Bi-astigmatismo de Marquez.Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 1(1):369, 1942. Modification de la paroi capillaire. Thér. Médico-Oculaire (1957) As suturas na operação da catarata. Estudo Experimental. Actualitées Latines d’Ophtalm. 248-62, 1958 Recentes progressos na cirurgia do deslocamento da retina. Rev. Bras. Oftal. 18(1):67-78, 1959 L’hypertension oculaire dans le syndrome de Weill-Marchesani. Bull. Soc. Franc. Ophtal. 74:729-33, 1961 Operative and postoperative
- [Vicente Dimitri](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-dimitri/): Vicente Dimitri, Italian-born Argentine neuropathologist (Trieste, Dalmatia 19 April 1885 – Buenos Aires 03 November 1955) Described encephalo-trigeminal angiomatosis or Sturge-Weber-Dimitri disease Tumor cerebral congênito (Angioma cavernoso). Rev. Assoc. Med. Arg. 36:63, 1923  Developed a new device for labyrinth tests Presentación de un nuevo aparato par alas pruebas laberinticas SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Aranovich. Disinergia cerebelar mioclonica. Estudio clinico y histopatologico. Rev. Neurol. 12:246-66, 1947 With F.M. Cia. Síndrome de Barré (piramidal deficitária) de origen traumatica. Neurobiol. 3:108, 194? As síndromes neuro-anemicas. Neurobiologia 3:196, 194? Hemiplegia alterna superior. Neurobiologia 3, 194? Forma radiculo-cordonal posterior de la enfermedad de Friedreich. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg.
- [Venancio Deulofeu](https://neglectedscience.com/venancio-deulofeu/): Venancio Deulofeu Gascons, Argentine organic chemist (Buenos Aires 01 April 1902 – Buenos Aires 04 October 1984) ACHIEVEMENTS Established that bile of Argentine snakes displayed cholic acid With several coworkers determined composition of venoms from South American toads   Demonstrated the presence of adrenaline in anuran venom Developed a new type of delayed-action insulin Obtained the apocholic acid in Wieland’s laboratory Isolated stroma from urine independently from Swiss Hassler  Isolated antibiotic curamycin from Streptomyces curacoi and elucidated its partial structure (1962) With Laughe isolated alkaloids saurin and sauroxine from Lycopodius sururus (1942) Elucidated structure of gamma-fagarine from Fagara coco, olivacine and guatambuine from Aspidosperma australe and tubulosine from Pogonopus tubulosus With G.
- [Trupapur Antony Davis](https://neglectedscience.com/trupapur-antony-davis/): Trupapur Antony Davis, Indian agronomist and botanist (Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu 09 February 1923 – 10 November 1989) ACHIEVEMENTS  Developed a mathematical solution to the structure of the sunflower head Developed instrumentation for agricultural research A climbing device to reach the palmyra’s valuable “toddy” (1984) Climbing the coconut: new machine for climbing palms with smooth trunks. World Crops 13:20-1, 1961  With N.A. Nagaraj & K.P.V. Menon. Sap transfusion, a new device for virus transmission trials in plants (1954) With A.P. Anand & K.P.s. Menon. Injection in coconut palms for curative purposes. I. Methods of injection. Indian Coconut J. 7(2):49-60, 1954 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
- [Thamarapu Vedanta Desikachary](https://neglectedscience.com/thamarapu-vedanta-desikachary/): Thamarapu Vedanta Desikachary, Indian phycologist (Tirupati, Chittoor District, andhra Pradesh State 18 September 1919 – Melbourne, Australia 05 November 2005) DESCRIBED ALGAE GENERA Bacillariophyceae Neofragilaria 1987 with Prasad & Prema Pinnulariosigma 1989 with Raja Rao & Sridharan  Spinodiscus 1986 with Ranjitha Devi Chlorophyceae  Iyengariomonas 1965 Schilleriomonas 1976 Prasinophyceae Mantoniella 1972 Papenfussiomonas 1972 Cyanophyceae Camptylonemopsis 1948 Iyengariella 1953 Mastigocladopsis 1946 with Iyengar Fossil Algae Bukryella 1996 with Prema Palaeonostoc 1972 with Sastri & Venkatachala Quadrodiscus 1990 with Prema Rossiella 1958 with Maheshwari HONORS Desikacharyella Subramanian 1984 (Rhodophyceae) Desikaneis Prasad 1993 (Bacillariophyceae) Desikacharya Saraf, Dawda & Singh 2019 (Bacteria)
- [Sukh Dev](https://neglectedscience.com/sukh-dev/): Sukh Dev Lala, Indian organic chemist (Chakwal, today Pakistan 17 June 1923 – Authored about 400 publications Proposed  the absolute stereochemistry biogenetic rule and the rule that claims that exotic biological materials tend to produce exotic secondary metabolites Enunciated the concept of steric diversion First to study in a systematic manner organic reactions in a solid matrix Discovered several new structural types in terpenoids Isolated and determinated the stereostructures of new complex molecules such as himachalenes, cuparenones, kodocytochalasins and guggulsterones With U.R. Nayak discovered the longicyclene, the first tetracyclic sesquiterpene (1963) With H. Khan, A. Zaman, G.L. Chetty & A.S. Gupta
- [Silvio Dessy](https://neglectedscience.com/silvio-dessy/): Silvio Dessy, Italian-born Argentine bacteriologist (Dego, Savona Province 31 May 1869 – Buenos Aires 15 July 1951) Developed Dessy vaccine, a polivalent typhoid vaccine (1903) and Denys-Dessy vaccine for tuberculosis With F.L. Grapiolo & V. Fossati. Nueva vacina contra la fiebre tifoide: notas experimentales y clinicas. Semana Med. 23:357, 1914 With R.A. Marotta introduced the treatment of actinomycosis using tuberculin His son, Jorge Dessy Moro, bacteriologist and immunologist (La Plata 1900 – ?) Developed chromobacteriostatic tests for identifying microorganisms With A. Montenegro & A. Durante. Nuevo tratamiento de la epilepsia y estados afines con isotopos radioactivos organicos. Semana Medica 3075:807-10, 1952
- [Shaojun Dong](https://neglectedscience.com/shaojun-dong/): Shaojun Dong, Chinese electrical chemist (Shandong, Qingdao Province 26 June 1931 – Gained wide recognition in the field of analytical electrochemistry Authored over 450 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Improved the separation of rare earths by electrolysis (1959) Gave important studies on chemical modified electrodes   Proposed a new production method of chemical modified electrodes Developed a variety of new types of chemical modified electrodes Developed an electrochemical sensor which aroused widespread interest at international level Proposed a new light transmission method of electrode interface reaction Improved significantly the detection, sensitivity and efficiency of spectroelectrochemical methods Proposed the ultrafine modified electrode electrocatalytic theory and its
- [Shailendra Mohan Das](https://neglectedscience.com/shailendra-mohan-das/): Shailendra Mohan Das, Indian ecologist and limnologist (Dehradun September 1909 – 1999) DESCRIBED MARINE TAXA Ecteinascidia bombayensis 1939 (Tunicata) Herdmania ennurensis 1940 (Dinoflagellata) Metafolliculina elongata 1949 (Protozoa: Ciliophora)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Nervous mechanism in Tunicata. Nature 162:963, 1948 Receptor organs in Tunicata. Nature 162:1000, 1948 With S.K. Moitra. Studies on the food of some common fishes of Uttar Pradesh, India. I. The surface-feeders, the midfeeders and the bottom feeders. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. India 25 B:1-6, 1955 With V.K. Srivastava. Some new observation on plankton from freshwater ponds and tanks at Lucknow. Sci. Cult. 21:466-7, 1956 With D.B. Saxena. Circulation in the respiratory region of
- [Severo Díaz Galindo](https://neglectedscience.com/severo-diaz-galindo/): Severo Díaz Galindo, Mexican mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist and geographer (Sayula, Jalisco State 08 November 1876 – Guadalajara 14 September 1956) Introduced a number of modifications in scientific equipment Discovered a new comet Discovered certain flames in Jupiter comparables to that of Venus (1902)
- [Satish Dhawan](https://neglectedscience.com/satish-dhawan/): Satish Dhawan, Indian aerodynamicist (Srinagar, Kashmir & Jammu 25 September 1920 – Bangalore 03 January 2002) Made the first measurements of skin friction in a surface and its effective deflection against a spring resistance Designed a special balance for direct measurement of skin friction in rates with high and/or  low flows  Provided the first practical model for the transition zone in boundary layers Discovered connections with transition to turbulent flow in pipes and channels
- [Sambhu Nath De](https://neglectedscience.com/sambhu-nath-de/): Sambhu Nath De, Indian physician (Hooghly District, West Bengal 15 February 1915 – Calcutta, West Bengal 15 April 1985) Authored over 30 research papers Developed an animal model for cholera using ligated intestinal loops in rabbits With D.N. Chatterjee. An experimental study of the mechanism of action of Vibrio cholerae on the intestinal mucous membrane. J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 66:559-62, 1953 Discovered the cholera exotoxin Enterotoxicity of bacteria free-culture filtrate of Vibrio cholerae. Nature 183:1533-4, 1959 Discovered the effect of this toxin on intestinal permeability HONORS Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize nominee
- [Sailesh Chandra Dutt](https://neglectedscience.com/sailesh-chandra-dutt/): Sailesh Chandra Dutt, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Sylhet, Bangladesh 11 January 1919 – 16 August 1979) Authored over 100 research papers With H.D. Srivastava elucidated the life cycle of Stephanofilaria assamensis, the causative agent of cattle humpsore (1963) Identified the intermediate host of human and pig parasites (Gastrodiscoides hominis) and its transmission With M.C. Agrawal. Method of maintenance of fresh water snails in the laboratory. Gujvet 8:55-7, 1974 DESCRIBED PARASITE TAXA Genera (Trematoda) Orientobilharzia 1955 with Srivastava Sinobilharzia 1955 with Srivastava  Species Cercaria hardayali 1970 Cercaria helicorbisi 1968 with Kumar & Jain Cercaria shibi 1958 Cercaria srivastavai 1957 Cotugnia columbae 1969 with Malviya Cotugnia srivastavai 1970 with Malviya Gastrothylax indicus
- [Sachindra Nath Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/sachindra-nath-gupta/): Sachindra Nath Dasgupta, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Jalpaiguri 04 November 1902 – 11 September 1990) Demonstrated the cause of tip necrosis of mango and developed economic means to control this disease spraying borax Described the dieback of mango With A.T. Zachariah. Dieback of mango. A new disease in India. Ind. J. Bot. 24(1):101-8, 1945 Proposed that the sum of metabolic pattern that should be basically considered for the determination of aggressiveness of a pathogen (1959) His work Saltation of Fungi (1936) earned him great international repute Described at least 77 species of aquatic fungi (63 of them with Rachel John) HONOURS
- [Roberto Donoso Barros](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-donoso-barros/): Roberto Donoso Barros, Chilean herpetologist (Santiago 05 October 1921 – Concepción 02 August 1975) DESCRIBED TAXA Amphibia Species Alsodes vanzolinii 1974 Engystomops freibergi 1969 Mannophryne riveroi 1965 Pristimantis lancinii 1965 Reptilia Genus Garthia 1965 with Vanzolini  Species Garthia penai 1966 Gonatodes ceciliae 1966 Gonatodes ligiae 1967 Gonatodes petersi 1967 Gonatodes seigliei 1966 Liolaemus archeforus 1971 with Cei  Liolaemus ceii 1971 Liolaemus constanzae 1961 Liolaemus cranweli 1973 Liolaemus hellmichi 1975 Liolaemus paulinae 1961  Liolaemus petrophilus 1971 with Cei Liolaemus ruibali 1961 Liolaemus sarmientoi 1973 Liolaemus silvanae 1971 with Cei Microlophus atacamensis 1960 Microlophus tarapacensis 1966  Microlophus theresioides 1966 Pristidactylus alvaroi 1975 Pristidactylus valeriae 1966 Subspecies Bachia heteropa marcelae 1964 with Garrido Caiman yacare medemi 1974 Callopistes palluma atacamensis 1960 Callopistes palluma manni 1960 Homonota gaudichaudii klugei 1970 Liolaemus archeforus archeforus 1971 with Cei Liolaemus
- [Roberto Dabbene](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-dabbene/): Roberto Raul Dabbene, Italian-born Argentine ornithologist (Torino 17 January 1864 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 20 October 1938) DESCRIBED VALID AVIAN TAXA Species Ara glaucogularis 1921 Geopsitta punensis 1917 Subspecies Cinclodes antarcticus maculirostris 1917 Cinclodes oustaleti hornensis 1913 Cyanoliseus patagonus andinus 1913 with Lillo Eudromia elegans intermedia 1913 with Lillo Leptasthenura aegithalioides pallida 1920  HONORS Subgenus Prodabbenea  Kraglievich 1940 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Robert Allen Dyer](https://neglectedscience.com/robert-allen-dyer/): Robert Allen Dyer, South-African botanist (Pietermaritzburg 21 September 1900 – Johannesburg 26 October 1987) Authored over 450 publications Described 181 new plant species Honored in genus Radyera Bullock 1956 (Malvaceae) Received Herbert Medal, International Bulb Society (1948)
- [Richard Von Diringshofen](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-von-diringshofen/): Richard Von Diringshofen, Brazilian entrepneur and amateur entomologist (Joinville, Santa Catarina State 04 August 1900 – São Paulo 20 May 1986) CO-DESCRIBED HOMOPTERA TAXA (with Fonseca) Genera Achantomedes 1974 Hypsoprorachis 1969 Species Achantomedes flavocephala 1974 Alcmeone flavostriata 1969 Alcmeone sinuata 1974 Aspona gibbosa 1969 Aspona quadrinodosa 1969 Cladonota trilobosa 1969 Hemikypta atracta 1969 Heteronotus sakakibarai 1974 Hypsoprora maculata 1974 Hypsoprorachis tuberosa 1969 Leioscyta foleata 1969 Leioscyta hemacroma 1969 Leioscyta similis 1969 Potnia orthosoma 1974 Sundarium achantocornus 1969 HONORS Diringsiella Martins & Galileo 1991 (Coleoptera) LINKS https://www.scielo.br/j/rbent/a/YZcYkwkBx5TmKb6PYc8rgWK/?lang=en
- [Rene Drucker-Colin](https://neglectedscience.com/rene-drucker-colin/): René Raul Drucker-Colin, Mexican neuroscientist (Ciudad de Mexico 15 May 1937 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 September 2017) Authored studies with 4,000 citations (H-index 19) Showed the role of proteins and peptides in regulation of REM sleep With C.W. Spanis, C.W. Cotman & J.L. McGaugh. Changes in protein levels in perfusates of freely moving cats relation to behavioral state. Science 187:963-5, 1975 With C.W. Spanis. Neurohumoral correlates of sleep:increase of proteins during rapid eye movement sleep. Experientia 31:551-2, 1975 First to find the precise localization of biological clock With R. Aguiar-Roblero, F. Garcia Hernandez, F. Fernandez Cancino & F.B. Rattoni. Fetal supraschiamatic nucleus
- [Reinaldo Di Polo](https://neglectedscience.com/reinaldo-di-polo/): Reinaldo Victor Di Polo Alemán, Venezuelan biophysicist (Caracas 06 March 1943 – 15 June 2016) Authored over 180 papers (about 4,000 citations) With L. Beaugé clarified the ATP regulatory effect on Na/Ca exchange in giant axons of squid (1970s) Characterized metabolically the Na/Ca exchange system in human cardiac tissue Discovered a new protein in nerve cells that maybe represents a new class of exchange systems (1997) DEMONSTRATED The presence of an ATP-driven Ca2+ pumps in giant axons of squid (1979) The metabolic exchange of Na/Ca using ATP and an intracellular regulatory site for this process The presence of a 13KDa protein regulating this Na/Ca
- [Reinaldo Damasceno](https://neglectedscience.com/reinaldo-damasceno/): Reinaldo Mauricio Goubert Damasceno, Brazilian medical entomologist (Igarapé-Açú, Pará State 24 July 1916 – Macapá 14 August 1976) Developed Damasceno trap for collecting insects Contribuição entomológica – Descrição de um método de captura de insetos em troncos de arvores, buracos na terra e tocas de animais silvestres. In: Congr. Bras. Higiene 13, 1955, Belém  DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES (39 new species; incomplete list) Anopheles albitarsis 1944 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles domesticus 1944 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles konderi 1942 with Ayroza Galvão Anopheles marajoara 1942 with Ayroza Galvão Culex belemnensis 1955 with Duret Culex majuensis 1955 with Duret Lutzomyia baityi 1945 with Causey & Arouck Lutzomyia campbelli 1945 with Causey & Arouck
- [Pedro Celestino Luis Denier](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-celestino-luis-denier/): Pedro (Pierre) Celestino (Celestin) Luis (Louis) Denier, French-born Argentine entomologist (Paris 14 November 1892 – Resistencia, Chaco 15 August 1941) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Tribe Epicautini 1931 Genera Eolydus 1913 Lyttomeloe 1921 Parameloe 1933 Picella 1933 Wagneronota 1935 Species Acrolytta neivai 1940 Acrolytta nigropicta 1932 Calocomus desmaresti 1939 Eolydus atrocoelureus 1913 Ephebocerus dufaui 1922 Lytta griseopubescens 1935 Meloe auropictus 1921 Oncideres guttulata 1939 Parameloe alutus 1933 Picnoseus laevigatus 1935 Picnoseus rubrofasciatus 1934 Pseudomeloe escomeli 1911 Pseudomeloe porteri 1934 Pyrota diadema 1940 Pyrota dispar 1934 Pyrota wagneri 1934 HONORS (Coleoptera) Denierella Kaszab  1952 Denierus Pic 1913 Denierota Kaszab 1959
- [Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala](https://neglectedscience.com/paulus-edward-pieris-deraniyagala/): Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala, Ceylonese zoologist and anthropologist (Colombo 08 May 1900 – Colombo 01 December 1976) Authored 350 publications on anthropology, archaeology, sociology, palaeontology and zoology DESCRIBED  TAXA Living Mammalia Valid Subspecies Bubalus bubalis migona 1952 Bos frontalis leyus 1952 Panthera pardus kotiya 1956 Fossil Mammalia Genera Gona 1958 Hippoleakius 1947 Homopithecus 1960  Mioceta 1967 Miodugong 1969 Miotursiops 1969 Muva 1958 Omoloxodon 1955 Platystegodon 1954 Prechoeropsis 1948 Sulcicephalus 1954 Turkanatherium 1951 Living Aves Valid Subspecies Eurystomus orientalis irisi 1951 Harpactes fasciatus parvus 1955 Gallus lafayettii xanthimaculatus 1955 Reptilia (described 51 living and fossil taxa in Reptilia; incomplete list) Living Reptilia Valid Species Calodactylodes illingworthorum 1953 Cnemaspis podihuna 1944 Geckoella yakhuna 1945 Hemidactylus hunae 1937 Hemidactylus lankae 1953 Hemidactylus parvimaculatus 1953 Lankascincus dorsicatenatus 1953 Nessia didactyla 1934 Nessia
- [Paulo Dacorso Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-dacorso-filho/): Paulo Dacorso Filho, Brazilian veterinarian (Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State 14 April 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 03 July 1975) Authored over 70 papers Performed studies on comparative pathology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.A. Muchaluat. Ocorrência de sarcoma osteogênico do maxilar superior em cão. Veterin. 22:43-51, 1969 With J. Langenegger. Lesões da artéria pulmonary e seus ramos causadas por D. immitis. Anais XIII Congr. Bras. Vet. (1962) With J. Lagenegger & A.M. Lagenegger. Ocorrência da infestação por Angiostrongylus vasorum em cães do Rio de Janeiro (1962) With J. Langenegger & J.H. Guimarães. Ocorrência de cestódeos em equídeos necropsiados na Escola Nacional de Veterinária. Arq. Inst.
- [Orville Adelbert Derby](https://neglectedscience.com/orville-adelbert-derby/): Orville Adelbert Derby, US-born Brazilian geoscientist and geographer (Kelloggsville, Cayuga County, New York State 23 July 1851 – Rio de Janeiro 27 November 1915) Authored 173 scientific works dealing about geology, mineralogy, palaeontology and archaeology Gained international recognition for his studies on nepheline rocks associated to phonolite and  foyaite and his petrographical researches   Laid the basis of genetical association between a group of filonian and eruptive rocks Proposed the notion of consanguinity of eruptive rocks (1885) Identified that nepheline rocks were from the same magma with distinct cooling velocities  DESCRIBED/NAMED Queluzite (protore) 1908 Caldasite (1919) Jacupiranguite (1891) Tinguaite Marahuite (1907) METHODOLOGY  
- [Octavio Drummond](https://neglectedscience.com/octavio-drummond/): Octavio de Almeida Drummond, Brazilian plant pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 21 June 1912 – 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Ramularia phaseoli, causative agent of bean floury leaf spot (1945) Proposed a simple method for studying fungicides for preventive pulverization on leaves Um método simples e eficiente para o estudo de fungicidas para pulverizações preventivas em folhas. Lilloa 21:57-9, 1949 Demonstrated that the necrosis on tip of branches of coffee plants was caused by low temperatures Etiologia da “canela seca” do cafeeiro. Bol. Agric. Belo Horizonte 5(1-2):29-38, 1956 Described a new disease (maize ear rot by Sclerotium)  With V.M. Yaringaño. Nota previa sobre uma nova podridão
- [Nil Ratan Dhar](https://neglectedscience.com/nil-ratan-dhar/): Nil Ratan Dhar, Indian physical chemist (Jessore, Bangladesh 02 January 1892 – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh State 05 December 1986) Authored over 450 original papers on electrochemistry, catalysis, velocity of reactions, colloid chemistry, photochemical processes and soil reactions ACHIEVEMENTS With D.N. Bhattacharya determined the mobility of ions at zero degree temperature and the transport number of nitrite ion by electrolysis of a solution of silver nitrate With A.K. Dutta determined the second dissociation constant of dibasic acids Concluded that tropical sunlight is one of the governing factors in various chemical processes that occur in soils such as nitrification Discovered the influence of
- [Nguyen Van Dao](https://neglectedscience.com/nguyen-van-dao/): Nguyen Van Dao, Vietnamese mathematician and physicist (Thanh-Ba District, Phu Tho Province 1937 – Hanoi 2006) Authored 114 papers, 8 books and 5 monographs One of the world’s leading experts in nonlinear oscillations Studied the effects caused by parametric excitations on nonlinear systems Identified relationship between distinct components of nonlinear systems Made considerable contributions to methods of asymptotic analysis of nonlinear oscillatory systems, examining the interaction between nonlinear systems accomplishing self-excited oscillations, forced oscillation and parametrically-excited oscillations SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Vibration and stability of dynamic systems with absorbers. Thesis (1965) Connected oscillations of rigid bodies. J. Math. Phys. (1966) Nonlinear oscillations of
- [Miriam Phoebe De Vos](https://neglectedscience.com/miriam-phoebe-de-vos/): Miriam Phoebe De Vos, South African botanist (1912 – Stellenbosch 2005) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA (Iridaceae) Genera Duthiastrum 1975 Subgenera Lomurea 1972 Rhipidopsis 1974 Sections Aggregatae 1972 Bicarinatae 1972 Glutinosae 1979 Linearifolium 1976 Pectinatae 1982 Pratenses 1972 Quadrangulifolium 1976 Saxatiles 1974  Stellanthe 1972 Subcallosae 1983 Teretifoliae 1982 Species About 30 Subspecies 4 Varieties 8 HONORS Devia Goldblatt & Manning 1990 (Iridaceae)
- [Maximo Drets](https://neglectedscience.com/maximo-drets/): Maximo Eduardo Drets Nicolini, Uruguayan cytogeneticist (Montevideo 21 April 1930 – Montevideo 23 February 2017) Authored over 130 scientific publications Demonstrated the clastogenic action of some substances from animal origin With F.A. Saez. The action of gonyleptidine on the mitotic and meiotic chromosomes and on the interphase nucleus. Portugaliae Acta Biol. 5:287-302, 1958 With G.A. Folle & A. Aznarez. Clastogen action of a dimethyl p-benzoquinone of animal origin. Mutation Res. 102:159-72, 1982 Extreme chromosome shortening induced in human lymphocytes by 2, 3 dimethyl p-benzoquinone resembling fragmentation. Brief Comm. Environm. Mutag. 5(6):923-7, 1983 First to report a pericentric inversion of the X
- [Martín Doello Jurado](https://neglectedscience.com/martin-doello-jurado/): Martín Doello Jurado, Argentine malacologist and paleontologist (Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province  04 July 1884 – Buenos Aires 09 October 1948) DESCRIBED MARINE & FOSSIL TAXA Genus Bouchardiella 1922 (Brachiopoda) Species Eulimella argentina 1938 Eupera platensis 1921 Mactra marplatensis 1949   Monocondylaea orbignyana 1917 Mytilus pseudochorus 1922 Pachycymbiola feruglioi 1931 Philine gouldi 1918 Semele casali 1949 Transenpitar americana 1951 HONORS Doellocosmia Bonarelli 1927 (Fossil Mollusca) Doellotatus Bordas 1932 & Doellomys Alvarez 1947 (Fossil Mammalia) Martindoelloia Orfila & Schajovsky 1963 (Lepidoptera)
- [Martin Dartayet](https://neglectedscience.com/martin-dartayet/): Martín Horacio Dartayet Glauser, Argentine astronomer (15 January 1905 – Cordoba 04 August 1982) With W.J. Luyten. Preliminary color indices for stars of large proper motion. Astrophys. J. 96:55, 1942 DISCOVERIES With J. Bobone & Cecilio the Kock-Paraskevopoulos comet independently (1941) With J. Landi Dessy 25 new faint variable stars (1952) and 333 new SMC variables (1959) With D. McLeish 21 white dwarf stars  With W.J. Luyten 5 white dwarf stars in the constellation Chamaeleon (1945) HONORS Asteroid 5292 Dartayet 
- [Mario Degni](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-degni/): Mário Degni, Brazilian surgeon (Santo André, São Paulo State 05 December 1911 – São Paulo 06 August 1996) From Italian father Published 95 papers (25 of them presenting new techniques and surgical instruments) Pioneer of lymphovenous derivation surgery at collectors level (with H. Cordeiro) Widely acclaimed as one of the originators of lymphatic microsurgery CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Nova técnica para via de acesso ao segmento pancreático do ducto colédoco e porção juxta-duodenal do ducto pancreático principal de Wirsung. Rev. Paul. Med. 23(6):283-5, 1943 Developed a new method  of permanent gastrostomy With F.S. Goffi. Novo método de gastrotomia permanente. Estudo experimental. Rev. Paul. Med. 31:367-94,
- [Mario D'Apice](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-dapice/): Mário D’Apice, Brazilian veterinarian (São Paulo 31 December 1909 – 20 September 1965) Gained some international recognition for his works about veterinary parasitology and infectious diseases Modified the method of preparation of crystal violet phenol vaccine introducing glycerine or D’Apice method (1944) With A.M. Penha & R. Cury. Vacina contra a peste suína. Técnica de preparo. Factores que interferem na sua eficiência. Imunização por via intradérmica. Arqu. Inst. Biol. 18, 1947 Proposed intradermic application of this vaccine  With A.M. Penha & R. Cury. Vaccination against hog cholera with crystal violet vaccine by the intradermic route. J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assn. 92:230, 1948 SOME
- [Mariano Severo Honorio di Fiore](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-severo-honorio-di-fiore/): Mariano Severo Honorio di Fiore, Argentine clinician (Buenos Aires 30 December 1899 – ? 1991) Authored relevant books on histology Diagnostico histologico: sintesis actualizada de histologia teórica y practica y reconocimiento de lós tejidos y organos por su estructura microscópica (1945) (1945-86) with 34 editions and translated into Portuguese Atlas of human histology (1949-2007) with 170 editions and translated into Portuguese, English and German (used worldwide) With R.E. Mancini & E.D.P. De Robertis New atlas of histology (1971-8) with 35 editions and translated into Portuguese, English and German SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Disinfection, sterilization and preservation (1968) The emergency room laboratory: its possibilities
- [Madhab Chandra Dash](https://neglectedscience.com/madhab-chandra-dash/): Madhab Chandra Dash, Indian ecologist and zoologist (Malatipatpur, Puri District, Odisha State 28 November 1939 – Authored 250 research papers Developed a technology called vermitechnology using earthworms for wasteland reclamation, enhancing plant production and composting (1980s) that a former pupil (B.K. Senapati) and the Frenchman P. Lavelle patented in France (1996) Brought new knowledge on arribada (mass synchronised sea turtle nesting), which has drawn the attention of conservationists of the world With J.K. Biswas, A. Banerjee, S. Majumder, N. Bolan & B. Seshadri. New extracellular polymeric substance producing enteric bacterium from earthworm, Metaphire posthuma: Modulation through cultrure conditions. Proceed. Zool. Soc. 72(2),
- [Luis De Santis](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-de-santis/): Luis De Santis Natale, Argentine entomologist (Berisso, Buenos Aires Province 16 May 1914 –La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 02 August 2000) Authored 273 scientific works DESCRIBED TAXA Hymenoptera Genera 64 Species Many Thysanoptera Genera Aneristothrips 1958 Lenkothrips 1970 with Sureda Micropsothrips 1950 MEMBERSHIP Active Member, New York Academy of Sciences (1995) Active Member, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Washington (1995) Associate Researcher, Department of Agriculture and Consummer Services, Gainesville, Florida (1997) HONORS Golden Medal, Fondazione Filippo Silvestri, universitá degli Studi di Napoli (1964)  Desantisodes Cortes 1973 (Diptera)  Desantisella Subba Rao 1971 (Hymenoptera)  Desantisiana Neder de Roman 1999 (Hymenoptera)
- [Ludwig Darapsky](https://neglectedscience.com/ludwig-darapsky/): Ludwig Darapsky, German-born Chilean naturalist, chemist and anthropologist (Mainz 09 May 1857 – 1916) Described the mineral variety aromite Ueber einige mineralien aus Atacama. Neues Jahrb. f. Mineral. 1:49, 1890 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Enteisenung und Grundwasser (1905) Mineralien aus dem Saltpetergebiete von Chile (1900) Zur Geographie der Puna de Atacama (1899) Notas mineralógicas de Atacama (1898) El departamento de Taltal: morfologia del terreno y sus riquezas (1890) La lengua araucana (1890) Estudios linguísticos americanos: fueguinos (1889) Estudio sobre las aguas termales del Puente del Inca. Bol. Acad. Nac. Ciencias Cordoba (1887) Las termas del Valle de Cachapoal (1887) Las aguas minerales de Chile Las
- [Liberato João Affonso Di Dio](https://neglectedscience.com/liberato-joao-affonso-di-dio/): Liberato João (John) Affonso (Alphonse) Di Dio, Brazilian/US anatomist (São Paulo 11 May 1920 – São Paulo 06 July 2004) Son of Italian immigrants Published 379 scientific papers and 8 books  CONTRIBUTIONS  First to demonstrate eminentia orbitalis with x-rays in living individuals (1942) Revolutionized the study of terminal ileum in many aspects (1952) Proposed obelic area concept in Conceito de “area obélica” e variações de sua morfologia no crânio humano. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro. Ser. Antropol. 17:1-5, 1958. Suggested and demonstrated anatomicosurgical segmentation of spleen (1958) with Antonio Zapalá and Abadio Marcos Neder Described the anatomicosurgical segments of heart
- [Leopoldo De Meis](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-de-meis/): Leopoldo De Meis, Italian-born Brazilian biochemist (Suez, Egypt 01 March 1938 – Rio de Janeiro 07 December 2014) Authored 205 papers, 13 book and 23 book chapters  (5,800 citations) ACHIEVEMENTS With W.O. Cruz, J.R. Magalhães & C.P. Von Dietrich developed isolated rabbit ear method for hemostasis in vivo (1962)  Showed the role that spermine and spermidine play in muscle relaxation (1967-8) First found a Ca2+ pump in tissues others than skeletal muscle and showed acetyl phosphate as substrate by sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPases Discovered the formation of low energy phosphoenzyme (1973) independently of  P.D. Boyer With H. Masuda demonstrated the occurrence of phosphorylation (ATP
- [Leonidas & Maria Deane](https://neglectedscience.com/leonidas-maria-deane/): Leonidas de Mello Deane, Brazilian parasitologist (Belém 18 March 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 30 January 1993) From British father Authored over 200 works Expert on epidemiology of endemic parasitic diseases of the New World Recognized as a world expert on malaria Studied biology related to parasites transmission by entomological vectors Performed studies on geographical distribution of Anophelinae Reported the first case of human infection by Plasmodium simium in scientific literature (1960s) With his wife described a technique to scan intestinal content of Kissing bug DESCRIBED SPECIES (with wife) Diptera Anopheles  sawyeri 1943 with Causey & Sampaio Anopheles galvaoi 1943 with Causey  Anopheles pseudopunctipennis 1944 with Causey
- [Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy](https://neglectedscience.com/laxmangudi-krishnamurthy-doraiswamy/): Laxmangudi Krishnamurthy Doraiswamy, Indian / US chemical engineer (Bangalore 13 May 1927 – Danville, Pennsylvania 02 June 2012) World pioneer on chemical reactions engineering Established organic synthesis engineering as a modern discipline Authored about 180 papers Solved many problems in phase transfer catalysis by immobilizing the catalyst on a polymer support  DEVELOPED A number of processes such as catalytic and non-catalytic processes in both batch and continuous modes A novel continuous catalytic process for dimethylaniline Comercially important technologies such as fluidized-bed processes for making chloromethanes and methylchlorosilanes Continuous process for ethylenediamine A new process for vitamin B6 A complete process for
- [Kemal Djenab](https://neglectedscience.com/kemal-djenab/): Kemal Cenap (Djenab) Berksoy, Turkish physiologist and biochemist (Üsküdar, Istanbul 1876 – Ankara 28 November 1949) His studies on secretin have drawn international attention  Determined that the most effective secretion occurred in the deep mucous layer of the duodenum  BIBLIOGRAPHY  Contribution a l’etude de la part d’action de la moelle cervical dans la piqure diabetique chez le chien.  C.R. Soc. Biol. 69:139-40, 1910 Traces hemautographiques cardio-arteriels superposes. C.R. Soc. Biol. 72(3), 1912 With C. Neuberg. Ueber die Saccharophosphatase der hefen und die vergärung der rohrzuckerphosphosaure. Biochem. Zschr. 82:391-411, 1917 Bildungsort und Schicksal des Sekretins für das Pankreas im Körper. Zentralbl. Physiol.
- [Julio Díez](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-diez/): Julio Díez Pradere, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 08 October 1895 – Buenos Aires 01 August 1963) First described lumbar sympathectomy for thromboangiitis obliterans (1932) Developed resection of lumbosacral-cervical-thoracic sympathetic for treatment of trophic diseases and gangrene of the limbs (1925) Developed techniques for gastric surgery Designed surgical instruments Eponym of Díez-Gioja method
- [Juan Nicolas Davalos](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-nicolas-davalos/): Juan Nicolás Davalos Betancourt, Cuban bacteriologist (Juan Gualberto Gómez, Matanzas Province 06 November 1857 – La Habana 04 December 1910) Showed Pasteurella as causative agent of moquillo or avian diphtheria in Cuba La difteria aviaria in Cuba (1904) With E. Acosta Mayor developed an improved procedure of Emile Roux for production of antidiphtheria vaccine (praised by Roux) Obtained sera against tetanus, typhoid fever, anthrax and many animal diseases Discovered higadillo and its causative agent in chickens Etiologia del higaldillo (1888) Modified the Ziehl’s solution for fast staining of microorganisms Metodo de coloración rapida de los germenes (1892) Developed a new procedure for diagnosis
- [Juan Aníbal Domínguez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-anibal-dominguez/): Juan Aníbal Domínguez Gonzalez, Argentine pharmacist, plant chemist and ethnobotanist (San Pablo de Salta 21 May 1876 – San Pablo de Salta 18 October 1946) Studied Argentine medicinal flora, determined their constituents and its therapeutical uses  Performed micrographic studies of medically important plant chemicals SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Etude pharmacologique d’une gomme appeléé brea (Caesalpinia praecox) 1900 Estudio micrografico de medicamentos simples de origem vegetal (1902) Datos para Materia Medica Argentina (1903) Note sur Tagete glandulifera Schr. 1904 Note sur deux gommes de la Republique Argentine (1904) Contribution a l’etude de la lague de la tusca Acacia cavenna Hook. et Arn. (1906) Contribution al estudio de la Krameria
- [José Pedro Duret](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-pedro-duret/): José Pedro Duret, Argentine medical entomologist (Buenos Aires 21 January 1913 – Buenos Aires 30 May 2007) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Aysenmyia 1979 Gymnoceridion 1987 with Matile Neoaustrosynapha 1980 Paraaustrosynapha 1980 Species 53 species of Culicidae and 289 of Mycetophilidae HONORS  John N. Belkin Prize, American Mosquito Control Association (1991) Genus Duretia Golbach 1984 (Coleoptera) Genus Duretina Matile 1990 (Diptera) LINKS www.mosquitocatalogo.org/pdfs/MS23NO1P066.PDF
- [José Alejandro DeCarlo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-alejandro-decarlo/): José Alejandro DeCarlo, Argentine entomologist (1896 – 19 June 1983) Authored at least 62 papers DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Carvalhoiella 1963 Melloiella 1935 Parabedus 1951 Pseudoabedus 1951 Sattleriella 1966 Weberiella 1966 Species 41 species of Belostomatidae 39 species of Ranatridae 36 species of Pelocoridae 7 species of Gelastocoridae 1 species of Nepidae 1 species of Ochteridae    HONORS Decarloa Rivers 1969 (Hemiptera) See Rev. Soc. Entomol. Arg. 42(1-4):1-8, 1983 (list of all species described for him)
- [Jose Luis Duomarco](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luis-duomarco/): José Luis Duomarco de Pro, Uruguayan physiologist (Montevideo 27 September 1905 – Montevideo 25 November 1985) From Spanish parents Authored works on physical medicine and vascular physiology Authored over 130 papers and 2 books Described a new heart law On the relationship between end systolic volume and ventricular mechanical impulse. A new law of the heart. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 8, 1958  With A.C. Esponda & A. Asplando. On a new law of the heart. Ann. Fac. Med. Montevideo 44, 1959 Eponym of Holt-Duomarco effect WITH RIMINI Authored the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in human (1947) Important studies on venous pressure
- [Jose Luis Delpini](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luis-delpini/): Jose Luis Delpini Fraguglia, Argentine civil engineer (Buenos Aires 24 August 1897 – Buenos Aires 13 March 1964) Invented and patented preformed concrete and self-supporting fiber cement With R. Bes & V. Sulcic designed and built Mercado del Abasto of Buenos Aires (1930) with worldwide repercussion for its huge reinforced concrete domes and the first use of structural glass (glassbeton) on a large scale Gave the first design of a stayed bridge (1954) Proposed a functional type of stadium similar to turbine shape and function (1956) Proposed a transparent and bomb-permeable hangar (1956) With J. Basaldua & Ugarte created the mosquito arch, a
- [Jose Carmine Dianese](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-carmine-dianese/): José Carmine Dianese, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (Santo Antonio do Monte, Minas Gerais State 09 May 1940 – PLANT PATHOLOGY With T.S.A. Moraes. Sintomatologia do mal do Rio Doce, enfermidade do eucalipto. Fitopatol. Bras. 11:249-57, 1986 With H.A. Bolkan, W.R.C. Ribeiro & O.C. Almeida. Disease caused by Cylindrocladium on potato tuber in Brazil. Plant Disease 1(54):225, 1980 With H.A. Bolkan & F.P. Cupertino. Pineapple flowers as principal infection sites for Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans. Plant Disease 1(63):655-7, 1979 METHODS With L.E.B. Blum & S.B.R.S. Ferreira. Padronização da metodologia para a avaliação da resistência de eucalipto ao tombamento e a mancha foliar causados por Cylindrocladium.
- [John Hemsworth Osborne Day](https://neglectedscience.com/john-hemsworth-osborne-day/): John Hemsworth Osborne-Day, English-born South African marine biologist (Sussex, England 25 August 1909 – Knysna 24 April 1989) Authority internationally recognized on the ecology of estuaries and coastal waters as well as on the taxonomy of polychaete worms DESCRIBED POLYCHAETA GENERA Anguillopsyllis 1963 Capitobranchus 1962 Drilognathus 1960 Exogonoides 1963 Lamellisyllis 1960 Leitoscoloplos 1977 Micronereides 1963 Neovermilia 1961 Orbiniella 1954 Pharyngeovolvata 1951 Proscoloplos 1954 Scoloplella 1963 Terebellobranchia 1951 Telothelepus 1955 Unanereis 1962 HONORS  Dayellus Inglis 1964 (Nematoda) Dayipsammolyce Pettibone 1997 (Annelida Polychaeta) Dayius Steiner & Amaral 1999 (Annelida Polychaeta)
- [Johanna Dobereiner](https://neglectedscience.com/johanna-dobereiner/): Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Dobereiner, Czech-born Brazilian agricultural microbiologist (Usti nad Labem 28 November 1924 – Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro State 05 October 2000) Daughter of chemical engineer Paul Kubelka (1900-1956) Authored over 500 scientific works  ACHIEVEMENTS First described association between nitrogen fixation bacteria and Graminae (1974) With Von Bulow described the presence of  Spirillum-like bacteria in roots of maize plants (1975)  Described association between nitrogen fixation bacteria and sugar cane (1988) Introduced the endophyte concept to the field of biological nitrogen fixation (1992) First to propose nitrogen-free semi-solid medium for isolating nitrogen-fixing bacteria (1973), developed the NFb (1975) and described it (1976)
- [Joaquín Dueñas](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-duenas/): Joaquín Laureano Dueñas Pinto, Cuban pediatrician and epidemiologist (La Habana 04 July 1859 – 06 December 1910) Introduced the concept of reigning fevers before Achard & Bensaude Sobre las fiebres reinantes. La Abeja Medica 1:86-91, 1892 Related scurvy and refractory megaloblastic anemias in children (190?) confirmed later  Authored dengue and glanders chapters in Encyclopaedic Treatise of Pediatrics or The Diseases of Children: a work for the practising physician – M. Von Pfaundler & A. Schlossmann (1909) Most of his publications were reproduced or commented by famous clinical authorities in Europe and America Consideraciones sobre los parecidos faciales. Rev. Cubana 8:499-16, 1888  Diagnostico de
- [Jenny Day](https://neglectedscience.com/jenny-day/): Jennifer Ann Day, South African limnologist and freshwater ecologist (born in Johannesburg ? DEVELOPED METHODS With H. Malan, A. Bath & A. Joubert. A simple flow concentration modelling method for integrating water quality and water quantity in waters. Water S.A. 29(3), 2004 With H. Malan. Development of numerical method for predicting relationships between stream flow, water quality and biotic responses in rivers (2002) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Genera Alticuma 1978 Austrocuma 1978 Haliana 1980 Mossambicuma 1978 Species Alticuma bellum 1978 Austrocuma platyceps 1978 Bathycuma datum 1975 Bodotria clara 1978 Bodotria falsinus 1978 Bodotria nitida 1978 Bodotria serica 1978 Bodotria tenuis 1978 Bodotria vertebrata 1978 Cumopsis robusta 1975 Cyclaspis australora 1978 Cyclaspis scissa 1978 Cyclaspoides pellucidus 1978 Diastylis namibiae 1980 Dic formosae 1980
- [Jehangir Fardunji Dastur](https://neglectedscience.com/jehangir-fardunji-dastur/): Jehangir Fardunji Dastur, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Bhavnagar, Gujrat 10 September 1886 – Bombay 01 May 1971) Authored over 36 original papers and memoirs PLANT DISEASES Discovered Phytophthora parasitica responsible for blight of castor oil plants (1913) First reported white tip disease of rice (1936) Described “pan sukh” disease of rice plant (c.1937) Described two new diseases of potato: leaf rot and tuber rot (1948) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Botryobasidium album 1946 Cochliobolus tritici 1942 Corticium album 1940 Vermicularia indica 1934 HONORS Dasturella Mundkur & Kheswalla 1943 (Fungi)
- [Jagdeshwari Dayal](https://neglectedscience.com/jagdeshwari-dayal/): Jagdeshwari Dayal, Indian helminthologist (Lucknow 1898 – 25 March 1955) DESCRIBED HELMINTHS TAXA Families Leptophallidae 1938 Sphaerostomatidae 1934 with Thapar Genera Assamia 1953 with Gupta Brahamputotrema 1953 with Gupta Cotylogonoporum 1934 with Thapar Eucreadium 1942 Ganadotrema 1949 Gauhatiana 1953 with Gupta Gorgotrema 1938 Neobucephalopsis 1948 Neoganada 1938 Neopodocotyle 1944 Neoprosorhynchus 1947  Nizamia 1938 Oudhia 1953 with Gupta Phyllochorus 1938 Plesiodistomum 1949 Pseudohaplorchis 1949 Thaparotrema 1953 with Gupta
- [Jacques Danon](https://neglectedscience.com/jacques-danon/): Jacques Abulafia Danon, Brazilian physical chemist (Santos, São Paulo State 23 August 1924 – Paris 30 October 1989) From Sephardic Jewish heritage  Recognized all over the world as one of the founders of Mossbauer chemical and solid state spectroscopy International authority on Mossbauer effect Authored about 160 papers and 6 books ACHIEVEMENTS Clarified important aspects of the chemistry of iron compounds and of metallic iron Established a link between the hyperfine parameters measured by Mossbauer spectroscopy and the bonding between the atoms in a solid or a molecule (1963-6) Nuclear isomer shift and convalency in iron complexes. J. Chem. Phys. 39:236-7,
- [Ignacio Domeyko](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-domeyko/): Ignacy Domeyko, Polish/Lithuanian Chilean mineralogist, geologist, meteorologist and etnographer (Niedzwiadka, Korelichi District, Belarus 31 August 1802 – Santiago de Chile 23 January 1889) Born into a family of Polish-speaking Lithuanian noblemen  Authored over 400 reports on mineralogy, geology, geography, physics and ethnography Authored Elementos de Mineralogia que compreenda principalmente las especies minerales de Chili, Bolivia, Peru y Provincias Argentinas (1844) Authored Araucania y sus habitantes (1845) that was translated into many languages as Polish, French and German Discovered and described 27 new mineral species such as archevite, ammiolite, bolivite, bordosite, chileite, copiapite, coquimbite, daubreeite, embolite (1844), mottramite (1848), nantokite, philippite, schwarzembergite (1864), taznite, tocornalite
- [Horacio Descole](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-descole/): Horacio Raul Descole Torres, Argentine botanist (Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province 06 February 1910 – Tucumán Province 16 February 1984) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Sections (Calceolariaceae) Phyllophorus 1954 with Borsini Rosula 1954 with Borsini Species Alternanthera tucumana 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig Angelonia evitae 1950 with Borsini Calceolaria lilloi 1955 with Borsini Calceolaria pennelli 1955 with Borsini Calceolaria ruizlealii 1954 with Borsini Calceolaria ruiz-pavoni 1954 with Borsini Calceolaria tucumana 1942 Euphrasia piossekii 1955 with Borsini  Hoffmannia australis 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig Kallstroemia tucumanensis 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig Plectocarpa rougesii 1939 with O’Donell & Lourteig Schubertia schreiteri 1941 with Meyer Trechonaetes rotacea 1939 with Lillo, O’Donell & Lourteig HONORS Descolea Singer 1952 (Fungi) Descoleia Aczel 1956 (Diptera) Mesodescolea Archangelsky 1963
- [Horacio Damianovich](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-damianovich/): Horacio Jaime Damianovich Cuyas, Argentine chemist (Buenos Aires 11 January 1883 – Buenos Aires 26 November 1959) From Serbian, Greek and Spanish descent  ACHIEVEMENTS Performed important studies on chemistry of noble gases being invited by Societe Chimique de France to expose his researches in 1937 One of the first in the world to obtain derivatives of noble gases Studied in detail the adsorption of helium on metal surfaces (1920-40) Made significant contribution to the understanding of helides Obtained the first stable compounds of helium (1937) Conceived a metabolimeter Metabolimetre à circuit ouvert pour usage clinique. Compt. Rend. Hebd. Soc. Biol. 88, 1923 Developed
- [Honorio Delgado](https://neglectedscience.com/honorio-delgado/): Honorio Delgado Espinosa, Peruvian psychiatrist and psychopathologist (Arequipa 26 September 1892 – Lima 28 November 1969) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored the first reports in field of psychoactive drugs   Introduced sodium nucleinate in the management of the psychotic agitation (1917) and the use of phenobarbital for the control of seizures  (1919) With H. Valdizán made the first phyto-pharmacological contributions in clinical and therapeutic studies on mental disorders Described 3 fundamental concepts in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia: the autism, the disjunction of the ego with respect to the content of consciousness and the breakdown of basic categories of knowledge  Anticipated the role of attention and
- [Hermann Duque Caro](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-duque-caro/): José Hermann Duque Caro, Colombian geologist, stratigrapher and micropaleontologist (Bogotá 22 March 1935 – 20 September 2015) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. O’Dea, H.A. Lessios, A.G. Coates, R.I. Eytan et al. Formation of the isthmus of Panama. Sci. Adv. 2(8), 2016 With R. Betancur, A. Acero & S.R. Santos. Phylogenetic and morphologic analyses of a coastal fish reveals a marine biogeographic break of treestrial origin in the Southern Caribbean. Plos One 5(7), 2010 The Llanos Basin. In search of greater stratigraphic resolution. J. Petrol. Geol. 20:96-9, 1997 Contributions to the geology of the Pacific and the Caribbean coastal areas of Northwestern Colombia and South
- [Hector Dal Lago](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-dal-lago/): Hector Dal Lago, Argentine orthopedist and traumatologist (Santa Rosa del Conlara, San Luis Province 16 May 1912 – 08 November 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS Described the sign of anterior shaft release in knee pneumoarthroradiography With E. H. Lagomarsino. El signo del desprendimiento del asta anterior en la neumoartrorradiografia de la rodilla (1942)   Described the syndrome of popliteal buttonhole With E. H. Lagomarsino. Diferencias anatomoclinicas de los meniscos (1946) Developed a surgical technique for relapsing luxation of shoulder Resection of the external meniscus of the knee; personal technic. Sem. Med. 111(Suppl.17):577-8, 1957 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratamiento del pie plano transverso y del hallux valgus con metatarso varo
- [Guillermo Delgado Palacios](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-delgado-palacios/): Guillermo Delgado Palacios, Venezuelan pharmacist (Caracas 1866 – Caracas 18 April 1931) Proposed a new extract and derivatives of chaulmoogra oil for leprosy Terapia etil-chaulmoogrica de la lepra. Rev. Diplom. Colombia 34 (1932) Relation of pulmonary infections to the calcium metabolism. Suggestions for a new method of treatment. Med. Rec. 99:475-8, 1921 Explained the mechanism and acting of intestinal bacterial flora and described fecal carcoma Chimie Pathologie Tropicale dans la Région Atlantique (1914) Developed a method for detecting water in milk by melting point Proposed the bioracemic theory for explaining the origin of life (1905) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al estudio del
- [Giovanni Dalma](https://neglectedscience.com/giovanni-dalma/): Giovanni Dalma, Jewish Italian-born Argentine psychiatrist and sociologist (Fiume 18 June 1895 – Tucumán 21 October 1977) Discovered new reflexes in sacrogluteal region between them a group that could be used to determinate disc herniation Discovered nasofacial reflex Performed important studies about cerebrospinal fluid pressure along epileptic seizure Developed a new method for storage blood and use it in progressive paralysis therapeutics Developed a technique for vital staining of nervous tissue named electrogalvanic chromophoresis  Proposed the theory of dispsychobiosis (1948)
- [Gilberto Barbosa Domont](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-barbosa-domont/): Gilberto Barbosa Domont, Brazilian biochemist (Rio de Janeiro 11 November 1934 – With A.N. Monteiro, S.A. Vinhas, R. Borojevic, P.A. Mourão et al.  Establishment of a continuous cell line from fibrotic schistosomal granulomas in mice livers. In vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 21(7):382-90, 1985 With F.C.S. Nogueira, G. Palmisano, M.R. Larsen, F.A.P. Campos & P. Roepstorff. N-and O-linked glycoproteins in plants: alternative route for plastidial proteins destination (2012)  With C.D. T. Freitas, F.C. S. Nogueira, I.M. Vasconcelos, J.T. A. Oliveira & M.R. Viana. Osmotin purified from the latex of Calotropis procera: biochemical characterization, biological activity and role in plant defense. Plant Physiol. Biochem.
- [Garibaldi José Devincenzi](https://neglectedscience.com/garibaldi-jose-devincenzi/): Garibaldi José Devincenzi Alciaturi, Uruguayan zoologist (Maldonado 20 December 1882 – Montevideo 17 September 1943) Authored over 45 papers DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES Hypostomus luteomaculatus 1942 Mullus americanus 1933 Paraloricaria commersonoides 1943 Scleronema angustirostre 1942 Trachelyopteris teaguei 1942 HONORS Devincenzia Kraglievich 1932 (Fossil Aves)
- [Friedrich Moritz Draenert](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-moritz-draenert/): Friedrich Moritz Draenert, German-born Brazilian agronomist (Weimar 03 December 1838 – Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 09 September 1903) First in the world showed bacterium as causative agent of plant diseases identifying Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vasculorum as etiologic agent of sugar cane gummosis before T.J. Burrill Berichte über die Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 1:13-17, 1869 Weitere notizen über Krankheit des Zuckerrohrs. Zeitschrift fur Parasitenkunde 1:212, 1869  Proposed a set of rules for weather forecast in O Clima do Brazil (1896)
- [Francisco Díaz Covarrubías](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-diaz-covarrubias/): Francisco Díaz Covarrubías, Mexican astronomer and geographer (Jalapa, Veracruz State 21 January 1833 – Paris, France 19 May 1889) ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed Mexican method for latitudinal determination at any geographical location in Earth (1855) Proposed new astronomical methods for determination of geographical time, azimuth, latitude and longitude Nuevos metodos astronomicos para determiner la hora, el azimuth, la latitude y la longitude geograficas (1867) Predicted Solar eclipse that occurred at March 25, 1857 Introduced the use of chiaroscuro in topographic drawing SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Determinación de la posicion geografica de Mexico (1859) With R. Almaraz. Carta hidrográfica del Valle de Mexico (1862) Viaje de la comision
- [Francisco Dominguez Roldan](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-dominguez-roldan/): Francisco Faustino de La Caridad Domínguez y Roldán, Cuban physician (La Habana 15 February 1864 – La Habana 25 April 1942) Presented a new cause of facial palsy Contribución al estudio de la paralisis facial (1904) Authored Radio, Radiologia y Electricidad Medicas (1911) that lead him to be named honorary member of American Electro-therapeutic Association METHODS  With A.G. Domínguez Roldán. Un nuevo método de topografia cráneo-cerebral. Rev. Cir. Med. La Habana 7(24):573-87, 1902 Nuevo metodo de sutura en la cura radical de la hernia inguinal (1903) Nuevo tratamiento de la tiña. Rev. Esc. Med. (1904) DEVICES  Aparato para la curación del hidrocele
- [Fernando Defillo](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-defillo/): Fernando Alberto Defilló Meriño, Dominican tropical physician (Puerto Plata 27 February 1874 – Santo Domingo 29 October 1949) Performed first staining of Monilia   Introduced improvements to neurohistological technique Contribución a las técnicas de laboratório no argentinas del tejido nervioso. Rev. Med. Domin.3(2):5-7, 1948 Discovered disinfectant properties of vapours of thyme, shin and cloves Discovered the curative properties of amamu (Petiveria alliacea) Isolated an alkaloid with anti-tetanic properties SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El origen de la sífilis. An. Univ. Santo Domingo 15(53-6):147-61, 1950 Discutibilidad del contagio absoluto de la lepra. An. Univ. Santo Domingo 13(45-6):133-9, 1948 Le traitement de la lepre dans la Republique Dominicaine. Presse Med. 3-4:363,
- [Fe del Mundo](https://neglectedscience.com/fe-del-mundo/): Fe Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva, Philippine pediatrician (Manila 27 November 1909 – Quezón City 06 August 2011) Authored over 100 articles First female student at Harvard Medical School (1936) INVENTIONS A bamboo radiant warmer used as incubator in rural communities (1973) A photo therapy device for jaundice relieving A cloth-suspended scale to weigh infants BRAT (banana, rice, apple and tea) diet for curing diarrhea HONOURS Award, 15th International Congress of Pediatrics (1977)
- [Ethel Mary Doidge](https://neglectedscience.com/ethel-mary-doidge/): Ethel Mary Doidge, English-born South African mycologist and plant microbiologist (Nottingham, England 31 May 1887 – Anerley, South Coast, Natal 22 September 1965) Identified hundreds of new fungal species and some bacterial species DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA (1921) Macowaniella Palawaniella Parastigmatea DESCRIBED (incomplete) A wilt disease of cucurbits with L.J. Kresfelder (1932) A geranium rust caused by Puccinia pelargonii zonale (1926) Doidge bacterial spot disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria (1920) A bacterial spot of citrus (1917) A bacterial blight of pear blossoms (1917) A bacterial disease of mango (Bacillus mangiferae) 1915
- [Ernesto Dallas](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-dallas/): Ernesto David Dallas, Argentine physician and entomologist (1885 – 1943) Expert on insects teratology DESCRIBED Calosoma miniatura 1939 (Coleoptera) Chiasognathus grantii pygmaea 1933 (Coleoptera) HONORS Dallasimyia Blanchard 1944 (Diptera)
- [Ermias Dagne](https://neglectedscience.com/ermias-dagne/): Ermias Dagne, Ethiopian natural products chemist (Deder, Harar 08 June 1944 – Developed chemical compounds in isolation for use in pharmaceutical preparations With H. Thomsen, K. Heider, K. Franke et al. developed a simple, inexpensive bioassay against the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using antihelmitic active extracts of plant Hagenia abyssinica (2012) With A. Yenesew, S. Asmellash, S. Mavi et al. first to report isoeleutherol as a natural product (1994) With W. Mammo, I. Casser & W. Steglich discovered araliorhamnones, a new class of anthraquinone lactones with three adjacent C-substituents on ring C (1990) With E. Berhanu first to report aloe-emodin acetate in Liliaceae family (1985)   With W.
- [Enrique Del Solar](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-del-solar/): Enrique Manuel Del Solar Caceda, Peruvian fisheries biologist  (Ica 05 November 1911 – Miami, United States  1990) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Ensayo sobre la ecologia de la anchoveta. Bol.Comp. Adm. Guano 18:3-23, 1942 With F. Blancas S. & R. Mayta L. Catalogo de crustáceos del Peru, 1970   Crustaceos braquiuros (cangrejos), anomuros y estomatopodos em las zonas nerito-pelágicas y litoral de Tumbes. Bol. Soc. Geogr. Lima 89:40-48, 1970   Addenda al catalogo de crustáceos del Perú. Inf. Inst. Mar. Peru 38:1-21, 1972 La merluza (Merluccius gayi Guichenot) como indicador de la riqueza biotica de la plataforma continental del norte del Peru. Publ. Soc. Nac. Pesqu. HONORS
- [Enrique Benjamín del Castillo](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-benjamin-del-castillo/): Enrique Benjamín del Castillo Mallea, Argentine clinical endocrinologist (Mendoza 14 December 1897 – Buenos Aires 30 June 1969) Authored over 200 papers and 7 books Described Ahumada-del Castillo syndrome Sobre un caso de galactorrea y amenorrea. Bol. Soc. Obst. Ginecol. Buenos Aires 11:64-72, 1932 With A. Lanari. Sindrome caracterizado por crecimiento exagerado, amenorrea y galactorrea. Semana Medica 1:1905, 1933 Described Del Castillo-Trabucco-Balze syndrome With Armando E. Trabucco & F.A. de la Balze. Syndrome produced by absence of germinal epithelium without impairment of Sertoli or Leydig cells. J. Clin. Endocrinol. 7:493-502, 1947  Observed that sex cycle could be seen in urinary sediment what
- [Elias Dolianiti](https://neglectedscience.com/elias-dolianiti/): Elias Dolianiti, Brazilian paleobotanist  (Rio de Janeiro 26 January 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 30 July 1985) From Greek ancestry Authored over 30 works World-renowned on Gondwanic flora DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Kegelidium 1954 Paulophyton 1954 Palaeostigma 1957 with Krausel Polysolenoxylon 1958 with Krausel Prototaxoxylon 1958 with Krausel Solenopitys 1958 with Krausel Stephanophyllites 1977 with Millan Species/Varieties Archaeosigillaria picosensis 1957 Chondrodendron brasiliense 1949 Dadoxylon manieroi 1958 with Krausel Diplothmemma gothanica 1954 Gangamopteris buriadica var. acrodeltoidis 1954 Gangamopteris mosesii 1954 Jurinodendron brasiliense 1963 Kegelidium lamegoi 1954 Luehea roxoi 1949 Lycopodites amazonica 1967 Nipa pernambucensis 1955 Ottokaria sancta-catharinae Palaeostigma sewardii 1957 with Krausel Parataxopitys americana 1950 with Milanez Paulophyton sommeri 1954 Protolepidodendron kegeli 1957 with Krausel Prototaxoxylon brasilianum 1958 with Krausel Rhabdotaenia criciumensis 1953 Rubidgea itapemensis 1982 with Millan Rubidgea
- [Eladio Dieste](https://neglectedscience.com/eladio-dieste/): Eladio Dieste Saint Martin, Uruguayan structural engineer and architect (Artigas 10 December 1917 – Montevideo 19 July 2000) Created and developed structural ceramics or reinforced brick Invented two kinds of vault: self-carrying vaults and Gaussian vaults Developed techniques to achieve resistant structures such as pre-stressing of brickwork and moveable formworks Designed and built special machines and devices for construction Developed special details and calculation techniques Enunciated a theorem that relates moments integral along the directrix of vault to moment in each point in Un Nuevo teorema sobre estructuras laminares.
- [Efrén C. del Pozo](https://neglectedscience.com/efren-c-del-pozo/): Efrén Carlos del Pozo Rangel, Mexican physiologist and pharmacologist (San Luis, Potosí 11 September 1907 – Ciudad de Mexico 14 May 1979) Authored over 50 papers Discovered that newborn animals don’t display reflex palsy immediately after spinal cord lesions With C. Guzmán, A. Fernandez & J. Negrete. El choque espinal en gatos jóvenes. Bol. Inst. Estud. Med. Biol. Mex. 12(7):169-72, 1954 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pharmacology of venoms of Mexican Centruroides. Rev. Invest. Salud Publica 28(1):51-66, 1968 & Mem. Inst. Butantan 33(2):615-25, 1966 With M. Salas & P. Pacheco. Effects of scorpion venom at neuromuscular junction. Rev. Invest. 33(3):961-4, 1966 Los effectos paralizantes de la “tullidora”,
- [Eduardo De Robertis](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-de-robertis/): Eduardo Diego Patricio De Robertis, Argentine cytologist and microscopist (Buenos Aires 11 December 1913 – Buenos Aires 31 May 1988) Son of Italian immigrants  ACHIEVEMENTS With P. Rojas & F.A. Saez discovered that most amphibians have no morphologically distinguishable sex chromosomes (1935) Determinated the release mechanism of spermatozoa from amphibian male testicles Showed that gonadotrophin promotes gonadal maturation in toads acting on Sertolli cells (1942) With Angel Pogo discovered follicular thyrocolloid or colloidal vesicles of thyroid gland  Demonstrated the existence of an enzymatic mechanism in production and reabsorption of thyroid hormone (1940s) First demonstrated the existence of a thyroid protease With R. Grasso
- [Décourt brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/decourt-brothers/): Luiz Venere Décourt, clinician (Campinas, São Paulo State 07 December 1911 – São Paulo 20 May 2007) Published 324 papers With R.G, Ferri, M. Papaleo Neto, S.D. Giannini, G. Spilborghs & T. Tutiya. Serological tests in diagnosis of rheumatic activity. I. Determination of mucoprotein. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 8(4):361-78, 1955 With R.G. Ferri, T.J.B. Cardoso & T. Tutiya. Isolamento e eletroforese da mucoproteína do soro humano. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 10:389-94, 1955 Elaborated a methodology to recognize the most acute moment of rheumatic fever With J.L. Faria. J.V. Barbas, T. Fujioka, M.F. Lion & U. Andrade e Silva. Pulmonary schistosomotic arteriovenous fistulas producing
- [Ducci family](https://neglectedscience.com/ducci-family/): José Ducci Kallens, Chilean physician and inventor (Santiago 20 May 1884 – Santiago 31 October 1931) From Italian father INVENTED/DEVELOPED Electrocardiographs Devices for measuring arterial and ocular pressures A radiological system to view organs in volume and depth A new technique for stomach radiography Primitive models of enteroscopic radioscopy and planography New radiological methods Regulator for victrolas  (patented) His son, Hector Ducci Claro, Chilean internist (15 August 1915 – 24 July 1959) Authored 105 papers Proposed a practical clinical classification of jaundice With Cecil J. Watson devised a method to measure conjugated bilirubin in serum (bilirrubine reacting direct or Ducci-Watson test) 1945 Developed several
- [Domingos Define](https://neglectedscience.com/domingos-define/): Francisco Domingos Define, cirurgião ortopédico brasileiro (São Paulo 30 December 1895 – São Paulo 21 July 1985)  Methods / Techniques Novo processo para estabilizar a articulação tíbio-tarsica no pé paralítico (A technique for the stabilization of the ankle joint in the paralytic foot). Anais 4th Congr. Bras. Ortop. Traumatol. P. 277-97, 1940 Novo modelo de mesa destinada ao tratamento das fraturas da coluna vertebral (A table for the treatment of spinal fractures). Anais 4th Congr. Bras. Ortop. Traumatol. P. 189-90 (1940) Novo aparelho para correção de contraturas em flexão do joelho. Arq. Bras. Cir. Ortop. 7(1):5-21, 1939 A aplicação em cirurgia ortopédica
- [Dias family](https://neglectedscience.com/dias-family/): Ezequiel Caetano de Campos Dias (Macaé, Rio de Janeiro State 11 May 1880 – Belo Horizonte 22 October 1922) Brother in Law of sanitarist Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz Performed studies on microbiology and experimental medicine Described a stable antigen for complement-fixation reaction in leishmaniasis diagnosis With A.M. da Cunha. Sur la préparation d’un antigene stable pour la réaction de fixation du complement dans le leishmanioses. C.R. Soc. Biol. 129:991-3, 1938.  With A.M. Cunha proposed a serological reaction for visceral and /or cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brasil Medico 53:89-92, 1939 Described endemic adenomycosis, the ganglionar form of paracoccidioidomycosis  Adenomicose endêmica, nova moléstia humana. Rev.
- [Deslandes brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/deslandes-brothers/): Josué Augusto Deslandes, Brazilian plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 08 August 1902 – Lavras, Minas Gerais State 10 December 1988) Described many pathogens of plant bacterial diseases Described a new disease, chlorotic leaf spot First description of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ricini With S.C. Arruda. A murcha da mamoneira do Nordeste. O Biológico 6:144-8, 1940 First to report target leaf spot in Hevea spp. Observações fitopatologicas na Amazônia. Bol. Fitossanitário 1:197-244, 1944 Described the symptomatology of Sete Voltas disease Doenças da cebola. Publ. 19, Div. Defesa Sanitária Vegetal (1944) His brother, Isaías Augusto Deslandes, plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 15 March 1905 – Juiz de Fora,
- [Daniel Jacob du Plessis](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-jacob-du-plessis/): Daniel Jacob du Plessis, South African surgeon (Paarl, Western Cape Province 17 May 1918 – 12 September 1999) Pioneered work on the aetiology of peptic ulceration Showed the contribution of the bile reflux to the genesis of gastric ulceration Pathogenesis of gastric ulceration. Lancet 1:974-8, 1965 His books Principles of surgery: a new approach (1968) and A synopsis of surgical anatomy (1975) were used internationally  
- [Daniel de la Paz](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-de-la-paz/): Daniel de La Paz, Philippine pharmacologist (Marikina, Rizal Province 03 January 1887 – ?) Described Cannon reflex or Cannon-de la Paz syndrome With W.B. Cannon. Emotional stimulation of adrenal secretion. Am. J. Physiol. 28:64-70, 1911 With A.G. Sison found Premna odorata effective for treating bronchial asthma SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F. Garcia. An experimental study on the use of apomorphine to remove foreign bodies from the respiratory passages. Phil. J. Sci. 11 Sect B : 51-59, 1916 With L.A. Guerrero & A. l. Guerrero. Poisoning by Illicium religiosum Siebold. Phil. J. Sci. Sect B 11(5):203-13, 1916 On the antihelminthic property of Quisqualis indica. Trans. 4th Congress Far Eastern
- [Cristina Dizeo](https://neglectedscience.com/cristina-dizeo/): Cristina Gloria Dizeo de Strittmatter, Argentine plant histologist (fl.1970) DEVELOPED / MODIFIED TECHNIQUES Nueva técnica de diafanización. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 15(1):126-9, 1973 Modificación de una coloración safranina-fast green. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 18(3-4), 1979 Coloración con violeta de cresyl. Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 19(1-2):273-6, 1980 (first time to use the metachromatic staining of Cresyl Violet in plant tissues) Modificación de la tecnica de inclusión en parafina de Johansen. Dominguezia 16(1), 2000
- [Carlos Ribeiro Diniz](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-ribeiro-diniz/): Carlos Ribeiro Diniz, Brazilian toxinologist (Luminarias, Minas Gerais State 02 February 1919 – Belo Horizonte 08 September 2002) ACHIEVEMENTS Isolated and characterized neurotoxins from spiders and scorpions venoms With J. Moura Gonçalves isolated and characterized the active compounds of venom from Tityus serrulatus such as tityustoxin    With J. Torres discovered that pre-synaptic action of venom from Tityus serrulatus is due to acetylcholine release Developed the first dosage method of bradykininogen in blood With I. F. de Carvalho & M. Rocha e Silva. A micromethod for determination of bradykininogen in blood plasma under several physiological and pathological conditions. Nature (UK) 192:1194-5, 1961. With I.F. de Carvalho. A
- [Carlos Eugenio Dieulefait](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-eugenio-dieulefait/): Carlos Eugenio Dieulefait, Argentine statistician (Buenos Aires 27 July 1901 – Rosario 03 November 1982) Developed a method for inversion of input-output matrix (1958) Contributions/bibliography Sobre una nueva introducción de los polinomios de Legendre de los de Ch. Jordan y definición de un nuevo polinomio ortogonal que cumple determinadas condiciones (1932) La determinación de la tendencia secular en las series economicas: con una formulación de nuevas tablas de funciones ortogonales que faciliten su calculo dentro del metodo de los quadrados minimos (1932) Fundamentos para una teoria general de la correlación (1933) Sobre una nueva generación de polinomios ortogonales (1933) Generalización del
- [Carlos D'Andretta Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-dandretta-jr/): Carlos D’Andretta Jr., Brazilian parasitologist and entomologist (São Paulo 1919 – São Paulo 01 May 1986) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genus Lutzsimulium 1947 with Vulcano Species Alouattamyia riberoi 1951 with Artigas Cuterebra ribeiroi 1951 with Artigas Anisopus albipex 1958 with Lane Inaequalium travassosi 1947 with Vulcano Kelloggina cataguasi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina cherentesi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina edwardsi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina gomezi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina guaianasi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina guarani 1956 with Lane Kelloggina laemmerti 1956 with Lane Kelloggina rabelloi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina shannoni 1956 with Lane Kelloggina tamoioi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina tapuiasi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina timbira 1956 with Lane Kelloggina travassosi 1956 with Lane Kelloggina willistoni 1956 with Lane Lutzsimulium cruzi 1947 with Vulcano Mycetobia
- [Carl Peter Von Dietrich](https://neglectedscience.com/carl-peter-von-dietrich/): Carl Peter Von Dietrich, Brazilian biochemist (São Paulo 23 November 1936 – São Paulo 01 February 2005) Authored about 250 original works and held about 5,000 citations ACHIEVEMENTS Developed new methodologies for the separation and analysis of glycosaminoglycans Unraveled new metabolic pathways involving glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans Identified and determined the characteristics of glycosaminoglycans Proposed biological and pharmacological roles for glycosaminoglycans Isolated and characterized more than 20 enzymes responsible for glycosaminoglycans degradation Proposed the basic structure of heparin in With M.E. Silva & Y.M. Michelacci. Sequential degradation of heparin in Flavobacterium heparinum. Purification and properties of five enzymes involved in heparin degradation.
- [Botha de Meillon](https://neglectedscience.com/botha-de-meillon/): Schalk Jacobus Botha de Meillon, South African entomologist (Prieska, Cape Province 15 October 1902 – Philadelphia, USA 06 December 2000) Authored 189 papers DESCRIBED TAXA Diptera Genera & Subgenera Ankylohelea 1987 with Wirth Capehelea 1987 with Wirth Fanthamia 1939 Kolenohelea 1981 with Wirth Luciamyia 1937 Notoceratopogon 1986 with Downes Pedilohelea 1980 with Wirth Rhinohelea 1979 with Wirth Species  423 being 219 in Ceratopogonidae  and 37 in Simuliidae Siphonaptera Genera Cryptopsylla 1949 Epirimia 1940 Macroscelidopsylla 1958 Species 38 Acari Species At least 2 (Echinonyssus latiscutatus 1944 & Myonyssoides spinosus 1944 both with Lavoipierre)  HONORS Demeillonia Hopkins & Rothschild 1956 (Siphonaptera)  Demeillonius Davidson 1980 (Diptera)  Bothamia Meiswinkel 1987 (Diptera)  Bothahelea Grogan & Wirth 1983 (Diptera)  Subgenus Meilloniellum Rubtsov 1962 (Diptera) 
- [Bhola Nath Dhawan](https://neglectedscience.com/bhola-nath-dhawan/): Bhola Nath Dhawan, Indian neuropharmacologist (Khairabad, Uttar Pradesh State 11 October 1932 – Authored over 400 papers, 20 books Discovered the apomorphine stereotypy in pigeon (1960) Elucidated the role of biogenic amines and opioid peptides With A. Gulati & R.C. Srimal elucidated the role of neurotransmitters in the regulation of the blood brain barrier (1986) With A. Gulati, S.K. Agarwal, R. Shukla & R.C. Srimal developed a simple procedure for transiently opening the blood brain barrier by administration of an intravenosus bolus of hypertonic saline (1985) Discovered 8 new drugs and a diagnostic kit PATENTS (70 national and international patents; incomplete list)
- [Joaquín Frenguelli](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-frenguelli/): Joaquín Frenguelli, Italian-born Argentine physician, naturalist, geographer and archeologist (Rome 19 August 1883 – Santa Fe 23 June 1958) DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Algae/Protozoa (Fossil) Auerinella 1954 Clathrium 1938 Clericia 1925 Naviculopsis 1940 Outesia 1925 Paradictyocha 1940  Planicircus 1940 Semantebria 1940 Spyrebria 1940 Trachelostomum 1939 Algae (Living) Deflandreia 1938 (Chrysophyceae) Muelleria 1945 (Bacillariophyceae) Opephoropsis 1945 (Bacillariophyceae) Plantae (Fossil) Barrealia 1942 Charnelia 1954 Dicroidiopsis 1943 Displasiophyllum 1943 Fanerotheca 1944 Feruglioa 1944 Furqueia 1954 Harringtonia 1942 Kurtziana 1942 Macrotaenia 1943 Phacolepis 1942 Pterorrachis 1942 Tetraptilon 1950 Xylopteris 1943 Zuberia 1943 Hymenoptera (Fossil) Prosceliphron 1946 Reptilia (Fossil) Orchesteropus 1950 Venatoripes 1950 Mammalia (Fossil) Neolicaphrium 1921 Nothobos 1933 Prionodelphis 1922 Described about 60 new fossil species and living diatoms HONORS (Fossil) Frenguellia Arrondo, Cesari & Gutierrez 1991 (Plantae) Frenguellisaurus Novas 1986 (Reptilia) Frenguellia Petrulevicius & Nel 2003 (Odonata) Frenguelliphlebia Martins-Neto & Gallego 2003 Frenguelliceras Leanza 1945
- [Joaquim de Sampaio Ferraz](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-de-sampaio-ferraz/): Joaquim de Sampaio Ferraz, Brazilian meteorologist (Rio de Janeiro 28 November 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1966) Showed the key role of Atlantic Polar anticyclone in Amazonian cold (1925) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Irrupções de águas frias no Atlântico Sul, ao longo da costa meridional brasileira, até o Cabo Frio. Rev. Geogr. Inst. Pan-Am. Geogr. Hist. 25(10), 1951 Suggestions for the explanation of probable connections between solar activity and rainfall variation in Southeastern Brazil (1942) With F.E. Magarinos Torres. Contribuição para o estudo do regime das chuvas no Nordeste (1940) Subsídios para o estudo de um ciclo climatológico do Sudeste Brasileiro.
- [Jacobus Christian Faure](https://neglectedscience.com/jacobus-christian-faure/): Jacobus Christian Faure, South-African entomologist (Pretoria, Transvaal 29 August 1891 – Johannesburg 30 May 1973) DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Genera Ascania 1954 Caprithrips 1933 Carius 1961 Catina 1956 Dentothrips 1933 Edissa 1953 Elatea 1957 Fulgorothrips 1933 Hartwigia 1949 Hoodiana 1933 Idiothrips 1933 Jacotia 1940 Maxillata 1949 Nanothrips 1938 Poethrips 1933 Reticulothrips 1925 Rhinoceps 1949 Rhinothrips 1933 Schizeia 1949 Strassenia 1959 Talitha 1958 (in honor to his mother) Species About 80 new species HONORS Faureia Uvarov 1921 (Orthoptera) Faureaspis Munting 1968 (Hemiptera) Faureana Bhatti 1973 (Thysanoptera) Faureothrips  Priesner 1949 (Thysanoptera) Fauriella Hood 1937 (Thysanoptera)
- [Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas](https://neglectedscience.com/humberto-fuenzalida-villegas/): Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas, Chilean geographer and geologist (Curicó 27 March 1904 – Santiago 24 February 1966) Authored over 60 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Serie sedimentaria volcanico con plantas en las islas Snow y Livingston. B. Información paleobotânica preliminar. Resum. Soc. Geol. Chile 9(10):3-4, 1965 Trabajos recientes sobre la geologia de La Antarctica Chilena. Bol. Inst. Antar. Chileno (1965) Los afloramientos plantiferos de El Arrayán, inmediaciones de Santiago. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 8(100), 1964 Un Megaterium de Tarapacá. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 7(79), 1963 Megaterios del Norte de Chile. Not. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 3(36), 1959 Las terrazas marinas en
- [Humberto Fracassi](https://neglectedscience.com/humberto-fracassi/): Humberto Fracassi, Argentine anatomist (Buenos Aires 28 May 1882 – 1967) Described a new nervous structure the parietofrontal tract Developed tractotomy of parietofrontal fascicle for relieving pain (Fracassi tractotomy) A tractotomia do fascículo parietofrontal na supressão da dor. Prensa Medica Arg. 38(42):2715-22, 1951 Patented Automatic degreaser for human bones (1943) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Metodos de investigación sobre la circulación coronária. 6th Congr. Nac. Med. Cordoba 1 (19, 18):804, 1938 La segmentación bronquial del lóbulo superior. Arch. Soc. Arg. Anat. 1:392, 1939 Reflujo pielo-venoso pelvico y venoso-pelvico. Prensa Med. Arg. 37:29-33, 1940 Circulación arterial de los huesos largos. Arch. Soc. Arg. Anat. Norm. Patol.
- [Humberto Fernandez Morán](https://neglectedscience.com/humberto-fernandez-moran/): Humberto Fernandez-Morán Villalobos, Venezuelan biophysicist and microscopist (La Cañada de Urdaneta District, Maracaibo 19 February 1924 – Stockholm 17 March 1999) From Basque, Sephardic Jewish and Carib Indian descent Worked most of his career in United States and Sweden DISCOVERIES First to uncover the complexity of mitochondrial membranes structure Discovered Fernandez-Morán particles or F1 particles or oxysomes in mitochondria (1962)  With Dahl performed first electron microscopy sections of pollen grains (1952) First electron microscopic studies of peripheral myelin (1950) independent from Sjostrand (1950) First electron microscopic observations of radially repeating layers in myelin (1950s) Discovered the paracrystalline character of the myelin
- [Heitor Praguer Fróes](https://neglectedscience.com/heitor-praguer-froes/): Heitor Praguer Fróes, Brazilian physician and poet (Cachoeira, Bahia State 25 July 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 26 October 1987) Showed that the venom of Thalassophryne act as a neurotoxin Studies on venomous fishes of tropical countries. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 36:134-5, 1933 Sur un poisson toxiphore bresilien: le “niquim” Thalassophryna maculosa. Rev. Sud. Am. Med. Chir. 3:871, 1932    Described the pathogenic fungi Actinomyces genesii 1932 & Actinomadura pelletieri 1931  Developed a new technique to compute the infestation in ancylostomiasis by means of egg counting Nova técnica para o calculo da infestação pelos ancilostomídeos por meio da contagem dos ovos (1928) A new formula for robustness coefficient and a
- [Hector Flores](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-flores/): Hector Flores Williams, Chilean mining engineer (1906 – 1984) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geologia de los yacimientos de fierro de Chile. Rev. Inst. Ingen. Minas Chile (1949) Antecedentes geologicos sobre los yacimientos minerals de Chile con excepción del carbono y petróleo (1948) Estudio geologico sobre las minas de plata de Santa Rosa, Provincia de Tarapacá (1946) Geologia de los yacimientos metaliferos de Chile. Bol. Min. 53:500, 1938 With P.E. Hernandez. Estudio minero de la zona aurifera de Colliguay (1933) Informe geológico sobre los yacimientos de asbesto de Morro Bonifacio, Valdivia HONORS Hectorfloresite Ericksen, Evans Jr., Mrose, McGee, Marinenko & Konnert 1989 (Mineral) 
- [Haifu Fan](https://neglectedscience.com/haifu-fan/): Haifu Fan, Chinese crystallographer (Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 15 August 1933 – Beijing 08 July 2022) Developed methods for solving various kinds of phase ambiguity and for direct determination of incommensurate modulated structures Established multi-dimensional direct methods in solving crystal structures With F.H. Li proposed a new image processing method in high-resolution electron microscopy   Proposed the direct-methods aided dual-space fragment extension method, which enhances the power of single wavelength anomalous diffusion (SAD) phasing and automatic structure-model building (incorporated to computer program OASIS) Proposed the combination of the direct method with heavy atom method for solving superstructures 
- [Habib Firouzabadi](https://neglectedscience.com/habib-firouzabadi/): Seyed Habib Firouzabadi, Iranian organic chemist (Tehran 29 April 1943 – Authored over 320 papers with 9,230 citations (h-index 53 and i-10 index 230) Developed novel synthetic methodologies in aqueous and non-aqueous media as well as non-solvent organic reactions and a variety of new reagents and catalysts that have been used worldwide Developed redox reagents selective for the mild transformation of only function in the presence of a variety of other groups, methods and reagents for C-C bond formation, transformation of groups such as alcohols or carbonyl to other functions or use of mild reagents for protection or deprotection of groups
- [Gustavo Anselmo Fester](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-anselmo-fester/): Georg Gustav Anselm Fester, German-born Argentine industrial chemist (Frankfurt 12 March 1886 – Buenos Aires 1975) Showed quali and quantitative variations in the composition of plant essential oils due to distinct ambiental and geographic factors CHEMICALS With E.A. Martinuzzi. A crystalline acid formed in essence of piperine. An. Asoc. Quim. Argent. 40:246-8, 1952 Lippione (1952) Pulegone oxide in Lippia and Satureja plant species Butylmercaptan and butenemercaptan in skunk Citronelol in musk glands of alligator Plant oils and derivatives METHODS With F. Bertuzzi. Nuevo procedimiento para la fabricación de arseniato de cálcio. Rev. Fac. Quim. Ind. Agric. 3:211-2, 1934 With A.J.B. Feira. Un procedimiento para la
- [Guillermo Furque](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-furque/): Guillermo Furque Young, Argentine geologist and stratigrapher (San Juan 13 May 1921 – Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province 09 August 1999) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Ophiura elegantoides 1949 with Camacho (Echinodermata) Dichograptus fasciculatus 1994 with Cuerda, Alfaro & Caballe (Graptolita) Loganograptus flagellatus 1997 with Cuerda, Alfaro & Caballe (Graptolita) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Caballé, A.J. Cuerda & M. Alfaro. Nuevos hallazgos de graptolitos en la Fm. Sierra de la Invernada (Ordovicico), Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina. Ameghiniana 2 (1):9-26, 1992  With M. Caballé. Descripción geologica de la Sierra de la Invernada, Precordillera de San Juan (1988) With A.J. Cuerda. Depósitos carbônicos de la Precordillera de San Juan. Parte
- [German Frers](https://neglectedscience.com/german-frers/): Germán Francisco Frers Serralunga, Argentine naval architect and designer (Buenos Aires 04 July 1941 – From German, Irish and Italian descent Designed and headed the construction of about 1,000 all type yachts Created some of the most innovative and revered yachts of the modern era Developed designs that became classics in their class With Finnish Nautor’s Swan designed some of the benchmarks of sailing yacht design (1980s) Designed Hyperion, the best sailing yacht in the world presenting largest sloop, tallest mast and longest single piece carbonfibre object ever made of this day (1997) Among his global customers are King of Spain
- [Geraldo Wilson Fernandes](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-wilson-fernandes/): Geraldo Wilson Afonso Fernandes, Brazilian ecologist (Itamarandiba, Minas Gerais State 29 November 1950 – Authored about 500 papers with about 19,000 citations (h-index=67) Pointed out the diversity of galling in plants from temperate and tropical regions Tropical and temperature altitudinal gradient in galling species richness. Master’s Dissertation, Northern Arizona University (1987) With P.W. Price. Biogeographical gradients in galling species richness: tests of hypothesis. Oecologia 76:161-7, 1988 First to show the role of ambiental stress in plant-galling relationship Adaptive distribution of gall-forming insects: patterns and mechanisms. Doctoral Thesis, Northern Arizona University (1992) Adaptive distribution of gall-forming insects: patterns and mechanisms. Ecotropicos 6(1):62-3, 1993
- [Geoffrey Falkson](https://neglectedscience.com/geoffrey-falkson/): Geoffrey Falkson, South African oncologist and chemotherapist (Pretoria 09 August 1932 – 10 January 2019) Authored over 400 papers Demonstrated the potentiation of ionizing radiation and fluorinated pyrimidines in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer Fluorinated pyrimidine as potentiators of ionizing radiations in the treatment of stomach cancer in man. Thesis (1964) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.M. Chedid, L.M. Ryan, Y. Dayal & B.C. Wolf. Morphology and other prognostic factors of hepatocellular carcinoma. Arch. Pathol. Labor. Medic. 123(6):524-8, 1999 With J.I. Raats & H. Falkson. Fadrozole hydrochloride, a new nontoxic aromatase inhibitor for the treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer. J. Ster. Biochem. Mol.
- [Fritz Feigl](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-feigl/): Fritz (Friedrich) Feigl, Austrian-born Jewish Brazilian analytical chemist and microchemist (Wien 15 May 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 23 January 1971) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as one of world’s most notable analytical chemists of all the times Published 550 papers First related specific and selective properties to existence of certain groupings in molecule Idealized and created spot tests in 1920s  Elaborated thousand spot tests for detecting organic and inorganic substances Introduced masking and unmasking concepts in selectivity of reactions (1955) Defined with accuracy the concepts of limit of identification and limit of dilution  Distinguished specific reactants from selective reactants being the concept adopted
- [Francisco Fonck](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-fonck/): Franz Adolf Fonck, German-born Chilean naturalist, explorer, archeologist, historian, ethnologist and geographer (Goch, North Rhine Westphal 11 March 1830 – Quilpué, Valparaiso Region 12 October 1912) Predicted the existence of endoscopy and x-rays (1878) DISCOVERED NEW PLANT SPECIES (described by Philippi in 1858) Pteris semiadnata (Adiantaceae) Senecio gnidioides (Asteraceae) Senecio triodon (Asteraceae) Fonkia uliginosa (Plantaginaceae) Deschampsia laxa (Poaceae) Poa chonotica (Poaceae) Elymus chonoticus (Poaceae) Lepidothamnus fonkii (Podocarpaceae) Euphrasia perpusilla (Scrophulariaceae) Ourisia pygmaea (Scrophulariaceae) Tribeles australis (Scrophulariaceae) Solanum brevidens (Solanaceae) Valeriana fonkii (Valerianaceae) Viola muscoides (Violaceae) HONORS Fonkia Philippi 1859 (Plantaginaceae) Fonckia Roewer 1913 (Arachnida)
- [Flávio da Fonseca](https://neglectedscience.com/flavio-da-fonseca/): Flávio Oliveira Ribeiro da Fonseca, Brazilian zoologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 October 1900 – São Paulo 22 May 1963) Brother of mycologist and parasitologist Olympio da Fonseca Obtained international recognition for his studies on acarology Authored about 130 works Demonstrated Rickettsia brasiliensis transmission by ticks   Proposed an original technique for distinguishing specifically between Leishmania sp. and Leptomonas sp. (1932) Improved techniques of preparing anti-tetanus serum  and other immunotherapeutic products First to verify the conservation of the yellow fever virus by inoculation in the testicles of cat or Ctenomys in C.R.Soc. Biol. Paris (1938) & Mem. Inst. Butantan 12 (1938)  DESCRIBED TAXA DIPTERA Genera Neivamyia 1930 with Pinto Shannoniella 1940 with Silva Ramos
- [Florentino Felippone](https://neglectedscience.com/florentino-felippone/): Florentino Silvestre Felippone Bentos, Uruguayan physician and naturalist (Paysandu 20 June 1852 – Paysandu 24 July 1939) DESCRIBED TAXA Plantae (with Beauverd 1922) Echium plantagineum var. monodasystemon Mollugo verticillata var. subsessile Oxalis articulata var. nodulosa Oxalis sellowiana var. caulescens Polygala linoides var. ambigua Richardsonia brasiliensis var. dubia Mollusca Odontostomus demedinae 1938 with Barattini  HONORS Felipponea Brotherus 1912 (Musci) Felipponea Dall 1919 (Mollusca Gastropoda)
- [Florence family](https://neglectedscience.com/florence-family/): Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence, French-born Brazilian photographer, painter, engraver and printer (Nice 29 February 1804 – Campinas, São Paulo State 27 March 1879) Presented first detailled report about Apiaká Natives Enunciated the concept of soundscape and specificity of animal voice CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHOTOGRAPHY Developed poliphotographic process, a photographic process that permit obtaining copies by contact in photosensitive substances impregnated paper (1833) before Talbot (1834-9) First used paper in photographic essays before Talbot   Coined the term photography independently (1833) Proposed the use of ammonium hydroxide in fixing photographical pictures  IMPROVEMENTS/INVENTIONS Created poligraphy, a new printing method (1830) A new system to use
- [Flaminio Favero](https://neglectedscience.com/flaminio-favero/): Flamínio Favero, Brazilian coroner (São Paulo 26 October 1895 – São Paulo 12 February 1982) ACHIEVEMENTS De um meio de diagnóstico diferencial entre as lesões “intra-vitam” e “post-mortem”. Bol Soc. Med.Cir. S. Paulo 12:257, 1920 Developed Favero test or reaction for diagnosis of early pregnancy (a modification of iodine test) Proposed the post-mortem investigation of histological sections from injured zones or Flaminio Favero test Eponym of Favero-Misishia reaction
- [Finochietto brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/finochietto-brothers/): Enrique Finochietto Chammas, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 13 March 1881 – Buenos Aires 17 February 1948) Son of Genovese immigrants Authored over 100 papers Described valvular occlusion in megasigmoid With C. Squirru described mixed inguinal hernia (1917) METHODS/TECHNIQUES Created paradoxical incision Developed a new surgical technique for operation of digestive system (1924) First applied aspiration to liquid and drain collections Invented a general process for treatment of hydatid cyst by aspiration of the liquid Modified Gutierrez incision for parotidectomy Introduced the use of cotton gloves rather than rubber gloves for handling of intestinal loops (with his brother) INSTRUMENTS Invented 67 surgical
- [Fernandez-Yepez brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/fernandez-yepez-brothers/): Agustín Antonio Fernandez Yepez, Venezuelan ichthyologist ( Caracas 02 June 1916 – 1977) Authored over 100 works on fish systematics and biology DESCRIBED FISH TAXA Tribes Apolinarellini 1948 Astronotini 1951 Bivibranchiini 1949 Chaetobranchini 1951 Crenicichlini 1951 Curimatellini 1948 Curimatopsini 1948 Hoplomyzontini 1953 Potamorhini 1948 Family Pseudopimelodidae 1953 with Martín Subfamilies Astronotinae 1951 Hoplomyzontinae 1950 Genera Anduzedoras 1968 Ernstichthys 1953 Gymnotichthys 1950 Microsternachus 1968 Pseudocurimata 1948 Pseudotylosurus 1948 Synaptolaemus 1950 with Myers Species 42 valid species His brother Francisco José Fernandez Yepez, agricultural entomologist (Valencia, Carabobo State 04 December 1923 – Maracay, Aragua State 16 August 1986) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA (with Brown in 1984) Species Heliconius holzingeri Subspecies Eueides lybia orinocensis Eueides lybia otelloi
- [Ewald Favret](https://neglectedscience.com/ewald-favret/): Ewald Alfredo Favret, Argentine agronomist (Zarate, Buenos Aires Province 1921 – Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires Province 24 January 1992) Son of Swiss immigrants Authored over 130 papers Authored pioneer studies on genetic control of endosperm proteins in cereal plants (c.1950) Demonstrated the presence of many correspondent gene pairs in rust and Oidium   Proposed the first regulation systems of plant growth mediated by gibberellins in barley and wheat Demonstrated the first multigenic families in plants Hallazgo de una nueva raza de Erysiphe graminis hordei. Rev. Invest. Agr. 1:237-40, 1947 HONORS Senior Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, United States
- [Eudoxia Maria Froehlich](https://neglectedscience.com/eudoxia-maria-froehlich/): Eudoxia Maria de Oliveira Pinto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (São Paulo 21 October 1928 – São Paulo 26 September 2015) Daughter of ornithologist Olivério Pinto DESCRIBED PLATYHELMINTHES TAXA Genera Anisorhynchodemus 2003 with Kawakatsu, Jones & Ogren Bogga 2012 with Grau, Sluys & Carbayo Diversibipalium 2002 with Kawakatsu, Ogren & Sasaki Gusana 1978 Liana 1978 Novibipalium 1998 with Kawakatsu & Ogren Statomicroplana 2003 with Kawakatsu, Jones, Ogren & Sasaki Timyma 1978 Subgenus Laubenfelsia 1993 with Ogren & Kawakatsu Species At least 36 (until 2012) HONORS (Platyhelminthes) Subfamily Eudoxiatopoplaninae Windsor 2009 Genus Eudoxiatopoplana Windsor 2009 
- [Ernesto Foldats](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-foldats/): Ernests Foldats Andins, Latvian-born Venezuelan orchidologist (Liepaja, Latvia 15 March 1925 – Caracas 15 March 2003) Described/named 77 new orchid species
- [Enrique Forero](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-forero/): Enrique Forero Gonzalez, Colombian botanist (Bogotá 07 December 1942 – Bogotá 05 September 2023) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Pseudomonotes 1995 with Londoño & Alvarez Sections Rourea sect. Cordatae 1976 Rourea sect. Multifoliolatae 1976 Species Ampelocera macrocarpa 1984 with Gentry Calliandra juliana 2001 with Brunner Calliandra liesneri 2001 with Brunner Calliandra phaeothrix 2001 with Brunner Calliandra urimana 2001 with Brunner Cojoba longipendula 1984 with Gentry Connarus bracetoso-villosus 1981 Connarus celatus 1980 Connarus ciordatus 1984 with Vidal & Carbonó Connarus elsae 1981 Connarus guggenheimii 1980 Connarus jaramilloi 1980 Connarus marleneae 1980 Connarus perturbatus 1980 Connarus portosegurensis 1980 Connarus renteriae 1984 with Carbonó Connarus rigidus 1980 Connarus xylocarpus 1984 with Vidal & Carbonó Jacaratia chocoensis 1984 with Gentry Neoptychocarpus chocoensis 1984 with Gentry Passiflora quimbayensis 2018 with Ocampo Pitcairnia altoatratoensis 1987 with Varad Pitcairnia jaramilloi 1987 with
- [Elisa Frota-Pessoa](https://neglectedscience.com/elisa-frota-pessoa/): Elisa Esther Maia Frota-Pessoa, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 17 January 1921- Rio de Janeiro 28 December 2018) Nee Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia from partial French and Dutch ancestry She was married to physicist Jayme Tiomno in second marriage. ACHIEVEMENTS With O. Frota Pessoa. Estudo matemático da disjunção mendeliana. Rev. Fac. Nac. Filosofia (1944) Suggested parity disintegration with J. Tiomno (1945) Showed using nuclear emulsions pion disintegration in muon With Neusa Margem Amato. Sobre a desintegração do méson pesado positivo. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22:371-83, 1950. With N. Margem & Mario B. Aragão. A new radioactive method for marking mosquitoes and
- [Eduardo Fuenzalida Loyola](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-fuenzalida-loyola/): Eduardo Fuenzalida Loyola, Chilean veterinarian (Curicó 18 October 1911 – 19 July 1976) With virologist Raul Palacios Von Helms developed a new method of preparing anti-rabies vaccine (Fuenzalida-Palacios  vaccine) Um metodo mejorado para la preparación de la vacuna antirrabica. Tercer Jornada Soc. Chil. Salubridad, Inst. Bacteriol. Chile VIII(1-4), 1955.     
- [Edison Farah](https://neglectedscience.com/edison-farah/): Edison Farah, Brazilian mathematician (Capivari, São Paulo State 14 April 1915 – São Paulo 14 April 2006) From Lebanese father and Spanish mother Wrote pieces for violin Proposed that choice axiom is equivalent to interseccional generalized distribuctivity in relation to union and that joining topologies axiom to ultrafilters theorem is equivalent to choice axiom Algumas proposições equivalentes ao axioma da escolha. Thesis (1954)  CONTRIBUTIONS A new definition of ordinal number Une nouvelle forme de l’axiome de substitution du systeme de Zermelo-Fraenkel. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 270, 1970 A new proof of Zorn’s theorem. Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. 15(2):119-20, 1960 Two classical definitions of
- [Domingos José Freire Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/domingos-jose-freire-jr/): Domingos José Freire Jr., Brazilian chemist and physician (Rio de Janeiro 05 November 1843 –Rio de Janeiro 21 August 1899) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 100 works on chemistry and medicine  Enunciated Freire law “the climate diversity displays infeccious species diversity and in consequence  pathogenic microbian diversity” (1894)  Discovered an alotropic state of bromine  (1890) and the pentagonal schema of aromatic series in organic chemistry Discovered the fat substances fermentation later confirmed by Van Tieghem Proposed the cyanic function  Isolated alkaloid that named grandiflorine (today solasonine) from Solanum grandiflora Sur un alcaloide du fruit du loup. Comptes Rendus de Seances de l’Academie de Sciences.
- [Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo](https://neglectedscience.com/djairo-guedes-de-figueiredo/): Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo, Brazilian mathematician (Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará State 02 April 1934 – Authored 93 papers and 4 books With F.E. Browder introduced the term π1-space (1965) Stated and proved a fixed point theorem for weakly continuous maps in Banach spaces (1966) With E. Mitidieri obtained some sufficient conditions for validity of the maximum principle for cooperative and non-cooperative elliptic system (1991) Defined the notion of G operator   With M. Cuesta & J.P. Gossez proved the existence of a first non-trivial curve in the Fucik spectrum of the p-Laplacian (1998) With J. Yang proved a priori bound for positive solutions of
- [Coaracy Franco](https://neglectedscience.com/coaracy-franco/): Coaracy de Moraes Franco, Brazilian agronomist and plant physiologist (Amparo, São Paulo State 16 September 1912 – ?) Developed two simple aiding devices for use in coffee bush grafting (reported at the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo April 23, 1972 (page 6) A method to ensure the availability of iron and phosphorus in nutrient solutions With W.E. Loomis. The absorption of phosphorus and iron from nutrient solutions. Plant Physiol. 22(4):627-34, 1947 First to note the typical symptoms of zinc deficiency in coffee plants With H.C. Mendes. Deficiência de microelementos em cafeeiro. Bol. Supt. Serv. Café São Paulo 28(318): 19-22, 1953
- [Clementino Fraga](https://neglectedscience.com/clementino-fraga/): Clementino da Rocha Fraga, Brazilian physician (Muritiba, Bahia State 15 September 1880 – Rio de Janeiro 08 January 1971) Authored important studies about beri-beri and malaria Described an adrenal form of malaria that became known as Fraga’s syndrome communicated primarily to Sociedade Médica dos Hospitais da Bahia in 1914 Suprarenal syndrome in paludism. Proc. Am.Soc. Trop. Med., 1917 Described a sign of suprarenal insufficiency known as Fraga’s sign or orthostatic tachycardia Sobre um sinal de insuficiência suprarenal. Soc. Med. Hosp. Bahia, 1916. Proposed Clementino Fraga classification for adventitious breathing sounds 
- [Clemente Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/clemente-ferreira/): Clemente Miguel da Cunha Ferreira, Brazilian physician (Rezende, Rio de Janeiro State 29 September 1857 – São Paulo 06 August 1947) Authored 256 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos de l’emploi du chlorhydrate de pereirine dans le fievres malariques. Bull. Gen. Therap. (1885) De l’emploi du salol dans la fievre jaune (1890) Du traitement de la syphilis infantile par les injections sous-cutanées de sels mercuriels (1891) De la tuberculose chez les enfants. Bull. Gen. Therap. (1893) Sur l’albuminurie dans la malaria infantile. Revue des Maladies de L’enfance (1893) L’albumine dans l’expectoration comme element semiologique dans la diagnose précoce de la tuberculose pulmonaire
- [Claudio Gilberto Froehlich](https://neglectedscience.com/claudio-gilberto-froehlich/): Cláudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (São Paulo 10 June 1927 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 27 November 2023) From German and Latvian descent  Limnology / Hydrobiology With A.S. Melo. Macroinvertebrates in neotropical streams: richness patterns along a catchment and assemblage structure between 2 seasons. J. North Amer. Benthol. Soc. 20(1):1-16, 2001 With A.S. Melo. Substrate stability in streams: effects of stream size, particle size, and rainfall on Frequency of movement and burial of particles. Acta Limnol. Bras. 16(4):381-90, 2004 With A.S. Melo. An attractor domain model of seasonal and interanual biodiversity of stream macroinvertebrate communities. Freshw. Biol. 67:1370-9, 2022 DESCRIBED
- [Cesar Mendonça Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-mendonca-ferreira/): César Mendonça Ferreira, Brazilian gemmologist (Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State 11 December 1942 – DEVELOPED METHODS With G.J.A. Machado, P.C. Souza & A.C.S. Sabioni. O tratamento do topázio imperial por preenchimento de fraturas. Rev. Bras. Geochem (2006) With J. Martins & N.P. Silva. Microestruturas de pelotas feitas com mistura de redutos e finos de minério. Rev. Escola Minas 55(3):2037, 2002 BRAZILIAN PATENTS With G.M. da Costa, V. Barrón López de Torre & J. Torrent Castellet. Processo para quantificação das fases mineralógicas em minérios com altos teores de ferro por espectrofotometria de reflectância difusa. PI0802824-9 A2 (2008) With A.C.S. Sabioni. Processo de
- [Celeste Fava-Netto](https://neglectedscience.com/celeste-fava-netto/): Celeste Fava-Netto, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Lins, São Paulo State 04 June 1919 – São Paulo 02 May 2014) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Fava Netto medium for paracoccidiodomycosis Estudos quantitativos sobre a fixação do complemento na blastomicose sul-americana com antígeno polissacarido. Arqu. Cir. Clin. Exp. 18:197-254, 1955 Contribuição para o estudo da blastomicose de Lutz. Rev. Inst. A. Lutz. 2:99-194, 1961. Developed Fava Netto reaction for paracoccidiodomycosis diagnosis With Açucena Raphael. A reação intradérmica com polissacarides do Paracoccidioides brasiliensis na blastomicose sul-americana. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. São Paulo 3:161-5, 1961.   Proposed a quantitative indirect immunofluorescence reaction for serodiagnosis of paracoccidiodomycosis With M.F. de
- [Carlos Juan Finlay](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-juan-finlay/): Carlos Juan Finlay y Barres, Cuban microbiologist and epidemiologist (Camaguey 03 December 1833 – La Habana 19 August 1915) From Scottish father and French ancestry mother ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 187 articles Determined hydric origin of cholera (1873) independently from Snow researches   Transmisión del colera por medio de las aguas corrientes cargadas de princípios específicos. An. Acad. Cien. Habana 10:159-170, 1873 Developed a new method for extraction of cataract Consideraciones generals sobre la extracción de catarata y descripción de um nuevo método operatório. Anal. Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Nat. La Habana 12:285-66, 1875-6 Identified Aedes aegypti as etiological vector of yellow fever El mosquito hipoteticamente
- [Carlos Flechtmann](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-flechtmann/): Carlos Holger Wenzel Flechtmann, Brazilian plant acarologist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1938 – CONTRIBUTIONS With D. Navia, E.E. Lindquist & H. Aguilar. A new species of Abacarus (Acari: Prostigmata:Eriophyidae) damaging sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum L. from Costa Rica – the first eriophyoid mite described with a tibial seta on leg II. Zootaxa 3025 (3025):51-8, 2011 With E.P.J. Britto, M.G.C. Gondim & D. Navia. A new deuterogynous eriophyid mite (Acari: Eriophyidae) with dimorphic males from Caesalpinia echinata from Brazil: description and biological observations. Intern. J. Acarol. 34(3):307-16, 2008 (first example of a deuterogynous eriophyid mite in tropical regions with two forms of males) With J.D.P.Arzolla. Dispositivo para o
- [Carlos Fiebrig](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-fiebrig/): Karl August Gustav Fiebrig, German naturalist in South America (Hamburg 25 May 1869 – Tucumán, Argentina 25 October 1951) Worked most of his career in Paraguay Expert on plant ecology, plant eco-morphology and entomology DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Apinagia guairaensis 1923 (Podostemaceae) Genus Myrmegryllus 1907 (Diptera) Myrmegryllus dipterus 1907 (Diptera) Forcipomyia ixodoides 1928 (Diptera) HONORS Fiebrigiella Harms 1908 (Fabaceae) Fiebrigella Duda 1921 (Diptera)
- [Candido Simões Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-simoes-ferreira/): Candido Simões Ferreira, Brazilian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais State 19 March 1921 – Rio de Janeiro 23 September 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Vertebrates Ceratodus brasiliensis 1980 with Souza Cunha (Pisces) Mollusca Anadara egleri 1964 Bittium praevarum 1970 Chlamys capanamensis 1960 Chlamys coopericellus 1960 Chlamys japericensis 1960 Chlamys tetristriata 1960 Crassinella erichseni 1969  Leptopecten pirabensis 1960 Ostrea zomerysi  1966 with Marchesini Santos Pitar diminuta 1964 Potamides woodringi  1964 Turbinella tuberculata  1964 Xancus tuberculatus 1964 With Cunha Astraea brasiliensis 1957 Atrina pirabensis 1959 Cymatium carlotae 1957 Cypraea macrovoluta 1957 Diodora fortalezensis 1957 Diodora siqueiirai 1957 Divaricella castelensis 1959 Modiolus domingosi 1959 Mytilus canoasensis vidali 1959 Strombus goeldii 1957 Turbinella amazoniana 1957 Turbinella mauryae 1957 Vasum kraatzi 1957 With Coelho Austrodiscus lopesi 1989 Brachypodella britoi 1971 Bulimulus
- [Attilio Zelante Flosi](https://neglectedscience.com/attilio-zelante-flosi/): Attilio Zelante Flosi, Brazilian endocrinologist (24 December 1918 – São Paulo 14 October 1996) Proposed the concept of paludic ionic imbalance Contribuição para o estudo da insuficiência supra-renal palúdica. Conceito de disionia palúdica (1944) Proposed hormonal treatment of eosinophilic granuloma and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease using ACTH and corticotropin   Much of his techniques of endocrine treatment were adopted worldwide specially that involving ACTH A case of diabetes insipidus due to malignant lymphogranulomatosis. Third case in medical literature. Arq. Clin. Exper. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With S.V. Ferreira. Bases fisiopatológicas para o tratamento dietético da obesidade. Ars Curandi 13(7):8-67, 1980 Tratamento do climatério feminino. Ars curandi
- [Arnaldo Amado Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-amado-ferreira/): Arnaldo Amado Ferreira, Brazilian coroner (Teófilo Ottoni, Minas Gerais State 20 April 1896 – São Paulo 26 June 1975) Authored over 250 scientific works Authored Da técnica medico-legal na investigação forense (1962) in which are most of his innovatives techniques that were successfully used in another countries and quoted a number of times by foreign authors Amado Ferreira test for verifying blood spots (4% solution of benzidine in lactic acid with drops of hydrogen peroxide) Um caso interessante de asphyxia mecânica pelo leite (1927) Contribuição médico-legal para a dosagem colorimétrica do sulfocianeto nas manchas de saliva. Ann. Fac. Med. Univ. s.
- [Argentino Viegas Fontes](https://neglectedscience.com/argentino-viegas-fontes/): Argentino Viegas Fontes, Brazilian entomologist (fl.1967-93) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA (with Carvalho) Amapacylapus 1968 Boliviocaspus 1967 Boliviocoris 1967 Cylapocerus 1968 Eglerocoris 1972 Neotropicomiris 1969 Phytocorisca 1972 Platytyloides 1971 HONORS Fontesius Carvalho 1988 (Hemiptera)
- [Antonio Fernandes Figueira](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-fernandes-figueira/): Antonio Fernandes Figueira, Brazilian pediatrician (Rio de Janeiro 13 June 1863 – Rio de Janeiro 12 March 1928) Authored 71 works on medicine His monograph Diagnostico das cardiopatias infantis (1895) appeared in medical magazine Lancet in the following year   Published Elements of Infant Semiology (1900), translated to French and Italian languages in  1903. This book renders him international recognition being considered in Europe the best work of this field and used as textbook in European universities   Described Figueira syndrome Cephaloplegic syndrome in children. Arch. Med. Des Enfants. Sept 1920.   Described a new familial disease osteomyodystrophic syndrome (Figueira syndrome)
- [Antonio Cardoso Fontes](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-cardoso-fontes/): Antonio Cardoso Fontes, Brazilian microbiologist (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 1879 – Rio de Janeiro 27 March 1943) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 87 papers Discovered ultramicroscopic forms of tubercle bacillus (1910)   Demonstrated that Koch bacillus present 2 living forms with distinct properties and distinct functions (1910-1) Showed the existence of an ultramicroscopic stage in bacterial life cycle Sobre o cyclo vital das bacterias. Contribuição ao estudo da forma granular. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 18(1):163, 1925.   His work about filtrability of tubercle agent (1909-11) deserved the interest of the foreign scientific circles and gave him great renown as world authority in Koch bacillus biology 
- [Anthony Patrick Fairall](https://neglectedscience.com/anthony-patrick-fairall/): Anthony Patrick Fairall, English-born South African astronomer (London 15 September 1943 – Hout Bay, Cape Town 23 November 2008) Authored over 200 scientific articles Discovered galaxy Fairall-9, the most luminous Seyfert I galaxy (1977) With A. Maurellis, D. Matravers & G. Ellis discovered the Sculptor Wall (1990)
- [Alvaro Froes da Fonseca](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-froes-da-fonseca/): Alvaro Fróes da Fonseca, Brazilian anatomist and anthropologist (Porto Alegre 26 March 1890 – 1988) Reported possibly an unique case in anatomic literature about anastomosis in cranial nerves De Nature lusu. Sobre uma anastomose entre os IX e XII pares craneanos. Doctoral Thesis (1914) Reported a variety of pelvic colon 1 – Sobre uma variedade do colon pelvico. Descripção e apresentação da peça. 2 – Ligamentos do joelho. Comm. Soc. Med. Bahia (1921-5) ACHIEVEMENTS Created a new anthropometric index  the superoinferior index of body (1926) Idealized diameters and indices such as bucal, bi-orbital, interloculo nasal, nasal bizygomatic  and Froes da Fonseca
- [Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/alexandre-rodrigues-ferreira/): Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Brazilian / Portuguese naturalist, geographer and explorer (Salvador 27 April 1756 – Lisbon 23 April 1815) Headed a Portuguese expedition to Brazil aiming to study nature and a give a complete geographical and topographical description of each region explored  Performed hydrographical explorations reporting the first exhaustive representation of Amazon rivers Wrote memoirs about fauna, flora, ores and Native populations Described a number of dyeing methods used by Brazilian Indians Sent plants, animals, wood samples, minerals and ethnographic material to Portugal Famous naturalists like Etienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, Joseph Banks, Casimiro Gómez Ortega and Alexander Von Humboldt described new
- [Alejandro Feinstein](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-feinstein/): Alejandro Feinstein, Argentine astrophysicist (La Plata 30 May 1929 – Expert on astronomic photometry and galactic structure Authored over 200 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G. Baume, R. Vazquez & G. Carraro. Photometric study of the young open cluster NGC 3293. Astron. Astrophys. (2003) 99 Be Stars which recently showed large photometric changes. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 2(184), 1970 The open cluster NGC 6231 (1968) Multicolor UBVRI observations of metallic-line stars. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 79, 1967   The intrinsic colors of bright giants (1960) Ha and Hp measures as related to be Be Star rotation With J.J. Clariá. Fotometria multicolor del cumulo
- [Aldo Focesi Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/aldo-focesi-jr/): Aldo Focesi Jr., Brazilian biochemist (Campinas, São Paulo State 18 June 1933 – Campinas, São Paulo State September 2001) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, J. Bonaventura & R.E. Cashon. Functional properties of the hemoglobina from the South American snake Mastigodryas bifossatus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A. Mol. Integr. Physiol. 109:1085-95, 1994 With G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, C.L. Nagatomo & M.S. Matsuura. Interactions of adenosine triphosphate with snake hemoglobins. Studies in Liophis miliaris, Boa constrictor and Bothrops alternatus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part B. Biochem. Mol. Biol.109:1085-95, 1994 With S. Oyama Jr., G.O. Bonilla-Rodríguez, C.L. Nagatomo & M.S.A. Matsuura. Bothrops alternatus hemoglobin components. Oxygen binding properties and globin chain hydrophobic analysis. Comp. Biochem. Physiol.
- [Alberto & Alda Falcao](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-alda-falcao/): Alda Lima Falcão, Brazilian medical entomologist (Aracati, Ceará State 27 March 1925 – Belo Horizonte 31 August 2019) Authored about 100 works With H. Bermudez, J.P. Dedet, A. Morales Alarcón, D. Feliciangeli, E.F. Rangel, C. Ferro de Carrasquilla, E.A.B. Galato, E.L. Gomez, E. Perez, I. Sherlock, M. Torrez, R. Vignes & M. Wolff. Proposition of a standard description for Phlebotominae sand flies Parasitologia 33(1):127-35, 1991 With H. Bermudez, J.P. Dedet, M. Duncan, A. Morales Alarcón et al. A programme for computer aided identification of Phlebotominae sandflies of the Americas (CIPA) – Presentation and check-list of American species. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 88(2):221-30,
- [Yehia Mahmoud Ezzat](https://neglectedscience.com/yehia-mahmoud-ezzat/): Yehia Mahmoud Ezzat, Egyptian entomologist (1919 – 1991) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Allococcus 1956 with McConnell Erimococcus 1966 Ferrisicoccus 1956 with McConnell  Maconellicoccus 1958 Paracoccus 1956 with McConnell Planococcoides 1956 with McConnell Species About 50
- [Yasar Ergonul](https://neglectedscience.com/yasar-ergonul/): Yasar Ergonul, Turkish palynologist (1919 – ?) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE/POLLEN TAXA Genera Amasraipollenites 1961 Foveolatipollenites 1961 Ibrahimipollenites 1960 Species Amasraipollenites canaliferus 1961 Bacuiriletes pilosus 1962 Bentzisporites tenuiletes 1959 with Yahsiman Biharisporites spinuliferus 1961 Colisporites coniferus 1960 Colisporites pekmezcileri 1962 Cystosporites defessus 1960 Cystosporites perficioreticulatus 1960 Endosporites delicatus 1959 Endosporites observatus 1960 Foveolatisporites curvimuratus 1961 Foveolatisporites heterosculpturalis 1961 Foveolatisporites yahsimani 1961 Ibrahimipollenites lacunosus 1960 Knoxisporites okayi 1962 Laevigatisporites culminatus 1959 Laevigatisporites depressus 1959 Laevigatisporites junior 1959 with Yahsiman Laevigatisporites levis 1959 with Yahsiman Laevigatisporites subglabrutus 1959 Laevigatisporites triglandiferus 1960 Lagenoisporites lacunosus 1964 Lagenoisporites laevigatus 1959 Lagenoisporites zonguldakensis 1964 Schopfipollenites abruptus 1960 Schopfipollenites baykali 1960 Schopfipollenites cavernosus 1961 Schopfipollenites imberbis 1960 Schopfipollenites subtilirugosus 1960 Setosisporites amosraiensis 1959 Setosisporites cyclotuberosus 1959 Setosisporites guasioarcuatus 1959 Setosisporites kireclikiensis 1959 Sporites spiculatus 1959 with Yahsiman Triangulisporites furcatus 1959 Trileites externus 1962 Trileites heterosculpturalis 1964 Trileites inadornatus 1964 Trileites
- [Walter Alberto Egler](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-alberto-egler/): Walter Alberto Egler, Brazilian botanist and geographer (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1924 –Alto Rio Jari, Amapá State 28 August 1961) From German father and French mother Described Gleasonia cururuensis 1961 (Rubiaceae)  HONORS Egleria Eiten 1964 (Cyperaceae) Eglerocoris Carvalho & Fontes 1972 (Hemiptera) Egleraltica Bechyné & Springlova de Bechyné 1965 (Coleoptera)
- [Victor Estremadoyro](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-estremadoyro/): Victor Antolín Estremadoyro Robles, Peruvian civil engineer and amateur astronomer (Lima 28 October 1913 – Montreal, Canada 08 June 2003)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Eclipse anular del Sol del 11 de setiembre. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron. 6 (141):336-7, 1969 Observaciones realizadas durante el año 1965. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron. 6:86-7, 1966 El eclipse total del Sol del dia 30 de Mayo. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron. 6:74-6, 1965 Datos generales sobre fenômenos astronomicos que se produciran en 1960. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron. 5:276-7, 1961 Actividad solar. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron. 5:272-3, 1959; 335-6, 1960; 373, 401, 1961 Transito de Mercurio. Bol. Asoc. Peruana Astron.
- [Sergio Estrada Parra](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-estrada-parra/): Sergio Antonio Estrada Parra, Mexican immunologist (Ciudad de Mexico 27 September 1935 – Showed the nucleic acid immunogenicity and ATP molecular conformation (1965) Reported the use of transfer factor in herpes zoster With R. Cabezas-Quiroga, L. Padierna, J. Padierna, C. Fernandez & P. López. Immunotherapy with transfer factor in patients with herpes zoster. Biotecnol. Aplic. 7(1):51-7, 1990 Developed the transfer factor (an immunomodulatory drug kown as Transferón) With O. Velasco-Castrejón, E. Garcia Procel, R.M. Martínez & M.E. Castro-Mussot. The transference factor as the only therapeutic resource in a case of the anergic chronic coccidioidomycosis. Rev. Latinoam. Microbiol. 16(3):137-41, 1974 Methods With
- [Salcedo Eduardo](https://neglectedscience.com/salcedo-eduardo/): Salcedo L. Eduardo, Philippine parasitologist and helminthologist (11 September 1947 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Helminths Genera Bilatorchis 1980 Leiperocotyle 1980 Velasquezotrema 1987 with Javellana Species Angiodictyum dejejusi 2008 with Díaz Angiodictyum undulatum 2008 with Díaz Bilatorchis papillogenitalis 1980 Brachylaima tubanguense 2003 with Gaddi Brachylecithum microfiliforme 2003 Euamphimerus luzonicus 1974 Eucoleus halcyonus 2010 with Lastica Eurytrema escuderoi 1977 with Manuel & Tongson Fischoederius emiljaveri 2009 Fischoederius upiensis 2008 with Javellana Laterotrema robertloi 2005 with Torres Leiperocotyle gretillati 1985 Lyperosomum mindorense 2003 with Gaddi Lyperosomum velasquezae 2003 with Gaddi Opisthorchis philippinensis 2003 with Gaddi Orthocoelium arambuloi 2010 Orthocoelium dinniki 1985 Orthocoelium indonesiense 1980 Orthocoelium serpenticaecum 1987 with Peralta Paramphistomum peraltai 1982 Paronatrema boholanum 2010 Philophthalmus luzonensis 2006 Polyangium manueli 2008 with Díaz Procyrnea graculae 2011 Tanaisia lagunensis 2005 with Torres Velasquezotrema
- [Roger Guy Espinet](https://neglectedscience.com/roger-guy-espinet/): Roger Guy Espinet, Argentine veterinarian (1912 – 1995) Introduced saponines as adjuvant in foot and mouth disease vaccine   Nuevo tipo de vacuna antiaftosa a complejo glucovirico. Gac. Vet. Bs. Aires 13(74):265-77, 1951    Addition of saponin to F.M.D. vaccine has marked effect in increasing the immunogenic property for cattle. Gac. Vet. 19:265, 1951 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Acerca del concepto de imunidad em la fiebre aftosa a luz de algunas comprobaciones experimentales. Gac. Vet. 70:7-22, 1949 Foot and mouth disease immunization using intradermal saponin vaccine. Vet. Bull. 27:461, 1957 Función del diluente usado para determiner en bovinos y cobayos la dosis protectora 50% (DP50)
- [Rodrigo Escobar](https://neglectedscience.com/rodrigo-escobar/): Rodrigo Escobar Restrepo, Colombian orchidologist and genealogist (Medellín 1935 – 2009) Described 642 new species in Orchidaceae (568 valid)
- [Recep Egemen](https://neglectedscience.com/recep-egemen/): Recep Egemen, Turkish geologist and paleobotanist (1912 – 17 August 1963) Described the fossil plant genus Linopteridium 1958 and the species Linopteridium densenervosa 1958 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Neogene flora of some lignitiferous formations in Turkey. Abstr. Pollen et Spores 4(2):342, 1962 On some xeromorphic plant forms from the upper boundary of the Carboniferous of Turkey. Abstr. Pollen et Spores 4(2), 1962 Phytopaleontological report on the fossil plants collected by Nebert. M.T.A. Report (1960) On the significance of the flora found in the Ihsaniye beds at Kozlu, Zonguldak. Rev. Univ. Istanbul 24(1-2):1-24, 1959 On the significance of some forms of Neuropteris gigantea Sternberg from the Carboniferous of Anatolia
- [Pedro Escudero](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-escudero/): Pedro Escudero Osacar, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 11 August 1877 – Buenos Aires 23 January 1963) Enunciated 4 fundamental laws in nutrition on quantity, quality, harmony and goodness of fit Proposed a new enunciate of growth laws Nuevo enunciado de las leyes del crecimiento (1940) Established the concept of normal feeding and the nutritive requirements at distinct biological conditions Established the concept of normal calories Established the evolutive concept of feeding in healthy and sick human Formulated feeding-based laws that govern the human development since childhood Established the concept of non-specific profilaxis With F.A. Puchulu established the concept of latent diabetes (1927) 
- [Paul Escovar](https://neglectedscience.com/paul-escovar/): Paul Antonio Escovar Díaz, Venezuelan urologist (1950 – Authored Endourologia y ondas de choque, (1987) with international repercussion DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES With P.E. Escovar La Riva, F.P. Rodríguez Escovar et al. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL): conditions for a safe performance. Arch. Esp. Urol. 70:173-95, 2017 With M. Rey, J.R. López, P. Sanchez, R. Cuervo, P.E. Escovar La Riva & A. Rasguido. Acceso transuretrovesicorenal para litiasis em riñones pelvicos: una tecnica responsible. Rev. Arg. Urol. 78(3):110-4, 2013 With F.J. Reyes Z & M.G. Porras M. Cirurgia renal percutanea. Descripción de una tecnica segura. Rev. Mex. Urol. 65(4), 2005   
- [Omar El Seoud](https://neglectedscience.com/omar-el-seoud/): Omar Abdel Monein Abou El Seoud, Egyptian-born Brazilian chemist (Cairo 21 May 1945 – Coined the term surface active ionic liquids or SAILs With P.A. Pires, T. Abdel Moghny & E.L. Bastos. Synthesis and micellar properties of surface-active ionic liquids: 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chlorides. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 313(1):296-304, 2007 His work was cover of a review With P.D. Galgano. Micellar properties of surface active ionic liquids: A comparison of 1-hexadecyl-3-methyl-imidizolium chloride with structurally related cationic surfactants. J. Col. Interf. Science (2010) With L.A. Ramos, D.L. Morgado, V.C. da Silva & E. Frollini. Acetylation of cellulose in LiCl-N,N-dimethylacetamide: first report on the correlation
- [Nicolas Esposto](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolas-esposto/): Nicolás E. Esposto, Italian-born Peruvian botanist and pharmacist (Genoa 01 November 1877 – 1942) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al estudio de las orquidáceas de las lomas de los alrededores de Lima. Ann. Direcc. Fomento 11:49-53, 1913 With A. Maldonado. Contribución al estudio del Myroxylon peruiferum Linn. Anales Fac. Medicina Lima (1919) With A. Maldonado. Balsamo del Peru y balsamo de Tolú (1920) With J. Octavio Solano. Contribución al estudio de las taxáceas del Perú. Boletín Museo Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 28-38, 1939    With A. Maldonado. Contribución al estudio  de la matéria medica peruana HONORS (Cactaceae) Espostoa Britton & Rose 1920 Espostoopsis Buxbaum 1968
- [Narciso Esparragoza](https://neglectedscience.com/narciso-esparragoza/): Narciso Esparragoza y Gallardo, Guatemalan physician (Caracas, Venezuela 29 October 1759 – Ciudad de Guatemala 21 August 1819) Invented elastic ansa, a primitive kind of forceps used in obstetrics   Memoria sobre una invención facil y sencilla para extraer las criaturas enclavadas en el paso sin riesgos de la vida ni ofensa de su madre (1798) Developed a simple method for diagnosis and cure of smallpox    Metodo sencillo y fácil para el conocimiento y curación de las viruelas (1815) 
- [Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi](https://neglectedscience.com/mohamed-hilmy-elnagdi/): Mohamed Hilmy Ali Elnagdi, Egyptian organic chemist (Mansoura 01 September 1941 – Authored 450 papers with over 6,400 citations  Synthesized a variety of compounds related to pyrazoles, thiazoles and oxazoles First to report the utility of arylidene malononitrile as precursor to heteroaromatics BIBLIOGRAPHY/CONTRIBUTIONS  With M.S. Moustafa, S.M. Al-Mousawi, N.M. Hilmy et al. Unexpected behavior of enaminones: interesting new routes to 1,6-naphthyridines, 2-oxopyrrolidines and pyrano[4,3,2-de]-[1,6]naphthyridines. Molecules 18(1):276-86, 2013 With S.M. Ashkar, M.A. El-Apasery, M.M. Touma et al. Synthesis of some novel biologically active disperse dyes derived from 4-methy1-2,6-dioxo-1- propy1-1,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridine-3-carbonitrile as coupling component and their colour assessment on polyester fabrics. Molecules 17(8): 8822-31,
- [Mohamed Ahmed El-Nesr](https://neglectedscience.com/mohamed-ahmed-el-nesr/): Mohamed Saad Ahmed El-Nesr, Egyptian nuclear physicist (1934 – Performed discoveries on properties and structures of atomic nucleus Co-authored many papers with his wife Ekbal Bashandy SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Bashandy. Internal conversion coefficients of the K-forbidden M1 transitions in Tm169. Atomkernenergie 22(1):59-61, 1973 With E. Bashandy. Inner conversion process of electric dipole in Hf180 and W182. Z. Physik 265:313-23, 1973 With G.M. El Sayad. Studies on gamma decay of Hf180. Tokyo Sugaku Kaisya Zasshi 24(3):610-4, 1968 With M.R. El Aassar. Study of Er171 decay by means of electron-gamma coincidence technique. Eur. Phys. J. 189:138-50, 1966 With E. Bashandy. Beta-gamma directional correlation in
- [María Etcheverry](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-etcheverry/): María Edith Etcheverry Campaña, Chilean entomologist and historian of science (Chuquicamata, Antofagasta 20 April 1928 – Viña del Mar 02 January 2012) DESCRIBED GENERA Flukea 1966 (Diptera) Quinta 1970 (Lepidoptera) Ruizantheda 1960 with Gonzalez (Lepidoptera) Stuardosatyrus 1965 with Gonzalez (Lepidoptera) HONORS  Etcheverrius Gonzalez 1966 (Lepidoptera)
- [Mariano Estoque](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-estoque/): Mariano A. Estoque, Philippine meteorologist (31 December 1921 – Tubao, La Unión Province 10 January 2022) CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY The spectrum of large-scale turbulent transfer of momentum and heat (2010) With S. Almazán & J. Mondares. A sea breeze rainfall model. Atmosfera 7(4), 2009 A surface mesoscale wind model for complex terrain. Atmosfera 3(3):203-16, 1990 With R.M. Endlich, F.L. Ludwig & C.M. Bhumralkar. A diagnostic model for estimating winds at potential sites for wind turbines. J.Appl. Meteorol. 21(10), 1982 A hurricane model for simulating cloud seeding (1971) With C.M. Bhumralkar. A method for solving the planetary boundary layer equations. Bound-Lay Meteorol. 1(2), 1970
- [Marcial Espinosa](https://neglectedscience.com/marcial-espinosa/): Marcial Ramón Espinosa Bustos, Chilean botanist and mycologist (San Javier de Loncomilla, Linares Province 20 June 1874 – Santiago 17 August 1959) Authored 65 papers DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Plantae Adiantum gertrudis 1936 Adiantum philippianum 1936 Adiantum weatherbyanum 1936 Anemone moorei 1940 Austroblechnum corralense 1932 Conanthera johowii 1932 Diplazium fuenzalidae 1940 Elaphoglossum rudolphi 1932 Maihueniopsis camachoi 1933 Maihueniopsis reicheana 1940 Nothifagus alessandrii 1926 Nothifagus leonii 1929 Polystichum fuentesii 1932 Fungi Cyttaria johowii 1936 Lepiota locanensis 1920 Petersonia sanctae-crucis 1949 Fossil Plantae Sticherus (Gleichenia) asenjoi 1937  HONORS Espinosa Gahan 1947 (Hymenoptera)
- [Mahmoud Ahmed El Sherbini](https://neglectedscience.com/mahmoud-ahmed-el-sherbini/): Mahmoud Ahmed El Sherbini, Egyptian atomic physicist (Menial Al Kamh, Sharqia 22 January 1909 – 11 June 1998) Authored papers with great recognition in scientific circles The Stark effect for strong fields. Philos. Magazine 14(7):384-6, 1932 Did pioneering work on crystal rectification With Y.L. Youssef. The effect of cooling and of magnetic fields on crystal rectification. Proceed. Phys. Soc. 51:449, 1939 Reversal of rectification by heat in crystal contacts and its analogy to a thermos-electric phenomenon. Proc. Phys. Soc. Lond. 53:120-5, 1941 With Y.L. Youssef. Dependence of the direction of rectification in copper pyrites on voltage, temperature and time of measurement.
- [Luis Enrique Erro](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-enrique-erro/): Luis Enrique Erro Soler, Mexican astronomer (Villa de Chalco, Ciudad de Mexico 07 January 1897 – Ciudad de Mexico 18 January 1955) Discovered at least 20 new variable stars SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With S. Gaposchkin. On the eclipsing system of RZ Cassiopeiae Variable stars in high latitude field 354. Bull. Harv. Coll. Obs. 913 (1940) HONORS Lunar Erro crater His nephew, Braulio Iriarte Erro, Mexican astronomer (Ciudad de Mexico 11 April 1920 – San Andrés Choula, Puebla State 13 August 1986) Determinated light curvature of DYPegasus With W. A. Hiltner & H.L. Johnson determinated the color diagrams of galactic clusters With G.
- [Lindsay Atkins Eddie](https://neglectedscience.com/lindsay-atkins-eddie/): Lindsay Atkins Eddie, South African astronomer and meteorologist (Cape Town 1845 – Grahamstown 13 October 1913) Made important observations on Mars planet (1907) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Gale’s comet (1912) Curious meteor trail seen at Grahamstown (1895) Spectrum of Y Argus. Popular Astron. 3:123-7, 1895 Note on an auroral display. J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 4:381, 1894 The Short Period Variable 5 Cepheid HONORS Eddie crater on Mars
- [Khaled El Shazly](https://neglectedscience.com/khaled-el-shazly/): Khaled A. El-Shazly, Egyptian microbiologist and veterinary nutritionist (Tanta 14 January 1923 – Discovered volatile fatty acids of branched chains as products of fermentation in the rumen (1952) Discovered a Stickland type reaction  METHODS With R.E. Hungate described a simple technique for measuring the rate of fermentation of rumen microorganisms (1965) With R.E. Hungate. Method for measuring diaminopimelic acid in total rumen contents and its application to the estimation of bacterial growth (1966) Naga-El Shazly method for counting rumen protozoan (1969) With A.M. Nour & A.R. Abou-Akkada. A method for determining 2-aminoethane-phosphonic acid in rumen contents (1975) Described a technique for determining fermentation
- [Juan Egaña](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-egana/): Juan Egaña Risco, Chilean scholar (Lima 31 October 1768 – Santiago de Chile 29 April 1836) From Chilean father and Peruvian mother He was a member of Governing Junta that ruled Chile (1813-4) INVENTIONS    A type writer (1825) A kind of musical language Many electrical devices 
- [Jose Esculies](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-esculies/): José Esculies Peris, Paraguayan pharmacist and chemist (Asunción 29 August 1906 – 20 May 1971) Developed Esculies reaction for cancer diagnostics Sobre la existencia de una substancia especifica en el suero de los cancerosos y su posible utilización terapêutica Nuevo diagnostico del câncer Nuevos resultados obtenidos con nuestra reacción serológica para el diagnostico del câncer Developed a method for separation and dosage of direct and indirect bilirrubine Metodo original del autor para separar y dosificar em el suero sanguíneo las dos bilirrubinas, directa y indirecta. Anal. Fac. Quim. Farm. Montevideo With B. Varela Fuentes. Nouvelle methode pour la séparation et le dosage
- [Joaquin Pio Eguia Muro](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-pio-eguia-muro/): Joaquín Pio Antonio Eguía y Muro, Mexican physician (San Luis Potosí c.1760 – Zacatecas after 1833) Authored the first monograph about hepatic abscesses Described pericardial cavity (1790) First to describe the perforation of pericarp of liver abscesses causing purulent pericarditis (1795) With Miguel Fernandez & José Vazquez developed a method to treat fevers on basis of Masdevall method (1787)
- [James Ezeilo](https://neglectedscience.com/james-ezeilo/): James Okoye Chukuka Ezeilo, Nigerian mathematician (Nanka, Anambra State 17 January 1930 – Lagos 04 January 2013) Authored over 90 papers Pioneer in the use of Leray-Schauder degree type method to obtain existence results for periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations Eponym of Ezeilo constant SOME CONTRIBUTIONS Uniqueness theorems for periodic solutions of certain fourth and fifth order differential systems. J. Nigerian Math. Soc. 2:55-9, 1983 An instability theorem for a certain sixth order differential equation. J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. A 32 (1):129-133, 1982 A further instability theorem for a certain fifth-order differential equation. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 86
- [Hassan Chaker Efflatoun](https://neglectedscience.com/hassan-chaker-efflatoun/): Hassan Chaker Efflatoun, Egyptian entomologist (Cairo 25 November 1893 – 16 March 1957) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Leylaiya 1945 Species About 100 new species (32 valid species of Bombylidae Diptera) HONORS Efflatounaria Gohar 1939 (Cnidaria) Efflatounia Bezzi 1924 (Diptera) Efflatouniella Kroeber 1927 (Diptera) Efflatounomyia Rohdendorf 1934 (Diptera)
- [Gustaf Edwall](https://neglectedscience.com/gustaf-edwall/): Gustaf Edwall, Swedish-born Brazilian botanist (Karlstad, Sweden 07 June 1862 – São Paulo 1946) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Bacopa gratioloides 1897 Chytroglossa paulensis 1903 Encyclia sessiliflora 1903 Habenaria novaesii 1937 with Hoehne Parentucellia viscosa Restrepia crassifolia 1903 Vanilla dietschiana 1903 HONORS Edwallia Hempel 1899 (Hemiptera)
- [George Francis Rayner Ellis](https://neglectedscience.com/george-francis-rayner-ellis/): George Francis Rayner Ellis, South African cosmologist and theoretical physicist (Johannesburg 11 August 1939 – Regarded as one of the world’s leading theorists in cosmology Authored over 500 papers Theorized a cylindrical steady-state universe with naked singularity as recycling mechanism Discovered the Sculptor Wall (1990) With A. Maurellis, A.P. Fairall & D. R. Matravers. A two-dimensional sheet of galaxies between two southern voids. Astron. Astrophys. 229:75-79, 1990  Eponym of Ellis wormhole SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The physics and geometry of the early Universe: changing viewpoints. Q.J. Roy. Astron. Soc. 34:315, 1993 With T. Rothman. Lost horizons. Am. J. Phys. 61:93, 1993 With M. Madsen.
- [Fritz Eikenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-eikenberg/): Wilhelm Fritz Eikenberg Jennessen, German-born Peruvian engineer (1942 – PATENTS Mixed contact (1995) Split thread ring (1995) Round shank (1997) Appliance for round fluorescent (2000) Flat thread crosshead for threefold plug of universal junction (2001) Strain flat shank (2002) Rectangular and/or round cover cap with hinged ears for flush-mounted junction boxes (2005) Sliding caps chassis frame (2007) Flat or round shanks universal adapter for plugs (2009) Sliding caps lily frame (2012)
- [Francisco Javier Estrada](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-javier-estrada/): José Francisco Javier Severiano Adolfo Estrada Murguia, Mexican physicist (San Luis Potosi 11 February 1838 – San Luis Potosi 12 February 1904) First to obtain light from electrc arc in Americas Proposed the use of telephone as a system of detection of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (1883) before an Italian Showed that the plant Phytolacca electrica has electric and magnetic properties Showed the indefinite reproduction of static electricity (1874) It is said that developed the wireless telegraphy before Italian G. Marconi INVENTIONS/MODIFICATIONS/IMPROVEMENTS Two telegraphic printers (1877) Maxima and minima automated barometer Improved galvanoplasty procedures and invented many of them An electric dynamo engine similar
- [Francisco Javier Escalante](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-javier-escalante/): Francisco Javier Escalante Plancarte, Mexican astronomer and engineer (Morelia, Michoacán State 1887 – Ciudad de Mexico 03 March 1972) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.E. López. Las partes del mundo marciano y sus divisiones convencionales (1956) El planeta Marte (1963) HONORS Escalante crater on Mars
- [Fernando Etayo Serna](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-etayo-serna/): Fernando Etayo Serna, Colombian geologist and paleontologist (Ulloa, Valle del Cauca 1942 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA / AMMONITES TAXA Genera Buenoceras 1979 Carloscaceresiceras 1979 Codazziceras 1979 Corteziceras 1979 Franciscoites 1979 Gloriaceras 1979 Hubachia 1979 Jaumaporta 1979 Johnwyattia 1979 Juandurhamiceras 1979 Pseudoptychoceras 1979 Ralphimlayites 1979 Riedelites 1979 Rinconiceras 1979 Santafecites 1985 Stantonia 1979 Stoyanowiceras 1979 Zambranoites 1979 Subgenera Bowlesia 1979 Buergliceras 1968 Colomboceratoides 1979 Jaumaportaiceras 1979 Merriamella 1979 Sohlitella 1979 Species Over 100 Others Fossil Reptilia Genera Padillasaurus 2015 with Carballido, Pol, Parra, Padilla & Paramo Sternorhynchus 2016 with Paramo, Gómez Perez & Noé Species Padillasaurus leivaensis 2015 with Carballido, Pol, Parra, Padilla & Paramo Sternorhynchus munozi 2016 with Paramo, Gómez Perez & Noé HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Etayoa Villarroel 1987 Notoetayoa Gelfo, López & Bond 2008
- [Faustino Monteiro Esposel](https://neglectedscience.com/faustino-monteiro-esposel/): Faustino Monteiro Esposel, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1888 – Rio de Janeiro 16 September 1931) EPONYMY Codescribed Austregésilo-Esposel sign With A. Austregésilo. Le phénomene de Babinski provoqué par excitation de la cuisse. L’Encephale 7:429-36, 1912. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY    With M. Ozorio de Almeida. Sur Le mecanisme Du phenomene Du retrait Du membre inferieur provoque par La flexion plantaire des orteils. Revue Neurol. 2(20):432, 1912. With A. Austregésilo. Las cenestopatias. Gac.Med. Sur Esp. 33:316-19, 1915. Action de l’anemie experimentale produite par la bande d’Esmarch sur les reflexes. Revue Neurol. 23:169, 1916. Pituitary body. Ref. End. 1:533, 1917. With A. Marques.
- [Eugenio Espejo](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-espejo/): Eugenio Francisco Javier de Santa Cruz Espejo y Aldaz, Ecuadorian physician, philosopher and author (Quito February 1747 – Quito 27 December 1795) ACHIEVEMENTS In Reflexiones acerca de um metodo para preservar los pueblos de las viruelas (1785), anticipated  the pathogenic role of microbes and proclaimed the causes of decomposition and putrefaction in organic compounds by direct influence  from certain microorganisms
- [Esfandiar Esfandiari](https://neglectedscience.com/esfandiar-esfandiari/): Esfandiar Esfandiari, Iranian botanist and mycologist (Kerman 03 March 1909 – Teheran 03 August 1995) Described about 70 new plant species HONORS Esfandiariomyces Ershad 1985 (Fungi) Esfandiaria Charif & Aellen 1952 (Chenopodiaceae) Esfandiaria Popov 1951 (Orthoptera)
- [Erhart family](https://neglectedscience.com/erhart-family/): Max de Barros Erhart, Brazilian veterinary anatomist (São Paulo 24 March 1899 – São Paulo 22 February 1960) Ventre supranumerário de terminação suprahióidea do m. omohioideo. Ann. Fac. Med. Univ. S. Paulo 5:14-6, 1930 Feixe musculo-aponevrótico aberrante bilateral derivado da faringe e terminando nas fascias profundas da região esternocleidomastoideia e na base externa do crânio. Ann. Fac.Med. Univ. S. Paulo 5:16-21, 1930 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Anotações sobre a articulação acromio-clavicular. Rev. Biol. Hyg. 1:99-106, 1929 Ossification du processus supracondyloideus internus de humerus chez le Gamba (Didelphys aurita) et le tatou (D. novemcinctus). Rev. Biol. Hyg. 3:33, 1932  With R. Locchi. Le arterie
- [Enrique Ecker](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-ecker/): Enrique Eduardo Ecker, US/Caribbean immunologist and microbiologist (Willemstad, Curaçao 26 January 1887 – Cleveland, Ohio 05 March 1966) Developed new methods Developed famous Rees-Ecker method for platelet counting and Rees-Ecker fluid With H.M. Rees. Improved method for counting blood platelets. JAMA 80:621-2, 1923. With L. Pillemer. An inexpensive method for the dehydration and preservation of complement and other biological materials. Am. J. Public Health 28(10):1231-2, 1938. With B. Likover. A micro method for the determination of the albumin-globulin ratio in guinea pig serum. J. Lab. Clin. Med. 32:1500-2, 1947. With C.W. Hiatt. A method for the quantitative measurement of complement-fixation. Amer.J.
- [Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen](https://neglectedscience.com/elsie-elizabeth-esterhuysen/): Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen, South-African botanist (1912 – 2006) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Genus Nevillea 1984 with Linder (Restionaceae) Species 50 in Restionaceae 2 in Ericaceae 1 in Rutaceae HONORS Esterhuysenia L. Bolus 1967 (Aizoaceae) Trieenea Hilliard 1989 (Scrophulariaceae)
- [Eiten family](https://neglectedscience.com/eiten-family/): George Eiten, US-born Brazilian plant ecologist (Morristown 20 november 1923 – Brasilia 25 September 2012) World authority on Cerrado SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  The Cerrado Vegetation of Brazil. Bot. Rev. 38:201-41, 1972 Delimitation of the Cerrado concept. Veget. 36:169-78, 1978 Formas fisionômicas do cerrado. Rev. Bras. Bot. 2:139-48, 1979 With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. Fitossociologia de um hectare de cerrado. Brasil Florestal 13(54):55-70, 1983 Vegetation of Brasilia. Phytocoenologia 12:271-92, 1984 With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. A Hectare of Cerrado. I. General Aspects of the Trees and Thick-stemmed shrubs. Phyton 27:55-91, 1987 His first wife, Liene de Jesus Teixeira Eiten, Brazilian botanist (Caxias, Maranhão State 09 February 1925 – Brasilia
- [Eddie Esteves Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/eddie-esteves-pereira/): Eddie Esteves Pereira, Brazilian botanist (1939 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Chapadocereus 1995 with Braun Leopoldohorstia 1995 with Braun Pierrebraunia 1997 Bragaia 2009 with Braun & Hofacker Subgenera Siccobaccatus 1991 Albertbuiningia 1995 Species 64 HONORS Estevesia Braun 2009 (Cactaceae) 
- [Dieter Enkerlin](https://neglectedscience.com/dieter-enkerlin/): Dieter Enkerlin Schallenmuller, Mexican agricultural entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 14 December 1926 – 27 December 1995) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Calligos Moraeles, M. Cepeda Siller, E. Aranda Herrera & L.O, Tejera Molina. Evaluación del efecto de Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) sobre larvas del segundo estádio de Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera:Noctuidae). Agrociencias 37(4):405-11, 2003   With E. Mallo Rivera, A. Castillo Vera & J. Valenzuela Gonzalez. Atracción alimentícia de Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae) por frutos bajo condiciones de laboratório (1986) Possible elimination of females of the Mexican fruit fly Anastrepha ludens (Loew) during the rearing process (1983) With A,J. Schwarz. Estudio de gramineas como posibles hospederas de la mosca pinta Prosapia simulans (Walker) bajo condiciones de invernadero
- [Cristóbal Espildora Luque](https://neglectedscience.com/cristobal-espildora-luque/): Cristóbal Espíldora Luque, Chilean ophthalmologist (1896 – 1962) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Espíldora Luque syndrome Sindrome oftálmico-silviano (ceguera monocular hemiplejia alternas). Archivos Oftalm. Hispano-Amer. 34:616-21, 1934 Espildora Luque classification of hypertensive neuropathies Sobre clasificaciones oftalmoscopicas de la hipertensión arterial. El Dia Medico 28:402, 1946 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   The glaucomatous Syphilitic Patient. Arch. Oftalm. Hispano-Amer. 30: 1929. Arterielle Ueberdruck im Kopfe. Zentralb. F.d. ges. Ophthal. 22:421, 1932.   With W.E. Coutts. Signos oculares de La linfogranuloma inguinal subaguda. Rev. Med. Chile 62:433, 1934. L’Hypertension arterielle retinienne solitaire. Tr. XV Internat. Ophthal. Congr. 2:156-89, 1937. With E. Santos Galmez & L. Casorza. Systemic and retinal hypotension in tabetic
- [Clemente Estable](https://neglectedscience.com/clemente-estable/): Clemente Estable Fallabella, Uruguayan histopathologist and neurophysiologist (Santa Lucia, Canelones Department 1894 – Montevideo 27 October 1976) Son of Italian immigrants Authored about 150 works ACHIEVEMENTS Enunciated concepts on comparative structure in brain cortex Note sur la structure comparative de l’ecorce cerebelleuse et derives physiologiques possibles. Trav. Lab. Rech. Biol. Univ. Madrid 21:169-256, 1923  Enunciated the concept of hipocytomorphosis Hipocitomorfosis. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 1:361-74, Formulated the concept of reversibility synapses and morphological quantitative concepts as synaptic valence and synaptic spectrum Espectro sináptico, constantes sinápticas y revisión del concepto de sinapsis. Reunión Cient. Asoc. Latinoam. Cien. Fisiol. Punta del Este 75-76,
- [Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer](https://neglectedscience.com/christie-jayaratnam-eliezer/): Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Ceylonese / Australian mathematical physicist (Navatkuli, Jaffna 12 June 1918 – Melbourne 10 March 2001) Authored 63 papers and 4 books Developed the Eliezer theorem (1943) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.C. Barton. On pursuit curves. J. Austr. Math. Soc. Series B41:358-71, 2000 With G.E. Prince. On the Lie symmetries of the classical Kepler problem. J. Physics A 14(3):587-96, 1981 With G.E. Prince. Symmetries of the time-independent N-dimensional oscillator. J. Physics A 13(3):815-23, 1980 With G.E. Prince, P.G.L. Leach, T.M. Kalotas & R.M. Santilli. The Lie and Lie-admissible symmetries of dynamical systems. Hadron. J. 3(1):390-43, 1979-80 Symmetries and first integrals
- [Amin El Nawawy](https://neglectedscience.com/amin-el-nawawy/): Amin S. El Nawawy, Egyptian agronomist and microbiologist With S.O.Gnan. Isolation and propagation of new methanol-utilizing microorganisms. Biotech. Bioengin.(1983) Utilization of bagasse pith for the production of fodder yeast by a new isolate of Candida pelliculosa (1969) With M. Fahmy & Y. Abdel Malek. Isolation and identification of a new strain of yeast suitable for growth on pentose substrates. 1st Conf. Microbiol. (1965) PATENT With I.Y. Hamdan, I.M. Banat & N.M. Al-Awadhi. Process and microorganisms for producing single cell protein. US5314820A (1987)  
- [Djalma Guimarães](https://neglectedscience.com/djalma-guimaraes/): Djalma Guimarães, Brazilian mineralogist, petrographer and geochemist (Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais State 05 Nov 1894 – Belo Horizonte 10 October 1973) Authored over 240 works ACHIEVEMENTS Described two new mineral species (arrojadite in 1924 and pennaite in 1948) and the mineral variety eschwegeite in 1926 Named rock araxaite (1926) Described a variety of skarnit (1960) Proposed a new method used to separate uranium and other elements in high degree of purity (1929) Sobre um processo de separação do urânio, do zircônio, tântalo, nióbio, titânio, ferro, manganês, chumbo, estanho, cobre, níquel e cromo. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciências 1(4):198-200, 1929.  Patented a new
- [David Joaquín Guzmán](https://neglectedscience.com/david-joaquin-guzman/): David Joaquín Guzmán Martorell, Salvadorean naturalist and anthropologist (San Miguel, El Salvador 15 August 1843 – San Salvador 20 January 1927) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Essai de topographie physique et médicale de la Republique du Salvador (Amerique Central). Thesis, Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1869) Estudio sobre el cultivo de algunas plantas y arboles industriales susceptibles de explotarse en la Republica de Costa Rica (1892) Botanica industrial de Centro America (1908) Especies utiles de la flora salvadoreña (1926) HONORS Honorary Member, Academie Internationale de Botanique de Le Mans (French) Honorary Member, Academie Universelle des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles (1885)
- [Coluthur Gopalan](https://neglectedscience.com/coluthur-gopalan/): Coluthur Gopalan, Indian nutritional biochemist (Salem, Tamil Nadu 29 November 1918 – Chennai 03 October 2019) Studied Grierson-Gopalan syndrome Burning feet syndrome. Indian Medical Gazette 81:22-26,1946.  Showed the importance of breast-feeding for infant growth and also the effect of maternal dietary intake and nutritional status on breast milk composition  Showed the role of pantothenic acid in the burning feet syndrome and the role of fatty acids in phrynoderma Demonstrated the link between aflatoxicosis and hepatic carcinoma Suggested the amino acid imbalance may be one cause of pellagra SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The etiology of phrynoderma. Ind. Med. Gaz. 82:16-20, 1947  The lathyrism syndrome. RSTMH-T
- [Chhitar Mal Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/chhitar-mal-gupta/): Chhitar Mal Gupta, Indian molecular biologist (Bharatpur, Rajasthan State 01 September 1944 – Authored 136 papers and 5 book chapters Elucidated the actin cytoskeletal network in Leishmania Delineated the factors that generate and maintain the transbilayer phospholipid asymmetry in erythrocytes and yeast plasma membranes Defined the depth of insertion of membrane integral proteins in bilayer matrix and the factors that determine the phospholipids conformation and their packing in vesicles Developed a novel class of liposomes which resist their lysis by blood components and survive for long in blood circulation  Developed simple and efficient procedures for synthesis of natural and modified phospholipids  PATENTS (6)
- [Carlos Roberto Gonzalez](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-roberto-gonzalez/): Carlos Roberto Gonzalez, Argentine paleontologist and biostratigrapher (Tucumán 15 January 1940 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Amosius 2004 with Waterhouse Malimania 1994 Orbiculopecten 1978 Sueroa 2006 Waterhouseus 2010 Species Acanthopecten jaguelensis 1997 Amosius harringtoni 1978 Aphanaia precursa 2012 with Waterhouse Atomodesma amleri 2012 with Waterhouse Cypricardinia precordillerana 1997 Etheripecten saraviae 2006 Euchondria sabattinae 1971 Heteropecten anteloi 1997 Heteropecten cortignasi 2006 Hyolithes amosi 1972 with Sabattini Leptodesma (Leiopteria) aredesi 2006 Leptodesma (Leiopteria) variabilis 1977 Leptodesma (Leiopteria) veladerensis 1992 Malimania patagoniensis 1969 Malimania triangularis 1994 Merismopteria salinensis 1975 Myofossa antiqua 1977 Myofossa calingastensis 2002 Myonia prinsi 2010 Nuculopsis (Nuculanella) camachoi 1972 Nuculopsis (Nuculopsis) patagoniensis 1969 Orbiculopecten parma 1978 Orbiculopecten taboadai 2002 Oriocrassatella andina 2002 Oriocrassatella piauiensis 2012 with Anelli, Simões & Souza Oriocrassatella sanjuanina 1976 Palaeolima alata 1997 Palaeolima antinaoensis 1972 Palaeoneilo amosi 1977 Palaeoneilo subquadratum 1994
- [Carlos Graef Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-graef-fernandez/): Carlos Graef Fernandez, Mexican mathematician and physicist (Guanaceví, Durango State 25 February 1911 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 January 1988) From German descent Authored 17 papers Performed important works about gravitation His doctoral thesis in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about periodic paths of cosmic rays gained international level (1935) Demonstrated that there is a number of possible motions in the plane of magnetic equator of Earth Obtained simple mathematical formulas to describe equatorial periodic orbits  First to treat a problem of differential equations in three dimensions (1940) Gave an explanation about curvature of luminous rays and the red shift to spectral
- [Carlos Garces Orejuela](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-garces-orejuela/): Carlos Garcés Orejuela, Colombian plant pathologist (Cali 1915 – Medellín 2002) With K.H. Fernow first report of potato black rot by Rosellinia or white shroud (1949) Described Xanthomonas axonopodis, causative agent of bacterial leaf spot of Axonopus scoparius With M.P. Starr. El agente causante de la gomosis bacterial del pasto imperial en Colombia. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín 12:73-83, 1950 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA (in Estudios micologicos colombianos. Dothideales. Caldasia 2:75-87, 1941 & New or heterofore unreported species of the higher Ascomycetes from Colombia and Venezuela. Mycologia 36:429-59, 1944 (corrected in 37:389-90, 1944) Genus Phaeotrabutia 1941 Species (23) Anisochora chardonii 1941 Asterina solanacearum 1944 Asterinella bredemeyerae 1944 Catacauma cabali 1941 Coccodiella miconiicola 1944
- [Carlos Galli-Mainini](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-galli-mainini/): Carlos Tulio Galli Mainini, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 07 October 1914 – Buenos Aires 16 October 1961) Introduced male toad test for diagnosis of pregnancy known as Galli-Mainini test Pregnancy test with male Batracia. Endocrinology 43:349-50, 1948 Found the changes observed in smears of the urinary sediment closely parallel those seen in vaginal smears    With E. B. del Castillo & J. Argonz. Cytological cycle of the urinary sediment and its parallelism with the vaginal cycle. J. Clin. Endocrin. 8:76, 1948 With E. B. del Castillo &J. Argonz. Smear from the female urethra and their relationship to smears of the urinary sediment. J.
- [Carlos Ernesto Gordillo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-ernesto-gordillo/): Carlos Ernesto Gordillo Maldonado, Argentine petrologist and mineralogist (Villa Ascasubi, Cordoba Province 1925 – December 1984) DESCRIBED Cordieritite rock Las rocas cordieríticas de Orcoyana y Cerro Negro-Soto (Cordoba). Bol. Asoc. Geol. Cordoba 2:90-100, 1974 New mineral species With W. Schreyer & G. Werdnig. A new sodian-berylian cordierite from Soto, Argentina and the relationship between distortion index, Be content and state of hydration. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 70:421-8, 1979 With M.E.J. de Abeledo, V. Angelelli & M.A.R. de Benyacar. Sanjuanite, a new hydrated basic sulfate-phosphate of aluminium. Amer. Miner. 53:1-8, 1968 With E. Linares, R.O. Toubes & H. Winchel. Huemulite, a new hydrous
- [Biresh Chandra Guha](https://neglectedscience.com/biresh-chandra-guha/): Biresh Chandra Guha, Indian biochemist (Mymesingh, today Bangladesh 07 June 1904 – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh State 20 March 1962) World recognized expert on vitamins and ascorbic acid With I.B. Chatterjee, N.C. Ghosh & J.J. Ghosh developed a technique for determination the ability of an animal tissue to synthesize vitamin C (1957) Isolated proteins from tree leaves and grasses With I.B. Chatterjee & N.C. Ghosh discovered and characterized enzymes aldonolactonase and L-gulonolactone oxidase (1958-60) First to announce the presence of the bound form of ascorbic acid in plant tissues Isolated a bound form of niacin from maize, rice and wheat bran’s Designed
- [Berta Gerschman de Pikelin](https://neglectedscience.com/berta-gerschman-de-pikelin/): Berta Sofía Gerschman de Pikelin, Argentine arachnologist (Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires Province 26 June 1905 – 1977) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA (with Schiapelli) Genera Amaloxenops 1958 Bolostromoides 1945 Melloleitaoina 1960 Paracleocnemis 1942 Pycnothelopsis 1942 Simonida 1958 Xenoplectus 1958 Species About 165 HONORS Pikelinia Mello Leitão 1946 (Arachnida) LINKS http://www.efn.uncor.edu/dep/divbioeco/DivAni1/aracnol/schiapelli.html
- [Bernhard Gross](https://neglectedscience.com/bernhard-gross/): Bernhard Gross, German-born Brazilian physicist (Stuttgart 22 November 1905 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 01 February 2002) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 200 papers Published important studies on viscoelasticity and rheology that attained international repercussion such as Gross model of viscoelasticity and a book that became a classical Mathematical Structure of theories of Viscoelasticity (1953) Noticed that the formalism of dielectric and viscoelastic relaxations are identical Performed first systematic studies on thermo-electrets Formulated theory of two-charge of electrets   With L. Ferreira-Denard discovered the “freezing” of electrical charges in dielectrics  With L.F. Denard. Efeitos de temperatura em condensadores carregados. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias
- [Benjamín Galíndez](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-galindez/): Benjamín Galíndez Cabanillas, Argentine gynecologist and composer (San Roque, Punilla Department, Cordoba Province 13 October 1880 – Cordoba 22 December 1972) Created a method of uterine ligamentopexy (1927) Nueva aplicación del forceps Tarnier (A New application of Tarnier forceps) 1911 A new model of intrauterine splint Wrote a number of musical works 
- [Benjamin Gilbert](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-gilbert/): Benjamin Gilbert, English-born Brazilian organic chemist (Felixstowe, Suffolk 27 September 1929- Authored nearly 200 scientific publications mainly about Brazilian natural products and control of vectors in endemic diseases Isolated and elucidated structures of a number of indolic alkaloids in Apocynaceae plants Phytochemistry & Parasitology  Identified with W.B. Mors and  J. Pellegrino, 14, 15-epoxi-geranylgeraniol, from fruit oil of  Pterodon pubescens, that prevents the schistosomal cercariae penetration in host skin (1967) With H. Moussatché, H. Lent & M. Kitagawa. Insect juvenile hormone-like activity in a diterpene. Rev. Bras. Biol. 30(1):55-60, 1970 With J. Pellegrino & D. Santos Filho. Extract of Enterolobium timbouva Martius, 1837, a penetration stimulant for
- [Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão](https://neglectedscience.com/bartolomeu-lourenco-de-gusmao/): Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, Brazilian/Portuguese cleric and inventor (Santos, São Paulo State December 1865 – Toledo, Spain 18 November 1724) Worked as cryptographer  INVENTIONS Hot-air balloon (Passarola) considered as the first operational aerostat (1709) much years earlier than Montgolfier Brothers Lens system to sunburn meat (1713) Sucking-pressing pump (1705) Pumping system to drain water from ship’s hold (1707) Machinery for rational exploration of peat-bogs A mill faster than others existing until then Improvements in output of hydraulic mills and sugar engines (1724) Artificial earth coal (1721) Paddle-wheel adjustable to single boats (before Kullo) Patented a hydraulic engine (1724) It is said
- [Balkrishna Shankar Gogate](https://neglectedscience.com/balkrishna-shankar-gogate/): Balkrishna Shankar Gogate, Indian helminthologist (Mehidpur, Ujjain District, Madhya Pradesh State 25 October 1906 – ?) DESCRIBED TREMATODA TAXA Genus Proacetabulorchis 1940 Species Gogatea serpentium 1932 Neodiplostomum gumbudia 1940 Ostiolum mehrai 1935 Parabascus macrorchis 1939 Paryphostomum testitrifolium 1934 Petasiger minutissimus 1934 Platynotrema cerivoulae 1939 Proacetabulorchis prashadi 1940 Subvulifer halcyonae 1940 HONORS Gogatea Lutz 1935 (Trematoda)
- [Atila Gosztonyi](https://neglectedscience.com/atila-gosztonyi/): Atila Esteban Gosztonyi, Argentine ichthyologist (fl.1967) DEVELOPED METHODS The use of engine-based laundry “presoaks” for clearing small vertebrates for alizarin red staining of bony tissues. Stains Technol. 59(5):305, 1984 DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera (1977) Aiakas Notolycodes Piedrabuenia Species Aiakas kreffti 1977 Aiakas zinorum 1991 with Anderson Lycenchelys bachmanni 1977 Lycodonus malvinensis 1981 Notolycodes schmidti 1977 Piedrabuenia ringueleti 1977 Plesienchelys stehmanni 1977 HONORS Gosztonyia Matallanas 2009 (Pisces)
- [Arturo Gomez Pompa](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-gomez-pompa/): Arturo Gómez Pompa, Mexican botanist and ecologist (Ciudad de Mexico 21 October 1934 – Regarded as world authority on ecology of tropical forests, studying their mechanisms of regeneration   Developed a method for studying ecology in tropical areas Un método para el estúdio ecológico en regiones tropicales. Mem. Congr. Mex. Botanica (1963) Authored a paper became a classical With S. Guevara & C. Vazquez Yanes. The tropical rain forest: a non-renewable resource. Science (1972) Developed a botanical database using computers for storage and organization of the information independently of Theodore Crovetto in United States (1967) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Diospyros riojae 1964 Hydrangea nebulicola 1968 with Nevling
- [Arnaldo Gabaldón](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-gabaldon/): Arnaldo José Gabaldón Carrillo, Venezuelan parasitologist and tropical physician (Trujillo 01 March 1909 – Caracas 01 September 1990) Considered world authority in paludism and gained recognition for his studies about biology, ecology and behavior of mosquitoes ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 163 scientific works Proposed a method for measuring hepatomegalies Presentación de un metodo para la medición de hepatomegalias. Gac.Med. Caracas 40:219-220, 1933.   A method for mounting anopheline eggs. Jour. Parasit. 25(3):281, 1939.   With G. Ulloa. A quick and easy method to determine the sporozoite index in mosquitoes. Trans. Royal Trop. Med. Hyg. 72(3):311-12, 1978. Proposed a new climate zone named paraequatorial zone With P. Cova-Garcia. Zoogeografia
- [Armando Gomez Puyou](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-gomez-puyou/): Armando Gómez Puyou, Mexican biochemist (San Luis Potosi 02 April 1934 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 December 2013) Authored over 150 papers Demonstrated that monovalent cations promote the NADH oxidase action (1969-72) With A. Peña Díaz proposed a mechanism of K+ transport by an ATPase in yeasts (1967) and discovered a H+ATPase system related to K+ transport system (1972) Isolated a Ca2+ carrier independently of Carafoli (1971) With M. Tuena de Gomez Puyou, G. Becker & A. Lehninger. An insoluble Ca2+ binding factor from rat liver mitochondria. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 47:814-9, 1972 Discovered and/or designed new types of specific inhibitors of enzymatic action to
- [Antonio Rudesindo Garcia Rijo](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-rudesindo-garcia-rijo/): Antonio Rudesindo García del Rijo, Cuban surgeon (Sancti Spiritus 20 April 1852 – Finca Lajitas 15 September 1912) Talla hipogastrica. Simplificación del metodo de Petersen. Cron. Med. Quir. La Habana (1887) Pinzas para ligaduras profundas y estilete de hueso. Cron. Med. Quir. La Habana 14:93-6, 1888  A simplified technique for serum diagnosis of typhoid fever (1897) Nuevo y rapido procedimiento de doble cloración de la sangre. Anales real Acad. Cien. Med. Fis. Natur. La Habana (1899)
- [Antonio Ildefonso Gomes](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-ildefonso-gomes/): Antonio Ildefonso Gomes, Brazilian physician and botanist (São Miguel de Piracicaba, Minas Gerais 22 January 1794 – Rio de Janeiro 29 October 1859) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Practica elementar da hydro-sudo-therapia, ou modo de curar as moléstias com suadouro, água fria, regimen e exercício (1848) Lamentações de um brasileiro (1854) Viagem as províncias do Norte (do Brasil) em 1856 e 1857 (1857) HONORS Ildefonsia Gardner 1842 (Plantaginaceae)
- [Antonio Galves](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-galves/): Jefferson Antonio Galves, Brazilian mathematician (São Paulo 18 June 1947 – São Paulo 05 September 2023) Recognized as one of world leaders in research about Markovian systems of particles ACHIEVEMENTS With F. Bertein. Une classe de systems de particules stable par association. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 41(1):73-85, 1977 First to formulate and solve the problem of hydrodynamic behavior of a Markovian system Deduced Fourier law from a microscopic dynamical stochastics With C. Kipnis, C. Marchioro & E. Presutti. Non equilibrium measures which exhibit a temperature gradient: study of a model. Comm. Math. Physics 81:127-47, 1981  First to formulate and solve the
- [Antonio Enrique Gonzalez Guzman](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-enrique-gonzalez-guzman/): Antonio Enrique Gonzalez Guzman, Colombian palynologist DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE & POLLEN GENERA (1967) Annutriporites Arcotriporites Bacustephanocolpites Brevitricolpites Classites Clavamonocolpites Echimorphomonocolpites Echinoidites Foveotriporites Gemmastephanoporites Jussitriporites Longitrichotomocolpites Magnaperiporites Magnatriporites Papillamonocolpites Perfotricolpites Polotricolporites Pseudostephanocolporites Racemonocolpites Retiheterocolpites Retipollenites Retistephanoporites Retisyncolporites Retitriporites Rugutricolporites Semitectotriporites Spirosyncolpites Striaticolpites HONORS Guzmanipollenites Kedves 1985 (Fossil Sporae & Pollen)
- [Anibal Gajardo](https://neglectedscience.com/anibal-gajardo/): Anibal Gajardo Cubillos, Chilean geologist (1945 – Authored over 200 publications PATENT With C. Arrizaga. Method of roasting molybdenite and similar sulphide ores. US Patent 3,761,565 (1973) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Potencial de litio en salares del Norte de Chile (2014) With R. Carrasco. Rocas para construcción y ornamentación em Chile: geologia, distribución y aplicaciones. Bol. Geol. Miner. 117(4):675-86, 2006 Rocas y minerales industriales de Chile. Bol. Serv. Nac. Geol. Mineria 58 (2000) Hydrothermal and residual kaolin deposits. Bull. New Mexico Bureau of Mines Miner. Resources 154:245-51, 1996 With F. Peebles & I. Gonzales. Depositos auríferos tipo placeres en el litoral central del
- [Angel Gallardo](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-gallardo/): Angel Juan Pedro Gallardo Lebrero, Argentine naturalist (Buenos Aires 19 November 1867 –Buenos Aires 13 May 1934) Developed a theory named Electrocolloidal Theory of karyokinesis in which proposed cell division as result of karyokinetics forces  (1896-1912) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1900) DESCRIBED VALID ANT TAXA Genus Pseudoatta 1916 Species Dorymyrmex thoracicus 1916 Dorymyrmex santschii 1916 Dorymyrmex silvestrii 1916 Forelius rubriceps 1916 Forelius rufus 1916 Hypoponera fenestralis 1918 Pogonomyrmex catanlilensis 1931 Pogonomyrmex longibarbis 1931 Pseudoatta argentina 1916 Subspecies Dorymyrmex ensifer laevigatus 1916 Dorymyrmex steigeri platensis 1916 Dorymyrmex thoracicus thoracicus 1916 Pseudoata argentina argentina 1916 HONORS Gallardoa Hicken 1916 (Malpighiaceae) Gallardoia Bruch 1924 (Coleoptera)
- [Ana Maria Giulietti](https://neglectedscience.com/ana-maria-giulietti/): Ana Maria Giulietti Harley, Brazilian botanist (Pesqueira, Pernambuco State 03 November 1945 – Born Ana Maria de Barros Lima (the second marriage to US botanist Raymond Mervyn Harley) Authored studies on plant anatomy, chemistry and ecology With C.S. Dias, M.D. Moura, A.G.S. Cabral, S.G.R. Mota, E.V.L. Cunha, T.M.S. Silva & J.M. Barbosa Filho. Nueva feofitinas aisladas de Anisacanthus brasiliensis Lindau (Acanthaceae). LabCiencia com noticias técnicas del laboratório. P.14-5, 2007  With R.M. Harley, I.S. Abreu, C. Bittencourt, F.F. de Oliveira & P.K. Endress. Resupinate dimorphy, a novel pollination strategy in two-lipped flowers of Eplingiella (Lamiaceae). Acta Bot. Brasilica 31:1-6, 2017 DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Fossil (with Fittipaldi, Simões & Pirani 1989)
- [Amiya Kumar Ghosh](https://neglectedscience.com/amiya-kumar-ghosh/): Amiya Kumar Ghosh, Indian palaeopalynologist (Arrah, Bihar 1905 – Ranchi 18 January 1985) Concluded that vascular plants have existed in Cambrian epoch Did vascular plants exist in Cambrian time? (1950) Observed that the frequency of grains with more colpi increased with the older horizons of the Pre-Miocene formations Proved the usefulness of plant microfossils in the correlation of coal seams With J. Sen. A study of microfossils and the correlation of some productive coal seams of the Raniganj Coalfield, Bengal, India. Trans. Min. Geo. Met. Inst. India 43:67-95, 1948 With S.S. Ghosh described the fossil plant species Anisopteroxylon jawalamukhi 1958 and Dipterocarpoxylon malavii 1959 Papers
- [Alércio Moreira Gomes](https://neglectedscience.com/alercio-moreira-gomes/): Alércio Moreira Gomes, Brazilian mathematician and astronomer (Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espírito Santo State  12 March 1915 – Lisbon 02 September 1988) DISCOVERED   4 supernovae (SN1960P, SN1960M, SN1960N and SN1961E) 50 variable stars  About 80 minor planets 
- [Alfredo Coaracy Brazil Gandolfo](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-coaracy-brazil-gandolfo/): Alfredo Coaracy Brazil Gandolfo, Brazilian marine and civil engineer (Santos, São Paulo State 07 December 1924 – 04 August 1984) DEVELOPED METHODS AND SYSTEMS Um método para a determinação das tensões em navios de grande porte. Anais VI Congr. Sobena Proposed a method of analysis of transverse structure of supertankers employing matricial álgebra Investigação sobre a resistência transversal de superpetroleiros (Supertankers transverse strength). Doctoral Thesis (1973) Um método para a determinação das tensões nos nós em navios de grande porte (1976) Introduced a method to analyse tubular joints of the type used in the jacket structure of offshore platforms With C.
- [Aldo Gaggero](https://neglectedscience.com/aldo-gaggero/): Aldo Gaggero Capellaro, Chilean veterinarian (fl.1949-65) Showed that the foot and mouth disease virus is located at bovine esophagus With P. Sutmoller. Foot and mouth disease carriers. Vet. Rec. 77:968-9, 1965 Presented a culture method of foot and mouth virus on bovine kidney cells With L. Meléndez, R. Rodríguez & M. Norambuena. Multiplication of foot and mouth disease virus in adult kidney and embryonic lung and heart bovine tissue cultures. Proc. Soc. Expl. Biol. Med. 95:696-7, 1957
- [Alcides Godoy](https://neglectedscience.com/alcides-godoy/): Alcides Godoy, Brazilian biomedical researcher (Campinas, São Paulo 07 January 1888 – Rio de Janeiro 30 January 1950) Authored 26 works ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a new process of vaccination for anthrax with an innovative methodology for Clostridium sp. attenuation With F. Faria . Sobre um novo processo de vacinação contra o carbúnculo sintomático. Rev. Med. São Paulo 11(16):338-43, 1908 Nova vacina contra o carbúnculo sintomático. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2:11-21, 1910 A vaccine for pneumoenteritis in calves With A. Machado. Estudos bacteriológicos sobre a diarreia ou pneumoenterite dos bezerros. Patente 9.564 (1917) A new anthrax or hematic carbuncle vaccine With A. Machado. Processo de preparação
- [Alberto Gonzalez Domínguez](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-gonzalez-dominguez/): Alberto Gonzalez Dominguez, Argentine mathematician and physicist (Buenos Aires 11 April 1904 – Buenos Aires 14 September 1982) Invented analytical regularization method With J.J. Giambiagi & C.G. Bollini. Analytic regularization and the divergence of quantum fields theories. Nuovo Cimento 31:550-61, 1964  CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Generalizaciones matriciales de un teorema de Smirnov. Rev. Un. Mat. Arg. 30 (1981)   A canonical exponential representation formula for normal impedance matrices (1977) Generalización distribucional de una formula de Bochner (1972) Solución elemental del operador n-dimensional de Klein-Gordon (1969) On some canonical factorization formulae for scattering matrices with applications to circuit synthesis. Illin. J. Math. (1968) Generalizaciones del teorema de
- [Agustín Garaventa](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-garaventa/): Agustín Garaventa Hirtz, Chilean botanist (Limache, Marga Marga Province 07 November 1911 – Limache, Marga Marga Province 31 July 1981) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Alstroemeria ligtu f. flavens 1971 Alstroemeria pulchra f. liliacina 1971 HONORS Garaventia Looser 1945 (Amaryllidaceae)
- [Adolfo Guzman Arenas](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-guzman-arenas/): Adolfo Guzmán Arenas, Mexican computer scientist (Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca State 22 July 1943 – Convert. Design of a language for symbol manipulation and its corresponding processor. Thesis (1965) With R. Segovia. A parallel reconfigurable LISP machine (1976) Decomposition of a visual scene. Into three-dimensional bodies. Proceed. AFIPS Fall Joint Comp. Conf. 33:291-04, 1968 With J. A. Alarcón. Diseño por computadora de fuentes de alimentación de corriente directa (1973) Percepción remota a traves de computadoras: equipo, programas y aplicaciones (1975) With D. Gómez. A digital model for three-dimensional surface representation, J. Geoprocess. 1:53-70, 1979 With E. Bribiesca. How to describe pure forms and
- [Adeodato García Valenzuela](https://neglectedscience.com/adeodato-garcia-valenzuela/): Adeodato García Valenzuela, Chilean biochemist (Coltauco, Cachapoal Province 29 December 1864 – 22 December 1935) Discovered  a ptomaine named hexamethylenediamine or Garcia compound when studied under Hoppe-Seyler in Germany. Published in Zeitschrift fur Physiol. Chemie 27:543-595, 1893. Authored works about Abderhalden test for pregnancy SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Beitrage zur Kenntis des Haarwechsels bei Menschlichen Embryonen und Neugebornen. Morphol. Arbeiten, 1891. With F. Hoppe-Seyler. Las ptomaínas en procesos de putrefación de los líquidos albuminosos Venenos y envenenamientos en Chile
- [Abdul Kasim Mohamed Ghouse](https://neglectedscience.com/abdul-kasim-mohamed-ghouse/): Abdul Kasim Mohamed Ghouse, Indian plant morphologist (Parangipattai, Tamil Nadu State 15 June 1933 – 2015?) Described several taxa with multinucleate fusiform cells Noted certain interesting correlations between cambial behavior and phenological events Elucidated diagnostic anatomical features of a large number of softwood and hardwoods Observed that the proportion of phloem that was actively conducted was noted to vary with taxa and even with the different positions within the plant axis DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES With M. Yunus. A rapid maceration technique to study reaction-xylem developed due to root-knot nematodes. Micr. Acta 80:273-5, 1978 With F. Farooqi & D. Sabir. Use of sodium
- [A. Gopalakrishna](https://neglectedscience.com/a-gopalakrishna/): A. Gopalakrishna, Indian bat researcher (Arkalgud, Karnataka 20 October 1922 – after 1996) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.T.F. Bernard, J.J. Rasweiler IV & N. Badwaik. The anatomy of the female genitalia and the structure of the foetal membranes in Mormoopidae. Bat research News 31:17, 1992 With N. Badwaik. Vascularisation of the placenta in some bats. Proceed. Indian Acad. Sci. 99:289-303, 1990 With N. Badwaik. Growth of the corpus luteum in relation to gestation in some Indian bats. Curr. Sci. 57:883-6, 1988 With N. Badwaik. Trophoblast in chiropteran development. Curr. Sci. 57:830-4, 1988 Migratory pattern of some Indian bats. Myotis p.223-7, 1986 With K.B.
- [Xinfang Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/xinfang-fang/): Xinfang Fang, Chinese industrial microbiologist (1907 – 1992) Expert on fermentation Invented a method to test the alcohol content of the spirits PATENT With Y.T. Chen & X.Z. Hao. Process for producing long-chain alpha, omega-dicarboxylic acid by synchronous fermentation of microbe. Chinese Patent 95117436 HONORS Fangia Lau, Ren, Fung et al. 2007 (Bacteria)
- [William Stephen Finsen](https://neglectedscience.com/william-stephen-finsen/): William Stephen Finsen, South African astronomer (Johannesburg 28 July 1905 – Johannesburg 16 May 1979) From Danish parents and nephew of Nobel Prize winner Niels R. Finsen  Discovered over 300 double stars Developed Finsen eyepiece interferometer   HONORS    Finsen Dorsum on asteroid 433 Eros Asteroid 1794 Finsen
- [Willer Florencio](https://neglectedscience.com/willer-florencio/): Willer Rangel Florencio, Brazilian geochemist (1914 – 19 February 1983) Described ribeirite, a new variety of zirconite Uma nova variedade de zirconita. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 24(3):249-59, 1952 Developed or improved methods Modificação introduzida no processo de Schoeller (1946) Marcha analítica dos minerais do grupo da betafita (1948) Uraninita no Brasil (1948) (gave an analytical scheme for complete analysis of uraninite)
- [Wen Pei Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/wen-pei-fang/): Wen Pei Fang, Chinese botanist (Zhongxian, Sichuan Province 12 December 1899 – Chengdu 30 November 1983) Described 107 plant species, 15 subspecies, 53 varieties and 3 forms
- [Virgilio Gerardo Foglia](https://neglectedscience.com/virgilio-gerardo-foglia/): Virgilio Gerardo Foglia Dufour, Argentine endocrinologist and diabetes researcher (Buenos Aires 13 February 1905 – 15 July 1993) From Italian and French ancestry Considered as one of foremost experts on diabetes physiology in the world Authored over 400 scientific works Eponym of Malgor-Foglia syndrome SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With B.A. Houssay & J.T. Lewis. Papel del pancreas en la regulación de La glucemia (1929) With B. A. Houssay & J.T. Lewis. Action compensatrice on prevention de la greffe pancreatique sur la glycemie diabetique on normal. C. Rend. Soc. Biol. 100:140, 1929   With E. Braun Menendez. El registro grafico de la actividad de los
- [Vicente Fernandez Rodriguez](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-fernandez-rodriguez/): Vicente Fernandez Rodríguez, Mexican chemist and inventor (Silao, Guanajuato State 05 April 1836 – 1901) With Navia discovered the mineral species guanajuatite (1873) described by del Castillo Discovered Fernandez reagent for studying glucose in urine With Navia discovered several chemical compounds Isolated an alkaloid named agavine or agavic acid from Agave sp. (1876) With Navia developed the alcoholic tincture of Guayacán resin as a reagent for recognizing manganese oxides, alkalis and alkaline carbonates (1886) INVENTIONS Short-range phone Microphone Solar powered apparatus for raising water from wells Sewing machine Pneumatic Clock Pluviograph 
- [Toshiyasu Fujioka](https://neglectedscience.com/toshiyasu-fujioka/): Toshiyasu Fujioka, Brazilian cardiologist (11 February 1923 – São Paulo 22 August 2001) With L.V. Decourt, J.V. Barbas, J.L. Faria, M.F. Lion & U. Andrade e Silva. Pulmonary schistosomotic arteriovenous fistulas producing a new cyanotic syndrome in Manson’schistosomiasis. Amer. Heart J. 58:556-67, 1959 With D.P. Garcia, R. Macruz & S.S. da Silva. New technique for catheterization of the ductus arteriosus. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 24(4):71-6, 1971 With R. Macruz, L.V. Decourt et al. The costobronchogenic angle – a new method for the radiologic evaluation of volumetric changes in the left atrium. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 28(5):523-35, 1975 Established an original mathematical correlation between
- [Teodoro Flores](https://neglectedscience.com/teodoro-flores/): Teodoro Flores de los Reyes, Mexican engineer and geologist (Ciudad de Mexico 08 April 1873 – 14 February 1955)  MEMBERSHIP/HONORS Vice President, XV International Geological Congress, Toronto, Canada (1913) Honorary Member, Geological Society of America Genus Floresomys Fries, Hibbard & Dunkle 1955 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Te-pei Feng](https://neglectedscience.com/te-pei-feng/): Te-pei Feng, Chinese neurophysiologist  (Linhai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province 20 February 1907 – Shanghai 10 April 1995) Authored over 100 scientific papers Discovered the increase of the resting heat production of muscle on passive stretch known as Feng effect Effect of length on resting metabolism of muscle. J. Physiol. 74:441-54, 1932 Published important studies on neuromuscular junction that were internationally recognized  (1936-41) Discovered the phenomenon of postdenervation hypertrophy in the slow muscle fibers of the chick With H.W. Jung & W.Y. Wu. The contrast trophic changes of the anterior and posterior latissimus dorsi of the chick  following denervation. Acta Physiol. Sinica
- [Tarciso Filgueiras](https://neglectedscience.com/tarciso-filgueiras/): Tarciso de Sousa Filgueiras, Brazilian botanist (Goiânia 03 February 1946 – Goiânia 18 May 2019) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Altoparadisium 2001 with Davidse, Zuloaga & Morrone Cambajuva 2013 with Viana & Clark Canastra 2001 with Morrone, Zuloaga & Davidse Ophiochloa 1993 with Davidse & Zuloaga Rheochloa 1999 with Peterson & Herrera Section Paspalum sect. Biaristata 1994 with Davidse Species Allagoptera robusta 2015 with Martins Altoparadisium chapadense 2001 with Davidse, Zuloaga & Morrone Andropogon crispifolius 1995 with Guala Andropogon saxicola 2019 with Zanin, Viana & Welker Arthropogon bolivianus 1986 Arthropogon filifolius 1981 Arthropogon rupestris 1996 Atractantha shepherdiana 2011 with Santos Gonçalves & Clark Aulonemia cincta 2014 with Viana Aulonemia soderstromii 2014 with Viana & Judziewicz Aulonemia xerophylla 2013 with Viana & Judziewicz
- [Tancredo Alves Furtado](https://neglectedscience.com/tancredo-alves-furtado/): Tancredo Alves Furtado, Brazilian dermatologist (Carmo do Parnaíba, Minas Gerais State 13 April 1923 – Belo Horizonte 25 July 2014) Authored over 200 scientific works with 60 of them in foreign reviews and books RELEVANT PAPERS Critérios para o diagnóstico de leishmaniose tegumentar americana. An. Bras. Dermatol. 65:51-6, 1980 Mechanism of infection in South American blatomycosis. Dermatol. Trop. 2:27-32, 1963 Manifestações tardias da framboesia. Thesis (1955) Late manifestations of yaws. AMA Arch. Derm. 76(4):446-51, 1957 With A.C. Veigas & F.J.F. de Oliveira. Gentamicina, um novo antibiótico de uso tópico, no tratamento das piodermites e impetiginações. O Hospital 75(3):1041-4, 1969 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
- [Sylvio Ferraz Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/sylvio-ferraz-mello/): Sylvio Ferraz Mello, Brazilian astrophysicist (São Paulo 26 October 1936 – Known worldwide as a specialist on the dynamics of bodies in the solar system, perturbation theory in celestial mechanics and in dynamical systems in general Studied the role of resonances in orbital dynamics of solar systems and dissipative processes in solar system evolution  ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced a special shadow function or approximation (1964) Developed a perturbation model valid for very high eccentricities Discovered chaotic eccentricity jumps to values larger than 0.9 in 3.1 resonance with Jupiter Creep Tides. A new model to study the tidal evolution of close-in satellites and exoplanets. Rev. Mex.
- [Shouxian Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/shouxian-fang/): Shouxian Fang, Chinese nuclear physicist (Shanghai 27 October 1932 – Beijing 19 January 2020) With Kaiyu Wei discovered a nonisochronous phenomenon in isochronous cyclotrons (1962) Played a role in the design of a new heavy current antiproton accumulator ring Developed a dispersion removal method for small and medium circular accelerators (1982-3) Proposed a design of compensation of solenoid effects by skew quadruples in electron positron collider making machines performance superior to those in the world PATENTS With J. Tang & X. Guan. Equalizing method of beam emittance. CN200910077726 (2009) With X. Du. Movable horizontal intraoperative radiotherapy apparatus. CN201110165386 (2012) With X. Du.
- [Sergio Henrique Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-henrique-ferreira/): Sérgio Henrique Ferreira, Brazilian pharmacologist (Franca, São Paulo State 04 October 1934 – Ribeirão Preto 17 July 2016) ACHIEVEMENTS Gained international recognition for his studies on field of inflammatory analgesics Authored 281 papers (until early 2013) Proposed that the aspirin’s mechanism of action was due to prevention of pain receptors sensibilization  as a consequence of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition   With J.R. Vane and Y.S. Bakhle obtained experimental evidence that angiotensin inhibition could be a hypertension therapy   With M. Rocha e Silva discovered and isolated bradykinin potentiating factor or BPF (1965) Discovered peripheral analgesic mechanism of action of dipyrone   Discovered peripheral action of morphine
- [Ruy Faria](https://neglectedscience.com/ruy-faria/): Ruy Faria, Brazilian hematologist (Rio de Janeiro 17 October 1914 – ?) His paper A transfusão de sangue em ginecologia e obstetrícia. Ann. Bras.Ginec. 2:1, 1936 was quoted by Kilduffe & DeBakey in their treatise The Blood bank and the technique and Therapeutics of transfusion (1942) CONTRIBUTIONS Novo aparelho de transfusão de sangue (1941) Modificação de técnica na determinação dos grupos sanguíneos. Rev. Paul. Med. 3:137, 1948 Transfusão improvisada. Ann. Paul. Med. Cir. (1950) Membership Elected Member, International Society of Hematology 
- [Ruy Escorel Ferreira Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/ruy-escorel-ferreira-santos/): Ruy Escorel Ferreira-Santos, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 10 October 1917 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 26 October 2003) Created innovative techniques in cardiac and chest surgeries Developed subtotal esophagectomy with cervical esophagogastric anastomosis by a posterior mediastinal route (Ferreira-Santos technique) With H. Camara Lopes. Indicação seletiva do processo de Heller, da ressecção parcial e da ressecção subtotal do esôfago no tratamento cirúrgico do megaesôfago. Rev. Paul. Med. 52:269-75, 1958 Proposed a classification for stages of affected esophagus in Chagas disease (1968)
- [Rui Ribeiro Franco](https://neglectedscience.com/rui-ribeiro-franco/): Rui Ribeiro Franco, Brazilian petrologist and mineralogist (São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo State 09 June 1916 – São Paulo 20 February 2008) Authored about 50 papers and 4 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W. Loewenstein. Zirconium from the region of Poços de Caldas. Am. Mineral. 33:142-51, 1948 Beryl at Altinho, Pernambuco. Mineria y Metalurgia 9:201-2, 1949 With J.F. Schairer. Liquidus temperatures in mixtures of the feldspars of soda, potash and lime. J. Geol. 59:259-67, 1951 HONORS Ruifrancoite Atencio, Chukanov, Coutinho, Menezes Filho, Dubinchuk & Mockel 2007 (Mineral)
- [Rubens Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/rubens-ferreira/): Rubens Ferreira, Brazilian physiologist (São Paulo 13 March 1901 – Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1972) ACHIEVEMENTS Published nearly 180 works Invented electric devices for studying metabolism   Described the complex of defensive reactions in gastric mucosa (1946) Developed electrotherapeutic methods for curing internal lesions known as metamerotherapy Da metameroterapia. Brasil Medico 66(33-35):505-26, 1952.     See www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/radiguet/rf.html  (in Portuguese)
- [Roberto Farina](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-farina/): Roberto Farina, Brazilian plastic surgeon (São Paulo 11 June 1915 – 16 November 2001) Developed Frontal flap method Nose tip collapse through loss of chondro-mucous substance (repair of nasal lining). Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 13(2):137-43, 1954 Described Farina “riding trousers” type of resection With R. Baroudi, B. Golcman & O. de Castro. Riding-trousers like type of pelvicrural lipodystrophy (trochanteric lipomatosis). Brit. J. Plast. Surg. (1960) Invented nasolabial flap as a method of correcting nasal lining defects in leprosy patients Collapse of the tip of the nose in leprosy caused by loss of chondro-mucosal substance (repair of the nasal mucosa with nasogenal flaps). Ann. Chir.
- [Ricardo de Lemos Froes](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-de-lemos-froes/): Ricardo de Lemos Fróes, Brazilian botanist (Maranhão State 1891 – 1960) DESCRIBED NEW PLANT SPECIES Anacardium negrense 1948 with Pires Axonopus caracarahyensis 1950 with Black Buchenavia longibracteata 1950 Froesia crassiflora 1950 with Pires Humiriastrum villosum 1950 Ichnanthus ephemeroblepharis 1948 with Black Ichnanthus tarumanensis 1950 with Black Lorostemon negrensis 1959 Quiina paraensis 1950 with Pires Schnella longiseta 1950  Strychnos malacosperma 1955 with Ducke Strychnos oyapocensis 1959 Theobroma canumanense 1964 with Pires Ziziphus itacaiunensis 1959 HONORS Froesia Pires 1948 (Quiinaceae) Froesiochloa Black 1950 (Poaceae) Froesiodendron Fries 1956 (Annonaceae) Lemosfroesia (Moraceae)
- [Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-de-carvalho-ferreira/): Ricardo de Carvalho Ferreira, Brazilian chemist (Recife 16 January 1928 – Recife 30 July 2013) Authored 129 papers (until 2010) Elaborated the concept of orbital electronegativity Studied the relationship of concept of electronegativity and its connection with the character of the molecular orbitals Proposed that adaptative enzymes of orbital symmetry that catalyze bimolecular reactions would have two active centers while that others that catalyze single molecular reactions would have only one active center  Enzymes as orbital symmetry adapters. J. Theor. Biol. 39:665-8, 1953 Proposed a modification of Kosiakoff-Harker method to calculate the aqueous ionization constants of some inorganic acids (1957)  SOME
- [René Geronimo Favaloro](https://neglectedscience.com/rene-geronimo-favaloro/): René Geronimo Favaloro Raffaelli, Argentine cardiac surgeon (La Plata 14 July 1923 – Buenos Aires 29 July 2000) Son of Sicilian immigrants Authored 363 medical works Performed first dissection of internal  mammary artery through an anterior incision (1967) Performed the first documented successful coronary artery bypass graft (1967)  Saphenous vein autograft replacement of severe segmental coronary artery occlusion: operative technique. Ann. Thorac. Surg. 5:334-9, 1968 Performed first bypass surgery for acute infarction (1968) Proposed surgical treatment of evolving infarction With D. Effler, C. Cheanvechai, R. Quint & M. Sones. Acute coronary insufficiency (impeding myocardial infarction and myocardial infarction). Am. J. Cardiol.
- [Ramón Ferreyra](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-ferreyra/): Ramón Alejandro Ferreyra Huerta, Peruvian botanist and plant geographer (Callao Province, Lima Department 26 February 1912 – 06 June 2005) Authored over 150 works and 8 books Described 88 species and 3 varietes in Plantae HONORS (Asteraceae) Ferreyranthus Robinson & Brettell 1974 Ferreyrella Blake 1958 
- [Pinwen Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/pinwen-fang/): Pinwen Fang or Bingwen Fang, Chinese ichthyologist (1903 – 1944) DESCRIBED FISH TAXA Valid Genera Huigobio 1938 Liniparhomaloptera 1935 Paraprotomyzon 1934 with Pellegrin Pseudogyrinocheilus 1933 Sinibotia 1936 Sinocyclocheilus 1936 Sinogastromyzon 1930 Valid Species Aphthalmichthys wui 1942 Apogon tchefouensis 1942 Balitora kwangsiensis 1930 Beaufortia kweichowensis 1931 Beaufortia pingi 1930 Beaufortia szechuanensis 1930 Beaufortia zebroidus 1930 Carcharhinus latistomus 1932 with Wang Devario laoensis 1940 with Pellegrin Gnathopogon nicholsi 1943 Gobiobotia abbreviata 1931 with Wang Gobiobotia longibarba 1931 with Wang Gobiobotia tungi 1933 Gobiomorphus pellegrini 1942 Hemibagrus filamentus 1949 with Chaux Hemibagrus wiyckoides 1949 with Chaux Hemiculter tchangi 1942 Hemimyzon yaotanensis 1931 Hemisalanx brachyrostralis 1934 Huigobio chenhsienensis 1938 Leptobotia pellegrini 1936 Leptobotia tchangi 1936 Mystacoleucus greenwayi 1940 with Pellegrin Nemacheilus angeli 1941 Ompok urbaini 1949 with Chaux Onychostoma angustistromata 1940 Pangasius krempfi 1949 with Chaux Paraprotomyzon multifasciatus 1935 with
- [Pedro Farinas](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-farinas/): Pedro Luis Fariñas y Mayo, Cuban radiologist (Santa Clara, Cuba 19 October 1892 – La Habana 26 April 1951) Performed the first aortography by femoral puncture (introduced abdominal aortography with injection into a catheter that was slipped into the femoral artery through a trocar) A new technique for the arteriographic examination of the abdominal aorta and its branches. Am. J. Roentgenol. 46:641-4, (1941) Obtained the first pelvic venography (1947) Developed a device for injecting opaque substance through a syringe Developed a new method for diagnosis of pulmonary neoplasies Authored Metodo de exploración radiologico del aparato respiratorio (1941)
- [Paulo Leal Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-leal-ferreira/): Paulo Leal Ferreira, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 16 July 1925 – São Paulo 30 December 2005) SOME CONTRIBUTIONS With J.A.C. Alcaras & A.P. Galeão. A model of the deuteron based on a Breit type equation. Mod. Phys. Lett. A9 (14):1327-33, 1994 With A.P. Galeão. General method for reducing the 2-body Dirac equation. J. Mathem. Physics 33(7):2618-25, 1992  With J.A. Helayel & N. Zagury. A linear potential model for quark confinement. Nuovo Cimento 55(2):215-26, 1980 A theorem for a class of motions in a spherical geometry. J. Physics A: Mathem. General 16(9):2087-91, 1983 With M.B. Santos. Gradient formula for the four
- [Oswaldo Paulo Forattini](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-paulo-forattini/): Oswaldo Paulo Forattini, Brazilian medical entomologist and epidemiologist (Rosario, Argentina 10 January 1924 – São Paulo 15 September 2007) Son of Italian immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 243 papers and 14 books Gained world renown in epidemiology and medical entomology Studied the epidemiology of many tropical diseases and ecology of its vectors Elaborated an epidemiological model of transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis  Showed that dipteran species  Psorophora ferox was competent for transmitting arbovirus in laboratory With C.J. Mitchell & B.R. Miller. Vector competence with Rocio virus and three mosquito species from the epidemic zone in Brazil. Rev. Saude Publica 20(3):171-7, 1986. Isolated new viral agents (Cotia
- [Oswaldo Frota Pessoa](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-frota-pessoa/): Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, Brazilian geneticist (Rio de Janeiro 30 March 1917 – São Paulo 24 March 2010) DISEASES With A. Richieri Costa & S.M. Garcia da Silva. Late infantile autosomal recessive myotonia, mental retardation, and skeletal abnormalities: a new autosomal recessive syndrome. J. Med. Genet. 21(2):103-7, 1984 With A. Richieri Costa. Atrichia, abnormal EEG, epilepsy and mental retardation in two sisters. Hum. Hered. 29(5):292-7, 1979 With C. Penha-Serrano, D. Klein & M. Zatz. A malignant form of neurogenic muscular atrophy in adults, with dominant inheritance. J. Genet. Hum. 19:337-54, 1971 With J.A. Escalante & H. Grunspun. Severe sex-linked mental retardation. J. Genet.
- [Osvaldo Coutinho de Faria](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-coutinho-de-faria/): Oswaldo Coutinho de Faria, Brazilian scientist in France (Rio de Janeiro 06 November 1886 – ?) INVENTIONS A simplified system to transform alternate to continuous currents (AC/DC) (1903)  A transformer (1903) Kinetophone, a forerunner of vitaphone (1897) Introduced improvements in radiography and cinematography
- [Orestes Fiandra](https://neglectedscience.com/orestes-fiandra/): Orestes Alfredo Fiandra Cuculic, Uruguayan cardiologist (Montevideo 04 August 1921 – Montevideo 22 April 2011) From Italian and Croatian descent  Authored over 180 papers and 5 books With Roberto Rubio performed the first long-term pacemaker to be successfully implanted on a human in the world (1960) Developed self-anchoring electrode for permanent endocardial stimulation Suggested a new shape for endocardial electrode Developed an low threshold off electrode for cardiac pacemaker (1990) PATENTS Autofixation electrode Implantable artificial heart for human use (1994) With R. Suarez Antola an electrode for electric stimulation of living tissues HONOURS Member, New York Academy of Sciences 
- [Olympio da Fonseca](https://neglectedscience.com/olympio-da-fonseca/): Olympio Arthur Oliveira Ribeiro da Fonseca, Brazilian physician  (Rio de Janeiro 07 May 1895 – Rio de Janeiro 19 April 1978) Brother of Brazilian zoologist Flávio da Fonseca ACHIEVEMENTS Performed studies in mycology, parasitology and tropical medicine Authored 150 works Showed that the pandemic flu was a virosis independently With A.M. Cunha & O. Magalhães. Estudos experimentais sobre a influenza pandemica. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 10:174-91, 1918 First to demonstrate a sexual process in reproduction of blastomycosis-causating pathogenic yeasts in man (Debaryomyces sp.), 1922   Individualized and named chromoblastomycosis With Fernando Terra, Magarinos Torres & Area Leão. Novo typo de dermatite verrucosa, mycose
- [Octavio Marcondes Ferraz](https://neglectedscience.com/octavio-marcondes-ferraz/): Octavio Marcondes Ferraz, Brazilian civil engineer (São Paulo 23 November 1896 – São Paulo 08 February 1990) With Domingos Marchetti, Gentil Norberto & André Jules Balança designed and built underground power plant Paulo Afonso I whose large scale rock excavation was one of the world’s great engineering feats of the 1950s (1949-55) Developed an original process of river shunt using cellular caissons in order to construct a hydroelectric plant (1955). This process permitted Brazilians create it without requering foreign specialists.   First use in the world of floating iron beam coffin
- [Newton Freire-Maia](https://neglectedscience.com/newton-freire-maia/): Newton Freire Maia, Brazilian human geneticist (Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais State 29 June 1918 – Curitiba 10 May 2003) Authored 474 works Recognized world authority in genetics of consanguineous marriages and ectodermal dysplasias With Marta Pinheiro created a worldwide used classification for ectodermal dysplasias With M. Pinheiro. Ectodermal dysplasias – some recollections and a classification. Birth Defects Orig. Art.Ser. 24:3-14, 1988.   With Marta Pinheiro authored Ectodermal Dysplasias: a Clinical and Genetic Study (1984), the first book in the world about this theme   NEW ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS With I. Cat, L.P. Marinoni, D.J. Giraldi, V.P. Furtado, R. Pasquini & H. Braga. Epidermolysis  bullosa dystrophica, hypoplastic type,
- [Newton Faller](https://neglectedscience.com/newton-faller/): Newton Faller, Brazilian electrical engineer and computer scientist (Rio de Janeiro 25 January 1947 – São Paulo 09 October 1996) Proposed the adaptive Huffman algorithms or Faller-Gallagher-Knuth algorithm, improved by Gallagher (1978) and Knuth (1985) An adaptive system for data compression. Record 7th Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems and Computers, pp.593-7, 1973 Headed the group that developed multiprocessor Pegasus and operating system Tropix, a real-time Unix-like operating system for PCs (1982-6) With P. Salembach & M.L. Anido. Design techniques used in the construction of the Pegasus 32X supermicrocomputer and the Plurix Operating System. Proc. Convención Inform. Latina (CIL-85), pp.178-95, 1985 With P. Salenbauch. Plurix:
- [Miguel Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-fernandez/): Miguel Fernandez, Argentine biologist (Essen, Germany 25 September 1883 – Alta Gracia, Cordoba Province 29 April 1950) From Argentine father and German mother Performed contributions to histology, embriology and morphogenesis Demonstrated mesodermal origin of the vascular apparatus in Invertebrates  Zur mikroskopische Anatomie des Blutgefässystems der Tunikaten Nebst Bemerkungen zur Phylogenie des Blutefassystems in allemeinen. Jenaische Zeitscher 39 (1904) Discovered and proved polyembryony in Mammalia Beitrage zur Embriologie der Gürteltiere. I. Zur Keimblatt erinversion und spezifischen polyembryonie der mulita (Tatusia hybrida Desm.). Morphol. Jahrbuch 39:302-33, 1909  HONORS Fernandezina Birabén 1951 (Arachnida) His wife, Kati Marcinowski de Fernandez, German / Argentine zoologist (Breslau 20 December
- [Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-domingo-fuertes-loren/): Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren, Spanish-born Dominican priest, explorer, plant collector and geologist (Daroca, Zaragoza Province 04 August 1871 – Santo Domingo 04 March 1926) Discovered a number of new species from Dominican flora Cited as a discoverer of larimar, a blue variety of pectolite (1916) HONORS Fuertesia Urban 1911 (Loasaceae) Fuertesiella Schlechter 1913 (Orchidaceae)
- [Mario Guimarães Ferri](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-guimaraes-ferri/): Mário Guimarães Ferri, Brazilian botanist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 07 July 1918 –São Paulo 15 June 1985) Expert on plant hormones and ecology  Developed a biological test for detecting auxins in plants With Lúcia V. de Camargo. Influence of growth substances on the pulvini of the primary leaves of bean plants. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Preliminary observations on the translocation of synthetic growth substances. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 14, 1945 With S.G. Wildman & J. Bonner. The enzymatic conversion of tryptophan to auxin by spinach leaves. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 13:131, 1947 With A. Lex.
- [Manoel Basilio Furtado](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-basilio-furtado/): Manoel Basílio Furtado, Brazilian physician, ethnographer and naturalist (Queluz, Minas Gerais State 02 November 1826 – Rio Novo, Minas Gerais State 13 May 1903) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Anotações sobre o café Descrição de duas gitiranaboyas Descrição das águas minerais do Capim, município de Muriaé, Minas Geraes Descrição do gavião de penacho ou Montaurana Descrição e história de um crânio humano, achado em uma gruta de São Geraldo Estudo sobre o bicho da Taquaraquicé (1882) Notas sobre o vaga-lumes Operação do Trepano. Thesis, Academia de Medicina Rio de Janeiro Pequeno dicionário de palavras indígenas (1878) Itinerário de Senhor Bom Jesus do Itabapoana (RJ)
- [Luiz Guimarães Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-guimaraes-ferreira/): Luiz Guimarães Ferreira, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 05 January 1937 – Authored 136 papers (until 2011) ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced transition state concept independent from Slater  With J.R. Leite. Effects of the Coulomb Correlation on the Calculated Results of Atoms and Ions with and without Spin-Polarization. Physical Review A.3:1224-1230, 1971. Proposed new atomic configurations in a crystalline lattice Developed LDA-1/2, a new methodology for obtaining excited states of a crystal With M. Marques & L.K. Teles. Approximation to density functional theory for the calculation of band-gaps of semiconductors. Physical Review B – Solid State 78:125116, 2008   OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With C.J.A. Quadros. Fourier method
- [Lizhi Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/lizhi-fang/): Lizhi Fang, Chinese astrophysicist (Peking 12 February 1936 – Tucson, Arizona 06 April 2012) Authored 340 papers, book chapters and conference papers Suggested that the universe may be closed in Acta Astronomica Sinica 17:134, 1977 Proposed that the periodic distribution of quasars can be explained if the Universe has a non-trivial topology Developed  new models and new predictions to the direct observations of cosmic reonization With J. Pando developed a method for measuring the spectrum of a density field by a discrete wavelet space-scale decomposition (1985) A new type relativistic object – SS433. Chin. J. Nature 2:695, 1979 With S.J. Gu. A
- [Liang Fei](https://neglectedscience.com/liang-fei/): Liang Fei, Chinese herpetologist (1936 – Chengdu, Sichuan Province 04 June 2022) DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Genera Glandirana 1990 with Ye & Huang Kurixalus 1999 with Ye & Dubois Pachyhynobius 1983 with Qu & Wu Parapelophryne 2003 with Ye & Jiang Pseudohynobius 1983 with Yang Strauchbufo 2012 with Ye & Jiang Species Amolops xinduqiao 2017 with Ye, Wang & Jiang Bufotes zamdaensis 1999 with Ye & Huang Feihyla fuhua 2010 with Ye & Jiang Ingerophryne ledongensis 2009 with Ye & Huang Kurixalus odontotarsus 1993 with Ye Leptobrachella alpina 1990 with Ye & Li Leptobachella liui 1990 with Ye Leptobrachella ventripunctata 1990 with Ye & Li Leptobrachium guangxiense 2009 with Mo, Ye & Jiang Leptobrachium hainanense 1993 with
- [Kaitai Fang](https://neglectedscience.com/kaitai-fang/): Kaitai Fang, Chinese mathematician and statistician (Taizhou, Jiangsu Province 05 June 1940 – Proposed the idea of uniform designs (1978) with Y. Wang Created visualization analysis  Developed the d operator Found that many existing orthogonal designs were also uniform designs Developed new methods for inference in generalized multivariate analysis Other Contributions Proposed a kind of regression with constraint prescription regression With B.Q. Fang introduced three families of multivariate and matrix l1-norm symmetric distribution with location and scale parameters (1986) With B.Q. Fang introduced a family of multivariate distributions and a criterion of the invariance of statistics (1987) With B.Q. Fang introduced a family
- [Juan Santos Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-santos-fernandez/): Juan Santos Fernandez Hernandez, Cuban ophthalmologist (Union de los Reyes, Matanzas Province 22 July 1847 – La Habana 06 August 1922) Authored over 2000 scientific works and notes Studied ocular pathologies as such as ocular complications of malaria, changes in eyeground due to toxic and infectious causes, ocular surgery with anesthetic application and trachoma and its epidemic variety Proposed the utilization of eserine in cataract operation (1875) First reported the temporal optic disc pallor considered pathognomonic of Cuban epidemic Neuropathy and tobacco and alcohol-related amblyopia (1875) La ambliopia alcoholica en la Isla de Cuba y de un sintoma coadyuvante, no descrito
- [Juan Flegenheimer](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-flegenheimer/): Juan Gerson Flegenheimer, Argentine radiochemist of Dutch-Jewish parentage (31 July 1928 – Necochea, Buenos Aires Province 28 August 2021) DESCRIBED NEW ISOTOPES Hafnium 83 with Gatti  Molybdenum 105 Technetium 102m Rhenium 189 with Baró & Viirsoo Rhenium 190m with Baró Technetium 102 with Seelmann Eggebert Technetium 105 with Seelmann Eggebert Technetium 103 with Geithoff   BIBLIOGRAPHY With G.B. Baró & Y.M. Virsoo. Dos nuevos radioisotopes de renio y tungsteno (1966) With G.B. Baro. A2,8 hour Rhenium isotop. Radiochim. Acta 1:2, 1962 With W. Seelmann-Eggebert. Neue Spalttechnetium isotope 104Tc. Z. Naturforschg. 678 (1958) With D. Geithoff. Uber die Bestimmung des18-und 4,5 min-technetiums und ein
- [Juan Farill y Solares](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-farill-y-solares/): Juan Farill y Solares, Mexican orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 February 1902 – 24 June 1973) Authored 87 scientific and popular works Advocated arthrograms of congenitally dislocated hips (1952) INTRODUCED Skeletal traction with fixation The employment of contrast mielography for discal lesions diagnosis Arteriography for bone tumours diagnosis   TECHNIQUES Personal therapeutic conduct in the treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip in children. Anal. Ortop. Traum. Montevideo 3:281, 1950 Reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip in children; personal technic. Pediatr. Am. 9(3):97-107, 1951   Orthoradiographic measurement of shortening of the lower extremity; technic. Med. Radiogr. Photogr. 29:32-8, 1953  Tratamiento
- [Juan Carlos Forte](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-forte/): Juan Carlos Forte, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 16 February 1949 – During his post-doctoral research at Kitt Peak National Observatory (Arizona, USA) was involved in one of the first massive applications of digital techniques for image processing in astronomy: the study of the rich globular cluster systems associated with the giant galaxy M87 ACHIEVEMENTS With F.R. Faifer, C.G. Escudero, M. Norris et al. First confirmed ultra-compact dwarf in the NGC5044 group. Astron. Astrophys. 599:L8, 2017 First study of metallicity-sensitive C-T1 photometry of a low-luminosity elliptical galaxy With D. Geisler, P.G. Ostrov, A.E. Piatti & W. Gieren. The globular cluster system of
- [Juan Carlos Fasciolo](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-fasciolo/): Juan Carlos Fasciolo Rosso, Argentine biochemist (Pigue 05 April 1911 – Mendoza 11 October 1993) Authored over 100 papers  With L.F. Leloir, J. M. Muñoz, E. Braun-Menendez and A. Taquini discovered angiotensin and described enzymatic nature of renin-angiotensin system and its relationship to arterial hypertension Recognized that renal ischemia induces renin secretion Angiodiactin: a new vasodilator substance of the tissues. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 3:1, 1953  With H.L. Nolly & R.R. Cabrera. Chymotensin – an angiotensin-like substance released from human plasma by chymotrypsin. Acta Physiol. Lat.Am. 24(5):484-7, 1974 Papers in top journals With J.M. Muñoz, L.F. Leloir & A.C. Taquini. Hypertensin: the substance
- [João Ferreira Teixeira de Freitas](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-ferreira-teixeira-de-freitas/): João Ferreira Teixeira de Freitas, Brazilian helminthologist (Rio de Janeiro 15 March 1912 – 10 April 1970) Described at least 8 orders and 10 families  DESCRIBED HELMINTH GENERA Nematoda Avellaria 1934 with Freitas Batracholandros 1965 with Ibañez Brevigraphidium 1960 with Machado de Mendonça Brevithominx 1964 with Travassos & Machado de Mendonça Caenostrongylus 1938 with Lent Capillostrongyloides 1935 with Lent Chabaudgolvania 1958 Didactylurus 1960 with Dobbin Gongylonemoides 1937 Graphidiops 1938 Heligmoskrjabinia 1937 with Lent Helminthoxys 1937 with Lent & Almeida Heterakoides 1956 Inglisakis 1969 with Vicente & Santos Lutznema 1934 with Lent Mariostrongylus 1967 with Franco Migonella 1946 with Freitas & Proença Moaciria 1956 Molinema 1939 with Lent Nicanoria 1970 with Vicente & Pinto Orthothominx 1960 with Silva Oswaldostrongylus 1934 with Lent Paradeletrocephalus 1947 with Lent
- [João da Silva Feijó](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-da-silva-feijo/): João da Silva Feijó, Brazilian / Portuguese naturalist (Rio de Janeiro 1760 – Rio de Janeiro 10 March 1824) Nee João da Silva Barbosa   Collected rocks, minerals, plants, animals and fossils in Cape Verde (1783-97) and Ceará State (1799-1818) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Memória econômica sobre a raça do gado lanígero na capitania do Ceará, com os meios de organizar os seus rebanhos por princípios rurais, aperfeiçoar a espécie actual das suas ovelhas e conduzir-se no tratamento delas e das suas lãs em utilidade geral do comércio do Brasil, e prosperidade da mesma capitania (1811) Memória sobre a fábrica real de anil na
- [José Pinto da Fonseca](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-pinto-da-fonseca/): José Pinto da Fonseca, Brazilian entomologist (Mariana, Minas Gerais State 03 August 1896 – São Paulo 27 July 1982) Authored over 200 papers DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Achantomedes 1974 with Von Diringshofen Anopulvinaria 1972 Eunusa 1974 Gonoconophora 1950 Hypsoprorachis 1969 with Von Diringshofen Mesoselenaspidus 1970 Neoischnaspis 1970 Oedacanthus 1951 Parakermes 1973 Parapulvinaria 1969 Pendularia 1927 Perilecanium 1962 Pseudoselenaspidus 1962 Taunaya 1934 Described about 70 new species between Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera HONORS Fonsechellus Silvestri 1946 (Coleoptera) Fonsecaiulus Young 1977 (Hemiptera)
- [José María Manuel Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-manuel-fernandez/): José Maria Manuel Fernandez, Argentine leprologist (Tucumán 04 September 1902 – Rosario 21 July 1963) Developed an early hypersensitivity reaction in the lepromin test known as Fernandez reaction The early reaction induced by lepromin. Internat. J. Leprosy 8:1-14, 1940 Developed a method for obtaining pure bacilli of Mycobacterium leprae  With N. Olmos Castro. Estandardización de la lepromina. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. 25:235,   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudio comparativo de la reacción de Mitsuda con las reacciones tuberculínicas (1938) Cicatriz residual de lepra tuberculoide infantil. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 9:337-50, 1941 With J.H. Hanks. Enhancement of resistance to murine leprosy by BCG plus specific antigen. Internat. J.
- [José Lopes de Faria](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-lopes-de-faria/): José Lopes de Faria, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Capela Nova, Minas Gerais State 18 May 1917 – Campinas, São Paulo State 01 January 2009) Authored about 80 works and 5 books Performed original research on leprosy, vascular alterations in schistosomiasis, dissecting aneurysms, basal cells carcinoma, organic changes in shock and atherosclerosis Performed the first studies about aeronauts breathing at high altitudes (1950s) With L.V. Decourt, J.V. Barbas, T. Fujioka, M.F. Lion & U. Andrade e Silva. Pulmonary schistosomotic arteriovenous fistulas producing a new cyanotic syndrome in Manson’schistosomiasis. Amer. Heart J. 58:556-67, 1959 Presented a new renal biopsy technique (open kidney puncture biopsy)
- [José Gomes de Faria](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-gomes-de-faria/): José Gomes de Faria, Brazilian biologist (Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 09 August 1962) ACHIEVEMENTS With M.R. Feitosa demonstrated skin penetration of Necator americanus (1903) Developed a new process of vacination for anthrax With A. Godoy. Sobre um novo processo de vacinação contra o carbúnculo sintomático. Rev. Med. São Paulo 11:338, 1908 Discovered Ancylostoma braziliensis, etiological agent of cutaneous larva migrans (1910) Contribuição para a sistemática helmintologica. Ancylostomum braziliense, n.sp., parazito dos gatos e cães. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2:286, 1910 Obtained a mixed type of bread With A. Neiva. Ensaio sobre a fabricação do pão misto (1922) Developed Gomes de Faria
- [José Foetterle](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-foetterle/): José Gustavo Foetterle, Austrian-born Brazilian entomologist (? – Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State 1929) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA NEW SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES Bedosia itamaraty 1902 Castnia garbei 1902 Dirphiopsis ayuruoca 1901 Dirphiopsis delta 1901 Foetterleia schreineri 1902 Leptophobia itatiayae 1903 Ormiscodes irregularis 1901 Parides hedae 1902 Parides panthonus jaguarae 1902 Prometheus cochrus garbei 1902 Pseudocercyonis glaucope boenninghausi 1902 Pseudomaniola schreineri 1902 Theochila maenacte itatiayae 1902 Trichophassus hayeki 1903 Turmada maravilha 1902 HONORS Foetterleia Viloria 2004 (Lepidoptera)
- [José Felipe Flores](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-felipe-flores/): José Felipe Flores, Guatemalan physician, naturalist and physicist (San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas State, Mexico 01 May 1751 – Madrid 20 June 1824) ACHIEVEMENTS Designed anatomical models of color wax that were mountable and collapsible (1787/1788) being possibly a world pioneer in this area Reported a specific remedy against cancer using gecko flesh that was widely translated to French, English, Italian and German Especifico nuevamente descubierto en el Reino de Guatemala para la curación radical del horrible mal de cancro (1781) Worked on a method to conserve food by means of ethyl alcohol Performed studies in optics and invented a
- [José Faraco](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-faraco/): José Faraco, Brazilian laboratory technician at Instituto Biologico (São Paulo, Brazil) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a staining method for Hansen bacillus later improved by Fite (Faraco-Fite staining) Bacilos de Hansen e cortes de parafina. Método complementar para a pesquisa de bacilos de Hansen em cortes de material incluído em parafina. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 6:177, 1938. Developed a new technique for obtaining smears from nervous tissue in order to study Negri bodies Nova técnica para a obtenção de esfregaços “por compressão e distensão” de partes do encéfalo, medula espinal, etc. para a pesquisa de corpúsculos de Negri. (Coloração rápida dos esfregaços pelo método de
- [José Carneiro Felippe](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-carneiro-felippe/): José Carneiro Felippe, Brazilian statistician and physical chemist (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 06 October 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 15 January 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Dosage de l’urée par la methode comparative. I. Solution étalon. II. Formule pour la preparation de la solution d’hypobromite de sodium au moment de l’emploi. C.R. Soc. Biol. 96(37):1948, 1926 Calculos originais para a aplicação da curva logística e representação do crescimento da população do Brasil (unpublished) Carneiro Felippe technique for studying proteins in blood serum (a Howe technique modification) An innovative process for high concentration solubilisation of mercurial salts (patented) With A. Machado. Uma
- [José Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-carlos-de-figueiredo-ferraz/): José Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz, Brazilian civil engineer (Campinas, São Paulo State 16 September 1918 – São Paulo 26 June 1994) TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS Developed a new process for distribution of stirrups and folded reinforcements Ainda a distribuição da armadura de cisalhamento. Boletim DER (1944) Contribuição ao Estudo das Grelhas. Doctoral Thesis (1951) regarded in Germany as a great contribution to calculating methods Applied probability theory to safety calculation of structures  Fundamentos para uma nova orientação no cálculo estrutural. Thesis (1956) Developed Ferraz protension system (1958) Um novo processo de protensão com sistema próprio de ancoragem na pós-tração (1966) Developed a general
- [Jose Raimundo Fandi](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-raimundo-fandi/): José Raimundo Fandi S., Argentine inventor (Cruz Alta, San Miguel de Tucumán Province 25 December 1926 – His grandfather Julio invented hand shower Founded a political party (Innovación Capitalista) Authored a book Teoria del Todo (Theory of Everything) Authored 250 inventions with over 100 patents INVENTIONS/PATENTS Single piece squeegge (1950) Automatic washing machine   Educative cup and ball toy   Flat and extensible bench vise   Chainless bicycle   A smart traffic signal (with Gabiel Maissonave) Rubber clothespin A torpedo tubes submarine that can be carried by a helicopter A rotary and floating house   A hat (2013) Single piece handle for shovels (1998) Cap for
- [Jose Lima Pedreira de Freitas](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-lima-pedreira-de-freitas/): José Lima Pedreira de Freitas, Brazilian hygienist and parasitologist (Mococa, São Paulo State 12 January 1917 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 15 June  1966) He was the foremost world authority on Chagas disease in his time Authored nearly 70 works Described a new antigen and improved a quantitative reaction of complement fixation for Chagas disease With J.O. Almeida. Nova técnica de fixação de complemento para a moléstia de Chagas (reação quantitativa com antígeno “gelificado” de culturas de Trypanosoma cruzi. O Hospital (R. Janeiro) 35(6):787-800, 1949 With V. Nussenzweig, R. Sonntag , V.Amato Neto et al. proposed in vitro sterilization of blood employing gentian
- [Jorge Fontella Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-fontella-pereira/): Jorge Fontella-Pereira, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 17 December 1936 – Genera (Apocynaceae) Austrochthamalia 2013 with Morillo Morilloa 2014 with Goes & Caceres Moral Species Described 94 species (until 2015) HONORS  Fontellaea Morillo 1994 (Asclepiadaceae)
- [Jorge Ferigolo](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-ferigolo/): Jorge Ferigolo, Brazilian paleontologist (c.1947 – Studied anatomy and pathology of fossil vertebrates DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA Genera Reptilia Decuriasuchus 2011 with França & Langer Guaibasaurus 1999 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Riograndia 2001 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Sacisaurus 2007 with Langer Mammalia Octodontobradys 1993 with Rodrigues dos Santos & Rancy Species Reptilia Colombophis spinosus 2010 with Hsiou & Albino Decuriasuchus quartacolonia 2011 with França & Langer Dicynodontipus protherioides 2008 with Silva, Carvalho & Fernandes Guaibasaurus candelariensis 1999 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Lesothosaurus diagnosticus 2006 with Langer Rhynchosauroides retroversipes 2008 with Silva, Carvalho & Fernandes Riograndia guaibensis 2001 with Bonaparte & Ribeiro Sacisaurus agudoensis 2007 with Langer Mammalia Clyomys riograndensis 2008 with Hadler, Verzi, Vucetich & Ribeiro Octodontobradys puruensis 1993 with
- [Norbel Galanti](https://neglectedscience.com/norbel-galanti/): Norbel L. Galanti Garrone, Argentine-born Chilean biochemist and geneticist (Marcos Juarez, Cordoba Province 05 February 1938 – With V. Jimenez, M. Henríquez & G. Riquelme described the first functional characterization of K+ conductive pathways in protozoan parasites (2011)  With U. Kemmerling & C. Bosco proposed a model for the vertical transmission of Chagas disease (2010) With J.A. Dvorak, J. Grenet & J.P. McDaniel developed a reliable and reproducible method to induce synchrony of DNA synthetic cycle in Kinetoplastida (1994) With M.V. Rojas first clearly demonstrated the presence of methylated bases in the nuclear DNA from trypanosomes (1990)
- [Nicolas J. Gutierrez](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolas-j-gutierrez/): Nicolás José Gutierrez Hernandez, Cuban physician and naturalist (La Habana 10 September 1800 – La Habana 31 December 1890) Performed the third ligature of inner hypogastric iliac artery in the world Ligadura de la arteria iliaca externa. El Observador Habanero 2:107-113, 1844 DESCRIBED VALID LAND MOLLUSCA SPECIES Chondropoma laetum 1858 Eutudorops torquata 1858 Zachrysia baracoensis 1856 Hemitrochus maculifera 1858 Polymita brocheri 1864 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Aneurisma de la femoral. Repert. Med. Habanero 2(2):15-6, 1842 Terapeutica Quirurgica. Estrechez de la uretra. Repert. Med. Habanero 2(4):45-6, 1842 Tetanos. El Observador Habanero 1:78-84, 1844 Comunicación sobre amputación praticada com motivo de fractura del fémur derecho. El Observador Habanero  7:124-9, 1846
- [Nawal Kishore Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/nawal-kishore-gupta/): Nawal Kishore Gupta, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (1917 – ?) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Buckleytrema 1956 (Trematoda) Chelatrema 1970 with Kumari (Trematoda) Cochinocotyle 1971 with Gupta (Trematoda) Echinorhynchoides 1984 with Naqvi (Acanthocephala) Indopodocotyloides 1979 with Sayal (Digenea) Laccadivensia 1976 with Chanana (Monogenea) Neoatractis 1974 with Aggerwal (Nematoda) Roparhynchus 1970 with Kumari (Trematoda) Welchiella 1978 with Kaur (Nematoda) Species Over 70 HONORS Guptatrema Yamaguti 1971 (Trematoda)
- [Muhammad Osman Ghani](https://neglectedscience.com/muhammad-osman-ghani/): Muhammad Osman Ghani, Bengali agricultural chemist and pedologist (Gozadia Village, Kishoregan District, Bengal Presidency 01 March 1912 – Dhaka 21 July 1989) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With K.A. Hasan & H.A. Talukder. Effect of cowdung and water hyacinth on the aggregation of a red soil of Dacca. Pak. J. Soil Sci. 3(1):26, 1957 With M.A. Mannan & K.A. Hasan. Studies on the effect of fish meal and bone meal on the growth of Aus paddy in pot-culture experiments. Agr. Pakistan 14(2):200-3, 1963 The use of 8-hydroxy quinoline as means of blocking active iron and aluminium in the determination of available phosphoric acid of
- [Mohammad Abdul Ghani](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-abdul-ghani/): Mohammad Abdul Ghani, Pakistani agricultural entomologist (Ludhiana, Punjab 10 June 1915 – Islamabad 06 April 2000) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA SPECIES Genera (Coleoptera) Simmondsius 1966 Paksimmondsius 1974 with Ahmad Species Coleoptera Paksimmondsius pakistanensis 1974 with Ahmad Simmondsius pakistanensis 1966 with Ahmad Hemiptera Adelges pindrowi 1971 with Yaseen Pemphigus ignotus 1970 with Habib Pemphigus venosus 1970 with Habib Pemphigus vesicarius 1970 with Habib Pineus ghanii 1971 with Yaseen Pineus simmondsi 1971 with Yaseen Pineus wallichianae 1971 with Yaseen HONORS Ghanius Ahmad 1973 (Coleoptera)
- [Miguel Garcia Vidal](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-garcia-vidal/): Miguel Garcia Vidal, Cuban / US entomologist (fl.1975-89) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA SPECIES Anoplosiagum cubensis 1982 Anoplosiagum oteroi 1982 Anoplosiagum swezeyi 1982 Anoplosiagum turquinensis 1982 Anoplosiagum zayasi 1982 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) ahlbrandti 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) brevicornis 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) castineirasi 1978 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) chalumeaui 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) complexipennis 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) dubitatus 1978 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) franciscana 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) hardyi 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) hernandezi 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) independentista 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) insulaepinorum 1978 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) laboriosa 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) maestrensis 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) marinus 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) migratoria 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) pilotoensis 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) potrerillo 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) sandersoni 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) santiaguensis 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) scaramuzzai 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) sibineyensis 1988 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) spinicola 1984 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) trinitariensis 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) villaclarensis 1987 Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) zayasi 1978   
- [Miguel Angel Galliski](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-angel-galliski/): Miguel Angel Galliski, Argentine mineralogist (1948 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Ferrotitanowodginite 1999 with Cerny, Chapman & Marquez Zavalia Bederite 1999 with Cooper, Hawthorne & Cerny Alfredstelznerite 2010 with Cooper, Hawthorne & Marquez Zavalia Ishiharaite 2015 with Marquez Zavalia, Drabek, Vymazalova, Watanabe, Murakami & Bernhardt Achalaite 2016 with Marquez-Zavalia, Cerny, Lira, Roberts & Bernhardt Ferro-ferri-katophorite 2016 with Colombo, Rius, Molins, Biglia, Marquez-Zavalia, Baldo & Kriscautzky  Liraite 2019 with Biglia, Cooper, Grew, Sfragulla, Marquez-Zavalía, Guereschi, & Yates HONORS Galliskiite Kamp, Colombo, Simmons Jr., Falster & Nizamoff 2010 (Mineral)
- [Mauricio Gudin](https://neglectedscience.com/mauricio-gudin/): Maurício Gudin, Brazilian surgeon (Rio de Janeiro 13 May 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 14 December 1959) Distinguished between crushing and lamination and introduced the term lamination (1916) Performed the first aseptic cholectomy by lamination with suture (1919) METHODS Performed original contributions to improvement of modern methods in surgical asepsis Invented a method of total sterilization (1929) Infection Operatoire et Sterilisation Totale. Mem. Acad. Chir. 61:994, 1935 Asepsie Active et Sterilisation totale. Presse Medicale 355, 1936 The Third phase of surgery. Total sterilization as a basis of integral asepsis and of pasteurian cicatrization. Annals of surgery 45:452-56, 1942 Nouveau procedé d’enterectomie et
- [María Elena Galiano](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-elena-galiano/): María Elena Galiano, Argentine arachnologist (Buenos Aires 25 February 1928 – Buenos Aires 30 October 2000) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA GENERA Admesturius 1988 Ailluticus 1987 Corcovetella 1975 Hisukattus 1987 Kalcerrytus 2000 Nycerella 1982 Simonurius 1988 Sumampattus 1983 Trydarssus 1995 Udalmella 1994 Uspachus 1995 Wedoquella 1984 Yacuitella 1999 Yepoella 1970  Species 159 HONORS (Arachnida) Galianora Maddison 2006 Galianoella Goloboff 2000   Malenella Ramírez 1995
- [Mario Sergio Lomba Galvao](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-sergio-lomba-galvao/): Mário Sergio Lomba Galvão, Brazilian plastic surgeon (Castelo, Espirito Santo State 194? DEVELOPED A rhinoplasty A new technique for facial rejuvenation Galvão method of reduction mammaplasty OTHER METHODS With R.N. Kolbig. The round-ear incision in full face-lifting. Aesthetic Plast. Surg. 32(3):509-16, 2008   With C.E. Pinto & J.C. Sbalchiero. O uso do tubo colônico bipediculado microcirúrgico na reconstrução do esôfago. Rev. Col. Bras. Cir. 30(3):238-40, 2003 A postauricular flap based on the contralateral superficial temporal vessels. Plast. Reconst. Surg. 68:891, 1981 An instrument and technique for making the nipple-areola complex during reduction mammaplasty. Brit. J. Plast. Surg. 31:22, 1978 An improved technique
- [Mario Gonzalez Ulloa](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-gonzalez-ulloa/): Mario Gonzalez Ulloa, Mexican plastic surgeon (Chihuahua 21 March 1913 – 05 March 1995) ACHIEVEMENTS  Refined the placement of a silastic pancake prosthesis for gluteal reconstruction as a cosmetic procedure with a subcutaneous pocket using implants (1977-9) Presented a new transoccipital incision that permits peripheral antigravitational pull of all segments of the face (1972) Introduced the concept of profile-plasty (1964) Described and named the zero-degree facial meridian or Frankfurt-Gonzalez Ulloa facial angle (1962) Developed an innovative facelift incision which neatly circumscribed the entire scalp (1962) With Regnault first described the idea of treating hypoplastic and ptotic breasts with a combined implant and lift
- [Mario Gaitán Yanguas](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-gaitan-yanguas/): Mario Gaitán Yanguas, Colombian radiologist and oncologist (Neiva 28 June 1919 – Bogotá July 1982) Developed new techniques for radiological epilation of scalp SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A study of the response to osteogenic sarcoma and adjacent normal tissues to radiation. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 7:593-5, 1981 With M. Iregui, F. Espinel & G. Velasquez. La bleomicina en el tratamiento de carcinomas escamosos. Rev. Latinoam. Oncol. Clin. 13(3):14-20, 1981 Retinoblastoma: analysis of 235 cases. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 4:359-65, 1978 With K. Tsukamoto. A system for registration and classification of stomach cancer for WHO International Reference Center. Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol.
- [Maria Helena Galileo](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-helena-galileo/): Maria Helena Mainieri Galileo, Brazilian entomologist  (1950 – Described at least 155 genera in Coleoptera (until 2019) HONOURS Galileoana Chemsak 1998 (Coleoptera)
- [Margot Guerra Sommer](https://neglectedscience.com/margot-guerra-sommer/): Margot Guerra-Sommer, Brazilian palaeobotanist (Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul State 12 March 1948 – First to describe dynamics of white rot fungal decay in a petrified conifer branch With A.C.S. Santos, I. Degani-Schmidt, A.M. Siegloch, I.S. Carvalho, J.G. Mendonça Filho & J.O. Mendonça. Fungus-plant interactions in Aptian Tropical Equatorial Hot arid belt: white rot in araucarian wood from Crato fossil Lagersträtte (Araripe Basin, Brazil). Cret. Res. 114, 2020 DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Coricladus 2005 with Jasper e Ricardi-Branco Franscinella 2025 with Carniere, Pozzebon-Silva, Spiekermann, Leandro, Uhl & Jasper Iratinia 2021 with Spiekermann, Jasper, Siegloch & Uhl Sommerxylon Pires & Guerra Sommer 2004
- [Manuel Pereira de Godoy](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-pereira-de-godoy/): Manuel Pereira de Godoy, Brazilian fisheries biologist and historian (Pirassununga, São Paulo State 22 April 1922 – Pirassununga, São Paulo State 14 October 2003) Internationally known for his studies on migration and reproduction of rheophilic fishes   Authored 130 technical works about fisheries and anthropology DESCRIBED FISH SPECIES Astyanax trierythropterus 1970 Hypostomus luteus 1980 Hypostomus topavae 1969 Leporinus amae 1980 Sternachella curvioperculata 1968
- [Manuel Gonzalez Sponga](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-gonzalez-sponga/): Manuel Angel Gonzalez Sponga, Venezuelan arachnologist (Guatire, Miranda 30 April 1929 – Caracas 01 March 2009) DESCRIBED TAXA Atractus emigdioi 1971 (Reptilia) About 225 new Myriapoda species One family, 63 genera and 353 species in Arachnida HONORS   Spongaobaria Ozdikmen 2008 (Arachnida)
- [Manuel Gonzalez Echeverría](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-gonzalez-echeverria/): José Manuel Alejandro González Echeverría, Cuban physician (La Habana 24 April 1833 – La Habana 26 March 1898) From Venezuelan father and Cuban mother   World famous as ophthalmoscopist and epileptologist Described pupil and retina capillaries conditions along epileptical crisis Observed the anatomical lesions that caused paroxysmal brain discharges Authored On Epilepsy. Anatomo-Pathological and clinical notes (1870) praised by medical international press
- [Malcolm Hutchison Giffen](https://neglectedscience.com/malcolm-hutchison-giffen/): Malcolm Hutchison Giffen, South African phycologist (Rosebank, Cape Town 06 July 1902 – East London, Buffalo City, Eastern Cape Province 16 September 1986) Described genus Cuneolus 1970 and 89 new species of diatoms HONORS Giffenia Round & Basson 1997 (Bacillariophyceae)
- [Lélio Itapuambyra Gama](https://neglectedscience.com/lelio-itapuambyra-gama/): Lélio Itapuambyra Gama, Brazilian mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (Rio de Janeiro 29 August 1892 – Rio de Janeiro 21 July 1981)  Introduced notion of spheroidal structure spaces. It is the same as uniform structure enunciated by Weil in 1937    Notion de proximité et espaces à structure sphéroidale. American Journal of Mathematics 67(1):42-58, 1945. Another important work  Limits d’ensemble dans les espaces abstraits. Summa Brasiliensis Mathematicae 1:1945-6 Proposed a fundamental theorem Sur les fonctions d’intervalle. Anais Acad. Bras. Sciencias (1939) Simplified the classical methods of reduction per day Sobre o cálculo dos fatores de Kimura para a reducção ao dia (1925) Improved
- [Luis Guglialmelli](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-guglialmelli/): Luis C. Guglialmelli Cosentino, Argentine organic chemist (Buenos Aires 15 May 1884 – San Martín, Buenos Aires Province 14 November 1937) Son of Genoese immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered hundreds of new chemical species A new method for obtaining gold Acción de la plata colidal sobre los cloruros de oro y de platino. Nuevo método de obtención de oro coloidal. Anales Soc. Cient. Argentina, 1913.  Created arseno-tungstic and molybdic reagents (Guglialmelli reagent) Arseno-tungstic-molybdic acid as a reagent for phenols. Anales Soc. Quim. Argentina 4:183-4, 1916. Un Nuevo procedimiento de valorización de los taninos por colorimetria. Actas y Trabajos, Primer Congreso Nacional Medicina, Buenos
- [Luis Emilio Grosso](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-emilio-grosso/): Luis Emilio Grosso, Argentine hydrobiologist (fl.1968) DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATA TAXA Crustacea Family Patagonaspididae 2002 with Peralta Genera Cuyojanira 1992 Dyticogidiella 1985 with Claps Mesochthongidiella 1985 with Fernandez Patagonaspides 2002 with Peralta Patagongidiella 1993 with Fernandez Rudolphia 2009 with Peralta Species Argentinogidiella hormocollensis 1988 with Fernandez Argentinogidiella lavillai 1984 with Claps Bogidiella cooki 1979 with Ringuelet Cuyojanira riojana 1992 Dyticogidiella ringueleti 1988 with Fernandez Dyticogidiella talampayensis 1985 with Claps Eobogidiella purmamarcensis 1979 with Ringuelet Grossogidiella mauryi 1993 with Fernandez Hyalella araucana 1999 with Peralta Hyalella rionegrina 1999 with Peralta Mesochthongidiella tucumanensis 1985 with Fernandez Parastygocaris clapsi 1997 with Peralta Parastygocaris schminkei 1997 with Peralta Patagonaspides sandroruffoi 2002 with Peralta Patagongidiella danieli 1993 with Fernandez Pseudingolfiella morimotoi 2006 with Peralta & Ruffo Rudolphia macrodactylus 2009 with Peralta Stygocaris
- [Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães](https://neglectedscience.com/lindolpho-rocha-guimaraes/): Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães, Brazilian entomologist (Itapira, São Paulo State 24 January 1908 –São Paulo 07 November 1998) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Mallophaga Acutifrons 1942 Falcophilus 1942 Hoazineus 1940 Micronaubates 1935 with Pessoa Pessoaiella 1940 Theresiella 1985 Siphonaptera Ayeshaepsyllina 1993 with Linardi Neopolygenis 1993 with Linardi Neotropsylla 1993 with Linardi Rothschildopsylla 1953 Tiamastina 1993 with Linardi Vernoniella 1942 Diptera Baucuterebra 1941 with Carrera Hershkovitzia 1956 with D’Andretta Paraeuctenodes 1936 with Pessoa Species At least 42 valid species and 9 subspecies in Mallophaga & Anoplura
- [Leopoldo García-Colin](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-garcia-colin/): Leopoldo García-Colin Scherer, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 27 November 1930 – Ciudad de Mexico 08 October 2012) From German descent Authored 237 papers and 17 books on chemical physics and statistical physics SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.L. Garcia-Perciante & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. Benedicks effect in a relativistic simple fluid. J. Non-Equil. Thermodyn. 38:141, 2013   With A.L. Garcia-Perciante  & A. Sandoval-Villalbazo. On the nature of the so-called generic instabilities in dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Gen. Relat. Grav. 41(7):1645-54, With A. Sandoval-Villalbazo & A.L. García-Perciante. Relativistic transport theory for simple fluids to first order in the gradients. Physica A. Stat. Mech. Appl. (2008) With E. Hernandez-Lemus. Non-equilibrium critical behavior:
- [Konstantin Gavrilov](https://neglectedscience.com/konstantin-gavrilov/): Konstantin Gavrilov, Russian-born Argentine zoologist (Jasvitchy District, Novgorod Province 27 July 1908 – San Miguel de Tucumán 25 November 1982) Demonstrated and established the concept of uni- and biparental reproduction Sobre la reproducción uni y biparental de los oligoquetos. Acta Zool. Lilloana 5:221-311, 1948 Ein neuer spermathekenloser Vertreter der Tubificiden. Zool. Anz. 155(11-2):294-302, 1955 Metodo de preparación y la aplicación de los histolisados. Arq. Farm. Bioquim. Tucumán 5(1):103-230, 1950 Described the genus Paranadrilus 1955 and the species Limnodrilus inversus 1949 with Paz and Paranadrilus descolei 1955 (Oligochaeta) LINKS https://www.scielo.br/j/rbzool/a/qVwGDbVJYsqTVMrn6j5XnWC/?lang=pt&format=pdf (in Portuguese)
- [Kidar Nath Gaind](https://neglectedscience.com/kidar-nath-gaind/): Kidar Nath Gaind, Indian chemist and pharmacist (Pusrur, Sialkot District 28 September 1911 – ?) With S.K. Gupta & J.N. Ray. Enzyme method for the estimation of adrenaline from suprarenal glands. With P.C. Guha & D.R. Mehta. A new method of synthesis of bicyclic compounds. Curr. Science 2(2):53, 1933 With P.C. Guha. Two new methods of synthesis of norpinic acid. Curr. Science 2(12), 1934 With J.N. Ray & B. Sarin. Synthesis of new local anaesthesics Synthesized a number of antiseptic phenolic dyes   
- [Kedar Mal Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/kedar-mal-gupta/): Kedar Mal Gupta, Indian botanist and paleobotanist (1908-1987) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Fossil Genera Irrawadioxylon 1936 Leguminoxylon 1936 Sewardioxylon 1971 Species Cladiphlebis srivastavai 1954 Cycadeospermum indicum 1954 Dipterocarpoxylon holdeni 1935 Hausmannia indica 1955 Nilssonia sahnii Osmundites rajmahalense 1970 Sewardioxylon sahnii 1971 Williamsonia sahnii 1943 Living Marsillea ballardii 1956 HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Guptiorachis Sharma 1971 Guptioxylon Sharma 1969
- [Julio Garavito Armero](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-garavito-armero/): Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, economist and physicist (Bogotá 05 January 1865 – Bogotá 11 March 1920) ACHIEVEMENTS   Stablished a fundamental formula for liquid motion   Demonstrated the existence of non-newtonian mechanics   Elaborated original works about real numbers Generalized Euler 9 points theorem to spatial geometry   Developed an equation for three bodies problem Created asymptotic transformation Idealized a modification of Talcott method for local latitude using a simple theodolite (1901), before Chauvenet (1917). It is known as Garavito method and uses equal circumidian circles altitudes of two stars.   Performed original demonstration of theorems related to changes of canonical variables Determined variations
- [Julio Cesar Garavello](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-cesar-garavello/): Julio César Garavello, Brazilian ichthyologist   DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Kalyptodoras 1990 with Higuchi & Britski Pseudotothyris 1984 with Britski Schizolecis 1984 with Britski Species Apareiodon vittatus 1977 Astyanax bifasciatus 2010 with Sampaio Astyanax dissimilis 2010 with Sampaio Astyanax longirhinus 2010 with Sampaio Astyanax minor 2010 with Sampaio Astyanax serratus 2010 with Sampaio Cambeva mboycy 2004 with Wosiacki Cambeva naipi 2004 with Wosiacki Cambeva plumbea 2004 with Wosiacki Cnesterodon hypselurus 2001 with Lucinda Cnesterodon omorgmatos 2001 with Lucinda Curculionichthys insperatus 2003 with Britski Curculionichthys luteofrenatus 2007 with Britski Hisonotus chromodontus 2007 with Britski Hypostomus nigropunctatus 2012 with Britski & Zawadski Kalyoptodoras bahiensis 1990 with Higuchi & Britski Leporinus amblyrhynchus 1987 with Britski Leporinus aripuananensis 1981 with Santos Leporinus boehlkei 1988 Leporinus geminis 2009 with
- [Juan Guiteras](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-guiteras/): Juan Luis Guiteras y Gener, Cuban pathologist (Matanzas 04 January 1852 – Matanzas 28 October 1925) Professor of Medicine in Medical College of South Carolina (1884-8) and Professor of Pathology in University of Pennsylvania (1889-99) Expert on yellow fever Developed new research methods in tropical pathology Studied a mycological disease named chappa known as Guiteras disease Authored Notes upon the lectures on General and Special Pathology with many editions Eponym of Guiteras sign in yellow fever and Guiteras sign for pseudoblastomycosis HONORS First Prize for his thesis The Development of the skeleton as influenced by functional activity at University of Pennsylvania (1873)
- [Juan Cristóbal Gundlach](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-cristobal-gundlach/): Johannes Christoph Gundlach, German-born Cuban naturalist (Marburg, Hesse-Cassel State 17 July 1810 – La Habana 15 March 1896) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Genus Phyllonycteris 1860 Species Erophylla sezekorni 1860 Lasiurus (Lasiurus) pfeifferi 1861 Nycticeius cubanus 1861 Phyllonycteris poeyi 1860 Pteronotus (Chilonycteris) quadridens 1840 Subspecies Erophylla sezekorni sezekorni 1860 Macrotus waterhousii minor 1864 Phyllonycteris poeyi poeyi 1860 Pteronotus (Chilonycteris) quadridens quadridens 1840 Tadarida brasiliensis muscula 1861 Aves Genus Geochelidon 1862 Species Corvus minutus 1852 Geotrygon caniceps 1852 Myiarchus sagrae 1852 Polioptila lembeyei 1858 Setophaga pityophila 1855 Teretistris fornsi 1858   Subspecies Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus 1858 Megascops nudipes krugii 1874 Myiarchus sagrae sagrae 1852 Teretistris fornsi fornsi 1858 Reptilia Genus Cricosaura 1863 with Peters Species Amphisbaena cubana 1879 with Peters Arrhyton vittatum 1861 Cricosaura typica 1863 with Peters Tropidophis pardalis 1840 Tropidophis semicinctus 1864
- [Juan Carlos Gamerro](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-gamerro/): Juan Carlos Gamerro, Argentine palynologist (24 April 1923 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province 20 March 2013) Authored about 50 scientific and popular works Developed methods With Orlando Cardenas. Como hacer permanentes las preparaciones palinologicas en glicerina-gelatina. Bol. Asoc. Latinoam. Paleobot. Palin. 7:39-42, 1980 DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE & POLLEN TAXA Valid Genera Antulisporites 1966 with Archangelsky Species Antulisporites baculatus 1966 with Archangelsky Antulisporites granulatus 1966 with Archangelsky Antulisporites saevus 1966 with Archangelsky Camarozonosporites microalveolatus 1966 with Archangelsky Cicatricosisporites annulatus 1966 with Archangelsky Cicatricosisporites archangelskyi 1966 with Archangelsky Cicatricosisporites baqueroensis 1966 with Archangelsky Cicatricosisporites ethmos 1966 with Archangelsky Cicatricosisporites giganteus 1966 with Archangelsky Colpisaccites granulosus 1979 with Archangelsky Convolutispora ordoñenzii 1979 with Archangelsky Cristatisporites crassilabratus 1979
- [Juan C. Gómez Nuñez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-c-gomez-nunez/): 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.
- [Juan Antonio Garbarino](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-antonio-garbarino/): Juan Antonio Garbarino Bacigalupo, Chilean natural products chemist (Santiago 27 April 1932 – Buenos Aires 09 October 2012) From Italian descent Authored over 300 scientific publications With M. Carvajal, L. Espinoza, H. Peña Cortés et al. first to show the production of hydroxylated derivatives of jasmonic acid by biotransformation (2011) With B.M. Fraga, R. Guillermo, M.G. Hernandez & M.C. Chamy first to observe Baeyer-Villiger oxidation in a microbiological transformation involving Gibberella fujikuroi (2009) With A. Russo, V. Cardile & A. de Ioannes first to show that lithreol inhibited cancer cell-viability in a dose-dependent manner (2008) Isolated a number of new diterpenes of various
- [Juan Alberto Grieve](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-alberto-grieve/): Juan Alberto Germán Grieve Becerra, Peruvian automobile engineer (Lima 15 July 1878 – Lima 03 July 1950) ACHIEVEMENTS Un nuevo motor termico (A new thermal engine). Bol. Minas, Industrias y Construcción 20:15-6, 1904 Developed a 5 horse power internal combustion engine (Grieve engine) Construcción de um motor a gasolina. Bol. Minas Fomento 3(3):58-65, 1905 Designed, built and patented a 20 horse power motor-car (Grieve), the first of Latin America (1908) and regarded one of the world’s best cars comparable to those of built in USA and Europe such as Renault and Brassiere HONOURS Life Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1949)
- [Juan Agustín Gabastou](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-agustin-gabastou/): Juan Agustín Gabastou Bidart, Argentine gynecologist and obstetrician (Buenos Aires 23 June 1882 – Buenos Aires 31 July 1963) Developed hydraulic artificial labor or Mojon-Gabastou injection for retained placenta (1913) Un nuevo procedimiento de alumbramiento artificial. Anales Soc. Obst. Ginecol. Bs Aires (1914) and its German version in Munchener Mediz. Wochens. 61:651, 1914 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Tumor mixto gigante del ovario (1944) With F. Kermauner & E.G. Murray. Hipoplasia genital femenina y esterilidad. V Congr. Arg. Obst. Gin. Bs Aires (1943) With E. Harguindeguy. La radiografia en el embarazo extrauterino. Bull. Soc. Obst. Gyn. 17:686, 1928 Tratamiento de la infección puerperal (1919) Adrenals in
- [João Florencio Gomes](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-florencio-gomes/): João Florêncio de Salles Gomes, Brazilian herpetologist and physician (Tatuí, São Paulo State 03 September 1886 – São Paulo 29 May 1919) Developed an original method for preparation of anti-dysenteric toxin Elucidated the complete life cycle of botfly With A. Neiva. Biologia da mosca do berne (Dermatobia hominis) observada em todas suas phases. Annaes Paul. Med. Cir. 8(9):197-209, 1917 DESCRIBED REPTILIAN TAXA Genera Ptychopis 1915 Species Apostolepis cearensis 1915 Apostolepis longicaudata 1921 Drymoluber brazili 1918 Gomesophis brasiliensis 1918 Phalotris nasutus 1915 Ptychopis flavovirgatus 1915 Rhinocerophis cotiara 1913 Rodriguesophis iglesiasi 1915   HONORS Gomesophis Hoge & Mertens 1959 (Reptilia)
- [José Rodolfo Galvele](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-rodolfo-galvele/): José Rodolfo Galvele, Argentine metallurgist (Buenos Aires 10 March 1937 – Buenos Aires 31 July 2011) Authored one book and more than 160 papers Found that aluminum suffered from intergranular corrosion with hydrogen bubbles diffusing along grain boundaries and also showed that alloying elements eliminated molecular hydrogen improving the corrosion resistance of aluminum in his Ph.D dissertation (1962) A methodology for the prediction of susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (1976) Proposed a simple model to explain pitting corrosion mechanism or acid induced pit stabilization theory (1976-84) Proposed a famous mechanism of stress corrosion cracking or surface mobility mechanism known as Galvele
- [José Moura Gonçalves](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-moura-goncalves/): José Moura Gonçalves, Brazilian biochemist (Rio de Janeiro 05 January 1914 – São Paulo 19 October 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS With C. R. Diniz isolated and characterized the active compounds of venom from Tityus serrulatus such as tityustoxin   Isolated neurotoxin protein crotamine  from venom of rattlesnakes and studied its pharmacological properties Developed new methods for protein isolation and characterization Developed techniques of osmotic pressure, dilatometry and enzymes microtitration in tissue cuts Determination of the coefficient of absorption of light in the cells. Rev. Bras. Biol. 4(1):125-30, 1944
- [José María Gallardo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-gallardo/): José Maria Alfonso Félix Gallardo, Argentine herpetologist (Buenos Aires 01 August 1925 – 12 October 1994) Authored about 65 papers in herpetology DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Amphibia Subfamily Batrachylinae 1965 Genera Hydrolaetare 1963 Melanophryscus 1961 Species Alsodes gargola 1970 Atelognathus patagonicus 1962 Crossodactylus schmidti 1961 Lysapsus caraya 1964 Pseudis boliviana 1961 Pseudis caraya 1964 Pseudis platensis 1961 Rhinella azarai 1965 Rhinella fernandezae 1957 Rhinella gnustae 1967 Rhinella humboldti 1965 Rhinella merianae 1965 Rhinella mirandaribeiroi 1965 Rhinella quechua 1961 Telmatobius atacamensis 1962 Reptilia Species Kentropyx lagartija 1962 Ophiodes yaaipoi 1966 Pristidactylus achalensis 1964 Pristidactylus araucanus 1964 Pristidactylus casuhatiensis 1968
- [José Henrique Guimarães](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-henrique-guimaraes/): José Henrique Guimarães, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 08 October 1937 – São Paulo 14 October 2008) Regarded as world authority on Diptera Tachinidae Authored 96 scientific works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA (185 in total) Genera Aldrichiopa 1971 Andinocuterebra 1984 Cuterebrella 1984 Eumesembrinellina 1977 Hemisturmiella 1983 Iceliopsis 1976 Manteomasiphya 1966 Neomasiphya 1966 Neophasmophaga 1982 Neosophia 1982 Neozelia 1975 Polybiocyptera 1979 Sophiella 1982 Souzalopesiella 1977 Tettigoniophaga 1978 Thelairoporia 1980 Thompsoniella 1977 Species At least 163 HONORS Henriquella Bonatto 2005 (Diptera)
- [José Goldemberg](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-goldemberg/): José Goldemberg, Brazilian physicist (Santo Angelo, Rio Grande do Sul State 27 May 1928- Born from Russian Jewish immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Confirmed that light elements atoms can undergo fission too Electrofission of 24 Mg. Bull.Am.Phys.Society. 17:440, 1972 (with A.H. Chung, A.E. Litherland & H.L. Pai) Established upper limit for dipole electrical momentum of electron Developed a technique for nuclei magnetic moments measurements Created methods for studying the reactions between light and atomic nuclei and calculate the shape of these nuclei Conceived the first photon monochromator for bremsstrahlung radiation A photon monochromator for Bremsstrahlung Radiation. Phys.Rev. 93:1426-1427, 1954.   Um novo método para a investigação de
- [José Garcés y Eguía](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-garces-y-eguia/): José Garcés y Eguia, Spanish / Mexican metallurgist and chemist (died 1824) Introduced a new method of silver smelting employing sodium carbonate as soldering flux (1785) Introduced many improvements in patio process such as in pools and the mode of desliming (1786) Nueva teorica y practica del beneficio de los metales de oro y plata (1802)
- [José Correa Gomes Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-correa-gomes-jr/): José Correa Gomes Jr., Brazilian botanist (São Carlos, São Paulo State 27 February 1919 – 1965) Introduced the use of pollen grains characteristics in systematic study of Bignoniaceae Proposed a method of preparation of pollen grains for mounting Contribuição a Sistematica das Bignoniaceas Brasileiras. Arqu. Serv. Florestal 9:261-96, 1955 With L. Morhy & L.G. Labouriau. Ocimum nudicaule Benth., a new source of methyl-chavicol (1970) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Manaosella 1949 Sampaiella 1949 Spathicalyx 1956 Valid Species Adenocalymma apparicianum 1949 Adenocalymma microcarpum 1949 Adenocalymma salmoneum 1951 Anemopaegma heringeri 1953 Anemopaegma leucanthum 1962 Clytostoma itatiaiensis 1950 Cuspidaria cratensis 1950 Godmania dardanoi 1964 Spathicalyx kuhlmannii 1956
- [Jose Salvador Gandolfo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-salvador-gandolfo/): José Salvador Gandolfo Pozzo, Argentine hydraulic engineer (Buenos Aires 30 March 1902 – 16 March 1989) Authored over 30 works METHODS/INVENTIONS Patented a kind of bypass work for rivers without entrance of drag material (1951-2) Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for guided lamina (1956) Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for flood-gates outlay (1958) Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for laminated side (1959) Gandolfo conjugated slopes method Hydraulic servomechanism with constant level (1956) with Roberto Diego Cotta HONORS Golden Medal, Vermeil Societé d’Encouragement pour la Recherche et l’invention de France Houssay Award, OAS (1975)
- [Jose Pereira Guimarães](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-pereira-guimaraes/): José Pereira Guimarães, Brazilian surgeon and anatomist (Rio de Janeiro 01 October 1843 – Rio de Janeiro 21 March 1915) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a treatment for aneurysms employing transcutaneous applications of faradic current. This method was released in France by Reclus and known as Brazilian method (1874) Developed a new procedure of total resection of upper jaw Novo processo de ressecção total do maxillar superior com o mais completo resultado n’um caso de carcinoma encephaloide do maxillar superior. Rio de Janeiro, 1887   Created a table suited to surgical interventions MEMBERSHIP Correspondant Member,  Societé de Hygiene de Paris and other European scientific associations
- [John Dow Fisher Gilchrist](https://neglectedscience.com/john-dow-fisher-gilchrist/): John Dow Fisher Gilchrist, Scottish-born South African ichthyologist (Anstruther, Scotland 1866 – Saint James, Cape Town 1926) DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA Valid Genera Lyconodes 1922 Neocyttus 1906 Neoscombrops 1922 Paralichthodes 1902 Pseudocyttus 1906 Selachophidium 1903 Xenolepidichthys 1922 Valid Species  91 HONORS Gilchristella Fowler 1935 (Pisces)
- [Jocelia Grazia](https://neglectedscience.com/jocelia-grazia/): Jocélia Grazia Vieira, Brazilian entomologist (Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 02 December 1944 – From Italian, German, Portuguese and Native Indian descent With J. Costa, L. Torres, D.W.J. Provance & R. Brugnera. First report of predation by a stink bug on a walking-stick insect with reflections on evolutionary mechanisms for camouflage. Acta Biol. Paran. 48(1-2):5-15, 2019 With D. Krinsky & L. A. Foerster. Hypatropis inermis (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae): first record on rice crops. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 59:12-3, 2015 DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA (until 2020) Genera Adevoplitus 1997 with Becker Alloeogyna 2019 with Campos & Garbelotto Amauromelpia 1998 with Fernandes Chimerocoris 2020 with Barros & Barão Hypanthracos 1996 with Campos
- [Joaquin Gallo y Monterrubio](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-gallo-y-monterrubio/): Joaquín Antonio Juan Carlos Gallo y Monterrubio, Mexican astronomer and geographer (Ciudad de Mexico 24 November 1882 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 October 1965) With Polish L. Gorcinski performed important studies on actinometry (1920s) Headed the one foreign commission that studied the total eclipse of the Sun at October 25, 1944 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Mexican Eclipse expedition to Perú. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific (1944) Eclipse total del sol de 10 de septiembre de 1923. Elementos y datos para la observación del fenômeno. Rev. Mex. Ingen. Arquit. 1;349-56, 1923 Observaciones con el refractor de 0’38”. Bol. Obs. Astron. Nac. Tacubaya 6:205, 1920 Nuevos procedimientos para
- [Joaquim José & Angelita Gama](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-jose-angelita-gama/): Joaquim José Gama-Rodrigues, Brazilian surgeon (Cruzeiro, São Paulo State 02 December 1935 – Nephew of neurologist Carlos Gama Authored 457 papers, 20 books and 327 book chapters (until 2010) TECHNIQUES/CONTRIBUTIONS Tratamento cirúrgico videolaparoscópico da doença do refluxo gastroesofagiano: técnica de Nissen modificada – resultados clínicos e funcionais [Surgical videolaparoscopic treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease: modified Nissen technique – functional results]. Rev Assoc Med Bras 47(2):106-107, 2001 With V.E. Seid, V. R. Santos, R.B. Martino, P. Volpe & C.J.B. Bresciani. Unintentional ileostomy: a complication of the videolaparoscopic method? Report of the first case. Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques 10(4):253-257, 2000. With P.E. Pinto
- [Jesus García Alvarado](https://neglectedscience.com/jesus-garcia-alvarado/): Jesus García Alvarado, Peruvian microbiologist (20th Century) Honored in genus Garciamyxa Skvortzov 1972 (Xanthophyceae)
- [Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning](https://neglectedscience.com/jan-willem-boudewijn-gunning/): Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning, Dutch-born South African ornithologist (Hilversum, North Holland Province 03 September 1860 – Pretoria 26 June 1913) DESCRIBED VALID AVES TAXA Species Anthreptes reichenowi 1909 Monticola pretoriae 1911 with Roberts Subspecies Anthreptes reichenowi reichenowi 1909 Apalis thoracica flaviventris 1911 with Roberts Apalis thoracica rhodesiae 1911 with Roberts Apalis thoracica spelonkensis 1911 with Roberts Apalis thoracica darglensis 1911 with Roberts Falco chicquera horsbrughi 1911 with Roberts Francolinus afer castaneiventer 1911 with Roberts Phyllastrephus terrestris intermedius 1911 with Roberts
- [Jaime Rafael Guiscafre](https://neglectedscience.com/jaime-rafael-guiscafre/): Jaime Rafael Guiscafré Arrillaga, Puerto Rican agronomist (Anasco 23 March 1911 – Miami, Florida July 1960) His studies of coffee root development and the effects of solar radiation on the vegetative growth and yield of coffee are classical papers With L.A. Gómez. Effect of solar radiation intensity on the vegetative growth and yield of coffee. Jour. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico 26(4):73-90, 1942 With J.A. Cordón & S. Castellanos. Planting coffee in the sun in self-shaded hedges. Circ. Agr. Centro Nac. Agron. El Salvador 71 (1955) Sombra o sol para el cafeto? El café de El Salvador 308-9:320-64, 1957 Sombra, sol y
- [Iván Goñi Moreno](https://neglectedscience.com/ivan-goni-moreno/): Iván Goñi Moreno, Argentine surgeon (Paris, France 30 January 1905 – 1976) ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced a surgical treatment for ductus arteriosus  (1937) Introduced progressive preoperative pneumoperitoneum for repair of large hernias (1940) Chronic eventrations and large hernias: preoperative treatment by progressive pneumoperitoneum – original procedure. Surgery 22:945-53, 1947 Developed a device for operative cholangiography Dispositivo para colangiografia operatoria después de la coledocotomia. Bol. Trab. Acad. Arg. Cir. 30:142, 1946   Developed Goñi Moreno partial cyst pericistectomy Tecnica quirurgica de los quistes hidaticas de pulmón. Arch. Int. Hidat. 5:197, 1948 Operative Cholangiography following Choledochotomy. Am. J. Surgery 79:436-8, 1950 A new bayonet clamp for high
- [Imre Lajos Gridi Papp](https://neglectedscience.com/imre-lajos-gridi-papp/): Imre Lajos Gridi-Papp, Turkish-born Brazilian plant geneticist and breeder (Istanbul 18 October 1930 – Vinhedo, São Paulo State 16 June 2019) From Hungarian parents With E. Cia & E.P. Sabino. New cotton of interspecific origin. Bragantia (1975) With C. Aranha & H.F. Leitão Filho. A new tetraploid species of the genus Gossypium. Bragantia (1969) DEVELOPED COTTON VARIETIES With P.A. Cavaleri, C.A.M. Ferraz, F.A. Correa et al. IAC 13-1 (1975) With P.A. Cavaleri, E.J. Chiavegato, C.A.M. Ferraz, N.P. Sabino, J.I. Kondo, J. Soave, N. Bortoletto, E. Cia & M.G. Fuzatto. IAC 18(1985), IAC RM3, IAC RM4, IAC 16, IAC 17 (1984), IAC 19 (1991), IAC
- [Ignacio Gonzalez Guzman](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-gonzalez-guzman/): Ignacio Gonzalez Guzmán, Mexican hematologist and cytologist (Puruarán, Michoacán State 06 September 1898 – Ciudad de Mexico 03 May 1972) Gained international recognition for his works on nucleolus Authored over 170 works Studied the nucleoli in normal and pathological conditions and in a number of animal species Nucleoli der Lymphozyten. Arch. Latin. Amer. Card. Hemat. 9:73, 1939 Consideraciones acerca de la fisiologia nucleolar. Rev. Soc. Mex. Hist. Nat. 1:75-85, 1940 Generalities of the nucleolar contents of some cells. Blood 3(2):57-65, 1948 (Suppl) Contribution a la connaissance de l’appareil nucleolaire des cellules leucemiques. Sang 20:225-38, 1949 Discovered what later was known as RNA
- [Hirendra Chandra Gangulee](https://neglectedscience.com/hirendra-chandra-gangulee/): Hirendra Chandra Gangulee, Indian bryologist and plant geneticist (Faridpur, Bangladesh 28 June 1914 – 07 October 1992) DESCRIBED NEW PLANT SPECIES Barbula horricornis Barbula leucodontoides 1972 Barbula marginatula 1966 Brachymenium ochianum 1974 Bryoerythrophyllum ferrugineum 1964 Calymperes sundarlanense Calymperes sikkimense Calymperes calcuttense with Bartram Calyptothecium dixonii 1976 Campylopus durelii Dendrocyathophorum herzogii 1977 Dicranella macrospora 1964 Didymodon mittenii 1964 Distichophyllum decolyi 1977 Fissidens alanii 1971 Fissidens bilaspurense 1957 Fissidens diversifoliodes Fissidens griffithii 1964 Fissidens incognitus 1957   Fissidens kalimpongensis 1957 Fissidens orishae 1964 Fissidens rambii 1971 Fissidens ranchiensis 1957 Fissidens subbryoides 1957 Hydrogonium decolyi Hydrogonium dicranelloides 1966 Hyophila kurziana 1966 Isopterygium andamanicum 1980 Neckeropsis darjeelingensis 1976 Penzigiella hookeri 1976 Semibarbula ranuii 1964 Splachnobryum bengalense HONORS Ganguleea Zander 1989 (Musci)
- [Hilario Soares de Gouvea](https://neglectedscience.com/hilario-soares-de-gouvea/): Hilário Soares de Gouvea, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Caeté, Minas Gerais State 23 September 1843 – Rio de Janeiro 25 October 1923) ACHIEVEMENTS First to describe a fatal case of xerosis conjunctivae bulbi (1869) Established the relationship between xerophthalmia and malnutrition Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Hemeralogie und Xerophthalmie aus Ernaehrungs-Stoerungen. Arch. Ophtal. XXIX:167-200, 1883 First to report a family with hereditary retinoblastoma and first suggested hereditary basis for cancer L’Heredité des gliomes de la retine. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de Janeiro, 1886 L’Heredité des gliomes de la retine. Annales d’ Oculistique. 143:32-5, 1910 Described a new process for curing corneal staphyloma Novo
- [Hernando García Barriga](https://neglectedscience.com/hernando-garcia-barriga/): Hernando García y Barriga, Colombian botanist (Bogotá 30 November 1913 – 2005) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Agrostis boyacensis 1943 with Swallen Axonopus micay 1960 Carica fructifragrans 1958 with Hernandez Camacho Gustavia dumitiana 1952 Gustavia romeroi 1975 with Mori Herrania cuatrecasana 1941 Herrania dugandii 1941 Matisia uribei 1952 Philodendron leyvae 1962 Piper erythroxyloides 1975 with Schultes Pouteria officinalis 1978 Prunus betancuri 1984 with Schultes Prunus carolinae 1983 Prunus ernestii 1983 Rapatea circasiana 1954 with Mora Rapatea muayi 1954 with Mora Rapatea schultesiana 1954 with Mora Saurauia anolaimensis 1943 with Schultes Saurauia putumayonis 1943 with Schultes Saxofridericia colombiana 1954 with Mora Sporobolus bogotensis 1943 with Swallen Urochloa albicoma 1943 with Swallen Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa 1958 with Hernandez Camacho HONOURS Lifetime Achievement Award, Linnean Society of London (1979) Richard Evans Schultes
- [Henri Claude Gorceix](https://neglectedscience.com/henri-claude-gorceix/): Henri Claude Gorceix, Brazilian / French geologist (Saint Denis des Murs, Haute Vienne 19 October 1842 – Paris 06 September 1919) He was a descendant of famous chemist Joseph Gay Lussac  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notice sur le gisement et l’exploration de l’or a Lavras, Province du Rio Grande do Sul (1875) Estudo chimico e geológico das rochas do centro da Província de Minas Geraes. Ann. Escola Minas Ouro Preto 1:1-12 & 2:7-23, 1881 Les diamants et les pierres précieuses du Brésil. Rev. Sci. 29:553, 1882 Notes sur quelques mineraux des roches métamorphiques des environs d’Ouro Preto (Minas Geraes, Brésil). Bull. Soc. Franc.
- [Heirehalli Chenniah Govindu](https://neglectedscience.com/heirehalli-chenniah-govindu/): Heirehalli Chenniah Govindu, Indian mycologist (1918 – Described the genus Zeuctomorpha 1984 with Sivanesan & Kirk beyond about 70 new fungi species HONORS Govindua Batista & Maia 1960 (Fungi)
- [Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar](https://neglectedscience.com/hamed-abdel-fattah-gohar/): Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar, Egyptian oceanographer (Cairo 15 November 1907 – 1994) AUTHORED The partnership between fish and anemone. Nature 134:291, 1934 The preservation of contractile marine animals in an expanded condition. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. Kingdom 22(1):295-9, 1937 DESCRIBED NEW VALID TAXA Cnidaria Genus Efflatounaria 1939 Species Anthelia hicksoni 1940 Briareum hamrum 1948 Clavularia hicksoni 1939 Efflatounaria tottoni 1939 Heteroxenia ghardaqensis 1940 Ovabunda macrospiculata 1940 Rhodelinda gardneri 1940 Unomia stolonifera 1938 Pisces (with Clark 1953) Species Brachaluteres fahaqa Lagocephalus suezensis Paraluteres arqat Mollusca Species Hypselodoris ghardaqana 1957 with Aboul-Ela HONORS Goharia Beltagi & Eshky 1992 (Turbellaria)
- [Gutierrez family](https://neglectedscience.com/gutierrez-family/): Avelino Praxedes Gutierrez Fernandez, Spanish-born Argentine surgeon and anatomist (San Pedro de Sola, Santander, Cantabria 21 July 1864 – Buenos Aires 20 February 1946) ACHIEVEMENTS Described new techniques mainly for gastrointestinal surgery Developed Gutierrez procedure for treatment of chronic osteomielitis (1896) Tratamiento de las osteomielitis. Rev. Iberoamericana 7:23, 1902 Established a surgical method for treatment of hydatid cysts (1905) Sobre un nuevo procedimiento de oclusión del duodeno y estomago en las gastrectomias por cancer de este organo  (a new procedure for stomach occlusion in cancer gastrectomies) Developed a retroauricular incision for parotidectomy (Gutierrez incision) Eponym of Gutierrez humerotricipital triangle and Gutierrez nephrocolopexy   His son,
- [Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-gonzalez-camarena/): Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican electrotechnic engineer (Guadalajara, Jalisco State 17 February 1902 – Las Lajas, Veracruz State 18 April 1965) PATENTS/INVENTIONS Sequential field trichromatic system, a color TV system (1940) A simplified color generation system Subjective procedure (1958) A new color Television system (1960) A simplified bicolor system for television (1962) with international repercussion A chromoscopic adapter for television equipment (US Patent 2296019 in 1942) later improved in 1960 and 1962 Trichromatic kinescope of linear screen or Trinitron (1963) A seismic alarm A kaleidoscope (1960) HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Columbia University of Chicago (1950)
- [Godofredo Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/godofredo-garcia/): Godofredo García Díaz, Peruvian mathematician and engineer (Lima 08 November 1888 – 14 July 1970) Authored over 103 publications  Derived equations and exact solutions for motion and viscous flows tensions Nuevos métodos en la teoria de la relatividad general de A. Einstein (New methods in A. Einstein general relactivity theory). Acad. Nac. Ciencias (1952) Sobre una nueva forma de las desigualdades de K. Sundman en el problema de los 3 cuerpos (About a new form of Sundman inequalities in three-body problem) Lectured conferences in Cambridge (generalization of Lagrange formula), Princeton (Regulation of three bodies’ plane problem) Institute Poincaré (Current state of solar System) Invited
- [Giorgio Giacaglia](https://neglectedscience.com/giorgio-giacaglia/): Giorgio Eugenio Oscare Giacaglia, Italian-born Brazilian engineer and physicist (Genoa 28 March 1935 – One of the firsts scientists in the world to observe Pacific decadal oscillation Authored the influential book Perturbation methods in non-linear systems (1972) DEVELOPED With A. Carvalho Jr. Improvement in process of degassing using MASP methodology. Engin. Res. 6:1-24, 2015 With W.Q. Lamas & J.L. Silveira. Development of a methodology for cost determination of wastewater treatment based on functional diagram (2009) With W.Q. Lamas, J.L. Silveira & J.R. Camargo. Development of a control system for cogeneration with biogas associated to a small wastewater treatment station (2007) Machining
- [Giambiagi brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/giambiagi-brothers/): Juan José Giambiagi Persico, Argentine / Brazilian theoretical physicist (Buenos Aires 18 January 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 08 January 1996) Regarded as expert of world renown on quantum field theory   Authored about 90 scientific works ACHIEVEMENTS Developed elimination divergence method in quantum field theory and in six dimension super symmetry Invented analytical regularization method With C.G. Bollini & A. Gonzalez Dominguez. Analytic regularization and the divergence of quantum fields theories. Nuovo Cimento 31:550-61, 1964   Invented dimensional regularization method With C.G. Bollini. Dimensional Regularization. J. Nuovo Cimento 12 B:20, 1972 Eponym of Bollini-Giambiagi potential   OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS An alternative dimensional reduction prescription.
- [Ghosh brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/ghosh-brothers/): Bhupendra Nath Ghosh, Indian chemist (Arambag Village, Hooghly District, West Bengal April 1900 – Calcutta 26 May 1988) ACHIEVEMENTS Isolated a cardiotoxin and a respiratory toxin from snakes venom as well as enzymatic inhibitors Verified experimentally the effect of surface conductance in modifying the zeta potential of the particles Proposed an original equation for the rate of colloids coagulation Developed equations for the variation of activity, conductance, viscosity and molal volume in terms of cube-root of concentration   OTHERS Deriving equation to account for the effect of added electrolytes on the viscosity of sols Modification of the equations for the electroviscous effect
- [German Garcia Rada](https://neglectedscience.com/german-garcia-rada/): Germán García Rada, Peruvian plant pathologist (Lima 22 February 1902 – ?) Nuevo método de control de la “chupadera fungosa” en los almaciges (1938) Una nueva enfermedad del cafeto  (1940) “fusariosis” With J. Vallega, W.Q. Loegering & E.C. Stakman. An unusually virulent race of wheat stem rust, Nº189. Phytopathology 32:720-6, 1942 First to describe a disease in quinua (Chenopodium quinoa), the mildew caused by Peronospora farinosa in Investigaciones en las enfermedades de la quinua (1947) 
- [Gatti family](https://neglectedscience.com/gatti-family/): Carlos Zacarias Santiago Gatti Battilana, Paraguayan physician, ethnologist and philologist (Asunción 30 December 1899 – Asunción 24 April 1956) From Italian father With G. Delamare described doubtful bacterial species Treponema rigidum (1931) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Enciclopedia Guarani-Castellano de ciencias naturales y conocimientos paraguayos Plantas de uso comun en la medicina folclorica paraguaya para regular la fecundidad Las culebras venenosas del Paraguay. Rev. Med. Paraguay 1(2):81-100, 1955 With T. Rojas & A.W. Bertoni. El vocabulario español-guaraní para uso medico (1947) With C. Magarinos Torres & J. Boggino. Alterações dos folículos pilo-sebáceos em caso de síndrome bolhoso do grupo pênfigo. Presença de inclusões intranucleares das doenças
- [Garcia Lebredo family](https://neglectedscience.com/garcia-lebredo-family/): Joaquín María de la Asunción Garcia Lebredo y Lladó, Cuban physician (Matanzas 18 August 1833 – La Habana 26 November 1899) Invited to join as correspondent fellow of Societé de Biologie de Paris due to this work below Note sur les lésions hepatiques dans deux cas de fievre jaune. Gaz. Med. Paris (1874) & Comptes Rendus des Seances et Mem. de la Societé de Biologie (1877) Another prize-winning work by Real Academia de Medicina de Madrid related physiology and therapeutics via organic chemistry Aplicaciones que permite hacer a la fisiologia y a la terapeutica el estado actual de la Quimica Organica
- [Gabriel Guarneros Pena](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriel-guarneros-pena/): Gabriel Guarneros Peña, Mexican molecular biologist (Ciudad de Mexico 08 July 1941 – ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered new bacteriophages infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Entamoeba histolytica Characterized novel genetic signals which regulate messenger RNA translation in prokaryotes Discovered a minigene that regulates translation termination Proposed a novel concept of retroregulation of gene expression With V. Flores, A. Cazares, E.M. Adriaenssens, L. Kameyama, O. Sepulveda Robles, A. Kropinski & J.H. Kuhn described a new viral genus, Pamx74 virus (2016)  HONOURS Life Sciences Award, Montreal Interscience Association (2012) International Howard Hughes Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1991-6)
- [Francisco Grohmann](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-grohmann/): Francisco Grohmann, Brazilian pedologist (fl.1941-82) DEVELOPED METHODS / DEVICES With H.P. Medina & A. Kopper. Novo tipo de lisímetro monolítico. Bragantia 11:333-5, 1951 Análise de agregado de solos. Bragantia 19:199-213, 1960 With A. Conagin. Técnica para o estudo da estabilidade de agregados do solo. Bragantia 19(22):329-43, 1960 With B. Van Raij. Influencia dos métodos de agitação na dispersão da argila do solo. Anais Congr. Bras. Cien. Solo 14:123-32, 1973 With O.A. de Camargo, E. Salati & E. Matsui. A technique for sampling the soil atmosphere. Soil Sci. 117:173-4, 1974 With M.B. P. Camargo & A.P. Camargo developed a simple direct-reading glassy
- [Francisco Gregori Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-gregori-jr/): Francisco Gregori Jr., Brazilian cardiovascular surgeon (Bocaina, São Paulo State 10 December 1947 – DEVELOPED NEW SURGICAL TECHNIQUES With M. Barbero-Marcial, R. Snitcowsky, M. Ebaid, G. Verginelli & E.J. Zerbini. Anastomosis of the subclavian artery to the descending aorta for the correction of interrupted aortic arch. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 56:653-6, 1973 With L.A. Façanha, S.S. Silva, L.C. Miguita, I.A. Ribeiro, M.L.P. Goulart, M.F. Campos & E. Sahao. Nova técnica reconstrutora na insuficiência valvar mitral por ruptura de cordas tendíneas. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 37:111-4, 1981  With R.T. Takeda, S.S. Silva, L.A. Façanha & M.A. Meier. A new technique for repair of
- [Francisco Gonzalez Medrano](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-gonzalez-medrano/): Francisco Gonzalez Medrano, Mexican botanist and plant ecologist (Ciudad de Mexico 13 January 1939 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 January 2017) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Neoeplingia 1982 with Ramamoorthy & Hiriart Rzedowskia 1981 Species Casimiroa calderonii 1981 with Chiang Frankenia margaritae 1973 Gochnatia hiriartiana 2004 with Villaseñor & Medina Mimosa martindelcampoi 1983 Neoeplingia leucophylloides 1982 with Ramamoorthy & Hiriart Rzedowskia tolantonguensis 1981 Stegnosperma sanchezii 1986 with Medina Styphnolobium burseroides 1993 with Sousa & Rudd HONORS Medranoa Urbatsch & Roberts 2004 (Asteraceae)  
- [Francisco Elias de Godoy Moreira](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-elias-de-godoy-moreira/): Francisco Elias de Godoy Moreira, Brazilian orthopedic surgeon (Itatiba, São Paulo State 08 November 1899 – São Paulo 06 January 1987) TECHNIQUES Described Godoy Moreira osteosynthesis technique of fractures of the femoral neck (Godoy Moreira operation) O tratamento operatório das fraturas do colo femoral. Seus princípios fundamentais e sua solução técnica. Brasil Medico LII:1027, 1938 Concerning a new method of osteosynthesis of the long bones: Preliminary Report. Rev.Med.Cir. São Paulo 1:135, 1941. With E. de S.C. Batalha, F. Pires de Camargo & L.G. Wertheimer. Fixação da cabeça femoral na osteossíntese do colo do fêmur. Técnica e aparelhagem. Rev. Hosp. Clinicas 4:61-4, 1949. Enxerto
- [Francisco Calheiros da Graça](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-calheiros-da-graca/): Francisco Calheiros da Graça, Brazilian military, hydrographer and cartographer  (Maceió 03 July 1849 – Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State 21 January 1906) Performed hydrographic surveys in various points of Brazil (1882-95). Published Memoria sobre a origem e causa do aquecimento das aguas do Gulf Stream (1874), translated to French in 1875. Invented sea-gauges protractor presented in Transferidor de sondas. Investigações sobre instrumentos destinados a hidrografia, 1878. He was Correspondent Member, Bureau de Longitudes.
- [Francisco Antonio Gonzalez Laguna](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-antonio-gonzalez-laguna/): Francisco Antonio Gonzalez Laguna, Spanish-born Peruvian friar and botanist (Spain 13 August 1729 – Lima 28 February 1799) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Memoria de las plantas extrañas que se cultivan en Lima introducidas en los ultimos 30 años hasta el de 1794. Mercurio Peruano 11:163-70, 1794 Relación de um icthiolito o pez petrificado, encontrado en las inmediaciones de Acary, el año pasado de 1788. Memorial Literario p. 349-52, November 1799 HONORS Gonzalagunia Ruiz & Pavón 1794 (Rubiaceae)
- [Francis Guthrie](https://neglectedscience.com/francis-guthrie/): Francis Guthrie, English-born South-African mathematician and botanist (Bayswater, Paddington, England 22 January 1831 – Claremont, Cape Town 19 October 1899) Postulated the four color problem in topology (1852) Described 104 new species of plants being the most part of them from Ericaceae family HONORS  Guthriea Bolus 1873 (Achariaceae)  
- [Feza Gursey](https://neglectedscience.com/feza-gursey/): Feza Gürsey, Turkish physicist in United States (Istanbul 07 April 1921 – New Haven 13 April 1992) Authored over 100 papers With L. Radicati identified hadronic SU(6) symmetry (1964) INTRODUCED Non-linear chiral sigma-model for symmetry (1959) New ideas on the symmetries of weak and strong interactions Scalar-field energy-momentum tensor (1960s) EPONYMY Pauli-Gursey transformations (1957) Pauli-Gursey symmetry Gursey theorem (proved by Van Hove)
- [Fernando Galembeck](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-galembeck/): Fernando Galembeck, Brazilian physical chemist (São Paulo 21 January 1943 – Discovered osmosedimentation effect (1977), centrifugal ultrafiltration, pressure-driven pervaporation (1990) and tangential electrophoretic depolarization    Discovered that atmospheric water can acquire electric charges and transfer them to other solid and liquid materials, a phenomenon known as higroelectricity (2010) Described a capacitor that loads spontaneously when exposed to moist air Demonstrated that electrization in dielectric materials occurs faster when the atmosphere is moist Proposed that atmosphere is a charge reservoir for dielectric materials  Demonstrated that the friction between dielectric materials poses fixed and stable patterns of electric charges with a non-uniform distribution in the two
- [Felix Gonzalez Bonorino](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-gonzalez-bonorino/): Felix Gonzalez Bonorino y Haurou, Argentine geologist and petrologist (Buenos Aires 17 August 1918 – 02 October 1998)  From Italian, English and French descent  Systematized metamorphic processes  Sistemática de los procesos metamórficos. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. 1(3):219-30, 1946 Described and characterized mylonitic belts that pass through batholiths  Granitos y migmatitas de la falda occidental de la sierra de Aconquija. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. 6 (3):137-86, 1951 Proposed the mechanical origin of schistosity  The mechanical factor in the formation of schistosity. Proceed. Intern. Geol. Congress 18:303-18, 1960 Proposed that inverse faults should become horizontal in depth    Postulated models of Tertiary compressive tectonics 
- [Felipe Nery Guimarães](https://neglectedscience.com/felipe-nery-guimaraes/): Felipe Nery Guimarães, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Belém 25 May 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 1975) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed yaws treatment employing penicillin With A.M. da Cunha, A.E. Area Leão & H.T. Cardoso. Ensaios terapêuticos com penicilina. I Bouba (framboesia, pian, yaws). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 40: 1825, 1944  Performed the first reproducible studies on cultivation of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue culture and described criteria for it  First to report active penetration of Toxoplasma gondii into cells and described the conoid organelle in this genus With Hertha Meyer. Cultivo de Toxoplasma Nicolle e Manceaux, 1909 em culturas de tecidos. Rev. Bras.
- [Federico Grande Rossi](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-grande-rossi/): Federico Grande Rossi, Cuban bacteriologist and pathologist (Matanzas 14 December 1866 – La Habana 11 July 1942) From Spanish father and mother of Italian ancestry With E. Acosta Mayor described the fungus species Cladothrix invulnerabilis (1898) With E. Acosta. Medios de cultivo. Nuevo procedimento para preparar a gelatina. Cron Med-Cir. 14, 1892 With E. Acosta. Ureometro pratico (1892) Proposed an improvement of Roux flask for employing potato as culture medium (1904) Nuevo signo diagnostico en el ulcus (1917) HONORS Membre Associée Etranger, Société de Hygiene de Paris (1893)
- [Federico Gomez Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-gomez-santos/): Federico Gómez Santos, Mexican pediatrician (Coahuila de Zaragoza 17 November 1898 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 February 1980) Developed Gómez scale for classifying anthropometric-based infantile desnutrition Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary Definitely identified the disease of malnutrition, simplified the terminology, established the basis for a clinical classification (weight for age), described the different degrees of intensity of the disorder and the treatment for each degree and gave as a common cause the deficient assimilation of food by the organism Gave a definition of malnutrition and divided it into primary and secondary Desnutrición. Boletín Med. Hosp. Inf.
- [Eusebio Yatco Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/eusebio-yatco-garcia/): Eusebio Yatco Garcia, Philippine parasitologist (Binan, Laguna 29 December 1905 -?) ACHIEVEMENTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Described 6 species of helminths, 2 species of protozoa and 1 species of bacteria Invented salva-ara First report of Cheilospirura hamulosa parasitizing the man With C. Africa. A new nematode parasite (Cheilospirura sp.) in the eye of man in the Philippines. J. Phil. Is. Med. Assoc. 16:603-7, 1936 Extract of the wings of the Philippine butterfly Terias hecabe Linnaeus, a new antibiotic for malaria. Journal Philipp. Med. Assoc. 25: 6279-90, 1949. Flumamine a new synthetic analgesic ant-flu drug. Journal of Philipine Med. Assoc. 26:7287-93, 1950. Vitamine E (Alpha Tocopherol), a new anthelmenthic against Ascaris lumbricoides.
- [Eugenio Giacomelli](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-giacomelli/): Eugenio Giacomelli, Italian-born Argentine entomologist (Liorna, Italy 1876 – La Rioja 27 December 1941) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Cyanohypsa 1911 Species Agraulis superargentata 1925 Anomis erosoides 1915 Apodemia minuscula 1911 Aricoris cosquinia 1928 Aricoris umbrata 1928 Artace bipunctata 1911 Artace lilloi 1911 Audre drucei 1914 Automeris capillensis 1930 Callicore kohleri 1930 Copiopteryx inversa 1911 Cosmophila erosoides 1915 Cyanohypsa stefanelli 1911 Diaethria kohleri 1926 Dysdaemonia cortesi 1925 Dysdaemonia jordani 1925 Elousa schausi 1911 Euptoieta ramirezi 1926 Euptychia ocellata 1928 Euptychia periphas 1928 Eurata cingulata 1925 Eurata paraguayensis 1928 Giacomellia floresi 1915 Giacomellia inversoatomosa 1911 Herbita prouti 1911 Heteropygas angulum 1911 Heteropygas dognini 1911 Heteropygas pallida 1911 Ischnopteryx seriei 1911 Leucotmemis cosquinensis 1928 Manduca carrerasi 1911 Manduca jordani 1912 Mathania carrizoi 1914 Melittia arcangelii 1914 Microgonia dognini 1915 Ortilia nigra 1928 Phoebis pseudomas 1911 Phulia reedi 1918 Phyciodes janthe 1928 Phyciodes saladilhensis 1911 Psectrotarsia tamsi 1922 Pyrameis
- [Eugenio Galli](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-galli/): Eugenio Antonio Galli Dupont, Argentine surgeon and anatomist (Buenos Aires 09 January 1883 – Buenos Aires 27 June 1956) Son of French immigrants Proposed a new nomenclature for heart cavities or mediastinum  Corazón. Estudio descriptivo y Topográfico (1933) Proposed a new nomenclature for spinal muscles (1953) Eponym of Galli posteromedian auricle SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY De las congestiones pleuropulmonales (1908) Ligadura accidental de la rama derecha de la artéria hepatica en el curso de la colecistectomia. Doctoral Thesis Osteologia del carpo (1912) Ganglios semilunares. Sus ramos aferentes y eferentes (1914) Mecánica intrínseca de la pélvis (1915) El triángulo paravertebral de Grocco (1917) Carpo.
- [Ernesto Galloni](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-galloni/): Ernesto Enrique Galloni Galimberti, Argentine physicist and crystallographer (Buenos Aires 05 March 1906 – 08 April 1987) Authored over 40 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Kohen. Influence of the mass of the spring on its static and dynamic effects. Am. J. Phys. 47:1076-8, 1979 With R. Zimmerman. Double diffraction in epitaxially grown nickel polycrystalline films. Phys. Stat. Sol. 29:91-4, 1968  With M.J. de Abeledo & M.A.R. de Benyacar. Electron diffraction data for some members of the metatorbenite group. Am. Mineral. 53, 1968 With R. Zimmerman & M.E. Jimenez de Abeledo. Thermal behaviour of potassium bromostannate. Zeits. f. Krist. (1962)  With M.E.
- [Ernest Edward Galpin](https://neglectedscience.com/ernest-edward-galpin/): Ernest Edward Galpin, South African botanist and banker (Grahamstown today Makhanda, Eastern Cape Province 06 December 1858 –Namboospruit today Mookgophong, Limpopo 16 October 1941) Authored the first comprehensive account of high-altitude flora of South Africa A contribution to the knowledge of the flora of the Drakensberg. Report South Africa Adv. Science (1908) Performed botanical collections not only in South Africa but in Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia being the first person to collect in Swaziland Discovered and collected valid half a dozen of genera and more than 200 new species of plants (1888-1939) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Erica cerinthoides var. barbertona 1895 Jamesbrittenia grandiflora 1895 HONORS
- [Enrique Gaviola](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-gaviola/): Ramón Enrique Gaviola Fornes, Argentine optical physicist and astronomer (Rivadavia, Mendoza Province 31 August 1900 – Mendoza 07 August 1989) Authored over 60 scientific works ACHIEVEMENTS Atomic Physics Built the first phase-shift fluorimeter and performed the first successfully direct measurements of fluorescence lifetimes Ein fluorimeter. Apparat zur Messung von Fluoreszenzabllingungszeiten. Zeit. F. Physik 42:1853-61, 1927 Established  concept of lifetime of excited atoms With Lawrence Hafstad and Merle Tuve built a precursor of modern particle accelerators (1928) Authored the first experimental work about stimulated atomic emission An experimental test of Schrödinger’s theory. Nature, 1928 Optics Developed Strong-Gaviola method, a differential method for covering surfaces
- [Encarnacion Rosa Guaglianone](https://neglectedscience.com/encarnacion-rosa-guaglianone/): Encarnación Rosa Guaglianone, Argentine botanist (9 de julio, Buenos Aires Province 15 April 1932 – Buenos Aires 12 October 2014) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Oreobolopsis 1988 with Koyama Sections Hirtellum 1972 Inodorum 1972 Species Carex subandrogyna 2003 with Wheeler Cyperus burkartii 1991 Eleocharis cordillerana 2008 with S. Gonzalez & Ruthsatz Eleocharis pseudoalbibracteata 2009 with S. Gonzalez Ipheion dialystemon 1971 Oreobolopsis tepalifera 1988 with Koyama Rhynchospora barrosiana 1979 Rhynchospora iberae 1982 Rhynchospora latibracteata 2001 Rhynchospora pederseni 2001 Rhynchospora pseudomacrostachya 2003 with Moore & Zartman Smilax pilcomayensis 1991 with Gattuso Trichopetalum chosmalensis 2003 with Belgrano HONORS Rhodoscirpus Lev-Bourret, Donadio & Starr 2015 (Cyperaceae)
- [Emilio Bruno Germek](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-bruno-germek/): Emilio Bruno Germek, Brazilian agronomist (São Paulo 17 May 1913 – Campinas, São Paulo State 30 January 2009) From Austrian father and Italian mother Authored over 100 scientific and popular articles Pioneer in applying of nitrogenous manures on coatings of extensive annual farming of barren rice (1949) DEVELOPED Crops Rice cultivars (IAC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 120, 435, 1246, Perola (1942), Iguape Cateto, Iguape Agulha, Nira, Iola, Matão, Fortuna & Golden Precocius) A guandu variety (Cajanus indicus Spreng.) Methods A crossbreeding process of Bougainvillea in Hibridação de Bougainvillea (B. spectabilis Willden.). Bragantia (1958) An amelioration method based on crossings, hybrid
- [Emil August Goeldi](https://neglectedscience.com/emil-august-goeldi/): Emil August Goeldi, Swiss / Brazilian naturalist (Ennetbuhl, Sankt Gallen Canton 28 August 1859 – Berne 05 July 1917) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Genus Euryzygomatomys 1901 Species Saguinus imperator 1907 Subspecies Saguinus imperator imperator 1907 Saguinus labiatus thomasi 1907 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) gilvigularis paraensis 1904 with Hagmann Aves Species Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus 1904 Subspecies Lepidothrix coronata caelestipileata 1905 Amphibia Species Trachycephalus resinifictrix 1907 Pisces Genus Phreatobius 1905 Species   Phreatobius cisternarum 1905 Arachnida Genera Cimarus 1893 Octytus 1893 Species   At least 21 Others Genus Meloidogyne 1889 (Nematoda) Subgenus Haematomyidium 1905 (Diptera) HONORS Goeldia Keyserling 1901 (Arachnida) Maorigoeldia Edwards 1930 (Diptera) Goeldichironomus Fittkau 1965 (Diptera) Goeldiella Eigenmann & Norris 1900 (Pisces) Subgenus Ctenogoeldia Edwards 1930 (Diptera)
- [Elsa Rossi de Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/elsa-rossi-de-garcia/): Elsa Rossi de Garcia, Argentine paleontologist (fl.1959-83) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Ostracoda Suborder Cuyanocopina 1975 Superfamilies Beecherellidacea 1975 Celechovitacea 1975 Families Celechoviteidae 1975 Platibolbidae 1975 with Proserpio Proparaparchitidae 1975 with Proserpio & Nuñez Genera Argenticytheretta 1969 Argentinites 1975 with Baldis Baldiscella 1975 Bernardites 1976 with Proserpio Bertelsiana 1980 with Proserpio Bilobeyrichia 1975 with Baldis Cribobolbina 1979 with Proserpio Cuvillierina 1972 Dillobellopsis 1975 with Baldis Furchesia 1975 with Proserpio Grekoffiana 1969 Kloedenellopleura 1975 with Baldis Leanzacythere 1976 with Leanza Masiukcythere 1967 Nortite 1976 with Proserpio Novocythere 1972 Nugnela 1975 with Proserpio Platibolba 1972 with Baldis Platybolina 1975 with Proserpio Saltite 1976 with Proserpio Seudomacronotella 1975 1975 with Proserpio Sohniella 1979 with Proserpio Zygobolbinella 1975 with Proserpio Others Neovenericor 1980 with Levy (Bivalvia) Polanskiella 1983 (Hymenoptera) HONORS (Fossil Ostracoda)
- [Elio García Austt](https://neglectedscience.com/elio-garcia-austt/): Elio García-Austt Negri, Uruguayan neurophysiologist (Montevideo 09 April 1919 – Montevideo 12 August 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS First demonstrated strychnine spikes in the chick embryo (1954) Found that counting repetitive light flashes augmented the visual response (1963-4) With Rius described the slow response of auditory galvanic stimulation (1965) First to demonstrate that stimulation of limbic structures provokes dormancy and decreases in electroencephalogram frequency  Developed a technique for diagnosing normotensive hidrocephaly   With P. Handler developed a simple method for magnetic tape recording of bioelectric potentials (1960) and computational procedures in neurophysiology
- [Eleazar Guzman Barron](https://neglectedscience.com/eleazar-guzman-barron/): Eleazar Sebastián Guzmán Barrón, US/Peruvian biochemist (Huari, Ancash 18 September 1899 – Chicago 26 June 1957) Regarded as world authority in cellular respiration and enzymatic systems associated to biological oxidations Performed classical researches on pyruvic acid metabolism Indicated the function of sulphydrylic compounds in metabolism Demonstrated that cortical hormones inhibit glycolysis by inhibition of hexokinase With M. Bacila. The effect of adrenal cortical hormones on the anaerobic glycolysis and hexokinase activity. Endocrinology 54(5):591-603, 1954 Demonstrated that enzymes containing active sulphydryl groups were capable in defending against radiations (1943) With William A. Pearlzweig. New colorimetric method for determination of bile acids in
- [Eduardo Gonzalez Pacheco](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-gonzalez-pacheco/): Eduardo Gonzalez Pacheco, Chilean mining engineer and mineralogist (died 2002?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Hidratos de gas. Revista de Marina 2-3, 2002 With J. Muñoz Cristi, La cuenca petrolifera de Magallanes. Rev. Minerales 91:42-57, 1965 Estudio geologico-economico del districto minero de Panulallo y regiones vecinas. Anales Fac. Cien. Fis. Matem. 11(11):45-92, 1954 With J. Muñoz Cristi, Geologia de los yacimientos de pirofilita de Arrayán en la Provincia de Cauquenes (i.e. Maule). Rev. Minerales 1953 HONORS Gonzalezoxylon Nishida 1981 (Fossil Plantae)
- [Domingo Mauricio Gómez](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-mauricio-gomez/): Domingo Mauricio Gómez Gimeranez, Cuban biomathematician (Guaracabuya, Las Villas Province 22 September 1903 – Manhattan 13 December 1978) Living in United States since 1960s Authored about 70 scientific works and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS Authored the first modern treatise on hemodynamics Les lois physiques de l’hémodynamique (leur détermination piézographique). Actualites Scientifiques, Recherches d’ Hemodynamique et Cardiologie 511, 1937 Discovered a new syndrome With H. Vaquez. Un syndrome hypertensif nouveau. L’hypertension moyenne solitaire (1931) First to apply piezoelectricity to measurement of blood pressure in vessels  With André Langevin developed Gomez-Langevin procedure for measuring pressure changes in blood vessels and conceived Gomez-Langevin piezograph or piezoelectric manometer (1933) Authored studies
- [Domingo Giribaldo](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-giribaldo/): Domingo José Pedro Giribaldo Larcebo, Uruguayan chemist (Pando, Canelones 25 January 1876 – Montevideo 09 July 1950) From Italian father and French mother ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed pR, a new notation for determining acidity or basicity of solutions as an alternate to pH scale Notation rationnelle pour exprimer la reaction actuelle des solutions. Bull. Societé Chimie Biol. 7:652-64, 1925 Ein neuer ausdruck für die aktuelle reaktion der Losungen. Biochem. Ztschr. 163:8-12, 1925 Expression of the current reaction of the solutions. Sorensen’s notation and its disadvantages. New rational notation (1924) Proposed a general equation of electrolytes on the basis of the different degrees of
- [Domingo Felix Gimenez](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-felix-gimenez/): Domingo Felix Gimenez, Argentine microbiologist (1924- Developed Gimenez stain Staining Rickettsia in yolk sac cultures. Stain Technol. 39:135-40, 1964 With L.S. Mayorga, O.P. de Centorbi & C.C. de Millan. Rapid in vivo assay method for type G Botulinal toxin. Zentr. Bakter. Mikrobiol. Hyg. A 264(1-2):78-83, 1987 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   With C.A. Ciccarelli & J.M. Barrera. Siphonaptera de Mendoza. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 178:125-39, 1964  Gram staining of Coxiella burnetii. J. Bacteriol. 90:834-5, 1965 With A.S. Ciccarelli. A new type of Clostridium botulinum. (1967) With A.S. Ciccarelli. Studies on strain 84 of Clostridium botulinum. Zentralb. Bakt. Parasit. 215:212-220, 1970 With A.S. Ciccarelli. Another type of Clostridium botulinum. Zentralb. Bakt.
- [Kamran Helvadji](https://neglectedscience.com/kamran-helvadji/): Kamran Helvadji, Turkish engineer (Diyarbakir 1891- ?) DESIGNED Device for automatically calculating trajectory of naval shells Anti-submarine mines Balustre compass for manufacturing geometric spirals 
- [Juan Heyns](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-heyns/): Juan Heyns, South-African helminthologist (Humansdorp, Cape Province 26 April 1929 – Pretoria 21 December 2001) Authored over 235 papers DESCRIBED NEW NEMATODA TAXA Families Aporcelaimidae 1965 Elaphonematidae 1962 Osstelidae 1962 Genera  Afronygus 1968 Algoanema 1987 with Furstenberg Aporcelaimellus 1965 Aporcelaimoides 1965 Aquatides 1968 Botalium 1963 Caprionchulus 1993 with Swart Chiloplacoides 1994 Chitwoodius 1966 with Furstenberg Cladocephalus 1991 with Swart Clavicauda 1968 Clavicaudoides 1968 Discolamoides 1963 Elaphonema 1962 Feroxides 1968 Kochinema 1963 Laevides 1968 Makatinus 1965 Namaquanema 1993 with Swart Namibinema 1990 with Rashid Paracrobeles 1968 Paranygolaimus 1968 Paravulvus 1968 Penjatinema 1998 with Swart Poronema 1963 Scapidens 1965 Sibayinema 1991 with Swart Skibbenema 1986 with Van Reenen Solididens 1968 Vanderlindia 1964 Species At least 325 HONORS (Nematoda) Heynsaxonchium Coomans & Nair 1975 Heynsnema Pena-Santiago, Guerrero & Ciobano 2008  LINKS http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/Nemaplex/General/Obituaries/JHeyns.htm
- [Josef Hauser](https://neglectedscience.com/josef-hauser/): Josef Hauser, Hungarian-born Brazilian father and zoologist (Sellye, Barany County, Hungary 31 January 1920 – Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul State 10 March 2004) Performed studies about morphology, taxonomy and regeneration of planarians and Oligochaeta DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES (Turbellaria) Dugesia ururiograndeana 1992 with Leon and Kawakatsu Geoplana sp. 2000 with Leal-Zanchet & Fick  Girardia anderlani 1983 with Kawakatsu 3 Pasipha spp. 2000 with Leal-Zanchet & Seitenfus METHODS A technique for histological processing without the use of xylene in Ausschaltung des Xylols in der histologischen Technik. Mikroskopie 7(5-6):208, 1952 Hauser method for fixation and mounting of invertebrates (1953) With B. Radtke. Método de preparação total para estudo da morfologia
- [Jose Gregorio Hernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-gregorio-hernandez/): José Gregório Hernandez Cisneros, Venezuelan pathologist (Isnotú, Trujillo State 25 October 1864 – Caracas 26 June 1919) Demonstrated that the quantity of red cells in inhabitants of tropical region is smaller than that in temperate zones Sobre el numero de los globulos rojos. Gac. Med. Caracas 1(15):84, 1893-4 Described the angina pectoris of yellow fever Sobre la angina de pecho de naturaleza paludosa. Gac. Med. Caracas 1(21):129-31, 1894
- [Jorge Ignacio Hernandez Camacho](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-ignacio-hernandez-camacho/): Jorge Ignacio Hernandez Camacho, Colombian naturalist, ecologist and conservationist (Bogotá 17 January 1935 – near Cartagena 15 September 2001) DESCRIBED TAXA Plants Subfamily Trigonobalanoideae with Lozano & Henao Species Alfaroa colombiana with Lozano Contreras & Espinal Matisia uribei with García Barriga Mucuna cuatrecasasii 1988 with C. Barbosa Mucuna killipiana 1988 with C. Barbosa Trigonobalanus excelsa with Lozano Contreras & Henao Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa with Garcia Barriga Amphibia Genus Osornophryne 1976 with Ruiz Carranza Species Agalychnis danieli 1988 with Ruiz Carranza & Rueda Almonacid Atelopus carauta 1978 with Ruiz Carranza Atelopus laetissimus 1994 with Ardila Robayo & Ruiz Carranza Atelopus leoperezii 1994 with Ardila Robayo & Ruiz Carranza Atelopus minutulus 1988 with Ardila Robayo &
- [Jorge Haddad](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-haddad/): Jorge Haddad, Brazilian gastroenterologist (São Paulo 12 January 1929 – São Paulo 09 May 1975) Developed Duhamel-Haddad operation With A. Raia & A. Correa Netto. Abaixamento retro-retal do cólon com colostomia perineal no tratamento do megacolo adquirido. Operação de Duhamel modificada. Rev. Ass. Med. Bras. 11:830-50, 1965 Treatment of acquired megacolon by retrorectal lowering of the colon with a perineal colostomy: modified Duhamel operation. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 23:235-53, 1968 and Doctoral Thesis SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Habr Gama, O. Simonsen, D.E. Cutait, A. Raia et al. Volvulus of the sigmoid colon in Brazil. A report of 230
- [John Hewitt](https://neglectedscience.com/john-hewitt/): John Hewitt, English-born South-African zoologist and archaeologist (Dronfield, nearby Sheffield, England 23 December 1880 – Grahamstown 04 August 1961) Described the Wilton culture With A.P. Stapleton reported the first account of Howiesons Poort Culture DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Subspecies Pronolagus rupestris saundersiae 1927 Reptilia Genera Narudasia 1913 with Methuen Rhoptropella 1937 Species 40 valid species Amphibia Genera Anhydrophryne 1919 Arthroleptella 1926 Microbatrachella 1926 Natalobatrachus 1913 with Methuen Species About 20  Arachnida Genera Australoonops 1915 Daesiella 1934 Drassodella 1916 Hermachola 1915 Idiothele 1919 Karasbergia 1914 Muizenbergia 1915 Species At least 35 HONORS   Hewittia Lessert 1928 (Arachnida) Hewittella Cameron 1906 (Hymenoptera)
- [John Barry Hawthorne](https://neglectedscience.com/john-barry-hawthorne/): John Barry Hawthorne, South African geologist and entrepneur (Kimberley, Northern Cape Province 19 May 1934 – Scarborough, Cape Town 15 November 2018) Gave relevant contributions to kimberlite geology, diamond studies and upper mantle geology Showed that kimberlites were undoubtedly magmas With J.B. Dawson. Magmatic sedimentation and carbonatitic differentiation in kimberlite sills at Benfontein, South Africa. J. Geol. Soc. 129(1):61-85, 1973 With J.W. Harris, M.M. Osterveld & E. Wehmeyer. A classification scheme for diamond, and a comparative study of South African diamond characteristics. Phys. Chem. Earth 9:765-83, 1975 Proposed the composite geological model for many southern African pipes Model of a kimberlite
- [Jisheng Han](https://neglectedscience.com/jisheng-han/): Ji-sheng Han, Chinese neurophysiologist (Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province 28 July 1928 – Authored over 400 scientific papers Discovered that serotonin (5-HT) and opioid peptides are the two main chemical substances mediating acupuncture analgesic effect First to find the functional balance between opioid peptides and the anti-opioid peptides that determines the efficacy of acupuncture analgesia in different individuals Discovered that the most important determination of acupuncture effect is the frequency of impulses transmitted along the nerve fibers from periphery to central nervous system Invented Han’s acupoint nerve stimulator (HANS) used to treat neurological disorders and pain LINKS http://www.han-institute.com/founders/dr-ji-sheng-han/
- [Jacques Huber](https://neglectedscience.com/jacques-huber/): Jacques E. Huber, Swiss-born Brazilian botanist and phycologist (Schleitheim District, Schaffhausen Canton 13 October 1867 – Belém do Pará 18 February 1914) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE GENERA Browneopsis 1906 Chaetosiphon 1893 (Algae) Euxylophora 1910 Gonatoblaste 1892 (Algae) Humirianthera 1915 Nealchornea 1913 Sigmatanthus 1978 HONORS Huberiella O’Kelly, Wysor, Bellows & Brown 2005 (Chlorophyceae) Jacqueshuberia Ducke 1922 (Fabaceae) Huberodendron Ducke 1935 (Bombacaceae)
- [Ismail Saleh Hilmy](https://neglectedscience.com/ismail-saleh-hilmy/): Ismail Saleh Hilmy, Egyptian parasitologist and helminthologist (fl.1916-54) DESCRIBED HELMINTHES TAXA Genera Jardugia 1929 with Southwell Solenorchis 1949 Species Baerietta janicki 1936 Cyclorchida fuhrmanni 1936 Hilmylepis nagatyi 1936 Hymenolepis cholodkovskii 1936 Jardugia paradoxa 1929 with Southwell Ophiotaenia meggitti 1936 Ophiotaenia nybelini 1936 Paruterina southwelli 1936 Patagifer skrjabinii 1949 Phyllobothrium microsomum 1929 with Southwell Raillietina khalili 1936 Raillietina vogeli 1936 Solenorchis baeri 1949 Solenorchis gohari 1949 Solenorchis naguibmahfouzi 1949  Solenorchis travassosi 1949 Staphylocystis fuelleborni 1936 Staphylocystis loosi 1936 Stomylotrema ali-ibrahimi 1949 Vampirolepis fulleborni 1936 Vampirolepis khalii 1936 HONORS Hilmylepis Skrjabin & Mathevossian 1942 (Cestoda)
- [Hsen Hsu Hu](https://neglectedscience.com/hsen-hsu-hu/): Hsen Hsu Hu (Xiansu Hu), Chinese botanist (Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 24 May 1894 – Beijing 16 July 1968) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Family Toricelliaceae 1934 Valid Genera Amesiodendron 1936 Metasequoia 1948 with Cheng Neofinetia 1925 Nothotsuga 1928 Rehderodendron 1935 Sinojackia 1928 Sinojohnstonia 1936  Species About 360 HONORS Huodendron Rehder 1935 (Styracaceae) Huigobio Fang 1938 (Pisces)
- [Houde Han](https://neglectedscience.com/houde-han/): Houde Han, Chinese mathematician (1938 – Authored over 100 papers With Z. Xu gave a numerical method for finding solitary wave solutions of generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations by solving the nonlinear eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain (2005) With Z. Huang proposed a class of exact artificial boundary conditions for the numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation on unbounded domains in two-dimensional cases (2004) With C.X. Zheng & M. Ehrhardt presented a new numerical technique for solving periodic structure problems  With Y. Li & Z. Huang. An equation decomposition based tailored finite point method for linearized incompressible flow in two-dimensional space.
- [Horst Haebisch](https://neglectedscience.com/horst-haebisch/): Horst Haebisch, German-born Brazilian breath physiologist (Luban, Poland 19 July 1913 – São Paulo 18 May 2005) With R.V. Vieira, E. Kokubun, N.S. Hell & R. Curi. Sistema de natação para exercício físico de ratos (Swimming system for physical exercise of rats). Arq. Biol. Tecnol. 31(3):387-94, 1988 With S.A. Camara. Metodo simples para o registro incruento e contínuo da pressão arterial, aplicado em anestesia. Rev. Paul. Med. 54(4):305-6, 1959 With D.P. Nogueira & J.M. Cardoso. New method of bloodless recording of arterial pressure. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 8(4):423-30, 1955 With D.P.Nogueira, J.M. Cardoso & R.A. Godoy. A new apparatus of simple construction
- [Horacio Harrington](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-harrington/): Horacio Jaime Harrington Merani, Argentine geologist, stratigrapher and paleontologist (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province 17 September 1910 – Buenos Aires 21 December 1973) Authored over 50 papers Proposed the term cenuglomerate (1946) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Trilobita Families Gigantopygidae 1959 Hapalopleuridae 1957 with Leanza Genera With Leanza Araiopleura 1957 Australoharpes 1957 Australopyge 1957 Bodenbenderia 1957 Brackebuschia 1957 Cheirurina 1957 Colpocoryphoides 1957 Deltacare 1957 Dichelepyge 1952 Dolerasaphus 1957 Dolerobasilicus 1957 Famatinolithus 1957 Guandacolithus 1957 Hapalopleura 1957  Hyecaspis 1957 Keidelia 1957 Machairagnostus 1957 Nannopeltis 1957 Niobides 1957 Notopeltis 1957 Ogygiocarella 1957 Ogygitella 1957 Plesioparabolina 1942 Pliomeroides 1957 Prionopyge 1942 Proetiella 1957 Pseudohysterolenus 1957  Remopleuridioides 1957 Rhadinopleura 1957 Saltaspis 1952 Sphaerocare 1957 Zuninaspis 1957 Alone Bossaspis 1957 Bristolia 1956 Fremontella 1956 Hintzeia 1957 Kanoshia 1957 Kayseraspis 1938 Keidelaspis 1937 Kobayashia 1938  Laudonia 1956 Mekynophrys 1938 Metapilekia 1938 Onychopyge 1938 Pliomeraspis 1957 Protopliomerella 1957 Pseudokainella 1938 Pseudoperonopsis 1938 Rossaspis 1957 Trilobagnostus 1938 Tropidopyge 1951 with Kay  Coelenterata
- [Hongfei Hou](https://neglectedscience.com/hongfei-hou/): Hongfei Hou or Khunfey Khou, Chinese paleontologist and stratigrapher (fl.1957) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Brachiopoda Acrothyris 1963 Aseptalium 1975 with Xian Borealispirifer 1993 with Su Glyptospirifer 1975 with Xian Kwangsirhynchus 1975 with Xian Longdongshuia 1975 with Xian Mongolirhynchia 1976 with Zhao Orientospirifer 1975 with Xian Otospirifer 1975 with Xian Parabornhardtina 1964 with Xian Peregrinellina 1984 with Wang Prolazutkinia 1983 with Xian Tibetatrypa 1986 with Copper Wutubulakia 1983 with Zhang Xenospirifer 1975 with Xian Xianjiangospirifer 1983 with Zhang Species 46 Echinodermata (with Waters, Maples, Lane, Marcus, Liao, Liu & Wang 2003) Amadeusicrinus Breimeriblastus Conoblastus Emuhablastus Grabauicrinus Julieticrinus Triploblastus Species 16 HONORS (Fossil) Houhongfeiella Olempska 1999 (Ostracoda) Houiblastus Lane, Waters & Maples 1997 (Echinodermata)
- [Hoffmann family](https://neglectedscience.com/hoffmann-family/): Carlos Christian Hoffmann, German-born Mexican entomologist (Frankfurt 31 May 1876 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 November 1942) Authored over 100 works Demonstrated Simulium (Eusimulium) callidum as a vector of onchocercosis HONORS Hoffmannihadrurus Fet & Soleglad 2004 (Arachnida, Scorpiones) Ana Esther Hoffmann Mendizabal, Mexican acarologist (Puebla 03 March 1919 – Cuernavaca, Morelos State 11 October 2007) Authored 120 papers and 10 books DESCRIBED NEW ACARI TAXA Genera Anahuacia 1963 Chapalania 1995 with Lopez Campos Cordiseta 1954 Cunaxoides 1948 with Baker Tecomatlana 1947 Tepoztlana 1973 with Mendez Tequisistlana 1980 with Sanchez Species At least 60 HONORS (Arachnida) Hoffmanniella Vercammen-Grandjean 1960   Hoffmannina  Brennan & Jones 1959 Hoffmannita Pelaez 1962 Hoffmannilena Maya-Morales & Jimenez 2016
- [Hinton family](https://neglectedscience.com/hinton-family/): George Boole Hinton, English-born Mexican mining engineer and plant collector (Marylebone, London 1882 – Ciudad de mexico 1943) A relative of mathematician George Boole With his son collected 471 new plant species PATENTS (1928) Process of making a cementitious material of cellular texture (GB2894041) Improvements in or relating to apparatus for making a cellular cement product (GB298847) Improvements in or relating to apparatus for making a spumous mass of cementitious material (GB297638 e GB300842) An improved method of making a cellular cementitious product (GB300843) HONORS Hintonia Bullock 1935 (Rubiaceae)    Hintonella Ames 1938 (Orchidaceae)   Neohintonia King & Robinson 1971 (Asteraceae) His son, James C. Hinton, Mexican
- [Helge Harboe](https://neglectedscience.com/helge-harboe/): Helge Harboe, Danish-born Brazilian civil engineer (01 April 1891 – Rio de Janeiro 08 April 1977) Developed reinforced concrete tanks for a variety of fluids BRAZILIAN PATENTS With A.L. Montenegro, F.A.O. G. Zeemann & Weskott Co. one patent (1932) With F.A.O. G. Zeemann. Water-jacketed reinforced concrete tanks for mineral oils (nº 21.152) 1933 A new kind of reinforced concrete for fluids or other substances with side buoyancy (1933) A new way to build reinforced concrete and/or cement depots or tanks for mineral oils, petroleum, gasoline, benzine or other liquids like alcohol and alikes (1933) 
- [Heinrich Hauptmann](https://neglectedscience.com/heinrich-hauptmann/): Heinrich Friedrich Hauptmann, German-born Brazilian organic chemist (Breslau 10 March 1905 – São Paulo 21 July 1960) ACHIEVEMENTS Attained international fame due his studies about sulphur organic compounds Described and synthetized many new mercaptols to science Prepared oxalacetic acid semi-mercaptols (with Horst Berl) Prepared dicarboxilic mercapto-amino acids First to study reactions of keto-steroids with thiols (1947) Isolated many compounds from coffee and cashew oils, leafs of Cassia alata and carqueja   Described with G.E.R. Schulze a new  microvolumenometer   With B. Wladislaw. Síntese de alguns novos tiobenzoatos e tioacetatos de alquila de cadeia comprida . Ciência e Cultura  5: 137-137, 1953. With Jandira França. Um
- [Gustavo Hoecker Salas](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-hoecker-salas/): Gustavo Hoecker Salas, Chilean biologist (Rere, Biobío Province, VIII Region, December 05 December 1915 – 19 March 2008) Authored over 100 scientific papers Defined that H2 complex in chromosome 17 of mice was a genetic complex independent of Snell Postulated that isoantigens participate in the mechanism of recognition of foreigness Described a new tumor With D. Brncic. Nuevo sarcoma transmisible de la gallina. Rev. Sudam. Morfol. 7:56-74, 1949 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D. Brncic & G. Gasic. Immunity in mice against leukemic cells of the same generic composition. Acta Unio. Internat. contre cancer, 7: 761–764, 1952 With A. Martínez, S. Markovic & O. Pizarro.
- [Guofan Hong](https://neglectedscience.com/guofan-hong/): Guofan Hong, Chinese molecular biologist (Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 24 December 1939 – Made notable contributions to nucleotide sequencing technology working under supervision of Nobel prize Frederick Sanger (1970s) Discovered that the diffusion of nucleic acids may be counteracted by electric force while moving in the gradient electric field (1978) A method for sequencing single-stranded cloned DNA in both directions. Biosc. Reports 1:243-52, 1981 Established heat stable Bst DNA sequencing system (1987) Improved the efficiency of nucleotide sequencing technology (1992) Proposed a molecular model based on gene nodD by which the nodulation genes in Rhizobia were regulated (1994) Designed a rapid and
- [Gunter Hoxter](https://neglectedscience.com/gunter-hoxter/): Gunter Hoxter, Brazilian pharmacist and engineer (1914 – 1999) DESCRIBED DISEASES With F.J. Modesto, C. Ventrella, S.D. Giannini, B.L. Wajchenberg & B. Liberman. Lipoatrophic diabetes: a new variant characterized by tapeto-retinal degeneration, late onset, generalized lipoatrophy, insulin-resistant hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. Israel J. Med. Sciences 8(6):793, 1972 Papers in renowned journals With B.L. Wajchenberg, E.H. Mello & A.B. Ulhoa Cintra. Non-esterified and esterified fatty acids in hepatocellular disease. The Lancet 1:1218, 1960 With A. Fajer & E. Fraga. Electrophoretic pattern of the soluble proteins of a pineal body extract. Nature 196:274, 1962 DEVELOPED METHODS With R. Mungioli. Electrophoretic studies. I. Methods and
- [Guillermo Haro Barraza](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-haro-barraza/): Guillermo Haro Barraza, Mexican astronomer (Ciudad de Mexico 21 March 1913 – Ciudad de Mexico 25 April 1988) Authored over 80 papers and about 30 books  ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a great number of planetary nebulae toward galactic center (with Enrique Chavira & Braulio Iriarte), besides stellar aggregates of distinct ages, many T Tauri stars, 11 galactic novae,  1 extragalactic nova  and 1 extragalactic super nova Discovered 103 new planetary nebulae (1952) With W. Morgan discovered flare stars in the Orion nebula (1953) Discovered new flare stars in the Pleiades (1970) Showed that some T-Tauri stars were flash stars With S. Torres &
- [Gonzalo Halffter Salas](https://neglectedscience.com/gonzalo-halffter-salas/): Gonzalo Halffter Salas, Spanish-born Mexican entomologist (Madrid 19 September 1932 – Regarded as world authority on behavior and analysis of subsocial structures of insects  and ecology, biology and ethology of dung beetles Authored 358 works being 76 books and book chapters (3,200 citations in 2003) Enunciated the concept of distribution pattern  DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Boreocanthon 1958 Eucanthidium 1986 with Martínez Hansreia 1977 with Martínez Melanocanthon 1958 Neocanthidium 1964 with Martínez & Pereira Sylvicanthon 1977 with Martinez Tesserodoniella 2006 with Vaz de Mello HONORS Halffterina Descamps 1975 (Orthoptera) Halffterius Zunino 1984 (Coleoptera) Halffterobolus Martínez 1976 (Coleoptera) Halffterinetis Morón & Nogueira 2007 (Coleoptera)
- [Gerdt Guenther Hatschbach](https://neglectedscience.com/gerdt-guenther-hatschbach/): Gerdt Guenther Hatschbach, Brazilian amateur botanist (Curitiba 22 August 1923 – Curitiba 16 April 2013) Discovered and collected about 500 new plant species DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Baccharis nebulae 2005 with Malagarriga Baccharis aracatubensis 1976 with Malagarriga Glechon elliptica 1966 with Pereira HONORS Hatschbachiella King & Robinson 1972 (Asteraceae) Gertia Soares & Soares 1946 (Arachnida)
- [Frederico Carlos Hoehne](https://neglectedscience.com/frederico-carlos-hoehne/): Frederico Carlos Hoehne, Brazilian botanist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 01 February 1882 – São Paulo 16 March 1959) Son of German immigrants Authored 117 scientific papers Coined the term nest epiphyte Discovered and/or described more than 400 new plant species DESCRIBED ORCHIDACEAE TAXA Valid Genera Loefgrenianthus 1927 Phloeophila 1926 with Schlechter Pseudomaxillaria 1944 Rudolfiella 1944 Uleiorchis 1944 Species At least 133 HONORS Hoehnea 1939 (Lamiaceae) Hoehneella Ruschi 1945 (Orchidaceae) Hoehnephytum Cabrera 1950 (Asteraceae) Hoehnemastix Skvortzov 1974 (Protozoa) 
- [Franz Eugen Hussak](https://neglectedscience.com/franz-eugen-hussak/): Franz Eugen Hussak, Austrian-born Brazilian mineralogist and petrographer (Wilden, Steiermark 10 March 1856 – Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais State 05 September 1911) First described the pseudoleucites (1890) Presented first accurate reports about microstructure of titaniferous iron ores DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Gorceixite (1906) Zirkelite (1895) with Prior Senaite (1898) with Prior Lewisite (1895) Derbylite (1895) with Prior Tripuhyite (1897) with Prior Florencite (1899) with Prior 
- [Fortunato Herrera](https://neglectedscience.com/fortunato-herrera/): Fortunato Luciano Herrera Garmendia, Peruvian botanist, ethnographer, historian, geographer and mineralogist (Cusco 13 December 1873 – Lima 13 April 1945) Authored over 200 papers and 20 books Proposed the use of Krameria triantha natural products Authored Contribución a la flora del Departamento del Cusco (1921), with native synonyms, varieties of food plants and notes of ethnological and historical character   With Russian Y. Yakovlev authored the monumental work El mundo vegetal de los antiguos peruanos (1934), describing the uses of plants in the arts and daily life of old civilizations in Peru (with international repercussion)  DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera Aliconia 1921 Hemifuchsia 1936 Species Aliconia guaco 1921 Cantua
- [Foon Chew How](https://neglectedscience.com/foon-chew-how/): Foon Chew How or Kuanzhao Hou, Chinese botanist (1908 – 1959) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid genus Muricococcum 1956 with Chun (Euphorbiaceae) Species 116 HONORS Foonchewia R.J.Wang 2012 (Rubiaceae)
- [Ezechias Paulo Heringer](https://neglectedscience.com/ezechias-paulo-heringer/): Ezechias Paulo Heringer, Brazilian botanist and botanical collector (Manhuaçu, Minas Gerais State 05 April 1905 – Brasilia 15 January 1987) Authored over 100 papers From his collections 154 orchid species and 9 plant species were described as new DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Section Elenaea 1987 with Rizzini (Fabaceae) Species Aniba pulcherrima 1976 with Kubitzki Cassia mystacicarpa 1966 with Rizzini Cedrela elliptica 1966 with Rizzini  Copaifera bulbotricha 1977 with Rizzini Cyclolobium nutans 1980 with Rizzini Dalbergia hortensis 1987 with Rizzini & A. Mattos Mimosa artemisiana 1979 with Paula Stryphnodendron barbatulum 1987 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron confertum 1966 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron cristalinae 1986 Stryphnodendron gracile 1966 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron platyspicum 1966 with Rizzini  Stryphnodendron sallesianum 1987 with Rizzini
- [Eusebio Hernandez Perez](https://neglectedscience.com/eusebio-hernandez-perez/): Eusebio G. Hernandez y Pérez, obstetra e ginecologista cubano (Colón, Matanzas Province 18 January 1853 – La Habana 23 November 1933) Introduced improvements in forceps, Tarnier basiotribe and Farabeuf pelvimeter Developed a new pelvimeter Proposed an open synphysiotomy procedure Described a new cause of cervix anatomical rigidity during delivery Nueva causa de rigidez anatômica del cuello uterino durante el parto (1899) Expanded Pinard’s concept of puericulture to adult life cycle creating homiculture, i.e. scientific physical improvement of mankind With Domingo Ramos Delgado. Homicultura (1911) LINKS https://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/revciemedhab/cmh-2012/cmh121q.pdf (Spanish)
- [Eric Hagsater](https://neglectedscience.com/eric-hagsater/): Eric Ragnar Wolko Hagsater Gartenberg, Mexican entrepneur and orchidologist (Ciudad de Mexico 05 May 1945 – From Swedish father and Austrian mother Described 800 new species in genus Epidendrum and 25 in other genera of Orchidaceae HONORS Hagsatera R. Gonzalez 1974 (Orchidaceae)
- [Enrique Herrero Ducloux](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-herrero-ducloux/): Enrique Herrero Ducloux, Spanish-born Argentine chemist (Navarra Province, Spain 06 January 1877 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province  23 July 1962) Showed the presence of alkaloids in many species of Cactaceae First showed the existence of ruthenium and osmium elements in a meteorite Performed first petroleum analyses from several oil seeps SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P. Lavenir. Contribución al estudio de la composición de las aguas superficiales y subterraneas de la Republica Argentina (1905) El hierro meteórico de la Puerta de Arauco (Prov. De La Rioja). Rev. Museo La Plata 15:84-90, 1908 With F. Outes & H. Bucking. Estudio de las supuestas
- [Emilio Hassler](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-hassler/): Emil Hassler, Swiss-born Paraguayan physician and botanist (Aarau, Aargau Canton 20 June 1864 – Asunción 04 November 1937) Performed botanical, zoological and etnographical collections DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE GENERA Bastardiopsis 1910 Blanchetiastrum 1910 Casimirella 1913 Dolichopsis 1907 Euglypha 1906 with Chodat Lycianthes 1917 HONORS Hassleria Jorgensen 1934 (Lepidoptera)
- [Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-ladislao-holmberg/): Eduardo Ladislao Estanislao Holmberg Correa, Argentine naturalist (Buenos Aires 27 July 1852 – Buenos Aires 04 November 1937) From Austrian descent DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi ameghinoi 1898 Aves Subspecies Rhea americana albescens 1878 with Lynch Arribalzaga Pisces Species Astyanax correntinus 1891 Astyanax erythropterus 1891 Crenicichla niederleinii 1891 Hypoptopoma inexispectatum 1893 Piabucus melanostoma 1891 Piaractus mesopotamicus 1887 Pterygoplichthys ambrosettii 1893 Steindachnerina conspersa 1891 Arachnida Genera Actinosoma 1883 Apembolephaenus 1908 Aussereria 1881 Discocyrtus 1879 Geraeocormobius 1887 Mastophora 1876 Mecicothrombium 1882 Neothereutes 1883 Opisthoplatus 1878 Pachyloides 1887 Stenoterommata 1881 Hymenoptera Genera Alloscirtetica 1909 Amaurocosmia 1887 Anthodioctes 1903 Brachynomada 1886 Caenoprosopis 1887 Chacoana 1903 Chalepogenus 1903 Doeringiella 1884 Ecplectica 1884 Energoponus 1903 Epimonispractor 1903 Hypochrotaenia 1886 Ischnolynthus 1903 Lanthanomelissa 1903 Leptergatis 1903 Leptometria 1903 Melissoptila 1884 Nectarodiaeta 1887 Ochleroptera 1903 Palinepeolus 1909 Pseudepeolus 1886 Svastra 1884 Teleutemnesta 1887 Thygater 1884 Thyreothremma 1904 Thyreotremata 1887 Toba 1887 Trophocleptria 1886 HONORS Holmbergia Hicken 1909 (Chenopodiaceae)
- [Deyuan Hong](https://neglectedscience.com/deyuan-hong/): Deyuan Hong, Chinese botanist (Jixi County, Anhui Province 1936 – DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Tribes Aragoeae 1993 with Nilsson Cyanantheae 1983 with Lian Genera Echinocodon 1984 Homocodon 1980 Kashmiria 1980 Oligospermum 1984 Neopicrorhiza 1984 Porandra 1974 Pseudobartsia 1979 Sinobacopa 1987 Wulfeniopsis 1980 Xizangia 1986 Subgenus Obconicicapsula 1980 Species 53 Subspecies 17
- [Desmond Arthur Harrison](https://neglectedscience.com/desmond-arthur-harrison/): Arthur Desmond Harrison, South-African / Canadian entomologist and limnologist (Kalk Bay, Cape Town 24 December 1921 – Victoria, Canada 30 December 2007) DESCRIBED DIPTERA GENERA Acinoretracus 1999 with Epler & Hare Afrozavrelia 2004 Chrysopelopia 1978 Elpiscladius 2007 with Cranston Kamelopelopia 1978 Lepidolepia 1970 Lunditendipes 2000 Notocladius 1997 Paradoxocladius 2000 Xestotendipes 2000 Zuluchironomus 2000 HONORS  Harrisonina Freeman 1956 (Diptera)
- [Cristobal Hicken](https://neglectedscience.com/cristobal-hicken/): Cristóbal Maria Hicken, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 01 January 1875 – Mar del Plata 11 March 1933) From German parents Authored over 70 works  DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Gallardoa 1916 (Malpighiaceae) Holmbergia 1909 (Chenopodiaceae) Species  62 Forms   31 Varieties 47 
- [Clarence Klaus Horich](https://neglectedscience.com/clarence-klaus-horich/): Clarence Klaus Horich, German-born Costa Rican orchidologist and botanical collector (Ludenscheid, North Rhine Westphalia 11 May 1930 – San José 01 March 1994) With Braas (1982) described two plant species Telipogon elcimeyae & Telipogon vampyrus (Cactaceae) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Orquideas saprófitas. Orquideologia 15(2-3):190-201, 1982 Notes on the relationship between orchids and insects. Orquideologia 14:46-54, 1979 Myrmecophilous orchids. Aspects of a singular symbiosis. Orquideologia 12:209-32, 1977 Los kikis y la multiplicación vegetativa de orquideas por hijos adventicios. Orquideologia 12:81-93, 1977 HONORS Horichia Jenny 1981 (Orchidaceae)  
- [Chi Ju Hsueh](https://neglectedscience.com/chi-ju-hsueh/): Chi-Ju Hsueh or Jiru Xue, Chinese botanist (1921 – 1999) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Chimonocalamus 1979 with Yi Gaoligongshania 1995 with Li & Xia Qiongzhuea 1983 with Yi Subgenus Quadrangulares 1988 with W.P. Zhang Sections (1988 with Li) Bambusoidetes Draconicalamus Patellares Species Amphelocalamus microphyllus with Yi Amphelocalamus saxatilis with Yi Amphelocalamus scandens 1985 with Li Bambusa intermedia 1984 with Yi Chimonobambusa brevinoda 1988 with Zhang Chimonobambusa damingshanensis 1988 with Zhang Chimonobambusa grandifolia 1988 with Zhang Chimonobambusa yunnanensis 1988 with Zhang Chimonocalamus delicatus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus dumosus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus fimbriatus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus longiligulatus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus longiusculus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus makuanensis 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus montanus 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus pallens 1979 with Yi Chimonocalamus tortuosus 1979 with Yi Dendrocalamus barbatus 1988 with Li Dendrocalamus fugongensis 1988
- [Cevat Hezarfen](https://neglectedscience.com/cevat-hezarfen/): Cevat Hezarfen, Turkish geologist (Yeniçaga District, Bolu Province 1942? Authored Feasibility report of Çanakkale Çan coal deposits. Geology M.T.A. report (1976) HONORS Hezarfenosporites Akyol 1975 (Fossil Sporae/Pollen)
- [Carlos Heuser](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-heuser/): Carlos Heuser, Argentine radiologist (Buenos Aires 08 February 1868 – Buenos Aires 28 March 1934) First to use a constrast medium in the human vessels (first venography and pulmonary angiography) Pielografia con yoduro de sodio y las inyecciones intravenosas de yoduro potasico en radiografia. Sem. Med. 26:424, 1919 First to use Lipiodol (iodized oil) to create a radiograph of uterine cavity creating hysterosalpingography by Lipiodol (1921) Developed a hysterosalpingography method employing Lipiodol and Vaseline (1924) Lipiodol in the diagnosis of pregnancy. The Lancet 206 (5335): 1111-2, 1925 La metrosalpingografia. Sem. Med. 33:1667-71, 1926 Introduced a protective mask for use during x-ray utilization
- [Carlos Herrera Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-herrera-rojas/): Carlos H. Herrera Rojas, Peruvian plant physiologist SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Control of Spilanthes urens Tacq. “Turre macho” by means of hedonal herbic amine salt of 2,4 d-herbic for its eradication of cultivated fields. Archivos Biol. Med. Exp. 2:18-19, 1969   Eradication of Distichilis spicata “grama salada” by means of 2,2 di-chloro-propionic acid dowpon herbic. Archivos Biol. Med. Exp. 2, 1969   HONORS Herreramyxa Skvortzov 1972 (Xanthophyceae)
- [Carl Curt Hosseus](https://neglectedscience.com/carl-curt-hosseus/): Carl Curt Hosseus, German-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (Stromberg im Thale, Hunsruck Pfalz 11 August 1878 – Cordoba 04 May 1950) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Aeschynanthus macrocalyx 1907 Astragalus tafelii 1938 Bauhinia harmsiana 1907 Begonia mouhotiana 1911 Berberis argentinensis 1921 Buddleja iresinoides 1926 Cassia kuntzei 1921 Ceratostigma stapfianum 1911 Croton hutchinsonianus 1911 Echinocactus bodenbenderianus 1929 Escallonia graefiana 1921 Escallonia tucumanensis 1921 Exacum sutaepense 1908 Gentiana hesseliana 1911 Geum scottsbergianum 1921 Gymnocalycium centeterium 1926 Gymnocalycium ottonis 1926 Gymnocalycium sigelianum 1926 Helicia hookeriana 1913 Hexaptera kurtzii 1921 Hoffmannseggia philippiana 1921 Hoya engleriana 1907 Indigofera siamensis 1907 Leucas lamioides 1911 Linderia bifaria 1911 Malacocarpus dusenii 1931 Mussaenda sutepensis 1911 Opuntia riojana 1936 Osbeckia ridleyana 1911 Patagonium philippianum 1921 Phyllatathodendron siamense 1911 Polygonum damrogianum 1911 Portulaca cordobensis 1921 Rhododendron ludwigianum 1911 Rhynchosia longipetiolata 1907 Richthofenia siamensis 1907 Rostkovia reichei 1915 Rubus volkensianus 1911 Senecio craibinnus 1911
- [Brian John Huntley](https://neglectedscience.com/brian-john-huntley/): Brian John Huntley, South African plant ecologist and conservationist (Durban 20 February 1944 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.R.J. Dean, M.A. Huntley & C.J. Vernon. Notes on some birds of Angola. Durban Mus. Novit. 14:43-92, 1988  With G.R. Hughes & D. Wearne. Sea turtles in Angola. Biol. Cons. 5:58-9, 1973 Ageing criteria for tsessebe. J. Sth. Afr. Wildl. Mg. Assoc. 3:24-6, 1973 A note on food preferences of a steenbok. J. Sth. Afr. Wildl. Mg. Assoc. 2:24-6, 1972 Carcass composition of mature male blesbok and kudu. S. Afr. J. Anim. Sci. 1:125-8, 1971 Seasonal variation in the physical conditions of mature lesbok
- [Bernardo Alberto Houssay](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardo-alberto-houssay/): Bernardo Alberto Justino Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Buenos Aires 10 April 1887 – Buenos Aires 21 September 1971) Son of French immigrants  ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 500 papers and several books With A. B. Biasotti discovered that pituitary anterior lobe played an important role in carbohydrates metabolism in blood stream and that it was possible to control the metabolism by equilibrium of distinct hormones (1929) Discovered sugar oxidation in blood depends on a complex interaction between insulin and other hormones such as prolactin and somatotropin   Demonstrated pancreas graft between carotid and jugular veins in dogs regulated the glycemia Proved pituitary diabetogenic effect depends
- [Bailin Hao](https://neglectedscience.com/bailin-hao/): Bailin Hao, Chinese physicist (Beijing 26 June 1934 – Beijing 07 March 2018) Authored 171 research papers and 27 books CONTRIBUTIONS With S.Y. Zhang. An ALGOL program to calculate the fault currents in power networks” Communications in Power Systems Design, 33 (1976) (in Chinese). With S.Y. Zhang. “Two ALGOL programs to calculate power flows in power networks” Communications in Power Systems Design, 44 (1977) (in Chinese). With H. Shi & Y.C. Xu“A closed-form approximation for the 3-dimensional Ising model” Chinese Physics (AIP), 2 (1982), 1-16 Chinese original: Acta Physica Sinica, 27 (1978), 47-62. With S.Y. Zhang. A general-purpose program for calculating
- [Arthur William Heywood](https://neglectedscience.com/arthur-william-heywood/): Arthur William Heywood, English-born South African forester (Manchester, Lancashire July 1853 – Stellenbosch 1918) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cape woods and forests (1886) Drift sands in the Division of Caledon and Bredasdorp (1893) Drift sands at Port Nolloth (1894) Sandstay grasses: Marram grass: Ammophila arundinacea. Agric. J. Cape Colony 15:342-3, 1894 Report on forestry in Basutoland to Government Secretary, Maseru (1908) HONORS Heywoodia Sim 1907 (Phyllanthaceae) LINKS WWW.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1289
- [Arthur Lewis Hall](https://neglectedscience.com/arthur-lewis-hall/): Arthur Lewis Hall, English-born South African economic geologist, stratigrapher and petrologist (Birmingham, England 10 January 1872 – Pretoria 13 August 1955) Authored over 100 publications SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Analyses of rocks, minerals, ores, coal, soils and waters from Southern Africa. Memoir Geol. Survey S. Afr. 32, 1938 The Bushveld igneous complex, with special reference to the Eastern Transvaal (1929) With G.A.F. Molengraaff. The Vredefort Mountain land in the Southern Transvaal and the Northern Orange Free State (1925) Mineral resources of South Africa (1924) On the marundites and allied corundum bearing rocks in the Leysdorf district of the Eastern Transvaal (1923) Corundum in
- [Armando Teodoro Hunziker](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-teodoro-hunziker/): Armando Teodoro Hunziker, Argentine botanist (Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province 29 August 1919 – Cordoba 12 December 2001) From Swiss descent Authored over 150 publications DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA 8 tribes, 3 subfamilies, 5 sub-tribes and 3 sections Genera Cuatresia 1977 Darcyanthus 2000 Eriolarynx 2000 Hawkesiophyton 1977 Houssayanthus 1978 Parodiodendron 1969 Plowmania 1986 with Sibils Schultesianthus 1977 Species, Subspecies & Varieties 74  species and 19 subspecies or varieties HONORS Hunzikeria D’Arcy 1976 (Solanaceae) His brother, Juan Hector Hunziker Landolt, plant cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 26 August 1925 – Acassuso, Buenos Aires Province 17 March 2003) Authored over 150 papers Studied cytologically for the first time over 35 plant species DESCRIBED Larrea sect. Bifolium 1972 with Palacios
- [Alphonse Richard Hoge](https://neglectedscience.com/alphonse-richard-hoge/): Alphonse Richard Hoge, Brazilian herpetologist (Cacequi, Rio Grande do Sul State 05 September 1912 – São Paulo 25 February 1982) From Belgian father Authored 113 herpetological papers DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA Genera Ditaxodon 1958 Gloydius 1981 with Romano Gomesophis 1959 with Mertens Protobothrops 1983 with Romano Species Atropoides occiduus 1966 Bothrops brazili 1954 Bothrops marajoensis 1966 Bothrops moojeni 1966 Bothrops pradoi 1948 Bothrops sanctaecrucis 1966 Corallus cropanii 1953 Liophis mossoroensis 1973 with Lima Verde Lygophis paucidens 1953 Micrurus tricolor 1956 Oxyrhopus guibei 1977 with Romano Phalotris mertensis 1955 Psychosaura macrorhyncha 1946 Rhinocerophis fonsecai 1959 with Belluomini Trimeresurus brongersmai 1969 Subspecies Bothriopsis bilineata smaragdina 1966 Crotalus durissus marajoensis 1966 Crotalus durissus ruruima 1965 Dipsas indica petersi 1975 Hydrodynastes bicinctus schultzi 1966 Lachesis muta rhombeata 1978 with Romano HONORS
- [Allen & Leda Hagler](https://neglectedscience.com/allen-leda-hagler/): Allen Norton Hagler, US-born Brazilian microbiologist and biochemist (22 April 1946 – METHODS With F.R. Novak & J.A.G. Almeida. Teste alternativo para detecção de coliformes fecais em leite humano pasteurizado. J. Bras. Ginecol. 108(10):339-45, 1999 With D.G. Ahearn. A rapid DBB method for detection of basidiomycetous yeasts. Int. J. System. Bacter. 31(2):204-8, 1981 TAXON Diplodascus starmeri 1997 with Phaff, Blue & Kurtzman BRAZILIAN PATENTS With N. Pereira Jr., M.I.M. Liberto, G.M. Valladares, M.C. Cabral, E.C. A. Eleutherio, D.I.A. Teixeira & J.M. Louzada. Processo para obtenção de etanol a partir de algas PI0819746-6 A2 (2008) With N. Pereira Jr., M.D. Pereira, M.I.M. Liberto,
- [Alfonso Herrera (father & son)](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-herrera-father-son/): Alfonso Luis Herrera López, Mexican naturalist (Ciudad de Mexico 03 July 1868 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 Setember 1942) Introduced the notion that the structure and functions of living beings could be explained physical and chemical laws based in Recueil de lois de la biologie générale Demonstrated the abiotic synthesis of organic compounds Authored Nociones de biologia (1904), translated into French as Notions de biologie et de plasmogenie comparées (1906) in which presented the theory of plasmogeny La Plasmogenia: nueva ciencia del origen de la vida (1932) A new theory of the origin and nature of life. Science 96:14, 1942 Proposed that physico-chemical
- [Alberto Hurtado Abadía](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-hurtado-abadia/): Alberto Hurtado Abadía, Peruvian physiologist (Lima 29 August 1901 – Lima 01 November 1983) Authored over 300 works First described high altitude acute pulmonary edema known (HAPE or Hurtado disease) in Physiological and Pathological Aspects of Life at High Altitudes (1937) Pointed out that hypoventilation of one suffering sickness mountain was due to a minor sensibility of respiratory center to carbon dioxide    With H. Aste Salazar showed a minor affinity of hemoglobin to oxygen in hypoxic environment (1944) HONORS Houssay Prize, OAS (1972)
- [Albert John Hesse](https://neglectedscience.com/albert-john-hesse/): Albert John Hesse, South-African entomologist (Potchefstroom, Transvaal 04 November 1895 –Somerset West, Cape Town 11 November 1987) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Diptera Genera Adelogenys 1938 Aetheotilus 1967 Agaperemius 1969 Amictogeron 1938 Anomaloptilus 1938 Arenomydas 1969 Atrichochira 1956 Cephalocerodes 1969 Ceratolaemis 1938 Chasmoneura 1938 Cheilohadrus 1938 Conomyza 1956 Crossoprosopus 1969 Doliogethes 1938 Epacmoides 1956 Euanthobates 1965 Françoisia 1952 Lachnocorynus 1969 Lepidochlanis 1938  Marleyimyia 1956 Namadytes 1969 Namamydas 1969 Namibimydas 1972  Neolaparopsis 1969 Nomoneuroides 1969 Nothomydas 1969  Notobates 1969 Notosyllogomydas 1969 Onchopelma 1938 Oreomydas 1969 Othniomyia 1938 Parectyphus 1972 Prorostoma 1956  Pseudoglabella 1967 Psiloderoides 1967 Pteraulacodes 1956 Vespiodes 1969 Xenoprosopa 1956 Xeramoeba 1956 Zinnomyia 1955 Species 591 species of Bombylidae Diptera Hemiptera (1925) Genera Araneaster  Diazanus Igora Ikonza Imbalara Inkewana Intandela Letaba Mafa Migdilybs Paraphlegyas Tritavus Coleoptera Genera Aneilobolus 1948 Psectes 1935 HONORS Ahessea Greathead & Evenhius 2001 (Diptera) Hesseodes Ardoin 1963 (Coleoptera) Hesseops Koch 1958 (Coleoptera)  
- [Aida Hasson-Voloch](https://neglectedscience.com/aida-hasson-voloch/): Aída Hasson Voloch, Jewish Brazilian biochemist and biophysicist (Rio de Janeiro 28 November 1922 – Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro State October 2007) His parents were born at Rhodes Island, Greece Authored 78 papers dealing mainly with physical and chemical aspects of neuromuscular transmission ACHIEVEMENTS Authored a work about acetylcholine receptor Curare and acetylcholine receptor substance. Nature 218:330-3, 1968 Identified Na-K-ATPase responsible for active transport of cationic ions Na and K in the cells of electric organ With W. de Souza, R.D. Machado, C. Somlo & M. Benchimol. Localization of ATPases on the membranes of the electrolyte of Electrophorus electricus (L.). Cell Tissue Res.
- [Ahmed Amin Hamza](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmed-amin-hamza/): Ahmed Amin Hamza, Egyptian experimental physicist (Giza 08 March 1941 – Authored over 130 original works Regarded as one of the best world’s experts on the field of optical interferometry of fibres METHODS  A new method to measure the mean refractive indices and the birefringence of fibres of irregularly shaped transverse sections (1980) A method for measuring the diameter of fibres by observing the diffraction pattern of a He-Ne laser beam incident perpendicular to the fiber axis (1980) Built a system for colour matching on the basis of optical measurements (1975) Extended the application of the Pluta microscope to measure the
- [Adolpho Hempel](https://neglectedscience.com/adolpho-hempel/): Adolpho Hempel, US-born Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Canton, Illinois 10 April 1870 –São Paulo 04 November 1949) World expert on Coccoidea Hemiptera Authored 88 papers and notes Developed a new method to combat sauba and other ants Novo methodo para combater a saúva (Atta sexdens Fabr.) e outras formigas nocivas às plantas. Bol. Agric. Secr. Agric. Com. Obras Publ. 5(2):72-4, 1904 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Hemiptera Genera Alecanochiton 1921 Aleuronudus 1922 Apiococcus 1900 Canceraspis 1934 Ceraleurodicus 1922 Cryptokermes 1900 Diaspidistis 1900 Edwallia 1899 Luederwaldtiana 1923 Megalecanium 1920 Nealeurodicus 1923 Nealeyrodes 1923 Neocoelostoma 1932 Neolecanochiton 1932 Neoparlaspis 1934 Neotectococcus 1937 Octaleurodicus 1922 Pseudaleurodicus 1923 Pseudaleurobolus 1923 Pseudaleyrodes 1923 Pseudalichtensia 1928 Pseudischnaspis 1900 Pseudocapulinia 1932 Pseudotectococcus 1934 Pulvinella 1899 Stigmacoccus 1900 Tectococcus 1900 Species More than 60 Others New species of Water Rotifera
- [Adolar Gottlieb Herre](https://neglectedscience.com/adolar-gottlieb-herre/): Adolph (Adolar) Gottlieb Julius (Hans) Herre, German-born South African botanist (Anhalt-Dessau 07 April 1895 – Pretoria 16 January 1979) Known internationally for his studies on succulent plants of South African flora DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA  (Aizoaceae) Genera Arenifera 1948 Jensenobotrya 1951 Neo-aridaria 1971 Species Crassula fusca 1953 Jensenobotrya lossowiana 1951 HONORS Herreanthus Schwantes 1928 (Aizoaceae)
- [Adnan Hamoui](https://neglectedscience.com/adnan-hamoui/): Adnan Hamoui, Syrian mathematician in Kuwait (Damascus 20 December 1932 – Defined quaternion submanifolds of codimension 2 (1984) With R.S. Mishra obtained a formula on an almost Sasakian manifold (1982) Deux nouvelles classes de solutions non-statiques à symétrie sphérique des èquations d’Einstein-Maxwell. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré. A. Phys. Theor. 10(2):195-227, 1969 Generalized a subcase of Lemaitre-Tolman model to dust moving in a spherically symmetric electric field (1969) With L. Bel established a general program permitting to decide on the possibility of matching two metrics (1967) With A. Papapetreou obtained first procedure of extending the geometry of space-time through a weak singularity
- [Abdul Hamid](https://neglectedscience.com/abdul-hamid/): Abdul Hamid, Pakistani mycologist (fl.1936-65) Described Pythiogeton sterile and Achlya androcomposita (1942) HONORS Hamidia Chaudhuri 1942 (Fungi)
- [Zulma Gasparini](https://neglectedscience.com/zulma-gasparini/): Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini, Argentine vertebrate paleontologist (La Plata 15 May 1944 – DESCRIBED REPTILIA FOSSIL TAXA Suborders Notosuchia 1971 Ziphosuchia 2000 with Ortega, Buscalioni & Calvo Families Bretesuchidae 1993 Dolichochampsidae 1980 with Buffetaut Peirosauridae 1982 Uruguaysuchidae 1971 Genera Antarctopelta 2006 with Salgado Ayllusuchus 1984 Bretesuchus 1993 with Fernandez & Powell Cacibupteryx 2004 with Fernandez & de la Fuente Carandaisuchus 1985 Dolichochampsa 1980 with Buffetaut Gallardosaurus 2009 Lakumasaurus 2002 with Novas, Fernandez, Lirio, Nuñez & Puerta Leivanectes 2019 with Paramo-Fonseca, O’ Gorman, Padilla & Parra-Ruge Lomasuchus 1991 with Chiappe & Fernandez Maresaurus 1997 Sulcusuchus 1990 with Spalletti Tuarangisaurus 2003 with Salgado & Casadio Vinialesaurus 2002 with Bardet & Iturralde-Vinent Wenupteryx 2012 with Codorniu Species Ayllusuchus fernandezi 1984
- [Virgilio Galvis](https://neglectedscience.com/virgilio-galvis/): Virgilio Galvis Ramírez, Colombian ophthalmic surgeon (Bucaramanga 27 July 1947 – With A.I. Ortiz Zapata, J.D. Arias & J.C. Serrano reported the first case in literature of positive response to topical dorzolamide in a children with enhanced S cone syndrome (2014) DEVELOPED/MODIFIED TECHNIQUES With A. Tello, L.J. Escaf, V. Rojas, M.A. Cortez. Phaco prechopping as an option in high-volume cataract services. Techn. Ophthal. 5(1):1-7, 2007 With L.J. Escaf, V. Rojas, M.A. Cortez, A. Tello & J.P. Aparicio. Ultraphaco and Ultraqual techniques using a new ultrasonic chopper (Ultrachopper). Techn. Ophthal. 5(4):131-5, 2007 With A. Tello, C.A. Niño & P.A. Camacho López. Intraocular
- [Vinalto Graf](https://neglectedscience.com/vinalto-graf/): Vinalto Graf, Brazilian entomologist (1939 – Curitiba 19 December 2017) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera & Subgenera Actenosigynes 1999 with Moure & Urban Albinapis 2000 with Urban Baptonedys 1999 with Moure & Urban  Catucaba 1991 with Kumagai & Coutinho Jomine 1998 with Kumagai Moureisca 1973 with Urban & DeSantis Neoexetastes 1984 Pectinorex 1976 Tiphiallen 1995 with Kumagai & Almeida Species Albinapis gracilis 2000 with Urban Boethus catharinae 2002 with Kumagai Catucaba anaterrae 1991 with Kumagai & Dutra Chydarteres striatus 1999 with Marzagão Clistopyga jakobii 1985 Clydonium costalimai 1976 Conoaxima acricola 1973 with De Santis & Urban Epelaspis ketiae 1995 with Kumagai Epelaspis renatoi 1995 with Kumagai Epirhyssa nigrothorax 2004 with Kumagai Flacopimpla sulina 1998 with Kumagai Hedypathes betulinus 1999 with Marzagão Hexanthera enneomera 2000
- [Victor Ariel Gallardo](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-ariel-gallardo/): Victor Ariel Gallardo, Chilean marine biologist (Maullín, Llanquihue Province 03 November 1934 – DESCRIBED MARINE INVERTEBRATES TAXA Annelida polychaeta Genera Paracapitella 1987 with Carrasco Protomastobranchus 1968 Species At least 44 Others Crepidula fecunda 1979 & C. philippiana 1971 (Mollusca) Ampelisca araucana 1963 (Crustacea) Oulactis colliumensis 1990 (Coelenterata)  Thioploca araucae 1984 with Maier (Bacteria) HONORS Gallardonereis Carrera-Parra 2006 (Annelida Polychaeta)
- [Traugott Wilhelm Gevers](https://neglectedscience.com/traugott-wilhelm-gevers/): Traugott Wilhelm Gevers, South African geologist (New Hanover, Natal Province 23 April 1900 – Natal 1991) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Lithium and beryllium bearing pegmatites in the Karibib district, South West Africa. Some ore deposits of Southern Africa (1964) With O. Hart & H. Martin. Thermal waters along the Swakop River, South West Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa 66:157-89, 1963 Vermiculite at Loolekop, Palabora, North East Transvaal. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa 1949 With J.C. Dunne. Charnockitic rocks near Port Edward in Alfred County, Natal. Trans. Geol. Soc. South Africa 42:183-214, 1942 Carbon dioxide and exhalations in northern Pondoland and Alfred County,
- [Sergio Garcia Marruz](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-garcia-marruz/): Sergio Garcia Marruz, Cuban obstetrician (La Habana 01 January 1886 – La Habana 03 October 1947) His paper “Dos casos de cirurgia obstétrica: cesareas conservadoras. 1º por gran toxemia; 2º por vagina tabicada. Rev. Med. Cubana 32:910, 1921, was reproduced in foreign journals With Francisco S. Villalta developed Garcia Marruz-Villalta technique or cesárea segmento corpórea extraperitoneal (1933) El problema de la cesarea baja: consideraciones sobre nueva tecnica de aislamiento sero-seroso de la soma histerotomica y exteriorización de la sutura uterina. Rev. Med. Cubana 48:761-99, 1937 His son, Sergio Garcia Marruz Badia, surgeon (La Habana 12 October 1919 – La Habana 13 February
- [Sebastian Alfredo Guarrera](https://neglectedscience.com/sebastian-alfredo-guarrera/): Sebastián Alfredo Guarrera, Argentine phycologist (Buenos Aires 10 July 1913 – Buenos Aires 28 February 2016) DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Species Peroniella bourrellyi 1979 with Tell Sphaeroeca laxa 1985 Varieties Anabaena alatospora var. ona 1998 with Echenique Anabaena ambigua var, limayensis 1995 Anabaena echinospora var. yamano 1998 with Echenique Anabaena oscillaroides var. mucosa with Echenique Binuclearia tectorum var. minor 1991 Crinalium magnum var. colloncurense 1995 Crucigeniella rectangularis var. alicurense 1992 with Echenique Gonium formosum var. alicurense 1992 with Echenique Lobocystis dichotoma var. minor with Ferrario Merismopedia tenuissima var. polyedrica 1987 Oscillatoria princeps var. fuegiana 1998 with Echenique Phaseolaria obliqua var. major 1992 with Echenique Stigonema hormoides var. patagonicum 1995 HONORS Guarreraea Kociolek, Guerrero & Van de Vijver 2018 (Bacillariophyta) 
- [Satya Pal & Vinod Gupta](https://neglectedscience.com/satya-pal-vinod-gupta/): Satya Pal Gupta, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (fl. 1950-93) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Brahamputrotrema 1954 with Dayal (Trematoda) Capingentoides 1961 (Cestoda) Engraulitrema 1980 with Krisnha (Monogenea) Gauhatiana 1955 (Trematoda) Lucknoides 1955 (Trematoda) Lucknowia 1961 (Cestoda) Macrotrema 1951 (Trematoda) Neocricocephalus 1962 (Digenea) Neodiclidophora 1980 with Krishna (Monogenea) Neoencotyllabe 1980 (Monogenea) Neopecoelina 1955 (Trematoda) Oudhia 1955 with Dayal (Trematoda) Paracylicostrongylus 1978 with Srivastava (Nematoda) Paraphysaloptera 1979 with Kazim (Nematoda) Paraxine 1977 with Krishna (Monogenea) Pseudoanisocoelium 1985 with Tandon (Digenea) Pseudoaviculariella 1979 with Kazim (Nematoda) Pseudocaryophyllaeus 1961 (Cestoda) Pseudodiscogasteroides 1955 (Trematoda) Pseudolamellodiscoides 1977 with Krishna & Sharma (Monogenea) Pseudoparamacroderoides 1968 with Agrawal (Trematoda) Thaparotrema 1955 with Dayal (Trematoda) Vitellariotrema 1977 with Krishna (Monogenea) Species At least 70 HONORS Satyapalia Lakshminarayana & Hafeezullah 1974 (Trematoda) His wife, Vinod Agrawal
- [Samuel Gitler](https://neglectedscience.com/samuel-gitler/): Samuel Carlos Gitler Hammer, Jewish Mexican mathermatician (Ciudad de Mexico 14 July 1933 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 September 2014) With M.E.Mahowald developed modified Postnikow towers With J.D.Stasheff defined exotic class and the first nontrivial exotic class of order 2 (1965) With J. Adem & Y.K. Lam defined secondary operations EPONYMY Gitler-Mahowald method (1960s) Feder-Gitler theorem (1977) Cohen-Gitler theorem Brown-Gitler spectra (1973) Brown-Gitler modules Brown-Gitler property Gitler-Stasheff characteristic class Bendersky-Gitler spectral sequence 
- [Salvador Gonzalez Herrejon](https://neglectedscience.com/salvador-gonzalez-herrejon/): Rafael Salvador Gonzalez Herrejón, Mexican dermatologist (Morelia, Michoacán State 04 December 1893 – San Jose de Costa Rica January 1965) Demonstrated that pinta disease was a general and microbial–origin disease (1926-7) With León Blanco & Perrín identified Treponema carateum that causes pinta Improved the technique of curing tinea employing thallium acetate (1918-9) with international acceptance Proved that the vitiligo was caused by a protozoa named Treponema pintoi
- [Ruth Glover Wordsworth](https://neglectedscience.com/ruth-glover-wordsworth/): Ruth Glover Wordsworth, South African botanist (fl.1908-18) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Acmadenia heterophylla 1915 Acmadenia macropetala Agathosma sladeniana 1915 Albuca karasbergensis 1915 Diosma guthriei 1915 Empleurum fragrans 1918 Hermannia meyeriana 1915 Lachenalia pearsonii 1915 Tetraena tenius 1913 HONORS Gloveria Jordaan 1998 (Celastraceae)
- [Ruth Gall](https://neglectedscience.com/ruth-gall/): Ruth Sonabend de Gall, Jewish Polish-born Mexican physicist (Dobrzyn 27 April 1920 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 April 2003) Authored over 75 papers Gave the first evidence about variation along day in values of geomagnetic rigidity cutoff of cosmic rays in polar latitudes Determined the effect of magneto spherical currents on paths of cosmic rays Produced asymptotic direction maps of cosmic rays Authored classical works on field of cosmic rays Daily variation of the asymptotic directions of cosmic rays. J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys. 73:13, 1968 Penetration through the magnetopause and the trapping in its vicinity. J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys.
- [Rosalvo Guidolin](https://neglectedscience.com/rosalvo-guidolin/): Rosalvo Guidolin, Brazilian veterinarian (São Paulo 18 January 1924 – São Paulo 15 December 2011) With R.G. Ferri. Fluorescence and photoinactivation of snake poisons. Science 113:300, 1951  DEVELOPED With I. Gondo & W. Dias da Silva an immunization scheme of horses for antivenins production (1985)  Antivenom in powder form (2000) With F. Fratelli, J. Abrahão Neto, A.T. Caricati, M.M. Borges & C.P. Caricati. An alternative method for purifying and detoxifying diphtheria toxin. Toxicon 57(78):1093-1100, 2001    With W. Dias da Silva, J.R. Marcelino, H.H. Gondo, T.L. Kipnis, C.L. da Silva et al. Development of Process to Produce Polyvalent Horse F(ab`)2 Antibodies Anti-African
- [Rolando Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/rolando-garcia/): Rolando Victor Garcia Boutique, Argentine meteorologist and philosopher (Azul, Buenos Aires Province 20 February 1919 – Ciudad de Mexico 15 November 2012) Married to world-famous psychopedagogist Emilia Ferreiro His thesis at University of California was relevant for rocket launching to Moon by NASA On the condition of the Steady state Atmospheric Motion (1953) Headed the first atmosheric surveying employing meteorological satellites at Geneve (United Nations Organization) 1967-71 With Jean Piaget authored works about epistemology and science history Elaborated a theory about complex systems Sistemas complejos (2006)  
- [Rodrigo Gamez](https://neglectedscience.com/rodrigo-gamez/): Rodrigo Gamez Lobo, Costa Rican plant virologist and ecologist (Esparza, Puntarenas 07 August 1936 – ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered several viruses and vector insects as well as virus-vector biological relationships new to science Discovered, characterized and described the features and biological properties of the rayado fino maize virus that gave basis to the creation of a new viruses family (Marafiviridae) A new leafhopper-borne virus of cvorn in Central America. Plant Disease Reporter 53:929-32, 1969 Described  bean rugose mosaic virus With A. Osores & E. Echandi. Una raza nueva del virus do mosaico común del frijol. Turrialba 20:397-400, 1970 Los vírus del frijol  en Centroamerica
- [Rodolfo Golbach](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-golbach/): Rodolfo Luis Pablo Golbach, German-born Argentine entomologist (Leipzig 08 June 1916 –San Miguel de Tucumán 17 October 2000) World expert on Elateridae Coleoptera Presented a device to collect Thysanoptera Aparato para la recolección de tisanópteros. Rev. Soc. Entom. Argent. 13(1-3):187-9, 1951 DESCRIBED NEW COLEOPTERA TAXA Tribe Anaissini 1984 Subfamily Semiotinae Genera Apteroelater 1964 Arnettia 1969 Duretia 1984 Latilacon 1969 Monocyrton 1969 Paraloboderus 1990 Pyrganus 1968 Stangellus 1976 Species At Least 40 HONORS Golbachia Cobos 1955 (Coleoptera) Golbachiella Townes 1969 (Hymenoptera)
- [Roberto Hernán Gonzalez](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-hernan-gonzalez/): Roberto Hernán Gonzalez Rodríguez, Chilean agricultural entomologist (1933 – DESCRIBED GENERA Hemiptera (with Miller in 1976) Chilecoccus Exallococcus Icelococcus Stibococcus Acari Chileseius 1962 with Schuster Mesoseiulus 1962 with Schuster Paraponychus 1977 with Flechtmann Summersiella 1967 HONORS Gonzalezinus Carvalho 1981 (Hemiptera) Gonzalezodoria Cortes 1967 (Diptera)
- [Roberto Gonzalez Tamayo](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-gonzalez-tamayo/): Jorge Roberto Gonzalez Tamayo, Mexican orchidologist (Ciudad de Mexico 13 November 1940 – Ciudad de Mexico 20 January 2014) DESCRIBED NEW ORCHIDACEAE TAXA Genera Coenoemersa 2010 with Lizbeth Hernandez Cutsis 1982 with Burns-Balogh & Greenwood Diskyphogyne 1996 with Szlachetko Gracielanthus 1995 with Szlachetko Hagsatera 1974 Nezahualcoyotlia 1996 Ochyrella 1996 with Szlachetko Zhukowskia 2000 with Szlachetko & Rutkowski Species About 110 HONORS Tamayorkis Szlachetko 1995 (Orchidaceae)
- [Richard Martin Gans](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-martin-gans/): Richard Martin Gans, German-born Jewish Argentine physicist (Frankfurt am Main 07 March 1880 – City Bell, near La Plata 27 June 1954) Authored over 200 works Introduced the concept of residual permeability Proposed the law of reversible permeability Presented the first treatment of quantitative significance of elastic tension upon magnetization Performed theoretical and experimental studies about radiation absorption in solutions and determined the size of scattered particles in solutions that earned him international fame Developed an experimental method for hysteresis losses With R.G. Loyarte. Uber drehende hysteresis. Arch. F. Elektr. 3(6):139-50, 1915 With R. G. Loyarte gave the first qualitative theoretical
- [Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvao](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-magnus-osorio-galvao/): Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão, Brazilian physicist (Itajubá, Minas Gerais State 21 December 1947 – Polarization equation for a high-frequency EM wave propagating through a cold plasma. IEEE Trans. Plasm. Science 2(4):211-4, 1975 Co-demonstrated resonant absortion of Alfvén waves (197?) Co-authored a work about resistive instabilities in plasmas that became a reference in this field With B. Coppi, R. Pellat, M.N. Rosenblueth & P.H. Rutherford. Resistive internal kink modes. Sovietic J. Plasma Phys. 2:533, 1976 Showed a resistive mode with azimuthal mode number m equals 1 in reversed-field confinement configurations without shear With M.A.M. Santiago. Resistive instabilities in reversed-field confinement configurations without
- [Ricardo Guerrero](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-guerrero/): Ricardo A. Guerrero López Alcantara, Venezuelan parasitologist (fl.1969) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Nematoda Genera Bisbalia 2003 with Bain Durettestrongylus 1982 Limonnema 1971 Monodelphoxyuris 2003 with Hugot Pseudostrongyluris 1971 Species Acanthostrongylus secundus 2019 Bisbalia vossi 2003 with Bain Cruzia empera 1971 Cyrnea (Procyrnea) ramirezi 1971 Durettestrongylus ojastii 1982 Hypocristata tercera 2006 with Durette-Desset Hystrignathus meridensis 1980 Hystrignathus popiliophagus 1980 Limonnema vali 1971 Litomosoides chitwoodi 2003 with Bain Litomosoides solarii 2002 with Bain Litomosoides taylori 2011 with Bain Litomosoides wilsoni 2002 with Bain Litomosoides yutajensis 2003 with Martin & Bain Longistriata torrealbai 1982 Molinema algardneri 2001 with Bain Molinema barbarae 2001 with Bain Molinema nattereri 2001 with Bain Molinema peruviensis 2001 with Bain Molineus inexpectatus 2000 with Durette-Desset & Boyer Monodelphoxyuris dollmeiri 2003 with Hugot Ornithostrongylus volcani 2000 with Durette-Desset &
- [Rebeca Gerschman](https://neglectedscience.com/rebeca-gerschman/): Rebeca Gerschman, Jewish Argentine biochemist (Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires Province 19 June 1903 – Buenos Aires 04 April 1986) Developed Gerschman-Marenzi method for studying changes in blood potassium concentration under distinct physiopathological conditions With A.D. Marenzi in Anales Farm. Bioquim. 3:107-11, 1932 Proposed the oxygen toxicity was due to free radicals and first introduced the notion that free radicals are toxic agents With D.L. Gilbert, S.W. Nye, D. Dwyer & W. O. Fenn. Oxygen poisoning and x-irradiation: a mechanism in common. Science 119:623, 1954   With W.O. Fenn, D.L Gilbert, D.E. Terwilliger & F.V. Cothran. Mutagenic effects of high oxygen tensions on Escherichia coli.
- [Ramón Gutierrez](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-gutierrez/): Ramón Gutierrez Alonso, Chilean entomologist (Santiago 11 January 1917 – Santiago 26 November 1953) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Asterodemidea 1952 Dihydrenonyx 1949 Epicallichloris 1951 Eubarybas 1952 Heterocallichloris 1951 Homoliogenys 1952 Lichniops 1946 Microogenius 1951 Mimotribosthethes 1949 Neolichnia 1943 Pseudodicrania 1950 HONORS Neogutierrezia Martínez 1953 (Coleoptera)
- [Philibert Germain](https://neglectedscience.com/philibert-germain/): Philibert Germain, French-born Chilean entomologist (Lyon 27 January 1827 – Santiago 09 December 1913) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA With Fairmaire Adalbus 1859 Amomphopalpus 1861 Ananca 1863 Anisomallus 1863 Anthicoxenus 1860 Baryopsis 1862 Batobius 1863 Cacostola 1859 Campyloxenus 1860 Copobaenus 1863 Corinthiscus 1861 Dasytomorphus 1863 Dityloidea 1863 Drascalia 1864 Emphytoecia 1860 Estola 1859 Eucaliga 1861 Gynapteryx 1863 Hesycha 1859 Hypoprasis 1864 Lacris 1860 Lagrioida 1860 Lioschema 1861 Mallochira 1863 Modialis 1860 Nephropsis 1863 Nimales 1861 Oedodactylus 1862 Oligorhina 1863 Phantazoderus 1864 Platylytra 1863 Pseudomeloe 1863 Pterobothris 1859 Stauropus 1863 Talaeopora 1859 Others Philandia 1906 with Kerremans Alone Amblyterodes 1904 Anacanthops 1903 Aporozoum 1892 Ctenoderus 1855 Frickius 1897 Halticella 1903 Halticoidea 1903 Hydroenida 1901 Lautarus 1900 Loncovillus 1903 Marileus 1898 Maripanus 1898 Melicurus 1904 Nahuelius 1895 Paulsenius 1895 Philippius 1895 Philophlaeus 1855 Poehlmannius 1911 Pteroderes 1894 Puranius 1895  Rivera 1903 HONORS (Coleoptera) Germainiellus Morrone 1993   Germainius Kuschel 1987    Germainites Jeannel 1962
- [Percy (Peter) James Greenway](https://neglectedscience.com/percy-peter-james-greenway/): Percy (Peter) James Greenway, South African botanist (Germiston, Transvaal 08 March 1897 – Nairobi 16 February 1980) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Brachystegia bournei 1928 Brachystegia nchangensis 1928 Byrsocarpus alboflavescens 1940 Byrsocarpus goetzei 1940 Corchorus pongolensis 1926 with Burtt-Davy Croton mooriae 1937 Grewia messinica 1926 with Burtt-Davy Grewia rogersii 1926 with Burtt-Davy Impatiens sylvicola 1926 with Burtt-Davy Lachnopylis odorata 1940 Lagynias littoralis 1933 with Bullock Magnistipula eglandulosa 1957 Ochna confusa 1926 with Burtt-Davy Polygonum afromontanum 1952 Sida hislopii 1926 with Burtt-Davy Syzygium legattii 1926 with Burtt-Davy Syzygium mumbuwaense 1928  Talbotiella gentii 1928 with Hutchinson Triaspis ternata  1926 with Burtt-Davy Vangueriopsis lancifolia 1928 HONORS Greenwayodendron Verdcourt 1969 (Annonaceae) Viridivia Hemsley & Verdcourt 1956 (Passifloraceae)
- [Pedro Gaspar Guertzenstein](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-gaspar-guertzenstein/): Pedro Gaspar Guertzenstein, Jewish Brazilian cardiovascular physiologist (São Paulo 06 January 1938 – São Paulo 17 July 1994) Established the foundation of current view of the ventrolateral medullary vasomotor nuclei and their role in the arterial blood pressure (1971-4) Established the ventral surface of the bulb as regulating region of sympathetic tonus Blood pressure effects obtained by drugs applied to the ventral surface of the brain stem. J. Physiol. 229:395-408, 1973 Defined the rostroventrolateral medulla precise location of the most important source of tonic excitation to sympathetic neurons in the intermediolateral cell column of the spinal cord With A. Silver. Fall
- [Pedro Garza](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-garza/): Pedro Dionisio de la Garza Cepeda, Mexican physicist (Montemorelos, Nuevo León State 28 October 1851 – Ciudad de Mexico 29 March 1897) Discovered a new way to build optical axes and double diffraction in anisotropic crystals and established the formula of polarized cylinder in anisotropic crystals in his thesis The light waves at Gottingen University (1874) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  La geometria y su historia (1876) Geometria sintética (1877) Aritmetica de los vectores y cuaternios (1884) Elementos de mecânica según el método de los vectores (1886)
- [Pedro Gamboni](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-gamboni/): Pedro Gamboni Vera, Chilean chemical engineer (Valparaiso 26 September 1825 – Iquique 27 November 1895) From Italian father METHODS/PATENTS An open steam system (1853) patented Developed a technical procedure to elaborate nitrate using water steam for smelting of caliche rocks (1853) A process to extract iodine from mother liquor of caliche rocks (1866) patented A method to purify borax and extraction of boric acid Another system to extract iodine from saltpeter (patented in 1873)  Patented improved means of, and apparatus for, producing and maintaining motive power, or assisting to produce and maintain such power (1875) HONORS Honorary Member, Inventors Society, United States
- [Pedro Galindo](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-galindo/): Pedro Galindo Vallarino, Panamanian medical entomologist (Ciudad de Panama 27 October 1916 – Cuesta de Piedra, Chiriquí Province 08 October 2007) Authored over 90 works DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Subgenus Belkinomyia 1973 with Adames Species Aedes leucophoebus 1952 with Carpenter & Trapido Aedes clarki 1952 with Carpenter Culex adamesi 1980 with Sirivanakam Culex (Belkinomyia) eldridgei 1973 with Adames Culex arboricolus 1961 with Mendez Culex bilobatus 1954 with Blanton Culex caribeanus 1954 with Blanton Culex changuinolae 1954 with Blanton Culex erethynzofer 1954 with Blanton Culex fairchildi 1954 with Blanton Culex intonsus 1954 with Blanton Culex johnsoni 1961 with Mendez Culex keenani 1961 with Mendez Culex laticlasper 1954 with Blanton Culex mesodenticulatus 1961 with Mendez Culex pseudotaeniopus 1954 with Blanton Culex
- [Paulo Gustavo Galvao](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-gustavo-galvao/): Paulo Gustavo Galvão, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Campina Grande, Paraíba State 06 April 1936 – Belo Horizonte 08 December 2015) With R.A. Moura. Modificação da lente de contato de Goldmann para utilização em fotogoniografia. Anais XII congr. Bras. Oftalm. (1962) Developed a new simple technical device for multiplying the light beam With R.A. Moura. Color photography using single and multiple optical sections: a preliminary report. Amer. J. Ophthalm. 55(4):818-20, 1963 TECHNIQUES                                             Developed spatulated divulsion , a type of keratoplasty  A technique for sharing cornea to both patients (1990) 
- [Paulo Gagarin](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-gagarin/): Paulo Gagarin (Pavel Konstantinovich Gagarin), Russian-born Brazilian painter and amateur entomologist (Saint Petersburg 1885 – Rio de Janeiro 1980) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA SPECIES Automeris coresus 1936 Automeris irene 1936 Copiopteryx montei 1933 Pseudautomeris aspera 1936 Pseudautomeris stawiarskii 1936 X. liliana HONORS Gagarinia Lane 1956 (Coleoptera) 
- [Paulo Eneas Galvão](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-eneas-galvao/): Paulo Eneas Galvão, Brazilian physiologist (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 08 June 1902 – São Paulo 12 January 1978) Authored about 50 works  Obtained international recognition for his studies on metabolism in tropical zones and vitamin B role in cell oxidations of nervous tissues Showed the role that plays the vitamin B in cell oxidations of nervous tissue with international attention  With D.M. Cardoso. Estudos sobre as oxidações na avitaminose B e no jejum. Arch. Inst. Biol. 3:219-48, 1930 With J. Pereira Jr. Uber den Einfluss der Milchsaure auf die Gehirnatmung der Saugetiere bei avitaminose B. Bioch. Z. 289:136-42, 1936 With
- [Pablo Groeber](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-groeber/): Paul Friedrich Karl Groeber, German-born Argentine geologist and stratigrapher (Strasbourg 13 July 1885 – San Isidro, Buenos Aires Province 16 June 1964) Documented the basic structures and magmatic cycles related to the deformation and uplift of Andean mountain range Recognized the main depositional sequences, the different uplift pulses and the migrations in volcanic activity of the region SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observaciones geologicas a lo largo del meridiano 70 (1946-7) Lineas fundamentales de la geologia del Neuquén, sur de Mendoza y regiones adyacentes (1929) Estratigrafia del dogger en la Republica Argentina (1918) Edad y extensión de las estructuras entre San Juan y Nahuel Huapi
- [Otto Richard Gottlieb](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-richard-gottlieb/): Otto Richard Gottlieb, Czech-born Jewish Brazilian phytochemist and biogeochemist (Brno, Czech Republic 31 Aug 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 19 June 2011)  From Czech father and Brazilian mother ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 656 publications (papers, book chapters, 5 books & 2 patents), 637 lectures and 1181 communications to congresses. Founder Quantitative Chemobiology With Nei R. de Brito and Maria R. de Mello B. Borin. Quantitative Chemobiology. Pure & Applied Chemistry. 73(3):583-8, 2001. Founder chemosystematics or Plant Biochemical Systematics   Showed how certain pathways could be employed for classification. With Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan, developed a nomenclature system of chemical compounds in which organic tridimensional
- [Oswaldo Giannotti](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-giannotti/): Oswaldo Giannotti, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (São Paulo 24 June 1916 – São Paulo September 2004) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed techniques for determination of insecticide residues on plants, soil and insect bodies Determinated the site of DDT action in insects nervous system (1958) and the physiological and biochemical changes resulting from it Discovered cyclodienes epoxidation as a mode of activation metabolism of chlorinated insecticides With L.M. Sá. Novo método colorimétrico para a localização na cromatografia em papel de inseticidas do grupo de ésteres do acido tiofosfórico. Arq. Inst. Biol. 26:131-6, 1959 With H. Yoneda & T. Ioneda. Gas liquid chromatographic method for microdetermination of
- [Osvaldo Gomez](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-gomez/): Antonio Osvaldo Gómez Hernandez, Cuban carcinologist (Jaguey Grande, Matanzas Province 29 February 1928 – Cardenas, Matanzas Province 25 December 1996) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA SPECIES Bathycheles cubensis 1986 with Ortiz Byblis cubensis 1978 with Ortiz Cyrtoplax bidentata 1975 with Ortiz Pagurapseudes guitarti 1976 with Gutu Paguristes maclaughlinae 1989 with Martínez Iglesias Spongicola cubanica 1994 with Ortiz & Lalana Typhlatya taina 1987 with Estrada HONORS Osvaldoginella Espinosa & Ortea 1997 (Mollusca) LINKS https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7382/IZ_Lemaitre1998AntonioOsvaldo.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (Spanish)
- [Orlando H. Garrido](https://neglectedscience.com/orlando-h-garrido/): Orlando Hilario Garrido Calleja, Cuban zoologist and tennis player (La Habana 01 March 1931 – DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Mammalia Valid Species Mesocapromys sanfelipensis 1970 with Varona Aves Valid Subspecies Agelaius humeralis scopulus 1952 Allenia fusca vincenti 1996 with Kratter Asio flammeus cubensis 2007 Athene cunicularia guantanamensis 2001 Caprimulgus cubanensis insulaepinorum 1983 Coccyzus merlini santamariae 1971 Contopus caribaeus nerlyi 1978 Glaucidium siju turquinense 2002 Margarops fuscatus klinikowski 1996 with Remsen Melanerpes superciliaris florentinoi 1966 Melanerpes superciliaris sanfelipensis 1973 Petrochelidon fulva puertoricensis 1999 with Peterson & Komar Siphonorhis brewsteri gonavensis 2003 Teretistris fornsi turquinensis 2000 Vireo crassirostris cubensis 2000 with Kirkconnell Vireo gundlachii magnus 1971 Vireo gundlachii sanfelipensis 1973 Xiphidiopicus percussus cocoensis 1978 Xiphidiopicus percussus monticola 1971 Xiphidiopicus percussus gloriae 1971 Reptilia Valid Species & Subspecies 88
- [Norberto Galiano](https://neglectedscience.com/norberto-galiano/): Norberto Esteban Galiano, Argentine-born Brazilian cardiac surgeon (1942 – First report in the world about coronarian artery opening employing catheterization With R. Macruz, S. Ariê, E. Armelin, C. Frack, F. Pileggi et al. Enfarte agudo do miocárdio e choque. Tratamento por recanalização arterial através do cateterismo cardíaco. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 25:197-204, 1972 First to perform a coronary angioplasty using Swan-Ganz balloon catheter (1974) Devised systemic biventricular heart technique (1975) developed by Oliveira & Zerbini With L.B. Puig, W. Ciongoli, G.V. Cividane, S. Teofilo Jr. et al. Lower epigastric artery as a free graft. A new alternative in direct myocardial revascularization. Arq. Bras. Cardiol.
- [Aron Jurkiewicz](https://neglectedscience.com/aron-jurkiewicz/): Aron Jurkiewicz, Brazilian pharmacologist (Santos, São Paulo State 12 December 1938 – Proposed relative responsiveness or rho ratio a new parameter for classification of receptor system, which measures the capability of a receptor system to induce a maximal contraction after saturation by a full agonist With N.H. Jurkiewicz, G.G. Barros & J.R. Valle. Relative responsiveness (ρ) of pharmacological receptor systems in the rat vas deferens. Pharmacology 2:89-99, 1969 Responsividade relativa de receptores farmacológicos (ρ): considerações teóricas e determinação experimental (1970) Demonstrated the fade response of vas deferens of castrated rat induced by a maximal dose of barium chloride With A. Langeloh & A.D.
- [Antonio Nunez Jimenez](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-nunez-jimenez/): Antonio Nuñez Jimenez, Cuban geographer, speleologist and archaeologist (Alquízar, La Habana Province 20 April 1923 – La Habana 13 September 1998) Authored 1,665 papers and other works A number of discoveries in the fields of Cuban geography and archaeology Geography/Speleology Discovered the Gran Caverna de Santo Tomas (1954), the second largest cave system in American continent with archaeological and paleontological discoveries Archaeology Discovered the eldest culture of the Cuban archipelago and one of most ancient of Caribbean region in the caves of Seboruco (Mayarí, Holguín) 1939 Studied the Guanahatabey culture in El guanahatabey, troglodita indocubano (1946)  Discovered the Cuba’s biggest archeological
- [Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse](https://neglectedscience.com/anthonie-johannes-theodorus-janse/): Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse, Dutch-born South African entomologist (Hague 19 April 1877 – Pretoria 12 June 1970) Authored over 50 scientific articles and the monumental work The Moths of South Africa (1932-64) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera 134 Species Over 500 HONORS Jansea Cameron 1910 (Hymenoptera) Eujansea Fletcher 1980 (Lepidoptera) Janseana Gozmany & Vari 1973 (Lepidoptera) Janseides Bourgogne 1979 (Lepidoptera) Janseodes Viette 1967 (Lepidoptera) Janseola Hopp 1923(Lepidoptera)
- [Alfredo Jahn](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-jahn/): Alfredo Jahn Hartmann, Venezuelan naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, linguist, historian and archaeologist (Caracas 08 August 1867 – Caracas 12 June 1940) Son of German immigrants Authored 93 works Collected plant species and archaeological objects Devised a machine to wash coffee grains and other to dry coffee grains (1883) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Los cráneos deformados de los aborígines de los Valles de Aragua. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cien. Nat. 8:4-14, 1932 Los paramos venezolanos. Sus aspectos físicos y vegetación. Bol. Soc. Venezol. Cien. Nat. 1:93-127, 1931 El deshielo de la Sierra Nevada de Merida y sus causas. Cult. Venez. 110, 1931 Parahuanos und Guajiros und
- [Alfonso Jimenez Muñoz](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-jimenez-munoz/): Alfonso Jimenez Muñoz, Costa Rican agronomist (fl.1943-67) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudio agrologico de la parte norte del distrito central de Turrialba. Thesis, Fac. Agron. Univ. de Costa Rica, San José (1951) Nombres vulgares en la avifauna costarricense (1960) Estado actual de la flora y la fauna de Costa Rica (1964) HONORS Section Jimenezia Breedlove, Berry & Raven 1982 (Onagraceae)
- [Ahmad Khan Jamil](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmad-khan-jamil/): Ahmad Khan Jamil, Pakistani anaesthetist (Takht Bhai, Mardan District 12 May 1939 – Non-kink catheter mount. Brit. J. Anaest. 46(8):628, 1974 A simple device for teaching controlled ventilation. Anaesthesia 29(5):605-6, 1974 Designed humeral epicondyle holder for use in orthopaedic surgery (1968) Designed a simple device for blind tracheal intubation and pediatric endotracheal tube Listed in Marquis International Who’s Who   
- [Adib Jatene](https://neglectedscience.com/adib-jatene/): Adib Domingos Jatene, Brazilian cardiologist (Xapuri, Acre State 04 June 1929 – São Paulo 14 November 2014) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored 272 scientific works Described a simple method for preparation of amorphous ice employed in myocardium selective hypothermia (1963) Introduced the concept of geometrical reconstruction of ventricular cavity usando Dacron patch  Operative technique. Cleve Clin. Q. 45(1):94-7, 1978 Performed contributions to myocardial revascularization and congenital heart diseases surgeries Performed first successful arterial switch or dextro-transposition of great arteries (Jatene operation) in 1975 With V.F. Fontes, P.P. Paulista, L.C.B. Souza, F. Neger, M. Galantier & J.E.M.R. Sousa.  Successful anatomic correction of
- [Yolanda Irureta de Mila](https://neglectedscience.com/yolanda-irureta-de-mila/): Yolanda Irureta Story de Milá de la Roca, Venezuelan microbiologist (Puerto España, Trinidad 09 January 1923 – Caracas 23 November 2011) With B. Azuaje, O. Gil, F. Milá de la Roca & Y. Inciarte de Morillo developed Caracas fermenter for production of tetanic toxoid (1970s) with US patent number 4318992 (1982)  With B. Azuaje & O. Gil. Fermentador Caracas. Rev. Inst. Nac. Hig. Rafael Rangel 11(3-4):113-28, 1978 Developed a method for purification and concentration of tetanic toxoid With T. Goldstein & B. Azuaje. Metodo para concentrar y purificar el toxoide tetanico. Rev. Inst. Nac. Hig. Rafael Rangel 13(4):99-106, 1980 Developed Caracas
- [Yedy Israel](https://neglectedscience.com/yedy-israel/): Yedy Israel Jacard, Chilean biochemist (Temuco 19 September 1939 – Recognized as an international reference on gene therapy of alcoholism Authored 208 papers, 34 book chapters and 12 books with 12,000 citations and 62H-index SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.E. Quintanilla, L. Tampier, E. Karahanian, M. Rivera-Meza & M. Herrera Marschitz. Reward and relapse: complete gene-induced dissociation in an animal model of alcoholic dependence. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 36:517-22, 2012  With P. Ocaranza, M.E. Quintanilla, L. Tampier, E. Karahanian & A. Sapag. Gene therapy reduces ethanol intake in an animal model of alcohol dependence. Clin. Exp. Res. 32:52-7, 2008 With M.E. Quintanilla, l. Tampier, A. Sapag
- [Washington Isola](https://neglectedscience.com/washington-isola/): Washington Isola Dupont, Uruguayan ophthalmologist (17 October 1903 – 1968) Proposed innovative concepts in the field of strabismus DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES With B. Stark. Inhibition in strabismus and a new method of treatment. Am. J. Ophthal. 45(2):235-6, 1958 With D. Bennati. Nueva tecnica para el estudio de la musculatura extrinseca del ojo. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 13(3-4):147-53, 1946 CO-AUTHORED RELEVANT PAPERS With Z. Bacq. Innervation sympathique adrenergique de la musculature lisse des paupieres. Arch. Intern. Physiol. 54:30-48, 1946 With Z.M. Bacq. Adrenalinergic nature of the innervation of the depressor of the lower eyelid. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 12:225-8, 1945 With R. Rodríguez.
- [Teofilo Romulo Isnardi](https://neglectedscience.com/teofilo-romulo-isnardi/): Teofilo Romulo Isnardi Leberón, Argentine theoretical physicist (Buenos Aires 15 August 1890 – Buenos Aires 05 January 1966) ACHIEVEMENTS Studying in Germany under Walther Nernst, determinated dissociation heat of hydrogen molecule.  Observed that depolarization degree depends on concentration without shape changes  MEMBERSHIP  Permanent Member, Bureau International de Poids et Mesures (1949-1966) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Determinación de la componente horizontal del campo magnético terrestre en La Plata. Contribución al estudio de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas 1(2), 1914 Über die Warmeleitung in dissoziierten Gasen und über die dissoziation des Wasserstoffes in Atome. Zeitschrift fur Elektrochemie und angewandte Physikalische Chemie 21(17-8):405-17, 1915.  Conductibilidad térmica y
- [Takeshi Imai](https://neglectedscience.com/takeshi-imai/): Takeshi Imai, Brazilian inventor (São Paulo 28 February 1941 – March 2013) Son of Japanese immigrants BRAZILIAN PATENTS With R. R. Imai. Processo brasileiro para reduzir nuvens e diminuir chuvas sobre uma região, ou reduzir sistemas de nuvens ocenicas que geram furacões. PI1100007-4 A2 (2011) With R.R. Imai. Processo de medição de nuvens e precipitação com radar meteorológico, das chuvas naturais e chuvas antrópicas em nuvens semeadas numa região. PI1001899-9 A2 (2010) With R. R. Imai. Embarcação com flutuadores multi moduláveis para passageiros ou cargas, aplicável em locais rasos e plataformas flutuantes. PI 0904725-5 A2 (2009) With R.R. Imai. Propulsor motorizado para embarcações,
- [Rodolpho Von Ihering](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolpho-von-ihering/): Rodolpho Theodor Wilhelm Gaspar Von Ihering, Brazilian zoologist and ethnologist (Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul State 17 July 1883 – São Paulo 15 September 1939) Authored 119 scientific works Described wounding apparatus of caterpillars Interpretação do aparelho urticante das tatoranas. Rev. Soc. Biol. 2:76, 1930 First to describe with accuracy the piracema phenomenon and obtain Brazilian piracema freshwater fishes spawning in captivity   With Dorival Macedo Cardoso, Pedro de Azevedo e João Pereira Junior, developed hypohysation method (Von Ihering method) for spawning of piracema fishes, used worldwide in fish-farming stations (1934) Die wirkung von Hypophyseninjektion auf den Laichakt von Fischen. Zool. Anz.
- [Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes](https://neglectedscience.com/robert-thorburn-ayton-innes/): Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, Scottish-born South African astronomer (Edinburgh 10 November 1861 – Surbiton, Surrey, England 13 March 1933) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered 1628 binary stars, between them Proxima Centauri in 1915 Discovered Innes star Presented the first convincing demonstration of the irregular rotation of the Earth (1918) Introduced Thiele-Innes constants, orbital parameters for double stars HONORS Innes lunar crater Asteroid 1658 Innes See HTTP://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-astr-innes_rta.html
- [Rigoberto Iglesias](https://neglectedscience.com/rigoberto-iglesias/): Rigoberto Iglesias Bastias, Chilean oncologist and endocrinologist (Lebu 22 November 1911- Santiago 14 August 1981) Authored about 90 works Discovered a functional ovarian tumor With his wife Socorro Salinas co-discovered a suprarenal tumor SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E. Herrera & B. Bonet. Metabolic response to starvation in the hypothyroid pregnant rat. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 89(5):538-9, 1980 Newer concepts in pathogenesis. Secondary endocrine and mammary malignancies as main signs of hormonal syndromes produced by endocrine tumors. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 230:500-7, 1974 With A. Lipschutz, V.I. Panasevich & S. Salinas. Pathological changes induced in the uterus of mice with the prolonged administration of progesterone and
- [Paulo Iide](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-iide/): Paulo Iide, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 22 February 1939 – Rio de Janeiro 21 July 2012) Son of Estonian immigrants   DESCRIBED DIPTERA SPECIES Chrysochlorina bezziana 1966 Chrysochlora costalimai 1966 Chrysochlora currani 1966 Cosmariomyia argyrostistica 1968 Cyphomyia souzalopesi 1967 Euryneura kerteszi 1968 Pelagomyia albitalus 1971 Pelagomyia illuscens 1971 HONORS Iidemyia Pujol-Luz 2008 (Diptera)
- [Mohamed Mahmoud Ismail](https://neglectedscience.com/mohamed-mahmoud-ismail/): Mohamed Mahmoud Ismail, Egyptian geologist and stratigrapher Co-described the Fossil Foraminifera Species Anomalina hofensis 1963 with Ansary  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.A. El Nozahy & K.N. Sadeek. A contribution to the geology of the Bahariya Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. GeoJ. 19(2):221-9, 1989 With F.A. El Nozahy. Petrography and diagenesis of Eocene carbonate rocks, Helwan area, Egypt. Ain Shams Sci. Bull. 25:41-69, 1987 With A.A. Selim & A.A. Taha. Matrugh-Barrani carbonate sediments petrography and diagenesis. Bull. Fac. Sci. KAU 1:145-60, 1977 With O.R. El Mahady & F.A. El Nozahi. Geological studies (microfacies, chemical analyses) of Gebel Ataqa (mountain, West of Suez, Egypt) surface sections. Part
- [Miguel Itzigsohn](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-itzigsohn/): Miguel Itzigsohn, Argentine astronomer (Belgium 1908 – Buenos Aires 1977) Son of Jewish Russian immigrants DISCOVERED ASTEROIDS Evita 1569 Cesco 1571 Abanderada 1581 Martir 1582 Descamisada 1588 Fanatica 1589 Itzigsohn 1596 (named in his honor) Muñoz 1608 Iguassu 1684 Wilkens 1688 Parana 1779 Aguilar 1800 Titicaca 1801 Aconcagua 1821 Sumeria 1970  
- [Michael Stuart Irwin](https://neglectedscience.com/michael-stuart-irwin/): Michael Patrick Stuart Irwin, Rhodesian / British ornithologist (Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland 01 July 1925 – Litcham, Norfolk 13 September 2017) Authored over 300 scientific papers DESCRIBED VALID AVES TAXA Genera Arcanator 1986 with Clancey Dryocichloides 1974 with Clancey Species Pogoniulus makawai 1965 with Benson Subspecies Anthoscopus caroli rankinei 1963 Apalis thoracica quarta 1966 Apus barbatus hollidayi 1960 with Benson Calamonaster stierlingi pintoi 1960 Cisticola aridulus traylori 1966 with Benson Cisticola lais oreobates 1966 Eremopteryx verticalis harti 1965 with Benson Eremopteryx verticalis khama 1957 Hedypina collaris patersonae 1960 Melaenornis mariquensis acaciae 1957 Mirafra fasciolata reynoldsi 1965 with Benson Pytilia melba hygrophila 1967 with Benson Rhinoptilus africanus traylori 1963 Riparia cincta xerica 1966 with Clancey Spizocorys conirostris crypta 1957
- [Mandyam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar](https://neglectedscience.com/mandyam-osuri-parthasarathy-iyengar/): Mandyam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar, Indian phycologist (Madras 15 December 1886 – 10 December 1963) DESCRIBED ALGAE GENERA (some are posthumous) Chlorophyta Characiellopsis 1975 Characiosiphon 1936 Chlamydocystis 1975 Cylindrocapsopsis 1957 Delphinomonas 1976 Dendrocystis 1962  Ecballocystella 1975 Ecballocystopsis 1933 Fortiellopsis 1976 Fritschiella 1932 Gilbertsmithia 1975 Gloeotilopsis 1956 with Philipose Heterothrichopsis 1941 with Kanthamma Hormidiella 1940 with Kantamma Melomonas 1976 Palmellosphaerium 1971 Pyramidococcus 1976 Stylosphaeridiella 1975 Ulotrichella 1975 Others Cladospongia 1940 with Ramanathan (Protozoa) Mastigocladopsis 1946 with Desikachary (Cyanophyceae) Triplastrum 1942 with Ramanathan (Charophyta) HONORS Iyengarina Subramanian 1958 (Fungi) Iyengariella Desikachary 1953 (Cyanophyceae) Iyengaria Boergensen 1939 (Phaeophyceae) Iyengariomonas Desikachary 1965 (Chlorophyta)
- [Juan Manuel Iturbe](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-manuel-iturbe/): Juan Manuel Iturbe Bescanza, Venezuelan parasitologist, microbiologist and tropical physician (Guanare, Portuguesa State 24 July 1883 – Caracas 18 February 1962) With Eudoro Gonzalez authored works with international resonance in 1916 such as Performed in vitro cultivation of Plasmodium vivax (1916) Studied birds paludism (1916) Discovered Trypanosoma lineatus (1916) Discovered the intermediate host of bilharziasis and leishmaniasis in Venezuela HONOURS Nocht Medal, Tropical Institute of Hamburg (1930)
- [José Izquierdo Esteva](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-izquierdo-esteva/): José Benito de la Consolación Izquierdo Esteva, Venezuelan surgeon (Caracas 12 January 1887 – Caracas 03 December 1975) Authored 57 scientific papers  Developed new surgical techniques Proposed the extravesical suprapubic prostatectomy or Millin technique later the English surgeon popularized it  Prostatectomia suprapúbica extravesical. Gac. Med. Caracas 21 (23):233-5, 1914 LINKS (bibliography) http://vitae.ucv.ve/?module=articulo&rv=66&n=2376&m=4&e=2380 His nephews, Francisco Plaza Izquierdo, Venezuelan surgeon and anatomist (Caracas 01 February 1916 – 25 December 2007) Developed a technique for replacing human arteries using umbilical cord as vascular prosthesis (1962) El cordón umbilical como substituto de condutor orgânico y tejidos. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cir. 71-2:14-20, 1963 Heteroinjertos vasculares
- [John Imray](https://neglectedscience.com/john-imray/): John Imray, Scottish physician in Dominica (Forfarshire 11 January 1811- Saint Aroment 22 August 1880) Authored Memoir on Yaws (1873) becoming the greatest authority on framboesia of his day First observed tumors occupying the cavities of the heart covered with a smooth transparent membrane on the mal d’estomac or cachexia africana  On the mal d’estomac, or cachexia africana, amongst the negroes of Dominica. Edinb. Med. Surg. J. 59:304-21, 1843 Collected new plant species from Dominica described by botanists SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The useful woods of the island of Dominica. Technologist 2:382-91, 1862 Observations on the characters of endemic fever in the island of Dominica.
- [Ivanissevich family](https://neglectedscience.com/ivanissevich-family/): Oscar Ivanissevich Defilippis, Argentine physician and diplomat (Buenos Aires 05 August 1895 – Buenos Aires 06 June 1976) From Croatian descent Developed suprainguinal approach ligation of only the spermatic vein for cure of left scrotal varicocele known as Ivanissevich-Gregorini method  With H. Gregorini. Una nueva operación para curar el varicocele. Sem. Med. 25:575, 1918 Proposed retroperitoneal varicocele method Varicocele. Rev. San. Militar 36:201, 1937  With José B. Velez Díez Canseco & Carlos I. Rivas. Ginecomastia. Nueva técnica para su tratamento quirurgico. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. Univ. Buenos Aires 17:381, 1941  With J. Arce proposed surgical methods for hydatid cysts With I. Prini,
- [Ivan Antonio Izquierdo](https://neglectedscience.com/ivan-antonio-izquierdo/): Ivan Antonio Izquierdo Gobic, Argentine-born Brazilian neurobiochemist (Buenos Aires 16 September 1937 – Porto Alegre 09 February 2021) Son of Croatian mother ACHIEVEMENTS Internationally respected as world leader in memory physiology  Pioneer on research about endogenous opioids   Discovered neurohumoral (β-endorfine & benzodiazepinics) and hormone mechanisms  that regulates formation, evocation, persistence and extinction of memory   Obtained the memory solidification map Determinated the cascade of biochemical events in hippocampus and in other brain structures required to memories formation  Discovered functional, anatomical and molecular separation between short term and long term memories (1998) and the endogenous state dependence as a key regulator in memory
- [INDIA](https://neglectedscience.com/india/): Vinod Kumar Gaur, Indian seismologist and geophysicist (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State 11 July 1936 – Discovered host rock effect in the electromagnetic response of subsurface geological conductors or geoelectromagnetics (1959) First to use global positioning system in geodesy HONOURS Flinn Award, American Geophysical Union (2000) Harnam Singh Hans, Indian nuclear physicist (Multan District, Punjab State 21 November 1922 – 19 March 2014) Studied reactions data at 14.8 MeV neutron energy which gave an insight into pre-equilibrium for the first time in the literature First to propose the 696.2 KeV level to be Coulomb excited  Kusum Kanta, Indian botanist Achieved the first
- [Hyam Isaacs](https://neglectedscience.com/hyam-isaacs/): Hyam Isaacs, South African neurologist (1927 – 11 May 2003) Recognized as international authority on myotonia, the muscle/nerve motor plate and hyperpyrexia under anaesthesia Described Isaacs-Mertens syndrome  or neuromiotonia A syndrome of continuous muscle-fiber activity. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. 24:319-25, 1961 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.E. Badenhorst. False-negative results with muscle caffeine halothane contracture testing for malignant hyperthermia. Anesthes. 79:5-9, 1993 With M.E. Badenhorst. Dominantly inherited malignant hyperthermia (MH) in the King-Denborough syndrome. Muscle Nene 15:740-2, 1992 With M.E. Badenhorst & C. du Sautoy. Myophosphorylase B deficiency and malignant hyperthermia. Muscle Nerve 12:203-5, 1989 Stiffman syndrome in a black girl. J. Neurol. Neurosurg.
- [Hermann Von Ihering](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-von-ihering/): Hermann Friedrich Albrecht Von Ihering, German / Brazilian (Kiel 09 October 1850 – Giessen 24 February 1930) Discovered lasidium larva of freshwater bivalves (1871) Studied the nervous system of Mollusca phylum (1876) Enunciated Von Ihering rule about autochthony of South American animals Enunciated 3 rules about the presence of parasites in land mammalians during migrations (1902) DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA   Subphylum  Amphineura 1878 Turbellaria Genus Graffilla 1880 Hymenoptera Genus Frieseomelitta 1912 Brachiopoda Genus Pachymagas 1903 Ichnofossil Genus Chubutolithes 1922 Arachnida Species At least 28 Mollusca Genera Ameghinomyia 1907 Aporodoris 1886 Austrocominella 1907 Brasilotethys 1915 Castalina 1891 Cearella 1906 Corbiculella 1907 Doringina 1929 Entacanthus 1907 Eostrea 1907 Humboldtiana 1892 Metafruticicola 1892 Mytiloperna 1903 Neohelix 1892 Neoimbricaria 1907 Neoinoceramus 1902 Odontogryphaea 1903 Pachycymbiola 1907 Parahelix 1892 Pseudotylostoma 1904 Scaphella 1907
- [Gualberto Mario Iannini](https://neglectedscience.com/gualberto-mario-iannini/): Gualberto Mario Iannini, Argentine astronomer (1917 – Cordoba 27 January 2012) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.J. Rodríguez & L.H. Gaitán. Consideraciones sobre la reducción de placas astrometricas por el metodo de cuadrados minimos. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 24:456, 1981 Occultaciones y reapariciones de estrellas por la Luna: anos 1967-72 (1974) Determination of Ephemeris Time and Radius of the Lunar Umbral during the total eclipse of 12 November. Astron. J. 73:743, 1968 Orbitas de tres pequenos planetas desconocidos. Bol. Inst. Mat. Astron. Fis. 2(4), 1965 Calculo de placas astrometricas. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 7:23-4, 1964 Estado actual del casquete polar sur. Bol. Asoc.
- [Gonzalo Iturrioz](https://neglectedscience.com/gonzalo-iturrioz/): Gonzalo José Iturrioz Font, Cuban pharmacist (fl. 1905-37) Introduced paraffin test in forensic practice (1913) Modificación en la tecnica seguida en la determinación de la urea en la sangre. Arch. Soc. Clin. Habana 21:83-6, 1914 Held at least 15 Cuban patents on pharmaceutical, chemical and biological products  
- [Federico Islas](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-islas/): Federico Islas Salas, Spanish-born Mexican forest entomologist (fl.1942-88) DESCRIBED TAXA Genus Cartwrightia 1958 (Coleoptera) Species Ataenius benjaminbanderai 1955 Cartwrightia intertribalis 1958 Geomyphilus barrerai 1955 Geomyphilus coronadoi 1955 Geomyphilus macgregori 1955 Gonaphodiellus hoffmanni 1946 Neotrichonotulus urangai 1955 Nettelislasia euparinoides 1945 Pseudagolius caballeroi 1945 HONORS Nettelislasia Martínez 1952 (Coleoptera)
- [Eugenio Izecksohn](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-izecksohn/): Eugenio Izecksohn, Brazilian herpetologist (Rio de Janeiro 1932 – Rio de Janeiro 03 June 2013) DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Genus Xenohyla 1998 Species Brachycephalus didactylus 1971 Brachycephalus margaritatus 2011 with Pombal Chiasmocleis atlantica 1997 with Cruz & Caramaschi Chiasmocleis capixaba 1997 with Cruz & Caramaschi Chiasmocleis carvalhoi 1997 with Cruz & Caramaschi Dendrophryniscus berthalutzae 1994 Dendrophryniscus bokermanni 1994 Dendrophryniscus leucomystax 1968 Dendrophryniscus organensis 2010 with Carvalho e Silva, Mongin & Carvalho e Silva Dendrophryniscus stawiarskyi 1994 Dendropsophus studerae 2003 with Carvalho e Silva & Carvalho e Silva Euparkerella cochranae 1988 Euparkerella tridactyla 1988 Euparkerella robusta 1988 Gastrotheca megacephala 2012 with Carvalho e Silva & Peixoto Leptodactylus marambaiae 1976 Megaelosia lutzae 1987 with Gouvea Phrynomedusa marginata 1976 with Cruz Physalaemus soaresi 1965 Pipa arrabali 1976
- [Edmond Icery](https://neglectedscience.com/edmond-icery/): Paul Laurent Edmond Icery, Mauritian physician and agricultural chemist (Plaines Wilhems 21 May 1824 – Curepipe 09 April 1883) First in the world to produce white sugar (1868) due to the process of converting raw sugar with the addition of mono sulphate of lime SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Nouveau procédé de fabrication du sucre de canne – spécification conforme au brevet délivré (1882) Recherches sur le jus de la canne à sucre et sur les modifications qu’il subit (1865) Des différentes methodes de traitement des fractures du fémur (1854) Etude sur les variations des éléments naturels de l’urine à l’etat normal et pathologique (1854)
- [Djoko Iskandar](https://neglectedscience.com/djoko-iskandar/): Djoko Tjahjono Iskandar, Indonesian herpetologist (Bandung, Java Island 23 August 1950 – DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Amphibia Genera Sumaterana 2018 with Arifin, Smart, Hertwig, Smith & Haas Wijayarana 2021 with Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith & Haas Species Alcalus rajae 2011 with Bickford & Arifin Ansonia glandulosa 2004 with Mumpuni Barbourula kalimantanensis 1978 Chalcorana eschatia 2009 with Inger & Stuart Chalcorana megalonesa 2009 with Inger & Stuart Chalcorana parvaccola 2009 with Inger & Stuart Chalcorana rufipes 2009 with Inger & Stuart Kalophrynus minusculus 1988 Leptobrachella bondangensis 2018 with Eto, Matsui, Hamidy & Munir Leptobrachella fusca 2018 with Eto, Matsui, Hamidy & Munir Limnonectes kadarsani 1996 with Boeadi & Sancoyo Limnonectes larvaepartus 2014 with Evans & McGuire
- [Alberto Inclán Costa](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-inclan-costa/): Alberto Francisco Inclán y Costa, Cuban orthopedic surgeon (La Habana 10 October 1890 – La Habana 11 January 1965) Described a new method for treatment of fractures of femoral diaphysis El tratamiento conservador de las fracturas de la diáfisis femoral en parangón con el tratamento quirúrgico de las mismas (1921) Developed new apparatuses for treatment of fractures Un aparato mecanico para la reducción de las fracturas del antebrazo (1922) Tratamiento de las fracturas de la tuberosidad del húmero (1921) Employed original types of heterologous bone sheets El tratamiento sangrante de las fracturas simples diafisarias (1922) Created bone bank (1938) Developed refrigeration preserved
- [Ahmet Can Ibrahim](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmet-can-ibrahim/): Ahmet Can Ibrahim (Okay), Turkish geologist and paleontologist (Turkistan 1900 – 1981) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE Genera Alatisporites 1933 Apiculatasporites 1933 Apiculatisporites 1933 Granulatisporites 1933 Laevigatisporites 1933 Laevigatosporites 1933 Monoletes 1944 Punctatasporites 1933 Punctatisporites 1933 Punctatosporites 1933 Reticulatasporites 1933 Reticulatisporites 1933 Setosisporites 1933 Tuberculatisporites 1933 Valvisisporites 1933 Verrucosisporites 1933 Zonalasporites 1933 Zonalesporites 1933 Zonalosporites 1933 Species 67 HONORS (Fossil Pollen) Ibrahimispores Artüz 1957   Ibrahimipollenites Ergönül 1960 Canisporites Nakoman 1975   Okayisporites Agrali 1969
- [Abrahao Iachan](https://neglectedscience.com/abrahao-iachan/): Abrahão Iachan, Jewish Brazilian chemical engineer (Rio de Janeiro 27 January 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 19 June 2018) Obtained an antigenic glycopeptide from Brazilian nut  With C.M.P. Figueiredo. Isolamento e caracterização parcial de um glicopeptídeo antigênico da castanha do Pará (1976-7) METHODS Developed a rapid and accurate process for determination of safrol in sassafras oil With W. Raoul. Contribuição ao estudo do óleo de sassafrás brasileiro. Rev. Quim. Ind. 19:217-8, 1950 Developed an industrial process for detoxifying castor bean cake With J.C. Perrone, G.B. Domont, L.V. Disitzer, V.R.O. Castro, R. Roitman & S.M. Gomes. Contribuição ao estudo da torta de
- [Abelardo Ibañez](https://neglectedscience.com/abelardo-ibanez/): Abelardo Ibañez Benavente, Bolivian surgeon (Muñecas Province, La Paz Department 15 October 1896 – ?) Created pneumatic pressure forceps Described a new technique for vascular anastomosis in two planes (1924) Developed a technique for arthroplasty of pelvis
- [Yunhui Huang](https://neglectedscience.com/yunhui-huang/): Yunhui Huang or Yung-hwei Huang, Chinese geologist and mineralogist (Feng County, Jiangsu Province 1926 – DESCRIBED NEW Minerals Hsianghualite 1957 with S.H. Tu, K.H. Wang, C.L. Chao & C.C. Yu Suolunite 1965 Mengxianminite 1986 with X. Zhou & G. Li Rocks Hsianghualingite 1984 with S.H. Tu HONORS Huangite Li, Peacor, Essene, Brosnahan & Beane 1992 (Mineral)
- [Yung Chil Hah](https://neglectedscience.com/yung-chil-hah/): Yung Chil Hah, South Korean microbiologist and biochemist (01 July 1935 – NEW SUBSTANCES With K.L. Min, Y.H. Kim, Y.W. Kim & H.S. Jung. Characterization of a novel laccase produced by the wood-rotting fungus Phellinus ribis. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 392(2): 279-86, 2001 With H.D. Youn, E.J. Kim, J.H. Roe & S.O. Kang. A novel nickel-containing superoxide dismutase from Streptomyces spp. Biochem. J. 318:889-96, 1996 With K.S. Shin, H.D. Youn, Y.H. Han & S.O. Kang. Purification and characterization of D-glucose oxidase from the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus. Eur. J. Biochem. 215:747-52, 1993 With J.U.N. Bae, S.O. Kang, S.W. Hong & K.J. Lee. Isolation of salicylate-degrading plasmid
- [Yun-chu Hsu](https://neglectedscience.com/yun-chu-hsu/): Yun-chun Hsu or Yongchun Xu, Chinese botanist and forester (1910 – ?) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Betula gymnoterminalis 1983 with Wang Burretiodendron kydiifolium 1990 with Zhuge Castanopsis densispinosa 1975 with Jen Castanopsis oblonga 1975 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis bapouensis 1983 with Li Cyclobalanopsis fulviseriacus 1983 with Wang Cyclobalanopsis jinpinensis 1976 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis longifolia  1983 with Dong Cyclobalanopsis nengpulaensis 1992 with Li Cyclobalanopsis ningangensis 1979 with Cheng Cyclobalanopsis pinbianensis 1976 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis semisseratoides 1976 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis tenuicupula 1979 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis tomentosinervis 1976 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis yingjiangensis 1979 with Jen Cyclobalanopsis yingjiangensis 1983 with Dong Elaeocarpus longlingensis 1988 with Tang Grewia yinkiangensis 1995 with Zhuge Lithocarpus calolepis 1976 with Jen Lithocarpus dulongensis 1992 with Li Lithocarpus grandicupula 1983 with Ho & Dong 
- [Youtang Hou](https://neglectedscience.com/youtang-hou/): Youtang Hou, Chinese paleontologist (23 May 1919 – Nanjing 18 January 2010) DESCRIBED FOSSIL OSTRACODA TAXA Genera Albileberis 1982 Candoniella 1982 with Yang Chinocypridea 1985 Cristocypridea 1977 Hupehella 1955 Lineocypris 1982 with Ho Ovalicypridea 1985 Perijonesina 1955 Perimarginia 1955 Quadracypris 1982 Rhombocypridea 2002 Sinocythere 1982 Sinocytheridea 1982 Sinoprimitia 1953 Talicypris 1985 Yumenia 1958 Subgenera Humenia 1958 Yuenia 1958 Species About 130 
- [Youchong Hong](https://neglectedscience.com/youchong-hong/): Youchong Hong or Yu-tsung Hung, Chinese paleoentomologist (Nanao County, Guandong Province November 1929 – Beijing 04 July 2019) Authored over 160 papers and 23 monographs DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA (number of genera) Insecta Diptera (143) Hymenoptera (96) Coleoptera (91) Hemiptera (84) Orthoptera & Protorthoptera (24) Mecoptera (23) Odonata & relatives (14) Psocoptera (8) Neuroptera (7) Dictyoptera & Paleodictyoptera (5) Plecoptera & Paraplecoptera (5) Megasecoptera (4) Trichoptera (4) Glosselytrodea (3) Ephemeroptera (2) Embioptera (1) Lepidoptera (1) Isoptera (1) Others Arachnida (4) Crustacea (3) Merostomata (1) HONORS (Fossil) Hongocaloneura Evenhuis 1994 (Diptera) Hongscarabaeus Krell 2000 (Coleoptera) Hongosmylites Makarkin & Archibald 2005 (Neuroptera) Hongoblatta Ozdikmen 2008 (Orthoptera) Hongius Ozdikmen 2008 (Palaeodictyoptera)
- [Yin-chi Hsu](https://neglectedscience.com/yin-chi-hsu/): Yin-chi Hsu or Yinqi Xu, Chinese entomologist and parasitologist (09 September 1905 – 29 January 1986) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Acari Genera Globularoschongastia 1955 with Chen Multisetosa 1963 with Wen Paradoloisia 1965 with Chen Striatiscuta 1982 with Hsu Ephemeroptera Genus Neopotamanthodes 1938 Species At least 15 HONORS Hsuella Wang, Li & Shi 1989 (Acari)
- [Yao-Zeng Huang](https://neglectedscience.com/yao-zeng-huang/): Yao-Zeng Huang, Chinese organic chemist (Nantung, Jiangsu Province 11 November 1912 – 17 December 2002) Authored over 230 research papers and 9 books Developed the first catalytic Wittig type reaction and clarified the mechanisms of reactions of organoantimony compounds A straightforward, efficient and versatile preparation of propargylic alcohols from 1-alkynes and aldehydes via Gal3 and amine. Tetrahedron Letters 36(40):7277-80, 1995 With W.B. Wang & L.L. Shi. An efficient SbCl3-metal system for allylation, reduction and acetalization of aldehydes. Tetrahedron 46(9):3315-20, 1990 With Z.L. Zhou & L.L. Shi. A first example of catalytic ylide epoxidation reaction: facile synthesis of vinyl epoxides from aldehydes
- [Xianguang Hou](https://neglectedscience.com/xianguang-hou/): Xianguang Hou, Chinese paleontologist (Fengxian, Jiangsu Province 26 March 1949 – Described new fossil species in Crustacea, Porifera, Cnidaria, Onychophora, Trilobita, Brachiopoda between others DESCRIBED FOSSIL INVERTEBRATE GENERA Abiotrophia 1995 with Kawamura, Sultana. Liu, Yamamoto & Ezaki Acanthomeridion 1989 with Chen & Lu Allantospongia 1995 with Rigby Almenia 1997 with Bergstrom Amplectobelua 1995 with Bergstrom & Ahlberg Archisaccophyllia 2005 with Stanley, Zhao & Ma Archonycophora 1995 with Bergstrom Archotuba 1999 with Bergstrom, Wang, Feng & Chen Artiopoda 1997 with Bergstrom Banffiata 2007 with Siveter, Aldridge, Siveter & Gabbott Batiofasciculus 1999 with Bergstrom, Wang, Feng & Chen Bullivetula 2007 with Siveter, Aldridge, Siveter & Gabbott Cambrocornulitus 2013 with Yang, Vinn & Tian Cambrofengia 1999 with Bergstrom, Wang, Feng
- [Wulf Haacke](https://neglectedscience.com/wulf-haacke/): Wulf Dietrich Haacke, South African herpetologist (Windhoek 15 December 1936 – Pretoria 30 June 2022) DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Reptilia Afroedura tirasensis 1965 Bitis xeropaga 1975 Haackgreerius miopus 1982 with Greer Kolekanos plumicaudus 2008 Pachydactylus tsodiloensis 1966 Pachydactylus vanzyli 1966 with Steyn Ptenopus kochi 1964 Ramigekko swartbergensis 1996 Rhoptropus diporus 1965 Telescopus finkeldeyi 2013 Typhlacontias rudebecki 1997 Typhlosaurus braini 1964 Typhlosaurus lomiae 1986   Amphibia Poyntonophrynus grandisonae 1993 with Poynton HONORS  Haackgreerius Lanza 1983 (Reptilia:Sauria)
- [Wilhelm Hoffmann](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-hoffmann/): Wilhelm Heinrich Hoffmann, German-born Cuban anatomical pathologist (Wismar, Mecklenburg 08 February 1875 – La Habana 10 October 1950) Authored over 400 works Yellow fever Determined a number of pathological signs in yellow fever Proposed kidney calcium deposits as a sign (Rocha Lima described it in 1912) Los cilindros de cal en los niños: un nuevo signo diagnostico de la fiebre amarilla. Sciencia Medica 2(6):284, 1924 Demonstrated phagocytosis of eryhrtocytes by Kupffer cells in liver and spleen (1924) Showed the hyaline degeneration of voluntary muscles and myocardium Showed medullary infiltration of Peyer patches in ileum First to show intranuclear inclusions of yellow
- [Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-gustav-franz-herter/): Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter, German / Uruguayan botanist and mycologist (Berlin 10 January 1884 – Hamburg 17 April 1958) Authored 380 works Named 1449 taxa DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Fungi Families Corticiaceae 1910 Sparassidaceae 1910 Plantae Dryopteridaceae 1949 Woodsiaceae 1949 Genus Astyposanthes 1913 (Fabaceae) HONORS Ritterocactus Sect. Herteria Doweld 1999 (Cactaceae)
- [Walter August Hadler](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-august-hadler/): Walter August Hadler, Brazilian experimental pathologist and histochemist (São Paulo 16 Jan 1919 – Campinas, São Paulo State 30 November 1998) Married to Sineli Rita Silveira with whom published many papers. Published 67 papers in indexed periodicals between 1950 and 1989  Developed some new histochemical methods below listed  With L.M. Ziti, A.S. Patelli, J.A. Vozza & O. de Lucca. Histochemical meaning of the chrome-alum hematoxylin and the aldehyde fuchsin staining: an investigation accomplished by a spot test technique carried out on filter paper models. Acta Histochem. 20:320-38, 1968  With L.M.Ziti, O. de Lucca and A.S. Patelli. A new technique for histochemical
- [Tsai Yu Hsiao](https://neglectedscience.com/tsai-yu-hsiao/): Tsai Yu Hsiao or Caiyu Xiao, Chinese entomologist (1903 – 1978) Described 56 Hemipteran genera HONORS   Hsiaotycoris Lu, Zhao & Cai 2006 (Hemiptera)
- [Thomas Hohmann](https://neglectedscience.com/thomas-hohmann/): Thomas Hohmann, Chilean mining engineer (1843 – 1897) Authored Mineralojia Americana in Bol.Soc. Nac. Min. (1891) Honored in mineral species hohmannite Frenzel 1888 
- [Tauchien Hou](https://neglectedscience.com/tauchien-hou/): Tauchien Hou or Taoqian Hou, Chinese agricultural entomologist (fl.1964) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Species Cosmotriche chensiensis 1987 Dendrolimus evelyniana 1992 with Wang Dendrolimus huashanensis 1986 Dendrolimus kwangtungensis 1976 Dendrolimus marmoratus 1976 Dendrolimus ningshanensis 1976 Dendrolimus qinlingensis 1980 with Tsai Dendrolimus rubripennis 1986 Dendrolimus xunyangensis 1980 with Tsai Gastropacha yunxianensis 1992 with Wang Hoenimnema bimaculata 1980 with Tsai  Hoenimnema kwangtungensis 1976 with Tsai Hoenimnema omeiensis 1980 with Tsai   Hoenimnema qinlingensis 1986 Kunugia dongchuanensis 1983 with Tsai Kunugia dukouensis 1980 with Tsai Kunugia florimaculata 1983 with Tsai Kunugia funuiensis 1986 Kunugia gilirmaculata 1984 Kunugia glauca 1987 Kunugia hani 1987 Kunugia jianchuanensis 1976 with Tsai Kunugia tephra 1985 Kunugia wuyiensis 1985 Kunugia xishuangensis 1976 Kunugia yongdensis 1983 Malacosoma betula 1980 Malacosoma liupa 1980 Malacosoma tibetana 1982 Megaloxantha porphyreus 1996 with Wu Sternocera bannaiensis 1996 with Wu
- [Tao Chiuh Hsu](https://neglectedscience.com/tao-chiuh-hsu/): Tao Chiuh Hsu, Chinese / US cytogeneticist (Shaoxing, Zhejiang 17 April 1917 – Houston, Texas 09 July 2003) Authored over 300 articles Determined accurate haploid chromosome number of man and characterized the human karyotype  beyond discovering the hypotonic chromosome spreading technique Mammalian chromosomes in vitro – the karyotype of man. J. Heredity 43:167-72, 1952 Discovered C-banding technique to demonstrate constitutive heterochromatin With F.E. Arrighi. Localization of heterochromatin in human chromosomes. Cytogenetics 10:81-6, 1971 Patented G banding of plant chromosomes Number 4596089 (1986)  HONORS Hsunycteris Parlos, Timm, Swier, Zeballos & Baker 2014 (Mammalia)
- [Tan Sin Hok](https://neglectedscience.com/tan-sin-hok/): Tan Sin Hok, Indonesian micropaleontologist (Tjipadang, Java 28 March 1902 – Bandung 01 December 1945) FAMILIES DESCRIBED Discoasteraceae 1927 (coccoliths) Miogypsinidae 1936 (Fossil Foraminifera) GENERA DESCRIBED Eudiscoaster 1927 (coccolith) Heliodiscoaster 1927 (coccolith) Hemidiscoaster 1927 (coccolith) Cenolarcopyle 1928 (Fossil Radiolaria)  Discoaster 1931 (nannoliths) Katacycloclypeus 1932 (Fossil Foraminifera) Radiocycloclypeus 1932 (Fossil Foraminifera) Helicocyclina 1936 (Fossil Foraminifera) Helicolepidinoides 1936 (Fossil Foraminifera) Eolepidina 1939 (Fossil Foraminifera) EPONYMY Tansinhokella Banner & Hodgkinson 1991 (Fossil Foraminifera) Tansinius Filipescu & Hanganu 1960 (Calcareous nannofossil)
- [Ta Shih Hsiung](https://neglectedscience.com/ta-shih-hsiung/): Ta Shih Hsiung (Da Shi Xiong), Chinese protozoologist (1900 – ?) DESCRIBED PROTOZOA GENERA Alloiozona 1930 Ampullacula 1930 Pingius 1932 Sulcoarcus 1935 Tetradimorpha 1927 HONORS Hsiungia Kung & Yang 1964 (Nematoda) Hsiungella Imai 2001 (Protozoa)
- [T. Habibi](https://neglectedscience.com/t-habibi/): T. Habibi, Iranian female arachnologist (fl.1971) Authored Liste de scorpions de l’Iran. Bull. Fac. Tehran Univ. 2(4):42-7, 1971 HONORS    Habibiella Vachon 1974 (Arachnida)
- [Syed Zahir Haider](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-zahir-haider/): Syed Zahir Haider, Pakistani chemist (Dhaka, Bangladesh 01 September 1927 – 23 August 2008) Authored over 250 papers Developed methods for synthesis of borate complexes, organoboric compounds, zircon, niobium, tantalum and antimony phosphates Developed new methods for determination of borate and phosphate compounds in complex mixtures   Established tetragonal unit of niobium oxyphosphate by x-rays diffraction Synthesized new inorganic ion-exchangers Observed the explosive properties and germicides of organoboric compounds   
- [Sydney Samuel Hough](https://neglectedscience.com/sydney-samuel-hough/): Sidney Samuel Hough, English mathematician and astronomer in South Africa (Stoke Nevington 11 June 1870 – Chingford 08 July 1923) ACHIEVEMENTS Authority on celestial mechanics First to derivate Taylor-Proudman theorem (1897) Created Hough functions (1898)   See http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-astr-hough_ss.html
- [Sunder Lal Hora](https://neglectedscience.com/sunder-lal-hora/): Sunder Lal Hora, Indian ichthyologist (Hafizabad, Punjab 02 May 1896 – Calcutta 08 December 1955) Authored over 400 scientific papers on ecology, ichthyology, fisheries and biogeography DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Amblyotrypauchen 1924 Annamia 1932 Beaufortia 1932 Bhanotia 1926 Bhavania 1920 Conta 1950 Erethiptoides 1950 Myersglanis 1952 with Silas Osteochilichthys 1942 Parapsilorhynchus 1921 Platytropius 1937 Proeutropiichthys 1937 Protomyzon 1932 Sewellia 1932 Travancoria 1941 Vanmanenia 1932 Species 88 HONORS Horaella Donner 1949 (Rotifera) Horabagrus Jayaram 1955 (Pisces) Horadandia Deraniyagala 1943 (Pisces) Horadetia Deraniyagala 1943 (Pisces) Horaglanis Menon 1950 (Pisces) Horaichthys  Kulkarni 1940 (Pisces) Horalabiosa Silas 1954 (Pisces) Horaia Tonnoir 1930 (Diptera) Horaiella Tonnoir 1933 (Diptera)
- [Soon-Woo Hong](https://neglectedscience.com/soon-woo-hong/): Soon-Woo Hong, South Korean microbiologist (Gangneung City 01 January 1927 – 1988) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.C. Hah & K.S. Kwon. Location and biosynthetic regulation of endo 1, 4 beta-glucanase in Aspergiullus nidulans. Microbios 54(220-1):149-56, 1988 With Y.C. Hah & Y.H. Rhee. Relative contributions of fungi and bacteria to soil carboximethylcellulase activity (1987) With H.M. Park, J.M. Jeong, Y.C. Hah & C.N. Seong. Interspecific protoplast fusion of Trichoderma koningii and Trichoderma reesei. Korean J. Microbiol. 24:91-7, 1986 With J.C. Yoo & H.C. Hah. Quantitative analysis of tubercidin in Streptomyces tubercidus cultures by high pressure liquid chromatography. J. Liq. Chromatogr. 7:151-8, 1984 With Y.C. Hah & H.M. Park. The
- [Sidney Henry Haughton](https://neglectedscience.com/sidney-henry-haughton/): Sidney Henry Haughton, English-born South African geologist and paleontologist (Bethnal Green, London 07 May 1888 – Johannesburg 24 May 1982) Authored 209 papers, 339 abstracts, 7 books and 13 geological maps Discovered Ornithiscian dinosaurs (1924) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Reptilia Aelurognathus 1924 Akidnognathus 1918  Brachypareia 1929 Bradysuchus 1929 Chasmatosaurus 1924 Chelyrhynchus 1917 Chiwetasaurus 1928 Choerosaurus 1929 Cynidiognathus 1929 Dixeya 1928 Dolichopareia 1929 Eoarctops 1929 Erythrochampsa 1924 Galesuchus 1915 Glochinodontoides 1924 Gorgonognathus 1915 Hipposaurus 1929 Kangnasaurus 1915 Koalemasaurus 1929 Lycaenodontoides 1929 Lycorhinus 1924 Macroscelesaurus 1918 Melanorosaurus 1924 Moschosaurus 1915 Myosaurus 1917 Nochelesaurus 1929 Pachytegos 1932 Pareiasuchus 1913 with Broom Platycheloides 1928 Platyoropha 1929 Prolystrosaurus 1917 Sphenosuchus 1915 Stenaulorhynchus 1932 Struthiocephalus 1932 Styracocephalus 1929 Sycosaurus 1924 Tangasaurus 1924 Trochosaurus 1915 Whaitsia 1918 Amphibia Eoxemopoides 1931 Kestrosaurus 1926 Laccosaurus 1926 Microposaurus 1926 Mammalia Griquatherium 1922 Notohipparion 1932 Orthoptera Archaegryllodes 1924 Striatotegmen 1924 Pisces Ischnolepis 1934 Coelenterata Gakarasia 1962 HONORS (Fossil) Haughtonileberis Dingle 1969 (Ostracoda) Haughtonaster Rilett 1971
- [Shiu-Ying Hu](https://neglectedscience.com/shiu-ying-hu/): Shiu-Ying Hu, Chinese botanist (near Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province 1910 – Hong Kong 22 May 2012) Authored over 160 scientific works Collected over 30000 specimens Described 182 new plant species HONORS Shiuyinghua Paclt 1962 (Paulowniaceae)
- [Salomón Horovitz](https://neglectedscience.com/salomon-horovitz/): Salomón Horovitz Yarcho, Jewish Argentine plant geneticist (Villaguay, Entre Rios Province 12 November 1897 – Maracay 06 January 1978) ACHIEVEMENTS  Obtained the bitter maize   Studied the genetic sex determination in papaya Proposed improvement of banana by sexual pathway  DISCOVERED GENES IN MAIZE Amargo (ag) 1942 with A. Marchioni Luteo Maculata (lu) (1941) Azucarado (sux) 1941 with A. Machioni & H. Fisher Siamensis, nuevo caracter hereditario del maiz (1936) Nuevo gen del cuarto cromosoma del maiz (1942) HONORS   Horovitzia Badillo 1993 (Caricaceae)    
- [Salomon Hakim](https://neglectedscience.com/salomon-hakim/): Salomon Hakim Dow, Colombian neurosurgeon and bioengineer (Barranquilla 04 June 1922 – Barranquilla 05 May 2011) From Lebanese parents Authored over 70 papers Described the normal pressure hydrocephalus or Hakim syndrome in Spanish (1964) and in English with R.D.Adams & C.M. Fisher (1965) Stated new theories on cephalorhachidian  liquid dynamics Introduced new lead systems of cephalorhachidian fluid Stated the concept of self-regulating valves (1973) TECHNIQUES/DEVICES With A. Jimenez Arango & F. Rosas. Drainage of the cerebrospinal fluid into the spinal epidural space: a new technique for the treatment of hydrocephalus. Acta Neuroch. 4(3):224-7, 1955 With neurosurgeon Alejandro Jimenez Arango. A surgical
- [Roberto Hottinger](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-hottinger/): Roberto Hottinger, Swiss-born Brazilian veterinarian, microbiologist and chemist (Zurich 20 February 1875 – São Paulo 29 January 1942) Authored over 50 works Discovered the oligodynamic action of silver in water sterilization (1920) With G.H. Paula Souza developed a new purification process consisting of colloidal silver coating insides of ceramic vessels With Paula Souza described a device that allowed the elimination of ozone excess from water, which was modified and used to eliminate chlorine, giving rise to Perfector process (1912). It was patented in Germany some time later Established Perfector process for deozonization and dechlorination of water (1912) Discovered a practical way
- [Roberto Herzenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-herzenberg/): Roberto Herzenberg, Jewish German mineralogist and chemist in Bolivia and Chile (Libau, Courland, Latvia 19 September 1885 – Santiago de Chile 24 October 1955) DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES Ahlfeldite (1944) valid Blockite (1935) with Ahlfeld (most known as penroseite described in 1937 by Bannister & Hey) Brunckite 1938 (invalid) Gumucionite 1933 (a mineral variety) Hochschildite 1942 (status uncertain) Kolbeckine 1932 (redescribed by Ramdohr in his honor as herzenbergite 1935) Montesite 1949 (status uncertain) Rooseveltite 1946 (valid) Souxite 1946 (described before varlamoffite of 1947)
- [Roberto Erwin Halbinger](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-erwin-halbinger/): Roberto Erwin Halbinger La Rocca, Argentine food microbiologist (Banfield, Buenos Aires Province 02 October 1924 – 20 September 1996) Performed studies on agricultural and industrial microbiology Authored over 60 papers and books  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.S. Vidal. Microbiología de los alimentos conservados por el frio (1992) With G.M. Frontera, O.S. Correa & F.E. Gauna. Inoculación artificial de hongos micorrizicos de los gêneros Boletus y Scleroderma de especies de plantas del gênero Eucaliptus. Rev. Agric. Micol. 9:3-9, 1986 With E. Jocher. Microbiologia del ketchup (catchup). Alim. Latinoam. 17(42):28-9, 1983 With M.B. Tami. Incidence of technical compounds in the amyl process. Alim. Latinoam. 16(137):6-13, 1982 With M.A. Monzón de
- [Raul Hernandez Peón](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-hernandez-peon/): Raul Hernandez Peon, Mexican neurophysiologist (Merida, Yucatan 16 July 1924 – Ciudad de Mexico 16 April 1968) Authored about 150 papers Regarded as one of the leading world researchers in the field of neurophysiological mechanisms of sleep ACHIEVEMENTS Established that sensorial impulses are sorted at low levels of nervous system Determined the existence of a cholinergic system of sleep proposing its mechanism and anatomical structure Concluded that activation of reticular formation of brain stem exerts a descendent influence on sensorial pathways by means of inhibiting centrifugal fibers Postulated that supra-mesencephalic structures are not essential to habituation development Theorized that reticular formation receives
- [Rafael Herbst](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-herbst/): Rafael Herbst, German-born Argentine paleobotanist (Hamburg 06 April 1936 – Tucumán Province 02 September 2017) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA & SUBGENERA Genera Alicurana 2002 with Gnaedinger Archangelskya 1964 Asteracarpus 2004 with Anzótegui  Baqueroties 1967 Buckya 2016 with Crisafulli Dejerseya 1977 Guairea 1981 Kwazulupteris 2015 with Vera Marayea 1993 Mollesia 2000 with Melchor Natalipteris 2015 with Vera  Rochipteris 2001 with Troncoso & Gnaedinger Santaecruzia 1998 with Gnaedinger Tranquilia 1988 Tranquiloxylon 1995 with Lutz Tuvichapteris 1987 Vladiloxylon 2003 with Lutz & Crisafulli Subgenera Clathropteroides 1992  Dictyophyllum 1992 Thaumatopteris 1992 Sporae Clavatriletes 1965  Pisces Sachajenynsia & Tucmanableps 2017 with Sferco, Aguilera & Mirande  HONORS (Fossil) Herbstosaurus Casamiquela 1974 (Reptilia) Herbstiloxylon Gnaedinger 2007 (Plantae) Rafaherbstia Vera & Cesari 2018 (Plantae)
- [Qide Han](https://neglectedscience.com/qide-han/): Qide Han, Chinese molecular pharmacologist (Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 19 July 1945 – Confirmed that α-1-adrenoceptor contained 2 subtypes α1 and α2B by their different pharmacological characteristics and revealed different signal transduction mechanisms between the two subtypes in smooth muscles (1985) Verified the existence of a third subtype α1D First to report some cardiovascular effects of neuropeptide Y Showed how the neuropeptide Y rules the hypertension pathogenesis  Revealed that the increase of neuropeptide Y in cerebrospinal fluid played a key role in the cerebral vascular spasm during the late stage of subarachnoid hemorrhage Showed that neuropeptide Y existed also in blood platelets Proposed with
- [Pierre Marie Heude](https://neglectedscience.com/pierre-marie-heude/): Pierre Marie Heude, French-born Chinese naturalist and Jesuit (Fougeries, Ille et Vilaine Department 25 June 1836 – Xujiahui, Xuhui District, Shanghai 03 February 1902) DESCRIBED NEW VALID TAXA Mollusca Genera Buliminidus 1890 Delavaya 1889 Euassiminea 1882 Fenouilia 1889 Pseudomphala 1882 Rathouisia 1883 Rivularia 1890 Rudens 1890 Solenomphala 1882 Spirostoma 1885 Species 217 Mammalia Genera Dremomys 1898 Trogopterus 1898 Species Axis calamianensis 1898 Bubalus mindorensis 1888 Dobsonia viridis 1896 Sus bucculentus 1892 Sus cebifrons 1898 Subspecies Axis porcinus annamiticus 1888 Bos frontalis laosiensis 1901 Capricornis milneedwardsii maritimus 1888 Cervus nippon aplodontus 1884 Cervus nippon grassianus 1884 Cervus nippon soloensis 1884 Cervus nippon yesoensis 1884 Gazella subgutturosa hillieriana 1894 Hydropotes inermis argyropus 1884 Pteropus hypomelanus macassaricus 1897 Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus 1892 Rusa marianna barandana 1888 Rusa timorensis floresiensis 1896 Rusa timorensis macassaricus 1896 Sus cebifrons
- [Phillip Clarence Heemstra](https://neglectedscience.com/phillip-clarence-heemstra/): Phillip Clarence Heemstra, US-born South African marine ichthyologist (Melrose Park, Illinois State 09 December 1941 – Grahamstown 29 August 2019) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Families Dinopercidae 1986 with Hecht Hexatrygonidae 1980 with Smith Genera Baldwinella 2012 with Anderson Choranthias 2012 with Anderson Electrolux 2007 with Compagno Hexatrygon 1980 with Smith Meganthias 2006 with Randall Species Acanthistius joanae 2010 Acanthopagrus omanensis 2010 with Iwatsuki Anthias menezesi 1980 with Anderson Anthias woodsi 1980 with Anderson Apolemichthys kingi 1984 Apristutrus canutus 1979 with Springer Apristurus parvipinnis 1979 with Springer Argyrops caeruleops 2018 with Iwatsuki Argyrops flavops 2018 with Iwatsuki Argyrops notialis 2018 with Iwatsuki Argyrosomus coronus 1995 with Griffiths Argyrosomus inodorus 1995 with Griffiths Cancelloxus elongatus 1986 with Wright Cephalopholis aitha 1991 with
- [Paulo Parreiras Horta](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-parreiras-horta/): Paulo de Figueiredo Parreiras Horta, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 24 January 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 29 July 1961) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored a clinical description of black piedra. The causative agent was named Piedraia hortae in his honor Sobre uma nova forma de piedra. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 3:86-107, 1911 Described the asci in the nodules of black piedra known as bright spots or Horta cysts Described the first case of tinea nigra and isolated its causative agent as Cladosporium werneckii. This fungus was incorporated in genus Hortaea later. Sobre um caso de tinha preta e um cogumelo (Cladosporium werneckii). Rev. Med. Cir. Bras. 29:269, 1921 A
- [Pao lu Hsu](https://neglectedscience.com/pao-lu-hsu/): Pao-lu Hsu or Baolu Xu, Chinese statistician (Beijing 01 September 1910 – Beijing 18 December 1970) Proposed Hsu method Contribution to the theory of Student’s t-test as applied to the problem of two-samples. Statis. Res. Mem.2:1-24, 1938 Gave important results on the optimal quadratic estimates of variance and variance components On the best unbiased quadratic estimate of the variance. Statis. Res. Mem. 2:91-104, 1938 Established the first optimal hypotheses in the likelihood-ratio test for univariate linear models or the first nonlocal optimal property for any hypotheses specifying the value of more than one parameter Analysis of variance from the power function
- [P. Alexander Hulley](https://neglectedscience.com/p-alexander-hulley/): Percy Alexander Hulley, South-African ichthyologist (23 February 1941 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Euprotomicroides 1966 with Penrith Krefftichthys 1981 Rostroraja 1972 Sinobatis 1973 Species Amblyraja robertsi 1970 Astronethes galapagensis 1999 with Parin & Borodulina  Astronethes illuminatus 1999 with Parin & Borodulina  Euprotomicroides zantedeschia 1966 with Penrith Gymnoscopelus hintonoides 1981  Gymnoscopelus microlampas 1981 Lampanyctus vadulus 1981  Leucoraja wallacei 1970 Metelectrona herwigi 1981 Neoraja stehmanni 1972 Proctomyctophum choriodon 1981 Proctomyctophum gemmatum 1981 Proctomyctophum luciferum 1981 Rajella dissimilis 1970 Rajella ravidula 1970 Symbolophorus kreffti 1981
- [Oswaldo Handro](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-handro/): Oswaldo Handro, Brazilian botanist (São Paulo 30 June 1908 – São Paulo 30 August 1986) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Adiantum papillosum 1964 Arachis benthamii 1958  Arachis burkarti 1958 Arachis martii 1958 Arachis repens 1958 Aspidosperma gehrtii 1963 Aspidosperma nemorale 1962 Aspidosperma nigricans 1962 Asplenium bradeanum 1969 Begonia boraceiensis 1968 Begonia odeteiantha 1969 Begonia peruibensis 1979 Begonia piresiana 1964 Begonia toledoana 1969 Maytenus rostrata 1968 Mimosa coelho-de-moraesii 1958 with Pickel Nematanthus bradei 1962 Nematanthus jolyanus 1964 Nematanthus kuhlmanni 1964 Nematanthus mattosianus 1964 Nematanthus mirabilis 1962 Nematanthus striatus 1964 Nematanthus teixeiranus 1964 Pleurothallis wacketii 1971 with Pabst Siphocampylos lauroanus 1962 Vriesea vidalii 1970 with Smith HONORS Handroanthus Mattos 1970 (Bignoniaceae)
- [Olive Mary Hilliard](https://neglectedscience.com/olive-mary-hilliard/): Olive Mary Hillary Hilliard, South African botanist (Durban 04 July 1925 – DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA Genera Atrichantha 1981 with Burtt Chenopodiopsis 1990 Craterocapsa 1973 with Burtt Dolichothrix 1981 with Burtt Dracosciadium 1986 with Burtt Glekia 1989 Melanospermum 1989 Plecostachys 1981 with Burtt Pseudoselago 1995 Reyemia 1993 Saniella 1978 with Burtt Strobilopsis 1977 with Burtt Tenrhynea 1981 with Burtt Trieenea 1989 Troglophyton 1981 with Burtt Vellereophyton 1981 with Burtt Sections Bertilia 1981 with Burtt Dolichoglossa 1994 Exannularia 2002 with Burtt Macrocalyx 1994 Medixifae 1994 Pleuroschisma 2003 with Burtt Thyrsiflorae 1994 HONORS Hilliardia Nordenstam 1987 (Asteraceae) 
- [Olga Bohomoletz Henriques](https://neglectedscience.com/olga-bohomoletz-henriques/): Olga Bohomoletz Henriques, Brazilian biochemist (12 January 1916 – 1995) Simple method for the calculation of photometric curves. Rev. Bras. Biol. 11:59, 1951 With M. Fichman & M.C.F. Oliveira. Novo método de separação da enzima coagulante do veneno da Bothrops jararaca. Cien. Cult. 12:175, 1960 Described the presence of kininogens in the plasma (1967) independently of Jacobson (1966) Obtained new bradykinin-potentiator peptides With I. Lebrun, F.L. Lebrun, A.K. Carmona, L. Juliano & A.C. Camargo. Isolation and characterization of a new bradykinin potentiating octapeptide from gamma-casein. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 73(1):85-91, 1995 With L.A. Ferreira & E.W. Alves. Peptide T, a new bradykinin
- [Ockert Stephanus Heyns](https://neglectedscience.com/ockert-stephanus-heyns/): Ockert Stephanus Heyns, South African gynaecologist and obstetrician (Paarl, Cape Province 27 November 1906 – 1973) Designed Heyns abdominal decompression apparatus A device to improve foetal oxygenation. Trans. Coll. Phys. S. Afr. 5:1, 1961 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   With J. Black & J. Gillman. The value of basal fat in the human uterus as an indicator of optimum progesterone activity. J. Clin. Endocr. 1:547, 1941 A study of the Bantu female pelvis. J. Anatomy 78:151-66, 1944 Sexual differences in the pelvis. South Afr. J. Med. Science 12:17-20, 1947 Analgesia and anaesthesia in obstetrics. S. Afr. J. Med. 21(6):190-4, 1947 With J.E. Kerrich. The
- [Mohammad Hayat](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-hayat/): Mohammad Hayat, Indian entomologist (fl.1969) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Adektitopus 1984 with Noyes Agarwalencyrtus 1981 Amicencyrtus 1981 Anomalencyrtus 1980 Arabencyrtus 2014 Avlakotencyrtus 2014 with Khan Bacalusa 1984 with Noyes Bolangera 1986 with Noyes Coagerus 1984 with Noyes Cremesina 1984 with Noyes Dahmsiella 1979 Diaphorencyrtus 1981 Diasula 1984 with Noyes Doddanusia 1984 with Noyes Encarsiella 1983 Eotopus 1984 with Noyes Eriaphytis 1972 Ethoris 1984 with Noyes Gentakola 1984 with Noyes Haligra 1984 with Noyes Hamusencyrtus 1978 with Subba Rao Hengata 1984 with Noyes Hirtaphelinus 1983 Idiococcobius 2010 Indaphycus 1981 Indoencyrtus 1978 with Verma Kataka 1984 with Noyes Manicnemus 1981 Mashhoodiella 1972 Muluencyrtus 1984 with Noyes Nathismusia 1984 with Noyes Neoadelencyrtus 1975 with Alam & Agarwal Neocharitopus 1975 with Alam & Agarwal Neperpolia 2003 Oenrobia 1994 Olypusa 1984 with Noyes Ovaloencyrtus 1984 with Noyes Papuna 1984 with Noyes Paraclausenia 1980 Pasulinia 1984 with Noyes Philosindia 1984
- [Mohamed Haniff](https://neglectedscience.com/mohamed-haniff/): Mohamed Haniff Bin Kupey Pichey, Malaysian gardener, botanical explorer and collector (Penang 02 November 1872 – 1930) Discovered several plant species of Malay Peninsula SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Record of a few orchids and other interesting plants (Monocotyledons) found in Penang, Setul, Kedah Peak and Bukit Wang in the north of Kedah. Gardens Bull. Straits Settl. 1(10):353-5, 1916 With Burkill. Malay village medicine: prescriptions collected. Gardens Bull. Straits Settl. 6(5-10):165-207, 1930 HONORS   Haniffia Holtum 1950 (Zingiberaceae)
- [Menahem Hodara](https://neglectedscience.com/menahem-hodara/): Menahem Hodara, Jewish Turkish dermatologist (Istanbul 1869 – Istanbul Sept 1926) Described a form of trichorrhexis nodosa known as Hodara disease or sign Uber die Trichorrhexis des Kepfhaares der Konstantinopeler Frauen. Mschr. Praktische Derm. Woch. 19:173-188, 1894 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Etude sur le diagnostic bactériologique de l’acné. J. Mal. Cut. Syph. 6:516, 1891 Un cas de favus généralise des parties glabres. Gaz. Med. Orient. 2:38, 189? Ya-til des cellules plasmatiques dans les organes hematopoetiques normeaux de l’homme. Ann. Dermatol. Syph. 3(6):856, 1895 Kommen in dem blut bereitenden organen des Menschen normalerweise Plasmazellen vor. Monatschr. F. Prakt. Dermat. 22:53, 1896  Zwei Falle von
- [Mashooda Hassan](https://neglectedscience.com/mashooda-hassan/): Mashooda Hassan, Pakistani natural products chemist (British India 17 July 1939 – Worldwide recognized for her work on the synthesis and bio-synthesis of natural products as well as on structural investigations of the constituents of indigenous medicinal plants SOME CONTRIBUTIONS With B.S. Siddiqui, F. Mairaj, I. Mehmood et al. Two new compounds from the aerial parts of Bergenia himalaica Boriss. and their anti-hyperglycemic effects in streptozotocin-nicotinamide induced diabetic rats. J. Ethnopharm. (2014) With F. Malik, K.M. Khan, S. Parveen, G. Snatzke, H. Duddeck & W. Voelter. Synthesis CD Spectral studies of new optically active substituted 1,5-benzodiazepine derivatives. Liebigs Ann. 127-34, 1996 With F.
- [Mario Alfredo Hunicken](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-alfredo-hunicken/): Mario Alfredo Hunicken, Argentine geologist and paleontologist (Chilecito, La Rioja Province 30 April 1926 – Cordoba 10 April 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA ARACHNIDA Genera Gondwanarachne 1980 with Pinto Species Gondwanarachne argentinensis 1980 with Pinto CONODONTA Species & Subspecies Baltoniodus crassulus andinus 1994 with Rao & Ortega Trapezognathus argentinensis 1994 with Rao & Ortega EURYPTERIDEA Genus Megarachne 1980 Species Megarachne servinei 1980 MOLLUSCA Species Baculites duharti 1975 Baculites rioturbioensis 1965 Diplomoceras australe 1965 Fyfea beui 1994 with Griffin Heteroterma elegans 1994 with Griffin Priscaphander bracaccini 1994 with Griffin Priscaphander sanjosensis 1994 with Griffin Pseudofax costellatus 1994 with Griffin Roudaireia pampaensis 1970 with Leanza Taioma patagonica 1994 with Griffin PLANTAE Genera Sanluisia 1995 with Cesari & Gutierrez Velizia 1992 with Cesari
- [Marinus Hoogmoed](https://neglectedscience.com/marinus-hoogmoed/): Marinus Steven Hoogmoed, Dutch-born Brazilian herpetologist (Rotterdam 19 March 1942 – DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Amphibia Genus Adelophryne 1984 with Lescure Species Adelophryne adiastola 1984 with Lescure Adelophryne baturitensis 1994 with Borges & Cascon Adelophryne gutturosa 1984 with Lescure Adelophryne maranguapensis 1994 with Borges & Cascon Adelophryne nordestina 2021 with Lourenço de Moraes, Lisboa, Drummond, Moura et al. Adelophryne pachydactyla 1994 with Borges & Cascon Barbarophryne brongersmai 1972 Boana roraima 1992 with Duellman Bolitoglossa caldwellae 2013 with Brcko & Neckel Oliveira Bolitoglossa madeira 2013 with Brcko & Neckel Oliveira Bolitoglossa tapajonica 2013 with Brcko & Neckel Oliveira Brasilotyphlus guarantanus 2009 with Maciel & Mott Caecilia museugoeldii 2018 with Maciel Microcaecilia grandis 2010 with Wilkinson & Nussbaum Microcaecilia
- [Marguerite Henrici](https://neglectedscience.com/marguerite-henrici/): Marguerite Gertrude Anna Henrici, Swiss-born South African plant physiologist (Basle 22 February 1892 – Bloemfontein 28 July 1971) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Transpiration of grasses and other plants in arid conditions (1926) The chlorophyll-content of grasses in Bechuanaland (1926) Preliminary report upon the occurrence of hydrocyanic acid in the grasses of Bechuanaland (1927)  Physiological plant studies in South Africa. Part II. Transpiration of grasses and other plants under arid conditions. Dept. Agric. Union S. Africa (1927) Structure of the cortex of grass roots in the more arid regions of South Africa. Sci. Bull. Dept. Agric. Union S. Africa 85:3-12, 1929 Mineral and feeding
- [Mahmoud Hessaby](https://neglectedscience.com/mahmoud-hessaby/): Seyed Mahmoud Khan Mirza Hessaby, Iranian physicist (Tafresh 23 February 1903 – 03 September 1992) Proposed the theory of infinitely extended particles Model of an infinite particle. J. Phys. Radium 18(5):323-6, 1957 Theoretical evidence for the existence of a light-charged particle of mass greater than that of the electron. Phys. Rev. 73(6):1128, 1948 Proposed a modification of Coulomb’s law of electric field Presented his results on calculation of energy density and particles masses (1977) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Theory of infinitely extended particles (1977) The deviation of light waves in the presence of matter (1948) Continuous particles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 33(6):189-94,
- [Mahir Saleh Hussein](https://neglectedscience.com/mahir-saleh-hussein/): Mahir Saleh Hussein, Iraqi-born Brazilian nuclear physicist (Bagdad 21 November 1944 – São Paulo 16 May 2019) World authority in theoretical nuclear physics Authored over 350 papers and 5 books (with over 7,000 citations) With K.W. McVoy developed the Nested-Doorway model at Phys. Rev. Lett. 43:1645, 1979 With L.F. Canto, R. Donangelo & A. Lepine clarified the origin of the anomalous large-angle scattering of systems as 16O + 28Si as being related to alpha-cluster nature of these nuclei which allows elastic transfer at Phys. Rev. Lett. 51:95, 1983 Developed the formal complex potential scattering theory (1987) Suggested a mechanism where a powerful laser
- [Mahdi Salih Hantush](https://neglectedscience.com/mahdi-salih-hantush/): Mahdi Salih Hantush, Iraqi hydrogeologist (Baghdad 12 December 1921- Kuwait 14 January 1984) Developed well-flow equations Derived mathematical equations of flow to fully and/or partially penetrating wells in aquifer systems Devised methods for the analysis of pumping test data to determine their hydraulic properties With R.G. Thomas. A method for analyzing a drawn down test in anisotropic aquifers. Water Resources Res. 2(2):281-5, 1966
- [Mahdi Hasan](https://neglectedscience.com/mahdi-hasan/): Mahdi Hasan, Indian morphologist and microscopist (Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar District, Uttar Pradesh State 21 March 1936 – Lucknow 12 January 2013) Authored 135 research papers, 6 books and 8 book chapters First to use single neuron recording for studying thallotoxicosis (1978) With P. Glees proposed a new hypothesis for the genesis of neuronal lipofuscin (1972) With P. Glees & K. Tischner first to perform an ultrastructural classification of synapses in the lateral geniculate body of the monkey First demonstrated vacuolar degeneration of neurons in the lateral geniculate body of the monkey Described different morphological types of occipital sinuses Discovered a new
- [Luis Howell Rivero](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-howell-rivero/): Luis Hugo Howell Rivero, Cuban zoologist and anthropologist (La Habana 23 September 1906 – Florida Keys 07 October 1986) Wikipedia gives his birth date as 28 December 1899 DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES Caulolatilus intermedius 1936 Chimaera cubana 1936 Ctenichthys interrupta 1936 Ijimaia antillarum 1935 Ijimaia fowleri 1935 Labrisomus nigricinctus 1936 Paraclinus ocellatus 1936 Scyliorhinus torrei 1936 Squalus cubensis 1936 HONORS Riveroina Bermudez 1939 (Foraminifera) Luisichthys White 1942 (Fossil Pisces)
- [Loo Keng Hua](https://neglectedscience.com/loo-keng-hua/): Loo Keng Hua or Luo-Geng Hua, Chinese mathematician (Jintan, Jiangsu Province 12 November 1910 – Tokyo 12 June 1985) Authored over 200 papers, 10 books and monographs Developed Vinogradov mean value theorem (1940s) First to show that every semi-automorphism of a skew field is either an automorphism or an anti-automorphism Proved that every normal sub-field of a skew field is contained in its center (Cartan-Brauer-Hua theorem) Proposed extending Hodge theory to open Hermitian manifolds (1959) Made important contributions to the development of the circle method and variations of Waring’s problem Found the symmetry of inertial motion Computed the kernel functions for
- [Lianhai Hou](https://neglectedscience.com/lianhai-hou/): Lianhai Hou, Chinese vertebrate paleontologist (1935 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL AVES/REPTILIA GENERA Aberratiodontus 2004 with Gong & Wang Alethoalaornis 2007 with Li, Hu, Duan & Gong Anchaurosaurus 1995 with Gao Anhuisaurus 1974 Anqingosaurus 1976 Canadaga 1999 Chaoyangia 1993 with Zhang Chiangjiangosaurus 1976 Confuciusornis 1995 with Zhou, Gu & Zhang Cuspirostrisornis 1997 Dalingheornis 2006 with Zhang, Hasegawa, O’Connor, Martin & Chiappe Dapingfangornis 2006 with Li, Duan, Hu, Wang & Cheng Diangallus 1985 Eociclonia 1989 Eoenantiornis 1999 with Martin, Zhou & Feduccia Gansus 1984 with Liu Hazhenia 1981 with Sun Jibeinia 1997 Jiliniornis 2002 with Ericsson Jinzhournis 2002 with Zhou, Zhang & Ying Largirostriornis 1997 Lianingornis 1996 with Martin & Feduccia Liaoxiornis 1999 with Chen Longchengornis 1997 Longipteryx 2001 with Zhang, Zhou & Gu Longirostravis 2004 with Chiappe, Zhang &
- [Li Chi Hsu](https://neglectedscience.com/li-chi-hsu/): Li Chi Hsu or Lizhi Xu, Chinese mathematician (Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province 23 September 1920 – Born Quanyong Xu ACHIEVEMENTS Extended Laplace asymptotic method to multiple integrals involving a large parameter (1948-51) Obtained a class of complete asymptotic expansions for the differences of zero Found a general asymptotic expansion formula for a wide class of oscillatory integrals (1958) First to offer a quantitative estimation for the first exponential formula of Hille With R.H. Wang formulated the method of multiplier enlargement in a very general form Obtained the square root iteration method with global convergence (reported in 1964; published in 1973) With Y.S.
- [Leopold Hainberger](https://neglectedscience.com/leopold-hainberger/): Leopold Hainberger, Austrian-born Brazilian Catholic father and analytical chemist (Ulrichsberg 08 November 1908 – Rio de Janeiro 03 February 1988) DEVELOPED NEW METHODS With R.N. Damasceno a colorimetric method for vanadium  With H.P. Henriques a new method for spectrophotometric determination of manganese at submicrogram scale With C. Martire a new sensitive and selective method for aluminium (1985) With S.T. Moreira & V. Cotsas a technique for determinations on lead (1977) With Feigl a spot-test for sodium dithionite With H. Ballczo a simple method for quantitative determination of iodide, bromide and chloride dissolved in one drop (1959) With A.L. Rebello a method of spectrophotometric
- [Kun Huang](https://neglectedscience.com/kun-huang/): Kun Huang, Chinese physicist (Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province 02 September 1919 – Beijing 06 July 2005) Authored over 50 papers and 5 books First to predict diffuse x-ray scattering due to crystal defects known as Huang scattering (proved in 1960s) Discovered the coupled vibratory modes between optical vibration and the electromagnetic field (concept of polariton) Proposed phenomenological equations to treat the long wavelength optical vibrations (Huang equations) Developed a theory of radiative  and non-radiative multiphonon transition processes associated with lattice relaxation (Huang-Rhys factor) First to discover the coupled vibrations modes between optical vibration and the electromagnetic field  With Max Born developed Dynamical
- [Kona Hanumantha Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/kona-hanumantha-rao/): Kona Hanumantha Rao, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist Authored about 370 papers DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Bullockrhynchus 1985 with Chandra & Shyamasundari (Acanthocephala) Elongoparorchis 1961 (Trematoda) Indoglomeritrema 1983 with Madhavi (Trematoda) Labriferoides 1962 with Ganapati & Lakshmana Rao (Digenea) Orchispirium 1970 with Madhavi (Trematoda) Penetrocephalus 1960 (Cestoda) Species  About 110 HONORS Hanumantharaorhynchus Chandra 1983 (Acanthocephala)
- [Kenneth John Hayward](https://neglectedscience.com/kenneth-john-hayward/): Kenneth John Hayward, English-born Argentine entomologist (Pitney village, Somerset, England 07 March 1891 – Tucumán 21 May 1972) Authored about 300 works DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA GENERA Adlerodea 1940 Alerema 1942 Ametron 1940 Auca 1953 Cobaloides 1938 Cordillana 1941 Evansiella 1948 Heringiana 1968 Mellana 1948 Neadopaea 1941 Nelia 1953  Neomaniola 1949 Neoxeniades 1938 Nyctelius 1948 Pampasatyrus 1953 Sea 1950 Selenisa 1968 Spinantenna 1953 Vistigma 1938 Species More than 300 HONORS Haywardiales Haedo Rossi 1964 (Coleoptera)   Haywardius Cobos 1958 & Haywardinia Cobos 1965 (Coleoptera) Haywardina Aczel 1952 (Diptera) Haywardella Herrera 1966 (Lepidoptera)
- [Kelsey Harrison](https://neglectedscience.com/kelsey-harrison/): Kelsey Atangamuerimo Harrison, Nigerian gynecologist and obstetrician (Abonnema, Rivers State  09 January 1933 – With A. Kadiri developed a simple technique and established the safety of treating gross anaemia by packed cell transfusion combined with ethacrynic acid (1970) First to show that anaemia in the mother impaired the growth of her baby in the womb, and that the correction of the anaemia during pregnancy led to catch-up growth of the baby Unraveled the influence of several haemoglobinopathies in pregnant women and their babies and how best to deal with them HONORS George Macdonald Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- [Pierre Kaufmann](https://neglectedscience.com/pierre-kaufmann/): Pierre Kaufmann, French-born Brazilian radioastronomer, astrophysicist and geodesist (Aix en Provence 30 November 1938 – São Paulo 17 February 2017) Discovered many new spectral compounds  With E. Correia & V. Melnikov presented new temporal relationships between polarization degree and burst intensity profiles for one example of a complex event (1999) Detected a new solar flare terahertz emission component  Proposed the existence of solar radiations with frequencies above 100 GHz (1985) With E. Correia, J.E.R. Costa, A.M. Zodi Vaz and B.R. Dennis. Solar burst with millimeter wave emission at high frequency only. Nature 313:380-2, 1985.   Discovered T radiation, a new type of solar radiation
- [Peter Sidney Knox-Davies](https://neglectedscience.com/peter-sidney-knox-davies/): Peter Sidney Knox-Davies, South African plant pathologist (Lichtenburg District, Transvaal 07 December 1929 – Stellenbosch 25 March 1999) Authored over 70 research papers Developed new culture media Pycnidium production by M. phaseoli. S. Afr. J. Agric. Science 8:205-18, 1965 With M.J. Swart & M.J. Wingfield. Selective medium for isolating Sphaeropsis sapinea. Phytopathology 77:1387-9, 1987 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Batcheloromyces 1975 with Marasas & Van Wyk Helicosingula 1985 with Marasas, Van Wyk & Baard Species Batcheloromyces leucandri 1975 with Marasas & Van Wyk Batcheloromyces proteae 1975 with Marasas & Van Wyk Helicosingula leucadendri 1985 with Marasas, Baard & Van Wyk Teratosphaeria jonkershoekensis 1975 with Marasas & Van Wyk Teratosphaeria proteae-arboreae 1975
- [Pedro Kouri](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-kouri/): Pedro Kouri Esmeja, Cuban helminthologist and parasitologist (Port-au-Prince, Haiti 21 August 1900 – La Habana 16 October 1964) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 100 scientific works Authored Lessons on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, edited several times and used as a reference work in several countries (1940)    ACHIEVEMENTS Performed classical works on clonorchiasis and showed its cancerigenic character Performed original observations on pathogenic role of Trichuris trichiura, its biology and clinical aspects of infantile massive trichuriasis  Demonstrated egg-production mechanism and testicles localization in Diphyllobothrium latum   First to demonstrate cutaneous localization of Entamoeba histolytica (1931) Discovered and described nematode Inermicapsifer cubensis, that can sometimes be a human parasite (1938) Discovered
- [Pawel Krumholz](https://neglectedscience.com/pawel-krumholz/): Pawel Krumholz, Polish-born Brazilian chemist and spectroscopist (Rajcza, Zywiec County 30 August 1909 – São Paulo 11 August 1973) Authored 84 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Respected as a world authority on coordination compounds chemistry Known internationally for his studies about iron complexes with imine bi- and multi-toothed  ligands  With H. Stammreich performed the first studies in elucidating the structure of metal-carbonyl employing Raman spectroscopy and first to demonstrate the existence of metal-metal bonds in metal-carbonyl compounds (1971)  Discovered aliphatic poly-toothed imine complexes (confirmed by Busch and Bailar) Discovered the acid nature of tetracarbonyl iron hydride Discovered the oxidation of coordinated di-imines  With Feigl &
- [Pablo Emilio Kohler](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-emilio-kohler/): Pablo Emilio Kohler, Austrian-born Argentine entomologist (Wien 13 January 1894 – Florida, Buenos Aires Province 21 May 1981) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA GENERA Altiplania 1979 Argyrana 1952 Atlantagrotis 1955 Austrandesia 1967 Beriotisia 1967 Borsania 1952 Boursinidia 1953 Caphornia 1958 Chubutiana 1952 Comodoria 1952 Cotarsina 1952 Cromobergia 1943 Cucullana 1952 Desertullia 1952 Galeana 1952 Graptocullia 1952 Grisana 1952 Mendozania 1952 Metacullia 1952 Neobourquinia 1980 Noctobourgognea 1955 Noctulizeria 1945 Oortiana 1947 Orthopha 1952 Paracullia 1952 Paranicla 1959 Parosmia 1952 Petrowskaya 1958 Phaenagrotis 1953 Proseniella 1953 Pseudendromis 1924 Pyrgeia 1959 Riagria 1952 Rugofrontia 1947 Schachowskoya 1953 Tamseuxoa 1955 Tandilia 1955 Tarsicopia 1952 Tisagronia 1967 Velazconia 1952 HONORS (Lepidoptera) Koehleramia Berio 1986  Koehleriana Angulo & Olivares 2015
- [Osamu Kimura](https://neglectedscience.com/osamu-kimura/): Osamu Kimura, Brazilian plant pathologist (died Rio de Janeiro State 23 April 1995) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.L.D. Ribeiro, C.F. Robbs, F. Akiba & S. Sudo. Estudos sobre podridões de pré e pós-emergência do quiabeiro (Hibiscus esculentus L.) na baixada carioca-fluminense, causadas por uma nova forma especial de Fusarium solani (Mart.)  Appel & Wr. Arqu. Univ. Fed. Rur. Rio de Janeiro 1:9-13, 1971 With C.F. Robbs & R.L.D. Ribeiro. A preliminary note: a new bacterial disease of garden beets (Beta vulgaris L. var. hortensis). Arqu. Univ. Fed. Rur. Rio de Janeiro 4(1):83-4, 1971 With O.C. de Almeida, M. da Conceição, J. Teranishi & A.L. Pereira. Um novo nematicida-inseticida
- [Nasrollah Khadem](https://neglectedscience.com/nasrollah-khadem/): Nasrollah Khadem, Iranian mining engineer (Tehran 1918 – 05 May 1999) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Types of copper ore deposits in Iran. Cento Symposium on Mining Geology and the Base Metals, Ankhara (1964) Kaolin deposits of Iran. 23rd Int. Geol. Cong. 16:25-8, 1968 HONORS   Khademite Bariand, Berthelon, Cesbron & Sadrzadeh 1973 (Mineral)
- [Mukul Ranjan Kundu](https://neglectedscience.com/mukul-ranjan-kundu/): Mukul Ranjan Kundu, Indian-born US radio astronomer (Kolkata, 10 February 1930 – Colesville, Maryland 17 June 2010) ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated the existence of a close correlation between the solar radio flux at a wavelength of 10.7 cm and the level of ionization of the Earth’s ionospheric E-layer with J.F. Denisse (1957) Made the first observations of the coronal magnetic structure of solar active regions (1958) Built the first-one dimensional earth-rotation synthesis interferometer suited for solar studies (1959) Established the presence of two distinct phases in the continuum emission with F. Haddock (1961) Showed for the first time that sunspots may display a
- [Mohammed Khalil](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-khalil/): Mohammed Khalil Abdel Khalek, Egyptian parasitologist and helminthologist (1895 – 07 December 1950) ACHIEVEMENTS Explained the Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae nocturnal periodicity Developed Khalil method for detecting ova of intestinal parasites in human stools being a modification of Kofoid-Barber method (1924) Introduced fouadin (Stibophen) for treatment of schistosomiasis by intramuscular injections With M.H. Betache. Treatment of the bilharziasis with a new compound “fouadin”. Lancet 215 (5553):234-5, 1930 Developed Khalil swab for diagnosis of schistosomiasis Described 4 methods for detecting Schistosoma ova in stool With M. Salah el Din. The microscopical diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 23(5):519-24, 1930 With A. Hassan. A
- [Maria Koepcke](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-koepcke/): Marie Emilie Anna Von Mikulicz-Radecki Koepcke, German / Peruvian ornithologist (Leipzig 15 May 1924 – Peruvian Amazon 24 December 1971) DESCRIBED VALID AVES TAXA Genus Zaratornis 1954 Species Asthenes cactorum 1959 Synallaxis zimmeri 1957 Zaratornis stresemanni 1954 Subspecies Asthenes cactorum cactorum 1959 Asthenes cactorum lachayensis 1965 Asthenes cactorum monticola 1965 Asthenes pudibunda grisior 1961 Columbina buckleyi dorsti 1962 Cranioleuca baroni zaratensis 1961  Geositta cunicularia georgei 1965 Hemispingus melanotis macrophrys 1961 Leptasthenura pileata latistriata 1965 Nothoprocta pentlandii niethammeri 1968 Phrygilus alaudinus humboldti 1963 Tiaris obscurus pacificus 1963 Zonotricha capensis illescasensis 1963  Zonotricha capensis markli 1971
- [Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-auxiliadora-coelho-kaplan/): Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan, Brazilian plant chemist (Matipó, Minas Gerais State 23 May 1931 – NEW COMPOUNDS With J.H. Hariwake & O.R. Gottlieb. Novos alcalóides de Ocotea caesia (1987) Alkaloid alexaflorine (1990) com O.R. Gottlieb & A.C.S. Pereira Uliginosum A (1991) with L.M. Rocha, L.A. Teixeira & L.C. Benchetrit Furacoumarin (1992) with C.T. Villela & D. Lopes Obeluctoside, a glycosylated phenylpropoanol (1992) with C.G. Leitão & F. Delle Monache Moretenolactone, a beta-lactone from Ficus insipida (1993) with C.T. Villela & D. Lopes Isoldoldine, a benzylisoquinolinic alkaloid from Nectandra membranosa (1994) with C.S. Rosa Poriferasterol, steroid from Alexa grandiflora (1994) with S.S.S. Sampaio & A.C.S. Pereira Obtained the first naturally
- [Makram Nasr Kaiser](https://neglectedscience.com/makram-nasr-kaiser/): Makram Nasri Kaiser, Egyptian acarologist (Aswan 06 April 1930 – Heliopolis 06 June 1996) Authored over 80 scientific papers Regarded as world’s leading authority on ticks of the genus Hyalomma DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Anomalohimalaya 1970 with Hoogstraal & Mitchell  Persicargas 1964 with Hoogstraal & Kohls Species Anomalohimalaya lama 1970 with Hoogstral & Mitchell Argas africolumbae 1975 with Hoogstral, Walker, Ledger, Converse & Rice  Argas arboreus 1964 with Hoogstral & Kohls Argas beklemischevi 1964 with Hoogstral & Kohls Argas ceylonensis 1968 with Hoogstral Argas cucumerinus 1964 with Hoogstral & Kohls Argas daviesi 1973 with Hoogstral Argas delicatus 1964 with Hoogstral & Kohls Argas dewae 1974 with Hoogstral Argas falco 1974 with Hoogstral Argas hermanni 1973
- [Maharajapuram Seetharaman Krishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/maharajapuram-seetharaman-krishnan/): Maharajapuram Seetharaman Krishnan, Indian geologist (Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu 24 August 1898 – Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu 24 August 1970) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The petrography of rocks from the Girnar and Osham hills. Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind. 58(4):380, 1925 The geology of the Gangpur State. Eastern States. Mem. Geol. Surv. India 71:1-181, 1937  Geology of India and Burma (1949) Mineral resources of Madras. Mem. GSI 80:300, 1951 With N.K.N. Aiyangar. Iron ore deposits of the Salem and Trichinopoly districts. Bull. Geol. Surv. India A 8, 1953   With J. Swaminath. The Great Vindhyan Basin of Northern India. J. Geogr. Soc. India 1:10-30, 1959
- [Madhav Narayan Kamat](https://neglectedscience.com/madhav-narayan-kamat/): Madhav Narayan Kamat, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Vengurla, Ratnagiri District 05 May 1897 – 1980) DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA Ajrekarella 1964 with Kalani Chadefaudiomyces 1974 with Rao, Patil & Ullasa Deshpandiella 1973 with Ullasa Ketubakia 1987 with Varghese & Rao Muelleromyces 1968 with Anahosur Muribasidiospora 1968 with Rajendren Peridiopsora 1969 with Sathe Ramakrishnanella 1970 with Ullasa Stakmania 1968 with Sathe HONORS Kamatella Anahosur 1969 (Fungi)
- [Lucas Kraglievich](https://neglectedscience.com/lucas-kraglievich/): Lucas Kraglievich, Argentine paleontologist and archaeologist (Balcarce, Buenos Aires Province 03 August 1886 – Buenos Aires 13 March 1932) From Croatian ancestry DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA (Incomplete list) Aves Families/Subfamilies 4 (Devincenziidae 1932) Genera/Subgenera  2 (Devincenzia 1932) Species/Subspecies 8 Mammalia Families/Subfamilies 24 (Hermosiorniidae 1932, Mesembriorniidae 1932 & Neoepiblemidae 1926) Genera/Subgenera 84 Species/Subspecies 240 HONORS Kraglievichia Castellanos 1927 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Kizhakkedathu Mathai Kochummen](https://neglectedscience.com/kizhakkedathu-mathai-kochummen/): Kizhakkedathu Mathai Kochummen, Indian-born Malaysian forest botanist (Kerala, India 06 July 1931 – Kuala Lumpur 31 March 1999) Described 74 plant species and 17 varieties HONORS Kochummenia Wong 1984 (Rubiaceae) Kochummenaspis Takagi 2003 (Hemiptera)  
- [Keng family](https://neglectedscience.com/keng-family/): Yi Li Keng, Chinese botanist (1897 – 1975) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Others 1 supertribe, 3 subtribes and 3 series Valid Genera  (Poaceae) Brachystachyum 1940  Stephanachne 1934 Species 212 being much of the them Poaceae plants HONORS  (Poaceae) Kengia Packer 1960 Kengylia Yen & Yang 1990 His son, Po-Chieh Keng or Pai-Chieh Keng (originally Kwan-hou Keng), botanist (1917 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Others 2 supertribes, 8 subtribes, 1 tribe, 1 section and 4 series Valid Genera  (Poaceae) Drepanostachyum 1983  Ferrocalamus 1982 with Hsueh Himalayacalamus 1983   Neomicrocalamus 1983 Yushania 1957 Species 43 being one of the them Fabaceae
- [Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/kariamanikkam-srinivasa-krishnan/): Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian physicist (Vizhupanoor Village, Ramnad District, Tamil Nadu 04 December 1898 – New Delhi 14 June 1961) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 135 papers Discovered with C.V. Raman and independently from Landsberg & Mandelshtam inelastic scattering of light or Raman effect  With C.V. Raman. A new type of secondary radiation. Nature 31, 1928 Developed techniques for measuring the magnetic anisotropy of dia- and paramagnetic crystals Showed how the magnetic properties of many aromatic molecular crystals and of inorganic complexes reflect molecular anisotropies, bonding and crystal field effects  Mapped the energy distribution of electrons in graphite crystals With A.B. Bhatia introduced a
- [Kamal](https://neglectedscience.com/kamal/): Kamal, Indian mycologist (fl. 1965-2011) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Agarwalomyces 1987 with Verma Dwibahubeeja 1995 with Srivastava & Srivastava Eriocercosporella 1998 with Kumar & Rai Fuligomyces 1984 with Morgan-Jones Gonatophragmiella 1994 with Kumar & Rai Goosiella 1986 with Verma & Morgan-Jones Kameshwaromyces 1986 with Verma & Morgan-Jones Neopericonia 1983 with Rai & Morgan-Jones Paraaoria 1986 with Verma Parafulvia 1983 with Rai & Morgan-Jones Pseudochuppia 1984 with Rai & Morgan-Jones Vladracula 1986 with Cannon & Winter Species Over 110 HONORS Kamalomyces Verma, Sharma & Soni 2008 (Fungi)
- [Kailash Nath Kaul](https://neglectedscience.com/kailash-nath-kaul/): Kailash Nath Kaul, Indian botanist, agronomist and horticulturist (12 February 1905 – 22 February 1983) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES With C. Fischer (1940) Chirita stolonifera Corydalis jigmei Corydalis zambuii Lasianthus wardii Leptodermis wardii Lonicera deleiensis Lonicera kingdonii With Whiting (1941) Salacia gambleana HONORS Kaulinia Nayar 1964 (Pteridophyta)
- [Julio German Koslowsky](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-german-koslowsky/): Julio Germán Koslowsky, Latvian-born Argentine naturalist and etnographer (Steinholm or Akmensala, near Riga, Latvia 15 September 1866 – Huemules, Chubut Province 22 September 1923) DESCRIBED VALID HERPETOLOGICAL TAXA Amphibia Species Hypsiboas riojanus 1895 Telmatobius hauthali 1895 Reptilia Genus Pseudotomodon 1896 Species  Apostolepis intermedia 1898  Bothrops burmeisteri 1895 Leiosaurus catamarcensis 1898 Liolaemus andinus 1895 Liolaemus anomalus 1896 Liolaemus boulengeri 1896 Liolaemus dorbignyi 1898 Liolaemus elongatus 1896 Liolaemus montanus 1898 Liolaemus multicolor 1898 Liolaemus ornatus 1898 Liolaemus rothi 1898 Liophis sagittifer 1896 Lygophis elegantissimus 1895 Ophiodes striatus 1898 Philodryas mattogrossensis 1898 Phymaturus patagonicus 1898 Rhadinea modesta 1896 Subspecies Liophis sagittifer modestus 1896 Phyllopezus pollicaris przewalskyi 1895
- [João Geraldo Kuhlmann](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-geraldo-kuhlmann/): João Geraldo Kuhlmann, Brazilian botanist (Blumenau, Santa Catarina State 02 December 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 13 March 1958) Son of German immigrants Brother in Law of botanist Frederico C. Hoehne World authority on botanical systematics  Patented the utilization of palm petioles for replacing imported cork DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Families Perisdicaceae 1950 Duckeodendraceae 1950 Valid Genera   Clinostemon 1928 with Sampaio Cyrillopsis 1925 Dialypetalanthus 1925 Didymocistus 1940 Duckeodendron 1925 Goniodiscus 1933 Hydrogaster 1935 Merianthera 1935 Paradrypetes 1935 Paratecoma 1931 Spheneria 1922 Sterigmapetalum 1925 Species 108 HONORS Genus Kuhlmanniodendron Fiaschi & Groppo 2008 (Achariaceae) Honorary President, International Botanical Congress at Tucumán, Argentina (1940), Stockholm, Sweden (1950) and Paris, France (1954)   
- [Jorge Kiehl](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-kiehl/): Jorge Kiehl, Brazilian plant pathologist and mycologist (died 1942) Authored with A.S. Costa. Uma moléstia da batatinha. Necrose do topo causada pelo vírus de “vira cabeça”. J. Piracicaba 1:193-202, 1938 HONORS Kiehlia Viegas 1944 (Fungi)
- [Johan Diederik Mohr Keet](https://neglectedscience.com/johan-diederik-mohr-keet/): Johan Diederik Mohr Keet, South African botanist and forester (Cape Winelands, Western Cape Province 28 December 1882 – 09 November 1967) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A florestation and conservation in South West Africa (1927) Treeplanting in Orange Free State, Griqualand, West Bechuanaland and north-eastern districts of the Cape Province (1929)     Soil erosion and allied problems in South Africa (1935) Report on drift sands in South Africa (1936) Rainfall and stream-flow at the Cape. J.S. Afr. For. Ass. 4, 1940 National timber supply in the post-war transition period. J. S. Afr. For. Assoc. (1944) Exploitation of indigenous timber and allied questions in S. W.
- [Jaswant Singh Kanwar](https://neglectedscience.com/jaswant-singh-kanwar/): Jaswant Singh Kanwar, Indian pedologist and agricultural chemist (Khera Kalmot, Hoshiarpur, Punjab 10 December 1922 – 01 March 2019) Authored over 300 publications Identified deficiency of zinc and iron in citrus and other crops and the toxicity of boron in saline-alkali soils SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.S. Brar. Chemical characteristics of soil as affected by long-term application of fertilizers under mango cultivation. J. Res. Punjab Agric. University 23:201-8, 1986 With T.J. Rego & N. Seetharama. Fertilizer and water use efficiency in peal-millet and sorghum in vertisols and alfisols of semi-arid India. Fert. News 29:42-52, 1984 With T.J. Rego. Fertilizer use and watershed management in rainfed areas
- [James William Kitching](https://neglectedscience.com/james-william-kitching/): James William Kitching, South African paleontologist (Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape Province 06 February 1922 – Johannesburg 24 December 2003) Respected as the best fossil hunter of the world Collected and identified thousands of fossil specimens  DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Reptilia Alopecorhynchus 1953 with Brink Aloposauroides 1953 with Brink Antetonitrus 2003 with Yates Australochelys 1994 with Gaffney Broomicephalus 1953 with Brink Bullacephalus 2003 with Rubidge Cystecinodon 1953 with Brink Cyniscopoides 1953 with Brink Dracocephalus 1953 with Brink Gomphodontoides 1953 with Brink Inusitatodon 1953 with Brink Lumkuia 2001 with Hopson Pedaeosaurus 1981 with Colbert Proalopecopsis 1951 with Brink Rhigosaurus 1981 with Colbert Sycocephalus 1953 with Brink Amphibia Eolydekkerina 1996 with Shishkin & Rubidge Laidleria 1958 Vanastega 2003 with Damiani Mammalia Brachygnathopithecus 1952 Gigantohyrax 1965 HONORS (Fossil
- [Jai Krishna](https://neglectedscience.com/jai-krishna/): Jai Krishna, Indian structural engineer (Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh 27 January 1912 – Roorkee, Haridwar District, Uttarakhand State 27 September 1999) Brought original ideas to design of earthquake resistant structures Developed methods to strengthening buildings to earthquake resistance (adopted in India and abroad) Designed and fabricated seismic instruments 
- [Jagmohan Nath Kapoor](https://neglectedscience.com/jagmohan-nath-kapoor/): Jagmohan Nath Kapoor, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (1930- PLANT PATHOLOGY With N. N. Khune. Phoma canker: a new disease of pigeonpea. PKV Res. Journal 5:101-2, 1981   With R.L. Munjal. Carica papaya: a new host of Sphaerotheca fuliginea (1973) With G. Lall & R.L. Munjal. A new leaf spot disease of maize in India. Phytopathol. 16(2):240-1, 1963 DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genus Koorchalomella with Chona & Munjal 1958 Species About 70 HONORS Kapooria Reid & Booth 1989 (Fungi)
- [Jae Won Kang](https://neglectedscience.com/jae-won-kang/): Jae Won Kang, South Korean phycologist (Sacheun 17 September 1926 – Pusan 02 May 1993) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Unrecorded species of marine algae in Korea. Bull. Pusan  Fish. Coll. 1:33-45, 1956 The summer algal flora of Cheju Island (Quelpart Island) Bull. Pusan Fish. Coll. 3(1-2):17-23, 1960 With M. Noda. Notes on the marine algae of Woolyungdo Island in the Japan Sea. Bull. Jap. Soc. Phycol. 12:39-43, 1964 Marine algae of Ulreungdo Island in Japan Sea. Bull. Pusan Fish. Coll. 6:41-58, 1965  On the geographical distribution of marine algae in Korea. Bull. Pusan Fish. College 7(1-2):1-225, 1966 With C.H. Park. Marine algae of Dok-Do
- [Ik Soo Kim](https://neglectedscience.com/ik-soo-kim/): Ik Soo Kim, South Korean ichthyologist (1942 – DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA Genus Koreocobitis 1997 with Park & Nalbant Species Acentrogobius pellidebilis 1992 with Lee Acheilognathus majusculus 1998 with Yang Cobitis brevifasciata 1995 with Lee Cobitis choii 1984 with Son Cobitis hankugensis 2003 with Park, Son & Nalbant Cobitis koreensis 1975 Cobitis longicorpus 1976 with Choi & Nalbant Cobitis pacifica 1999 with Park & Nalbant Cobitis pumila 1987 with Lee Cobitis tetralineata 1999 with Park & Nalbant Iksookimia yongdongensis 1997 with Park Koreocobitis naktongensis 1997 with Park & Nalbant Liobagrus obesus 1987 with Son & Choo Microphysogobio jeoni 1999 with Yang Nipponocypris koreanus 2005 with Oh & Hosoya Sebastes koreanus 1994 with Lee Tanakia koreensis 1990 with Kim Tanakia somjinensis 1991
- [Ihsan U. Khand](https://neglectedscience.com/ihsan-u-khand/): Ihsan Ullah Khand, Pakistani organic chemist (1935 – January 1980) Discovered Pauson-Khand cyclization reaction With G.R. Knox, P.L. Pauson & W.E.J. Watts. A cobalt induced cleavage reaction and a new series of arene cobalt-carbonyl complexes. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 36, 1971 With G.R. Knox, P.L. Pauson, W.E.J. Watts & M.I. Foreman. Organocobalt Complexes. Part 1. Arene Complexes derived from Dodecacarbonyltetracobalt. J. Chem.Soc. Perkin Trans. 1(9): 977-81, 1973
- [Hsiang-fu Kung](https://neglectedscience.com/hsiang-fu-kung/): Hsiang-fu Kung, Chinese molecular geneticist (04 September 1942 – 17 June 2019) Developed the first human interferon of world market (Hoffmann La Roche Inc.) First to purify and crystallize recombinant human leukocyte interferon α A First to prove the transforming activity of Ras protein and establish the roleof phospholipase C and nerve growth factor in Ras-mediated signal transduction pathways Developed anti-cancer drug targeting on the activity of Ras farnesyl-protein transferase Demonstrated the physiological roles of bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4) during embryonic development in Xenopus embryo Elucidated the BMP4 signaling pathways and demonstrated the role of GATA-1 b protein in the inhibition
- [Herbert Christian Klinger](https://neglectedscience.com/herbert-christian-klinger/): Herbert Christian Klinger, South African paleontologist (1945 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA GENERA (with Kennedy) Alopecoceras 1978 Amapondella 1997 Carinophylloceras 1975 with Wiedmann Criobaculites 1997 Eodidymoceras 2003 Eutexanites 1980 Helicancyloceras 1977 Hyphaloceras 2008 Mkuzeiella 2008 Ndumuiceras 2009 Neostlingoceras 1978 Nonyaniceras 1977 Ryuella 1997 Tarrantites 2010 with Minor Umgazaniceras 1979 Umsinenoceras 1979 with Wright HONORS Herbiella Cooper 2012 (Fossil Mollusca) Klingerella Dingle 1981 (Fossil Ostracoda)
- [Helmuth Kallas](https://neglectedscience.com/helmuth-kallas/): Helmuth Kallas, Estonian-born Chilean biologist (27 November 1897 – Santiago 15 April 1945) Demonstrated that infantile ovule displays hormonal action First to observe infantile ovule movement through Falloppian duct Introduced parabiosis as a method in physiology
- [Har Gobind Khorana](https://neglectedscience.com/har-gobind-khorana/): Har Gobind Khorana, US /Indian molecular biologist (Raipur, Punjab 09 January 1922 – Concord, Massachusetts 09 November 2011) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 500 publications With A. Todd described a new method for the preparation of pyrophosphates employing a new fosforilating reagent (1953) With John G. Moffat developed a method for synthesizing acetyl CoA (1959)   Proved that 3 nucleotides specify a amino acid and determined the exact order of nucleotides in codon triplets Determined that some codon prompt the cell to start or stop the production of proteins  With M. Nirenberg and P. Leder obtained the complete series of genetic code (1961-66) independent from researches
- [Guillermo Kuschel](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-kuschel/): Guillermo Kuschel Gerdes, New Zealand / Chilean entomologist (Frutillar, Llanquihe Province 13 July 1918 – Auckland 01 August 2017) Since 1962 living in New Zealand Recognized as a world authority on Coleoptera Curculionidae Authored over 100 works Described 152 new genera in Coleoptera (until 2003) HONORS Kuschelius Sublette & Wirth 1980 (Diptera) Kuschelomyia Souza Lopes 1961 (Diptera) Kuscheliana Carvalho 1952 (Hemiptera) Kuscheliola Evans 1957 (Hemiptera) Kuschelioniscus Strouhal 1961 (Crustacea) Kuscheliochilus Wygodzinsky 1951 (Thysanoptera) Kuschelita Climo 1974 (Mollusca Gastropoda) Kuschelacarus Cook 1992 (Acari) Kuschelina Bechyné 1951 (Coleoptera) Kuschelydrus Ordish 1976 (Coleoptera) Kuschelus Kaszab 1982 (Coleoptera) Kuscheliotes Jeannel 1962 (Coleoptera) Kuschelinus Straneo 1963 (Coleoptera) Kuschelidium Johnson 1982 (Coleoptera) Kuschelaxius Howden 1992 (Coleoptera) Kuschelanthus  Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal 1999 (Coleoptera)
- [Guillermo Kreutzer](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-kreutzer/): Guillermo Oscar Alejandro Kreutzer, Argentine pediatric cardiologist (Buenos Aires 11 December 1934 – Developed operation for correction of tricuspid atresia (1971) performing the first total fenestrated pulmonary ventricle bypass in the world (Fontan-Kreutzer operation) Una operación para la correción de la atresia tricuspidea. Presented 5th Reunião Cient. Soc. Arg. Cardiol. (1971) With E. Galíndez, H. Bono, C. de Palma & J.P. Laura. An operation  for the correction of tricuspid atresia. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 66:613-21, 1973 Suggested using Jatene’s operation of repair of transposition of great vessels in transposed newborn without ventricular septal defects With R. Neirotti, E. Galíndez, A. Coronel
- [Felix Konotey-Ahulu](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-konotey-ahulu/): Felix Israel Domeno Konotey-Ahulu, Ghanaian clinician (Odhumase Krobo, 12 July 1930 – Regarded as world’s leading expert on sickle cell anemia DESCRIBED Sicklaemic human hygrometers (1965) Torrential epistaxis and facial skin ulceration in sickle cell anemia (1965) Bilateral femoral head necrosis preventing procreation in sickle cell disease (1967) Parkinsonian tremor audible through stethoscope known as Konotey-Ahulu parkinsonuian stethoscope  sign or Kaps sign (1967) Mental nerve peripheral neuropathy from sickle cell crisis (1972) With H. Lehmann & B. Ringelhann discovered haemoglobins Korle-Bu (1968) and Osu-Christianborg (1971) Coined the term gnathopathy (1974) Invented male procreative superiority index in anthropogenetics providing a mathematical basis
- [Federico Kurtz](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-kurtz/): Friedrich (Federico) Kurtz, German-born Argentine botanist and paleobotanist (Berlin 06 March 1854 – Cordoba 23 August 1920) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Living Species Androsace salasii 1900 Atriplex cachiyuyu 1897 Ballota hildebrandtii 1875 with Vatke Brodiaea poeppigiana 1893 Caesalpinia riojana 1921  Carex circinata 1894 Carex lyonii 1894 Carex rahuiensis 1894 Chamelum bodenbenderi 1893 Diplachne mendocina 1897 Elymus albowianus 1896 Elymus barbatus 1897 Elymus spegazzinii 1900 Eupatorium vernale 1871 with Vatke Gutierrezia spathulata 1893 Jaborosa andina 1897 Lesquerella mendocina 1883 Leucheria contrayerba 1893 Ligusticum alpinum 1894 Neosparton andinum 1894 Parrya nudicaulis 1894 Perezia pilifera 1894 Potentilla sibbaldia 1894 Saxifraga albowiana 1896 Selinum benthamii 1894 Selinum gmelini 1894 Senecio paradoxus 1900 Sphacele griosebachii 1893 Fossil  Genera Bergiopteris 1921 Botrychiopsis 1894 Perseophyllum 1902 Species Abietites valentini Araucarites patagonica Archangelskya protoloxsoma Bergiopteris insignis 1921 Botrychiopsis weissiana 1894 Cladophlebis mendozaensis 1902 Cladophlebis
- [Elliot W. Kitajima](https://neglectedscience.com/elliot-w-kitajima/): Elliot Watanabe Kitajima, Brazilian plant virologist and microscopist (Registro, São Paulo State 12 August 1936 – From Japanese ancestry Authored about 500 papers with 4,500 citations (Web of Science) and/or 11,000 citations (Google Scholar) Showed the Citrus tristeza disease virus With D.M. Silva, A.R. Oliveira, G.W. Muller e A.S. Costa. Thread-like particles associated with tristeza disease of citrus. Nature 201:1011-2, 1964 Showed that citrus leprosis is a virosis With G.W. Muller, A.S. Costa & W. Yuki. Short, rod-like particles associated with Citrus leprosis. Virology 50(1):254-8, 1972 Found that citrus leprosis symptoms may be caused by two distinct viruses With J.C.V. Rodrigues
- [Eduardo Moacyr Krieger](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-moacyr-krieger/): Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, Brazilian physiologist (Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul 06 June 1928 – Authored 233 papers ACHIEVEMENTS World famous for his studies on experimental hypertension Performed known studies about pressoreceptors adaptation in hypertension and hypotension Pioneer on utilization of rat as a model for studies regarding regulation of blood pressure at sleep and exercises (1960s) Described a sino-aortic baroreceptor denervation method worldwide used Neurogenic hypertension in the rat. Circulation Research 15:511-21, 1964 Demonstrated that the baroreceptors are reset to operate at higher blood pressure levels in hypertension and that a complete resetting occurs when the increase in the pressure
- [Donald Killick](https://neglectedscience.com/donald-killick/): Donald Joseph Boomer Killick, South African botanist (Pietermaritzburg 06 May 1926 – Pretoria 16 April 2008) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Coleus praetermissus 1957 with Bullock Cyrtanthus erubescens 1960 Dischisma struthioloides 1958 Erica dominans 1966 Erica glaphyra 1966 Helichrysum albirosulatum 1958 Helichrysum drakensbergense 1958 Helichrysum milfordiae 1960 Helichrysum tenuifolium 1954 Maerua brevipetiolata 1969 Micromeria grandiflora 1954 Moraea culmea 1954 Moraea diversifolia 1954 Moraea modesta 1954 Psammotropha alternifolia 1954 Rhodohypoxis palustris 1961 Satureja compacta 1961 Satureja grandibracteata 1961 Satureja reptans 1961 Schistostephium radicale 1969 with Claassen Selago trauseldii 1969 Senecio cryptolanatus 1958 Senecio praeteritus 1958 Wahlenbergia monotropa 1964 Zaluzianskya pulvinata 1961 HONORS Killickia Bräuchler, Heubl & Doroszenko 2008 (Lamiaceae)
- [Dionysius Von Klobusitzky](https://neglectedscience.com/dionysius-von-klobusitzky/): Dionysius Von Klobusitzky or Denes Klobusitzky,  Hungarian-born Brazilian biochemist (Baráti, Hont County 30 July 1900 – São Paulo 15 April 1974) First in the world to use filter paper as a porous supporting medium for biomolecules electrophoresis With P. Konig. Biochemical study of snake venom from the genus Bothrops. Arch. Exp. Pathol. Pharmakol. 192:271-5, 1939 With P. Konig isolated Batroxobin (Reptilase) from Bothrops venom (1936) Isolated bothropotoxin and bothropothrombin from Bothrops venom Estudos biochimicos sobre os venenos das serpentes do gênero Bothrops. II. Um método aperfeiçoado o preparo da Bothropotoxina. Mem. Inst. Butantan 10:201, 1935-6 Eine mikromethode zum Nachweis verschiedener Strychnin-salze. Biochem. Z. 270:120-1, 1934 DEVICES A
- [Daulat Singh Kothari](https://neglectedscience.com/daulat-singh-kothari/): Daulat Singh Kothari, Indian astrophysicist (Udaipur, Rajasthan 06 July 1906 – Udaipur, Rajasthan 21 February 1993) ACHIEVEMENTS Showed that atoms can be ionized by the application of pressure alone First to appreciate the importance of pressure ionization and relative importance of conduction and radiation in transport of energy in stars Proved that the size of a cold body could not exceed that of Jupiter Showed that the energy flow in the degenerate stellar colors is mainly by the thermal conduction Application of degenerate statistics to stellar matter. Mon. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc. 93:61-90, 1932 First to suggest neutrons in the interior of cold
- [Dattathreya Ramachandra Kaprekar](https://neglectedscience.com/dattathreya-ramachandra-kaprekar/): Dattathreya Ramachandra Kaprekar, Indian mathematician (Dahanu, Maharashtra 17 January  1905 – Devlali 05 July 1986) Discovered Kaprekar constant or 6174 (1949) Described Kaprekar number Defined self numbers or Devlali numbers (1963) Described Harshad numbers Named Demlo numbers EPONYMY Kaprekar operation Kaprekar cycle or procedure Kaprekar algorithm Kaprekar problem
- [Daniel Roussouw Kannemeyer](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-roussouw-kannemeyer/): Daniel Roussouw (Rousseau) Kannemeyer, South African physician, naturalist and archaeologist (Cape Town 26 December 1843 – Bloemfontein 01 January 1925) Collector of insects (butterflies and moths), arachnids, reptiles, fossils (vertebrate and plant) and archaeological and etnographic artifacts SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Some proof that mammalia occur in the upper Karoo beds at Dunn (1889) Stone implements of the Bushmen. Cape Illustrated Magazine 1:120-30, 1891 Colonial nomenclature. Cape Illust. Mag. 1:402-7, 454-8, 472-7, 1890-1 Note on locusts as propagators of foot and mouth disease. Trans. South Afr. Philos. Soc. 8:84-5, 1890-5 HONORS Kannemeyeria Seeley 1908 (Fossil Reptilia) LINKS www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1491
- [Daniel Gerhardus Krige](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-gerhardus-krige/): Daniel Gerhardus Krige, South African mining engineer (Bothaville, Free State 26 August 1919 – Johannesburg 03 March 2013) Authored about 90 technical papers Recognized worldwide as main pioneer in geostatistics Applied mathematical statistics to the valuation of gold mines using a limited number of boreholes and of ore reserves for existing mines known as kriging (1951) Introduced the geostatistical concepts such as support, spatial structure, selective mining units and grade-tonnage curves (1952) Published one of the first papers on risk analysis for new mining investments (1955) Designed uranium pricing formula for contracts   HONORS Krumbein Medal, International Association of Mathematical Geology (1984) Daniel Jackling
- [Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi](https://neglectedscience.com/damodar-dharmananda-kosambi/): Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Indian mathematician and statistician (Kosben, Goa 31 July 1907 – Pune, Maharashtra State 29 June 1966) Introduced Kosambi map function in The Estimation of Map Distance from Recombination Values. Annals of Eugenics (1944) Developed proper orthogonal decomposition or Kosambi-Karhunen-Loeve decomposition (1943) Developed methods for quality control of industrial goods and statistical methods for determining dams sites and sizes Eponym of Kosambi rule
- [Christine Sophie Kabuye](https://neglectedscience.com/christine-sophie-kabuye/): Christine Sophie H. Kabuye, Ugandan botanist and ethnobotanist (21 November 1938 – With D. Wood. A first record of multicellular glandular hairs in the Graminae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 62(1):69-70, 1969 DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Living Alloeochaete geniculata 1975 Alloeochaete gracillima 1975 Alloeochaete ulugurensis 1975 Biophytum turianiense 1969 Eragrostis aristiglumis 1971 Fossil Pollia tugenensis 1989 with Jacobs HONORS Kabuyea Brummit 1998 (Thecophilaeaceae) 
- [Carlos Arnaldo Krug](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-arnaldo-krug/): Carlos Arnaldo Krug, Brazilian plant geneticist and agronomist (São Paulo 25 October 1906 – Campinas 06 February 1973) From German ancestry Authored about 100 works With A.S. Costa described purple bud of White potato (1937) With A. Carvalho. Genetical proof of existence of coffee endosperm. Nature 144 (3646):515, 1939 With A. Carvalho & J.E.T. Mendes found many new varieties of coffee plants With A. Carvalho & J.E.T. Mendes performed the main researches concerning to coffee plant genetics in the world With A.J.T. Mendes observed the occurrence of real and false polyembryonies in coffee plant With G.P. Viegas developed hybrid maize being
- [Atam Prakash Kapur](https://neglectedscience.com/atam-prakash-kapur/): Atam Prakash Kapur, Indian entomologist (fl.1942 – 1973) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Coleoptera Acarinus 1948 Afidentula 1955 Afissula 1955 Pseudaspidimerus 1948 Singhikalia 1963 Tetrabrachys 1948 Lepidoptera Bissetia 1950 Chilotraea 1950 Drasa 1950 Girdharia 1950 Hemiptera Austrotachardiella 1958 Species About 100 between Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera & Ephemeroptera
- [Antonio Krapovickas](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-krapovickas/): Antonio Krapovickas, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 08 October 1921 – Corrientes 17 August 2015) From Lithuanian parents Regarded as one of world’s foremost experts on taxonomy of Malvaceae family Authored the most complete monograph of Arachis genus With W.C. Gregory. Taxonomia del genero Arachis (Leguminosae). Bonplandia 8:1-186, 1994 DESCRIBED MALVACEAE TAXA Valid Genera Acaulimalva 1974 Bordasia 2003 Calyculogygas 1960 Calyptraemalva 1965 Dirhamphis 1970 Hochreutinera 1970 Monteiroa 1951 Phragmocarpidium 1969 Spirabutilon 2009 Tropidococcus 2003 Woodianthus 2012 Subgenus Novoarticulata 2003 Sections 12 Species 283 HONORS Krapovickasia Fryxell 1978 (Malvaceae) Akrosida Fryxell & Fuertes 1992 (Malvaceae) 
- [Anna Kohn](https://neglectedscience.com/anna-kohn/): Anna Kohn (Hoineff), Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 18 May 1940 – Daughter of Jewish Polish immigrants DESCRIBED NEMATODA/TREMATODA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Bellumcorpus 1962 Brasilnema 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Centrodes 1964 with Travassos Cesartrema 1964 with Travassos Chabaudtrema 1970 Dollfustravassosius 1967 with Teixeira de Freitas Gussevia 1964 with Paperna Kritskyia 1990 Mabiarama 1967 with Teixeira de Freitas Maxtrema 1969 with Travassos e Teixeira de Freitas Mazzantia 1964 with Travassos Metacamopiella 1996 with Santos & Lebedev Neoparaseuratum 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Paranaella 2000 with Baptista-Farias & Cohen Paraprosorhynchus 1967 Pararhipidocotyle 1970 Parasynodontisia 1992 with Moravec & Fernandes Paraurotocus 1966 with Travassos Piavussunema 1968 with Correa Gomes & da Silva Motta Pozdnyakovia 2012 with Justo Rallitrema 1964 with Travassos Serpentinotrema 1964 with Travassos
- [Andres Kalnay](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-kalnay/): Andrés José Kalnay, Jewish Argentine physicist (Buenos Aires 10 August 1932 – Santo Antonio de los Altos, Miranda State 24 April 2002) From Hungarian parentage Cousin of Argentine-born US meteorologist Eugenia Enriquetta Kalnay Authored about 70 papers CONTRIBUTIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY With R. Angulo, S. Codriansky, C.A. Gonzalez Bernardo, F. Perez M, J. Rodrígues Gomez, J. Rodríguez Nunes & R.A. Tello Llanos. Superconductivity and the existence of Nambu’s three-dimensional phase space mechanics. Phys. Lett A. 104(2):106-8, 1984 With M. Bunge. Solution to two paradoxes in the quantum theory of unstable systems. Il Nuovo Cimento Ser. B 1177(1):1-9, 1983 With I. Cohen. On
- [Andrejus Korolkovas](https://neglectedscience.com/andrejus-korolkovas/): Andrejus Korolkovas, Lithuanian-born Brazilian pharmacist (Siauliai 27 August 1923 – São Paulo 19 March 1996) Authored over 200 papers Authored Quimica Farmaceutica (Essentials of Medicinal Chemistry), a book translated to English, Spanish, German, Japanese between other languages Authored Essentials of Molecular Pharmacology. Background for Drug Design. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 340 pp, 1970 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With Q. Mingoia. Novos derivados do acido paramóico. I. Rev. Fac. Farm. Bioquim. S. Paulo 2(1):37-44, 1965 With Q. Mingoia. Novos derivados do acido paramóico. II. Rev. Fac. Farm. Bioquim. S. Paulo 3(2):363-7, 1966  Síntese de naftilazoderivados potencialmente esquistossomicidas. Thesis. Fac. Cien. Farmac. Univ. São Paulo, 1966 Bioquímica e
- [Abdul Mujeeb Kazi](https://neglectedscience.com/abdul-mujeeb-kazi/): Abdul Mujeeb Kazi, Pakistani plant geneticist (Sukkur 27 October 1939 – One of the world’s foremost active experts in wheat cytogenetics & breeding Pioneer of synthetic hexploid  wheat production in the world Produced a large number of intergeneric and interspecific hybrids Developed perfected cytological techniques that enhance breeding efficiency and facilitate molecular diagnostic applications Produced 1,400 synthetic lines in wheat Developed maize-wheat crosses for producing wheat doubled haploids Established protocols for molecular cytogenetic technique such as C-banding and fluorescence in situ hybridization Created numerous complex combinations in the wheat family, including interspecific hybrids across the wheat genomes, fertile amphiploids, and self-fertile
- [Yugan Jin](https://neglectedscience.com/yugan-jin/): Yugan Jin / Yu-gan Ching, Chinese paleontologist and stratigrapher (Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province 26 December 1937 – Nanjing 26 June 2006) Authored over 100 papers and monographs Recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on brachiopod paleontology and Permian stratigraphy With B.R. Wardlaw, B.F. Glenister & C.V. Kotlyar developed a new three-fold Permian timescale immediately accepted by the International Commission on Stratigraphy of International Union of Geological Societies (1997) DESCRIBED BRACHIOPODA GENERA Alatoproductus 1978 with Zhu Ancorhynchia 1979 with Ye Bandoproductus 1981 with Sun Bullarina 1981 with Sun Calliomarginatia 1976 Carinokoninckina 1977 with Fang Eoseptaliphoria 1976 with Sun Excavatorhynchia 1977 with Fang Galeatathyris 1984 Gondolina 1966 with Liao Himalairhynchia 1976 with
- [Suhayl Jabbur](https://neglectedscience.com/suhayl-jabbur/): Suhayl Jibra’il Jabbur, Lebanese neurophysiologist (Beirut 17 June 1931 – Authored 107 papers and 17 book chapters Discovered spinal-brainstem-spinal loop involved in the modulation of pain Showed that descending motor information in the central nervous system is continuously interacting with ascending sensory information at all central levels (1970s) With M. Bitar, N.E. Saadé & N.R. Banna showed that both presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibitory mechanism existed within the dorsal column nuclei (1981) With S.F. Atweh & N.E. Saadé first suggested that diazepam (Valium) acted on GABA receptors in the central nervous system producing presynaptic inhibition at axo-axonic synapsis With N.E. Saadé, J.J.
- [Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha](https://neglectedscience.com/sudhanshu-shekhar-jha/): Sudhansu Shekhar Jha, Indian physicist (Vijay Nagar, Bihar 25 December 1940 –  Authored over 150 articles Performed pioneering work on time-dependent conductivity of nonequilibrium carriers and calculations of optical nonlinearities in bulk semiconductors and insulators Predicted theoretically the optical second-order nonlinearity at metal and semiconductor surfaces  Formulated a generalized pairing theory of superconductivity in high Tc layered materials With G.S. Kino. A variational technique for determining the propagating modes of a finite plasma. Jour. Electr. Control 14:167-85, 1963 With B.S. Shastry & A.K. Rajagopal. New self-consistent quasi-static approximation for screening and plasma dispersion in the electron gas. Phys. Rev. B9:2000-3, 1974
- [Sudhanshu Kumar Jain](https://neglectedscience.com/sudhanshu-kumar-jain/): Sudhanshu Kumar Jain, Indian ethnobotanist (Amroha, Uttar Pradesh State 30 June 1926 – Authored 325 papers and 43 books on taxonomy, ethnobotany, economic botany, conservation and medicinal plants DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Arthraxon junnarensis 1971 with Hemadri   Arthraxon raizadae 1972 with Hemadri & Deshpande Coelogyne hitendrae 1978 with Das Coelogyne raizadae 1978 with Das Coelogyne schultesii 1978 with Das Enteropogon coimbatorensis 1977 with Nair & Nayar Garnotia normannii 1979 with Prakash Glyphochloa mysorensis 1969 with Hemadri Glyphochloa santapaui 1969 with Deshpande Hedychium pynursulaeanum 1986 with Srivastava Isachne swaminathanii 1983 with Prakash Others 1 form, 1 subspecies and 5 varieties HONOURS President, International Society of Tropical Ecology Harshberger Medal (1992) W. Carey Medal
- [Sohan Lal Jain](https://neglectedscience.com/sohan-lal-jain/): Sohan Lal Jain, Indian paleontologist and helminthologist (06 July 1931 – DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Trematoda Bifurcohaptor 1958 Lepustomum 1953 Mizelleus 1957 Paryphostomum 1952 Thaparocleidus 1952 Fossil Pisces Indocoelacanthus 1974 Paradapedium 1973 Fossil Aves Indotrigonodon 1983 with Sahni Pisdurodon 1983 with Sahni Fossil Reptilia Barapasaurus 1975 with Kutty et al. HONORS Jainus Mizelle, Kritsky & Crane 1968 (Monogenea) Jainosaurus Hunt, Lockley, Lucas & Meyer 1994 (Fossil Reptilia) Jainemys Joyce & Bandyopadhyay 2020 (Fossil Reptilia) Jainium Prasad et al. 2005 (Phytolith)
- [Shridhar Sarvottam Joshi](https://neglectedscience.com/shridhar-sarvottam-joshi/): Shridhar Sarvottam Joshi, Indian physical chemist (Pune, Maharashtra 16 October 1898 – 24 July 1984) Described Joshi effect With V. Narasimhan. Photoelectric efficiency of iron, cobalt and nickel at different temperatures in the soft x-ray region. Curr. Science 9:535-7, 1940 OTHERS Chairman, Physical Chemistry Section, International Congress on Pure and Applied Chemistry, Munich (1959) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.P. Sanyal. The formation of a water in oil type emulsion by the concentration of the oil phase. Jour. Phys. Chemistry 26(5): 481-6, 1922 Viscosity of reversible emulsions. Trans. Faraday Soc. 20:512-9, 1925 The decomposition of nitrous oxide in the silent electric discharge. Trans.
- [Shreeyansh Prasad Jain](https://neglectedscience.com/shreeyansh-prasad-jain/): Shreeyansh Prasad Jain, Indian paleontologist (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh State 14 August 1937 – DESCRIBED OSTRACODA GENERA Kalingella 1976 Tandonella 1978 Vijaiella 1978 HONORS Jainella Bhatia & Kumar 1979 (Ostracoda)
- [Santhappan Jones](https://neglectedscience.com/santhappan-jones/): Santhappan Jones, Indian fisheries biologist, marine biologist and entomologist (Kovalam, Kerala State 27 August 1910 – Trivandum 26 February 1999) DESCRIBED VALID NEW TAXA Genera (Diplopoda) Silvestrus 1937 Unixenus 1944 Species Abudefduf manikfani 1970 with Kumaran (Pisces) Silvestrus seminudus 1937 (Diplopoda) Unixenus padmanabhii 1937 (Diplopoda) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Entomology Prodioctes hematicus Chevr., a new weevil pest of cardamom in South India. Ind. J. Entomol. 6(1-2):49-52, 1944 The cardamom weevil and its control. Planter’s Chronicle 38(19), 1941 Observation on the oviposition and development stages of a species of Polyxenus. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. (1935) A note on the distribution, oviposition and parental care of Scutigerella unguiculata Hansen var. indica Gravely. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 38:209-11,
- [Rubén Jaén](https://neglectedscience.com/ruben-jaen/): Rubén Jaén Centeno, Venezuelan cardiovascular surgeon (Caracas 11 February 1926 – Authored 120 papers and 6 books ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first replacement of the common carotid artery by a plastic prosthesis or Dacron in the world (1957) Founded the first chair of cardiovascular surgery in the world at Universidad Central de Venezuela (1968) New method for surgical treatment of the postphlebitic syndrome. Angiologia 26(3):89-94, 1974 With H. Fermin, H. Velarde, A. Lairet & G. Silva presented the first case in literature of a fistula between the ascending aorta and the left atrium (1986) HONORS President & Invited Lecturer, International Society for Cardiovascular
- [Roberto Johansen](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-johansen/): Roberto Miguel Johansen Naime, Mexican entomologist (Chihuahua 19 September 1944 – DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Genera Bellicosothrips 1981 Bravothrips 1986 Darwiniothrips 1983 Demetriothrips 1977 Hennigthrips 1986 Hexagoniothrips 1989 with Montes de Oca Humboldthrips 1983 Lacandonithrips 1981 Linneothrips 1996 with Mojica Microlissothrips 1984 with Mojica Microxythrips 1989 with Mojica Neodichaetothrips 1982 Paraleucothrips 1983 Pistillothrips 1982 Pseudophilothrips 1979 Senarioliothrips 1981 Solanithrips 1997 Stenocephalothrips 1982 Torvothrips 1979 Wegenerithrips 1983 Xeroleptothrips 1982 Species About 200 HONORS Johansenithrips Retana Salazar & Soto Rodríguez 2004 (Thysanoptera)
- [Roberto Jaramillo](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-jaramillo/): Roberto Jaramillo Mejía, Colombian botanist (Manizales 05 February 1919 – Bogotá 2006) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Acidocroton gentryi 1995 with Fernandez Alonso  Cyathea metteni Phragmotheca mambitana with Fernandez Alonso HONORS Jaramilloa King & Robinson 1980 (Asteraceae)
- [Pieter Gerhardus Jordaan](https://neglectedscience.com/pieter-gerhardus-jordaan/): Pieter Gerhardus Jordaan, South African botanist (1913 – 1987) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Die morfologie van die saadknop van Suid-Afrikaanse Proteaceae. Doctoral Thesis (1944) Die saadknop en embriologie van Leucadendron/Die saadknop en embriologie van Leucospermum conocarpum R.Br. Ann. Univ. Stellenbosch 23:1-53, 1946  Plantegroei van die distrikte Brechasdorp en Caledon. Tydskr. Wetenskapen Kuns, Nuwe Reeks 6(3):47-58, 1946 Die saadknop en Embriologie van Brabejum stellatifolium. J. S. Afr. Botany 12:15-26, 1946  Die anatomie van die wortel van Restio paludosus en Leptocarpus vimineus. J. S. Afr. Botany 12:115-20, 1946  Aantekeninge oor die voortplanting en brandperiodes van Protea mellifera Thunb. J. S. Afr. Botany 15:121-5, 1949  Die invloed van’n winterbrand op die voortplanting van vier soorte
- [Petrus Johannes Jooste](https://neglectedscience.com/petrus-johannes-jooste/): Petrus (Piet) Johannes Jooste, South-African food scientist and microbiologist (1941- SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With T.J. Britz. A technique and procedure for the aseptic sampling of milk for bacteriological analysis. S.Afr. J. Dairy Technol. 16:91-5, 1984 With R. Swartz & J.C. Novello. Prevalence and types of bacteria associated with subclinical mastitis in Bloemfontein dairy herds. J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. 35:61-4, 1984 With T.J. Britz & J. de Haast. A numerical taxonomic study of Flavobacterium–Cytophaga  strains from dairy sources. J. Appl. Bacterial. 59:311-23, 1985  With W.C. Botha & H. Luck. Determination of bacterial ATP in milk. The influence of ATP-hydrolyzing enzymes from somatic cells and Pseudomonas
- [Pedro Jurberg](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-jurberg/): Pedro Jurberg, Brazilian zoologist (Rio de Janeiro 1942 – TECHNIQUES Utilização de resina poliéster como meio de inclusão para animais. Rev. Bras. Zool. 5(4):599-02, 1988 With M.S. Soares, A.C. Mascitelli, T.C. Favre & J.V. Barbosa. Studies on survival biological activities and behavior of Biomphalaria glabrata, the host snail of schistosomiasis submitted to increased hydrostatic pressure: a technique. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 83(1):53-61, 1988 With J.R. MacCord & M.M. Lima. Marcação individual de triatomíneos para estudos comportamentais e ecológicos. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 78(4):473-6, 1983 With J.R. MaCord & J.S. Raymundo. Técnicas para observação do comportamento do Triatoma infestans (Gluge, 1834) em uma miniatura de
- [Pandita Jagannatha](https://neglectedscience.com/pandita-jagannatha/): Pandita Jagannatha Samrat, Indian mathematician and astronomer (Maharashtra 1652 – 1744) Developed trigonometric techniques for calculating sinus tables Suggested many new methods of correct observations by very simple instruments Evolved new rules for calculations
- [Pamela Rodgers Johnson](https://neglectedscience.com/pamela-rodgers-johnson/): Pamela E. B. Rodgers Johnson, Jamaican neuropathologist (1930 – 28 April 1999) Recognized as world expert on neurovirology Authored the first paper about treating acute schizophrenia in general medical wards With F.W. Hickling, M. McCallum & L. Nooks. Treatment  of acute schizophrenia in open general medical wards in Jamaica. Psychiatr. Serv. 51(5):659-63, 2000 DISEASES With P. Brown, F. Cathala et al. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease of long duration: clinicopathological characteristics, transmissibility, and differential diagnosis. Ann. Neurol. 16:295-304, 1984 Identified HTLV-I virus as being the etiological agent for Tropical Spastic Paraparesis or Jamaican Neuropathy With D.C. Gajdusek, O. St C. Morgan, V. Zaninovic, P.S.
- [Nahum Joel](https://neglectedscience.com/nahum-joel/): Nahum Joel S., Chilean crystallographer (07 August 1924 – Santiago 07 August 2010) With C. Martinoya created the chromatic abstractoscope or abstract painting robot (1960; published in 1968) With W.A. Wooster. On six new relations between the elastic constants of crystals. Acta Cryst. 14:571, 1961 With I.D. Muir. New techniques for the universal stage. I. An extinction curve method for the determination of the optical indicatrix. Min. Mag. 31:860, 1958 With R. Vera & I. Garaycochea. A method for the estimation of transmission factors in crystals of uniform cross section. Actra Cryst. 6:465, 1953 A method to determine the optical indicatrix of small
- [Mu-Shik Jhon](https://neglectedscience.com/mu-shik-jhon/): Mu-Shik Jhon, South Korean physical chemist (Daegu 22 January 1932 – 13 August 2004) Authored over 250 scientific publications Announced that water exist in the form of combinations of 5 (pentagonal) or 6 (hexagonal) water molecules (1990s) EPONYMY Eyring-Jhon parameters Hobbs-Jhon-Eyring domains Eyring-Jhon equation
- [Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-shamim-jairajpuri/): Mohammad Shamim Jairajpuri, Indian helminthologist (Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh State 08 April 1942 – Considered a world authority on plant and soil nematodes Authored over 25 books and monographs and 400 research papers DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera & Subgenera Acephalodorylaimus 1982 with Ahmad Actus 1973 with Baqri Amphilobendira 1987 with Rahman, Ahmad & Ahmad Amphitylencholaimus 1992 with Ahmad Annulospira 1969 with Siddiqi Aporcedorus 1983 with Ahmad Arcidorylaimoides 1992 with Ahmad Athernema 1978 with Ahmad Athusia 1976 with Anwar Axodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Baqriella 1998 with Ahmed Basirotyleptus 1964 Belondorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Calvatylus 1977 with Siddiqi Cephalodorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Clarkus 1970 Clavidorylaimellus 1980 with Ahmad Clavilenchus 1966 Comiconchus 1982 with Khan Coomansinema 1989 with Ahmad Coomansus 1977 with Khan Coronatylencholaimellus 1992 with
- [Miguel L. Jaume](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-l-jaume/): Miguel Luis Jaume García, Cuban malacologist (La Habana 11 November 1905 – La Habana 13 December 1990) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera With De la Torre 1972 Acrocoptis Amphistemma Anafecoptis Arangocoptis Asthenocoptis Bermudezicoptis Bialasmus Blaincoptis Callocoptis Capillacea Carcinostemma Cavicoptis Cenocoptis Centralia Clenchicoptis Cylindrocoptis Garciacoptis Geminicoptis Gravicoptis Heterocoptis Johaniceramus Juanocoptis Levicoptis Levistemma Mimiaxis Nodulia Organocoptis Orienticoptis Palenquecoptis Pfeiffericoptis Planostemma Poeycoptis Sagracoptis Scalaricoptis Teneria Tenuistemma Trilamellaxis Uncinicoptis Ventricochlis With others Aguayodiscus 1946 with Borro Bakerviana 1957 with Aguayo Cupulella 1948 with Aguayo Eucryptelasmus 1943 with Fuentes Plicathyrium 1943 with Fuentes Semitrochatella 1958 with Aguayo Species About 700 between Fossil and Living mollusks HONORS (Mollusca) Genera Jaumeia Aguayo 1943 & Jaumea Torre & Bartsch 1972   Subgenus Jaumeoconcha Alcalde
- [Miguel Francisco Jimenez](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-francisco-jimenez/): José Miguel Francisco de la Luz Jimenez Garcia, Mexican physician (Amozoc, Puebla 10 October 1813 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 April 1876) HEPATIC ABSCESSES First to describe amoebic hepatic abscess (1842) and to diagnose it in relation to bronchii (1843) Performed the most complete clinical and anatomopathological description of hepatic abscess Absceso del hígado en comunicación con los brônquios (1843) Lecciones dadas en la Escuela de Medicina de México. Primera parte. Abscesos del higado (1856) Tratamiento de los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 2:12, 1866 Diagnostico diferencial entre los abscesos del hígado. Gac. Med. Mex. 10:345, 1875 Introduced hydro-abdominal succussion
- [Miguel Eduardo Jorg](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-eduardo-jorg/): Miguel Eduardo Jorg Gutknecht, Argentine physician and microscopist (Ingeniero White, Bahia Blanca Province 26 July 1909 – Mar del Plata 15 November 2002) From German descent MEDICINE With S. Mazza defined three anatomo-clinical periods in Chagas disease (1940) With Ramón S. Freire. Lipochagomata genii or lipochagomata of the cheeks, characteristic lesions of acute trypanosomiasis cruzi in children under three years of age (1961) With S. Mazza. Sobre nodulos de histiocitosis en el higado de perro inoculado con Schizotryp. cruzi de origem humano. Publ. MEPRA 15:1-24, 1934 (Mazza-Jorg nodular hepatitis) METHODS With E.L. Lanari & J.A. Aguirre. La impregnación visceral mediante sales radioactivas. Metodo de
- [Michel Abu Jamra](https://neglectedscience.com/michel-abu-jamra/): Michel Abu Jamra, Brazilian hematologist (São Paulo 13 August 1916 – São Paulo 10 June 1999) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 250 works Developed techniques for studying anaemias, coagulopathies and oncohematological diseases With V. Maspes & Z.J. Gomes. Shaking as a means of enhancing or revealing anti-erythrocyte antibodies (1956) With G. Hoxter, J.I. Araújo & V. Maspes. The solubility test for abnormal hemoglobins: method, evaluation and significance in various hemoglobinopathies. Sangre (1966) With G. Hoxter & F. Ventura. Hemoglobin: determination using the cyanmethemoglobin method. Use of an artificial solution for the calibration of colorimetric instruments. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med.
- [Luiz Carlos Junqueira](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-carlos-junqueira/): Luiz Carlos Uchoa Junqueira, Brazilian cytologist and histologist (São Paulo 05 August 1920 – Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais State 06 October 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed many important works about protein production in pancreas that became him known worldwide (1950s) With G.C. Hirsch & A. Rothschild established the kinetics of protein synthesis process in pancreas  With M. Rabinovitch & F.T. Mendes. Cytochemical demonstration of  “acid” phosphatase in bone marrow smears. Science 107(2778):322-3, 1948 First showed the secretion hormone control of a digestive enzyme With A. Fajer, M. Rabinovich & L. Frankenthal. Biochemical and histochemical observations on the sexual dimorphism of mice submaxillary
- [Lie Kian Joe](https://neglectedscience.com/lie-kian-joe/): Lie Kian Joe, Indonesian physician (Sukabumi, West Java 25 November 1916 – ?) ACHIEVEMENTS First recognized subcutaneous phycetomycosis With Njo-Injo Tjoei Eng, A. Pohan, H. Van der Meulen & C.W. Emmons. Basidiobolus ranarum as a cause of subcutaneous mycosis in Indonesia. A.M.A. Arch. Derm. 74:378, 1956   Named phycomycosis With Njo-Injo Tjoei Eng. Phycomycosis of the central nervous system associated with diabetes mellitus in Indonesia. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 32:62-70, 1959   With Njo-Injo Tjoei Eng. Subcutaneous phycomycosis: a new disease found in Indonesia. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 89:4-16, 1960 Suggested the term occult filariasis Occult filariasis: its relationship with Tropical pulmonary
- [Kurien Jacob & Chinna Virkki](https://neglectedscience.com/kurien-jacob-chinna-virkki/): Kurien Jacob, Indian paleobotanist (Cancu?, Kerala State 03 March 1910 – Bangalore 20 December 1999) From a Syrian family   Described 3 new genera in Fossil Plantae (Tinpaharia, Sakristobus e Pseudocycadeoidea) Honored in genus Jacobipollenites Ramanujan 1966 (Fossil Sporae) His wife, A.B. Chinna Virkki, paleobotanist (fl.1935-54) Described Striatites sewardii 1937 Honored in genera Virkkispora Pant & Srivastava 1965 & Virkkipollenites Lele 1964 (Fossil Sporae)
- [Kenneth Stephen Julien](https://neglectedscience.com/kenneth-stephen-julien/): Kenneth Stephen Julien, Trinbagonian electrical engineer (Arouca, Trinidad 02 September 1932 – Held patents for electrical systems CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Sharma. Development of a model of a small electrical system and its validation. Procc. IEEE IV Seminario de Ingenieria de Potencia y I Seminario de Distribución de Energia Electrica. pp. 264-9, 1994   With C. Sharma. A portable data acquisition system for accurate measurement of random and high frequency power surges. Procceed. IEEE Seventh Ann. Conf. Fault and Disturbance Analysis (1992) With D.J. Chee-Hing. A new static watt compensator for the iron and steel company of Trinidad and Tobago (1982)   With S.C.
- [Kanti P. Jain](https://neglectedscience.com/kanti-p-jain/): Kanti P. Jain, Indian paleontologist (22 September 1936 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Fungi Colligerites 1979 with Kar Dendromycealites 1979 with Kar Diploneurospora 1970 with Gupta Microsporonites 1968 Mycoarctium 1973 with Cain (living) Parmathyrites 1970 with Gupta Paramicrothallites 1970 with Gupta Quilonia 1970 with Gupta Sporae/Pollen Boutakoffiaspora 1973 with Sah Jerseyiaspora 1972 with Kar & Kieser Libyaesporites 1972 with Kar & Kieser Paucibaculisporites 1965 with Sah Verrucopunctatasporites 1972 with Kar & Kieser  Dinoflagellata Cauveridinium 1990 with Khowaja-Ateequzzaman Pseudomuderongia 1984 with Khowaja-Ateequzzaman Senegalinium 1973 with Millepied Subtilisphaera 1973 with Millepied Plantae Taxaceoxylon 1964 with Kräusel Acritarcha Collumosphaera 1980 with Dutta HONORS Jainiella Khowaja-Ateequzzaman & Garg 1995 (Dinoflagellata)
- [José Martins da Cruz Jobim](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-martins-da-cruz-jobim/): José Martins da Cruz Jobim, Brazilian physician (Rio Pardo, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 February 1802 – Rio de Janeiro 23 August 1878) Reported about a disease named opilation or intertropical hypoemy that affected poor people in Brazil. His theories about this disease gained international recognition and great medical treatises of this epoch cited his works. Nevertheless some decades later this disease was proved to be ancylostomiasis. Authored first medical report in which African negroes displayed remarkable resistance against malarial infections than other sets of populations (1835). This report anticipated US researcher Lobby in 1846    Discurso sobre as moléstias que
- [Jorge Jim](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-jim/): Jorge Jim, Brazilian herpetologist and ecologist (Lins, São Paulo State 18 August 1942 – Botucatu, São Paulo State 23 June 2011) Son of Japanese immigrants DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA SPECIES Bokermannohyla izecksohni 1979 with Caramaschi Dendropsophus soaresi 1983 with Caramaschi Elachistocleis piauiensis 1983 with Caramaschi Leptodactylus viridis 1973 with Spirandeli-Cruz Proceratophrys moratoi 1980 with Caramaschi HONORS Jim Soares 1979 (Arachnida)
- [Jesus Villarosa Juario](https://neglectedscience.com/jesus-villarosa-juario/): Jesus Villarosa Juario, Philippine fisheries biologist (Carcar, Cebu Province 06 August 1942 – Authored 40 papers and 16 technical reports Described one genus (Linhystera 1974), one subgenus (Nualaimus 1974) and 12 new species of free-living nematodes while working for his doctoral degree at the Institute for Marine research in Bremerhaven, Germany (1972-4) With other scientists from the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC AQD) developed the technique to capture and transport wild adult milkfish and rear them in captivity With Hiralal Chaudhuri, he spawned for the first time wild adult milkfish in captivity (1977) With Marietta N. Duray developed
- [Jaffe family](https://neglectedscience.com/jaffe-family/): Rudolf Jaffe, German-born Jewish Venezuelan anatomical pathologist (Berlin 14 October 1885 – Caracas 13 March 1975) Authored 3 books and about 200 papers Described a chronic myocarditis in tropical diseases such as bilharziosis and leishmaniasis (1944) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Domínguez. On extramedullary leukocyte formation in the rat connective tissue. Frankf. Z. Pathol. 73:1-9, 1963 With C. Kozma. Organ-specific antibody formation and its demonstration by latex precipitation. Verh. Dtsch. Ges. Pathol. 46:185, 1962 On findings in cardiac ganglia in Chagas myocarditis. Klin. Wochenschr. 39:1083-4, 1961 With C. Kozma & W. Jaffe. Experimental study of the pathogenesis of myocarditis. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 13:55-61, 1960  
- [J. Joseph](https://neglectedscience.com/j-joseph/): J. Joseph, Indian botanist (1928 – 2000) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Decalepis arayalpathra 1978 with Chandras. Eria brevilinguis 1976 with Chandras. Eulophia hirsuta 1978 with Vajr. Evrardianthe asraoa 1985 with Abbar. Humboldtia trijuga Jejosephia pusilla with Deka Oberonia anamalayana 1964 Oberonia seidenfadeniana 1974 with Vajr. Oreogrammitis pilifera 1980 wit Ravi Pennilabium proboscidium 1969 with A.S. Rao Pinalia connata 1982 with Abbar. & Hedge  Polypleurum filifolium 1965 with Ramam. Thrixspermum musciflorum with A.S. Rao Tricarpelema glanduliferum 1969 with Rao Utricularia khasiana 1985 with Mani Utricularia tayloriana 1982 with Mani Wallichia triandra 1976 HONORS Jejosephia A.N. Rao & K.J. Mani 1986 (Orchidaceae)
- [Hans Jakobi](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-jakobi/): Hans Joseph Jakobi, German-born Brazilian carcinologist (Erlangen 20 April 1928 – Curitiba February 1985) With I. Jakobi & M. Cavalcanti. Uber eine moegliche hiefsmethode zur frueh diagnose des magenkrebses. Gastroent. 96:371-82, 1962  DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Genera Biwaecaris 1972 Brasilibathynella 1958 Brasilibathynellocaris 1972 Brinckicaris 1972 Cafferocaris 1972 Clujensicaris 1972 Enckellicaris 1972 Entzicaris 1972 Fontinalicaris 1972 Forficatocaris 1969 Italicocaris 1972 Kinnecaris 1972 Lacustricaris 1972 Loureirophonte 1958 Macacocaris 1972 Michelicaris 1972 Minutacaris 1972 Mourephonte 1958 Nanacaris 1972 Nipponicaris 1972 Oshimaensicaris 1972 Pannonicaris 1972 Paraforficatocaris 1972 Pararemaneicaris 1972 Phreaticaris 1972 Proserpinicaris 1972 Remaneicaris 1972 Siolicaris 1972 Stammericaris 1972 Species About 50
- [Friedrich Johow](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-johow/): Friedrich Richard Adelbert Johow, German-born Chilean botanist and mycologist (Kolmar in Posen, today Poland 05 February 1859 – Valparaiso 30 April 1933) Coined the term hemiparasite (1890) Described the genus Centaurodendron 1896 (Asteraceae) and 53 new plant species HONORS Johowia Silva Figueroa 1916 (Diptera)
- [Cyril Jackson](https://neglectedscience.com/cyril-jackson/): Cyril V Jackson, English-born South African astronomer (Ossett, Yorkshire 05 December 1903 – Haenertsburg, Transvaal February 1988) Discovered 72 asteroids (1929-39) Discovered Jackson (1935), Jackson-Neujmin (1936) & Ashbrook-Jackson (1948) comets HONORS Asteroid 2193 Jackson
- [Clotilde Jauch](https://neglectedscience.com/clotilde-jauch/): Clotilde Jauch Collaud, Argentine plant pathologist (1910 – ?) Developed a new method for obtaining sporulation of Cercospora beticola in artificial media La viruela de la remolacha azucarera. I. Producción de conidios de Cercospora beticola em medios artificiales (1963) With A.A. Ogloblin. Un hongo parasito de acridios. Rev. Invest. Agric. 7 (1953) Una nueva enfermedad de las calas en la Argentina. An. Soc. Cient. Arg. 144:447-56, 1947 (by Conothecium richardiae) DESCRIBED SPECIES Hadrotrichum cedrelae Nosema coliadis 1948 Septoria nothofagi 1967 with Valla (that causes spot leaf of Nothofagus) 
- [Christofredo Jakob](https://neglectedscience.com/christofredo-jakob/): Christofredo Jakob,  German-born Argentine neuropsychiatrist (Wërnitz, Ostheim, Bayern 25 December 1866 – Buenos Aires 06 May 1956) Authored 180 papers and 20 books Proposed basic cortical mechanisms that work in brain (1906) Discovered that grey matter has double function (motor and sensitive) Proposed functional homologation of cortex convexity towards dorsal medulla and its concavity towards ventral medulla (1910) Discovered brain structures related to emotion Demonstrated the homology between cortical neuroelectric mechanisms and the mechanisms of cilliary control in Protozoa  Elucidated the anatomy of anterior commissure in man Described an unknown micro ganglion in the hypothalamic commissure located in the midline at the region of
- [Chin-Chih Jao](https://neglectedscience.com/chin-chih-jao/): Chin-Chih Jao, Chinese phycologist (Chongqing, Sichuan Province 23 February 1900 – Wuhan 28 March 1998) DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Genera Chlorophyta Dicloster 1976 with Wei & Hu Dimorphococcopsis 1959 Echinocoelium 1977 with Lee Leptosiropsis 1940 Oncosaccus 1947 Sphaerodictyon 1978 Westellopsis 1959 Cyanophyta (1944) Brachytrichiopsis  Hormothece Symphyonema Species About 200 HONORS Jaoa Fan 1964 (Chlorophyta) Jaoniella Skvortzov 1961 (Protozoa)
- [Charles Frederic Jacot-Guillarmod](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-frederic-jacot-guillarmod/): Charles Frederic Jacot-Guillarmod, South African entomologist (Ladylrand District, Orange Free State 24 August 1912 – Faraway, Grahamstown State 22 September 1979) His parents were of Swiss and French origin DESCRIBED THYSANOPTERA TAXA Genera Agrothrips 1939 Derothrips 1940 Zuluiella 1939 Species Agrothrips priesneri 1939 Chirothrips hoodi 1941 Cranothrips karrooensis 1937 Elaphothrips edouardi 1939 Elaphothrips faurei 1939 Elaphothrips laticornis 1941 Elaphothrips niger 1939 Elaphothrips nigripes 1939 Elaphothrips orangiae 1937 Elaphothrips powelli 1937 Elaphothrips transvaalensis 1939 Exothrips navicularius 1941 Exothrips pulcher 1941 Exothrips setosus 1941 Gastrothrips xosa 1939 Haplothrips bedfordi 1941 Hoplandothrips arrhenus Hoplandothrips edentatus 1939 Hoplandothrips flavidus 1939 Hoplandothrips landolphiae 1939 Hoplandothrips vansoni 1939 Kleothrips (Akleothrips) zuluensis 1939 Malacothrips antennatus 1940 Monilothrips montanus 1942 Oedalothrips aemulus 1942 Oedalothrips amabilis 1942 Ophthalmothrips amyae 1940 Plectothrips capensis 1937 Plectothrips giganteus 1937 Podothrips longiceps 1937 Rhipiphorothrips miemsae 1937 Scirtothrips fumipennis 1937 Synaptothrips
- [Carlos & Mercedes Jaschek](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-mercedes-jaschek/): Karl Otto Rudiger Jaschek, German-born Argentine / French astrophysicist (Brzeg, today Poland 02 March 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 12 April 1999) His wife, Mercedes Isabel Corvalán de Jaschek, Argentine / French stellar spectroscopist (Buenos Aires 13 April 1926 – Salamanca, Spain 21 November 1995) Authored about 250 publications and over 15 books BOTH Worked on the first classification schemes in the ultraviolet spectrum With Y. Andrillat worked on determination of fundamental properties of Ae, Be and shell stars with near infrared data Introduced the subgroup of Gallium stars in the general classification Discovered Ap stars from Si group λ 4200 and
- [Boju Jiang](https://neglectedscience.com/boju-jiang/): Boju Jiang or Po-Chu Chiang, Chinese mathematician (Tianjin 04 September 1937 – Calculated the Nielsen numbers in a subgroup of fundamental group (1964) Verified the Nielsen fixed point conjecture (1980s) Clarified about the least number of fixed points among the maps in a homotopy class (1980s) Proved that the concordance group of algebraically slice knots is infinitely generated (1981) Gave an algebraic sufficient condition for the existence of periodic points of a prescribed pure period (1983) Developed Nielsen theory of periodic orbits (1996) With S. Wang & Y.Q. Wu showed that on many manifolds all orientation-preserving homeomorphisms are isotopic to fixed
- [Barend Cornelius Jansen](https://neglectedscience.com/barend-cornelius-jansen/): Barend Cornelius Jansen, South African veterinarian (12 August 1921 – Pretoria 13 July 1987) Internationally recognized for his research on the toxins produced by members of the Clostridium genus Authored over 50 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Hayes. The acquisition of immunity to Histophilus ovis by sheep in nature. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 51:269-70, 1984 With M. Hayes. Immunity against genital infection by Histophilus ovis in rams. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 51:203-7, 1984   With M. Hayes. Retardation of wool growth in Merino sheep caused by bacteria. Onderstepoort. J.Vet. Res. 50:271-4, 1983 With J.L. Du Plessis & L. Prozesky. Heartwater in Angora goats. I. Immunity subsequent to artificial infection and treatment. Onderstepoort. J.Vet.
- [Aylthon Brandão Joly](https://neglectedscience.com/aylthon-brandao-joly/): Aylthon Brandão Joly, Brazilian phycologist and botanist (Itatiba, São Paulo State 15 November 1924 – São Paulo 29 August 1975) Considered as one of great phycologists of 20th Century Authored 73 works  DESCRIBED TAXA Algae Valid Genera Centrocerocolax 1966 Dawsoniocolax 1970 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Diplothamnion 1966  with Yamaguishi-Tomita Heterodasya 1966 with Oliveira Filho Montemaria 1970 with Alveal Spyridiocolax 1966 with Oliveira Filho Species Anadyomene saldanhae 1969 with Oliveira Filho Anadyomene rhizoidifera 1973 with Pereira Antithamninon ternatum 1966 with Cordeiro Marino Antithamnion tristicum 1963 with Yamaguishi-Tomita Aphanocladia pacifica 1968 with Alveal Audouinella agardhiellae 1963 with Cordeiro Marino Audouinella epispiculum 1963 Cordeiro Marino Avrainvillea atlantica with Yamaguishi-Tomita Calliblepharis occidentalis with Yamaguishi-Tomita Callithamnion callithamnioides 1966 with Ugadim Caulerpa kempfii with Pereira Centrocerocolax ubatubensis 1966
- [John Douglas Lynch](https://neglectedscience.com/john-douglas-lynch/): John Douglas Lynch, US / Colombian herpetologist (Collins, Iowa State 30 July 1942 – DESCRIBED VALID AMPHIBIA TAXA Families Limnodynastidae 1969 Micrixalidae 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Nyctibatrachidae 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Odontophrynidae 1969 Ptychadenidae 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Genera Atelognathus 1978 Atopophrynus 1982 with Ruiz-Carranza Dischidodactylus 1979 Duttaphrynus 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Feihyla 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Hyalinobatrachium 1991 with Ruiz-Carranza Hydrophylax 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Ingerophrynus 2006 with Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas et al Kurixalus 2006 with Frost,
- [Joaquín López Figueroa](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-lopez-figueroa/): Joaquín López Figueroa, Argentine surgeon and anatomist (Salta 1868 – Buenos Aires 29 October 1926) Eponym of Lopez Figueroa femorocutaneous incisure
- [Joaquín Luco](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-luco/): Joaquín Luco Valenzuela, Chilean neurophysiologist (Santiago 18 July 1913 – Cartagena, Valparaiso Region, San Antonio Province 19 July 2002) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered that neurons are able to learn Idealized a new perfusion system Nuevo sistema de perfusion con la preparación cardiopulmonar. Algunos aspectos de la regulación de la glicemia. Thesis, 1936 With A. Rosenblueth demonstrated that during prolonged stimulation of a motor nerve, neuromuscular fatigue is followed by a rise of tension known as Rosenblueth phenomenon (1939)  Discovered fifth step in neuromuscular transmission  With A. Rosenblueth. The fifth stage of neuromuscular transmission. Amer. J. Physiol. 126(1), 1939 Enunciated paradigm of short and
- [Joaquín Llambías](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquin-llambias/): Joaquín Llambías Mir, Argentine anatomical pathologist (Buenos Aires 14 July 1868 – Buenos Aires 27 November 1931) First to describe malformed hypertrophy of chitinous membrane in Hipertrofia malformante da membrana quitinosa (1925) Coined the term schwannoma for pointing out Schwann cells proliferation (1932)  Described Llambías sign in acute appendicitis   Authored Modalidad especial de uma forma de influenza (1903)
- [Jiaxi Lu](https://neglectedscience.com/jiaxi-lu/): Jiaxi Lu, Chinese chemist (Xiamen, Fujian Province 26  October 1915 – 06 April 2001) Produced a structural model for the active center of nitrogenase (1973) Performed important contributions to chemical modeling of biological nitrogen fixation With E.W. Hughes determined the structure of hydrogen peroxide Put forward the polarizing factor for processing angle Determined trichosanthin spatial structure and established a molecular model for ribose coactivation First to successfully prepare highly concentrated radioactive halogens for quantitative research Devised Lu’s diagram or map Created Lp factor’s reciprocal in Weissenber angle of equi-inclination Synthesized and characterized a number of cluster compounds of various types Proposed the Unit
- [Jayme de Loyola e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/jayme-de-loyola-e-silva/): Jayme de Loyola e Silva, Brazilian carcinologist (Curitiba 01 October 1927 – Paraná 20 January 2017)   DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA SPECIES Clianella castroi 1960 Cymodoce bentonica 1962 Cymodocella guarapariensis 1965 Cymothoa catarinensis 2003 with Thatcher, Jost & Souza Conceição Dynamenella tropica 1960 Dynoides brasiliensis 1960 Hexapanopeus heblingi 1998 with Rodrigues Parasthenocaris brasilibathynella 1962 with Jakobi Parasthenocaris hurdi 1962 with Jakobi Pseudosphaeroma jakobii 1959 Spheramene flausinae 1966 Sphaeromopsis mourei 1960 HONORS Subgenus Loyolanthidium Urban 2001 (Hymenoptera)
- [In Kyu Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/in-kyu-lee/): In Kyu Lee, South Korean phycologist (01 April 1936 – DESCRIBED ALGAE GENERA Binghamiopsis 1981 with West and Hommersand (Rhodophyta) Dasysiphonia 1980 with West (Rhodophyta) Gloeophycus 1979 with Yoo (Rhodophyta) Neohalosacciocolax 1978 with Kurogi (Rhodophyta) Neoleptonema 2002 with E.Y. Lee (Phaeophyta) Neosiphonia 1999 with M.S. Kim (Rhodophyta) Sinkoraena 1997 with Lee, Lewis & Kraft (Rhodophyta) Umbraulva 2001 with E.H. Bae (Chlorophyta) HONORS Inkyuleea Choi, Kraft & Saunders 2000 (Rhodophyta)
- [Hugo de Souza Lopes](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-de-souza-lopes/): Hugo de Souza Lopes, Brazilian entomologist and malacologist (Rio de Janeiro 05 January 1909 – Rio de Janeiro 10 May 1991) Regarded as world expert on Diptera Sarcophagidae With H. Cintra developed an apparatus for measuring shells of Gastropod mollusks (1952) Authored over 200 works DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Diptera Genera/Subgenera Aulacophytoides 1978 Austrophyto 1990 Baranovisca 1985 Bezziola 1958 Bezzisca 1975 Boettcherimima 1950 Boettcheriodes 1988 Borgmeierisca 1972 Carchia 1982 Carranca 1988 Chamayamyia 1969 Chilopodomyia 1984 with Tibana Cuzcomyia 1982 Duckemyia 1969 with Kano Emdenimyia 1946 Encelimyia 1969 Engelimyia 1975 Fergusonimyia 1958 Fijimyia 1971 with Kano Geijskesia 1945 Gressittomyia 1985 with Kano  Hallimyia 1979 Hallina 1975 Halliosca 1975 Hardyella 1959 Helicobiomima 1985 with Tibana Johnsonimima 1971 with Kano Johnstonimyia 1959 Jujuyia 1980 Kuschelomyia 1961 Malacophagomyia 1966 Mallochisca 1982 Mindanaoa 1979 with Kano Neorhinomotora 1934 Notochaetisca 1973 Pacatuba 1975 Pachygraphomima 1980
- [Ho Wang Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/ho-wang-lee/): Ho Wang Lee, South Korean microbiologist and epidemiologist ((Sinhung, South Hangyong Province 26 October 1928 – 05 July 2022) With P.W. Lee developed a sensitive diagnostic test for clinical hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome using lung sections of infected mice (1976) Identified (1976) and isolated (1978) the Hantaan virus, causative agent of Korean hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, being the first member of hantaviruses With  P. W. Lee & K.M. Johnson. Isolation of the etiologic agent of Korean hemorrhagic fever. J. Infect. Dis. 137:298-308, 1978 Elucidated epizootiology and epidemiology of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (1979-85) Identified the Seoul virus With
- [Hermogenes Leitão Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/hermogenes-leitao-filho/): Hermógenes de Freitas Leitão Filho, Brazilian botanist (Campinas, São Paulo State 06 February 1944 – Campinas, São Paulo State 23 February 1996) Authored 111 papers, 8 books and 11 book chapters Studied angiosperm taxonomy and phytosociology of forests and savannahs of Southeastern Brazil With S. Miyasaka & L.D. Almeida. Característica do feijão carioca, um novo cultivar. Bragantia 30:33-8, 1971  DESCRIBED NEW PLANT SPECIES    Actinoseris revolutae 1981 (Asteraceae) Gossypium caicoense 1969 with Aranha & Gridi-Papp Lamanonia brasiliensis 1993 with Zickel (Cunoniaceae) Stifftia grazielae 1970 (Asteraceae)  HONORS Hermogenodendron Santin 1991 (Anarcadiaceae)
- [Hermann Luederwaldt](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-luederwaldt/): Hermann Luederwaldt, German-born Brazilian zoologist (Gollnow, Pommern 23 January 1865 – São Paulo 15 August 1934) Authored over 30 works DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Coleoptera Subgenus Homocanthonides 1929 About 120 new species Valid Reptilia Mesoclemmys tuberculata (1926) HONORS Luederwaldtia Schmidt 1922 (Hemiptera) Luederwaldtinia Martínez 1951 (Coleoptera)
- [Herman Lent](https://neglectedscience.com/herman-lent/): Herman Lent, Brazilian helmintologist and medical entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 03 February 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 07 June 2004) Son of Jewish Russian immigrants Regarded as a world reference on Triatominae DESCRIBED NEW TAXA  Entomology Tribe Linshcosteini Genera Corupaia 1948 with Wygodzinsky Hadrokerala 1980 with Wygodzinsky Latrocimex 1941 Namapa 1980 with Wygodzinsky Nanokerala 1980 with Wygodzinsky Neivacoris 1947 with Wygodzinsky Parabelminus 1943 Pseudozelurus 1947 with Wygodzinsky Torrealbaia 1998 with Carcavallo & Jurberg Triatomaptera 1940 with Neiva  Zeluroides 1948 with Wygodzinsky Species 97 (57 with Wygodzinsky) Subspecies 9 Helminthology Family Metacebullidae 1938 with J.F.T. de Freitas  Subfamily Haematoloecinae with Freitas Genera (Nematoda/Trematoda) all with Freitas except one Avellaria 1934 Caenostrongylus 1938 Caimanicola 1938 Capillostrongyloides 1935 Gongylonemoides 1937 Graphidiops 1938 Halltrema 1939
- [Helio Sermenha Lepage](https://neglectedscience.com/helio-sermenha-lepage/): Hélio Sermenha Lepage, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 10 March 1905 – Pompéia, São Paulo State 27 December 1974) Authored over 100 works Gained international recognition for his works on Hemiptera Coccidae With E.R. Figueiredo Jr authored Pragas das Orquídeas (Orchids Plagues) (1947), recognized as a classic work in United States Improved insecticide IB946  With O. Giannotti & H.P. Pereira. Técnica para ensaio de inseticidas residuais biológicos. O Biológico 11:320-5, 1945 Considerações gerais sobre inseticidas, particularmente um novo derivado fosforado – RB1018 Técnica para a experimentação da dose letal mediana do DDT para a Ascia monuste DESCRIBED VALID HEMIPTERA
- [Harri Lorenzi](https://neglectedscience.com/harri-lorenzi/): Harri José Lorenzi, Brazilian botanist (Corupá, Santa Catarina State 19 October 1949 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Alone (2010) Acrocomia glaucescens Geonoma bondariana Geonoma conduruensis With Noblick Butia catarinensis 2010 Butia matogrossensis 2010 Butia pubispatha 2010 Geonoma littoralis 2010 Geonoma meridionalis 2010 Geonoma telesiana 2010 Lytocaryum itapebiense 2010 Syagrus allagopteroides 2010 Syagrus angustifolia 2010 Syagrus caerulescens 2010 Syagrus cerqueirana 2010 Syagrus deflexa 2010 Syagrus emasensis 2014 Syagrus gouveiana 2010 Syagrus guimaraesensis 2014 Syagrus itacambirana 2010 Syagrus kellyana 2010 Syagrus longipedunculata 2010 Syagrus lorenzoniorum 2010 Syagrus menzeliana 2010 Syagrus minor 2010 Syagrus pleiocladoides 2010 Syagrus procumbens 2010 Syagrus rupicola 2010 PATENTS Técnica de macrofotografia de plantas sobre fundo infinito e escalado PI0704540-9 A2 (2007) HONOURS Genus Lorenzia E.G. Gonçalves 2012 (Araceae) Invited Researcher, Harvard University (1998) Veitch Memorial Medal,
- [Gualterio Looser](https://neglectedscience.com/gualterio-looser/): Gualterio Looser Schallemberg, Chilean botanist and anthropologist (Santiago 04 September 1898 – Santiago 22 July 1982) From Swiss parents DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Garaventia 1941 Johowia 1937 with Epling Plarodrigoa 1935 Species Adesmia herteri 1936 Austroblechnum fernandezium 1947 Denstaedtia glauca C.Ch. ex Looser 1932 Laureliopsis philippiana 1934 Lycopodium barrosii 1945 Oxalis hickenii 1935 Varieties Blechnum auriculatum var. typicum 1947 Blechnum blechnoides var. typicum 1947 Polypodium feuillei var. ibanezii 1952 Puya coerulea var. intermedia 1935 with L.B. Sm. Puya coerulea var. monteroana 1935 with L.B. Sm. HONORS Looseria Thériot 1934 (Musci) LINKS http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1983/2/Martinez_1983.pdf (in Spanish; with bibliography)
- [Gilberto Francisco Loibel](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-francisco-loibel/): Gilberto Francisco Loibel, Brazilian mathematician (São Paulo 24 May 1932 – São Paulo 13 November 2013) Son of German immigrants Authored Loibel theorem Multiplications on products of spheres. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 31:161-2, 1959 Introduced the concept of finite relative determination With P.F.S. Porto Jr. Relative finite determinacy and Relative Stability of Function Germs. Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat. 9(2), 1978. With R.C.E. Pinto proved that c-equivalence lies strictly between d-equivalence and b-equivalence (1982)
- [Geraldo Amadeo Lamas](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-amadeo-lamas/): Gerardo Amadeo Guillermo Lamas Muller, Peruvian entomologist (Lima 29 May 1948 – With R. Rojas, L. Caviedes, J.C. Aponte, A.J. Vaisberg et al. Aegicerin, the first oleanane triterpene with wide-ranging antimycobacterial activity, isolated from Clavija procera. J. Nat. Prod. 69(5):845-6, 2006 Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature 487(7405):94-8, 2012 Species can be named from photos. Nature (2016) DESCRIBED LEIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Brevioleria 2004 Haenschia 2004 Myserla 2017 Oiticicastnia 1995 Pachacutia 2007 with Willmott Paititia 1979 Species About 140 Subspecies About 175 HONORS (Lepidoptera) Lamasa Johnson 1992 Lamasina Robbins 2002
- [Gerald Cecil Lalor](https://neglectedscience.com/gerald-cecil-lalor/): Gerald Cecil Lalor, Jamaican physical-chemist (Kingston 15 December 1930 – CONTRIBUTIONS With S.L. Martin. Studies on haematoxylin and haematein, the colouring principles of logwood. I. Absorption spectra of pure compounds in various solvents and a spectrophotometric method of analysis for haematoxylin and haematein. J. Soc. Dyers Colour. 75 (11):513-7, 1959 Developed a method for measuring the absorption spectra of both compounds in aqueous solutions under conditions which minimize the risk of oxidation.  With S.L. Martin. Studies on haematoxylin and haematein, the colouring principles of logwood. II. Behaviour in aqueous solutions at varying pH, and the pK values. J. Soc. Dyers Colour. 75:517-21, 1959 A
- [Fuad Lechín](https://neglectedscience.com/fuad-lechin/): Fuad Lechín Corban, Venezuelan neuropharmacologist (08 August 1928 –  From Lebanese parents Authored over 240 papers and 4 books Developed a new treatment of bronchial asthma and myasthenia gravis Demonstrated that drugs which enhances uptake by presynaptic serotonergic axons are potent anti-narcoleptic agents in patients resistant to methyl phenidate  First to demonstrate the antidiarrheal effect of clonidine, dihydroergotamine, and other alpha adrenergic antagonists, as well as dopaminergic blocking agents Enunciated the adrenergic theory of schizophrenia FOUND That patients affected by vertigo have raised levels of free serotonin in plasma Two types of neurochemical disorders underlying hyperkinetic children (excessive free serotonin in plasma and
- [Friedrich Carl Lehmann](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-carl-lehmann/): Friedrich Carl Lehmann, German-born Colombian botanist and mycologist (Gusow-Platkow, Markisch-Oderland, Brandenburg State 27 December 1850 – Popayá, Cauca Province 24 November 1903) Collected many orchid specimens that were recognized as new taxa by famous experts DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA (Orchidaceae) Genera Gorgoglossum 1897 Otopetalum 1899 with Kraenzlin Trevoria 1897 Species About 130 HONORS Lehmanniella Gilg 1895 (Gentianaceae) Neolehmannia Kraenzlin 1899 (Orchidaceae)
- [Frederico Waldemar Lange](https://neglectedscience.com/frederico-waldemar-lange/): Frederico Waldemar Lange, Brazilian geologist, micropaleontologist and stratigrapher (Ponta Grossa, Paraná State 23 December 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 16 June 1988) From German ancestry Authored 22 works  Described new fossil species of mollusks, brachiopods, scolecodonts, chitinozoans and acritarchs DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA (incomplete) Family Paulinitidae (Polychaeta) Genera Paulinites 1947 (Polychaeta) Navifusa 1967 with Combaz and Pansart (Protozoa) Cladochitina 1967 (Chitinozoa) Species Angochitina mourai 1952 Cladochitina biconstricta 1967 Cladochitina varispinosa 1967 Conochitina biconstricta 1949  Desmochitina sommeri 1952  Diaphorostoma paranensis 1943 Didymaulichnus furnai 1942 Eunicites paranaensis Lagenochitina avelinoi 1952 Mourlonia oliveirai 1952 Nuculites depressus 1943  Orbiculoidea excentrica 1943  Paulinites paranaensis 1947 Paulinites canuiensis 1950  Pholidops kozlowskii 1943 HONORS (Fossil) Langeites Kielan-Jaworowska 1966 (Polychaeta) Langella Mendes 1961 (Brachiopoda)
- [Francisco Leon y Blanco](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-leon-y-blanco/): Francisco Leon y Blanco, Cuban-born Mexican pathologist (Guantanamo, Cuba 04 July 1904 – 1960) From Chinese and Spanish descent With Cuban J.A. Armenteros discovered Treponema herrejoni as etiologic agent of mal de pinto independent from Saenz & Triana (1938) Proposed modern conception of pinto and demonstrated the experimental transmission of this disease in man Estudios sobre la etiologia del mal de pinto: la transmisión experimental del mal de pinto de persona a persona. Nota preliminar. Rev. Mex. Medicina 19:17-22, 1939 Described initial and secondary lesions of pinta or mal de pinto Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F.
- [Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-jeronymo-salles-lara/): Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara, Brazilian biochemist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 22 June 1925 – São Paulo State 07 September 2004) Described a method to culture dipteran Rhynchosciara angelae With H. Tamaki & C. Pavan. Laboratory culture of Rhynchosciara angelae. Amer. Natur. 99:189-91, 1965 With M.C. Okretic. A micromethod for the assay of poly(A) containing RNA by gel electrophoresis. Biochem. J. 151:575-80, 1975 Discovered that DNA puffs were responsible to messengers production With M.C. Okretic & J.S. Penoni. Messenger-like RNA synthesis and DNA chromosomal puffs in the salivary glands of Rhynchosciara americana. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 178:158-65, 1977 Papers in top journals With M.F.
- [Fernando Lopez y Sanchez Roman](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-lopez-y-sanchez-roman/): Fernando López y Sanchez Román, Mexican surgeon and hygienist (Llaltenango, today Ciudad Sanchez Román, Zacatecas State 05 November 1854 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 May 1924) DEVELOPED METHODS Techniques for blepharoplasty and congenital luxation of crystalline lens (1892) López procedure for resection of pterygon A procedure for shoulder dislocation (1893) DEVICES Profunda artery clamps (1883) i.e. modified the clamp for facilitating the ligation of deep arteries A device for blindness simulation
- [Fernando Latapí](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-latapi/): José Diodoro Fernando Latapí Contreras, Mexican dermatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 October 1902 – 28 October 1989) Authored over 300 papers Proposed the term pintides for disseminated secondary lesions of pinta With F. Leon Blanco. Las lesiones del principio del mal de pinto. Una nueva dermatosis. Rev. Mex. Medicina 20:315, 1940 Discovered a new disease called dyschromia en confetti caused by hydroquinones (1956) First to employ successfully sulphones for treatment of mycetomas  Coined terms like early and late syphilis and corticoderma Modified Morgan scheme in syphilis Rediscovered Lucio phenomenon or necrotizing erythema EPONYMY   diffuse leprosy of Lucio-Alvarado-Latapi Latapi bib sign (in
- [Fernando Lahille](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-lahille/): Fernando Lahille, French-born Argentine naturalist and etnographer (Rouen 18 August 1861 – Buenos Aires 13 July 1940) Authored 378 papers Performed studies on general zoology and fisheries biology Developed Lahille ichthyometer (1908) DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Tunicata Orders Aplousobranchia 1886 Phlebobranchia 1887 Stolidobranchia 1887 Class Appendicularia 1890 Families Cionidae 1887 Corellidae 1888 Kowalevskiidae 1888 Pyrosomatidae 1888 Salpidae 1888 Genus Herdmania 1888 Fossil Echinodermata Family Monophorastidae Diptera Tribe Uranotaeniinae 1904 Subgenus Lynchiella 1904 Hemiptera Genus Paradiaspis 1919 Mammalia Species Phocoena dioptrica 1912 Pisces Subfamily Gasterochismatinae 1903 Genus Crossostomus 1908 Species Galaxias elongatus 1915 Odontesthes smitti 1929 Schedophilus pacificus 1915 Torpedo puelcha 1926 HONORS Genus Lahillia Cossmann 1899 (Fossil Mollusca) Honor Diploma, World Fair of
- [Federico Lleras Acosta](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-lleras-acosta/): Federico Pablo de la Cruz Lleras Acosta, Colombian veterinarian and bacteriologist (Bogotá 27 April 1877 – Marseille, France 18 March 1938) Father of president Carlos Lleras Restrepo and cousin of president Alberto Lleras Camargo   ACHIEVEMENTS Lleras test or method for leprosy diagnosis and prognosis Lleras reaction for syphilis diagnosis Lleras Acosta technique for bacterioscopy of lymph nodes SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pruebas de la especificidad de un bacilo aislado de la sangre de leprosos. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 5(2):99-155, 1936 Algunas consideraciones sobre la biologia del bacilo de Hansen. Rev. Fac. Med. Bogotá 1(12):925-35, 1935 Nuevas orientaciones en el tratamento de la infección puerperal generalizada
- [Fausto Walter de Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/fausto-walter-de-lima/): Fausto Walter de Lima, Brazilian radiochemist (Franca, São Paulo State 08 January 1920 – São Paulo 15 September 2007) ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed a formula relating Souders viscosity constant and parachor for hydrocarbons (1948) A general relation among the various additive-constitutive physical properties. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 70:3141, 1948 Developed a method to obtaining uranium with pure nucleus (1961) with Alcidio Abrão; patented in 1968 Developed a method for the separation of rare-earths using ion exchange resins With A. Abrão. Separation of bismuth from lead with (Ethylenediamine) tetraacetic acid. Application to Radiochemistry (1958) With A. Abrão e C. Pagano. Recovery of cesium-137 from
- [Fanghua Li](https://neglectedscience.com/fanghua-li/): Fanghua Li, Chinese crystallographer and microscopist (Hong Kong 06 January 1932 – Beijing 24 January 2020) Married to physicist Haifu Fan  With Fuson Han & Haifu Fan proposed a new method to estimate the defocus from a single electron micrograph (1986) A method of studying dislocation core structures by high-resolution electron microscopy. Sci. Techn. Advan. Materials 6(7):755-60, 2005 Proposed a new approach for measuring crystal defects with atomic resolution and the first report on the defect of atomic resolution at the interface of SiGe/Si epitaxial film Discovered and reported the almost continuous transition process between quasicrystals and crystals besides propose a new
- [Eugenio Lasnier](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-lasnier/): Eugenio Pablo Lasnier Anselmi, Uruguayan anatomical pathologist (Montevideo 21 April 1883 – 05 October 1950) First to describe the false amebic tumor of colon or colon ameboma or Lasnier-Gaminara disease Tumores amibianos del intestine grueso. An. Fac. Med. Univ. Repub. Uruguay 3:810-28, 1918 First described the pathology and amebic etiology of ameboma  METHODS Developed a procedure for identification of hydatid cysts employing sputum index With J.F. Cassinelli. Diagnóstico de quiste hidático hialino (no roto) del pulmón, mediante la inclusión de esputos (1946) Aplicación de técnica personal de coloración electiva de los pigmentos bruno y melânico a las células hepáticas Uber eine elektive Farbungsmethode
- [Eucario López Ochoterena](https://neglectedscience.com/eucario-lopez-ochoterena/): Eucario Lopez-Ochoterena, Mexican protozoologist (Ciudad de Mexico 20 August 1927 – ?) Authored over 120 papers on protozoan taxonomy, ecology and morphology (until 2003) DESCRIBED PROTOZOAN TAXA Genera Dimasia 1998 Hypophrya 1964 Species Devescovina foliacea 1966 with Perez Reyes Devescovina piriformis 1966 with Perez Reyes Devescovina vestitiformis 1966 with Perez Reyes Dimasia miroi 1998 Hypophrya fasciculata 1964 Metadevescovina cicis 1966 with Perez Reyes Metadevescovina difficilis 1966 with Perez Reyes Metadevescovina grandis 1966 with Perez Reyes Metadevescovina ovoidea 1966 with Perez Reyes Metadevescovina pavicula 1966 with Perez Reyes Metadevescovina sphaerica 1966 with Perez Reyes Ophrydium hazele 1971 with Madrazo Garibay Proboveria rangiae 1978 with Puytorac, Grain & Groliere Trichonympha globulosa 1966 with Perez Reyes Trichonympha paraspimlis 1966 with Perez Reyes HONORS
- [Enrique Loedel Palumbo](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-loedel-palumbo/): Enrique Loedel Palumbo, Uruguayan-born Argentine physicist (Montevideo 29 June 1901 – La Plata 31 July 1962) Presented Loedel diagrams  Aberración y relatividad. An. Soc. Arg. 145:3, 1948 Formulated a system of partial differential equations for a gravitational field Die form der raum-zeit oberfläche eines gravitations-feldes, das von einer punktformigen masse herrührt. Physikal. Z. 27:643-8, 1926   Un nuevo principio que permita calcular directamente los potenciales gravitatorios (GiK) de Einstein. Anales Soc. Cien. Arg (1955) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Optische und elektrische konstanten des Rohrzuckers. Ann. Phys. 384(6):533-49, 1926 La velocidad de la luz en un campo gravitacional. Contribuciones 4 (1926)  Uber die quantifizierte rotation
- [Enrique Lagomarsino](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-lagomarsino/): Enrique H. Lagomarsino, Argentine orthopedist and traumatologist (Buenos Aires 24 February 1900 – 27 July 1946) Named astragalotarsian articulation Described the sign of anterior shaft release in knee pneumoarthroradiography With H. Dal Lago. El signo del desprendimiento del asta anterior en la neumoartrorradiografia de la rodilla (1942)   Described the syndrome of popliteal buttonhole With H. Dal Lago. Diferencias anatomoclinicas de los meniscos (1946) With J. Valls developed an osteosynthesis compass using Smith-Petersen nails Técnica e novo material para o encavilhamento das fraturas do colo do fêmur (1937)
- [Emilio Lluis Riera](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-lluis-riera/): Emilio Lluis Riera, Spanish-born Mexican geometer (Roquetas, September 1925- ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained classical results in algebraic geometry Introduced strange varieties Demonstrated that every variety of dimension without singularity may submerge itself in a projective space of dimension 2r+1 and by means of projections Demonstrated that varieties with singularities may protrude in spaces of dimension less than or equal to a maximum of r+d+1 and 2r+1 being d the maximum dimensions of Zariski tangent spaces to variety With H. Cardenas, A.G. Raggi-Cardenas  & R. san Agustín developed a diagram for the partial linear space T (Omega-Omega”) Eponym of Bertini-Lluis theorem
- [Elon Lages Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/elon-lages-lima/): Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (Maceió 09 July 1929 – Rio de Janeiro 07 May 2017) In his Doctoral thesis Duality and Postnikov invariants (1958) introduced the notion of topological space spectrum, receiving comments in History of Algebraic Topology from Jean Dieudonné Introduced the category Sp of spectra (1958) Showed that every pair of commuting vector fields on all compact 2-manifolds with non-vanishing Euler characteristic has a common singularity (1963) Enunciated Lima theorem Common singularities of commuting vector fields on 2-manifolds. Comment. Math. Helvet. 39:97-110, 1964.    Proved that a complete hypersurface of Euclidean space is a border of  a convex body
- [Eladio da Cruz Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/eladio-da-cruz-lima/): Eladio da Cruz Lima, Brazilian painter, writer and archeologist (Belém do Pará 01 February 1900 – Belém do Pará 12 October 1943) Authored Mamíferos da Amazônia – Introdução Geral e Primatas (Mammals of Amazon) in 1945 that gave him international recognition. This book display a new primate subspecies known as Saguinus fuscicollis cruzlimai Authored other works as Arte pré-histórica na Amazônia (Pre-historic art in Amazon) and A cerâmica no Estado do Pará (Ceramics in Pará State) HONORS Subgenus Eladinea Miranda-Ribeiro 1937 (Amphibia)
- [Eglemar Conde Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/eglemar-conde-lima/): Eglemar Conde Lima, Brazilian palynologist and stratigrapher (c. 1930 – 201?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.P.S. Regali & N. Uesugui. Palinoestratigrafia e paleoambiente da bacia de Barreirinhas – Maranhão (1985)  With M.V. Caputo. Estratigrafia, idade e correlação do Grupo Serra Grande, Bacia do Parnaíba. Anais 33 Congr. Bras. P.740-53, 1984 Bioestratigrafia da bacia Barreirinhas. Anais 26 Congr. Bras. Geol. 3:81-92, 1972 With H.R.P. Pamplona & R. Porto. Evolução geológica do Grupo Canárias, Bacia de Barreirinhas. Anais 26 Congr. Bras. Geol. 3:93-106, 1972 With R.F. Daemon. Estudo bioestratigrafico preliminar efetuado em sedimentos cretáceos, paleocênicos e neogênicos da Bacia de Marajó em base palinológica.
- [Domingo Luciani](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-luciani/): Domingo Leonardo de la Concepción Luciani Eduardo, Venezuelan surgeon (Maracaibo, Zulia State 08 December 1886 – Caracas 11 November 1979) From Italian and Irish ancestry (Eduardo surname came from Edwards)   MAIN BIBLIOGRAPHY Algunas consideraciones sobre la cirurgia del cancer (1916) Acerca de la hora quirurgica de la apendicitis (1924) Anomalias anatomicas : costilla cervica. Atresia vaginal congênita (1925) El cancer del seno (1932) La hernia estrangulada em la etiologia de las fistulas estercorales (1932) Estenosis segmentaria aislada de origen poradenico en el cólon descendente (1941) Gangrena de la mano por arteritis. Arterectomia de la axila. Curación (1951) Parotidectomia total por tumor mixto
- [Domingo Liotta](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-liotta/): Domingo Santo Liotta Motta, US / Argentine cardiac surgeon (Diamante, Entre Rios Province 29 November 1924 – Buenos Aires 31 August 2022) Son of Italian immigrants  ACHIEVEMENTS   Authored 150 works between papers and books Invented hypotonic duodenography (1955) With M.E. DeBakey & D.C. Cooley created left ventricular assist device (LVAD) systems in 1962 With E. Stanley Crawford performed the first clinical use of LVAD system (1963) With D.A. Cooley developed the clinical total artificial heart (1969) Developed two-stage ascending aorta-abdominal aorta-bypass graft to replace descending thoracic aorta (1977)     Developed the first circulatory paracorporal pump PATENTS 1- US Patent 4079468: Low profile
- [Debabrata Lahiri](https://neglectedscience.com/debabrata-lahiri/): Debabrata B. Lahiri, Indian statistician (Rangoon, Myanmar 17 February 1913 – 27 March 2003) Recognized as a world-famous figure in the theory of sampling Introduced circular systematic sampling in the design of sample surveys Lahiri method of sampling with probability proportional to aggregate size leading to unbiased ratio estimation A method for sample selection providing unbiased ratio estimates. Bull. Int. Stat. Inst. 33(2):133-40, 1951 EPONYMY Lahiri theorem Lahiri-Midzuno-Sen strategy Lahiri sampling scheme 
- [Damaso Antonio Larrañaga](https://neglectedscience.com/damaso-antonio-larranaga/): Damaso Antonio Larrañaga Pires, Uruguayan theologist, naturalist, geographer and philologist (Montevideo 10 December 1771 – Montevideo 06 February 1848) Described 380 plant species, 216 arthropods and 88 other animals beyond a number of fossils (despite the fact his writings were published much time after and lost the priority) Determined internal structure of Dasypus megatherium Kept contact to eminent naturalists such as Bonpland, Saint-Hilaire and Freycinet   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY His writings were published between 1922 and 1930 as Escritos de Don Damaso Antonio Larrañaga by Instituto Historico y Geographico del Uruguay Atlas (Parte I. Botanica. Parte II. Zoologia, paleontologia y mapas) Botanica (1820-4) Gramatica
- [Christian Ludwig Landbeck](https://neglectedscience.com/christian-ludwig-landbeck/): Christian Ludwig Landbeck, German-born Chilean taxidermist and zoologist (Ostheim, Elsass 11 December 1807 – Santiago de Chile 03 September 1890) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA AVES With Philippi Species Accipiter chilensis 1864 Agriornis albicauda 1863 Aphrastura masafucrae 1866 Cinclodes albiventris 1861 Cinclodes atacamensis 1857 Fulica rufifrons 1861 Geositta isabellina 1864 Idiopsar erythronotus 1861 Leptasthenura striata 1863 Muscisaxicola cinereus 1864 Poospiza ornata 1865 Poospiza tulica 1861 Pteroptochos castaneus 1864 Recurvirostra andina 1861 Sicalis auriventris 1864 Sternura lorata 1861 Subspecies Agriornis albicauda albicauda 1863 Cinclodes albiventris albiventris 1861 Cinclodes atacamensis atacamensis 1857 Fregetta grallaria segethi 1860 Geositta cunicularia frobeni 1864 Geositta rufipennis fasciata 1864 Leistes bellicosus albipes 1861 Leptasthenura striata striata 1863 Muscisaxicola cinereus cinereus 1864 Onychoprion fuscatus luctuosus 1866 Saltator aurantiirostris albociliaris 1861 Alone Species Geositta antarctica 1880 Pseudocolopteryx citreola 1864 Spinus crassirostris 1877 Subspecies Spinus crassirostris crassirostris 1877
- [Cheng-chao Liu & Shuqin Hu](https://neglectedscience.com/cheng-chao-liu-shuqin-hu/): Cheng-chao Liu or Zheng Zhao Liu, Chinese herpetologist (Tai’an, Shandong Province 12 August 1900 – Chengdu, Sichuan Province 09 April 1976) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA VALID TAXA Paramegophrys 1964 Vibrissaphora 1945 Species 66 (30 of them described joint to his wife) HONORS (Amphibia) Liua Zhao & Hu 1983 Liuixalus Li, Che, Zhao, Bain & Zhang 2008 Liurana Dubois 1987  Liuhurana Fei, ye, Jiang, Duboi & Chen 2010 His wife, Shuqin Hu, herpetologist (Changshu, Jiangsu Province 13 February 1914 – Chengdu 10 December 1992) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA VALID TAXA Genera Brachytarsophrys 1983 with Tian Liua 1983 with Zhao Species  At least 36 (30 of them described joint to her husband) HONORS Huia Yang
- [Charles Pugsley Lounsbury](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-pugsley-lounsbury/): Charles Pugsley Lounsbury, US-born South African agricultural entomologist (Brooklyn, New York State 20 September 1872 – Pretoria 07 June 1955) Built the first governamental fumigation chamber using hydrogen cyanide to sterilise imported plants in the world (1896) Acquired an international reputation as an expert on ticks Demonstrated that heartwater is transmitted by bont tick (Amblyomma hebraeum) Tick-heartwater experiments. Agric. J. Cape of Good Hope 16:682-7, 1900 Demonstrated that malignant jaundice in dogs (biliary fever) is transmitted by the adult dog tick (Haemaphysalis leachii) Transmission of malignant jaundice of the dog by a species of tick. Agric. J. 19:714-24, 1901 Demonstrated that East
- [Charles Herbert Lankester](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-herbert-lankester/): Charles Herbert Lankester, English-born Costa Rican naturalist (Southampton 14 June 1879 –San Jose de Costa Rica 08 July 1969) Collected new species of plants and animals from Costa Rica Described two orchids species Sobralia corazoi 1924 with Ames and Epidendrum tonduzii 1924 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Costa Rican butterflies (Lepid. Rhop.). Entomol. News 30(8):216, 1919 Orchids in Costa Rica. Orchid Rev. 28:129-32, 1920  Coffee. A report on coffee cultivating in Uganda with comparative notes on Costa Rica. Uganda Prot. Dept. Agric. Circ. 7:1-26, 1921  A short trip on Mt. Elgon, Uganda. Bull. Misc. Inform. 4:145-8, 1922 Lepidoptera from Costa Rica. Proc. Entomol. Soc. London A 1(3):56, 1927  
- [Chang Eon Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/chang-eon-lee/): Chang Eon Lee, South Korean entomologist (fl.1960-97) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera / Subgenera Coreoscenellus 1978 with Nomura Drabescoides 1979 with Kwon Futasujinoidella 1979 with Kwon Koreanopsis 1979 with Kwon Koreascleoracus 1979 with Kwon   Maemichungella 1979 with Kwon Metasalis 1971 Miyamotoa 1991 Muljarus 1991 Parapagaronia 1978 with Kwon Paralimnoidella 1979 with Kwon Rhusaphalara 1982 with Park Syoitia 1992 Species Hemiptera / Heteroptera Acharis campbelli 1979 with Kwon  Acoryphus chujoi 1994 with Kerzhner Albicostella splendida 1979 with Kwon Bhatia koreana 1979 with Kwon Ctenoneurus setosus 1976 with Pendergrast Cyrtopeltis (Cyrtopeltis) rufobrunnea 1995 with Kerzhner Deraeocoris sanghonami 1995 with Kerzhner Dicyphus (Mesodicyphus) parkheoni 1995 with Kerzhner Diplonychus esakii 1966 with Miyamoto Doratulina yeongnamensis 1979 with Kwon Drabescus femoratiformis 1979 with Kwon Ectrychotes chejudonis 1966 with Miyamoto Futasujinoidella nobilis 1979 with Kwon
- [Cesar Lattes](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-lattes/): Cesar Lattes, Brazilian physicist (Curitiba 11 July 1924 – Campinas, São Paulo State 08 March 2005) His real name was Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes Son of Jewish Italian immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered π meson with Powell and Occhialini (1947) Obtained artificially π meson with Eugene Gardner (1948) Measured π meson mass and disintegration with E. Gardner and Walter H. Barkas (1948) With Alfredo Marques and Yoichi Fujimoto discovered a new series of events known as fireballs (1967), photographed them (1968) and determined its masses (1969) and differentiate them in 3 distinct forms: mirim (1963), açu (1967) and guaçu (1971)   With Marques and Fujimoto identified and
- [Carminda da Cruz Landim](https://neglectedscience.com/carminda-da-cruz-landim/): Carminda da Cruz Landim, Portuguese-born Brazilian animal morphologist (Figueira de Penacova, Beira Litoral Province, Portugal 06 August 1935 – DESCRIBED NEW STRUCTURES IN Hymenoptera With F.C. Abdalla & M.L.F. Gracioli Vitti. Anatomy and histology of the Dufour and venom gland s of Augochloropsis graminea Fabricius 1804. Naturalia (2003) (first time to be described some globular enlargements placed along the secretory filaments in bee venom glands) With K. Patricio. Morphological aspects of cell reabsorption in laying queens and workers of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Iheringia Ser. Zool. 98(4), 2000 (described and named corpus luteus and corpus atresicus in ovaries of queens and nurse workers of  this
- [Carlos Lizer y Trelles](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-lizer-y-trelles/): Carlos Alfonso Lizer y Trelles, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 05 August 1887 – Vicente López, Buenos Aires Province 18 August 1959) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Eudinaspis 1942 Lecaniodiaspis 1938 Macracanthopyga 1955 Species Alichtensia misiones 1942 Calophya williamsoni 1943 Ceroplastes bruneri 1939 Ceroplastes hempeli 1919 Ceroplastidia leonardiana 1939 Coccus deltae 1917 Crenulaspidiotus lahillei 1917 Duplaspidiotus koehleri 1954 Eriophyes brethesi 1917 Eudinaspis joergenseni 1942 Eulecanium perinflatum 1939 Greenoidea lahillei 1939 Gyropsylla spegazziniana 1919 Hemiberlesia latastei 1942 Hypogeococcus festerianus 1942 Lecanium deltae 1939 Macranthopyga verganiana 1955 Mesoleucanium viticis 1939 Neopsylla erythrinae 1918 Notophorina fuegensis 1955 Parlatoreopsis argentata 1942 Pseudophilippia lanigera 1942 Psylla huldae 1955 Solenococcus haywardi HONORS (Hemiptera) Genus Lizerius Blanchard 1923 Subgenus Lizerocallis Sousa e Silva & Ilharco 2003
- [Carlos Lisson Beingolea](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-lisson-beingolea/): Carlos Ismael Lisson Beingolea, Peruvian geologist and paleontologist (Lima 17 September 1868 – Lima 18 March 1947) DESCRIBED NEW MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Capeloites 1937 Limaites 1924 Pfluckeria 1924 Species Argentiniceras pardoi Berriasella limensis Berriasella peruviana Buchotrigonia gerthi 1930 Buchotrigonia paradisensis 1925 Buchotrigonia steinmanni 1930 Capeloites larozai 1937 Cosmoceras limense 1925 Crassatella acuta 1925 Diplocraterion habichi 1904 Dobrodgeiceras broggianum 1937 Favrella lorensis Glottoceras raimondii 1908 Heterotissotia peroni 1908 Hoplites douvillei 1907 Knemiceras raimondii 1908 Lenticeras baltai 1908 Leopoldia peruviana Lissonia riveroi Nerita ualanensis Nerita variegata Parengonoceras tetranodosum 1925 Raimondiceras pfluckeri Roudaireia bruggeni 1925 Thurmanniceras douvillei Tissotia steinmanni 1908 Turritella portaro 1925 Turritella woodsi 1925 HONORS (Fossil Cephalopoda) Acantholissonia Leanza 1972 Lissonia Gerth 1925 Lissonites Tozer 1970
- [Carlos Larralde Rangel](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-larralde-rangel/): Carlos Larralde Rangel, Mexican immunopathologist (Monterrey, Nuevo León State 11 April 1938 – Ciudad de Mexico 04 January 2015) CONTRIBUTIONS Showed that immune cells communicate and regulate each other in every immunological event In vitro mitotic activity of unsensitized lymphocytes in the presence of antigens and sensitized lymphocytes. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 133:1175-7, 1970 Showed the role of antigen valence in the probability of binding to its antibody and the quantitative description of the actual distribution of affinities in an antibody population With M.V. José. Alternative interpretation of unusual Scatchard plots: contribution of interactions and heterogeneity. Mathem. Biosciences 58(2):159-70, 1982 With
- [Carlos José Pereira de Lucena](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-jose-pereira-de-lucena/): Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Brazilian computer scientist (Recife 30 September 1943 – Authored over 450 publications and 19 books ACHIEVEMENTS With E. Almentero & J.C.S. Prado proposed an approach which derives software modularity based on requirements engineering representations in which provide modularity as a consequence of a rectification process (2014) With B.B.P. Cafeo, F. Dantas, A. Gurgel et al. performed the first exploratory analysis on the use of programming techniques to implement and evolve feature dependencies (2012) With E. Cirilo, I. Nunes & U. Kulesza proposed the use of multi-level models to support the configuration knowledge specification and automatic product
- [Carlos Henrique Liberalli](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-henrique-liberalli/): Carlos Henrique Robertson Liberalli, Brazilian pharmacist (Rio de Janeiro 13 September 1909 – Rio de Janeiro 26 September 1970) Authored over 200 works on pharmacotechnics, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, analytical chemistry of medicines, etc. METHODS / COMPOUNDS Discovered quinine guaiacolate in Uma incompatibilidade da quinina. A Gazeta da Farmácia 91:24, 1939 Suggested improvements in Martini’s technique for dosage of spartein Metodos de determinação de coeficientes nas equações químicas Um novo composto de quinina e resorcinol. Rev. Bras. Farm. 25(1):73-6, 1944 Nova reação para acidos-alcoois How to avoid the oxidation of adrenaline in pharmaceutical preparations. Bol. Assoc. Bras. Pharm. 15;447-52, 1934 Em torno de
- [Carlos da Silva Lacaz](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-da-silva-lacaz/): Carlos da Silva Lacaz, Brazilian medical mycologist and historian of medicine (Guaratinguetá, São Paulo State 19 September 1915 – São Paulo 23 April 2002) From French, Swiss and Italian descent Authored about 500 scientific works Performed researches in medical mycology and tropical pathology    Reported the first human culture-proven case of brain abscesses due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi With J.P.S. Nóbrega, S. Rosemberg, A.M. Adami, E.M. Heins-Vaccari & T.F. de Brito. Fonsecaea pedrosoi cerebral phaeohyphomycosis (“chromoblastomycosis”): first human culture-proven case reported in Brazil. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. São Paulo 45:217-20, 2003 Characterized infection by paracoccidioidomycosis  With S.A.P. Sampaio introduced amphotericin B treatment for paracoccidioidomycosis  (1958) With
- [Carlos Benjamin de Lyra](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-benjamin-de-lyra/): Carlos Benjamin de Lyra, Brazilian mathematician (Recife 23 November 1927 – São Paulo 21 July 1974) Proved the existence of a minimal subcomplex of the cubical singular complex of a topological space (1954) Proved some theorems characterizing spaces having the homotopy type of locally finite or finite polyhedral (1960) Enunciated theorem of de Lyra On spaces of the same homotopy type as polyhedra. Boletim Soc. Mat. São Paulo 12(1-2): 43-61, 1957 (Separata) His thesis, H-equivalência de grupos topológicos (1968) gained international projection SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY SHM-maps of CW-groups. Quart. J. Math. 27:139-57, 1976 Caracterização dos SHM-morfismos para grupos topológicos. Anais Acad. Bras.
- [C. Bernard Lewis](https://neglectedscience.com/c-bernard-lewis/): Charles Bernard Lewis, US-born Jamaican zoologist (Worcester, Massachusetts 09 April 1913 – Tampa, Florida 24 September 1992) Interested in history, geology, archeology and art Collected new taxa of insects, mollusks and plants from Jamaica, Cayman Islands and southern Cuba SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Grant. Herpetology of the Cayman Islands (1940) With C. Grant & W.G. Lynn. The Herpetology of Jamaica (1940) The Cayman Islands and marine turtle. Bull. Inst. Jam. Sci. Ser. 2:56-65, 1940 The frogs of the Clydesdale region. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 1:10-2, 1941 Frog eggs. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 2:35, 1943 With G.D.H. Carpenter. A collection
- [Byung Hoon Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/byung-hoon-lee/): Byung Hoon Lee, South Korean entomologist (fl.1973) DESCRIBED NEW COLLEMBOLA TAXA (may be incomplete) Family Gulgastruridae 1998 with Thibaud   Genera Caputanurina 1983 Tetraloba 1983 Species Allonychiurus mariangeae 1994 with Thibaud Anurophorus ganghwaiensis 1977 Bionychiurus oblongatus 1986 with Park Callyntrura alpina 1999 with Rojanavongse Callyntrura capitata 1999 with Rojanavongse Callyntrura distincta 1999 with Rojanavongse Callyntrura nigra 1999 with Rojanavongse Caputanurina nana 1983 Caputanurina serrata 1983 Ceratophysella dolsana 1995 with Kim Crossodonthina delamarei 1973 Crossodonthina montana 1990 with Kim Deuteraphora gangjinensis 1995 with Kim Deuterosmithurus serratus 2007 with Kang & Park Entomobrya aquatica 2000 with Kim  Entomobrya jirisana 1984 with Park Entomobrya minuta 1984 with Park Entomobrya monopunctata 1984 with Park Entomobrya nana 1992 with Park Entomobrya quadrata 1984 with Park   Entomobrya vigintiseta 1984 with Park
- [brother Leon](https://neglectedscience.com/brother-leon/): Joseph Sylvestre Sauget (Brother Leon), French-born Cuban botanist and father (Arbois, Jura 31 December 1871 – La Habana 20 November 1955) Described 100 plant species and 28 varieties HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Columbia (1927) Genus Saugetia Hitchcock & Chase 1917 (Poaceae)
- [Bertha Lutz](https://neglectedscience.com/bertha-lutz/): Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz, Brazilian herpetologist (São Paulo 02 August 1894 – Rio de Janeiro 19 September 1976) Daughter of physician and naturalist Adolpho Lutz DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA TAXA  Family Eleutherodactylidae 1954 Subfamily Eleutherodactylinae 1954 Genus Paratelmatobius 1958 with Carvalho Species Aplastodiscus albosignatus 1938 with A. Lutz Aplastodiscus musicus 1949 Aplastodiscus perviridis 1950 Bokermannohyla claresignata 1939 with A. Lutz Cochranella ritae 1952 Crossodactylus grandis 1951 Dendropsophus meridianus 1954 Dendropsophus nahdereri 1963 with Bokermann Gastrotheca albolineata 1939 with A. Lutz Gastrotheca dunni 1977 Holoaden bradei 1958 Hypsiboas cipoensis 1968 Hypsiboas goianus 1968 Hypsiboas joaquini 1968 Hypsiboas secedens 1963 Ischnocnema gualteri 1974 Ischnocnema hoehnei 1958 Ischnocnema venancioi 1958 Paratelmatobius lutzii 1958 with Carvalho Paratelmatobius pictiventris 1958 Phyllomedusa ayeaye 1966 Phyllomedusa distincta 1950 Pristimantis carvalhoi 1952 Scinax alcatraz 1973 Scinax
- [Bernardo Liberman](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardo-liberman/): Bernardo Liberman, Jewish Brazilian endocrinologist (193? – With B. Wajchenberg, E.R. Quintão & A.B. U. Cintra. Antagonism between adrenal steroids and parathyroid hormone. J. Clin. Endocrin. Metab. 25(12):1677-81, 1965 DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES & GENETIC MUTATIONS CAUSING DISEASES With R.A. Toledo, D.M. Lourenço Jr, F.L. Coutinho, S.P.A. Toledo, M.C.C. Machado et al. Novel MEN 1 germline mutations in Brazilian families with multiple endocrine neoplasia Type I. Clin. Endocr. 67(3):377-84, 2007 With J.L. Rocha, A. Moreira, F. Friedman, B.C. Silva & L. Marco. A novel polymorphism in the coding region of the vasopressin type 2 receptor gene. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 30(4):443-5, 1997 With
- [Beppo Levi](https://neglectedscience.com/beppo-levi/): Beppo Levi, Jewish Italian/Argentine mathematician (Torino 14 May 1875 – Rosario, Santa Fe Province 28 August 1961) ACHIEVEMENTS Published more than 150 mathematical papers Proved monotone convergence theorem or Beppo Levi theorem (1906) Introduced the concept of functions classes Anticipated Ogg-Mazur conjecture by more than 60 years (1908) Discovered that angular points number of a continuous function is numerable   Proved Picard-Simart theorem Invented a mathematical version of Berry antinomy First to investigate the structure of torsion group EPONYMY     Beppo Levi lemma (1906) Beppo Levi inequality (1906) Beppo Levi spaces (integrable squares spaces) Beppo Levi functions Beppo Levi boundary condition Beppo Levi
- [Arno Lise](https://neglectedscience.com/arno-lise/): Arno Antonio Lise, Brazilian arachnologist (Canelas, Rio Grande do Sul State ?) fl.1961 DESCRIBED VALID ARACHNIDA TAXA Genera Amapalea 2006 with da Silva Caricelea 2007 with da Silva Nyetnops 2007 with Platnick Rejanellus 2005 Theriella 1996 with Braul Species 135 HONORS Arnoliseus Braul 2002 (Arachnida) LINKS www.wsc.nmbe.ch
- [Arnaldo López Miranda](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-lopez-miranda/): Hermes Arnaldo López Miranda, Peruvian botanist (Ascope, La Libertad Department 26 June 1922 – Trujillo, La Libertad Department 07 May 2010) Authored over 46 publications Described about 15 new plant species HONORS Lopezmyxa Skvortzov 1972 (Xanthophyceae) Arnaldoa Cabrera 1962 (Asteraceae)
- [Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão](https://neglectedscience.com/aristides-azevedo-pacheco-leao/): Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão, Brazilian neurophysiologist (Rio de Janeiro 03 August 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 14 December 1993) Discovered the cortical spreading depression known as Leão waves or phenomenon Spreading depression of activity in the cerebral cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 7:359-90, 1944 First to relate spreading cortical depression and the aura of migraine With R.S. Morison. Propagation of spreading cortical depression. J. Neurophysiol. 8:33-45, 1945 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P.A. Maranhão Filho. A note on the action of glutamine on cortical spreading depression. Cephalalgia 11:201-4, 1991 With E. Oswaldo Cruz, R.F. Bernardes & C.E. Rocha Miranda. The brain of the opossum (Didelphis
- [Antonio de Leon y Gama](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-de-leon-y-gama/): Antonio de Leon y Gama, Mexican scientist (Ciudad de Mexico 1735 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 September 1802) ACHIEVEMENTS Published works dealing with experimental physics, medicine, mathematics and archaeology Determined latitude and longitude of Mexico Observed poles height in Ciudad de Mexico and computed accurately Solar Eclipse of 1771, being highly praised by French astronomer Joseph J. L. de Lalande   Performed astronomical calculations about a comet (1778) that earned him recognition in Europe Explained Aztec calendar (1790)
- [Antonio Correia de Lacerda](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-correia-de-lacerda/): Antonio Correia de Lacerda, Portuguese / Brazilian physician and naturalist (Vila da Ponte, Montalegre Subdistrict, Portugal 1777 – São Luiz 21 July 1852) Developed a process for peeling of cinnamon and bark’s expurgation Collected, classified and described plant species in Flora Paraensis (1821-52) and Nova Genera Plantarum (1820s) that didn’t use the binomial nomenclature Described more than 400 plant species with its medicinal effects and posology in Botanica Medica (1830s) Authored Chemiologia Vegetal (1845-9) recording the effects of plant chemicals on chemical reagents, isolating active principles and describing the chemical composition of each solution  Authored Zoologia paraense (1820-35) too MEMBERSHIP Member,
- [Alfredo Lanari Gil](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-lanari-gil/): Alfredo Lanari Gil, Argentine clinician (Mar del Plata 09 February 1910 – Buenos Aires 23 March 1985) Authored over 150 works Authored an influent chapter on pathological physiology of myasthenia gravis With A.R. Goñi. Fisiopatologia de la myasthenia gravis. Medicina (Bs. Aires) 3:476, 1943 Obtained experimentally bronchiectasis by bronchial obstruction With O. C. Croxatto. Pathogenesis of bronchiectasis: experimental study and anatomic findings. J. Thorac. Surg. 27(5):514-28, 1954 Lanari method for diagnosis of peripheral vascular affections employing acetylcholine intra-arterial injection
- [Alberto Ribeiro Lamego](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-ribeiro-lamego/): Alberto Ribeiro Lamego, Brazilian geologist and geographer (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 09 April 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 16 October 1985) Introduced the concept of Brazilic diastrophism, a pre-laurentian diastrophism with intrusions of microcline-biotite-granitite Proposed the term proto-gneiss for semi-phacoidal plagioclase-gneiss of Engenho Novo type  Proposed that the main types of gneisses came from a primitive rock that named protogneis A Theoria do Protogneis. Uma interpretação petrogenética do Arqueano. Bol. Serv. Geol. Miner. 86, 1937 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribuição a Geologia do Valle do Rio Grande, Minas Geraes. Bol. Serv. Min. Brazil 70, 1933 O massiço do Itatiaya e regiões
- [Alberto Loefgren](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-loefgren/): Johan Albert Constantin Loefgren, Swedish-born Brazilian naturalist (Stockholm 11 September 1854 – Rio de Janeiro 30 August 1918) DESCRIBED VALID SPECIES Plantae Acianthera cryptophoranthoides 1918 Anathallis adenochila 1918 Anathallis simpliciglossa 1918 Anathallis tigridens 1918 Begonia juliana Brasiliorchis barbosae 1918 Pleurothallis atroglossa 1918 Pleurothallis glandulifera 1915 Pleurothallis leucosepala 1918 Pleurothallis magnicalcarata 1918 Rhipsalis campos-portoana 1918 Rhipsalis chrysantha 1915 Rhipsalis chrysocarpa 1915 Rhipsalis crispimarginata 1918 Rhipsalis densiareolata 1918 Rhipsalis oblonga 1918 Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis 1918 Rhipsalis pilocarpa 1903 Rhipsalis pulchra 1915 Rhipsalis rigida 1915 Schlumbergera candida 1918 Schlumbergera opuntioides 1903 with Dusén Zygocactus obtusangulus 1918 Algae Staurastrum psilosporum 1883 with Nordstedt (Charophyta) HONORS Loefgrenia Gomont 1896 (Cyanophyceae) Loefgrenianthus Hoehne 1927 (Orchidaceae) Loefgrenia Travassos 1920 (Nematoda)  
- [Aklilu Lemma](https://neglectedscience.com/aklilu-lemma/): Aklilu Lemma, Ethiopian physician (Giggiga, Harar Province 18 September 1934 – United States 05 April 1997) Discovered that extracts from the fruit of endod or soapberry (Phytolacca dodecandra) act as a potent molluscicide (1964) With H.H. Lee & P.C. Fraleigh patented Method of controlling zebra mussels with extract of Phytolacca dodecandra. US Patent 5252330 (1993) HONORS   Visiting Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Right Livelihood Award (1989)
- [Adolpho Lutz](https://neglectedscience.com/adolpho-lutz/): Adolpho Lutz, Brazilian physician, parasitologist and naturalist (Rio de Janeiro 18 December 1855 – Rio de Janeiro 06 October 1940) Son of Swiss immigrants Authored 245 publications DISCOVERED Sylvan malaria and sylvan yellow fever (1903) South American blastomycosis  or paracoccidioidomycosis or Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease (1908) Infantile acrodynia  (1882-3; noticed in 1885) Granulations in Hansen bacillus known as Lutz granulations (1886) Water storing plants like Freycinetia sp. acted as habitat for small crustaceans and mollusks The role of epiphytic Bromeliads as breeders of malaria transmitting mosquitoes OTHERS Proved that intake of Ascaris lumbricoides embryonated eggs as ascaridiasis cause independent from Grassi studies Authored the first reports about
- [Adolpho Carlos Lindenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/adolpho-carlos-lindenberg/): Adolpho Carlos Lindenberg, Brazilian dermatologist (Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro 12 September 1872 – São Paulo 06 December 1944) Identified Leishmania brasiliensis as etiologic agent of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (1909); this species was sent to Gaspar Vianna that described it L’Ulcere de Bauru ou le Bouton d’Orient au Bresil. Comm. Prelim. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 2:252-4, 1909 Described Nocardia brasiliensis, etiologic agent of exogenous actinomycetoma Un nouveau mycetoma. Arch. Parasitol. 13:265-82, 1909 Studied the action mechanism of chaulmoogra oil in leprosy treatment (1920s) Perfected methods for leprosy treatment 
- [Adinath Lahiri](https://neglectedscience.com/adinath-lahiri/): Adinath Lahiri, Indian chemist and technologist (Pabna, now Bangladesh 24 August 1916 – London 26 August 1975) Recognized as an international authority on coal Authored over 500 articles Made important contributions to knowledge of the state of combination of carbon and hydrogen in the coal molecule and its derivatives His studies led to many improvements in coal washing technology some of which have been internationally adopted DEVELOPED WITH COLLEAGUES A beehive coke oven An activated carbon and ion exchangers for determination of water-based coal A simple moving-bed devolatilizer without by product recovery A narrow brick vertical retort employed in low temperature
- [Wook Hyun Kwon](https://neglectedscience.com/wook-hyun-kwon/): Wook Hyun Kwon, South Korean electrical engineer (19 January 1943 – Authored over 150 international journal papers   Introduced the concept of receding horizon control A modified quadratic cost problem and feedback stabilization of linear systems. IEEE Trans. Autom. Control Vol AC 22(5), 1977 First to introduce a reduction transformation method for control-delayed systems    With A.E. Pearson. Feedback stabilization of linear systems with delayed control. IEEE Trans. Autom. Control Vol AC 25(2), 1990 Introduced for the first time a H-infinity control method for time-delay systems With J.H. Lee & S.W. Kim. Memoryless H controllers for state delayed systems. IEEE Trans. 39(1), 1994
- [Wilhelm Kegel](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-kegel/): Wilhelm Ottomar Kegel, German / Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Breitscheid, Hessen State 06 May 1890 – Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 15 March 1971) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Ichnofossil Amaralia 1967 Neoskolithos 1966 Crustacea Bairdiocypris 1932 Briartina 1932 Herrmannina 1933 Trilobita Cyphoproteus 1928 Diacalymene 1928 Metacalymene 1928 Plagiolaria 1952 Brachiopoda Rhenorensselaeria 1913 Mollusca Heteropecten 1951 with Costa HONORS (Fossil) Kegelidium Dolianiti 1954 (Plantae) Kegelites Coryell & Booth 1933 (Ostracoda) Kegelops Alberti 1970 (Trilobita)
- [Wilhelm Kalbreyer](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-kalbreyer/): Wilhelm Kalbreyer, German-born Colombian plant collector, gardener and nurseryman (1847 – Bogotá 1912) From his collections in West Africa and Colombia discovered:  Anthurium veitchii 1880 Pachystoma thompsonianum Reichenbach 1879 20 new species and varieties of ferns described by John Baker (1881) 17 new species of Aiphanes described by Max Burret (1932) At least 10 new plant species that bears his name HONORS Kalbreyeriella Lindau 1922 (Acanthaceae)
- [Warwick Estevam Kerr](https://neglectedscience.com/warwick-estevam-kerr/): Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist and geneticist (Santana do Parnaíba, São Paulo State 09 September 1922 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 15 September 2018) From Scottish descent Internationally recognized as the foremost expert on bees genetics   Authored 247 papers (until 2007) Obtained important discoveries in bee genetics and sexual determination Discovered the genetical mechanism that rules the casts in genus Melipona (1950) Obtained the hybridization of the African and Italian bees known as Africanized honey bee (1950s) With H. Esch & I. Esch. Sound: an element common to communication of stingless bees and to dances of the honey bees. Science 149:320-1, 1965
- [Walter Wolfgang Kempf](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-wolfgang-kempf/): Walter Wolfgang Franz Kempf, German-born Brazilian Franciscan friar and entomologist (Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate State 26 March 1920 – Washington DC, USA 20 August 1976) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Eucryptocerus 1951 Eurhopalothrix 1960 with Brown Phalacromyrmex 1960 Tatuidris 1967 with Brown Species At least 122 HONORS Kempfsimulium Py-Daniel & Nunes de Mello 1982 (Diptera)
- [Walter Knoche](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-knoche/): Walter Alfred Knoche, German-born Argentine meteorologist, geophysicist, geographer and anthropologist (Berlin 07 March 1881 – Buenos Aires 03 July 1945) Nephew of Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich Authored 276 publications   Regarded as one of founders of bioclimatology Created a new climate classification Nuevo método de clasificacion climática. Rev. Arg. Agron. 10:26-54, 1943 Enunciated new concepts about climate, microclimate and micrometeorological factors in pathology and therapeutics Nueva forma de representación basica para fines agro y fitoclimaticos. Ciencia Mexico 3(1):24-9, 1942 Una nueva representación gráfica de orden antropo y fitoclimatico con ejemplos para la Republica Argentina (1945) Forma fuera del comun de descargas electricas observadas
- [Vijay Kumar Kapahi](https://neglectedscience.com/vijay-kumar-kapahi/): Vijay Kumar Kapahi, Indian radioastronomer (Quetta, Punjab 21 January 1944 – Mumbai 16 March 1999) Authored about 100 papers Internationally acclaimed for his contributions in the field of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology First showed that radio galaxies linear sizes were considerably smaller in earlier cosmic epochs (1975) Identified a major class of radio sources, the compact steep-spectrum sources (1981) Discovered the phenomenon of relativistic beaming in quasar nuclei  With G. Swarup. A simple image forming technique suitable for multifrequency observations  of solar radio bursts. Solar Physics 14:404-13, 1970
- [Vasudeva Krishnamurthy](https://neglectedscience.com/vasudeva-krishnamurthy/): Vasudeva B. Krishnamurthy, Indian phycologist (Valavanur, Villupuram District 14 August 1921 – Described the genus Compsopogonopsis 1962 (Rhodophyta) and 51 new algae species HONORS Krishnamurthya S. Chandra 2004 (Chrysophyta) LINKS HTTP://kiachennai.com/vkbio.htm
- [Vasant Ramji Khanolkar](https://neglectedscience.com/vasant-ramji-khanolkar/): Vasant Ramji Khanolkar, Indian pathologist (Quetta, Pakistan 13 April 1895 – 29 October 1978) Authored over 100 scientific papers and 3 books World famous for his work on racial distribution of blood groups especially the Rh group  The racial distribution of the blood groups. J. Anthrop. Soc. 1:110-33, 1945 With B. Suryabai. Cancer in relation to usages. Three new types in India. Arch. Pathol. 40:351-61, 1945 Developed Khanolkar reaction for ketosteroids  With A.S. Krishnamurthi, C.D. Bagul & M.B. Sahasrabudhe. A new method of histochemical localization of corticoids. Indian J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 1:84-9, 1958 Developed Khanolkar concentration test for Mycobacterium leprae  With
- [Tsi'yu Kao](https://neglectedscience.com/tsiyu-kao/): Tsi’yu Kao or Ch’ung-hsi Kao or Chongxi Gao, Chinese chemist (1901 – 1952) A new method of ring closure in the cyclobutane series (1931) The mechanism of the cleavage of diethyl-a, a’-dibromadipate by secondary amines. A new synthesis of cyclobutane derivatives. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 51(5):1536-9, 1929   EPONYMY Wang-Kao-Sak reagent Tung-Kao-Sah reagent for amines  Kao-Chen reagent for copper Kao-Fang-Sah reagent for amines Kao-Tao-Sah reagent for aldehydes and ketones Chang-Kao reagent  
- [Triloki Nath Khoshoo](https://neglectedscience.com/triloki-nath-khoshoo/): Triloki Nath Khoshoo, Indian plant geneticist (Srinagar, Kashmir 07 April 1927 – 10 June 2002) Authored over 250 research papers and 7 books on plant genetics, conservation and utilisation and management of natural resources  Elucidated the role of polyploidy in speciation ob biosystenmatics of Sisymbrium irio complex Biosystematics of the Sisymbrium irio complex. Nature 176:608, 1955 Elucidated the genetic system of gymnosperms Polyploidy in gymnosperms. Evolution 13:24-39, 1959 Discovered an unique all-telocentric karyotype in the genus Welwitschia, for the first time in the plant kingdom With M.R. Ahuja. The karyotype of Welwitschia mirabilis. Nature 193 (4813):356, 1962 Developed many basic concepts still valid today First to delineate centres
- [Tharavat S. Kutty](https://neglectedscience.com/tharavat-s-kutty/): Tharavat S. Kutty, Indian paleontologist and stratigrapher (fl.1962) DESCRIBED FOSSIL REPTILIA TAXA Genera Barapasaurus 1975 with Jain, Roy-Chowdhury & Chatterjee Jaklapallisaurus 2011 with Novas, Ezcurra & Chatterjee Lamplughsaura 2007 with Chatterjee, Galton & Upchurch Pradhania 2007 with Chatterjee, Galton & Upchurch Nambalia 2011 with Novas, Ezcurra & Chatterjee Species Barapasaurus tagorei 1975 with Jain, Roy-Chowdhury & Chatterjee Jaklapallisaurus asymmetrica 2011 with Novas, Ezcurra & Chatterjee Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis 2007 with Chatterjee, Galton & Upchurch Nambalia roychowdhurii 2011 with Novas, Ezcurra & Chatterjee Pradhania gracilis 2007 with Chatterjee, Galton & Upchurch HONORS Kuttycephalus Sengupta 1995 (Fossil Amphibia)
- [Siddarth Kumar Khetarpal](https://neglectedscience.com/siddarth-kumar-khetarpal/): Siddarth Kumar Khetarpal, Indian pediatrician and neonatalogist (12 October 1934 – Discovered Chandra-Khetarpal syndrome Levocardia with bronchiectasis and paranasal sinus abnormalities. Indian J. Pedia. 30:78-80, 1963 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Singh, H.L. Gupta & R.S. Sethi. Cardiac achalasia in childhood. Postgrad. Med. J. 45:327, 1969 Alcaligenes faecalis septicemia in the newborn. Clin. Pediatr. 3:108-10, 1964 Electro retinographic changes in undernourished children. Br. J. Ophthalm. 48:154-7, 1964 With G.S. Sarin. Gargoylism: a study of four cases. Ind. J. Pediatr. 31:21-3, 1964 With V.V. Subrahmanyam. Sclerema neonatorum: a study of 17 cases. Ind. J. Pediatr. 31:8-13, 1964 Electro-retinography in normal children. Ind. J. Pediatr.
- [Shyam Lal Kalla](https://neglectedscience.com/shyam-lal-kalla/): Shyam Lal Kalla, Indian mathematician in Kuwait (Jodhpur, 04 January 1938 – Authored over 370 research papers and 4 books and monographs Eponym of Kalla theorem CONTRIBUTIONS On a generalized finite Hankel transform, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 190(1):705–11, 2007 On a unified mixture distribution, Applied Mathematics and Computation 182(1):325–32, 2006 On a generalized mixture distribution, Applied Mathematics and Computation 169(2): 943–52, 2005 A generalization of beta-type distribution involving ω-Lauricella function in several variables, Integral Transforms and Special Functions 16(8):691–705, 2005 Solution of Volterra-type integro-differential equations with a generalized Lauricella confluent hypergeometric function in the kernels, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical
- [Shiv Ram Kashyap](https://neglectedscience.com/shiv-ram-kashyap/): Shiv Ram Kashyap, Indian bryologist (Jhelum, Punjab 06 November 1882 – Lahore 26 November 1934) DESCRIBED HEPATICAE TAXA Genera  Aitchisoniella 1914 Fysonia 1923 Mindal 1916 Stephansoniella 1914 Sauchia 1916 Sewardiella 1915 Species Aitchisoniella himalayensis 1914 Asterella mussuriensis Asterella pathankotensis Asterella reticulata  Calycularia compacta Cryptomitrium himalayensis Cyathodium tuberosum Fimbriaria gangetica Fossombronia himalayensis Metzgeria himalayensis Notothylas indica Petalophyllum indicum Plagiochasma articulatum Porella denticulata with Chopra Sauteria spongiosa Scapania purpurea with Chopra Sewardiella tubifera 1915 Stephensoniella brevipedunculata HONORS Kashyapia Chopra 1975 (Musci) Ramiella Stephenson 1921 & Ramiellona Michaelsen 1935 (Oligochaeta)
- [Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami](https://neglectedscience.com/sethunathasarma-krishnaswami/): Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami, Indian geochemist (Thiruvananthaspuram, Kerala State 21 May 1945 – 20 July 2015) Developed innovative and powerful environmental radioactive and radiogenic isotope tracers With H. Craig established 210 Pb-226 Ra radioactive disequilibrium in the deep sea With K.K. Turekian developed U-Th series nuclide applications in aquatic systems Established the accretion rate and growth history of ocean-floor ferromanganese nodules Suggested and demonstrated the use of 210 Pb as a tracer to establish the chronology of lake and near-coastal sediments Used cosmogenic 7 Be and bomb-produced 239 Pb 40 along to 210 Pb to assign ages to various layers in the sediment
- [Satinder Vir Kessar](https://neglectedscience.com/satinder-vir-kessar/): Satinder Vir Kessar, Indian organic chemist (Hoshiarpur 09 June 1932 – Developed highly effective routes for total synthesis of many classes of natural products and compounds of medicinal and structural interest e.g. heterosteroids, steroidal alkaloids and sapogenins, azasteroids and pyridine, isoquinoline, benzazepine, morphinan and quinuclidine nucleus based alkaloids and drugs Synthesized new heterocyclic systems Investigated new thermal routes for generating oxoquinodimethane intermediates such as intramolecular desilysation of arylsulphoxides for benzyne generation (1987-92) Elucidated mechanistic pathways including region diastereo and enantio selectivity of these transformations Developed benzyne cyclisation of haloanils and Lewis acid-promoted lithiation as synthetic procedures Introduced the concept of Lewis
- [Sampurno Kadarsan](https://neglectedscience.com/sampurno-kadarsan/): Sampurno Kadarsan, Indonesian biologist (Surabaya 11 August 1929 – Bandung 17 September 2010) DESCRIBED  ACARI SPECIES Haemaphysalis sumatraensis 1971 with Hoogstraal, El Kammah & Anastos Carios collocaliae 1974 with Hoogstraal, Kaiser & Van Peenen HONORS Kadarsanomys Musser (Mammalia: Rodentia)
- [Sabri Kamel](https://neglectedscience.com/sabri-kamel/): Sabri Kamel, Egyptian ophthalmologist Developed Kamel technique for treatment of pterygium  Pterygium. Its nature and a new line of treatment. Pterygium. Brit. J. Ophthalm. 30:549, 1946 A new knife for doing Van Millingen’s grafting operation. Brit. J. Ophthalm. 24(11):567-70, 1940 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   The treatment of the recurrent pterygium. Bull. Ophthalm. Soc. Egypt 65:37-40, 1972 Keratoplasty in children. Bull. Ophthalm. Soc. Egypt 64:69-72, 1971 The limbic gutter. An aid to corneal surgery. Bull. Ophthalm. Soc. Egypt 59:17, 1966 Scaphocephaly. Bull. Ophthalm. Soc. Egypt 50(9), 1957 The slit-shaped pupil. Bull. Ophthalm. Soc. Egypt 50:109, 1957 The pterygium: its etiology and treatment. Am. J.
- [Roman Kintanar](https://neglectedscience.com/roman-kintanar/): Román Lucero Kintanar, Philippine meteorologist and geophysicist (Cebu 13 June 1929 – Quezón 06 May 2007) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.A. Amador & R.P. Lao. Tropical cyclone hazard in the Philippines. NSDB Technol. J. 5(1):7-8, 1980 Development of improved design criteria to better resist the effects of extreme winds for low-rise buildings in developing countries (1974) With L.A. Amador. Typhoon climatology in relation to weather modification activities WMO 408 (1974) The analysis of annual maximum windspeeds in the Philippines (1971) A study of typhoon microseisms (1958) With J. Quema & A. Alcaraz. The Lanao Earthquake. Phil. Weather Bur. (1955) HONOURS IMO Prize
- [Roberto Miguel Klein](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-miguel-klein/): Roberto Miguel Klein, Brazilian plant ecologist (Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul State 31 October 1923 – Itajaí, Santa Catarina State 13 November 1992) Performed studies on phytosociology, autoecology and dendrology publishing more than 100 works With R. Reitz discovered (collected) 6 new plant genera, about 500 species and many varieties Co-described the posthumous species Psychotria fractistipula 2005 with L.B. Smith & Delprete  HONORS Kleinodendron L.B. Smith & Downs 1964 (Euphorbiaceae)  
- [Rita Kloss](https://neglectedscience.com/rita-kloss/): Gertrud Rita Kloss, Brazilian helminthologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 April 1929 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Families (Nematoda) Chitwoodiellidae 1960 Hystrignathidae 1958 with Travassos Ichthyocephalidae 1958 with Travassos Robertiidae 1960 Genera Nematoda Aglaopterixia 1961 Aoruroides 1958 with Travassos Boraceianema 1958 with Travassos Buzionema 1966 Carlosia 1957 with Travassos Christiella 1957 with Travassos Cranifera 1960 Glaber 1958 with Travassos Longior 1958 with Travassos Mentecle 1958 with Travassos Papillabrum 1962 Paraichthyocephalus 1958 with Travassos Paraxyo 1958 with Travassos Raonema 1966 Salesia 1958 with Travassos Schubartnema 1959 Schwenckiana 1966 Soaresnema 1958 with Travassos Triumphalisnema 1962 Urbanonema 1958 with Travassos Urucuia 1961 Ventelia 1958 with Travassos Vulcanonema 1958 with Travassos Cestoda Itaguaiana 1959 Napolitana 1959 Ruizia 1959 with Travassos Trematoda Magnivitellinum 1966 Pseudoprostenhystera 1966 HONORS (Nematoda) Klossnema Cordeiro & Artigas 1986 Klossinemella Gonçalves da Costa 1961
- [Richard Neil Kilburn](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-neil-kilburn/): Richard Neil Kilburn, South African malacologist (Port Elizabeth 07 January 1942 – Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal Province 26 July 2013) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera/Subgenera Acinodrillia 1988 Benthoclionella 1974 Calactodrillia 1988 Caliendrula 1985 Cinysca 1970 Citharomangelia 1992 Dendrofissurella 1986 with McLean Entomoliva 1991 with Bouchet Fukama 1998 Funa 1988 Gingicithara 1992 Hesperancilla 1981 Inkinga 1988 Javancilla 1981 Librariscala 1985 Magdalemitra 1974 Medusafissurella 1986 with McLean Naudedrillia 1988 Naudoliva 1989 Nquma 1988 Orrmaesia 1988 Papillocithara 1988 Psittacodrillia 1988 Rutelliscala 1985 Scissileda 1994 Striatoguraleus 1994 Tropidoturris 1986 Species/Subspecies 361 HONORS Kilburnia Snyder, Vermeij & Lyons 2012 (Mollusca) LINKS https://bioone.org/journals/African-Invertebrates/volume-54/issue-2/afin.054.0217/Richard-Dick-Neil-Kilburn-19422013–Bibliography-and-Listings-of/10.5733/afin.054.0217.full
- [Ricardo Krone](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-krone/): Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone, German-born Brazilian naturalist and archeologist (Dresden 18 June 1861 – Iguape, São Paulo State 09 September 1917) Expert on caves paleontology and archeology Discovered 17 new fish species described by Miranda Ribeiro beyond new mollusks and fóssil species SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY As grutas calcareas de Iporanga. Rev. Mus. Paulista 3:477-500, 1898 As grutas calcáreas do vale do rio Ribeira de Iguape. Rev. Cent. Cien. Let. Artes Campinas (1905) Estudo sobre as cavernas do Valle do Rio Ribeira. Arch. Museu Nacional 15:139-66, 1909 Notas de Pré-História Paulista. O cemitério de Pombeva. Rev. Mus. S. Paulo 10, 1918 HONORS Kronichthys Miranda
- [Rappal Sangameswara Krishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/rappal-sangameswara-krishnan/): Rappal Sangameswara Krishnan, Indian physicist (Rappal, Kerala 23 September 1911 – 02 October 1999) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a new optical effect (Krishnan effect) in 1937 Demonstrated the existence of deuteron-tritium reaction First established the deuteron-induced fission in uranium and thorium Developed the ultraviolet technique of excitation for Raman spectroscopy and successfully recorded for the first time the second-order Raman spectra of diamond and alkali halides First made Brillouin scattering experiments in diamond, quartz, alumina and alkali halides LINKS http://insaindia.org/pdf/K-Fin-396-466.pdf
- [Ranajit Kumar Kar](https://neglectedscience.com/ranajit-kumar-kar/): Ranajit Kumar Kar, Indian micropalaeontologist (1936 – Diporocolpis: a new type of aperture from the early Eocene sediments of Rajasthan, India (1995) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA ACRITARCHA Cephalia 1974 with Sah  Cryptosphaera 1974 with Sah Octaplata 1974 with Sah Palamea 1974 with Sah Psilosphaera 1974 with Sah Temporina 1974 with Sah FUNGI Ceratohirudispora 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Cervichlamydospora 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Chlamydospora 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Circinoconites 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Colligerites 1977 with Jain Dendromyceliates 1977 with Jain Dictyomykus 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Dictyostromata 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Kutchiathyrites 1977 Lithomucorites 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Lithosporocarpina 2010  with Mandaokar & Kar Meliostroma 2010 with Mandaokar & Kar Mycozygosporangia 2010 with Mandaokar &
- [Rajaram Purushottam Kane](https://neglectedscience.com/rajaram-purushottam-kane/): Rajaram Purushottam Kane, Indian-born Brazilian geophysicist (Damoh 12 November 1926 – Authored 317 papers (until 2014) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY North-South asymmetry of some solar indices. J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys. 67:429-34, 2005 Rainfall extremes in some selected parts of Central and South America: ENSO and other relationships reexamined (1999) Periodicities and ENSO relationships of the seasonal precipitation over six major subdivisions of India (1999) Relationship between BQOs of stratospheric winds, ENSO variability and other atmospheric parameters. Int. J. Climatology 12(5):435-47, 1992  Quasi-biennal and quasi-triennial oscillations in geomagnetic activity indices. Ann. Geophys. Atm. Hydro Space Sciences 15:1581-94, 1997 With N.B. Trivedi. Are the
- [Zhengli Li](https://neglectedscience.com/zhengli-li/): Zhengli Li or Chenglee Lee, Chinese plant morphologist (fl.1948) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Z.M. Zhang, S.C. Clayton & K.M. Cui. Developmental synchronization of male and female gametophytes in Gingko biloba and its neck mother cell division prior to fertilization. Physiol. Plantarum 147(4), 2012 With D.H. Li, X. Yang, X, Cui & K.M. Cui. Early development of pollen chamber in Gingko biloba ovule. Acta Bot. Sinica 44(7):757-63, 2002 With C.J. Ji & X. Yang. Ultrastructural studies on megaspore formation in Gingko biloba. Acta Bot. Sinica 41(12):1323-6, 1999 With Y.J. Fan & K.M. Cui. Comparative anatomical observations of wood structures of Pinus yunnanensis and P. yunnanensis var. pygmaea. Acta Bot. Sin. 36:502-5, 1994 Development
- [Yuk Wing Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/yuk-wing-lee/): Yuk Wing Lee, Chinese / US electrical engineer (Macao 14 April 1904 – California November 1989) Authored 25 papers First used the term network synthesis filters in modern sense (1930) First used the term synthesis to describe the process of assembling an array of elements to meet a specific set of performance requirements in Synthesis of Networks by means of Fourier transforms of Laguerre functions (1932) Authored Applications of Statistical Methods to Communication Problems with great repercussion (1950) Authored book Statistical Theory of Communication (1960) regarded as a milestone in the history of communication theory  Developed and patented electrical network systems with N. Wiener (1930-6)
- [Yuan Tseh Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/yuan-tseh-lee/): Yuan Tseh Lee, Taiwanese chemist (Hsinchu 19 November 1936 – ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a molecular beam technique for detailing chemical reactions With Doug Mc Donald, Pierre Le Breton & George Pisiello constructed an universal crossed molecular beams apparatus equipped with electron bombardment ionizer and mass spectrometer detector that enabled studying problems associated to reaction dynamics, photochemical processes and molecular spectroscopy (1967-8) Designed a mass spectrometer detection system for monitoring collisions and scattering effects Held many patents HONORS Chemistry Nobel Prize  (1986)
- [Yongxiang Lu](https://neglectedscience.com/yongxiang-lu/): Yongxiang Lu, Chinese mechanical engineer (Cixi, Zhejiang Province 28 April 1942 – Authored over 250 papers Set up a new principle on feedback of measuring rate of 12 basic parameters: pressure and flow rate Patented 2-way cartridge electro-hydraulic proportional flow control device and electro-hydraulic proportional pressure control device Developed a series of new electro-hydraulic proportional control components and engineering application systems About 25 patents in China and abroad 
- [Yong-Choen Lieou](https://neglectedscience.com/yong-choen-lieou/): Yong-Choen Lieou, Chinese physician (1897 – ?) Eponym of Barré-Lieou syndrome Syndrome sympathique cervical pósterieur et arthrite cervicale chronique   de la colonne vertebrale cervical (Etude Clinique et radiologique). Thesis, Université de Strasbourg (1928)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Extralabyrinthine vertigo due to cervical muscle lesions. J. Laryngol. 70:356-61, 1956 With C.C. Kouo. Serial passage of the virus of Aujeszky’s disease by scarifications in the rabbits. C.R. Seances Soc. Biol. Fil. 144:629, 1950 With C.C. Kouo. BCG vaccination: 11 years of experience. Chin. Med. J. 67:275-8, 1949  Carriers of rabies virus. Chin. Med. J. 66:694-9, 1948  With C.C. Kouo. Premier cas chinois de maladie
- [Yiyi Li](https://neglectedscience.com/yiyi-li/): Yiyi Li, Chinese metallurgist (Suzhou, Jiangsu Province 20 October 1933 – Authored over 150 scientific publications ACHIEVEMENTS Important contributions in the diffusion and penetration behavior of hydrogen in metals, transformation of alloys under cryogenic and micro-gravity conditions Designed the Fe-Mn-Al system phase diagram and the phase appraisal method First to have experimentally observed the pole mechanism of stacking fault superimposition during martensitic nucleation and growth Discovered that antiferromagnetic transformation exists in low temperature and in Fe-Mn alloy Measured the comprehensive mechanical and physical properties of cryogenic steels between 42 K and 300 K First to propose a technical route for high-pressure
- [Yanhao Lu](https://neglectedscience.com/yanhao-lu/): Yanhao Lu, Chinese paleontologist (Kanshi, Yongding, Fujian Province 16 April 1913 – Nanjing 20 February 2000) Authored over 160 papers Recognized as one of the world’s leading trilobites expert Authored Ordovician trilobite faunas of central and southwestern China (1975) with international acclaim DESCRIBED TRILOBITE TAXA (1941-90) Families Diceratocephalidae 1954 Kueichowiidae 1965 Ordosiidae Genera/Subgenera 85 HONORS (FOSSIL TRILOBITA except one) Luaspis Hupé 1953 Luella Huo 1965 Luia Zhang 1957 Sinoluia Li 1988 Luyanhoaaspis Peng 2001  Luyanhaoia Wittke 1984 Yanhaoia Zhou et al. 1988 Luyanhaochiton Yu 1984 (Fossil Mollusca)
- [Xinyuan Li](https://neglectedscience.com/xinyuan-li/): Xinyuan Li, Chinese molecular biologist (Hengdong County, Hunan Province November 1927 – Authored over 400 patients Discovered many new functions of the interferon mediator 2’- 5’A and proved the existence of its receptor, being the first receptor of an oligoN found in the world literature Discovered the analgesic effect of interleukin 2, found that it could bind to the opioid receptor being the first time to provide substantial data for the regulatory effect of an immune molecule on the function of nerve system Discovered the ab-irritation of leukocyte amboceptors Codiscovered a Super Interferon I (SIFN-I) with promising cancer therapeutic effects Reported
- [Xing Xue Li](https://neglectedscience.com/xing-xue-li/): Xing Xue Li / Hsing-Hsueh Lee, Chinese palaeobotanist (08 April 1917 – 31 October 2010) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Order Gigantopteridales 1983 with Yao Genera Aipteridium 1983 with Yao Amdrupiopsis 1952 with Sze Cathaysiodendron 1963 Chiaohoella 1980 with Ye Chilinia 1980 with Ye Distichotheca 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Eogymnocarpium 1986 with Ye & Zhou Fascipteris 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Gigantonomia 1983 with Yao Gigantotheca 1983 with Yao Hamatophyton 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Hunanophyton 1974 Otofolium 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Pectinangium 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Reticalethopteris 1993 with Shen & Wu Sinophyllum 1952 with Sze Strigillotheca 1974 with Deng, Zhou, Xu & Zhu Torreyocladus 1980
- [William Roland Liebenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/william-roland-liebenberg/): William Roland Liebenberg, South-African mineralogist and metallurgist (Lichtenburg District 28 February 1919 – 1988) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The basal rocks of the Bushveld complex in the Marico District south of Dwarsberg. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 45:81-108, 1942 Notes on the occurrence of a pleochroic variety of cassiterite from South Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 48:1-9, 1945 With L.H. Ahrens. Geochemical studies on some of the rarer elements in South African minerals and rocks. I. Lithium in mica and feldspar. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 48:75, 1945 With L.H. Ahrens. Qualitative spectrochemical analysis of minerals and rocks. Trans. Geol. Soc. S.
- [Viktor Leinz](https://neglectedscience.com/viktor-leinz/): Viktor Leinz, German-born Brazilian geologist, petrographer and mineralogist (Heidelberg, Baden Württemberg State 18 December 1904 – São Paulo 27 March 1983) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.W. Correns. Tuffige sedimente des tobasees Nordsumatra als Beispiele fur die sedimentpetrographische. Bedeutung von Struktur und Textur. Sonder-Abdruck aus dem Centralbl. f. Min. Jahrg. Abt A 11, 1933  Ein Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gesteine von Angola. Zentralbl. f. Min. Abt A 4:97-102, 1935 With O.H. Leonardos. Notas sobre as esmeraldas da Fazenda das Lajes, Itaberahy, Goyaz (1936) Estudos sobre a glaciação permo-carbonífera do sul do Brasil. Bol. D.N.P.M. Ser. Fomento 21:4-7, 1937   A silificação nos sedimentos gondwanicos no sul
- [Tungsheng Liu](https://neglectedscience.com/tungsheng-liu/): Tungsheng (Dongsheng) Liu, Chinese geologist and archaeologist (Shenyang, Liaoning 22 November 1917 –  Beijing 06 March 2008) Authored about 300 papers Demonstrated that loess was laid down by wind (1960s) Demonstrated that loess provides a complete and accurate record of environmental change Discovered the underlying causes of Keshan disease (deficiencies of trace elements) DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA (Pisces) Genera Asiacanthus 1948 Sinolepis 1958 with Pan Sunolepis 1957 Tungtingichthys 1962 with Liu & Tang Species Asiacanthus multituberculatus 1948 Sinolepis macrocephala 1958 with Pan Sinolepis wutungensis 1958 with Pan Sunolepis yumenensis 1957 Tungtingichthys gracilis 1962 with Liu & Tang Others Bunolistriodon intermedius 1963 with Lee (Mammalia) HONORS Tyler Prize for Environment (2002) Liudongshengite
- [Tsung Dao Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/tsung-dao-lee/): Tsung Dao Lee, US/Chinese physicist (Shanghai, 24 November 1926- ACHIEVEMENTS Proved Lee-Yang theorem (1952) With C.N. Yang created the concept of G parity (1955) and proposed the existence of W particle, the intermediate boson Predicted with Yang the violation of parity conservation (1956) independent of studies made by Salam and Landau (1956) Established with colleagues the field of non-topological solitons (1975) Developed a new rapidly convergent iterative procedure to solve a class of Schrodinger equation with R. Friedberg and W.Q. Zhao (2008) HONORS Nobel Physics Prize (1957) Asteroid 3443 Leetsungdao EPONYMY Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem Lee-Yang property Lee model of Quantum Field Theory
- [Tobias Lasser](https://neglectedscience.com/tobias-lasser/): Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (Agua Larga, Falcón State 24 May 1911 – Caracas 25 May 2006) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA   Abolboda killipii 1944 Aniba tschudyana 1948 Beilschmiedia lundelliana 1942 Beilschmiedia roehliana 1946 Bonnetia kathleenae 1946 Calea phelpsiae 1950 with Maguire Clusia phelpsae 1950 with Maguire Clusia scariosa 1950 with Maguire Ditassa acerifolia 1950 with Maguire Endlicheria racemosa 1942 Eugenia mcvaughi 1981 with Steyermark Everardia hitchcockii 1950 with Maguire Eupatorium angulicaule 1950 Guayana yavianum 1954 with Maguire Hirtella pimichina 1954 with Maguire Leitgebia gleasoniana 1945 Meliosma meridensis 1943 Meliosma nubicola 1966 with Steyermark Mollinedia yaviensis 1950 Nectandra bartlettiana 1942 Nectandra glandulifolia 1942 Nectandra larensis 1942 Nectandra meyeriana 1948 Nectandra mucurubensis 1942 Nectandra olivacea 1942 Nectandra pittieri 1942 Ocotea auriculata 1948 Ocotea carabobensis 1942 Ocotea congestifolia 1942  Ocotea glandulosa 1942 Ocotea sanariapensis 1942 Ocotea tabulosa 1942 Persea
- [Thomas Nicholas Leslie](https://neglectedscience.com/thomas-nicholas-leslie/): Thomas Nicholas Leslie, English-born South African amateur scientist (Nottingham December 1858 – Vereeniging, Gauteng Province 05 September 1942) Described with Seward the fossil plant taxa Lepidodendron vereenigingense & Glossopteris angustifolia var. taeniopteroides 1908 BIBLIOGRAPHY BOTANY/PALAEOBOTANY Rare Karroo plants and their cultivation. S. Afr. J. Nat. Hist. 6:108-115, 1927 Observations on some fossil plants from the Permo-Carboniferous of Vereeniging. Proc. Geol. Soc. South Africa 24:19-30, 1921 With A.C. Seward. Permo-carboniferous plants from Vereeniging (Transvaal). Quart. J. Geol. Soc. 64:109-26, 1908 With E.T. Mellor. On a fossil forest recently exposed in the bed of the Vaal River at Vereeniging. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 9 (1906) The fossil flora
- [Thales de Lema](https://neglectedscience.com/thales-de-lema/): Thales de Lema, Brazilian herpetologist (Porto Alegre 06 February 1928 – Porto Alegre 10 October 2020) With S.L.B. Ribeiro & F.M. D’Agostini. A new method to prepare snake scale stratum corneum for epidermatoglyphics analysis using a scanning electron microscope. Com. Museu Cien. Tecnol. PUC-RS Ser. Zool. 18(1):53-6, 2005  DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA Genus Coronelaps 2010 with Deiques Species Apostolepis albicolaris 2002 Apostolepis cerradoensis 2003 Apostolepis christineae 2002 Apostolepis freitasi 2004   Apostolepis kikoi 2018 with Santos, Entiauspe-Neto, Araújo, Souza, Strussmann & Albuquerque  Apostolepis nelsonjorgei 2004 with Renner Apostolepis roncadori 2016 Apostolepis serrana 2006 with Renner Apostolepis striata 2004 Apostolepis tertulianobeui 2004 Apostolepis underwoodi 2017 with Campbell  Calamadontophis ronaldoi 2006 with Franco & Cintra Contomastix vacariensis 2000 with Feltrin
- [Sung Ki Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/sung-ki-lee/): Sung Ki Lee (as well as Sung Gi Ri or Sung-gi Yi), Korean chemist (Damyang, South Jeolla Province 01 October 1905 – 08 February 1996) Authored 48 papers With Japanese I. Sakurada & H. Kawakami developed vinylon synthetic fiber (1939) that patented in 1941 Invented high explosives for North Korea artillery (Lee Sung Ki cannons) Developed methods of dyeing synthetic fibers  
- [Siguang Li](https://neglectedscience.com/siguang-li/): Siguang Li (Lee, J.S.), Chinese geophysicist, paleontologist, sismologist and glaciologist  (Huanggang, Hubei Province 26 October 1889 – Beijing 29 April 1971) Nee Zhongkui Li from Mongolian ancestry  Authored over 80 papers Coined the term geological mechanics (1940s) Established the concept of Tectonic system Pointed out that tectonic stress and its variation have tight relationship with earthquake (1973-4)  DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Trilobita Archaeuloma  1978 Daopingia 1978 Eomalungia 1978 Fandianaspis 1978 Grabauina 1924 Guangyuania 1978 Guizhouanomocare 1978 Longmenshania 1978 Paraichangia 1978 Paranomocare 1973 with Yin Parawutingaspis 1978 Pseudobirmanites 1978 Pseudowutingaspis 1978 Runnania 1978 Saimixiella 1978 Shangsiaspis 1978 Tiangzhushania 1978 with Yin Wudangia 1978 Xinanocephalus 1978 Xiushanopsis 1978 Zhenpingaspis 1978 Protozoa Boultonia 1928 Colania 1934 Eoverbeekina 1934 Fusiella 1930 with Chen Lepidolina 1934 Nankinella 1934 Ozawaina 1927 Pisolina 1934 Sphaerulina 1934 Yangchienia 1934 HONORS Leella Dunbar
- [Shu Yen Lin](https://neglectedscience.com/shu-yen-lin/): Shu Yen Lin, Chinese ichthyologist and fisheries biologist (Hainan 10 August 1903 – 1974) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Discogobio 1931 Miichthys 1938 Procypris 1933 Rectoris 1935 Tanichthys 1932 Species Acheilognathus lanchiensis 1936 with Herre Acrossocheilus clivosius 1935 Acrossocheilus rendahli 1931 Aphyocypris arcus 1931 Atrilinea macrops 1931 Chrysiptera chengi 1934 Cobitis arenae 1934 Discogobio tetrabarbatus 1931 Hemibarbus umbifer 1931 Glyptothorax pallozonus 1934 Lefua sayu 1936 with Herre Liniparhomaloptera disparis 1934 Neosalanx argentea 1932 Onychostoma barbatum 1931 Onychostoma rarum 1933 Pennahia pawak 1940 Platysmacheilus exiguus 1932 Procypris mera 1933 Rectoris mutabilis 1933 Rectoris posehensis 1935 Sillago megacephalus 1933 Siniperca fortis 1932 Tanichthys albonubes 1932 Tor zonatus 1935 Toxabramis hoffmanni 1934 HONORS Liniparhomaloptera Fang 1935 (Pisces) LINKS http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp
- [Shantao Liao](https://neglectedscience.com/shantao-liao/): Shantao Liao, Chinese mathematician (Hengshan, Hunan Province 04 January 1920 – Beijing 06 June 1997) Proposed the concepts of standard systems of differential equations and obstruction sets Introduced the concepts of canonical differential equations and minimal distortion sets Proved that there is always a fixed point under any periodic transformation in the four-dimensional Euclidean space Introduced the symmetrization method of fibre bundles Derived a formula for the secondary obstruction class in sphere bundles Derived a formula for the relative extension and homology classification of the secondary obstruction class First gave the correct proof of C’ closing lemma (1979) Proposed some conjectures regarding characters
- [Seung Mo Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/seung-mo-lee/): Seung Mo Lee, South Korean entomologist (Pyongyang 1923 – 15 April 2008) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA (with Y.J. Kwon) Genera Koreacoptolabrus 1984 Koreculio 1981 Koreoculio 1990 Nabicarabus 1984 Orientocarabus 1984 Pagumia 1990 Toptaria 1990 Weolseocarabus 1984 Species Archarius (Archarius) exiguus 1990 Archarius (Archarius) latispiculum 1990 Archarius (Archarius) parvus 1990 Archarius (Archarius) pictiformis 1990 Curculio flavidorsum 1990 Curculio hallasanensis 1990 Curculio inornatus 1990 Curculio quelparticola 1990 Curculio taebaeksanensis 1990 Curculio velox 1990 Curculio vibariae 1990 Damaster (Acoptolabrus) seonhyeongae 1984 Dactylispa (Triplispa) koreana 1985 with An Eucarabus (Parhomopterus) namhadoensis 1984 Labaninus confluens 1990 Leptocarabus (Aulonocarabus) kwanmobongensis 1984 Pagumia changeoni 1990 Subspecies Aulonocarabus (Aulonocarabus) pseudokoreanus kwanmobongensis 1984 Carabus canalicatus kwanmobogensis 1984 Carabus leechi chiricola 1984 Carabus monilifer hoenggandoensis 1984 Carabus monilifer hongdoensis 1984 Carabus namhadoensis kojedoensis 1984 Carabus schrenckii seonhyeongae 1984 Carabus sternbergi tongdosanus 1984 Carabus wulffiusi ssangnamensis 1984 Carabus kruberi
- [Sang Soo Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/sang-soo-lee/): Sang Soo Lee, South Korean optical physicist (04 October 1925 – 07 May 2010) Authored over 250 papers and 5 books Obtained the spectroscopy of radiative rays Co-designed variable polarization dye laser for use in generating phase conjugate work and the iodine photo-dissociation laser for use in various material processing Developed a four-mirror system for various applications including x-ray optics PATENTS With D.S.Lee, M.S. Lee & J.S. Ko. Apparatus for generating optical carrier suppressed return to zero (2004) HONORS Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, Optical Society of America (2006)
- [Ruqi Li](https://neglectedscience.com/ruqi-li/): Juchi Li / Ruqi Li, Chinese geneticist (Tianjin 02 March 1895 – Beijing 04 April 1991) Published a paper about the effect of chromosomal mutation on fruit fly developments that is considered as a classic in developmental genetics The effect of chromosome aberrations on development in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 12:1-8, 1927 First reported that Ascaris megalocephala had 3 pairs of chromosomes instead of two A six-chromosome Ascaris in Chinese horses. Science 86 (2222):101-2, 1937 Outstanding achievements on embryonic development and environmental adaptation of anuran amphibians
- [Rogério Cerqueira Leite](https://neglectedscience.com/rogerio-cerqueira-leite/): Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite, Brazilian physicist (Santo Anastácio, São Paulo State 13 July 1931 – Authored nearly 80 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Co-discovered thermal lens effect With J.P. Gordon, R.S. Moore, J.R. Whinnery & S. Porto. Long transient effects in laser with insert liquid samples. J. Appl. Physics 36:3, 1965 Co-discovered resonance Raman effect With S.P.S. Porto. Enhancement of the Raman cross section in Cdc  due to resonant Absorption. Physical Review Letters 17:538, 1966   With S.P.S. Porto. A simple method for calibration on ruby laser output. Proc. IEEE 51, 1963 With C.A. Arguello & G.F. Mendes. A simple technique to suppress spurious
- [Roberto Levi-Castillo](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-levi-castillo/): José Roberto Levi-Castillo, Ecuadorian medical entomologist, historian and philatelist (Guayaquil 26 January 1921 – Quito 29 October 2006) Discovered that varieties of an Anopheles species are geographically specific El complejo Pseudopunctipennis en el Ecuador (Diptera, Culicidae). Univ. Guayaquil 28 September: 1-7, 1944 Developed a box for transport of mosquitoes larva and pupa used worldwide Una caja para transportar larvas de mosquito vivas. Rev. Kubana Med. Trop. Parasitol. 10:211-2, 1947 Developed a mounting medium for pieces of mosquitoes El uso del alcool polivinilico de viscosidad media como un medio para el montaje de las larvas, pupas y terminalia masculina de los mosquitos. Rev. Kuba
- [Roberto Landell de Moura](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-landell-de-moura/): Roberto Landell de Moura, Brazilian father and inventor (Porto Alegre 21 January 1861 – Porto Alegre 30 June 1928) From Scottish descent via maternal branch ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first radio transmission in the world (1893), before Marconi (1895); Performed voice transmission wireless before Fessenden (1900) First in the world to transmit wireless telegraphy in continuous waves   Proposed using short waves to augment transmissions range (1901) Recognized the importance of voltaic arc for signs transmission of variable intensity Discovered Kirlian effect (1907) e conceived the first apparatus able to record it  photographically INVENTIONS/PATENTS Patented the first photonic-electronic system in the world (1901)
- [Richard Samuel Lal Mohan](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-samuel-lal-mohan/): Richard Samuel Lal Mohan, Indian marine zoologist (1937 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera   Kathala 1969 Macrospinosa 1969 Panna 1969 Species Acroteriobatus variegatus 1973 with Nair Helcogramma shinglensis 1971 Johnius elongatus 1976 Johnius macrorhynus 1976 Johnius mannarensis 1971 OTHERS Species Macrobrachium kulsiense 2007 with Jayachandran & Raji HONORS Lalmohania Hutchins 1994 (Pisces)
- [Ricardo Lantican](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-lantican/): Ricardo Manzo Lantican, Philippine plant breeder (Los Baños, Laguna 08 January 1933 – Developed more than 20 pest-resistant and high yielding-varieties of mungbean, soybean and peanut through plant breeding First in the world to study cytoplasmic inheritance of hypersensitivity to the leaf blight disease in maize LINKS http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Ricardo_M._Lantican
- [Renato Locchi](https://neglectedscience.com/renato-locchi/): Renato Locchi, Brazilian anatomist (Anhembi, São Paulo State 07 May 1896 – São Paulo 21 May 1978) Son of Italian immigrants. ACHIEVEMENTS  Achieved international projection.  Described one median salience in tongue (with Bovero).   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Les ossifications tentoriales, péritrigéminales et supra-pétreuses dans le crâne humain,, 294.Thesis, São Paulo, 1925. Vena cava superior esquerda no adulto. Annaes de Faculdade Med. São Paulo. 2: 103-128, 1927. A artéria celíaca e suas ramificações no gen. Bradypus. — Arch. Mus. nacion., Rio de Janeiro, 29: 31. 41, 1927. Situação do appendice vermiforme em relação ao ceco em diversas raças humanas. Folia clinica e biologica. São Paulo,
- [Ren Duan Lin](https://neglectedscience.com/ren-duan-lin/): Ren Duan Lin, Chinese ichthyologist (fl.1965-2001) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES Altigena yunnnanensis 1977 with Wu Acrossocheilus beijiangensis 1977 with Wu Discherodontus parvus 1977 Linichthys laticeps 1986 with Zhang Poropuntius carinatus 1977 with Wu Poropuntius exiguus 1977 with Wu Poropuntius rhomboides 1977 with Wu Semilabeo obscurus 1981 Sinocyclocheilus anatirostris 1986 with Luo HONORS Linichthys Zhang & Fang 2005 (Pisces)
- [Reinalda Lanfredi](https://neglectedscience.com/reinalda-lanfredi/): Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi, Brazilian parasitologist and microscopist (Rio de Janeiro 02 January 1947 – Belém 15 March 2009) First report of a rodent species parasitized with naturally occurring concurrent infections with two species of filarial worms With A.H. de Moraes Neto. Prevalence of two species of Litomosoides (Nematoda: Filarioidea) parasites of Akodon cursor (Rodentia:Muridae) from southeastern Brazil. Rev. Braz. Biol. (1997) With K.M. Famadas & N.M. Serra Freire. Slit cuticular structure observed by scanning electron microscopy: presence on the walking legs of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (Acari:Ixodidae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 92(1):53-5, 1997 With K.M. Famadas & N.M. Serra Freire. Perianal integument of the nymph and adult
- [Reginald Frederick Lawrence](https://neglectedscience.com/reginald-frederick-lawrence/): Reginald Frederick Lawrence, South-African zoologist (George, Western Cape Province 06 March 1897 – Pietermaritzburg 09 October 1987) Authored 210 papers and books studying Acari, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Onychophora and Reptilia DESCRIBED GENERA Arachnida (including Acari) 115 Chilopoda Hovanyx 1960 Madageophilus 1960 Diplopoda Microbolus 1967 Schubartina 1958 Myriapoda Attemsodesmus 1953 HONORS Lawrenceus Iwan 1998 (Coleoptera) Allaurencius Verhoeff 1939 (Diplopoda) Lawrencarus Fain 1957 (Acari) Lawrenceocarpus Dusbabek & La Cruz 1966 (Acari) Lawrenciola Roewer 1935 (Arachnida) Lawrencella Strand 1932 (Arachnida) Lawrencega Roewer 1933 (Arachnida) Subg. Laurentella Audy 1956 (Acari)
- [Raymond Ferdinand Laurent](https://neglectedscience.com/raymond-ferdinand-laurent/): Raymond Ferdinand Louis Philippe Laurent, Belgian / Argentine herpetologist (Wasmes, Wallonian Region, Hainaut Province 16 May 1917 – San Miguel de Tucumán 03 February 2005) Developed a new biometrical method for finding better ratio characters  DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Amphibia Families Herpelidae 1984 Mantellidae 1946 Hyperoliidae 1943 Phrynobatrachidae 1941 Subfamily Scaphiophryninae 1946 Genera Abroscaphus 1940 Acanthixalus 1944 Afrixalus 1944 Arthroleptulus 1940 Callixalus 1950 Chrysobatrachus 1951 Coracodichus 1940 Cryptothylax 1950 with Combaz Elaphromantis 1941 Heterixalus 1944 Heteropelis 1941 Hylobatrachus 1943 Indirana 1986 Kassinula 1940 Lynchophrys 1983 Phlyctimantis 1950 with Combaz Pseudophilautus 1943 Taphriomantis 1941 Reptilia Valid Genera Dendrolycus 1956 Helophis 1942 with De Witte Valid Species & Subspecies  101 HONORS Laurentophryne Tihen 1960 (Amphibia)
- [Ramón Latorre](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-latorre/): Ramón Rogelio Latorre de la Cruz, Chilean biophysicist and cellular physiologist (Santiago 29 October 1941- ACHIEVEMENTS With spouse Cecilia Hidalgo measured the electric potential of jibia axons With M.C. Hidalgo. Effect of temperature on resting potential in giant axons of squid. Nature 221 (962):219, 1969 Set the basis for understanding voltage-dependent conductances with single channel studies many years before patch clamping techniques With G. Ehrenstein & H. lecar. Ion transport through excitability-inducing material (EIM) channels in lipid bilayer membranes. J. Gen. Physiol. 60:72, 1972  First to demonstrate the existence of ion channels in muscle tissue independently of other researchers (1981) Predicted
- [Ramon Godofredo Loyarte](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-godofredo-loyarte/): Ramón Godofredo Loyarte Merino, Argentine physicist (Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province 08 November 1888 – Buenos Aires 30 May 1944) Authored 40 works about magnetism and atomic spectroscopy Developed an experimental method for hysteresis losses With R. Gans. Uber drehende hysteresis. Arch. F. Elektr. 3(6):139-50, 1915 With R. Gans gave the first qualitative theoretical explanation about ferromagnetic resonance absorption in Ann. Physik 64(4):209, 1921 Showed that iron and nickel elements lost its magnetism the frequence of short Hertzian waves Conjectured the existence of quantum states of atomic rotation (1927), refuted by Loedel Palumbo Described a device for finding lines at ultraviolet
- [Ralph Lainson](https://neglectedscience.com/ralph-lainson/): Ralph Lainson, British parasitologist and protozoologist in Brazil (Upper Beeding, Sussex, England 21 February 1927 – Belém do Pará 05 May 2015) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 150 papers Demonstrated the role of wild rodents as reservoirs of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Central and South America With O. Causey first to show species of Leishmania other than Leishmania braziliensis infecting humans (1963)  Described the first experimental transmission of Leishmania chagasi by the bite of the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis With R. Ward & J.J. Shaw. Experimental transmission of Leishmania chagasi, causative agent of neotropical visceral leishmaniasis, by the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis. Nature (London), 266(5603):628-630, 1977 With P. D. Ready. First experimental transmission of a neotropical Leishmania by
- [Rajendra Nath Lakhanpal](https://neglectedscience.com/rajendra-nath-lakhanpal/): Rajendra Nath Lakhanpal, Indian palaeobotanist (Sowaddi, Panjab 05 August 1923 – Lucknow 19 January 2012) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA (incomplete) Genera Atlantioxylon 1978 with Prakash & Bande Baphioxylon 1970 with Prakash Brachystegioxylon 1970 with Prakash Calophylloxylon 1965 with Awasthi Euphorioxylon 1981 with Awasthi & Guleria Heritieroxylon 1981 with Prakash & Awasthi Isoberlineoxylon 1970 with Prakash Mallotoxylon 1964 with Dayal Mesuoxylon 1963 with Awasthi Mimosaceoxylon 1970 with Prakash Monocotylostrobus 1982 with Prakash & Bande Pterospermoxylon 1980 with Awasthi & Guleria Schleicheroxylon 1981 with Awasthi & Guleria Tetrameleoxylon 1966 with Verma Species Aphanamixis bhikhnatoriensis 1990 with Awasthi Araucarioxylon mohgaoensis 1975 with Prakash & Bande Ardisia antiqua Atlantioxylon indicum 1978 with Prakash & Bande Baphioxylon premicrophyllum 1970 with Prakash Bauhinia kachhhensis 1982 with
- [Rafael Lucio](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-lucio/): Rafael Lucio Najera, Mexican leprologist (Xalapa, Vera Cruz State 02 September 1819 – Ciudad de Mexico 30 May 1886) With I. Alvarado described a form of lepromatous leprosy with diffuse infiltration of skin and without nodules known as diffuse leprosy of Lucio-Alvarado-Latapí or simply Lucio leprosy With I. Alvarado described necrotizing erythema seen in Lucio leprosy known as Lucio phenomenon Performed possibly the first ligature of femoral artery at lower vortex of Scarpa triangledue to direct popliteal artery aneurysm (1843) First to note the relationship between the chorea and heart lesions
- [Rafael Laguardia](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-laguardia/): Rafael Laguardia Carle, Uruguayan mathematician (Montevideo 10 January 1906 – Montevideo 31 August 1980) Eponym of theorem of Laguardia SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On some asymptotic properties of the Laplace transformation. Annalen 161:116-24, 1965 Sobre la extension de una desigualdad de Tchebycheff (1947) With B. Levi. On the representation by integrals of some functions defined by Taylor expansions and its application to the solution of partial differential equatons. Publ. Inst. Mat. Univ. Nac. Litoral 4:205-32, 1943
- [Qun Lin](https://neglectedscience.com/qun-lin/): Qun Lin, Chinese mathematician (Fujian Province 15 July 1935 – Suggested an alternative version of calculus to liberate theorems from proofs Developed extrapolation techniques into an unified approach to finite element method from individual methods Found out the lower and upper bounds from several nonconforming finite element methods, gave the a posteriori error estimate and proved the higher order accuracy of extrapolation     Formulated a systematic accelerating theory of  the solving of the differential equations with abroad repercussion known as theory of exploration of finite and boundary element solution of partial differential equations (1970s) HONOURS Bolzano Honorary Medal, Czech Republic Academy of Sciences 
- [Protasio Lemos da Luz](https://neglectedscience.com/protasio-lemos-da-luz/): Protásio Lemos da Luz, Brazilian cardiologist (Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul State 24 February 1940 – Created the concept of myocardial hibernation With G.A. Diamond, J.S. Forrester et al. Post-extrasystolic potentiation of ischemic myocardium by atrial stimulation. Am. Heart J. 95:204-9, 1978 With L.B. Puig, L. Franca Neto, M. Rati, J.A.F. Ramires, F. Pileggi & A.D. Jatene. A technique of anastomosis of the right internal mammary artery to the circunflex artery and its branches. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 38:533-4, 1984 With S. Almeida Oliveira, A.C.P. Barretto, C. Mady, L.A. Dallan, A.D. Jatene & F. Pileggi. Surgical treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis: a
- [Policarpo Luis](https://neglectedscience.com/policarpo-luis/): Policarpo Luis Martín, Argentine microchemist (Tres Arroyos 28 July 1914 – ?) Developed a new method for isolating and identifying cocaine before a number of anesthetic compounds  Developed a new color reaction for assessing nicotine (1941) Proposed new reagents for identifying hydrogen cyanide such as PAR-palladium 
- [Pingtao Li](https://neglectedscience.com/pingtao-li/): Ping Tao Li or Bingtao Li, Chinese botanist (1936 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Antiostelma 1992 with Tsiang  Archileptopus 1991 Chieniodendron 1964 with Tsiang Parepigynum 1973 with Tsiang Pentastelma 1974 with Tsiang Sichuania 1995 with Gilbert Sinomarsdenia 1997 with Chen Tsiangia 1986 with But & Hsue Vietnamia 1994 Species About 200 Others 4 tribes, 1 subfamily, 1 subgenus, 9 sections and 11 varieties 
- [Peter Wilhelm Lund](https://neglectedscience.com/peter-wilhelm-lund/): Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish-born Brazilian naturalist and archaeologist (Copenhagen 14 June 1801 – Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais State 25 May 1880) First cousin of famous philosopher Soren Kierkergaard   Performed the first correct description of Decapoda crustacean heart (1825) Described plant species Eupatorium rufescens 1836 First to report the existence of sambaquis in coasts and rupestrian inscriptions in caves of Brazil Discovered Lagoa Santa Man (1843) DESCRIBED  ANIMALIA TAXA Hymenoptera Genera (1831) Ancylognathus Condylodon Crematogaster Dolicherus Dolichoderus Pseudomyrmex Valid Fossil Mammalia Genera Leptotherium 1838 Ocnotherium 1842 Protopithecus 1838 Smilodon 1842 Species 32 Valid Living Mammalia Genera Phyllomys 1839 Speothos 1839 Species Calomys expulsus 1841 Carterodon sulcidens 1841 Didelphis albiventris 1840 Lycalopex vetulus 1842 Marmosops
- [Pedro Larghero Ibarz](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-larghero-ibarz/): Pedro Larghero Ibarz or Ybarz, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 13 March 1901 – Montevideo 1963) Authored 172 papers Described Larghero Ibarz cholecystographic halo sign (1962) Eponym of Larghero cholecystis or exfoliative cholecystis SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W. Venturino & G. Broli. Equinococosis hidatica del abdomen (1962) With H. Ardao & P. Purriel. Pioneumotorax y colepioneumotorax hidático (1935) Foreign Associate Member, Academie de Chirurgie de France (1948)
- [Pedro Lagleyze](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-lagleyze/): Pedro Lagleyze Gastelú, Argentine ophthalmologist  (Buenos Aires 03 September 1855 – Buenos Aires 14 August 1916) Son of French immigrants Described the aneurismatic degeneration of the retinal arteries or Lagleyze-Von Hippel disease (1888) Developed surgical procedures and instruments OPERATIONS/APPARATUSES An operation for entropion for upper and lower eyelid (Lagleyze technique) Operation for entropion and trichiasis by a new method. Ann. Ophthalm. St. Louis 14:473-7, 1905 A tucking operation of the eye for strabismus with muscle shortening (Lagleyze method) Nuevo procedimiento para el acortamiento muscular en el estrabismo (1891) Placing ocular prosthesis employing paraffin spheres after nucleation (Lagleyze method)   A procedure for pterygion
- [Paul LeCointe](https://neglectedscience.com/paul-lecointe/): Paul Georges Aimé Le Cointe, French-born Brazilian chemist and geographer (Tournon, Ardeche 24 September 1870 – Belém 03 February 1956) Studied natural products from Amazonian flora With C. Pesce discovered the properties of ucuuba tallow Performed the first studies on chemistry and toxicology of Ryania genus plants (1923) O princípio ativo das plantas do gênero Ryania ou Patrisia (Flacourtiaceae). Bol. Esc. Chim. Ind. Belém 1:43-7, 1929 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A valorização da borracha e o processo de coagulação Cerqueira Pinto (1918) A cultura do cacau na Amazônia (1919) L’Amazonie Brésilienne (1922) Apontamentos para a exploração da batata e da juta da Amazônia (1923) Note sur las graines oleagineuses, les baumes
- [Pablo de La Llave](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-de-la-llave/): Pablo de La Llave Fernandez, Mexican naturalist, philologist and politician (Cordoba, Veracruz Province 11 February 1773 – Cordoba, Veracruz Province July 1833) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Plantae Valid Genera Aldama 1824 (Asteraceae) Casimiroa 1825 (Rutaceae) Cuitlauzina 1825 with Lexarza (Orchidaceae) Galeana 1824 (Asteraceae) Hidalgoa 1824 (Asteraceae) Oteiza 1832 (Asteraceae) Roldana 1825 (Asteraceae) Zexmenia 1824 (Asteraceae) Species About 100 Animalia Arthropoda Genus Ahuautlea 1832 (Heteroptera) Species Ahuautlea mexicana 1832 (Heteroptera) Llaveia axin (Hemiptera) Myrmecocystis melliger (Hymenoptera) Aves Genus Pharomachrus 1832 Species Amazilia tzacatl Pharomachrus mocinno 1832 HONORS Llavea Lagasca 1816 (Pteridophyta) Llaveia Signoret 1876 (Hemiptera) Llaveiella Morrison 1927 (Hemiptera) 
- [Othon Henry Leonardos](https://neglectedscience.com/othon-henry-leonardos/): Othon Henry Leonardos, Brazilian geologist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 08 June 1899 – Rio de Janeiro 1977) From English and Greek descent With Avelino I. de Oliveira authored Geologia do Brasil (1940), a work with international value SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudo mineralógico do ferro aplicado ao Brasil (1925) Chumbo e prata no Brasil (1934) Tantalo, nióbio, urânio e rádio no Brasil (1936) With V. Leinz. Notas sobre as esmeraldas da Fazenda das Lages, Itaberahy, Goyaz (1936) Diamante e carbonado no Estado da Bahia (1937) Monazita no Estado da Bahia (1937) Ferro no Paraná (1938) Concheiros naturais e sambaquis (1938) Grafita no Estado de Minas
- [Oswaldo Ubríaco Lopes](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-ubriaco-lopes/): Oswaldo Ubríaco Lopes, Brazilian physiologist (São Paulo 29 May 1937 – MECHANISMS With J.F. Palmer proposed respiratory “gating” mechanism for cardiac slowing in Nature (1976) With J.F. Palmer. Mechanism of hypothalamic control of cardiac component of sinus nerve reflex. Quart. J. Exper. Physiol. 63:231-54, 1978 With A.F. Tramposch, C.L. Chernicky & C.M. Ferrario. Alternative mechanism for attenuated pressor responses in Av3v lesioned dogs. Amer. J. Physiol. 431-8, 1989 Characterized the cardiovascular function of caudal ventrolateral medulla With P.G. Guertzenstein. A depressor area on the ventral surface of the medulla. J. Physiol. 301:35-6, 1980 Resumed the researches about the caudal pressor area
- [Oswaldo Lange](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-lange/): Oswaldo Lange, Brazilian neurologist (São Paulo 28 April 1903 – São Paulo 29 August 1986) ACHIEVEMENTS  Described and characterized the cerebrospinal fluid syndrome in neurocysticercosis  Sindrome liquorico da cisticercose encefalo-meningéia. Rev. Neurol. Psiqu. S. Paulo 6:35-48, 1940 Detailed the behavior of cephalorhachidian fluid in preclinical neurosyphilis  Sifilis nervosa pré-clinica: contribuição a profilaxia da sífilis nervosa pelo exame do líquido cefalorraquidiano. Thesis (1938)  Created a new kind of neurological semiology Developed a technique for detection of neoplasic cells in cerebrospinal fluid 
- [Oswaldo Gonçalves de Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-goncalves-de-lima/): Oswaldo Gonçalves de Lima, Brazilian industrial chemist (Recife 07 November 1908 – Recife 21 September 1989) Gained international recognition for his researches on fields of microbiology and chemistry With A.R. Mattos demonstrated that vinasse could be used as fertilizer on soil (1934) First to establish  cashew as source of vitamin C  Obtained salts of organic acids (1940s) Um novo derivado sulfamídico, altamente solúvel: o sal de sódio do acido parasulfonamidanilmetilsuccinico (novo método de obtenção) 1946 Um novo derivado sulfanilamídico solúvel e incolor: o sal de sódio para-sulfonamidanilcitraconico. J. Med. Pernambuco (1940)  Discovered antibacterial activity of lapachol (1956) Extracted naphtoquinones and lapachol
- [Orlando Lodovici](https://neglectedscience.com/orlando-lodovici/): Orlando Lodovici, Brazilian surgeon (Arceburgo, Minas Gerais State 01 October 1920 – São Paulo 28 January 2002)  DESCRIBED/MODIFIED SURGICAL TECHNIQUES  With V. Spina. Técnica conservadora para o tratamento de lábio leporino unilateral: reconstituição do tubérculo mediano. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 5(5):325-30, 1959 With V. Spina. Conservative technique for treatment of unilateral cleft lip: reconstitution of the midline tubercle of the vermillion. British J. Plast. Surg. 13:110-7, 1960 With V. Spina. Tratamento da orelha em abano. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. Univ. São Paulo 15:78, 1960 New incision for mastectomy in the treatment of breast carcinoma. Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S.
- [Omar Linares](https://neglectedscience.com/omar-linares/): Omar Jesús Linares Prato, Venezuelan vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist (Caracas 1946 – DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Living Mammalia Species Lonchorhina orinocensis 1971 with Ojasti Subspecies Natalus stramineus tronchonii 1971 Neoplatymops mattogrossensis bolivarensis 1992 with Escalante Pteronotus parnelli paraguanensis 1974 with Ojasti Fossil Reptilia Genera (with Paolillo 2007) Barinasuchus Langstonia Zulmasuchus Species Barinasuchus arveloi 2007 with Paolillo Mammalia Genera Protoprocyon 1981 Rhapsodus 1981 Species Bolivartherium codorensis 2004 Bolivartherium urumaquensis 2004 Cyonasua pascuali 1981 Desmodus archaeodaptes 1988 with Morgan & Ray Desmodus draculae 1988 with Morgan & Ray Protoprocyon savagei 1981 Rhapsodus tedfordi 1981
- [Nripendra Lal Lahiry](https://neglectedscience.com/nripendra-lal-lahiry/): Nripendra Lal Lahiry, Indian food technologist (1914 – ?) Developed many highly proteic foods for malnutrition as soya bean, peanut, fish, meat and poultry derivatives A process to produce vegetable milk powder from two or more vegetable oilseeds Proposed the use of ammonia for preserving fish (1963) 
- [Niyazi Lodos](https://neglectedscience.com/niyazi-lodos/):  Niyazi Lodos, Turkish entomologist (Zeytinliova, Manisa Province 1921 – 10 October 1997) DESCRIBED NEW INSECTA TAXA Coleoptera Genus Parhaptomerus 1979 with Osella Species Aomus bashi 1987 with Fremuth Apion (Catapion) austroturcum 1977 with Bajtenov Apion (Ceratapion) cystocephalus 1977 with Bajtenov Apion (Ceratapion) efratense 1978 with Bajtenov Apion (Metatrichapion) tigrense 1977 with Bajtenov Apion (Taenapion) tavriense 1980 with Bajtenov Apion neorelictum 1977 with Bajtenov Caryedon akdamaricus 1979 with Decelle Eusonomorphus ilerii 1987 with Fremuth Fremuthiella transversa 1977 with Bajtenov Gymnetron (Gymnetron) mongolicum 1980 with Bajtenov Lignyodes (Lignyodes) dieckmannii 1982 with Clark Megamecus shevketi 1979 Melicius iranicus 1993 with Osella & Zuppa Phloeophagus brignolii 1993 with Osella & Zuppa Rhynchaenus (Pseudorchestes) deserti 1980 with Bajtenov Subspecies Hoplopteridius lutosus anatolicus 1979 with
- [Napoleão João Baptista Level](https://neglectedscience.com/napoleao-joao-baptista-level/): Napoleão João Baptista Level, Brazilian naval engineer (Ilhéus, Bahia State 20 November 1828 – Paris 1915) From French parents   ACHIEVEMENTS   The vessels that he designed and built are said to have unique and innovative features  Designed about 45 ships Constructed Ipiranga corvette, one of firsts in the world with screw propeller (1852-4) Designed a distinct tower for monitor warships  Built monitor warship Pará (1867) with the following innovations: armor-plated rotary conning tower with bulky gauge, propellant apparatus with 2 engines and 2 propellers and small load-draught Built ironclad Sete de Setembro with fully metallic timbers
- [Murilo Rodolfo de Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/murilo-rodolfo-de-lima/): Murilo Rodolfo de Lima, Brazilian paleontologist (Recife 02 December 1945 – São Paulo 27 March 1995) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE AND POLLEN  Genera Cavamonocolpites 1978 Crotonipollis 1976 Regalipollenites 1980 Species Cavamonocolpites punctatus 1978  Cornetipollis perforata 1978 Crotonipollis araripensis 1976 Crotonipollis dubius 1976  Crybelosporites truncatus 1979 Deltoidospora tenuis 1978 Equisetosporites costaliferous 1980  Equisetosporites crenulatus 1981 Equisetosporites elegans 1980 Equisetosporites elongatus 1980  Equisetosporites fissuratus  Equisetosporites fragilis 1980 Equisetosporites lanceolatus 1980 Equisetosporites laticostatus 1980  Equisetosporites leptomatus 1980 Equisetosporites luridus 1980 Equisetosporites minuticostatus 1980 Equisetosporites reyrei 1981 Equisetosporites strigatus 1980  Equisetosporites subcircularis 1980 Gnetaceaepollenites jansonii 1980 Gnetaceaepollenites ornatus 1980 Gnetaceaepollenites perforatus 1980 Gnetaceaepollenites retangularis 1978 Gnetaceaepollenites santosii 1980  Gnetaceaepollenites uesuguii 1980 Matonisporites silvai 1979 Paludites mamelonatus 1979 Penetetrapites incipiens 1978 Singhia acicularis 1980 Singhia crenulata 1980 Singhia minima 1980  Singhia punctata 1980  Singhia reyrei 1980  Stellatopollis araripensis densiornatus 1976 Stellatopollis densiornata 1986 Ostracoda Species 
- [Miguel Lillo](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-lillo/): Miguel Ignacio Lillo, Argentine naturalist and philologist (Tucumán 27 July 1862 – Tucumán 04 May 1931) DESCRIBED TAXA Plantae About 70 new species Aves Genus Pseudocolopteryx 1905 Species Pseudocolopteryx dinelliana 1905 Eudromia formosa 1905 Subspecies Asthenes pyrrholeuca leptasthenuroides 1905 Cyanoliseus patagonus andinus 1913 with Dabbene Eudromia elegans intermedia 1913 with Dabbene HONORS Michelilloa Archangelsky & Brett 1963 (Fossil Plantae) Lilloaciura Aczel 1953 (Diptera) Lilloiconcha Weyrauch 1965 (Mollusca Gastropoda)
- [Miguel Layrisse](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-layrisse/): Miguel Angel Layrisse Marrero, Venezuelan nutritionist and hematologist (Caracas 06 May 1919 – Caracas 22 February 2002) Authored over 267 scientific papers and 7 books Discovered Diego blood factor, the first practically confined to people of Mongoloid origin With T. Arends & R. Domíguez Sisco. Nuevo grupo sanguíneo encontrado en descendientes de indios. Acta Med. Venez. 3:132, 1955 With Z. Layrisse, E. García, J. Wilbert & J.R. Parra. New Rh phenotype, Dcceieif, found  in a Chibcha Indian tribe. Nature 191:503-4, 1961 With T. Arends, M.L. Gallango, J. Wilbert & H.D. Heinen. Albumin Warao: new type of human alloalbuminemia Blood 33(3):414-20, 1969 With Z.
- [Mario Luxoro](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-luxoro/): Mario Fernando Luxoro Mariani, Chilean biophysicist and physiologist (Santiago 01 February 1926 – Santiago 26 December 2016) From Italian descent Some of the most relevant papers in the literature about membrane excitability were produced in his lab Provided the first demonstration that proteins rather than lipids are involved in the flux of ions across the nerve plasma membrane, participating in the generation of the action potential With Eduardo Rojas. Microinjection of trypsin into axons of squid. Nature 199:78-9, 1963 Recognized the dynamic state of intracellular calcium With S. Rissetti. Calcium eflux in giant axons. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 135:368-70, 1967 With E. Yañez.
- [Marcos Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo](https://neglectedscience.com/marcos-rafael-lamothe-argumedo/): Marcos Rafael Lamothe-Argumedo, Mexican helminthologist and parasitologist (Ciudad de Mexico 25 April 1932 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 December 2013) Authored over 130 papers, 26 book chapters and 4 books  DESCRIBED NEW TAXA (Monogenea, Digenea and Trematoda) Subfamilies  2 Genera Bravocotyle 1968 Caballeroiella 1977 Caballerocythus 2005 with Falcon Ordaz, Garcia Prieto & Fernandez Caluromytrema 1989 Campechetrema 1997 with Salgado Maldonado & Pineda López   Mamaevicotyle 1984 Margotrema 1972 Mexicotrema 1969 Paradawesia 1976 with Bravo-Hollis Pelaezia 1986 with Ponciano Rodríguez Polycryptocylix 1973  Polymicrocotyle 1967 Pseudocaencicola 1993 with Salgado Maldonado & Pineda López Riojatrema 1964 Stunkardiella 1986 with Ponciano Tabascotrema 1990 with Pineda López Winteria 1971 Species 41 (until 2008) HONORS Lamotheoxyuris Falcón Ordaz, Fernandez & García Prieto 2010 (Nematoda)
- [Manuel López Figueiras](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-lopez-figueiras/): Manuel López Figueiras, Cuban-born Venezuelan botanist and lichenologist (Jobabo, Las Tunas 16 June 1915 – Caracas 25 April 2012) From Spanish parents DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Plantae Species (with Ruiz Terán) Libanothamnus griffini 1976 Libanothamnus wurdackii 1976 Paragynoxys cuatrecasasii 1974 Pentacalia mason-halei 1976 Ruilopezia cuatrecasasii 1974 Ruilopezia lopez-palacii 1976 Lichenes Species (with Mason Hale 1979) Everniastrum paramense Hypotrachyna cendensis Hypotrachyna meridiensis Hypotrachyna neoflavida Parmotrema larense HONORS Lopezaria Kalb & Hafellner 1990 (Lichenes)  Ruilopezia Cuatrecasas 1976 (Asteraceae)
- [Makund Behari Lal](https://neglectedscience.com/makund-behari-lal/): Makund Behari Lal Sahab, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh State 31 January 1907 – Dayalbagh, Agra State 05 December 2002) Authored over 100 research papers First to demonstrate that the pungent smell of the stink gland secretion of millipeds is due to chlorine (1933) Demonstrated a simple method for maintaining live Echinorhynchus truttae for several days using 1% solution of sodium chloride (1947) Demonstrated in detail how the infection of the snail by trematode larvae affects the life of the host With S.C. Shrivastava proved the non-chitinous nature of the scorpion epicuticle (1957) Demonstrated the occurrence of haemoglobin in helminths (1959) Showed that
- [Lynch Arribalzaga brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/lynch-arribalzaga-brothers/): Felix Benito Lynch Arribalzaga, Argentine entomologist  (Buenos Aires 03 April 1854 – Buenos Aires 10 April 1894) Enrique Lynch Arribalzaga, Argentine entomologist and ornithologist (Buenos Aires 26 August 1856 – Resistencia, Jujuy Province 28 June 1935) They were of Irish descent.   TAXA DESCRIBED Diptera (considering the global production of brothers) Tribes  Chriorhinini 1892 Xilotini 1891  GENERA   Planetolestes 1879 Asicya 1880 Ceratotaenia 1880 Leptoharpacticus 1880 Cyclicomera 1881 Phonicocleptes 1881 Tolmerolestes 1881 Rhathimomyia 1882  Stratiotomyia 1882   Pediophoneus 1883 Argentinomyia 1891  Heteronycha 1891 Holmbergia 1891   Janthinosoma 1891 Ochlerotatus 1891 Taeniorhynchus 1891 Uranotaenia 1891 Promilesia 1892 Felix Lynch Arribalzaga  (Genera described Coleoptera and Hymenoptera) Astenus 1884 Campoporus 1884 Chloecharis 1884 Cryptocompsus 1884 Heterophaena 1884 Myrmecoxenia 1884 Oligonotus 1884 Scaptopoda 1878 (Hymenoptera) Sciocharis 1884 Stenosidotus 1884 Stereocephalus 1884 Enrique Lynch Arribalzaga (Subspecies described Aves) Tachybaptus dominicus
- [Luiz Gonzaga Lordello](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-gonzaga-lordello/): Luiz Gonzaga Engelberg Lordello, Brazilian helminthologist and plant pathologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 11 March 1926 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 04 February 2002) Authored over 150 papers and textbooks DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES AND ITS PARASITES First record of Pratylenchus vulnus on the roots of peach trees in Nematodo nocivo ao pessegueiro. Rev. Agric. 48(2-3):128, 1973 With A.R. Monteiro & O. Suzuki. Nova doença da fruteira do conde causada pelo nematóide Radopholus similis. Rev. Agric. 37:67-71, 1962 With C.P. Costa. A new nematode parasite of coffee roots in Brazil. Rev. Bras. Biol. 21(4):363-6, 1961 Uma doença do feijoeiro causada por nematóides. Rural 41(486):21, 1961
- [Luiz & Maria Labouriau](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-maria-labouriau/): Luiz Fernando Gouvea Labouriau, Brazilian plant physiologist (Rio de Janeiro 22 June 1921 – Brasilia 29 March 1996) From French descent and nephew of ophthalmologist Hilario Soares de Gouvea Authored about 75 papers Recognized worldwide for his studies on seeds germination Introduced the thermodynamics and information theory (1976) in studies of germination physiology Performed important contributions to germination kinetics and its thermodynamical treatment Provided original interpretations about temperature effects on proteins stability during the germination process Seed germination as thermobiological problem. Rad. Environ. Biophysics 15:345-66, 1978  Proposed mathematical expressions to measure the germination process (1983)   Discovered that the fern Regnellidium diphyllum produces rubber being
- [Luis Roger Lambert](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-roger-lambert/): Luis Roger Lambert, French-born Argentine geologist and paleontologist (fl.1943-56) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.A.S. Piscione. Una hipotesis sobre el origin de potentes espesores del yeso Perfil geologico en el valle superior del rio de los Patos Sur, Provincia de San Juan (1943) Algunas Trigonias del Neuquen. Rev. Museo La Plata Ser. Paleont. 2(14):357-97, 1944 Contribución al conocimiento de la Sierra de Chacai Có (Neuquen). Rev. Soc. Geol. Arg. 1:4, 1945 Geologia de la zona de las cabeceras del rio Catan-Lil (Territorio de Neuquen) 1948 Geologia del Cerro Bola (1948) With C.A. Galli. Observaciones geologicas en la región situada entre Piedra del Aguila y Paso
- [Luis Federico Leloir](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-federico-leloir/): Luis Federico Leloir Aguirre, Argentine biochemist (Paris 06 September 1906 – Buenos Aires 02 December 1987) ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained with Juan Mauricio Muñoz, the first free-cell oxidative system (1939) Discovered angiotensin with E. Braun-Menendez, J.C. Fasciolo and J.M. Muñoz (1939), a discovery independent from Page and Helmer  With E. Braun-Menendez, J.C. Fasciolo and A. Taquini described enzymatic nature of renin-angiotensin system and its link to arterial hypertension Discovered sugar nucleotides, determined its chemical nature and showed that play a key role in sugar interconversion and polysaccharides synthesis (1948)  with R. Caputto, C.E. Cardini and A. Paladini Showed that biosynthesis of sugar and
- [Luis de la Fuente](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-de-la-fuente/): Luis Mansueto de la Fuente Carrizo, Argentine cardiologist (La Rioja 29 July 1932 – Authored over 400 scientific works CONCEPTS Proposed the cardiac catheterism in acute myocardial infarction or invasive coronariography (1970) Showed the permeability of by-pass (1971) Proposed the coronary sinus acting as a fifth heart cavity (2002) With A. Barceló & S.H. Stertzer. Anatomic and histologic review of the coronary sinus. Int. J. Morphol. 22(4):331-8, 2004 With S. Stertzer named biointerventionist cardiology ACHIEVEMENTS With J.H.K. Vogel & L.D. Craddock. Una tecnica simple para detectar cortocircuitos arteriovenosos intracardíacos y para identificar las ondas P del eletrocardiogramas en las arritmias complexas. Rev. Arg.
- [Lucien Lison](https://neglectedscience.com/lucien-lison/): Lucien Alphonse Joseph Lison, Belgian / Brazilian histochemist   (Trazegnies, Hainaut Province 13 March 1907 – 1979) ACHIEVEMENTS With J. Pasteels demonstrated the occurrence of DNA synthesis after mitosis and developed a new histophotometer (1950) Established histochemistry as autonomous discipline distinguishing between simple staining techniques and cytochemical ones (1936) Performed studies on enzymatic histochemistry and described a series of new methods for locating substances in tissue cuts  With A.R. Cruz. Constance de la relation de croissance nucleocytoplasmique dans certains neurones pendant le development. C.R. Acad. Sci. 245:1838, 1959 Lison stain   Alcian blue 8G with chlorantine fast red 5B. A technique for
- [Lleras Codazzi family](https://neglectedscience.com/lleras-codazzi-family/): Ricardo Lleras Codazzi, Colombian geologist and mineralogist (Bogotá 20 February 1869 – Girardot, Cundinamarca Department 18 January 1940) Discovered and described viterbite, a mixture of allophane and wavellite Held an invention patent for mining procedures Proposed original concepts and conclusions El puesto del hombre en la naturaleza. Anales Ingen. Bogotá 48(545):200-19, 1940 HONORS Honored in fossil resin named llerasite Laureate, Palmes Academiques de France His brother, Eduardo Lleras Codazzi, chemist and toxicologist (Bogotá 30 January 1885 – Bogotá 28 August 1960) Modified the method for detecting morphine in dead bodies Developed a Soxhlet-like extraction device Invented electric muffle furnaces
- [Lin-gun Liu](https://neglectedscience.com/lin-gun-liu/): Lin-gun Liu, Taiwanese geoscientist (1942 – Found that silicate perovskite could form from all the major upper-mantle materials such as olivine, pyroxene and garnet Silicate perovskite from phase transformation of pyrope-garnet at high pressure and temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett. 1:277-80, 1974 Saw that silicate perovskite comprises most of the mantle from the transition zone downwards With A.E. Ringwood found that phase C could hold water First synthesized phase D Phase transformations in serpentine at high pressure and temperatures and implications for subducting lithosphere. Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 42:255-62, 1986 SYNTHESIZED NEW PHASES/MODIFICATIONS New silicate perovskites. Geophys. Res. Lett. 14:1077-82, 1987 A
- [Li Shi Zhen](https://neglectedscience.com/li-shi-zhen/): Li Shi Zhen, Chinese herbalist and therapist (Qizhou, Qichun County, Hubei Province 03 July 1518 – 1593) Authored Pen Ts’ao Kang Mu (Compedium of Materia Medica) in which described 1892 medicinal products derived from plants, animals and minerals. This book was translated to many languages such as Japanese, Russian, German, French and English HONORS Lishizhenia Lau, Ren, Wai et al. 2006 (Marine Bacteria)
- [Lemos Torres family](https://neglectedscience.com/lemos-torres-family/): Alvaro de Lemos Torres, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 15 April 1884 – São Paulo 18 January 1942) Described Lemos Torres sign Sobre um novo signal de derrame pleural. O Hospital 36(4):597-603, 1929 Created Lemos Torres technique or extended hand technique for palpation of liver   His son, Ulysses Lemos Torres, surgeon (Avaré, São Paulo State 20 October 1911 – São Paulo 02 April 1982) Developed a method for spleen palpation Um método de palpação do baço. O Hospital 24(1), 1943 Um novo sinal de ascite; técnica de percussão palpatória para pesquisa de líquido na cavidade abdominal. O Hospital 72(5):1335-46, 1967 Lemos Torres-Degni technique for
- [Legrand family](https://neglectedscience.com/legrand-family/): Enrique Legrand Carriguisi, Uruguayan poet, astronomer and mathematician (Montevideo 12 August 1861 – Montevideo 23 October 1936) Authored 22 works and scientific publications Calculated the orbit of Viscara comet (1901) Invented a system of repeating prisms applied to sextants Prismes réiterateurs appliqués au sextant (1898) Developed a graphical method for predicting Sun occultations and eclipses Método grafico para la predicción de ocultaciones y eclipses de Sol (1906) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Loi du rayonemment thermique solaire. Bol. Colegio Pio (1897) Sommations par une formule d’Euler (1911) Sobre Wallis y sus metodos de interpolación y dos formulas para el calculo logarítmico a 4 decimas
- [Leborgne Family](https://neglectedscience.com/leborgne-family/): Raul Alfredo Leborgne Fossemale, Uruguayan radiologist (Montevideo 19 April 1907 – 1986) Developed the first method of radiologically guided mammary biopsy (1946) With brother Felix Leborgne created the mammography and the mammograph (1948-9) Discovered radiological signs of mammography Demonstrated that the diagnostic importance of the fine microcalcifications that may be detected radiographically in a high proportion of breast cancers (1951) Described the radiographic differences between benign and malignant calcifications (1935) First to report the significant association of microcalcifications with subclinical carcinoma Described a way to collect the fluid of a breast duct or ductal rinse (1946) First mentioned the idea of studying the
- [Larry Leach](https://neglectedscience.com/larry-leach/): Leslie (Larry) Charles Leach, English-born South African (Southend on Sea, Essex 18 November 1909 – Pietersburg, today Polokwane, Limpopo Province 18 July 1996) Worked in Rhodesia (1938-81) & South Africa (1981-96) DESCRIBED NEW PLANTAE TAXA  Asclepiadaceae Orbeanthus 1978 Orbeopsis 1978 Pachycymbium 1978 Euphorbiaceae Endadenium 1973 Species 114 in Aloaceae, Asclepiadaceae and Euphorbiaceae HONORS Larryleachia Plowes 1996 (Asclepiadaceae)
- [Lane Brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/lane-brothers/): John Lane, Brazilian medical entomologist (São Paulo 12 March 1905 – São Paulo 04 January 1963) Son of United States immigrants Authored 152 papers   DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera ans Subgenera (Diptera) Abmyceta 1955 Antunesmyia 1942 with Cerqueira Aphrastomyia 1949 with Coher  Boscmyia 1954 Calliceratomyia 1946 Callicypta 1954 Cruzmyia 1942 with Cerqueira Davismyia 1942 with Cerqueira Edwardsops 1942 Eurypterosyrphus 1947 with Barretto Limamyia 1942 with Cerqueira Lutzomiops 1942   Macfiehelea 1946 Neoditomyia 1958 with Sturm Oromyceta 1955 Schizoceratomyia 1947 with Carrera & Souza Lopes Shannoniana 1942 with Cerqueira Vonplessenia 1942 with Cerqueira Species and subspecies (mainly Diptera) 638 species and 2 subspecies HONORS Johnlaneia Orfila & Schajovsky 1964 (Lepidoptera)  Laneella Pinto de Melo 1967 (Diptera) Lanehelea Wirth & Blanton 1972 (Diptera) Lanemyia Barretto 1949 (Diptera) His
- [Lagos Garcia brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/lagos-garcia-brothers/): Juan Carlos Lagos García Elliot, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 29 December 1880 – Buenos Aires 17 June 1928) Authored Las deformidades de la sexualidad humana (1925), the first modern medical book dedicated to genital abnormalities and their surgical cure Described Lagos García-Segers-Ivanissevich’s water-hyacinth sign for diagnosis of lung hydatidosis With A. Segers. Consideraciones sobre un caso de quiste hidatico pulmonar aberto em brônquios. Sem. Med. 31:271, 1924   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Equinococosis experimental. Sem. Med. 741, 1922 Hepatoma en un niño de cinco meses. Operación. Curación (1920) Quistes hidaticos en niños (1908) Rachitis untere extremitaten. Sem. Med. 30(17):789-804, With A.L. Masucci. Die eitrige
- [Krishan Lal](https://neglectedscience.com/krishan-lal/): Krishan Lal, Indian physical crystallographer (Chiniot, today Pakistan 15 March 1941 – Authored over 122 research papers, 9 books and 7 patents Directly observed and characterized effect of external electric fields on real structure of semiconductors and insulators Characterized the effect of processing steps for solid states devices fabrication on substrate materials Enabled growth of single crystals of unprecedented perfection level First to observe directly and characterize very low angle boundaries with tilt angles Developed accurate techniques for measurement of dielectric constants and dielectric loss of single crystals  Developed a new high-resolution technique and a three-crystal x-ray diffractometer to investigate diffuse
- [Keshav Mukund Lele](https://neglectedscience.com/keshav-mukund-lele/): Keshav Mukund Lele, Indian paleobotanist (Varanasi 26 March 1931 – 09 January 1981) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae Barakarella 1983 with Srivastava Biornatispora 1969 with Streel Circumstriatites 1972 with Makada Crucisaccites 1964 with Maithy Gondwanopollis 1969 with Maithy Jayantisporites 1972 with Makada Pachysaccus 1969 with Maithy Plicatipollenites 1963 with Maithy Plicatisporites 1972 with Makada Rimospora 1969 with Maithy Rugasaccites 1969 with Maithy Stellapollenites 1965 with Maithy Striatoparvisaccites 1975 Trilaevipellites 1974 with Chandra Tuberisaccites 1972 with Makada Virkkipolllenites 1964 with Makada Others Alatocarpus 1969 (Plantae) Foveofusa 1972 with Chandra (Acritarcha) Parsorophyllum 1969 (Plantae) Scutellocladus 1962 with Walton (Plantae) HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Lelestrobus S.C. Srivastava 1984  Leleopteris Srivastava & Chandra 1982 
- [Karol Lenko](https://neglectedscience.com/karol-lenko/): Karol Lenko, Polish-born Brazilian entomologist (Plock 27 June 1914 – São Paulo 06 January 1975) Authored 23 scientific works DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Species Gnamptogenys kempfi 1964 (Hymenoptera) Mixogaster lanei 1958 with Carrera (Diptera) Mixogaster lopesi 1958 with Carrera (Diptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Ecological Relationship Minhocas e sanguessugas (Annelida:Oligochaeta & Hirudinea) em ninhos de Camponotus rufipes (Insecta, Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 16:7-12, 1972 Sobre a mirmecofilia de Plaumanniola sanctaecatharinae (Coleoptera:Scydmaenidae). Arq. Inst. Biol. S. Paulo 39:327-8, 1972 Pseudomorpha laevissima, um carabideo mirmecófilo. Studia Entomol. 15:439-44, 1972 Subsídios para o conhecimento dos isópodos inquilinos de formigas no Brasil (Isopoda, Oniscoidea). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 15:1-10, 1971 An army ant attacking the “guaia”
- [K.V. Lakshminaranyana](https://neglectedscience.com/k-v-lakshminaranyana/): K.V. Lakshminaranyana, Indian zoologist and paleontologist (fl.1962-93) DESCRIBED TAXA Genera Darwinida 1977 with Rama Rao (Crustacea) Mesonychilestes 1991 (Fossil Mammalia) Satyapalia 1974 with Hafeezullah (Trematoda) Species Mallophaga Brueelia eichleri 1969 Brueelia plocea 1968 Eulaemobothrion biswasi 1968 Goniocotes mauryi 1971 with Emerson Fossil Mollusca Janthina laurseni 1982 with Krishnan & Subbarao Rhynchoteuthis kapuri 1979 Rhynchoteuthis sastryi 1979 with Saha HONORS Subgenus Lakshminarayanella Eichler 1982 (Mallophaga) 
- [Justo Lijó Pavia](https://neglectedscience.com/justo-lijo-pavia/): Justo José Lijó-Pavia, Argentine ophthalmologist (Buenos Aires 19 July 1888 – after 1974) First described the lineous conjunctivitis (1924) Eponym of Lijó Pavia-Lis syndrome or benign retinohypophysary syndrome A new sign of cranial hypertension With A.V. Di Cio & M. Dusseldorp. Un signo de hypertension ocular a través de la cinematografia del fondo ocular. Described a form of internal exudative choreo retinitis Enunciated the concept of replacement fibrosis Described a peculiar papillary pseudotumor of the upper fold (1925) Studied a new effect in binocular vision Visón binocular – un nuevo effecto. Rev. Oto-Neurol. Oft. 32:111-3, 1957 DEVELOPED INSTRUMENTATION & PROCEDURES Ocular fundus by
- [Juan José Martínez de Lexarza](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-martinez-de-lexarza/): Juan José Martínez de Lexarza y Alday, Mexican naturalist (Valladolid, Michoacán State 15 December 1785 – Morelia 29 September 1824) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Alamania 1824 (Orchidaceae) Arpophyllum 1825 (Orchidaceae) Cuitlauzina 1824 with La Llave (Orchidaceae) Lennoa 1824 (Lennoaceae) Morelosia 1824 (Boraginaceae) Subgenus Bravoa 1824 (Amaryllidaceae) Species 73 (at least 23 are valid) HONORS Lexarzanthe Diego & Calderón de Rzedowski 2004 (Brassicaceae)
- [Juan Carlos Lindquist](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-lindquist/): Juan Carlos Lindquist Dominique, Argentine mycologist and plant pathologist (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 09 February 1899 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 02 November 1990) From Swedish father Gained international recognition for his studies on Uredinales and Peronosporales Authored over 100 scientific and popular papers DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Acroconidiella 1964 with Alippi Diorchidiella 1957 Discoxylaria 1964 with Wright Hughesinia 1970 with Gamundi Species Aecidium approximans 1952 Aecidium jatrophicola 1952 Aecidium tafiense 1952 Colletotrichum consociatum 1948 Discoxylaria myrmecophila 1964 with Wright Entyloma peullensis 1960 Hughesinia chusquea 1970 Maravalia sebastianiae 1951 Peronospora convolvuli 1946 Prospodium tumefaciens 1978 Puccinia andalgalensis 1955 Puccinia dusenii 1955 Puccinia entrerriana 1954 Puccinia lorentzianae 1952 Puccinia meloncilloi 1952   Puccinia moschopsidis 1955 Puccinia petrakii 1957 Puccinia puntana 1952 Puccinia ruelliicola 1952
- [João Garcia Leme](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-garcia-leme/): João Garcia Leme, Brazilian pharmacologist (Santa Rosa do Viterbo, São Paulo State 1936 – Guarujá, São Paulo State 08 November 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS Gained international recognition on inflammation pharmacology and physiopathology researches Claimed chemical mediators in inflammatory reaction act sinergically   Demonstrated that development of acute inflammatory reactions is under a retrograde regulated mechanism (1975) Demonstrated occurrence of a pro-inflammatory factor in lymph cells (1975-6) Characterized the lymphocytic pro-inflammatory factor Demonstrated with colleagues insulin regulation role on the development of inflammatory process (1970s) Discovered action of sensitive nerves in inflammatory response regulation (1978) Described the first antagonists of bradykinin Co-authored with M. Rocha
- [João de Azevedo Lage](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-de-azevedo-lage/): João de Azevedo Lage, Brazilian orthopedic surgeon (Santos, São Paulo State 03 December 1920 – São Paulo 25 July 2001) CREATED/DEVELOPED Lage angled plate for osteosynthesis of trochanterian fractures (1952) Lage prosthesis for arthroplasty of coxofemoral articulation (1956), a curved shaft prosthesis with three-points support of which design presents a worldwide used principle Lage-Napoli pedicled neotectum for treatment of hip luxation and dysplasia (1985) An all-cement prosthesis   With R. Godoy Moreira. A new surgical technique for intramedullary osteosynthesis of tibia in Osteosíntese intramedular de tibia. Nova técnica. (1956) A new surgical technique for wrist arthrodesis With Manlio L. Napoli a new
- [João Baptista de Lacerda](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-baptista-de-lacerda/): João Baptista de Lacerda, Brazilian physician, naturalist and anthropologist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 12 July 1846 – Rio de Janeiro 06 August 1915) ACHIEVEMENTS Described snake Bothrops jararacussu (1884) Studied toxicity of snake, amphibians and plants toxins First discovered proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes in snake venoms, being the first report about occurence of enzymes in snake venom Established that snake venom is a digestive juice Provas experimentaes de que a peçonha das cobras é um succo digestivo (1881) Discovered neutralizing action of potassium permanganate on snake venom in vitro   O permanganato de potassa como antídoto da peçonha das cobras. União Médica 1:514-9, 561-8,
- [José Venâncio Pereira Leite](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-venancio-pereira-leite/): José Venâncio Pereira Leite, Brazilian physiologist (Cuiabá 11 March 1920 – São Paulo 26 December 1980) Discovered that early newborn babies require low quantities of oxygen due to Bohr effect (higher quantities can be toxic)  TECHNIQUES/INVENTIONS Described a new plethysmograph (1951) With E.M. Tinoco. Early diagnosis and prognosis of shock by an original plethysmographic technique. Rev. Bras. Cir. 24(2):183-214, 1952 With C.E. Negreiros de Paiva. Artefato de estímulo. Uma técnica fácil de sua eliminação (1954) Electrolytic method for preparation of pure oxygen for physiological purposes. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 11(4):243, 1961 With R.F. Marseillan. Dourado eletrolítico de eletrodos para implantação permanente (1961)
- [José Lignieres](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-lignieres/): Joseph Leon Marcel Lignieres, French-born Argentine veterinarian and bacteriologist (Saint-Michel, Meuse Department 26 July 1868 – Buenos Aires 20 October 1933) ACHIEVEMENTS Named pasteurellosis and salmonellosis Described enteque seco or enzootic calcinosis in bovine Contribution a l’étude de la pasteurellose bovine connue em Argentine sous les nomes de “Diarrhéa” et d’”Entequé”. Bull. Soc. Centrale Med. Vet. Paris Nouv. Ser. 16:761-92, 1898 Described hemorrhagic septicemia in sheep (1898) Classified hemorrhagic septicemia Contribution à l’etude et à la classification des septicémies hémorrhagiques. Les Pasteurelloses. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 15:734-6, 1900   Described actinobacillosis, isolated Actinobacillus sp. and differentiated from actinomycosis (1902). This microbe was named Actinobacillus
- [José Liebermann](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-liebermann/): José Liebermann, Jewish Argentine entomologist (Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province 26 December 1897 – Buenos Aires 22 October 1980) Described a new form of oviposition Sobre una nueva forma de oviposición en un acridio sudamericano, Scotussa cliens (Stal) Lieb. (Orth, Acrid. Cyrtacanth). Revta Invest. Agric. Buenos Aires 5:235-80, 1951 Described a new organ in this species El alótipo hembra de Trybliophorus modestus Bruner (Orth, Acrid, Trybliophorini) con la descripción de un organo desconocido en su septimo esternito abdominal. Anales Soc. Cien. Arg (1953) Found a natural enemy for Aphis asclepiadis Fitch Consideraciones definitivas acerca de la lucha biológica contra las plagas de la humanidad. Un nuevo enemigo natural
- [José Leme Lopes](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-leme-lopes/): José Leme Lopes, Brazilian psychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 20 October 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 04 June 1990) Authored As dimensões do diagnostico psiquiátrico e contribuição para a sua sistematização (The dimensions of the psychiatric diagnosis – contribution to its systematization) in 1954. This monograph was important in multi-axial diagnosis field and its cover reproduced in Kaplan & Sadock Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (1995) HONOURS Honorary member, Royale Société de Médecine Mentale (Belgium) Life Member, Society for Personality Assessment (New York) LINKS http://www.abpbrasil.org.br/historia/galeria/Leme_Lopes.pdf  (biobibliography in Portuguese)
- [José Leite Lopes](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-leite-lopes/): José Leite Lopes, Brazilian theoretical physicist (Recife 28 October 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 12 June 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS   Published more than 80 works Developed with Feynman a pseudoscalar theory of deuteron With R.P. Feynman. Symposium on New Research Techniques in Physics p. 251, 1954. Predicted existence of neutral vectorial boson (Zo boson), that mediates interactions in electromagnetic forces (1958) Proposed that coupling constant of vectorial bosons with weak charged current would be equal to electromagnetic coupling constant   A model  of the Universal Fermi interaction. Nuclear Physics 8:234-6, 1958. First to compute induced pseudoscalar coupling in interaction between muons and light nuclei
- [José Guilherme Lacorte](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-guilherme-lacorte/): José Guilherme Lacorte, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Bragança Paulista, São Paulo State 08 December 1900 – Rio de Janeiro 09 April 1983) Described Corynebacterium haemolytium With M. Santos. Endocardite e septicemia pelo Corynebacterium haemolytium n.sp. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz p.457-67, 1944 Processos de laboratório para o diagnóstico da difteria. Acta Med. 5(3):188-98, 1940 With Estácio Monteiro. Métodos de homogeneização de material para pesquisa do bacilo de tuberculose em cultura. Bras. Med. 54(49):807-8, 1940 Vírus e câncer, provável isolamento de vírus de câncer humano. J. bras. Med. 19(1):65-71, 1970 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Persistence of influenza vírus in hamsters inoculated by intracerebral route. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 72(1-2):129-30, 1974
- [Jorge Tadeo Lozano](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-tadeo-lozano/): Jorge Tadeo Lozano de Peralta y Gonzalez Manrique, Colombian statesman, journalist and naturalist (Santafé de Bogotá 30 January 1771 – Santafé de Bogotá 06 July 1816) Governor of Nueva Granada or Cundinamarca (01 April 1811 – 21 September 1811) Performed chemical studies in Spain Conceived chromapicilo, a new device for measuring colours degradation Idea de un instrumento llamado Chromapicilo que manifiesta la degradación de lós colores (1810) Authored Fauna Cundinamarquesa (1806) and Memoria sobre las serpientes (1808) HONORS  Lozania S. Mutis 1810 (Lacistemataceae)
- [Jorge Lobo](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-lobo/): Jorge de Oliveira Lobo, Brazilian medical mycologist and dermatologist (Recife 12 November 1899 – Recife 09 April 1979) Authored 53 papers  Described Lobo disease or lobomycosis Um caso de blastomicose produzido por uma espécie nova, encontrada em Recife. Rev. Med. Pernambuco 44:763-5, 1931.  Described new pathogenic fungi With A.E. Area Leão. Micetome du pied a Cephalosporium recifei n.sp. mycetome a grains blancs. C.R. Soc. Biol. 117:203-5, 1934   With A.E. Area Leão. Micetoma podal de grãos brancos, Acremonium lutzi, n.sp. Acta Med. Rio de Janeiro 4:211-21, 1939 HONORS Loboa Ciferri, Azevedo, Campos & Carneiro 1956 (Fungi)
- [Jorge Lewowicz](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-lewowicz/): Jorge Lewowicz Volman, Uruguayan mathematician (Montevideo 17 March 1937 – Montevideo 21 June 2014) Obtained a class of topological stable diffeomorphisms wider than the class of Anosov diffeomorphisms Gave a new proof of stability With Tolosa showed that expansive homeomorphisms in the Co boundary of Anosov are conjugated Introduced the concept of persistence in several types of expansive homeomorphisms Introduced notion of persistence for a homeomorphism of a compact metric space (1983) Coined the term persistence (1983) Proved the non existence of stable points in expansive homeomorphisms of surfaces (1983) Proved that every pseudo-Anosov map is persistent (1983) Introduced infinitesimal Lyapunov functions
- [Jorge Landi Dessy](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-landi-dessy/): Jorge Silvio Francisco Landi Dessy, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 01 September 1922 – 1991) A relative of bacteriologist Silvio Dessy DISCOVERED Variable stars with a period shorter than one day in Magellanic Clouds (1952) independently of Thackeray With Dartayet 25 new faint variable stars (1952) and 333 new SMC variables (1959) With Laborde new variables in the Minor Cloud (Region f) Found 277 new variables stars New variables in the large Magellanic Cloud (1964) Discovered 3 short-period variable stars in With M. Dartayet. Small Magelanic Cloud (1952) Proposed a spectral classification of stars Adaptation of the MK system to later spectra of medium
- [Gerhard Malnic](https://neglectedscience.com/gerhard-malnic/): Gerhard Malnic, Austrian-born Brazilian renal physiologist (Milano 25 September 1933 – São Paulo 05 February 2023) From Slovenian father and Austrian mother   Authored over 120 works Discovered how occurs the potassium excretion in renal tubules  With G. Giebisch & R. Klose developed an improved microflame photometer (1964) and perfected the method of performing micropuncture and microperfusion studies on the distal tubule, which elucidated the role of each nephron segment in determining urinary potassium excretion (1964-6) With G. Giebisch demonstrated that potassium is secreted down its electrochemical gradiente and linked indirectly to the rate of sodium reabsorption With G. Giebisch proposed that potassium
- [Geraldo da Costa Barros Muniz](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-da-costa-barros-muniz/): Geraldo da Costa Barros Muniz, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Maceió 12 March 1924 – Recife 13 October 2013) DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATE FOSSIL TAXA Mollusca Genus Brasilicardium 1993 Species Acesta paraibensis 1993 Bellifusus parvus 1993 Calyptraea paraibensis 1993 Calyptraphorus itamaracensis 1993 Camptonectes (Camponectes) moderatus 1993 Cancellaria paraibensis 1993 Cerithiella (Cerithiella) pernambucensis 1993 Cerithium paraibense 1993 Coleopis (Coleopis) brasiliensis 1993 Crassattella paraibensis 1993 Cypricardella petrolandensis 1979 Cyprimeria paraibensis 1993 Dentalium mauryae 1976 with Penna-Neme Exogyra (Exogyra) gramamensis 1993 Fimbria beurleni 1993 Fusinus delicatus 1993 Gaudryceras brasiliense 1993 Granocardium (Criocardium) paraibense 1993 Keilostoma magna 1993 Legumen brasiliense 1993 Leptodesma langei 1979 Leptosolen paraibensis 1993 Linearia (Liothyris) brasiliensis 1993 Liopistha riogramamensis 1993 Lithophaga paraibensis 1993 Lopha aracajuensis 1984 Mataxa paucilirata 1993 Mesalia garapuensis 1993 Mesalia priscilae 1993 Mesocallista mauryae 1993 Neithea latericostata 1993 Otostoma paraibense 1993 Paleopsephaea itamaracensis 1993 Pseudoliva
- [Geraldo Conrado Melcher](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-conrado-melcher/): Geraldo Conrado Melcher, Brazilian mining engineer and geologist (São Paulo 07 October 1924 – São Paulo 09 June 2011) Co-authored a paper with great repercussion that confirmed the geochronological correlation between Brazil and Africa continent With P.M. Hurley, F.F. M. de Almeida, U.G. Cordani, J.R. Rand, K. Kawashita, P. Vandoros, W.H. Pinson Jr. & H.W. Fairbairn. Test of continental drift by comparison of radioactive eggs. Science 157(3788):495-500, 1967 With P. A. Andery helped to develop Serrana process of separation and concentration of phosphates in minerals with low phosphate content or alkaline rocks employing flotation (1960s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.M.V. Coutinho. Levantamento geológico e
- [Gastão Galhardo Madeira](https://neglectedscience.com/gastao-galhardo-madeira/): Gastão Galhardo Madeira, Brazilian aeronautical engineer (Ubatuba, São Paulo State 20 June 1869 – São Paulo 04 August 1942) Discovered the principle that explained the suspension of birds bodies and their displacement due to removal of gravity center Authored a complete study of his works in newspaper Correio Paulistano during January 1892  (days 6,8,9, 10,12,13,14,15,16,23,24 & 27) PATENTS  (obtained in Brazil, French, Germany, Italy, England and USA) A new dirigible aerostat (1890) Aviplane, a device to assert more equilibrium stability to airplanes(1911) with Hilário Freire A new kind of airplane (1913) A mechanism of movable pieces to assert of automatic stabilization
- [Gaspar Marcano](https://neglectedscience.com/gaspar-marcano/): Gaspar Marcano Echenique, Venezuelan physician and anthropologist (Caracas 01 April 1850 –Paris, France 16 January 1910) Brother of scientist Vicente Marcano ACHIEVEMENTS Performed a study about leprosy that was awarded by Academie de Medecine de Paris  Invented hemostereometer, a device for measuring blood sedimentation Developed Marcano solution or fluid for counting blood red cells Collected an important showcase of cranes and skeletons (today in Musee de Homme at Paris) MEMBERSHIP/HONORS   First Foreigner to occupy an official position in Faculté de Medecine de Paris (1878) Honorary Member, Societé Anatomique de Paris Bronze Medal, French Public Assistence 
- [Gabriel Moreno](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriel-moreno/): José Gabriel Moreno Espinoza, Peruvian physician and naturalist (Canta, Huamantanga District 19 March 1735 – Lima 09 May 1809) Studied botany under Joseph de Jussieu Studied medicinal properties of various plants Explored Vulcan Pichincha in order to determine vapors temperature being the memory that published about it gained a good repercussion SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Prelusión que en el examen de anatomia (1796) Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1805 Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1807 Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1810 HONORS Subgenus Morenia Ruiz & Pavón 1794 (Arecaceae)
- [Fritz Muller](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-muller/): Johann Friedrich Theodor Muller, German-born Brazilian naturalist (Windischholzhausen Village, near Erfurt 31 March 1821 – Blumenau, Santa Catarina State 21 May 1897) Authored about 260 works Discovered and described dimorphism in larvae and pupa of Blephariceridae family Demonstrated the differences between termite caste from ant caste systems  Reported that larvae of certain butterflies feed out some plants and that this fact could be take account of by taxonomy   Discovered tropholaxis phenomenon between a Hemiptera larva (Membracis sp.) and a bee (Melipona sp.) or some ant species  (1873) Examined that orchids are self-sterile plants   Discovered the symbiosis between plant Cecropia sp. and the ants Described a
- [Friedrich Muellerried](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-muellerried/): Friedrich Karl Gustav Muellerried, German-born Mexican geographer and paleontologist (Karlsruhe, Baden 14 August 1891 – Ciudad de Mexico 22 May 1952) Authored 108 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Chiapasia 1931 Chiapasella 1933 Species Agriopleura douvillei 1933 Apricardia mongesi 1947 Bournonia carrilloi 1947 Cardium ochoterenai 1933 Chiapasella pauciplicata 1931 Colostracon tehuacanensis 1934 Durania coahuilensis 1952 Durania mexicana 1947 Monopleura aguilerai 1933 Monopleura felixii 1933 Monopleura klinghardti 1933 Monopleura medellini 1933 Monopleura mexicana 1933 Monopleura ochoterenai 1933 Monopleura paronai 1933 Monopleura texcalensis 1933 Monopleura zapotitlensis 1933 Neoradiolites ordonezi 1946 Perna lamberti 1934 Ptychomya mexicana 1948 Tetragonites burckhardti 1933 Toucasia mexicana 1944 Toucasia neoleonesa 1948 Xylobius mexicanus 1942 Others Clypeaster chiapasensis 1951 (Echinodermata) Helicoprion mexicanus 1946 (Pisces) HONORS Muellerriedia Alencaster 1999 (Fossil Mollusca)
- [Friedrich Carl Muller-Melchers](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-carl-muller-melchers/): Friedrich (Federico) Carl (Carlos) Müller-Melchers, German-born Uruguayan phycologist (Bremen 07 February 1890 – Montevideo 1967) Developed a rapid technique for mounting diatoms slides With Hugo J. Ferrando. Técnicas para el estudio de las diatomeas. Bol. Inst. Oceanogr. 7(1-2):151-60, 1956 DESCRIBED BACILLARIOPHYCEAE SPECIES Actinocyclus atlanticus 1959 Actinocyclus brasiliensis 1957 Actinocyclus platensis 1954 Actinoptychus frenguellii 1951 Chaetoceros appendiculatus 1954 Chaetoceros confertus 1954 Chaetoceros insignis 1953 Chaetoceros uruguayensis 1953 Coscinodiscus brasiliensis 1955 Thalassiosira hustedtii 1953 HONORS Melchersiela C. Teixeira 1959 (Bacillariophyceae) LINKS http://www.mec.gub.uy/munhina/pdf/Muller_Melchers_biobiblio.pdf
- [Frederick Van der Merwe](https://neglectedscience.com/frederick-van-der-merwe/): Frederick Ziervogel Van der Merwe, South African amateur botanist (Stellenbosch 10 December 1894 – Cape Town 02 January 1968) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Resnova 1946 (Asparagaceae) Schizocarphus 1943 (Liliaceae) Species Ledebouria asperifolia 1941 Ledebouria rupestris 1941 Resnova maxima 1946 Resnova minor 1946 Resnova pilosa 1946 Scilla petiolata 1941 HONORS Merwilla Speta 1998 (Asparagaceae)
- [Francisco Pascasio Moreno](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-pascasio-moreno/): Francisco Josué Pascasio Moreno Thwaites, Argentine explorer, geographer and paleontologist (Buenos Aires 31 May 1852 – Buenos Aires 22 November 1919) From Spanish father and English grandmother Performed collections of fossils, anthropological and archaeological material in Patagonia DESCRIBED VALID FOSSIL GENERA Amphinasua 1891 with Mercerat (Mammalia) Brontornis 1891 with Mercerat (Aves)  Dryornis 1891 with Mercerat (Aves) Foetopterus 1891 with Mercerat (Aves) Mesembriornis 1889 (Aves) Onohippidum 1891 (Mammalia) Palaeobalaena 1892 (Mammalia) Palaeospheniscus 1891 with Mercerat (Aves) Palaeotenthes 1882 (Mammalia) Patagornis 1891 with Mercerat (Aves) Protorhea 1891 (Mammalia) Psilopterus 1891 with Mercerat (Aves) HONORS Official, Academie de France (1883) Honorary Member, Geological Society of London (1898) Gold Medal, Societé de Geographie de Paris (1881) Crevaux
- [Francisco Montes de Oca](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-montes-de-oca/): Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo, Mexican surgeon (Ciudad de Mexico 27 January 1837 – Apam, Hidalgo State 14 March 1885) Modified surgical method for Jimenez assessment of hepatic abscess Introduced continuous antiseptic irrigation of wounds  Modified Larrey procedure for shoulder disarticulation Desarticulación de hombre (Modificaciones al procedimiento de Larrey) 1863 Modified Chassaignac procedure for testis resection Extirpación del testiculo (Modificaciones del procedimiento de M. Chassaignac) 1872 Developed a new surgical technique for amputation of third upper of leg (Montes de Oca amputation or Mexican amputation) Amputación de pierna en el lugar de elección (Incisión em raquetas) A operative procedure for
- [Francisco Megale](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-megale/): Francisco Megale, Brazilian veterinarian (Viçosa, Minas Gerais State 1914 – Belo Horizonte 15 July 1992) Gained international recognition on animal reproduction Perfected McEntee endoscopic technique and modified the endoscope (1955-7) Developed the peritoneoscopy in veterinary With M.G. Fincher & E. McEntee. Peritoneoscopy in the cow: visualization of the ovaries, oviducts and uterine horns. Cornell Veterinary 46(1):109-21, 1956 (presented a laparoscopic technique for inner reproductive organs for females of distinct species) Described the technique of peritoneoscopy in the mare With N.Q. Silva. Peritoneoscopy in the mare. Arq. Esc. Vet. UFMG 23:91-101, 1971 Developed a peritoneoscope DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES Peritoneoscopia no diagnóstico precoce da gestação na
- [Francisco Mago Leccia](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-mago-leccia/): Francisco Mago-Leccia, Venezuelan ichthyologist (Tumeremo, Bolívar State 21 May 1931 – Puerto La Cruz, Anzoategui State 27 February 2004) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera  Brachyhypopomus 1994 Distocyclus 1978 Exallodontus 1991 with Lundberg & Nass Gladioglanis 1989 with Ferraris Megadontognathus 1994 Platyurosternachus 1994 Racenisia 1994 Species Adontosternachus clarkae 1985 with Lundberg & Baskin Adontosternachus devenanzii 1985 with Lundberg & Baskin Compsaraia compsus 1994 Eigenmannia aguanai 1991 with Lundberg & Nass Eigenmannia nigra 1994 Entomocorus gameroi 1984 Gladioglanis conquistator 1991 with Lundberg & Bornbusch Gladioglanis machadoi 1989 with Ferraris Gymnotus cataniapo 1994 Gymnotus pedanopterus 1994 Gymnotus stenoleucus 1994 Hypopygus neblinae 1994 Megadontognathus cuyuniense 1994 Racenisia fimbriipinna 1994 Rhabdolichops eastwardi 1986 with Lundberg Rhabdolichops electrogrammus 1986 with Lundberg Rhabdolichops stewarti 1986 with Lundberg Rhabdolichops zareti 1986 Sternachella orinoco 1995 Sternachella orthos 1994 Sternachorhynchus
- [Francisco José de Abreu Mattos](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-jose-de-abreu-mattos/): Francisco José de Abreu Mattos, Brazilian pharmacist and plant chemist (Fortaleza 21 May 1924 – Fortaleza 22 December 2008) Studied pharmacological properties of medicinal plants and natural products chemistry Authored 153 papers and 5 books Improved an apparatus for determination of essential oils With R. Wasicky. Um melhoramento no aparelho para determinação de óleos essenciais da Farmacopéia Brasileira Edição II de 1959. Trib. Farm. 28(6):58-9, 1960 Discovered healing properties of Myracrodruon urundeva and fungicide and bactericidal properties of Lippia sidoides Seleção de plantas para estudo, através de abordagem química e farmacológica. Arq. Inst. Biol. 35(2):46-52, 1968 (Suppl. 1) With O.R. Gottlieb isolated first isocucurbitacin
- [Francisco Javier Muñiz](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-javier-muniz/): Francisco Javier Thomas de la Concepción Muniz y Frutos, Argentine physician and naturalist (Monte Grande, Buenos Aires Province 21 December 1795 – Buenos Aires 08 April 1871) Discovered the remains of Dasypus giganteus (1825) but didn’t publish it. D’Orbigny published the fossil species some years later (1838) Described Smilodon bonaerensis (1845) and other new fossil species Discovered and described some fossil vertebrates (Arctotherium sp;  Lestodon sp.,Hippidion neogaeum; Discovered the first human remains in Argentina Invented some pharmaceutical preparations His studies on scarlet fever were presented by Charles Darwin in Royal Medical Body of Surgeons at London  HONORS Genus Munyizia Kraglievich 1931 (Fossil Mammalia) Honorary Member, Royal Jennerian Society 
- [Francisco Javier Matís](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-javier-matis/): Francisco Javier Matís Mahecha, Colombian botanist and botanical painter (San Miguel de las Guaduas, Cundinamarca Department 1763 – Bogotá 05 November 1851) Discovered an antidote from Mikania guaco H.B.K. for snake venoms (1788) Relación sobre el descubrimiento del guaco (published in 1860) With S. Mutis authored Anatomias de las singenesias o florones. Arqu. Iconogr. Real Jardín Bot. Madrid M174-201, M310-43 (ined.) HONORS Matisia Humboldt & Bonpland 1805 (Malvaceae)
- [Francisco de Asís Monrós](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-de-asis-monros/): Francisco de Asís Monrós, Spanish-born Argentine entomologist (Barcelona 06 June 1922 – San Miguel de Tucumán 03 May 1958) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Acalligrapha 1955 Agathomeroides 1947 Aulacochlamys 1952 Bidensomela 1955 Bohumiljania 1958 Bothromegalopus 1947 Bothroscelis 1954 Calligramma 1955 Chujoita 1959 Coreopsomela 1955 Crowsonia 1952 Cylindrodachrys 1944 Eoclytra 1958 Euagathomerus 1947 Eudachrys 1953 Graphicallo 1955 Hapsidolemoides 1951 Heinzenella 1958 Heterobabia 1951 Histerogaster 1948 Janbechynea 1953 Lamprosomoides 1959 Lio 1949 Mariamela 1951 Melittochlamys 1948 Mesagathomerus 1947 Nanocthispa 1947 with Viana Neolema 1951 Neostena 1947 with Viana Oomorphoides 1956 Pachylema 1951 Parabaliosus 1947 Paranota 1949 with Viana Parhapsidolema 1951 Philippimolpus 1952 Plesioagathomerus 1945 Quasilema 1951 Sternostenoides 1947 with Viana Tellenina 1953 Temnodachrys 1951 Trachigathomerus 1947 Species At least 115 HONORS (Coleoptera except one) Monrosia Grondonia 1949 (Polygalaceae) Monrosiaia Haedo Rossi 1960 Monrosiella Bechyné 1945  Monrosina Cobos 1958  Monrosolopha Erber & Medvedev 2002 Subgenus Coleomonrosa Moldenke 1981 Subgenus Francmonrosia Pereira & Martínez 1960 
- [Francisco de Assis Mariconi](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-de-assis-mariconi/): Francisco de Assis Menezes Mariconi, Brazilian agricultural entomologist and plant pathologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 20 June 1925 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State  11 May 2008) Authored over 200 scientific works and 8 books Authored Saúvas (1970) the first book in the world about sauba ant With J.M.M. Walder & F.M. Wiendl. Método de marcação de iscas para saúvas Atta spp, com fósforo radioativo (1979)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.I. Clari. The cotton white mite (Polyphagotarsonemus latus) (Banks) (Acari:Tarsonemidae) and assay of chemical control (1990) Contribuição para o conhecimento de sauveirinhos de oito e nove meses de idade. Anais Esc. Sup. Luiz
- [Francisco Antonio Marçallo](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-antonio-marcallo/): Francisco Antonio Marçallo, Brazilian cytogeneticist (Curitiba 16 May 1933 –  1987) DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES With I. Cat, L.P. Marinoni, D.J. Giraldi, O. Costa & H. Braga. Syndrome of cellular agony – biochemical characterization. Helv. Paediat. Acta 24 (5):493-6, 1969 With I. Cat, V.L.V. Lopes, E.A. Chautard, N. Freire-Maia, I.J. Cavalli, R.F. Pilotto, M.C. Schetino & A.A. der Bedrossian. A new malformation syndrome. Lancet 1:840-1, 1970  With I. Cat, V.L.V. Lopes, E.A. Chautard, I.J. Cavalli, R.F. Pilotto & N. Freire-Maia. A síndrome de Maringá – Estudos clínicos, bioquímicos, dermatoglíficos e cromossômicos. Resumos da XXII Reunião Anual da Soc. Bras. Progr. Ciencia, p.130-1,
- [Fernando Romano Milanez](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-romano-milanez/): Fernando Romano Milanez, Brazilian plant anatomist and pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 08 July 1905 – Rio de Janeiro 23 January 1987) Performed important works on wood cells Presented evidence that Fusarium vasinfectum can use paraffin oil as source of carbon and energy and suggested possible diagnostic value of this character. With J. Joffily. Estudo sobre a fusariose do algodoeiro. Rodriguesia 5(14):325-52, 1941 Proposed a correlation between the presence of crystals and the thickening of cell walls and suggested that the crystals were responsibles for sclereid formations in some families of dicotyledons Ação modificadora do oxalato de calcio sobre as estruturas celulares. Revista Florestal 3:5-12, 1932 First
- [Fernando Mane Garzon](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-mane-garzon/): Fernando Timoteo Mañe Garzón, Uruguayan pediatrician, zoologist, parasitologist and science historian (Montevideo 24 January 1925 – Montevideo 23 January 2019) PEDIATRICS Described a new clinical entities Hipertrofia muscular congenita con cavum septi pellucidum. Arch. Pediat. Uruguay 30(4):210, 1959 With E.S. de Camaño Schelkman, H.C. Irasustra & J.C. Bazzano. Exostosis cartilaginosa multiple con brevedad de algunos huesos tarsianos (Braquimetapodia) 1971 First to establish that free hyperbilirubinemia is related to intestinal occlusion at many levels With D. Lattaro. Volvulo total de intestine delgado con ictericia no obstructiva. Arch. Ped. Uruguay 32(12):708-14, 1961 First to use catecholamines excretion in acrodinia With J.M. Portillo, C. Esponda & M.
- [Fernando Magalhães](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-magalhaes/): Fernando Augusto Ribeiro de Magalhães, Brazilian gynecologist and obstetrician (Rio de Janeiro 18 February 1878 – Rio de Janeiro 10 January 1944) From Portuguese father Authored over 200 medical works Modified the Gasinski pelvimeter Uma modificação do fórceps de Tarnier. Brazil Med. 18:8, 1904 Um novo fórceps. Brazil Médico 18 (1904) Proposed a therapeutic guidance for treatment of puerperal infection  Advocated the use of metallic tubular drainage in the treatment of localized puerperal infection Laid down some indications for Caesarean section (1922) Developed a Caesarean section method of his own insulating uterus with rubber sheets (1915) Idealized a low caesarean section
- [Faustino Miranda](https://neglectedscience.com/faustino-miranda/): Faustino Antonio Miranda Gonzalez, Spanish / Mexican botanist and phycologist (Gijón, Asturias 19 February 1905 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 December 1964) Authored important works on tropical sinecology DESCRIBED PLANTAE & ALGAE TAXA Valid Genera Blomia 1953 (Sapindaceae) Grajalesia 1951 (Nyctaginaceae) Pterocereus 1954 with MacDougall (Cactaceae) Roseodendron 1965 Xolocotzia 1965 (Verbenaceae) Species 61 Algae Species Living Dermocarpa orbicularis 1936 (Cyanobacteria) Pleurocarpa gallaecica (Cyanobacteria) Rhodochorton atlanticum 1936 (Rhodophyta) Strepsithalia liebmanniae 1928 (Phaeophyta) Fossil Lithophyllum royoi 1935 Melobesia lemoinei 1935 HONORS Mirandea Rzedowski 1959 (Acanthaceae) Neomirandea King & Robinson 1970 (Asteraceae)
- [Eustorgio Mendez](https://neglectedscience.com/eustorgio-mendez/): Eustorgio Mendez Cedeño, Panamanian medical entomologist (Ciudad de Panama 01 March 1927 – Ciudad de Panama 24 March 2016) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA TAXA Acari Genus/Subgenus Coendalges 1979 Synoecomyobia 1981 with Lukoschus, Scheperboer & Fain Species Archemyobia (Nearchemyobia) latipilis 1981 with Fain & Lukoschus Archemyobia (Nearchemyobia) pectinata 1972 Cheletophyes panamensis 1984 with Klompen & Lukoschus  Coendalges panamensis 1979 with Fain Echimyopus dasypus 1973 with Fain, Lukoschus & Louppen Echimytricalges hoplomys 1982 with Fain & Lukoschus Echimytricalges mesomys 1982 with Fain & Lukoschus Eudusbabekia (Synoecomyobia) artibei 1981 with Lukoschus, Scheperboer & Fain  Marsupialichus marmosae 1975 with Cock, Fain & Lukoschus Diptera Species Culex arboricolus 1961 with Galindo Culex johnsoni 1961 with Galindo Culex keenani 1961 with Galindo Culex
- [Euripedes Malavolta](https://neglectedscience.com/euripedes-malavolta/): Eurípedes Malavolta, Brazilian agricultural chemist and pedologist (Araraquara, São Paulo State  13 August 1926 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 19 January 2008) Authored about 553 works between papers, notes, books and book chapters Internationally known for his studies on mineral nutrition of plants and agricultural plants fertilization  Discovered that nitrate reductase is synthesis-induced by nitrate and molybdenum With C.C. Delwiche showed the similarities between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis in nitrifying bacteria (1958-9) Developed the concept of physiological economical critical level for foliar diagnosis  With F. Pimentel Gomes. Foliar diagnosis in Brazil. Am. Inst. Created concept of efficiency in nutrient utilization by plants  With
- [Eugenio Silveira de Macedo](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-silveira-de-macedo/): Eugenio Silveira de Macedo, Brazilian sanitary engineer (1916 – 1984) Conceived the concept of virtual mean discharge Developed Macedo slide rule for hydraulics (1978) Created a calculation method for outflow in sanitary sewer (1962) Designed a special recording stage gauges   Designed a public building sump
- [Ernst & Eveline Marcus](https://neglectedscience.com/ernst-eveline-marcus/): Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus, German-born Jewish Brazilian zoologist (Berlin 08 June 1893 – São Paulo 30 June 1968) World authority on Mollusca Opisthobranchia, Bryozoa and Turbellaria Authored over 215 works Studied bryozoans, oligochaetes, pycnogonids, pantopods, ctenophores, tardigrades, turbellarians, mollusks, nemertineans and onychophores   Discovered and described Class Heterotardigrada (1927) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA  Turbellaria Families Chordariidae 1945 Gnesioceratidae 1966 Scleraulophoridae 1950 Taenioplanidae 1966 Theamatidae 1949 Urostomatidae 1951 Urostomidae 1951  Genera 63 Species With E. Marcus described over 300 marine species Mollusca Genera Awuka 1955 Felimare 1967 (with Eveline)  Ganitus 1953 Inuda 1967 (with Eveline) Lapinura 1970 (with Eveline) Miesea 1961 Mourgona 1970 (with Eveline) Muessa 1965 Nanuca 1957 Njurja 1959 (with Eveline) Nuvuca 1967
- [Ernesto Macotela](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-macotela/): Ernesto Macotela Ruiz, Mexican dermatologist (Ciudad de Mexico 26 January 1932 – ACHIEVEMENTS Concluded that Pytirosporum ovale acts by two distinct ways as pathogenic agent of skin With R. López Martínez & A. Mejorada. Papel patogênico de Pytirosporum ovale en la dermatitis seborreica y pitiriasis versicolor. Gac. Med. Mex. 123(7-8):187-91, 1987 One of the first to describe cases of pigmented contact dermatitis by naphthol AS With A. Ancona-Alayón, R. Escobar-Marquez, A. Gonzalez Mendoza, J. Bernal Tapia & J. Jurado Mendoza. Occupational pigmented contact dermatitis from Naphthol AS. Contact Dermatitis 2:129-34, 1976 Proposed the use of heparin for toxic epidermic necrolysis With Javier Pizzuto. El síndrome
- [Ernesto Antonio Matera](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-antonio-matera/): Ernesto Antonio Matera, Brazilian veterinary surgeon (São Paulo 1915 – São Paulo 10 February 1976) Improved and developed techniques With J.F. Tabarelli Neto. Contribuição ao estudo da anestesia intravenosa pelo thionembutal no cão: adaptação do método fracionário de Lundy. Anais 3º Congr. Bras. Vet (1946) Contribuição para a técnica da esofagectomia em cão. Rev. Soc. Paul. Med. Vet. 8(1):20-30, 1947 With A.J. Stopiglia. Contribuição para o estudo da anestesia epidural nos bovinos (1957)  With A.J. Stopiglia. Métodos e processos de anestesia geral para equídeos. Rev. Med. Vet. 1(2):76-87, 1965 With P.S.M. Barros, R.E. Randi & A.J. Stopiglia. Osteossíntese do fêmur no
- [Enze Min](https://neglectedscience.com/enze-min/): Enze Min, Chinese chemical engineer (Chengdu, Sichuan Province 08 February 1924 – Beijing 07 March 2016) His team built the world’s first industrial magnetically stabilised bed reactor for caprolactam hydrofinishing (2006) DEVELOPED Cracking catalysts, including spherical aluminium silicate catalysts for aviation fuel, and microsphaerical Si-Al catalysts for the production of petro-diesel and liquefied petroleum gases Petroleum refining catalysts A series of zeolite materials for cracking catalysts (1960s) Manufacturing technologies for new generations of cracking catalysts A hydrothermally stable zeolite called ZRP A novel hydrogenation process by combining amorphous Ni-based alloy catalysts and a magnetically stabilised bed reactor With Peiling Zhou a commercial naphtha
- [Enrique Martinez Hernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-martinez-hernandez/): Enrique Martinez Hernandez, Mexican paleontologist (Ciudad de Mexico 28 May 1942 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 September 2021) Authored over 80 papers, 6 books and 5 book chapters DESCRIBED FOSSIL POLLEN & SPORAE SPECIES 1989 (with Tomasini Ortiz) Asterothyrites ruedae Dicellaesporites scaber Dicellaesporites inaequabilis Didymoporisporites ovumformis Diporicellaesporites elsikii Diporisporites planus Dyadosporonites inornatum Fusiformisporites striactoformis Granatisporites coahuilensis Monoporisporites hammenii Monoporisporites dilcherii Multicellaesporites quattorodecimcella Paramicrothalites irregularis Pluricellaesporites ellipticus Pluricellaesporites grahami Pluricellaesporites sheffyi 1980 Apiculatisporis mexicanum Apiculatisporis negropetensis   Apiculatisporis parvus Arecipites eklongatus with Ludlow Arecipites microescabrus with Ludlow Baculatisporites diductum Biretisporites asper Biretisporites coahuilensis Biretisporites crassulabrum Biretisporites psilatodissimilis Camarazonosporites aiddites with Sanchez Ceratosporites heterospinosus Ceratosporites olmensis Ceratosporites
- [Emilio Antonio Maury](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-antonio-maury/): Emilio Antonio Maury, Argentine arachnologist (Buenos Aires 25 June 1940 – 28 June 1998) Recognized as world expert on Solifugae Authored about 80 works DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA Genera Brachistosternus 1973 Chileotrecha 1987 Eutrecha 1982 Incasarcus 1998 with Kury Latigenes 1975 Leptosternus 1973 Microsternus 1973 Ministernus 1973 Nahuelonyx 1988 Nothopuga 1976 Orobothriurus 1975 Osornogyndes 1993 Picunchenops 1988 Syndaesia 1980 Valdesia 1981 Valdivionyx 1988 Xenotrecha 1982 Species About 30
- [Eloisa Biasotto Mano](https://neglectedscience.com/eloisa-biasotto-mano/): Eloisa Biasotto Mano, Brazilian polymer chemist (Rio de Janeiro 24 October 1924 – Rio de Janeiro 08 June 2019) Authored 218 papers, 17 books and 4 book chapters TECHNIQUES/METHODS With L.C.O. Cunha Lima. New color reaction for glycidic group including cellulose, its ethers and esters. Rev. Quim. Ind. 25(290):17-19, 1956 Ensaio rápido de identificação de borracha natural em vulcanizados. Rev. Assoc. Bras. Quim. 18(4):223-32, 1959 New colour reaction for methacrylate monomer and polymer identification. Anal. Chem. 32:291, 1960 Rapid identification of polyisoprene in cured and uncured compounds. Chem. Techn. 32:591-8, 1960 With L.C.O.C. Lima. Rapid identification of cellulose esters and ethers
- [Elio Massoia](https://neglectedscience.com/elio-massoia/): Elio Massoia, Argentine mammalogist or mastozoologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1936 – Buenos Aires 22 May 2001) Authored over 240 scientific works Developed Kuns-Massoia live trap DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIAN TAXA Genus Bibimys 1979 (in honor to his daughter Bibiana Massoia) Species Bibimys torresi 1979 Necromys temchuki 1982 Oligoryzomys fornesi 1973 Oligoryzomys brendae 1998 HONORS Massoiamys Vucetich 1978 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Elena Occhioni Martins](https://neglectedscience.com/elena-occhioni-martins/): Elena Maria de Lamare Occhioni Martins, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 1948 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Stryphnodendron porcatum 1989 with Neill Stryphnodendon heringeri 1985 HONORS Section Elenaea Rizzini & Heringer 1987 (Fabaceae)   Her father, Paulo Occhioni, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 01 January 1915 – 2000) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Family Dialypetalanthaceae 1948 with Rizzini Species Agonandra fluminensis 1975 with Rizzini Cinnamodendron sampaioanum 1948 Hedyosmum crenatum 1954 Hedyosmum cuatrecazanum 1954 Hedyosmum grandiflorum 1954 Neomarica heloisa-mariae 1947 Oxypetalum costae 1952 Oxypetalum kuhlmannianum 1959 Oxypetalum marambaiense 1971 Oxypetalum pauciflorum 1971 Oxypetalum sobralii 1953 Picramnia campestris 1975 with Rizzini Picramnia monochlamya 1974 with Rizzini Pilocarpus organensis 1974 with Rizzini Stryphnodendron duckeanum 1959 Symplocos rizzinii 1975
- [Eizi Matuda](https://neglectedscience.com/eizi-matuda/): Eizi Matuda, Japanese-born Mexican botanist (Nagasaki 20 April 1894 – Lima, Peru 12 February 1978) Described 185 new plant species HONORS Eizia Standley 1940 (Rubiaceae)   Matudaea Lundell 1940 (Hamamelidaceae)  Matudanthus D.R. Hunt 1978 (Commelinaceae) Matudina King & Robinson 1973 (Asteraceae) 
- [Eduardo Musacchio](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-musacchio/): Eduardo Aldo Musacchio, Argentine micropaleontologist and stratigrapher (Mendoza 09 November 1940 – Prahuanieyu, Rio Negro Province 18 May 2011) Found the first well-documented Cretaceous fructification of genus Nitella Upper Cretaceous Lychnothamnus, Nitella and Tolypella (Charophyta) from Zampal, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 31(5):461-72, 2010 DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Ostracoda Genera / Subgenera Alleniella 1991 with Simeoni Huilicythere 1979 Neuquenocypris 1973 Protoneuquenocypris 1991 with Simeoni Rayosoana 1975 with Chebli Wolburgiopsis 1979 with Uliana Species Altanicypris australis 2001 with Dias-Brito, de Castro, Maranhão, Suarez & Rodrigues Aracajuia lestai 1978 Bisulcocypris barrancalensis 1975 with Chebli Brasacypris fulfaroi 2001 with Dias-Brito, de Castro, Maranhão, Suarez & Rodrigues Brasacypris morigerata 1973 Cypridea americana 1975 with Chebli Cypridea australis 1971 Cypridea craigi 1975 Cypridea cymerata 1971 Cypridea feruglioi 1975 with Chebli Cypridea ludica 1971
- [Edgardo Raul Montaldi](https://neglectedscience.com/edgardo-raul-montaldi/): Edgardo Raul Montaldi, Argentine plant physiologist (La Plata 03 December 1926 – La Plata 27 December 2000) ACHIEVEMENTS Studied the role that plays the sucrose in plant morphogenesis Performed remarkable discoveries about the action of light and sucrose on the tropisms of Cynodon dactylon and Cyperus rotundus With J.D. Garcia. Un método indirecto en el analisis del crecimiento de álamo. Rev. Fac. Agron. (1984) With F. Skoog. Auxin-kinetin interaction regulating the scopoletin and scopolin levels in tobacco tissue cultures. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sciences 47(1):36-49, 1961 With C. Bartoli, M. Sinortacchi, E. Tambussi, J. Beltrano & S. Puntarulo. Drought and watering-dependent oxidative stress: effect on
- [Edgar Donald Mountain](https://neglectedscience.com/edgar-donald-mountain/): Edgar Donald Mountain, South African geologist and athlete (Camberwell, Greater London 02 April 1901 – Grahamstown, Eastern Cape 30 April 1985) Finished fourth in the 1920 Olympic 800 meters final DESCRIBED MINERALS Diaboleite, Chloroxiphite & Crednerita with Spencer (1923) Schultenite & Aramayoite with Spencer (1926) Bismoclite & Boksputite (1935) Rhodesite (1957) HONORS Mountainite Gard, Taylor e Chalmers 1957 (Mineral)
- [Dwijesh Kumar Dutta Majumder](https://neglectedscience.com/dwijesh-kumar-dutta-majumder/): Dwijesh Kumar Dutta Majumder, Indian computer scientist (Dharmaghar District, Syllet, Bangladesh 10 February 1932 – Authored over 500 research papers and a dozen of books Developed new image compression techniques Developed a method for fusion of multimodal images using Dempster-Shaffer evidence accumulation theory Developed new methodologies and theories in fuzzy mathematics Proposed a new paradigm for treatment of cancer Proposed several new mathematical models like fuzzy self-supervised learning, 2D/3D shape measures, occluded shape recognition using differential geometry, unitariness of cybernetics and general systems theory
- [Domingos Arthur Machado Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/domingos-arthur-machado-filho/): Domingos Arthur Machado Filho, Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Rio de Janeiro 28 May 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 18 August 1990) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Acanthocephala Valid Genus Palliolisentis 1960 Species Acanthocephalus acutispinus 1968 Acanthocephalus correalimai 1970 Corynosoma longilemniscatus 1961 Echinorhynchus briconi 1959 Echinorhynchus gomesi 1948 Echinorhynchus gracilis 1948 Echinorhynchus paranaensis 1959 Echinorhynchus salobrensis 1948 Floridosentis mugilis 1951 Gigantorhynchus lutzi 1941 Gorytocephalus spectabilis 1959 Lueheia cajabambensis 1967 with Ibañez Neoechinorhynchus macronucleatum 1954 Neoechinorhynchus paraguayensis 1959 Neoncicola pintoi 1950 Neoncicola potosi 1950 Oligacanthorhynchus major 1963 Oncicola chibigouzouensis 1963 Oncicola confusus 1950 Oncicola freitasi 1950 Oncicola juxtatesticularis 1950 Oncicola magalhaesi 1962 Oncicola micracantha 1949 Oncicola paracampanulata 1963 Pachysentis dollfusi 1950 Pachysentis gethi 1950 Pachysentis lenti 1950 Pachysentis procyonis 1950 Pachysentis rugosus 1950 Pachysentis septemserialis 1950 Palliolisentis quinqueungulis 1960 Prosthenorchis lemuri 1950 Pseudocorynosoma iheringi 1961 Quadrigyrus brasiliensis 1941 Others Subulura amazonica 1968 with
- [Domingo Madan](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-madan/): Domingo Laureano Madán Bebeagua, Cuban ophthalmologist and pediatrician (Matanzas 05 September 1856 – La Habana 24 July 1898) Authored about 100 works Described in detail the optical peripheral neuropathy known as Strachan disease independently from Strachan  Notas sobre una forma sensitiva de neuritis periférica. Ambliopia por neuritis optica retrobulbar. Cron. Med. Quir. Habana 24:81-6, 1898 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.E. Díaz. Estudio sobre las fiebres en la isla de Cuba. An.Ac. Habana  35:51-186, 1899 With T.V. Coronado. Pirexias en la isla de Cuba (1896) Asociación del paludismo y de la fiebre amarilla. Cron. Med. Quirur Habana 22(10):153-5, 1896 With E. Díaz. La fiebre amarilla
- [Diana Mussa](https://neglectedscience.com/diana-mussa/): Diana Mussa, Brazilian paleobotanist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 19 January 1932 – Rio de Janeiro 13 May 2007) Daughter of Lebanese immigrants  World authority on Devonian flora  Proposed the division Horneophytophyta (2000) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANT GENERA Zollernioxylon 1959  Protopodocarpitys 1974 Palaeopinuxylon 1975 Astronioxylon 1978 with Suguio Brasilestiloxylon 1978 Matayboxylon 1978 with Suguio Myelontordoxylon 1978 Myrocarpoxylon 1978 with Suguio Paratordoxylon 1978 Piptadenioxylon 1978 with Suguio Qualeoxylon 1978 with Suguio Solenobrasilioxylon 1978 Austroscleromedulloxylon 1980 Paranaseptoxylon 1982  Schopfiicaulia 1982 Carolinapitys 1984 with Coimbra Atlanticoxylon 1986 Catarinapitys 1986 Kraeseulpitys 1960  Petalopitys 1986 Paulistoxylon 1986 Piracicaboxylon 1986 Solidoxylon 1960  Maryxylon 1986 with Coimbra Torosoxylon 1986  Araguainorachis 1987 with Coimbra Cyclomedulloxylon 1987 with Coimbra Teresinoxylon 1989 with Caldas, Lima Filho & Rösler Brasilophyton 1996 with Borghi, Bergamaschi, Schubert, Pereira & Rodrigues Ciguelia 1996 with Borghi, Bergamaschi, Schubert,
- [Dev Dev Mukerji](https://neglectedscience.com/dev-dev-mukerji/): Dev Dev Mukerji, Indian ichthyologist (1903 – Calcutta 21 January 1937) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA GENERA Indostomus 1929 with Prashad Parasphaerichthys 1929 with Prashad SPECIES Bathygobius meggitti 1936 with Hora Dermogenys burmanica 1935 Devario sondhii 1934 with Hora Esomus ahli 1928 with Hora Garra salweenica 1934 with Hora Glyptothorax burmanicus 1929 with Prashad Glyptothorax prashadi 1932 Homalopteroides rupicola 1929 with Prashad Indostomus paradoxus 1929 with Prashad Lentipes andamanicus 1935 Microphis dunckeri 1929 with Prashad Olyra horae 1929 with Prashad Parasphaerichthys ocellatus 1929 with Prashad Poropontius burtoni 1933 Pseudolaguvia tuberculata 1929 with Prashad Psilorhynchus homaloptera 1935 with Hora Rasbora labiosa 1935 Systomus shanensis 1934 with Hora LINKS   http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp
- [Dayou Ma](https://neglectedscience.com/dayou-ma/): Dayou Ma or Dah-you Maa, Chinese acoustic engineer (Beijing 01 March 1915 – Beijing 17 July 2012) Authored about 200 papers and 20 books Invented micro-perforated panel non-fibrous sound absorbers (1975) and microperforation jet mufflers Analyzed sound decay in a rectangular room in terms of aerial vibration Gave a formula of jet noise via air pressure and some empirical expressions for sound pressure levels and A-weighted sound levels of cold air jet noise Presented a simplified method for calculations of normal modes for room acoustics i.e. a formula to describe the distribution of normal modes (1939) HONORS Gold Medal, Fraunhofer Society of Germany
- [Dario Mendes](https://neglectedscience.com/dario-mendes/): Dario Mendes, Brazilian entomologist (Belem do Pará 30 September 1892 – Rio de Janeiro 17 June 1963) Authored 13 works DESCRIBED SPECIES Coleoptera Ancylodonta almeidai 1946  Ateralphus variegatus 1938 Desmiphora travassosi 1938 Lygrocharis nigripennis 1938 Mendesina carinithorax 1938 Pentheochaetes argentinus 1937 Rhopalophora neivai 1940 Rhynchophora grossopunctata 1952 Sternechus mesosternalis 1962 Others Austrotachardiella trilobata 1936 (Homoptera) Eacles camposportoi 1937 (Lepidoptera) Eucalymnatus itanhaensis 1931 (Hemiptera) HONORS Mendesina Lane 1974 (Coleoptera)  
- [Clodomiro Marticorena](https://neglectedscience.com/clodomiro-marticorena/): Clodomiro Fidel Segundo Marticorena Pairoa, Chilean botanist (Huasco, Atacama Region 09 September 1929 – Concepción 27 October 2013)  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Pabellonia 1976 with Quezada (Alliaceae) Species  Cardamine thermarum 2001 Chaetanthera aymarae 1974 with Quezada Chersodoma longipedicellata 1964 with Ricardi Lathyrus collae 2000 Menonvillea rollinsii 1990 with Al-Shehbaz Nassauvia coronipappa 1988 with Arroyo Nolana rhombifolia 1974 with Quezada Pabellonia oxypetala 1976 with Quezada Polycarpon coquimbense 1995 with Gereau Senecio behnii 1964 with Ricardi Senecio coscayanus 1964 with Ricardi Senecio laucanus 1964 with Ricardi Senecio olivaceobractetatus 1964 with Ricardi Senecio pappii 1964 with Ricardi Senecio pfisteri 1964 with Ricardi Senecio ricardii 1974 with Quezada Senecio zapahuirensis 1978 with Quezada Senecio zoellneri 1974 with Quezada Sisymbrium donnarosae 2000 Stipa yatesensis 1987 with Quezada
- [Charles Edward Moss](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-edward-moss/): Charles Edward Moss, English / South African botanist (Hyde, Cheshire County 07 February 1870 – Johannesburg 11 November 1930) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Arthrocnemum pillansii 1948 Krauseola mosambicinum 1931 Salicornia disarticulata 1911 Salicornia dolichostachya 1912 Salicornia gracilima 1911 Salicornia meyeriana 1948 Sarcocornia capensis 1948 Sarcocornia littorea 1948 HONORS Mossia N.E. Brown 1930 (Aizoaceae)
- [Chakravarthula Manoharachary](https://neglectedscience.com/chakravarthula-manoharachary/): Chakravarthula Manoharachary, Indian mycologist and lichenologist (Vavilava, Karimnagar District 01 January 1945 –  Authored over 400 research papers DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA  (may be incomplete) Genera Beltramono 2011 with Dubey & Pandey Beltraniomyces 2003 with Agarwal & Krishna Rao Bhadradriella 2011 with Nagaraju & Kunwar Chasakopama 2009 with Bagyanarayana, Rao & Kunwar Cylindromyces 2004 with Agarwal & Rao Diatrypoidiella 2005 with Kunwar & Agarwal Goosiomyces 1989 with Rao Hawksworthia 2004 with Rao, Agarwal & Kunwar Hyalocephalotrichum 2011 with Nagaraju, Kunwar & Kumar Isia 1978 with Hawksworth Microxyphispora 2004 with Kunwar & Ramesh Ramaraomyces 1989 with Rao & Goos Synnemellisia 1989 with Rao & Goos Vanibandha 2006 with Rao, Kunwar & Agarwal Species At least 70 HONORS
- [Cesar Milstein](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-milstein/): Cesar Milstein, British / Argentine (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province 08 October 1927- Cambridge, england 24 March 2002) From Ukrainian and Lithuanian Jewish descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 314 papers  Studied the structure of antibody proteins and the genetic study of antibody diversification A simple test for the presence of metals in biological materials. Nature 185:386-7, 1960  Defined the inter-heavy chain disulfide bridges that characterize each immunoglobulin class One of first to determinate the complete sequence of immunoglobulin light chain   With George Brownlee discovered the junction between variable and constant regions of immunoglobulin  (1972) Demonstrated the importance of somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin V
- [Celina Maria Matteri](https://neglectedscience.com/celina-maria-matteri/): Celina María Matteri, Argentine bryologist (La Plata 27 September 1943 – 30 November 2004) Authored 83 papers and 3 books DESCRIBED MUSCI TAXA Subfamily Neomeesioideae 1999 with Ochyra Species Achrophyllum haesselianum 1979 Distichophyllum fuegianum 1975  Distichophyllum grandifolium 1975 Distichophyllum submersum 1975 Distichophyllum theriotianum 1975 Philonotis esquelensis 1968 Pterygophyllum crassirete 1979 Racomitrium kerguelense 1996 with Ochyra Racomitrium minutum 1996 Syntrichia subpapillosa 1994 Trematodon geniculatus 1980 HONORS Matteria Goffinet 1998 (Musci)
- [Carlos Moreira](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-moreira/): Carlos Moreira, Brazilian carcinologist and entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1869 – Rio de Janeiro 07 April 1946) First to observe Sitophilos oriza (Coleoptera) attacking bunches of grapes (1900) Embriologie du Cardisoma guanhumi Latr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France 25:145-61, 1912 (a classical work) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Crustacea Genus Evius 1912 Species Dissodactylus crinitichelis 1901 Evius rubes 1912 Hyalella pernix 1903 Hemisquilla braziliensis 1903 Loxopagurus loxochelis 1901 Metanephrops rubellus 1903 Moreirocarcinus laevifrons 1901 Nanosesarma batavicum 1903 Philoscia briani 1927 Porcellionides schwencki 1932 Trichodactylus parvus 1912 Dermaptera Genus Forcepsia 1930 Species Ancistrogaster mendesi 1930 Brachylabis punctulata 1931 Carcinophora brasiliensis 1931 Carcinophora croceipes 1930 Carcinophora minima 1931 Cosmiella brasiliensis 1930 Euborellia flavipes 1931 Euborellia inermis 1931 Euborellia nitida 1932 Forcepsia pulla 1930 Opisthocosmia silvestris 1930 Praos paulensis 1932 Strongylopsalis dubia 1932
- [Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-bastos-magarinos-torres/): Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1891 – Rio de Janeiro  26 January 1984) Authored over 162 works Described histopathological alterations in cardiac striated muscle lesions in Chagas disease known as Magarinos Torres lesions Estudo do miocardio na moléstia de Chagas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 9:114-39, 1917  Introduced the concept of allergy in Chagas disease pathogeny (1929) With A.P. de Azevedo described multinuclear giant cells filled with leishmanioid bodies in Chagas disease (1939) Established the concept of Chagasic coronaritis Patogenia das lesões do miocárdio na doença de Chagas. Rev. Goiana Med. 4(2):121-34, 1958   Reported the second
- [Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-augusto-de-figueiredo-monteiro/): Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro, Brazilian geographer and climatologist (Teresina 23 March 1927 – Campinas, São Paulo State 13 July 2022) Gained international recognition on dynamic climatology Proposed the use of synoptic charts for geographical analysis of climate (1963) Sobre um índice de participação das massas de ar e suas possibilidades de aplicação à classificação climática. Rev. Geogr. 33(61):59-69, 1964 Proposed the vital cycle of cold spell A Frente Polar Atlântica e as Chuvas de Inverno na Vertente Sul Oriental do Brasil (1967) Introduced the concept of rhythm in geographical analysis of climate (rhythm analysis method) A Análise Rítmica em Climatologia:
- [Carlos Arthur Moncorvo de Figueiredo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-arthur-moncorvo-de-figueiredo/): Carlos Arthur Moncorvo de Figueiredo, Brazilian pediatrician (Rio de Janeiro 31 August 1846 -25 July 1901) Authored over 80 works Discovered Wurtz papaine independently (1879) He would have reported the first case of nodose chronic rheumatism in children (1880) Developed whooping cough treatment by resorcin (1883) Developed a new diagnose technique employing the stomach dilatation of children (1885) First used analgesic exalgine in chorea treatment Sur un cas de chorée gueri par l’emploi de l’exalgin. Bull. Gener. Therap. (1890) Described blennorrhagic rheumatism in children Sur Le rhumatisme blenorrhagique. La Médecine Infantile (1894) HONORS Cited in Prix Montyon, Academie des Sciences de
- [Carlos Alberto & Gabriela Menendez](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-gabriela-menendez/): Carlos Alberto Menendez, Argentine paleobotanist and palynologist (Calamuchita, Cordoba Province 17 August 1921 – 31 August 1976) Authored over 50 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Sporae Genera Ancistrospora 1972 with Azcuy Irmosporites 1969 with Azcuy Species 80 Plantae Genera Alsophicaulis 1961 Sueria 1965 Species  Araliophyllum cachetamanense Asterotheca hilariensis 1957 Cycadolepis coriacea 1966 Cycadolepis oblonga 1966 Cycadolepis lanceolata 1966 Cycadolepis involuta 1966 Dicroidium crassum  Dictyophyllum barrealensis with Stipanicic Dictyophyllum castellanosi with Stipanicic Dictyophyllum chihuihuensis  Dictyophyllum tenuifollium 1949 with Stipanicic Dictyophyllum tenuiserratum  Dictyozamites crassinervis Dictyozamites latifolius 1972 Dictiozamites minusculus Equisetites quindecimdenta 1958 Hausmannia feltisiana with Stipanicic Hymenophyllum priscum Laurophyllum hickenii Otozamites parviauriculata 1966 Paracacioxylon odonelli 1962 Protocircoporoxylon cortaderitaensis Ptilophyllum longipinnatum Ruprechtia castilloensis Taeniopteris densinervis  Thyrsopteris antigua 1966 Williamsonia bulbiformis Williamsonia umbonata Zamites
- [Carlos A. Marelli](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-a-marelli/): Carlos Antonio Marelli Allevi, Argentine zoologist (18 October 1886 – La Plata 06 July 1967) Authored Normas para la obtención bioestadistica de las variaciones de los caracteres en diferentes especies vegetales. Rev. Soc. Argen. 29(318):201-338, 1926 Formulated relevant indices of variability for anthropological classifications and craneology DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA TAXA Genera Dacnirotatus 1926 (Coleoptera) Dipterolelaps 1926 (Acari) Pitrufquenia 1932 (Mallophaga) Species  Coleoptera Dacnirotatus bruchi Gonipterus platensis 1926 Platypus navarrodeandradei 1931 Hymenoptera Encarsia gallardoi 1933 Telenomus albagniris 1952 Mallophaga Pitrufquenia coypus 1932 Pitrufquenia mollis 1933 HONORS Marellia Uvarov 1929 (Orthoptera)
- [Carl Wilhelm Moesta](https://neglectedscience.com/carl-wilhelm-moesta/): Carl Wilhelm Moesta, German-born Chilean astronomer (Zierenberg, Hessen, Prussia 21 August 1825 – Dresden 02 April 1884) Discovered a comet independently from Ellery (Australia) and McLear (South Africa) comet C/1865B1 Honored in 9334 Moesta asteroid  
- [Candido Firmino de Mello-Leitão](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-firmino-de-mello-leitao/): Candido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, Brazilian zoologist (Campina Grande, Paraiba State 17 July 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 14 December 1948) Worldwide recognized as one of the greatest arachnologists of his day Authored 212 scientific papers, 117 popular papers, 15 medical papers and 18 popular books DESCRIBED NEW TAXA  Arachnida   Genera At least 416 Species Over 450 Orthoptera Genera Anchocoema 1939 Cephaloscopia 1939 Dasylistroscelis 1940 Epsigrypa 1939 Isocarliella 1940 Nemoricultrix 1940 Coelenterata Species Cerianthus brasiliensis 1919 Amphibia Genus Fritziana 1937 HONORS Melloleitanianus A. Mello Leitão 1955 (Pantopoda) Melloa Roewer 1930 (Arachnida)  Melloina Brignoli 1985 (Arachnida)   Melloleitaoina Pikelin & Schiapelli 1960 (Arachnida)   Melloicosa Roewer 1954 (Arachnida) Subgenus Melloiella De Carlo 1935 (Hemiptera) Eponym of Mello Leitao cardiorenal type
- [Candido Borges Monteiro](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-borges-monteiro/): Candido Borges Monteiro, viscount of Itauna, Brazilian surgeon and nobleman (Rio de Janeiro 12 October 1812 – Rio de Janeiro 25 August 1872) Performed the fourth abdominal aortic ligature in the world (1842) with international repercussion. In this work conceived a new kind of needleholder Abdominal Aorta Tied. Lancet 1:334, 1842-3 Memoria acerca da ligadura da artéria aorta abdominal, precedida de algumas considerações gerais sobre a operação do aneurisma e seguida de uma estampa litographada, que representam um novo porta-fio e sua posição durante a operação (1845) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Considerações gerais sobre hérnias abdominais e da hérnia inguinal em particular (1833)    
- [Camilo Meyer](https://neglectedscience.com/camilo-meyer/): Camilo Meyer, French-born Argentine physicist and mathematician (Verdun 27 May 1854 – Buenos Aires 09 May 1918) Generalización al espacio de N dimensiones de algunas propiedades de la función potencial. Rev. Centro Estud. Ingen. 141 (1914) Obtained a simple formula for computing the specific heat capacity of bodies Los calores atomicos en los cuerpos solidos y la teoria de los “Quanta”. Rev. Centro Estud. Ingen. 142 & 143 (1914) & Anales Soc. Cient. Argentina 86:49-84, 1918 Obtained an exponential equation for chemical kinetic of atoms analogue to that of Marcellin La teoria cinetica de los gases aplicada a la unión de
- [Braulio Moyano](https://neglectedscience.com/braulio-moyano/): Braulio Aurelio Moyano Arce, Argentine neuropathologist (Villa Mercedes, San Luis Province 21 August 1906 – Buenos Aires 07 July 1959) Authored 22 works Reported the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques in the brain of patients diagnosed with Pick and Alzheimer diseases (1931) His doctoral thesis La demencia senil y demencias preseniles (1932) gained international repercussion Discovered that the first Pick dementia symptom is the loss of the inner language known as amnesic aphasia sign Discovered the pathogeny of Argyll-Robertson sign due to demyelization of iris nervous fibers (1935) with Roque Orlando Discovered the origin of upper via aberrans in frontal
- [Bhalchendra Bhavanishankar Mundkur](https://neglectedscience.com/bhalchendra-bhavanishankar-mundkur/): Bhalchendra Bhavanishankar Mundkur, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Mundkar Village, Mangalore, Tamil Nadu State 26 June 1896 – Poona 13 December 1952) Authored about 80 papers With Bedi showed how occur infection by Tilletia indica (1943) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Catenulopsora 1943 Dasturella 1943 with Kheswalla Mehtamyces 1945 with Thirumalachar Santapauella 1945 with Thirumalachar Species Over a hundred HONORS Mundkurella Thirumalachar 1944 (Fungi)
- [Bernardino Mateu Amengual](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardino-mateu-amengual/): Bernardino Mateu Amengual, Argentine plant chemist (fl.1948-94) With P. Legname & P. Seeligmann. Bases morfologicas y quimicas permitem justificar el reconocimiento de variedades de Acacia aroma Gill ap. H et A (Leguminosae). Lilloa 35(2):112, 1979 Un metodo simple y rapido para identificar cobalto separado por cromatografia de papel (1974) With J.M. Rodríguez Vaquero. Aislamiento de un nuevo alcaloide de Scoparia dulcis L. (nota preliminar). Arch. Farm. Bioquim. Tucumán 7:1, 1955 With F.H. Naim Kent. Identification and separation of minute quantities of alkaloids by microphotography on paper. Arch. Farm. Bioquim. Tucumán 4:333-43, 1950
- [Avadh Behari Misra](https://neglectedscience.com/avadh-behari-misra/): Avadh Behari Misra, Indian zoologist and microscopist (Serai-Meran, Fatehgarh District, Uttar Pradesh 27 January 1900 – 24 March 1967) Son of entomologist Rai Bahadur Chandrasekhar Misra SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The recurrent sexual cycle of birds (1962) The annual reproductive cycles of some Indian birds. Jour. Sci. Res. Benares Hindu University 11:342-85, 1960 With S.R. Rao. The development of the ovary in the female of Drosicha (Monophlebus) quadricaudatus (Green) (Homoptera:Coccidae) (1960) With A.G. Sathyanesan. On the persistence of the orohypophysial duct in some clupeoid fishes. Proc. Int. Zool. Congr. p.5-27, 1958 Sexual periodicity in birds with special reference to India. Proc. Ind. Sci. Congr. 35th session
- [Augusto Severo Maranhão](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-severo-maranhao/): Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão, Brazilian aeronaut (Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte State 11 January 1864 – Paris 12 May 1902) ACHIEVEMENTS Conceived and patented Bartolomeu de Gusmão balloon in France (1893), when created dirigibility of semi-rigid balloons Constructed dirigible Pax, praised for many specialists of field (1902). It was an improvement of anterior dirigible. Placed traction line coincident to drag one to better control handling aircraft and first to place screw propeller at end axis of dirigibles  PATENTS A resistance turbo engine (1896) Driving mechanism for balloons (1891 & 1899) A rotative reversible machine for graphical imprinting A direct circular
- [Attilio Macchiavello](https://neglectedscience.com/attilio-macchiavello/): Attilio Macchiavello Varas, Chilean hygienist and epidemiologist (Antofagasta 07 December 1902 – Santiago de Chile 14 December 1996) From Italian father Authored over 200 papers (until 1962)  ACHIEVEMENTS With Richard Dresser. A modified method of obtaining large amounts of Rickettsia prowazeki by roentgen irradiation of rats. J. Exp. Med. 62(3): 297-304, 1935 Developed Macchiavello stain for Chlamydia and Rickettsia Estudios sobre tifo exantemático. III. Un nuevo metodo para teñir Rickettsia. Rev. Chil. Hig. Med. Prev. 1:101-6, 1937  Described murine pseudo plague with paralysis caused by Klebsiella muris  Pseudo-peste murina con paralisis del tren posterior, nueva enfermedad epizootica de la rata causada por Klebsiella. Arch. Hig. Rio de Janeiro
- [Astrogildo Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/astrogildo-machado/): Astrogildo Machado, Brazilian biomedical researcher (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 1885 – Rio de Janeiro 19 January 1945) Brother in law of physician Carlos Chagas ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced improvements in sera preparation technique Developed Machado-Guerreiro reaction or test With C. Guerreiro. Da reação de Bordet e Gengou na moléstia de Carlos Chagas como elemento diagnóstico. Bras. Med. 27(23):225, 1913 Described the protozoan genus Chagasella 1912 Developed a procedure to attenuate Koch bacillus Nouveau procédé pour priver le bacilli de Koch de son acido-resistance. C.R. Soc. Biol. 96(7):484, 1927   PATENTS A new organic acid and its salts employed in parasitary diseases Novo acido
- [Ashesh Prosad Mitra](https://neglectedscience.com/ashesh-prosad-mitra/): Ashesh Prosad Mitra, Indian atmospheric physicist (Kolkata 21 February 1927 – New Delhi 03 September 2007) Authored 150 papers and several books and monographs Authored important studies on lower ionosphere Showed that atmospheric chemistry changes during a flare Introduced a method of ionospheric prediction Introduced new techniques for detecting solar flares such as the use of cosmic radio noise and for analysis of flare effects of the atmosphere
- [Asha Mathur](https://neglectedscience.com/asha-mathur/): Asha Mathur, Indian virologist (Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh State 13 June 1938 – Authored over 170 research papers With British Gardner developed new techniques for rapid diagnosis of viruses First to demonstrate the transplacental transmission of Japanese encephalitis virus in human and in mouse model Showed its persistence, latency and reactivation and association of production of previously unrecognized chemotactic factor with neutrophilia and early antiviral host defense With U.C. Chaturvedi, A. Chandra, S.K. Das, H.O. Tandon & U.K. Singh. Transplacental infection with Japanese encephalitis virus. J. Infect. Dis. 141:712-5, 1980 With K.L. Arora & U.C. Chaturvedi. Transplacental Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection
- [Arthur Alexandre Moses](https://neglectedscience.com/arthur-alexandre-moses/): Arthur Alexandre Moses, Brazilian biomedical researcher (Rio de Janeiro 02 June 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 23 November 1967) From Jewish Austrian & United States ancestry  ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 100 works performing studies on microbiology, histology and veterinary First worldwide demonstration of the existence of anticysticerci antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid Dos métodos biológicos de diagnostico na cisticercose (Ueber Anwendung biologischer methoden bei der diagnose der cysticercosis) Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 3:322-6, 1911 Described a specific type of myxoma in rabbits, Moses strain of rabbit myxoma virus or standard laboratory strain for myxoma virus O vírus do mixoma dos coelhos. Mem. Inst.
- [Arnaldo de Moraes](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-de-moraes/): Arnaldo de Moraes, Brazilian gynecologist and obstetrician (Rio de Janeiro 28 August 1893 – Rio de Janeiro 06 April 1961) Authored over 120 scientific articles Considered a founding father of cervical pathology along with Navratil (c.1949) Coined the term colpocytology First to use colposcopy, colpocytology and histopathologic test for a safe result (1950) Founded Instituto de Ginecologia at Rio de Janeiro (1947) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Patologia do recém-nascido Orientação moderna em ginecologia Apresentações transversais (Thesis) Fisiopatologia da Infeccção puerperal (Thesis) Propedeutica obstétrica HONOURS Honorary Member, Bucharest Gynecological Society Effective Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Gynakologie (1936) Honorary President, French Congress of Gynaecology (1949) 
- [Armando de Mattos Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-de-mattos-filho/): Armando de Mattos Filho, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 07 December 1916 – Rio de Janeiro March 2009) Authored about 100 works Described and improved research methods in the field of plant anatomy (1982-4) With P.A. de Mattos Araújo. Estrutura das madeiras brasileiras de angiospermas dicotiledôneas (in 27 parts) (1974-85) Developed an original process of counting the number of vessels per mm2 employing the euscope conjugated to the microscope (1947) Anatomia do lenho do gênero Peltogyne Vog. Arq. Serv. Florestal 8:45-146, 1954 DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Arapatiella 1972 with Rizzini Species (with Rizzini) Arapatiella trepocarpa 1972 Bombax rawitscheri 1966 Brasiliopuntia subacarpa 1986 Cereus bicolor 1985 Dalbergia decipularis 1968 Dalbergia hortensis 1987 with
- [Aristides Monteiro](https://neglectedscience.com/aristides-monteiro/): Aristides do Rego Monteiro, Brazilian physician (Natal 01 November 1900 – ?) Described Aristides Monteiro auricular syndrome of arterial hypertension and the sign associated to it (Aristides Monteiro sign) O sinal da artéria do cabo do martelo na hipertensão arterial. O Hospital 31, 1937 Described other clinical signs Developed a cure for acute angina employing bismuth salts (Monteiro-Godoi Tavares method)     Une nouvelle therapeutique. Les bismuth dans Le traitement des angines aigues non specifiques. Les Ann. l’Oto-larin. 557:6, 1934 Introduced a little light holder in laryngoscope Laringoscopie directe en suspension. Modification de l’apareille de Seiffert. Acta Otolaring. Stockholm 19(4), Eponym of Aristides
- [Ardoino Martini](https://neglectedscience.com/ardoino-martini/): Ardoino Martini, Italian-born Argentine microchemist (Livorno 1872 – Rosario 26 April 1943) Described at least 78 new reactions and 24 new reagents CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With S. Schamis. Nuevo metodo para el reconocimiento microquimico de los cationes mas comunes em las mezclas complejas. Presented in Segundo Congreso de Quimica, Buenos Aires, 1924. Uber einige neuere innere Komplexe des metallischen nitroso-phenylhydroxylamins und ihre Anwendung bei der mikrochemischen analyse. Mikrochem. 6:152-61, 1929 Eine neue mikrochemische reaction des Kations Ni. Mikrochem. 8:146, 1930 A New microchemical reaction for molybdenum, vanadium and tungsten. Mikrochemie 12:112-3, 1932. Uber eine neue mikrochemische Differentialreaktion des Brucins und Strychnins. Mikrochem. 23:164-167,
- [Antonio Molina](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-molina/): José Antonio Molina Rosito, Honduran botanist (Tegucigalpa 28 February 1926 – Tegucigalpa 23 September 2012) DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Aeschynomene standleyi 1952 Alfaroa williamsii 1968 Bidens arbuscula 1970 Calyptranthes zanquinensis 1953 Casearia sericea 1961 with Williams Cassia mensarum 1951 Cassia tapahuascana 1974 Cephaelis borucana 1951 Colubrina hondurensis 1953 Croton suyapensis 1951 Dalechampia shankii 1984 Desmanthodium hondurense 1965 Dicliptera antidysenterica 1965 Engelhardia nicaraguensis 1968 Eugenia crassifolia 1953 Eugenia hondurensis 1951 Eugenia lopeziana 1953 Eupatorium albertinae 1970 Eupatorium cyrili-nelsoni 1978 Eupatorium pinetorum 1975 with Williams Euphorbia culminicola 1965  Gliricidia malacocarpa 1952 Guettarda sageretioides 1952 Hoffmannia teruae 1973 with Williams Inga nubigena 1974 Inga paludicola 1974 Ipomoea teruae 1970 with Williams Magnolia hondurensis 1974 Mansoa montecillensis 1974 Maytenus williamsii 1951 Mimosa carbonalis 1974 Mimosa hadrocarpa 1974 Mollinedia ruae 1964 with Williams Perezia microcephala 1952 Persea primatogena 1977 with Williams Phrygilanthus
- [Antonio Martínez](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-martinez/): Antonio Martínez, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 18 April 1922 – La Marmora, Bolivia November 1993) Authored 270 works DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Coleoptera 75 Hemiptera Alberprosenia 1977 with Carcavallo Microtriatoma 1952 with Prosén Hymenoptera Bordontilla 1975 with Fritz Diptera Joartigasia 1974 with Martínez Arachnida Montescueia 1962 with Carcavallo HONORS Martineziana Chalumeau & Ozdikmen 2006 (Coleoptera)   Martinezidium Vaz de Mello 2008 (Coleoptera)  Martinezostes Paulian 1982 (Coleoptera) Antomartinezius Fritz 1955 (Hymenoptera)
- [Antonio Mandelli](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-mandelli/): Antonio Mandelli, Argentine naval engineer (fl.1949-78) ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced the concept of influence lines Developed a method by which the exact value of the bending moment amidships for any condition of loading of a given ship can be calculated without resorting to bending-moment curves Developed a method by which the basic calculations of anterior method can be used to determine the buoyancy curve when a complete bending-moment curve is required Developed a method of calculating for a given ship the exact value of bending moment amidships for any condition of loading Simplified calculations of longitudinal bending moments. Trans. Inst. Engineers Shipbuilders Scotland
- [Antonio Luiz Patricio da Silva Manso](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-luiz-patricio-da-silva-manso/): Antonio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso, Brazilian physician and naturalist (Santos, São Paulo State 1788 – Campinas, São Paulo State 17 January 1848) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA (1836) Genera (Valid and Incertain) Anisosperma Cayaponia  (Cucurbitaceae) Druparia Operculina  (Convolvulaceae) Perianthopodus Wilbrandia  (Cucurbitaceae) Species Adenocalymma nodosum Allasia jobini Caladium pendulinum Cayaponia espelina Convolvulus polyrhizos Convolvulus puniceus Convolvulus sarcocarpus Druparia racemosa Ipomoea gigantea Ipomoea polyrhizos Jacaranda rufa Manettia auratifolia Operculina convolvulus Perianthopodus carijo Perianthopodus tomba Tabebuia aurea Wilbrandia hibiscoides HONORS Mansoa De Candolle 1838 (Bignoniaceae)
- [Antonio Divino de Moura](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-divino-de-moura/): Antonio Divino de Moura, Brazilian meteorologist (Ituitutaba, Minas Gerais State 21 October 1945 –  His thesis Eigensolutions of the balance equations over a sphere (1975) was Rossby Award winner as the Best Thesis of Year in Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Proposed a mechanism for the occurrence of severe droughts over Northeastern Brazil by establishment of an anomalous thermally circulation in Atlantic Ocean With J. Shukla. On the dynamics of droughts in Northeastern Brazil: observations, theory and numerical experiments with a general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sciences 38(12), 1981 With L. Sun, D.F. Moncunil, H. Li, F.D.A.D.S. Filho & S.E. Zebiak developed the first
- [Antonio da Silva Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-da-silva-mello/): Antonio da Silva Mello, Brazilian physician (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 10 May 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 19 September 1973) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 20 books on anthropology, sociology, psychology, medicine and philosophy Performed works on biological effects of radioactivity that had international repercussion. He distinguished between radio and x-rays effects Ueber die Wirkung der strahlenden Energie auf das Blut und die blutbildenden Organe. Strahlentherapie 6:387, 1915 Experimentelle Untersuchungen uber die biologische Wirkung des Thorium X inbesondere auf das Blut. Z.Klin. Med. 81:285-354, 1915 Described a new device for measuring capillary resistance Silva Mello maneuver for capillary resistance  First to
- [Annibal de Mattos](https://neglectedscience.com/annibal-de-mattos/): Anníbal Ramos de Mattos, Brazilian industrial chemist (Recife 25 April 1904 – Recife 16 March 1986) With José Julio Bettencourt Rodrigues developed Motogás, an alcohol and ether-based mixture (1920s) With O. Gonçalves de Lima demonstrated that vinasse could be employed as fertilizing (1934) Proposed a process and apparatus for recovering chemicals from alcohol industry and use them as fertilizing agents PATENTS Process and apparatus for producing alcohol from a nutrient medium by fermentation with yeast. US2451156 (1949) Processo Amatos de fermentação contínua nº31.064 Um novo processo para fabrico de açúcar nº 43.045 Brazilian Patent nº 62.597 (1953) Apparatus and method for
- [Angelo Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/angelo-machado/): Angelo Barbosa Monteiro Machado, Brazilian neuroanatomist and entomologist (Belo Horizonte 22 May 1934 – Belo Horizonte 06 April 2020) Authored about 165 publications MORPHOLOGY Discovered a new function of smooth endoplasmatic reticulum i.e. the formation of noradrenaline synaptic vesicles in axon terminals Made influential discoveries on lesions of autonomic nervous system in Chagas disease (1960s) ENTOMOLOGY DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Helveciagrion 1980 Navicordulia 1995 with J.M. Costa Amazoneura 2004 Schizocordulia 2005 Tukanobasis 2009 Denticulobasis 2009 Tuberculobasis 2009 Austrotepuibasis 2011 with Lencioni Carajathemis 2012 Franciscobasis 2015 with Bedê Franciscagrion 2015 with Bedê Species   98 (until 2017) Others Helicopsyche planorbides 1957 (Trichoptera) HONORS Genus Machadoporites Nemesio 2005 (Cnidaria)
- [Angel Mercado](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-mercado/): Angel A. Mercado Sierra, Cuban mycologist (10 March 1937 – 24 February 2008) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA  Valid Genera  Acarocybiopsis 1999 with Mena Portales & Hernandez Gut. Ancorasporella 1998 with Mena Portales & Heredia Cheiromyceopsis 1988 with Mena Portales Consetiella 1982 with Holubová-Jechová Digitomyces 2003 with Calduch & Gené  Holubovaea 1983 Neosporidesmium 1988 with Mena Portales Odontodictyospora 1984 Phialosporostilbe 1985 with Mena Portales Phragmospathulella 1986 with Mena Portales Piricaudiopsis 1987 with Mena Portales Polytretophora 1983 Veracruzomyces 2002 with Mena, Guario & Heredia Species More than 60 HONORS Mercadomyces Mena Portales 1988 (Fungi) 
- [Amilcar Vianna Martins](https://neglectedscience.com/amilcar-vianna-martins/): Amílcar Vianna Martins, Brazilian parasitologist and medical entomologist (Belo Horizonte 09 September 1907 – Belo Horizonte 13 April 1990) Showed the worth of fecal test by water spontaneous sedimentation for diagnosing schistosomiasis Diagnostico de laboratorio da esquistossomose mansoni. Dissertation, Fac. Med. Univ. Federal Minas Gerais (1949) DESCRIBED TAXA Diptera Genus Barrettomyia 1965 with Silva Species Brumptomyia ortizi  1971 with Falcão & Silva Evandromyia termitophila 1964 with Falcão & Silva Lutzomyia abunaensis 1965 with Falcão & Silva Lutzomyia acanthopharynx 1962 with Falcão & Silva Lutzomyia alencari 1962 with Falcão & Souza Lutzomyia appendiculata 1961 with Falcão & Silva Lutzomyia bacula 1965 with Falcão & Silva Lutzomyia borgmeieri  1972 with Falcão
- [Ambat Gopalan Kutty Menon](https://neglectedscience.com/ambat-gopalan-kutty-menon/): Ambat Gopalan Kutty Menon, Indian ichthyologist and zoogeographer (19 April 1921 – 11 April 2002) Authored over 100 scientific papers DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Eechathalakenda 1999 Horaglanis 1950 Petruichthys 1987 Species Acentrogobius ennorensis 1980 with Rema Devi Bascanichthys deraniyagalai 1961 Callogobius andamanensis 1974 with Chatterjee Callogobius trifasciatus 1976 with Chatterjee Crossocheilus periyarensis 1996 with Jacob Cynoglossus lachneri 1977 Garra ethelwynnae 1958 Gaterin rayi 1972 with Talwar Glyptothorax manipurensis 1955 Horaglanis krishnai 1950 Horalabiosa palaniensis 1994 with Rema Devi Hypselobarbus kurali 1995 with Rema Devi Kraemericus smithi 1973 with Talwar  Lepidocephalichthys coromandelensis 1992 Mesonoemacheilus petrulanarescui 1984 Nemacheilus kodaguensis 1987 Neonoemacheilus assamensis 1987 Noemacheilus nagaensis 1987 Noemacheilus nilgiriensis 1987 Oxyurichthys nijsseni 1977 with Govindan Pangio longipinnis 1992 Psilorhynchus pseudecheneis 1964 with Datta Puntius chalakkudiensis 1999 with Rema Devi & Thobia 
- [Alvaro Mones](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-mones/): Alvaro Jaime Mones Sibillotte, Uruguayan paleontologist (Montevideo 07 August 1942 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA Genera Acremylodon 1986 Anatochoerus 1991 with Vucetich Gondwanatheria 1987 Josephoartigasia 1966 Kiyutherium 1965 with Francis Meridiosaurus 1980 Ricardocifellia 2015 Sphaerovum 1980 Tacuarembovum 1980 Uruguayurus 1987 Yacarerani 2009 with Novas, Pais, Pol, Carvalho, Scanferla & Suarez-Riglos Species Anatochoerus inusitatus 1991 with Vucetich Cardiatherium talicei 1965 with Francis Ctenomys mesorhinus 1979 with Castiglioni Ctenomys praderii 1979 with Castiglioni Josephoartigasia magna 1966 with Francis Kiyutherium orientalis 1965 with Francis Lagostomus (Lagostomus) euplasma 1966 with Francis Marmosa contrerasi 1980 Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi 1980 Microcavia (Microcavia) aua 1979 with Castiglioni Neochoerus lancei 1980 Phoberomys pattersoni 1980 Platygonus ticul 1971 Pseudoplohophorus francisi 1970 Sphaerovum erbeni 1980 Tacuarembovum oblongum 1980 Uruguayurus autochthonus 1987 Yacarerani boliviensis 2009 with Novas, Pais, Pol, Carvalho, Scanferla & Suarez-Riglos HONORS (Fossil) Monesichnus Roselli 1987 (Insecta)
- [Ali Moustafa Mosharafa](https://neglectedscience.com/ali-moustafa-mosharafa/): Ali Moustafa Mosharafa, Egyptian theoretical physicist (Damietta 11 July 1898 – 16 January 1950) Authored 26 papers and 15 books Studied quantum theory, theory of relativity and relationship between radiation and matter His books were translated into English, French, German and Polish languages SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Scientific and theoretical mechanics (1937) Descriptive engineering (1937) Readings lang (1943) Special theory of relativity (1943) Planar and spatial engineering (1944) Planar trigonometry (1944) We and science (1945) Atom and atomic bombs (1945) Science and life (1946) Geometry and trigonometry (1947) HONOURS Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1932)
- [Albert Stanley Muller](https://neglectedscience.com/albert-stanley-muller/): Albert Stanley Muller, US-born Latin American mycologist and plant pathologist (Ozone Park, New York State 11 July 1901 – 1983?) With C.D. Chupp first to describe cassava leaf blight (1935) With C.E. Chardón & J.H. Muller. Phyllachora tropicalis on guava. Mycologia 32(2):172-204, 1942 (first report) With M.F. Barrus first to report potato smut (1943) A foliar disease of legumes in Central America. FAO Plant Protection Bull. 1:83-4, 1953 With R. Schieber. A leaf blight of corn (Zea mays) incited by Fusarium moniliforme. Phytopathology 58:554, 1968 Described 62 new fungi species being 59 of them with C.D. Chupp
- [Agustín Domingo Marenzi](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-domingo-marenzi/): Agustín Domingo Marenzi Bula, Argentine biochemist and pharmacist (Buenos Aires 20 December 1900 – 1967) Authored 265 publications Adapted Pulfrich photometer to a number of quantitative techniques Established that sulfoconjugation process is found in almost all organs and mainly in small intestine (1933-4) DEVELOPED METHODS/TECHNIQUES With R. Gerschman developed Gerschman-Marenzi method for studying changes in blood potassium concentration under distinct physiopathological conditions in Anales Farm. Bioquim. 3:107-11, 1932 Developed a new procedure for determination of choline With C. E. Cardini. The colorimetric determination of choline. J. Biol. Chem. 147:363, 1943 Folin-Marenzi method and uric acid reagent With O. Folin. An improved colorimetric method
- [Adolfo Martínez Palomo](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-martinez-palomo/): Adolfo Martínez Palomo, Mexican experimental pathologist (Ciudad de Mexico 15 March 1941 – Son of physician Manuel Martínez Baez Authored over 200 papers and 5 books  (about 9,000 citations) Respected as world authority in intercellular junctions in epithelia (1970s) and amebiasis ACHIEVEMENTS First to show clearly the relationship between specific granules of cardiac auricle and the regulation of arterial pressure The fine structure of the heart muscle cells with special reference to specific granules. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Master Thesis (1966) Performed classical papers on adenovirus replication (1967-8) Detailed the ultramicroscopic changes of cell cover and intercellular junctions and the surface of cancerous cells
- [Adolfo Leandro Montes](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-leandro-montes/): Adolfo Leandro Montes Higueras, Argentine organic chemist and pharmacist (Buenos Aires 13 March 1913 – Florianópolis, Brazil 04 September 1977) Recognized as an expert on essential oils and aromatic products Authored Analitica de los productos aromaticos (1961) a volumous treatise about aromatic products  Developed and/or modified techniques  Developed a number of techniques specially for chromatography and ultraviolet spectrophotometry With A.L. Gordillo. Chromatography of fatty acids: a semi micro method for determination of C-C acids. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. 170:53, 1960  Los perfumes: nuevos metodos empleados en su estudio (1959) With B.R. Cortina. Nuevo metodo para investigar tuyona en bebidas (1953) Developed
- [Adil Mustafa](https://neglectedscience.com/adil-mustafa/): Adil Mustafa Sehzadebasi, Turkish veterinarian (Istanbul 11 June 1871 – 19 January 1904) With M. Nicolle claimed that rinderpest is caused by a virus (1902) With M. Nicolle first to prepare bovine plague serum With M. Nicolle demonstrated that the causative agente of varíola was filterable 5 years before Negri (published only in 1906)
- [Abraão de Moraes](https://neglectedscience.com/abraao-de-moraes/): Abraão de Moraes, Brazilian astronomer and mathematician (Itapecerica da Serra, São Paulo State 17 November 1916 – São Paulo 11 December 1970) ACHIEVEMENTS First to include a rigorous treatment for motion equations resulting from a particle in a field with spherical symmetry in General Relativity Theory Effects of the Earth’s oblateness on the orbit of an artificial satellite. Anais da Acad. Bras. Ciencias 30:465-510, 1958.   Introduced new criteria of randomness (1961) With P.A.Pompéia. Time distribution analysis related to Statistical Physics. Anais da Acad. Bras. Ciencias 33:13-23, 1961.    HONORS Palmes Academiques, France Diplome, National Science Foundation, United States De Moraes crater in
- [Abelardo Moreno](https://neglectedscience.com/abelardo-moreno/): Abelardo Moreno Bonilla, Cuban malacologist and arachnologist (Sagua La Grande, Villa Clara Province 13 February 1913 – La Habana 03 May 1992) Authored over 100 publications DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Arachnida Genus Paraphrynus 1940 Species Alayotityus nanus 1939 Centruroides aguayoi 1939 Centruroides johannis 1939 Centruroides pectinatissimus 1939 Diplocentrus torrei 1938 Heteronebo bermudezi 1938 Paraphrynus williamsi 1940 Tityus inexpectatus 1940 Subspecies Rhopalurus junceus cadenasi 1939 Mollusca Genus Torrechrysias 1936  Subspecies Zachrysia petitiana virescens 1943 with Torre HONORS Subg Morenodendrium Odening 1969 (Trematoda)
- [Abdel Fattah Mohamed](https://neglectedscience.com/abdel-fattah-mohamed/): Abdel Fattah Mohamed Ibrahim El-Fiky, Egyptian chemist and oceanographer (Mansoura 28 January 1905 – Tripoli 23 September 1967) First to observe the adiabatic increase of temperature in the deep water of the Gulf of Aqaba First to note the presence of an intermediate layer of minimum oxygen and an intermediate maximum phosphate in the Northern Red Sea First to describe the exchange of water in the Strait of Tiran between the Gulf and the Red Sea as well as circulation of water and origin of bottom water in the Northern Red Sea Revealed the conditions which limit the depth of the layers
- [Zoo Shik Lee](https://neglectedscience.com/zoo-shik-lee/): Zoo Shik Lee, South Korean microbiologist (fl.1956-1987) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.W. Kim. The mortality effect of insecticides to Bulimus striatulus. Korean J. Parasitol. 1(1):47-51, 1963 Studies on the fine structure in Chlorella cells with special reference to the pyrenoid and cell wall (1964) Studies on the isolation and characterization of Bacteriophage of Bacillus subtilis var. 816. Korean Journal Microbiol. (1977) With K.J. Ahn & W.J. Lee. Electron microscopical observation on the phage Bacillus subtilis SNU 816. Korean J. Electron Microscopy 12(1), 1982 With O.H. Lee. Susceptibility of Bacillus subtilis SNU 816 to bacteriophage SP 816 during growth and sporulation. Korean J. Microbiol. (1984) With C.H. Kang, O.H. Lee & S.S.
- [Zohra Ben Lakhdar](https://neglectedscience.com/zohra-ben-lakhdar/): Zohra Ben Lakhdar, Tunisian physicist (Salambo 12 March 1943 – Developed advanced theoretical (ab-initio) and experimental spectroscopic methods to study the influence of pollutants on the quality of air, water and plants With N.B. Nessib & Dimitrijivik.  Simple convergent formula for estimating Stark width of neutral atom lines (1991) With M. Zhgal, R. Attia & E. Ben Yahyia. Development of a laser remote sensing system – LIDAR – for hydrocarbons horizontal profile measurements in the area of 1 km (1996) With M. Zhgal, M. Saidi, R. Attia & A. Bouallegue. Etude et realisation d’un spectrometre tres haute resolution à diode laser
- [Zhiheng Liu](https://neglectedscience.com/zhiheng-liu/): Zhiheng Liu, Chinese microbiologist (Xishua County, Henan Province 09 May 1940 –  With Z. Lu & W. Qi. A procedure for developing selective isolation of Pseudomonocardiacetes from soil samples (2000) DESCRIBED BACTERIA TAXA Genera Actinoalloteichus 2000 with Tamura, Zhang & Hatano Ruania 2007 with Gu, Mariola, Luo, Gamian & Huang Yuhushiella 2011 with Mao, Wang, Dai, Zhang, Tang, ren, Yang, Goodfellow & Zhang Species Over 90 HONORS Bergey’s Honorary Medal, International Society for Microbial Systematics (2011) Genus Zhihengliuella Zhang, Schumann, Lu, Liu, Zhang, Xu, Stackebrand, Jiang & Li 2007 (Bacteria)
- [Marcel Cerqueira Cesar Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/marcel-cerqueira-cesar-machado/): Marcel Cerqueira Cesar Machado, Brazilian surgeon (14 May 1937 – Authored 189 papers, 53 book chapters and 2 books (until 2011) Held about 9,000 citations (Google Scholar) being 20 papers with about 100 citations CONTRIBUTIONS With A.R.F. Teixeira, M. S. Kubrusly, M. B. Privato, K. R. M. Leite & L. A. C. Dalbuquerque. A new experimental model for acute hepatic failure in rats.. Acta Cirurgica Brasileira 25:269-274, 2010. With E. R. Figueira, M. A. C. Machado, J. Jukemura, J. E. M. Cunha, M. V. Perini & T. Bacchella. Portal vein resection: a modified technique for reconstruction after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Journal Surg Oncology
- [Manuel Martínez Baez](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-martinez-baez/): Manuel Martínez Baez, Mexican physician (Morelia, Michoacán State 26 September 1894 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 January 1987) Performed studies on parasitology, anatomical pathology and public health Authored 133 papers and 6 books Developed a simple method for photographing helminth preparations With L. Mazzotti. Metodos sencillos para obtener fotografias de preparaciones de helmintos (1956) HONORS Honorary Member, Academy of Medicine of New York Genus Martineziella Hegner & Hewitt 1941 (Protozoa)
- [Manuel Mahu](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-mahu/): Manuel U. Mahu y Mahu, Chilean bryologist and lichenologist (03 May 1930 – DESCRIBED Family  Cochlearidiaceae 2013 with Ochyra (Musci) Genus Cochlearidium 2013 with Ochyra (Musci) Lepidoziella 1987 (Hepaticae) Species Brachymenium chilensis 1987 with Ochyra (Musci) Cochlearidium aymaranum 2013 with Ochyra (Musci) Hennediella diaguita 1999 with Zander (Musci) Lepidoziella varians 1987 (Hepaticae) Ramalina sp. 1968 (Lichenes) HONORS Mahua Buck 1983 (Musci)
- [Manuel Gómez de la Maza](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-gomez-de-la-maza/): Manuel Gómez de la Maza y Jimenez, Cuban botanist (La Habana 10 March 1867 – 20 January 1916) Described about 200 new plant species HONORS Mazaea Krug & Urban 1897 (Rubiaceae)
- [Manuel C. Malenchini](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-c-malenchini/): Manuel Carlos Malenchini Cavalli, Argentine radiologist (La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 30 October 1905 – Buenos Aires 17 May 1963) Authored over 200 scientific publications and spoke over 30 lectures in foreign countries Developed angiocardiography Developed tomoencephalography (with Manuel Oribe & Braulio Carrillo) 1937 Realized Resano-Malenchini classification for achalasia SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. H. Resano & G. Barani. Oesophage court et cancer. Am. Otolaryngol. Chir. Cervicofac.  74:150-4, 1957 With J.H. Resano. Les genoux du megaesophage et les problemes qu’ils posent em clinique. Presse Med. 33:779, 1956 With J.H. Resano & T. Rock. Roentgenological findings in supra aortic cancer of the esophagus (1955)
- [Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-augusto-montes-de-oca/): Manuel Augusto Montes de Oca Rodríguez, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 15 December 1831 – Buenos Aires 02 December 1882) DEVELOPED Drainage tube method for vaginal hydrocele A laparotomy technique Subcutaneous insuflation for aiding tumor cysts extirpation  (1877) A periurethrotomy method for treatment of fistulous and fibrous narrowness of urethra Osteoplastic amputation of leg muscle with anterior patellar flap  
- [Mangabeira Albernaz Family](https://neglectedscience.com/mangabeira-albernaz-family/): Paulo Mangabeira Albernaz, Brazilian otorrhinolaringologist (Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul 25 January 1896 – Campinas, São Paulo State 23 April 1982) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 500 medical and non-medical works Conceived a new method of corrosive paste applications for palatine amygdalae ablation (1921) Employed bismuth salts for Plaut-Vincent angina and tropical ulcer. This approach attracted international interest  O bismuto na angina de Vincent. J. Clinicos 23, 1922 Tratamento simples e practico da úlcera tropical. J. Clinicos 9, 1923 Described the diffuse leishmaniotic polyp of nasal septum or Mangabeira-Albernaz polyp (1924) Albernaz maneuver Cephalic nystagmus of position. Rev. Oto-Neuro-Oftal. 6:489-96, 1931 Possibly first reported a
- [Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon](https://neglectedscience.com/mambillikalathil-govind-kumar-menon/): Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, Indian physicist (Mangalore, Karnataka 28 August 1928 – New Delhi 22 November 2016) ACHIEVEMENTS With B. Peters elucidated the properties of the strange particles that are responsible for establishing decay modes of some K-mesons First observations and analysis of natural neutrino interactions and observations of Kolar events   First detected atmospheric neutrinos (1965) First established the existence of muons of varying energies mono-energetic high energy charged pions and electrons as secondaries in the decays of heavy mesons First demonstrated scattering phenomena involving K-particles Coined the term associated production used to describe the property of kaons that are always produced
- [Mahadeva Subramanian Mani](https://neglectedscience.com/mahadeva-subramanian-mani/): Mahadeva Subramanian Mani, Indian entomologist (Tanjore, Tamil Nadu State 02 March 1908 – Bangalore 08 January 2003) About over 450 papers and 28 books DESCRIBED INSECTA TAXA Family Chryomyzidae 1974 (Diptera) Valid Genera Diptera Amradiplosis 1947 Anjeerodiplosis 1938 Bainidiplosis 1935 Neolestremia 1934 Odinadiplosis 1935 Pipaldiplosis 1942 Pruthidiplosis 1934 Punarnavomyia 1953 Sissudiplosis 1942 Hymenoptera Ecrizotomorpha 1939 Kapaloides 1942 Krishnieriella 1935 Neparaprostocetus 1939 Pararretoceroides 1938 Coleoptera Palaeotanymecides 1946 Species About 375 in Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera and other orders HONORS Maniaspis Borchsenius 1964 (Hemiptera) Manicnemus Hayat 1981 (Hymenoptera) Manineura Boucek 1978 (Hymenoptera)
- [Mahadev Atmaram Moghe](https://neglectedscience.com/mahadev-atmaram-moghe/): Mahadev (Mahdav) Atmaram Moghe, Indian helminthologist and reproductive biologist (Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh State 21 April 1896 – Nagpur 12 May 1966) DESCRIBED CESTODA TAXA Genera Megacalanthus 1926 Southwellia 1925 Species Acanthotaenia woodlandi 1926 Arhythmorhynchus tigrinus 1953 with Das Cephalogonimus emygdalis 1930 Choanotaenia chandleri 1925 Diorchis magnicirrosa 1934 with Inamdar Echinostomum govindum 1932 Hymenolepis oweni 1933  Lytocestus indicus 1925 Mogheia orbiuterina 1933 Oochoristica sigmoides 1926 Ophryocotyloides meggitti 1933 Ophryocotyloides monocantis 1934 with Inamdar Panwua chandleri 1925 Paramonostomum microstomum 1932 Paroniella duosyntesticulata 1934 with Inamdar Paruterina septotesticulata 1934 with Inamdar Skrjabinotaurus nagpurensis 1925 Skrjabinotaurus quadritesticulatus 1925 Unciunia scapillicirrosa 1933 HONORS Mogheia López-Neyra 1944 (Cestoda)
- [Maffei family](https://neglectedscience.com/maffei-family/): Carlos Eduardo Moreira Maffei, Brazilian structural engineer (São Paulo 23 June 1941 – DEVELOPED  With H.H.S. Gonçalves & M.C. Guazzelli. An innovative method used to build an underground crossing downtown, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005) With H.H.S. Gonçalves & M.C. Guazzelli. An innovative constructive method for the retaining structures of excavation of the underground parking Dr. Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar in São Paulo, Brazil (2000) With H.H.S. Gonçalves, P.M. Pimenta & R.M. Pauletti. A programming system non-linear dynamic and static analysis of tall buildings (1998)  With H.H.S. Gonçalves & M.C. Guazzelli. Uma utilização pioneira de jet-grouting como escoramento (1998) With H.H.S.
- [Machado Allison Brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/machado-allison-brothers/): Antonio José Machado-Allison, Venezuelan ichthyologist (Caracas 29 July 1945 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genus Ptychocharax 1994 with Weitzman, Fink & Royero Species Aequidens superomaculatum 2015 with Hernandez-Acevedo & Lasso Apareiodon orinocensis 1999 with Bonilla, Silvera, Chernoff & Lasso Aphyocharax yekwanae 2003 with Willink & Chernoff Bryconops colanegra 1999 with Chernoff Bryconops colaroja 1999 with Chernoff Bryconops collettei 2005 with Chernoff Bryconops disruptus 1997 with Chernoff Bryconops humeralis 1996 with Chernoff & Buckup Bryconops (Creatochanes) imitator 2002 with Chernoff Bryconops magoi 2005 with Chernoff Bryconops vibex 1996 with Chernoff & Buckup Ceratobranchia delotaenia 1990 with Chernoff Ceratobranchia joanae 1990 with Chernoff Cichla intermedia 1971 Creagrutus hysginus 1994 with Harold, Vari & Provenzano Creagrutus lepidus 1993 with Vari, Harold & Lasso
- [Luiz Emygdio de Mello Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-emygdio-de-mello-filho/): Luiz Emygdio de Mello Filho, Brazilian botanist (Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State 31 October 1913 – Rio de Janeiro 16 June 2002) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Batocarpus maranhensis 1968 with Emmerich Ficus carautia 1992 with Neves Ficus mariae 1999 with Berg & Carauta Heliconia adeliana 1981 with E. Santos Heliconia aurorea 1976 with E. Santos Heliconia burle-marxii 1957 Heliconia citrina 1976 with E. Santos Heliconia fluminensis 1976 with E. Santos Heliconia kautzkiana 1987 with E. Santos Heliconia lacletteana 1976 with E. Santos Heliconia lourteigiae 1977 with E. Santos Heliconia mariae-augustae 1981 with E. Santos Heliconia pabstii 1981 with E. Santos Heliconia pseudoaemygdiana 1983 with E. Santos Heliconia rivularis 1977 with E. Santos Heliconia sampaioana 1976 Heliconia velloziana 1975  HONORS
- [Luiz Eduardo da Silva Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-eduardo-da-silva-machado/): Luiz Eduardo da Silva Machado, Brazilian astronomer (Rio de Janeiro 11 October 1927 – Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1992) Discovered new asteroids With H. Debehogne. Discovery of minor planets and asteroids near the latter or near the Comet Ashbrook-Jackson made in 1978 with the large 40 CM/f equals 40/m objective prism of the La Silla Observatory. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Series 36:313-6, 1979  (7) With J.F. Caldeira, E.R. Netto, G.G. Vieira & H. Debehogne. Posições astrométricas de asteroides identificados em fevereiro e março de 1981 no observatório europeu Austral, La Silla, Chile. Anu. Inst. Geocienc. 4:1-19, 1980 (5) With J.F. Caldeira, E.R.
- [Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-alberto-dias-menezes-filho/): Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho, Brazilian mining engineer and mineralogist (São Paulo 05 October 1950 – Belo Horizonte 09 July 2014) DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES  Lindbergite 2004 with Atencio, Coutinho, Graeser & Matioli Ruifrancoite 2007 with Atencio, Chukanov, Coutinho, Dubinchuk & Mockel Guimaraesite 2008 with Chukanov, Zadov, Atencio & Coutinho Bendadaite  2010 with Kolitsch, Chukanov, Atencio, Zubkova et al. Carlosbarbosaite 2012 with Atencio, Roberts, Cooper, Coutinho et al.   Almeidaite 2013 with Chukanov, Rastsvetaeva, Aksenov, Pekov, Atencio et al. Pauloabibite 2013 with Atencio, Andrade, Downs, Chaves et al.  Cesarferreiraite 2014 with Scholz, Chukanov, Atencio, Belotti et al. Correianevesite 2014 with Chukanov, Scholz, Zubkova, Pekov
- [Luiz Adauto da Justa Medeiros](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-adauto-da-justa-medeiros/): Luiz Adauto da Justa Medeiros, Brazilian mathematician (Fortaleza 24 February 1926 – Rio de Janeiro 04 June 2022) Introduced the notion of scalar nonlinearities independent of N.W. Bazley and T. Küpper On a new class of nonlinear wave equations. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 69:252-62, 1979.   Medeiros uniqueness theorem Uniqueness and nonuniqueness criteria for ordinary differential equations (1993) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With G. Antunes, I.F. Lopez, M.D.G. Silva & A. Biazutti. Nonlinear parabolic equation on manifolds. J. Mathem. Research 6:85-92, 2014 With J. Limaco, H.R. Clark & C.L. Frota. On an evolution equation with acoustic boundary conditions. Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 10:2047, 2011   With
- [Luis Morquio](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-morquio/): Luis Morquio Belinzon, Uruguayan pediatrician (Montevideo 24 September 1867 – Montevideo 19 June 1935)  From Italian descent Authored 335 papers and 2 books Established the curative importance of vomica in hydatids Established the relationship between Sydenham chorea and encephalitis DESCRIBED DISEASES Described congenital cardiac block Sur une maladie infantile et familiale caractérisée par des modifications permanentes du pouls, des ataques syncopales et epileptiformes et la mort subite. Arch. Med. Enfants 4:467-75, 1901 Morquio disease or Morquio-Ullrich-Brailsford syndrome Sur une forme de dystrophie osseuse familiale. Bull. Soc. Pediat. Paris 27:145-52, 1929 Auriculoventricular block with septal malformation Sobre un caso de malformación cardiaca
- [Luis Montane](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-montane/): Juan Luis Epifanio Montané y Dardé, Cuban physician, physical antropologist and archaeologist (La Habana 07 April 1849 – Chatou, France 28 November 1936) From French father and Catalonian mother Collected a number of archaeological and anthropological artifacts ARCHAEOLOGY Los moundbuilders em Cuba (1892) El idolo de la Gran Tierra de Maya (1906) El mound de Guayabo Blanco (1915) PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Performed studies on comparative anthropology with craneometry and osteometry El craneo desde le punto de vista antropológico (1877) Un craneo guanche. Estudio craneologico (1885) Un craneo caribe. Estudio craneologico (1885) Established the concept of semi-microcephaly Etude anatomique du crane chez les microcéphales
- [Luis Milone](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-milone/): Luis Ambrosio Milone, Argentine astrophysicist (Santa Fe 19 May 1933 – Cordoba 17 June 2018) DEVELOPED METHODS With D.C. Merlo. Alternative method for determining mean stellar distances. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 49:168-71, 2006 With D.C. Merlo. Un procedimiento simple para obtener un flujo constante en una atmosfera estelar. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 46:42-3, 2003 With D.C. Merlo. ? Ès necesario calcular detalladamente funciones de partición atomicas? Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 40:27, 1996 With A.A.E. Milone & G.E. Bobatto. Numerical evaluation of the line broadening function H (a,v). Astrophys. Space Science 147(2):229-34, 1988 OTHERS Identification charts for southern R Coronae Borealis stars.
- [Luis Migone](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-migone/): Luis Enrique Migone Mieres, Paraguayan microbiologist and parasitologist (Asunción 12 July 1876 – Asunción 13 July 1954) From Italian father ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered Trypanosoma equinum, the etiologic agent of “mal de caderas” With M. Elmassian. Sur le mal de caderas ou flagellose paresiante des equides sudamericaines. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 17:241-67, 1901 Authored a study about the role of capybara as intermediate host of Trypanosoma equinum, a paper translated to many languages  Le role des carpinchos comme reservoir de virus dans la conservation du mal de caderas. Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 3:524-5, 1910 First to report American visceral leishmaniasis Un cas de kalazar en Asunción
- [Luis Mazzotti](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-mazzotti/): Luis Mazzotti Galindo, Mexican tropical physician (Durango 12 January 1900 – Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1971) From Italian father Authored about 150 works on parasitology, scorpionism and rural hygiene Observed the effect of diethylcarbamazine (hetrazan) for serological diagnosis of onchocerciasis (1944) from which developed Mazzotti test or reaction The feasibility of using the allergic reactions which follow the administration of hetrazan as an auxiliary means of diagnosis in onchocerciasis. Rev. Inst. Salud Enferm. Tropicales Mex. 9:935, 1948 Developed a simple method for photographing helminth preparations With M. Martínez Baez. Metodos sencillos para obtener fotografias de preparaciones de helmintos. Rev. Inst.
- [Luis María Murillo](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-maria-murillo/): Luis María Murillo Quinche, Colombian agricultural entomologist (Guasca, Cundinamarca 24 May 1896 – Bogotá 06 September 1974) Discovered new insect species that sent to experts in his country and abroad Authored Sentido de una lucha biologica (1938), performing a complete study of Sacadodes pyralis Dyar and its parasitoid Apanteles thurberae. Due to this work he was elected honorary member of Royale Societé de Entomologie of Belgique (1948) Developed an insectarium for Apanteles thurberae  Un insectario para la cría y multiplicación de la Apanteles thurberae Mues. Rev. Fac. Nac. Agron. Medellín SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Los Xyleborus morigerus Blandford y sus relaciones con un pequeño cafetal de La Cumbre (Valle). Agron. Trop.
- [Luis Jose Montaña](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-jose-montana/): Luis José Ignácio Montaña Tello, Mexican physician (Puebla 21 October 1755 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 June 1820) Recognized as one of the most important physicians in Colonial Mexico Authored Avisos importantes sobre el Matlatltzahuatl (1817) and Praelectiones et concertaciones medicae (1917)  Honored in genus Montanoa Cervantes 1825 (Asteraceae)
- [Luis Eduardo Mora Osejo](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-eduardo-mora-osejo/): Luis Eduardo Mora Osejo, Colombian botanist (Túquerres, Nariño Department 07 December 1931 – Bogotá 10 March 2004) Authored 72 works Performed studies on comparative morphology and ecological physiology of plants Discovered an inverse relationship between growth promotion, ramification grade and structural complexity of vegetative and reproductive phases in Cyperaceae Beitrage zur Vergleichende Morphologie und Entwiklungsgeschichte der Cyperaceen. Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen 35:253-341, 1960    Established morphological nature of many perigonal structures in Cyperaceae and of spiculae hook in Uncinia sp.  Las inflorescencias parciales de Uncinia hamata y la agrupación sistematica de las Caricoideae Kukenthal. Caldasia 9(44):277-93, 1966 Proposed that global solar radiation and relative humidity are the
- [Luis & Elisa Mazoti](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-elisa-mazoti/): Luis Bernabé Mazoti, Argentine plant cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 17 September 1911 – Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province 09 December 1998) Authored 35 papers Recognized as a world leading expert on studies of cytoplasmic heritable variations Obtained the first hybrid maizes with authocthonous lineages Determinated the cytoplasmic heritable influence upon heterosis (1954) Discovered a restoration or normalization of extrachromosomal heritable units by the action of a simple gene (1949) Discovered a pleotropic gen in chromosome 5 of maize (1950) Proposed pseudo-mutational cyclic explosion hypothesis (1978) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Poggio, M. Rosato & C.A. Naranjo. Variable meiotic behavior among plants of
- [Ludwig Merzbacher](https://neglectedscience.com/ludwig-merzbacher/): Ludwig Merzbacher, German-born Argentine neuropathologist (Firenze, Italy 09 February 1875 – Argentina 30 October 1942) Described Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease Eine eigenartige familiar-hereditare Erkrankungsform (aplasia axialis extracorticalis congenita). Z. Gesamte. Neurol. Psychiat. 3:1, 1910 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY    Ueber die beziehungen der Sinnesorgane zu den Reflex bewegungen des frosches. Pfluger’s Arch. 81:223-62, 1900 Untersuchungen uber die Regulation der Bewegungen der Wilbethiere. I. Beobachtungen Froschen. Arch. Ges. Physiol. 88:453-74, 1902 Die folgen der durchschneidung der sensibeln Wurzeln im unteren lumbalmarke im Saeralmarke und in der Cauda Equina des Hunds. Arch. J. d. Ges. Physiol. 92:585-04, 1902 Untersuchungen uber die funktion des centralnervensystems des Fledermaus. Arch. f.d.
- [Luciano Jacques de Moraes](https://neglectedscience.com/luciano-jacques-de-moraes/): Luciano Jacques de Moraes, Brazilian geologist (near to Itabira do Campo, Minas Gerais State 30 December 1896 – Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais State 15 March 1968) Authored over 170 publications SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.A. Barbosa & E.P. Scorza. Estudo geológico da região da barragem de Sobradinho, estado da Bahia. Boletim DNPM 229, 1965 Pesquisa de cassiterita no Território federal de Rondônia: relatório preliminar. Avulsos Div. Fom. Prod. Min. Dep. Nac. Prod. Miner. 88, 1964 Ocorrências de minérios de zinco e chumbo do norte de Minas Gerais. Eng. Min. Metal. 27(159):149-51, 1958 With D. Guimarães. Um mineral raro dos foiaitos de Serrote,
- [Lou C. Menezes](https://neglectedscience.com/lou-c-menezes/): Lou Christian de Carvalho Menezes, Brazilian orchidologist (São Luiz 1943 – DESCRIBED NEW ORCHID TAXA Species Catasetum taguariense 1993 with Braem Coppensia reichertii 2008 with Castro Cyrtopodium aureum 1991 Cyrtopodium braemii 1993 Cyrtopodium cachimboense 1996 Cyrtopodium caiapoense 1998 Cyrtopodium cipoense 1998 Cyrtopodium confusum 2008 Cyrtopodium fowliei 1995 Cyrtopodium gonzalezii 1995 Cyrtopodium holstii 1993 Cyrtopodium inaldianum 1996 Cyrtopodium minutum 2004 Cyrtopodium roraimense 1999 Cyrtopodium sarneyanum 1999 Cyrtopodium withneri 1996 Encyclia andrichii 1992 Encyclia caximboensis 1992 Encyclia chapadensis 1992 Encyclia clovesiana 2007 with Castro Encyclia confusa 1991 Encyclia edithiana 1991 Encyclia gonzalezii 1991 Encyclia goyazensis 1991 Encyclia lutzenbergerii 1990 Encyclia pedra-azulensis 1992 Encyclia piracanjubensis 1991 Encyclia santos-dumontii 1992 Encyclia schmidtii 1991 Encyclia spiritusanctensis 1991 Encyclia viridiflava 1991 Epidendrum amarajiense 2010 with Castro Epidendrum pernambucense 2009 with Castro Epidendrum rondoniense 1990 Gongora vitorinoana 2008 with Chiron Koellensteinia spiralis 1997 with Gomes Ferreira
- [Lorenzo Merola](https://neglectedscience.com/lorenzo-merola/): Lorenzo Mérola, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 29 February 1880 – Montevideo 05 April 1935) Anticipated concepts about inflammation and cancer Classified the forearm muscles Discovered Mérola triangle and inter-ureteral lamina (later rediscovered by Albanese) Described the axillary aponeurosis and Merola ligament (posterior axillary ligament) Aponeurosis of the axilla. The existence of a posterior suspensory ligament. Rev. Hospital (1912) Created a technique for approach the upper aspect of the liver  by thoracic frenolaparotomy 1916 (rediscovered by Schwartz and Quenu in 1919) Ensayo de acceso a la fosa frenica. Anales Fac. Med. Montevideo 1:199, 1916 Described thoraco-abdominal transphrenic approach Manera de abordar la cara superior del
- [Leonardo J. Mata](https://neglectedscience.com/leonardo-j-mata/): Leonardo de Jesús Mata Jimenez, Costa Rican physician (Dota, San Jose Province  06 December 1933-  Performed studies in public health and virology Developed Agar cell culture precipitation test, published in Journal of Immunology 91(2):151-62, 1963.    HONOURS Strother Chair, University of Washington (1974) Charles Franklin Craig Chair, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (1974) Samuel Z. Levine Chair, University of Texas, Medical Center (1975) UNESCO Science Prize (1981) Stuart Mudd Award, World Academy of Art and Science, Philadelphia, USA (1982) Life Member, World Academy of Art and Science, Philadelphia, USA (1983) Spiegel Chair, Columbia University (1986) Withering Chair, University of Birmingham
- [Leonard Mwasumbi](https://neglectedscience.com/leonard-mwasumbi/):  Leonard B. Mwasumbi, Tanzanian botanist (1938 – 2013) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G. da Silva, E. Ferreira, R. Serrano, E. Teixeira Gomes, M. Caniça & O. Silva. In vitro anti Neisseria gonorrheae activity of Terminalia boivinii, Terminalia sambesiaca and Terminalia spinosa. Planta Med. 76:468, 2010 With P. Fyhrquist, P. Vuorela, H. Vuorela, R. Hitunen, C. Murphy & H. Adlercreutz. Preliminary antiproliferative effects of some species of Terminalia, Combretum and Pteleopsis collected in Tanzania on some human cancer lines. Fitoterapia 77(5):358-66, 2006 With P. Fyrhquist, C.A. Haeggstrom, H. Vuorela, R. Hitunen & P. Vuorela. Antifungal activity of selected species of Terminalia, Pteleopsis and Combretum (Combretaceae) collected in Tanzania. Pharmac. Biol. 42(4-5):308-17, 2004 With P. Fyrhquist, C.A. Haeggstrom, H. Vuorela,
- [Laxman Prasad Mathur](https://neglectedscience.com/laxman-prasad-mathur/): Laxman (Lakshmi) Prasad Mathur, Indian geologist and historian (October 1922 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.R. Sahni. Stratigraphy of the Siwalik group (1964) With P. Evans. Oil In India – A review. Int. Geol. Congr. 22 nd  Session, India (1964) With G. Kohli. Geology and oil possibilities in Northwest India. Proc. Ecafe Symposium Petr.  Res. New Delhi (1958) With G. Kohli. Exploration and development for oil in India. 6th World Petrol. (1958) Assam earthquake of 15th Aug 1950.  A short note on factual observations. HONORS Mathurosphaera Varma & Dangwal 1964 (Acritarcha)
- [Karl Moritz](https://neglectedscience.com/karl-moritz/): Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz, German-born Venezuelan naturalist (Klein-Santersleben, Schackensleben 16 December 1797 – Colonia Tovar, Aragua State 26 July 1866) Discovered and collected new species of insects mainly Lepidoptera DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Monopyle 1876 Species Anemia pastinacaria 1881 Aspidium diplazioides 1858 Aspidium giganteum 1913 Gastranthus schlechtendahlii 1876 Lupinus meridanus 1939 Manettia mollis 1918 Passiflora stellata 1927 Polypodium arcuatum 1856 Prunus robusta 1915 Stillingia rufescens 1912 Tropaeolum deckerianum 1849 with Karsten Vittaria gracilis 1869 HONORS Moritzia DC ex Meisner 1840 (Boraginaceae)
- [Karam Chand Mehta](https://neglectedscience.com/karam-chand-mehta/): Karam Chand Mehta, Indian bryologist and plant pathologist (Amritsar, Punjab 20 June 1892 –Agra, Uttar Pradesh State 08 April 1950) Discovered disease cycle of cereal rusts in India and authored Control of Cereal Rusts in India (1940) that gave him worldwide recognition HONORS Mehtamyces Mundkur & Thirumalachar 1945 (Fungi)
- [Juvenal Ricardo Meyer](https://neglectedscience.com/juvenal-ricardo-meyer/): Juvenal Ricardo Meyer, Brazilian pathologist (São Paulo 16 May 1898 – São Paulo 22 July 1970) Observed the cicatrizant action of fungal substances when used in the treatment of  varicose and duodenal gastric ulcera  DESCRIBED DISEASES Emboly syndrome caused by amniotic fluid Embolia amnio-caseosa. Brasil Medico (1926) A new transplantable murine lymphosarcoma Um novo tumor transplantável do camundongo. Ann. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 3:127-34, 1929 With Saborido described a new transplantable murine adenocarcinoma in Arquivos do Instituto Biológico vol 7, 1936 Indícios da existência de um agente celular capaz de malignizar células normais, no linfossarcoma transplantável do camundongo. Arq. Inst. Biol.
- [Julius Melzer](https://neglectedscience.com/julius-melzer/): Julius Melzer, German-born Brazilian entomologist (Slupek, today Poland 11 June 1878 –São Paulo 20 December 1934) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Anisolophia 1934 Anisopeplus 1934 Anisopodesthes 1931 Atelographus 1927 Ceratoeme 1920 Cosmotomidius 1931 Eburodacrystola 1928 Ecliptophanes 1934 Emphytoeciosoma 1934 Eriphosoma 1922 Erythropterus 1934 Estoloderces 1928 Hoplistonychus 1930 Idiomerus 1934 Lasiolepturges 1928 Lophopoenopsis 1931 Lycodesmus 1927 Lycominus 1931 Lygrocharis 1927 Neocoridolon 1930 Neophygopoda 1933 Nyssicostylus 1923 Pentheochaetes 1932 Piezochaerus 1932 Probatiomimus 1926 Pseudocriopsis 1931 Pseudostenaspis 1932 Ptericoptomimus 1935 Schreiteria 1933 Sciadosoma 1934 Sphalloeme 1928  Stereomerus 1934 Species  About 300 species of Coleoptera Cerambycidae HONORS Melzeria Green 1930 (Hemiptera) Melzerus Monné 2005 (Coleoptera)  Melzerina Lane 1966 (Coleoptera)  Melzerella Costa Lima 1931 (Coleoptera) 
- [Julio Muniz](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-muniz/): Julio Muniz, Brazilian protozoologist and immunologist (Cuiabá 22 January 1898 – Rio de Janeiro 06 December 1975) Authored 103 scientific works With A.M. Cunha definitely showed the existence of chromatin in bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) Studied in details the endomixia in Ciliata (with A. Cunha & G. de Freitas) Described the phenomenon of conditioned or passive hemolysis independent from Middlebrook Action of red cells sensitized with the polysaccharide fraction of the Schizotrypanum cruzi in the presence of specific sera. Conditioned hemolysis, one case of immunity reaction. Newsl. Soc. Amer. Bacteriol., p1-9, 1949   Demonstrated the importance of hipersensibility reactions in Chagas disease pathogeny With A.Penna de 
- [Juliano Moreira](https://neglectedscience.com/juliano-moreira/): Juliano Moreira, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist  (Salvador 06 January 1873 – Rio de Janeiro 02 May 1933) Authored over 112 papers Performed studies on psychiatry and tropical medicine Studied mental perturbations in leprosy His doctoral thesis Etiologia da sífilis magna precoce (1891) received international attention Published Neue pathologischer anatomischer und klinischer zur Kenntniss des Ainhum, a anatomical pathology study on ainhum that was very cited by European physicians (1900) Established a criterion for characterize the symptoms of paranoia With A. Peixoto. Paranoia e os syndromes paranoides. Brasil Medico (1904) & Arq. Bras. Psiq. Neurol. Cie. Afins 1(1):5-33, 1905 With A. Peixoto authored La paranoia legitime, son
- [Julian Herron Mitter](https://neglectedscience.com/julian-herron-mitter/): Julian Herron Mitter, Indian mycologist (1881 – ?) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Aecidium leucadinum 1935 Aecidium strobilanthinum 1935 Aecidium tandonii 1935 Cercospora phaeocarpa Hapalographium tandonii 1937 Phyllachora tandonii 1935 Puccinia adjuncta 1937 Sarcinella tandonii 1937 Uredo clivalis 1935 HONORS Mitteriella Sydow 1933 (Fungi)
- [Juan Ignacio Molina](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-ignacio-molina/): Juan Ignacio Molina Gonzalez, Italian / Chilean naturalist, jesuit, geographer and historian  (Villa Alegre, Linares Province, Maule Region 24 June 1740 – Imola, Bologna Province 12 September 1829) Authored Ensayo sobre la Historia Natural de Chile (1782) translated into many languages DESCRIBED VALID TAXA   Plantae Genera Colliguaja 1782 Crinodendron 1782 Gevuina 1782 Madia 1782 Maytenus 1782 Peumus 1807 Pitavia 1810 Puya 1782 Quillaja 1782 Quinchamalium 1782 Sassia 1782 Tara 1810 Thuraria 1782 Species About 60 VERTEBRATA Mammalia (1782) Species Conepatus chinga Galictis cuja Hippocamelus bisulcus Lagidium viscacia Leopardus colocolo Leopardus guigna Lutra felina Lycalopex culpaeus Myocastor coypus Octodon degus Pudu puda Scalacopus cyanus Vicugna vicugna Subspecies Conepatus chinga chinga Galictis cuja cuja Lagidium viscacia viscacia
- [Juan Enrique MacKinnon](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-enrique-mackinnon/): Juan Enrique Mac Kinnon Artagaveytia, Uruguayan medical mycologist (Montevideo 24 June 1904 – Montevideo 16 April 1987) ACHIEVEMENTS  Demonstrated that cell wall of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis was much thinner than that of Blastomyces dermatidis (1940s) Proposed the existence of subclinical forms of paracoccidioidomycosis First to detect infection caused by paracoccidiodomycosis (1953) Proposed the currently accepted course of events in paracoccidioidomycosis (1959) Demonstrated the various responses at distinct temperatures in paracoccidioidomycosis and sporotrichosis With I.A. Conti Díaz first to note actinomycetoid granules surrounded by a crown of eosinophilic clubs in Pseudomonas  aeruginosa (1969) With Gezuelle & Conti Díaz noted a bulky capsule in cells of Phialophora spinifera until then undescribed (1973)
- [Juan Cesar Mussio Fournier](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-cesar-mussio-fournier/): Juan Cesar Mussio Fournier, Uruguayan endocrinologist and neurologist (Montevideo 07 February 1890 – Montevideo 03 April 1961) From Genovese and French ancestry Authored 214 papers  ACHIEVEMENTS Described Mussio Fournier syndrome With A. Garra. Troubles neurologiques produits par l’oedeme de Quincke. Revue Neurol. 1(6):1444-7, 1932. Described the clinical features of restless legs syndrome With F. Rawak. Familiares auftreten vom pruritus urtikaria und parasthetischer hyperkinese der unteren extremitaten. Conf in Neurol. III:110-4, 1940 Described the association between narcolepsy and Erb-Goldflam disease Consideration générale sur la narcolepsie et le maladie de Erb-Goldflam. Estud. Clin. Med. (1929) Described the association between Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Legg-Perthes disease
- [Juan Carlos Muzzio](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-muzzio/): Juan Carlos Muzzio Passanante, Argentine astronomer (Buenos Aires 19 January 1946 – From Italian and Spanish descent Discovered hundreds of objects and H-alpha emitting stars Discovered asteroids 3666 Holman and 7372 Emimar (in honor to his daughters) in 1972 Predicted the existence of galaxy satellites of masses intermediate between galaxies and globular clusters Discovered and named globular cluster swapping With J.C. Forte & R.E. Martínez. On the origin of the globular cluster system of M87. Astron. J. 87(11):1465, 1982 Discovered that dwarf stars are totally destroyed, but the core survives and becomes like a globular cluster of giant stars With L.P. Bassino
- [Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-bautista-montoya-y-florez/): Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez, Colombian physician and surgeon (Titiribí, Antioquia Department 21 April 1867 – Medellín 19 March 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS MEDICINE  First described tinea nigra (1898)  Authored Recherches sur les carates de Colombie (1898), isolating some fungi that cause carate or pinta Authored Contribución al studio de la lepra (1910) with great repercussion Developed Montoya y Flórez staining for differentiating gonococci Described 2 filarial species First to use adrenaline in cardiac failure SURGERY (DEVELOPED) A procedure of hystero-colpo-perineorrhaphy Un Nuevo procedimento de histero-colpo-perineorrafia para la curación radical de La prolapso inveterado. Anal. Acad. Med. Medellín 10:84, 1902  A new technique for correction of hydrocele Dislocación
- [Juan Bautista Marchionatto](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-bautista-marchionatto/): Juan Bautista Marchionatto Sticco, Argentine plant pathologist and mycologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1896 – Buenos Aires 02 January 1955) Authored 130 works Developed practical and effective methods to control agricultural pests Headed Instituto de Investigação sobre la langosta (Institute of Research about Grasshopper), one of world’s most relevant in this field Fitoparasitos de la Argentina nuevos o poco conocidos II. Physis 9(32):145, 1928 La inmunidad en los vegetales. Rev. Agr. 149:3-34, 1934 Hongos parasitos de las plantas, nuevos o poco conocidos en la Argentina. Publ. Misc. Minist. Agric. B. Aires Ser A 3(37):11, 1947 ACHIEVEMENTS Determined Spondylodadium atrovirens as agent of silver
- [João Moojen](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-moojen/): João Moojen de Oliveira, Brazilian mammalogist and ornithologist (Leopoldina, Minas Gerais State 01 December 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 31 March 1985) Authored 62 publications Developed a new method for Muridae extermination Described a new taxidermy technique of small mammalians in Captura e preparação de pequenos mamíferos para coleções de estudo (1943) Formulated Karnol ratio for dogs and another ratio for birds DESCRIBED VALID MAMMALIA TAXA Genus Juscelinomys 1965 Species Gracilinanus agricolai 1943 Juscelinomys candango 1965 Kerodon acrobata 1997 with Locks & Langguth (posthumous)  Phyllomys kerri 1950 Trinomys gratiosus 1948 Trinomys paratus 1948 Subspecies Proechimys guyanensis arabupu 1948 Proechimys guyanensis riparum 1948 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) aestuans poaiae 1942 Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) ignitus cabrerai 1958 Trinomys gratiosus
- [João Marinho](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-marinho/): João Marinho de Azevedo, Brazilian otolaryngologist (Rio de Janeiro 15 January 1875 – São Paulo 12 February 1956) CONTRIBUTIONS Described hyperemia of the tympanic membrane indicative of irritated meninges (1934) Da miringite reflexa. O Hospital 10:1353-7, 1936 A conduta usada pela escola do professor Marinho nas hemorragias consecutivas à amigdalectomia Showed the benign evolution of diphtheria (1918) Une nouvelle classification des angines: angines à traites par le sérum antidiphterique Described the peculiar lesions of buccal mucosa in blastomycosis DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES Nossa técnica na cirurgia da sinusite frontal Demonstrated a new method of truncal anaesthesia in otolaryngology Considerações gerais sobre anestesia tronco-regional
- [João & Nilza Mattos](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-nilza-mattos/): João Rodrigues de Mattos, Brazilian botanist (São Joaquim, Santa Catarina State 1926 – Porto Alegre 27 January 2022) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Corynemyrtus 1963 (Myrtaceae) Handroanthus 1970 (Bignoniaceae) Pseudeugenia 1966 with Legrand (Myrtaceae) Others  6 sections, 8 subsections, 243 species and 65 varieties HONORS  Mattosmonas Skvortzov 1969 (Protozoa) His wife, Nilza Fischer de Mattos, botanist (Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul State 05 June 1930 –   DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Andira bahiensis 1970 Andira kuhlmannii 1970 Andira handroana 1970 Andira lanei 1970 Andira marauensis 1970 Andira pernambucensis 1971 Bauhinia hermesiana 1965 Buchenavia hoehneana 1967 Buchenavia igarataensis 1967 Calliandra yucunensis 1977 Hymenolobium discolor 1980 with Rodrigues Hymenolobium paulensis 1976 Hymenolobium stipulatum 1976 Lonchocarpus torrensis 1988 Mimosa laticifera 1963 with Rizzini Mimosa rosariensis 1971 Zornia linearifoliata 1986
- [José Vicente Martins Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-vicente-martins-campos/): José Vicente Martins Campos, Brazilian pediatric gastroenterologist (Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São Paulo State 23 June 1923 – São Paulo 08 September 1998) Of Italian descent from maternal side Authored over 150 works DEVELOPED MEDICINES Rarical, Resprin, Hydrax &Enterocin (for Johnson&Johnson) METHODS With W. Hoenen, A. Costa & J.F. Pontes. Estudos sobre a flora intestinal. II. Técnica geral de contagem e identificação de grupos bacterianos entéricos: interpretação dos resultados. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 11:71, 1956 With R.C. de Angelis. A method of obtaining suitable specimens of autolysed small intestinal mucosa epithelium. Arq. Gastroent. 13:55-8, 1976 Estudo dinâmico do intestino delgado no processo
- [José Mordoh](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-mordoh/): José Mordoh, Argentine molecular biologist and oncologist (Buenos Aires 19 February 1939 – Authored 140 papers Demonstrated the fundamental role of cellular membrane in transduction of mitogenic signs  to nucleus   Demonstrated the presence of stem cells in breast cancer Established melanoma and breast cancer human cells lines for studies in vitro and in vivo such as IIB-BR-G (1991), IIB-MEL-J (1989), IIB-MEL-LES & IIB-MEL-IAN (1995) With Susan Blau. A new element in the control of DNA initiation in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 69(10):2895-8, 1972 With A.O. Pogo & J.R. Cordero Funes. Cytophotometry of DNA in liver cell nuclei duiring postnatal growith.
- [José Miguel Mendoza](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-miguel-mendoza/): José Miguel Mendoza, Philippine mycologist and food scientist (fl.1925-63) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Limaciniopsis 1925 Scolecopeltidella 1925 Scoriadopsis 1930 Species Aithaloderma fici 1932 Amanita manilensis 1937 com Leus-Palo Anthurus brownii 1934 Asterina phaleriae 1932 Asterina plectronica 1932 Asterina plectronicaecola 1932 Asterina xylosmae 1932 Asterinella capizensis 1932 Chaetothyrium muriforme 1932 Cercospora malvastri 1941 Cercospora merremiae 1941 Cercospora operculinae 1941 Limaciniopsis rollandiae 1925  Phragmocapnias smilacina Scolecopeltidella palmarum 1925 Scoriadopsis miconiae 1930 Stomiopeltella cassiae Stomiopeltella suttoniae HONORS Mendoziopeltis Batista 1959 (Fungi)
- [José Mariano Mociño](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-mariano-mocino/): José Mariano Mociño Lozada, Mexican / Spanish physician, naturalist and anthropologist (Temascaltepec, Nueva España September 1757 – Barcelona, Spain 19 May 1820) He was professor at Université de Geneve DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Agdestis 1817 with Sessé (Phytolaccaceae) Carminatia 1838  (Asteraceae) Cerdaia 1828 with Sessé (Caryophilaceae) Enthomanthus with Sessé (Caprifoliaceae) Lepidopappus 1836 with Sessé (Asteraceae) Recchia 1817 with Sessé (Surianaceae) Trimetra 1838 (Asteraceae)  Trivolvulus 1845 with Sessé (Convolvulaceae) Species About 1400 species from Mexican and Guatemalan flora HONORS Genus Mocinnodaphne Lorea Hernandez 1995 (Lauraceae) Section Mozinna Ortega 1798 (Euphorbiaceae)
- [José Jesuíno Maciel](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-jesuino-maciel/): José Jesuíno Maciel, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 07 November 1881 – São Paulo 17 July 1961) With A. Carini Rangelia vitalii etiologic agent of canine rangeliosis or nambiuvu (1915) DESCRIBED PARASITE PROTOZOA   Family Pneumocystidae with Pinto & Paraguassu 1955 Genus Rangelia with Carini 1915 Species Eimeria arnaldoi 1929 & Isospora neivai 1929 with C. Pinto HONORS Macielia Travassos 1935 (Nematoda)
- [José Francisco de Madureira Pará](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-francisco-de-madureira-para/): José Francisco de Madureira Pará, Brazilian pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 June 1915 – Rio de Janeiro 10 April 1970) ACHIEVEMENTS Described “spider” cells in hepatic atrophies, a feature found in Labrea hepatitis. This discovery was independent from studies of Colombian A. Gast-Galvis Serviço de Estudos e Pesquisas da Febre Amarela. Annual Report, Rio de Janeiro, 1945 Resumo das atividades do Serviço Nacional de Febre amarela, 1949 Developed Madureira Pará method for leptospirosis diagnosis in paraffin included material Silver impregnation of spirochaetes in tissue sections. Description of a new technic. Arch. Path. 42:649-55, 1946  A staining method for the microscopical differentiation of Councilman
- [José Carlos Millás](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-carlos-millas/): José Carlos Millás Hernandez, Cuban meteorologist (La Habana 22 January 1889 – Miami, Florida 28 November 1965) ACHIEVEMENTS Established paths of many Atlantic cyclones First described and characterized the phenomenon of loop recurve in hurricanes (1926) Described a new dial for the aneroid (1922) and a new nephoscope (1926) AUTHORED Sobre un fenômeno interessante de la atmosfera en la región de los cirros (1927) Un critério para el pronostico precoz de la actividad ciclônica en la porción occidental de Cuba (1937)
- [José Albano da Nova Monteiro](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-albano-da-nova-monteiro/): José Albano de Carvalho da Nova Monteiro,  Brazilian orthopedic surgeon (Salvador 06 January 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 03 October 2005) First to use an anterolateral approach for patellofemoral substitution   With J. S. Franco. A new method for treating chronic osteomyelitis. Folha Med. 82(1): 47-51, 1981 With V. Giordano Neto & M.L. Castelo Branco. Open fractures of diaphyses of the forearm bonés caused by dog bite: a treatment proposal. Rev. Bras. Ortop. 32(7):577-80, 1997
- [Josué Camargo Mendes](https://neglectedscience.com/josue-camargo-mendes/): Josué Camargo Mendes, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (São Paulo 17 December 1918 – São Paulo 05 December 1991) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Mollusca Angatubia 1962 Anhembia 1990 with Mezzalira & Maranhão Barbosaia 1952  Casterella 1952 Cowperesia 1952 Coxesia 1952 Favalia 1962 Holdhausiella 1952 Itaitubia 1966 Katzeria 1966 Leinzia 1949 Naiadopsis 1952 Oliveiraia 1954 Roxoa 1952 Brachiopoda Brasilioproductus 1959 Buxtonioides 1959 Duartea 1959 Langella 1961 Petria 1957 HONORS Camargomendesia Paula Couto 1978 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Joseph Miller](https://neglectedscience.com/joseph-miller/): Joseph Miller, British-born Brazilian organic chemist (Dorking, Surrey 07 October 1918 – DEVELOPED Production of cattle food from cellulosic materials (1985) Production of furfural from cellulosic materials (1985) Production of addictive from furfural that enables ethanol utilization as a fuel in Diesel engines (1985) PATENTS With J.C. C. Gerez & M.C.A. Gerez. Process and installation for obtaining ethanol by the continuous acid hydrolysis of cellulosic materials (1981) Magneto-optics recording system of materials (1993) Extraction process of components from plants (2008)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Books  Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution. ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 1968.  With Z. Rapoport. Chemistry Of The Azido Group. WILEY – INTERSCIENCE, 1971. Papers
- [Jose Maria Maza](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-maza/): José María Maza Sancho, Chilean astrophysicist (Valparaíso 18 January 1948 – Authored over 120 scientific works (with 9,200 citations by Publons) Discovered a new component of dark energy and a technique for measuring the distances using type I supernovae With M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzoff & P. Avilés. SN1992bc and SN1992bo: Evidence for intrinsic differences in type1A supernova luminosities. Astrophys. J. 424 (1994) His work in astronomy / astrophysics enabled the discoveries that lead to 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Papers in Nature With P.G. Martin & J.R.P. Angel. The polarisation of nova Valpeculae. Nature 265(5592):314-5, 1977 With M. Hamuy, M.M.
- [Jose Luis Massera](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-luis-massera/):  Jose Luis Massera Lerena, Italian-born Uruguayan mathematician (Genoa 08 June 1915 – Montevideo 09 September 2002) Gained international recognition for his studies on non-linear differential equations A much quoted paper With J.J. Schaffer. Linear differential equations and function spaces (1966) Massera lemma On Liapounoff’s conditions of stability. Annals of Mathematics 50(3):705-21, 1949 Massera convergence theorem The existence of periodic solutions of systems of differential equations. Duke Math.J. 17(4):457-75, 1950   Demonstrated variety stable theorem (1950s) INTRODUCED Notion of admissibility with J.J. Schaeffer Notion of exponential dichotomy (1958) with J.J. Schaeffer New notions of stability Definition of equiasymptotic stability with J.J. Schaeffer Operator
- [Jose Lourenço de Magalhaes](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-lourenco-de-magalhaes/): José Lourenço de Magalhães, Brazilian leprologist and ophthalmologist (Estancia, Bahia State 11 September 1831 – São Paulo 23 November 1905) Recognized abroad as a remarkable scholar on skin and blood diseases   DEVELOPED METHODS Observations cliniques sur um nouveau procédé de traitment des affections oculaires au moyen d’un vaporisateur. Journ. D’Ophthalm. (1872) Proposed a new method for treatment of leprosy (1878) INSTRUMENTS Observations cliniques sur um nouveau procédé de traitment des affections oculaires au moyen d’un vaporisateur. Journ. D’Ophthalm. (1872) De la kystitomie et d’une nouvelle pince-hystitome. Journ. D’Ophtalmol. (1872) D’une pince nouvelle pour l’agrandissement pour la commissure palpebrae externe. Journ. D’Ophtalmol. (1872)   Da
- [Jose Lemos Monteiro](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-lemos-monteiro/): José Lemos Monteiro da Silva, Brazilian microbiologist and immunologist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 24 October 1893 – São Paulo 06 November 1935) Authored 76 papers Coined the term ricketsiosis (1931) Improved the preparation methods for sera against diphtheria and tetanus Established a simple and economic technique for tetanic antitoxin production Immunização anti-tetanica pelo methodo toxoide-toxina. Mem. Inst. Butantan 2:85, 1925 Anatoxina diftérica e seu valor prático. Preparo, poder antigenico, emprego na produção de antitoxina e na prophylaxia da diphteria Mem. Inst. Butantan 3:96, 1926 Proposed the Monteiro-Godinho filtration technique Nouvelle technique pour la préparation du vaccin contre la fievre
- [Jose Barros Magaldi](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-barros-magaldi/): José Barros Magaldi, Brazilian clinical researcher (Tatuí, São Paulo State 23 May 1913 – 09 February 1978) Authored over 50 works His studies about arterial hypertension are classical works in international specialized literature Established a general formula for all the cases of cardiac compensation (tachycardia, dilation and hypetrophy) Os mecanismos de compensação cardíaca. Seara Médica 2(4):370, 1942 Sobre um novo tipo de bloqueio aurículo-ventricular (About a new type of atrioventricular block). O Hospital 22(5):695, 1942 With C.V. de Faria & E. Sabbaga. Técnica para determinação de substâncias anti-diuréticas (1951) First report in medical literature to reproduce in man the nephrotic syndrome
- [Jorge Mardones Restat](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-mardones-restat/): Jorge Mardones Restat, Chilean pharmacologist (19 June 1908 – Santiago 03 November 1998) Authored 175 scientific publications Showed that human alcoholism displays a hereditary factor (1949). Due to this work won the Jellinek Memorial Award (1992) Made pioneering studies about the alcoholic effects on nervous system development and the pharmacological basis of addiction With E. Cruz Coke & M. Plaza de los Reyes proposed a scheme of a number of biochemical reactions in renal hypertension mechanism With R. Cruz Coke. Detection of the segment of the population vulnerable to alcoholism, by means of a genetic marker. Bol. Oficina Sanit. Panam. 71(3):187-93, 1971 With
- [Jorge Magnin](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-magnin/): Jorge Magnin, French-born Argentine chemist (Annecy 22 December 1878 – ?) With Hector Bolognini. Nuevo typo de horno para fusión de vidro With E. Zappi proposed Dragendorff procedure for extraction of alkaloids from animal matter in Annal. Soc. Quim. Arg. 1:327-61, 1913 Nouvelle methode de destruction de la matiere organique par le brome, applicable à la toxicologie. Compte Rendu 2:864, 1913 Nuevo metodo de destruir una combinación organica (1911) Sobre un aparato para demonstrar la absorción de los gases por el carbón u outra substancia absorbente a bajas temperaturas (1910) Metodo de dosificación de sulfatos y de toda substancia precipitable, por medio
- [John Muir](https://neglectedscience.com/john-muir/): John Muir, Scottish-born South African physician and naturalist (Castle Douglas, Dunfries & Galloway 18 June 1874 – Riversdale, Cape Province 03 August 1947) Performed plant collections Described plant species Aristea ensifolia 1992 (Iridaceae) HONORS Muiria N.E. Brown 1927 (Aizoaceae)
- [John Martin](https://neglectedscience.com/john-martin/): John Brand Martin, South African civil engineer (Durban 20 April 1937 – Cape Town 07 October 1999) With P. Symonds his works on mode approximation techniques are today regarded as milestones in the history of plasticity theory Discovered simple theorems for obtaining upper bounds on the displacements in an impulsively loaded structure, and lower bounds on the duration of the response OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS /BIBLIOGRAPHY With S. Caddemi. Convergence of the Newton-Raphson algorithm in elastic-plastic incremental analysis. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng. 31: 177-91, 1991 With A. Nappi. An internal variable formulation for perfectly plastic and linear hardening relations in plasticity. Europ. J.
- [Joaquim Pereira Machado Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-pereira-machado-filho/): Joaquim Pereira Machado Filho, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 06 September 1916 – ?) DESCRIBED Genera (Lepidoptera) with Rego Barros Bodosa 1969 Histioea 1972 Pseudohyaleucerea 1971  Species Agyrtidia olivensis 1970 with Rego Barros (Lepidoptera) Dicrana herberti 1957 (Dermaptera) Doru cincinnatoi 1967 (Dermaptera) Histioea paraensis 1972 with Rego Barros (Lepidoptera) Pseudohyaleucerea manicorensis 1971 with Rego Barros (Lepidoptera) Sparatta bocainensis 1953 (Dermaptera) Spongiphora moreirai 1947 with Lemos de Castro (Dermaptera) HONORS Machadoia Rego Barros 1956 (Lepidoptera)
- [Joaquim Correa de Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-correa-de-mello/): Joaquim Correa de Mello, Brazilian botanist (São Paulo 10 April 1816 – São Paulo 20 December 1877) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Balfourodendron 1877 Pithecoxanium Species Hanburyophyton splendens 1868 Jacaranda lilacina Pithecoxanium bidentatum Pithecoxanium riparium Pithecoxanium trichiadenum Tynanthus micranthus Zeyheria hanburiana SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Bignoniaceas paulistanas. Arq. Mus. Paran. 9:1-206, 1852 Observations on Alibertia with description of a new species of that genus. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28(4):519-22, 1873 Notes on some Brazilian plants from the neighbourhood of Campinas. J. Linn. Soc. London 11:253-63, 1870 On Myrocarpus frondosus Allem. J. Linn. Soc. London 11(53):263-5, 1870 With R. Spruce. Notes on the Papayaceae. J. Linn. Soc. Botany 10:1-18, 1869
- [Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee](https://neglectedscience.com/jnanendra-nath-mukherjee/): Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, Indian chemist (Mahavdepur, Rajshahi District, today Bangladesh 23 April 1893 – 10 May 1983) Internationally respected as a colloid chemist Enunciated theory of the electro kinetic double layer and its ionic constitution (1919) Performed important studies on soil colloids recognized in Europe Developed and improved tools and techniques for studies of soil colloids With N.C. Sen Gupta developed a simple rotary viscometer for the study of anomalous viscous properties (1942) DEVELOPED METHODS Developed technique for conductometric and electrometric titration of acid-sols  Boundary method for determination of the cataphoretic speed of colloidal particles Sources of error in the measurement
- [Jesus Santiago Moure](https://neglectedscience.com/jesus-santiago-moure/): Jesus Santiago Moure, Brazilian entomologist and Catholic father (Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 02 November 1912 – Batatais, São Paulo State 10 July 2010) From Spanish parents Authored over 220 papers Regarded as world’s leading expert on Neotropical bees A device for exposing tergal and sterna structure in bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). J. Kansas Entom. Soc. 29(2):83-4, 1956  DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA 17 families, subfamilies, tribes and other upper taxonomical hierarchies  218 genera and subgenera (158 valid) 484 species and subspecies (417 valid) HONORS Mourecoris Carvalho 1998 (Hemiptera) Moureana Zajciw 1967 (Coleoptera) Mourecochylis Razowski & Becker 1983 (Lepidoptera) Mourephonte Jakobi 1953 (Crustacea) Moureanthidium Urban 1995 (Hymenoptera) Moureisca DeSantis, Urban & Graf
- [Jenaro Maldonado Capriles](https://neglectedscience.com/jenaro-maldonado-capriles/): Jenaro Maldonado Capriles, Puerto Rican entomologist (Yauco 17 January 1919 – San Antonio, Texas 22 November 1995) Respected as World authority on Miridae and Reduviidae (Hemiptera) Authored over 150 papers With J.A. Santiago-Blay. A new structure on the hind legs of male Monalocoris carioca Carvalho & Gomez (Heteroptera: Miridae). J. New York Entomol. Soc. 97:479-82, 1990 DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Abelocephala 1996 Adchunroides 1977 Aglaocoris 1955 with Drake Aguayomiris 1987 Angusticella 1972 Anidiocerus 1976 Apicrenus 1993 with Santiago-Blay & Poinar (Fossil) Balcanocerus 1971 Belosternella 1996 with Van Doesburg Bicuspidatiella 1969 Buninotus 1981 Busoniomimus 1977 Carmenula 1992 (in honor to his wife Carmen) Corymbonotus 1977 Cryptophysoderes 1972 with Wygodzinsky Derophthalmoides 1987 Dolichopscerus 1985 Englemania 1976 Gressittocerus 1985 Hyalocerus 1977 Krameraxus 1968 Luteobalmus 1977 Myrmecomiris 1976 Nannicerus 1977 Neoidioscopus 1992 with Huang
- [Javier Maldonado Ocampo](https://neglectedscience.com/javier-maldonado-ocampo/): Javier Alejandro Maldonado Ocampo, Colombian ichthyologist (Ubaté, Ubaté Province, Cundinamarca Department 06 February 1977 – Vaupés River, Vaupés Department 02 March 2019) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genus Akawaio 2014 with López Fernandez, Taphorn, Bernard, Crampton & Lovejoy Species Akawaio penak 2014 with López Fernandez, Taphorn, Bernard, Crampton & Lovejoy Apteronotus eschmeyeri 2004 with Santana, Severi & Mendes Apteronotus galvisi 2007 with Santana & Crampton Apteronotus milesi 2005 with Santana Chaetostoma joropo 2016 with Ballén & Urbano-Bonilla Eigenmannia camposi 2020 with Herrera Collazos, Galindo Cuervo & Rincón Sandoval Eigenmannia magoi 2020 with Herrera Collazos, Galindo Cuervo & Rincón Sandoval Eigenmannia zenuensis 2020 with Herrera Collazos, Galindo Cuervo & Rincón Sandoval Gymnotus ardilai 2004
- [Jai Pal Mittal](https://neglectedscience.com/jai-pal-mittal/): Jai Pal Mittal, Indian chemist (Meerut, Uttar Pradesh State 21 September 1940 – Identified for the first time various transient species participating in multiphoton isotope specific reaction pathways in molecules First to demonstrate the vibrational-vibration energy transfer in SF6-UF6 system With L.V. Shastri, N.P.K. Krishnan & T.K.S. Murthy. Development of a photochemical route for upgrading Europium from aqueous lanthanide mixtures. Materials Science Forum 30:57-60, 1991 With L.C.T. Shoute. A new versatile system for matrix isolation and spectroscopic studies of cations at 77K: perfluoro-2-butyltetrahydrofuran. Spectrochim. Acta Part A Mol. Spectr. 45(8):863-7, 1989 With R. Mahadeva Iyer. A modified design of a high
- [Jacques Edouard Joseph Martini](https://neglectedscience.com/jacques-edouard-joseph-martini/): Jacques Edouard Joseph Martini, Swiss-born South African geologist and mineralogist (1936- DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Sasaite, a new phosphate mineral from West Driefontein Cave, Transvaal, South Africa (1978) Mbobomkulite, hydrombobomkulite and nickelalumite, new minerals from Mbobo Mkulu Cave, Eastern Transvaal. Ann. Geol. Surv. South Africa 14:1-11, 1980 Sveite, a new mineral from Autana Cave, Território Federal Amazonas, Venezuela. Trans. Geol. Surv. South Africa 83:239-41, 1980 Lonecreekite, sabieite and clairite, new secondary ammonium ferric-ioron sulphates from Lone Creek Fall Cave, near Sabie, Eastern Transvaal. Ann. Geol. Surv. South Africa 17:29-34, 1983 (mineral clairite in honor to his wife Claire Zingg Martini (1936
- [Ivan Mota Albuquerque](https://neglectedscience.com/ivan-mota-albuquerque/): Ivan da Mota e Albuquerque, Brazilian immunologist (Recife 09 October 1920 – São Paulo 25 September 2014) Authored at least 132 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated that granulations of mast cells store histamine  With L.C.U. Junqueira, W.T. Beraldo & R.G. Ferri. Intracellular distribution of histamine. Nature 174:698-9, 1954 With L.C.U. Junqueira, W.T. Beraldo & A.G. Ferri. Action of peptone on mastcells of the dog. Nature 173:547, 1954 Possibly the first demonstration of apparent abundance of RNA in retinal cones and rods With M.Rabinovitch & S. Yoneda. Note on the histochemical localization of glycogen and pentose polynucleotides in the visual cells of the chick (Gallus gallus). Quart.
- [Hugo Iván Moyano](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-ivan-moyano/): Hugo Ivan Moyano Gonzalez, Chilean marine zoologist (Temuco 14 August 1939 – Concepción 30 October 2014) Authored over 85 scientific works  DESCRIBED BRYOZOA TAXA  Families Cellarinellidae 1970 Polliciporidae 2000 Genera  Antarctothoa 1987 Austrothoa 1987 Cellarinelloides 1970 Dakariella 1968 Dendroperistoma 1985 Figularia 1991 Flustrapora 1970 Hippoflustra 1972 Klugeflustra 1972 Klugerella 1972 Larvapora 1970 Metastomatopora 1991 Nematoflustra 1991 Neothoa 1987 Orthoporidroides 1974 Paracellaria 1969 Parafigularia 1984 Pollicipora 2000 Peristomatopora 1991 Serratiflustra 1972 Tetrastomatopora 1991 Trilaminopora 1970 Xenoflustra 2011 Species At least 105 (until 2008)
- [Hugh Kenneth Munro](https://neglectedscience.com/hugh-kenneth-munro/): Hugh Kenneth Munro, South African entomologist (Pretoria 01 July 1894 – 1973) World authority on fruit flies Described about 100 new Diptera genera HONORS (Diptera) Munromyia Bezzi 1922  Munroella Bezzi 1924
- [Hossein Mirchamsy](https://neglectedscience.com/hossein-mirchamsy/): Hossein Mirchamsy, Iranian immunologist and virologist (1916 – 2008) Authored 132 papers and 3 books With A. Sassani, A. Shafyi, P. Ahourai, J. Razavi et al. Development of a new live attenuated mumps virus vaccine in human diploid cells. Biologicals 19(3):203-11, 1991  With S. Bahrami, A. Shafyi et al. The isolation and characterization of a human diploid cell strain and its use in production of measles vaccine. J. Biol. Stand. 14:75-9, 1986 With S. Bahrami, M. Amighi & A. Shafyi. Development of a camel kidney cell strain and its use in virology. With F. Rapp. A new overlay for plaquing animal
- [Horacio Antonio Mottola](https://neglectedscience.com/horacio-antonio-mottola/): Horacio Antonio Mottola, US/Argentine analytical chemist (Buenos Aires 22 March 1930- ACHIEVEMENTS More than 150 papers Devised with Ernest B. Sandell a solvent extraction procedure using iodides for separation of metals With Henry Freiser pioneered the use of the theory of regular solutions and solubility parameters for the interpretation and prediction of distribution constants for the partition of metal chelates between aqueous-organic solvent pairs Developed kinetic methods for determining organic species in which the end point of a titrimetric procedure is detected by a catalyzed reaction  Described new analytical methods based in enzymatic reactions and coupled to flow systems http://digital.library.okstate.edu/OAS/oas_pdf/v62/p96_97.pdf  
- [Honório Monteiro Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/honorio-monteiro-filho/): Honório da Costa Monteiro Filho, Brazilian botanist (Goiana, Pernambuco State 14 April 1899 – Rio de Janeiro 19 June 1978) Authored about 70 publications Proposed hippopede as a new organ in Dicotyledoneae (1953) Hypopedium, un organe nouveau des dicotyledonées. Rapports et Comm. Aux Sections 7 et 8 p.273-4, Huitime Congr. Intern. Botanique (1954) Uma nova entidade morfológica (A new morphological entity). Anais Congr. Nac. Botanica 25:45-7, 1974  DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Section Distichifolia 1967 Species Bakeridesia andradelimae 1973 Bakeridesia bezerrae 1973 Bakeridesia pickelii 1973 Bakeridesia torrendii 1973 Melochia sergipana 1973 Monteiroa leitei 1955 Pavonia ducke-limae 1973 Pseudabutilon pintoi 1974 Sida allemanii 1936 Sida arrudiana 1936 Sida cambuiensis 1977 Sida grazielae 1974 Sida macaibae 1968 Sida macropetala 1968 Sida
- [Hertha Meyer](https://neglectedscience.com/hertha-meyer/): Hertha Meyer, German-born Jewish Brazilian microscopist (Berlin 03 May 1902 – Rio de Janeiro 06 September 1990) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first ultra structural studies on pathogenic protozoan (Trypanosoma, Toxoplasma & Plasmodium)  Described structures such as cytoplasmic microtubules (1954) and the mitochondria-kinetoplast junction in many protozoan species    With F.N. Guimarães described conoid organelle of Toxoplasma sp. Developed methodology for the cultivation of Toxoplasma gondii in tissue culture being the first reproducible studies on it With F.N. Guimarães. Cultivo de Toxoplasma Nicolle e Manceaux, 1909, em cultura de tecidos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2:123-9, 1942 With F.N. Guimarães first to report active penetration of Toxoplasma gondii into cells First to observe Toxoplasma gondii by transmission electron microscopy With I.
- [Hermillo Bourguy de Mendonça](https://neglectedscience.com/hermillo-bourguy-de-mendonca/): Hermillo Bourguy Macedo de Mendonça, Brazilian naturalist and engineer (Rio de Janeiro 30 September 1864 – Rio de Janeiro 10 September 1941)  Authored O Megatherium do Museu Nacional (1934) HONORS Bourguyia Mello Leitão 1923 (Arachnida)
- [Hermann Marloth](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-marloth/): Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth, German-born South African botanist, explorer, pharmacist and chemist (Lübben, Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg State 28 December 1855 – Caledon, Cape Province 15 May 1931) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Charadrophila 1899 (Sterculiaceae)  Species 108 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The influence of hydrogen-ion concentration and of sodium bicarbonate and related substances on Penicillium italicum and P. digitatum. Phytopathol. 21:169-98, 1931  The chemistry of South African plants and plant products (1913)   Observations on the function of the ethereal oils of xerophytic plants (1906) Results of experiments on Table Mountain for ascertaining the amount of moisture deposited from the southeast clouds. Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. 14:403-8, 1903
- [Herculano Penna Medina](https://neglectedscience.com/herculano-penna-medina/): Herculano Penna Medina, Brazilian pedologist (died 2006) Calculated the maximal velocity of capillary rising With F.P. Gomes. Movimento capilar da agua do solo. I. Determinação da velocidade máxima da ascensão capilar (1951) With F. Grohmann & A. Kopper. Novo tipo de lisímetro monolítico. Bragantia 11:333-5, 1951 Simplificação do método de análise granulométrica para caracterização sumária da textura do solo With J. E. Paiva Netto. O higroscopímetro e a determinação rápida da umidade higroscópica do solo (1949) His wife, Dixier Marozzi Medina, Italian-born Brazilian plant cytogeneticist (Cittá di Castello, Perugia, Umbria 23 January 1923 – 30 August 2015) DEVELOPED METHODS (with C.H.T.M.
- [Heraldo da Silva Maia](https://neglectedscience.com/heraldo-da-silva-maia/): Heraldo da Silva Maia, Brazilian mycologist and lichenologist (Recife 17 September 1925 –  With A.C. Batista described a new fungus disease of ornamental fishes (1959) With J.L. Bezerra, G.E. P. Peres & A.C. Batista described Entyloma vignae etiologic agent of leaf smut With A.C. Batista & C. Alecrim. Onicomicose produzida por Aspergillus clavatonanica n.sp.. An. Fac. Med. Univ. Recife 15:197-203, 1955   DESCRIBED VALID GENERA (With Batista and others)  Fungi Acarellina 1960 with Batista Allothyrina 1964 with Batista  Allothyriopsis 1959 with Ciferri & Batista Amazonotheca 1959 with Batista  Aspilaima 1961 with Batista Asterinothyrium 1951 with Batista & Ciferri Asterostomiopsis 1951 with Ciferri & Batista Asterostomulina 1964 with Bezerra & Batista Astronatelia 1962 with Batista Belainopsis 1965
- [Henrique Guedes de Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-guedes-de-mello/): Henrique Guedes de Mello, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Recife 06 April 1857 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1934) Authored over 100 works The first report of retinal familial glioma in the international literature Glioma da retina familial e hereditária. Bol. Mem. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de J. (1896) Proposed a variant of Graefe-Bunge evisceration technique Da panophtalmite e seu tratamento pela evisceração do globo ocular modificada. Brazil medico (1895-6) INSTRUMENTS Un blepharostat (1890) Sur Trois nouveaux instruments d’ophthalmologie (diplopimetre, blépharostat et chromatoscope). União Medica 32(4), 1884 Um diplopimetro. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de Janeiro 3:365-8, 1888 HONORS He was Professor Edmund
- [Henrique Charles Morize](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-charles-morize/): Henrique Charles Morize, French-born Brazilian physicist and meteorologist (Beaune, France 31 December 1860 – Rio de Janeiro 19 March 1930) Novo cometa. Rev. Observatório 2(2):17-8, 1887 (A new comet)  First to apply X rays for determination of opaque body position in a living organism (1898) Novo methodo para determinação da posição dos projecteis pela radiographia. Rev. Esc. Polytechnica 2:67-11, 1898 Sur un nouveau procédé de determination de la position des corps étrangers par la radiographie. Comptes Rendus de l’Acad. Sciences de Paris 127:449-50, 1898.   METHODS Observação de cometas: estabelecimento de fórmulas relativas ao micrômetro empregado no Imperial Observatório. Rev. Observatório 4(9):133-6,
- [Heitor Medina](https://neglectedscience.com/heitor-medina/): Heitor Segundo Guilherme Medina, Brazilian biochemist (Rio de Janeiro 21 November 1910 – Paraná State 20??) Son of Chilean immigrants Reported the first case of spontaneous leishmaniasis in guinea pigs and discovered Leishmania enrietti With J. Muniz. Estudos sobre leishmaniose. I. Primeiros casos de leishmaniose espontânea observados em cobaias. Arq. Biol. Tecnol. 1:39-74, 1946 DEVELOPED METHODS With C. Pereira a staining method for Leishmania in tissues (1945) Câmara de cultura para observação direta em microorganismos (1953) With M. Bacila. Diphasic medium for the culture of protozoa of the genus Leishmania. Arqu. Biol. Tecnol. (9-10): 1954 With T.L. Medina, N.L. Rodrigues & D.M. Nogueira. Método para
- [Hayk Mirzayans](https://neglectedscience.com/hayk-mirzayans/): Hayk Mirzayans, Iranian entomologist (Qazvin 1920 – 02 April 1999) From Armenian parents DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA TAXA Genera Bienkonia 1971 with Dirsh Farsodecticus 1991 Neoparanothrotes 1991 Zagrosiella 1991 Species Conophyma pazukii 1991 Farsodecticus abaicus 1991 Neoparanothrotes borumandi 1990 Nephoptera dezfouliani 1972 with Morales Agacino Paulianiobia indica 1971 with Dirsh Zagrosiella moralesi 1991 HONORS Mirzayansus Dlabola 1979 (Hemiptera)
- [Haru Ram Mehra](https://neglectedscience.com/haru-ram-mehra/): Haru Ram Mehra, Indian helminthologist (died 1981) DESCRIBED TREMATODA TAXA Families Anchitrematidae 1935 Arnolidae 1962 Asymphylodoridae 1962 Encyclometridae 1931 Exotiidendridade 1935 Harmotrematidae 1962 Homalometridae 1962 Lampritrematidae 1962 Liliatrematidae 1963 Oesophagicolidae 1962 Phaneropsolidae 1935 Genera Bilorchis 1937 Coeuritrema 1933 Enterohaematotrema 1940 Exotidendrium 1935 Glossimetra 1937 Hemiorchis 1939 Lecithoporus 1935 Microderma 1931 Monticellius 1939 Muhlingina 1950 Natriodera 1937 Neocyathocotyle 1943 Neolepoderma 1937 Neopronocephalus 1932 Ophiorchis 1937 Paracercorchis 1932 with Bokhari Paramphistomacotyle 1980 Paratelorchis 1932 with Bokhari Plasmiorchis 1934 Platymetra 1931 Pleuropsolus 1933 Procreadium 1962 Ptyasiorchis 1937 Spinometra 1931 Staffordiella 1966 Telogonella 1928 with Negi Tremiorchis 1925 with Negi HONORS (Trematoda) Mehraformis Bhardwaj 1963 Mehrailla Srivastava 1939 Mehraorchis Srivastava 1939 Mehrastomum Saksena 1959 Mehratrema Srivastava 1939
- [Harold Walter Bell-Marley](https://neglectedscience.com/harold-walter-bell-marley/): Harold Walter Bell-Marley, English-born South African fisheries expert and entomological collector (Richmond, Surrey 1873 – Durban, Natal Province 27 January 1946) Collected new species of fishes, insects and mollusks SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Hunting the hump-back whale. The Zoologist. 4th series 13:201, 1913 Some notes on a luminous South African fulgorid insect (Rhinortha guttata Wlk.) together with a description of its parasitic lepidopterous larva. Zoologist p.281-91, 1913 An account of eggs collected on the Pongola River, Northern Zululand. Ostrich 4:49-62, 1933 Note on Abraxas grossulariata. Entomologist 26:219-20, HONORS Marleyia Distant 1909 (Hemiptera) Marleyimyia Hesse 1956 (Diptera) Marleyella Fowler (Pisces)
- [Hari Krishna Maheshwari](https://neglectedscience.com/hari-krishna-maheshwari/): Hari Krishna Maheshwari, Indian paleobotanist (Aligarh 13 November 1938 –  DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL GENERA Sporae and pollen Carastriopollenites 1967 Cirrabaculisporites 1969 with Bose Cladaitina 1975 with Meyen Convertubisporites 1975 with Banerji Crookshankites 1984 with Jana Cyclopilisporites 1969 Gondwanipollenites 1968 with Bose Kagulubeites 1968 with Bose Lakhmavitriletes 1974 Maiturisporites 1975 with Banerji Noniasporites 1984 with Bajpai Pantiella 1975 with Banerji Parastriopollenites 1967 Pilasphaeridium 1969 Playfordiaspora 1975 with Banerji Properinopollenites 1974 Tiwariasporis 1967 with Kar Plantae Bengalia 1989 with Singh & Bajpai Birbalsahnia 1991 with Bajpai   Glossotheca 1970 with Surange Gonophylloides 1967 Damudoxylon 1967 Lelstotheca 1972 Polyloboxylon 1962 Satsangia 1973 with Srivastava Veekaysinghia 1991 with Bajpai HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Maheshwariphyllum Srivastava 1992  Maheshwariopteris Bajpai 1992
- [Hans Merensky](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-merensky/): Johannes (Hans) Merensky, South African mining engineer and prospector (Middelburg District, Mpumalanga Province 16 March 1871 – Duiwelskloof, Limpopo Province 21 October 1952) From German parents With Andries Lombaard and the brothers Schalk & Willem Schoeman discovered the Merensky Reef, the largest known platinum deposit in the world of this day (1924) How we discovered platinum. Mining Industry Mag. South Africa 1:265-6, 1925 Die neuentdeckten Platinfelder in mittleren Transvaal, und ihre wirtshaftliche Bedeutung. Berl. Z. Der. Deut. Geol. Ges. 78:296-314, 1926 Speculated that diamonds were associated with an oyster line formed by shells of fossil species Ostrea prismatica Warum Muessen die Diamant
- [Haity Moussatché](https://neglectedscience.com/haity-moussatche/): Haity Moussatché, Sephardic Jewish Brazilian pharmacologist (Vourlá village, near Smirna 21 February 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 24 July 1998) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 200 works Studied anaphylactic reaction in laboratory animals, pharmacological properties of snake venoms fractions, reactivity of smooth and striated muscles and natural products from plants   Gained international recognition due to his works about anaphylactic and peptone shocks With N.A. Pereira gave pioneering contributions to knowledge of corticotrophic hormones Established the release of great amount of histamine in anaphylactic and peptonic shocks  With A. Prouvost Danon proved that histamine release in anaphylactic and peptonic shocks requires energy obtained from
- [Guoguang Mu](https://neglectedscience.com/guoguang-mu/): Guoguang Mu, Chinese optic physicist (Hu Lu Dao, Liaoning Province 1931 – Tianjin 12 April 2012) Authored about 100 papers Introduced important concepts and technologies in pattern recognition, color image coding and decoding and color photography Designed and developed novel optical instruments and their components such as white light optical image treatment system, optical correction lens used for screen coating of color TV kinescope, special optical corrector for color TV display tube, optical projection system of aerial defense warning radar signal, opto-electronic hybrid system of image encoding and decoding for new photographic reconnoiter and cone-axis deep-ellipsoid cold reflection mirror Succeeded in
- [Guillermo Michelena](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-michelena/): Guillermo Michelena Saldías, Venezuelan surgeon (Willemstad, Curaçao 06 April 1817 – New York 15 January 1873) Invented an urethral dilatator in Des rétrécissements de l’uréthre (1847) Performed a total extirpation of parotid maintaining the facial nerve with international repercussion (1857) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Tratado de aneurismas y ligaduras precedido de una memoria sobre el organismo patológico (1854) Nueva teoria sobre el mecanismo de parto (1869)
- [Gregorio Santiago Montes](https://neglectedscience.com/gregorio-santiago-montes/): Gregorio Santiago Montes Welch, Argentine-born Brazilian cytologist and histologist (Buenos Aires 01 April 1952 – 19 October 2002) His works on structural biology of extracellular matrix earned him international recognition Demonstrated that extracellular matrix structures could be distinguished due to many characteristics of fibrillae composition With L.C.U. Junqueira et al. demonstrated the distribution and architecture of collagen in cartilages, nerves, arteries and skin (1979-89) Demonstrated definitively that reticular fiber is distinct of collagen fiber With L.C. U. Junqueira, R.M. Krisztan, K.M. Shigihara, R. Tokoro & P.A.S. Mourão. Histochemical and morphological characterization of reticular fibers. Histochemistry 65:131-41, 1980  Elucidated the process of
- [Goetz Albert Maekelt](https://neglectedscience.com/goetz-albert-maekelt/): Götz Albert Maekelt, German-born Venezuelan parasitologist (Bitterfeld 15 October 1920 – Caracas 29 June 2008) Authored over 100 publications Authored works about toxoplasmosis detection with great reverberation Developed seroepidemiologic tests Proposed a complement fixation reaction for Chagas disease With J.E. López. Reacción de desviación del complemento para el diagnostico de la forma crônica de la enfermedad de Chagas. Acta Cient. Venez. 7:128, 1956 Die komplementbin-dungsreaktion der Chagas’krankheit. Tropenmed. Parasit. 11(2):152-6, 1960 With C. Comenares de Alayón. Simple method for the mailing of chagasic serums from rural regions. Arch. Venez. Med. Trop. Parasitol. Med. 3:133-42, 1960 A modified procedure of xenodiagnosis for
- [Gilberto Morillo](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-morillo/): Gilberto Neptaly Morillo Pacheco, Venezuelan botanist (Caracas 12 October 1944 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Atrostemma 2015 Austrochthamalia 2013 with Fontella Pereira & Valerio Bruceholstia 2015 Chloropetalum 2015 Cristobalia 2016 with Caceres & Keller Fontellaea 1994 Graciemoriana 2015 Metoxypetalum 1994 Orinoquia 2015 Peruviasclepias 2015 Pruskortizia 2015 Pseudolachnostoma 2012 Rhytidostemma 2013 Riparoampelos 2015 Rotundanthus 2015 Suberogerens 2015 Vulcanoa 2015 Species 305 HONORS Morilloa Fontella, Goes & Caceres 2014 (Apocynaceae)  
- [brother Niceforo Maria](https://neglectedscience.com/brother-niceforo-maria/): Antoine Rouhaire most known as Brother Niceforo Maria, French-born Colombian missionarian and naturalist (Lavoute-Chilhaa village, Haute-Loire 28 February 1888 – Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca 24 February 1980) Collected extensive biological material from Colombia and sent it to other researchers from which described 9 new genera (6 of them in Arachnida) and more than 130 new species as plants, arachnids, crustaceans, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fossils Described two new Reptilia species Micrurus sangilensis 1942 & Synophis lasallei 1950 HONORS Niceforoceras Basse 1948 (Ammonites) Niceforoiellus Mello Leitão 1941 (Arachnida) Niceforonia Goin & Cochran 1963 (Amphibia)
- [Avinash Chandra Nautiyal](https://neglectedscience.com/avinash-chandra-nautiyal/): Avinash Chandra Nautiyal, Indian micropaleontologist (fl.1966) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Grandiphycus 1978 Pakria 1983 Palaeonostochopsis 1983 Satpulispora 1979 Species Animikiea indica 1980 Archaeollipsoides grandis 1985 Archaeorestis faguaensis 1988 Baltisphaeridium gangolihatense 1978 Contrahofilum minutum 1983 Eomycetopsis spinosus 1986 Grandiphycus satpuliensis 1978 Granomarginata dhalii 1982 Granomarginata simlaensis 1982 Kakabekia macroumbellata 1988 Leiofusa minuta 1988 Leiosphaeridia microgranulosa 1983 Leiosphaeridia microminuta 1985 Leiosphaeridia nalderaensis 1985 Leiosphaeridia porcellanitensis 1983 Leiosphaeridia sarjeantii 1983 Menneria hymenophacoides 1984 Neonostoc sangrampurensis 1986 Nucellosphaeridium minor 1986 Oscillatoriopsis glauconitensis 1990 Pakria kheinjuaensis 1983 Palaeonostochopsis vindhyanensis 1983 Pterospermopsis microgranulosus 1988 Satpulispora major 1979 Satpulispora microreticulata 1979 Satpulispora minuta 1979 Satpulispora psilata 1979 Schismatosphaeridium kumaunii 1978 Sulcatisporites sahnii 1976 with Sahni Trachysphaeridium dalkiense 1988 Subspecies Desmochitina minor minutus 1989 Desmochitina minor naldera 1985 Desmochitina minor spina 1989
- [Augusto Carlos Noel](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-carlos-noel/): Augusto Carlos Noel, Argentine naval and mechanical engineer (General Pinto, Buenos Aires Province 18 December 1929 – DEVELOPED / DESIGNED A wave piercing for catamarans (1979) A ventilation system for ships carrying livestock (1980)  An isostatic spring linkage system of original design (1981)  With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries patented a system for ventilation of animal pack spaces in central tanks without distribution piping (1981)
- [Arthur Neiva](https://neglectedscience.com/arthur-neiva/): Arthur Neiva, Brazilian medical entomologist and sanitarian (Salvador 22 March 1880 – Rio de Janeiro 06 June 1943) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 165 works (until 1940) His works on fighting the coffee borer drew the attention of many countries Gained international recognition for his contribution to prevention of syphilis and works on malaria  Discovered that malarial hematozoon developed resistant forms to quinine  anticipating Nocht (1910) Demonstrated transmission of Chagas disease by many Triatoma species and the trypanosome pass through intact mucosa in animals  Laid down general rules of biological cycle of Triatomidae Elaborated a Sanitary Code that served as a basis for new codes in Brazil
- [Armando Novelli](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-novelli/): Armando Novelli Hermida, Uruguayan-born Argentine chemist and biochemist (Montevideo 1901 – ?) ACHIEVEMENTS Synthesized new benzimidazols and derivatives Sintesis de nuevos bencimidazoles y derivados. Bol. Soc. Quim. Peru 19(2): 77-83, 1953. A new color reaction of nitrites to resorcine Interpretación de una reacción coloreada de los nitrites con la resorcina y algunas Sales metálicas. Anales Asoc. Quim. Arg. 13(65):13, 1934. Developed a new colour reaction for pyridine Acción de las aminas sobre el 9-bromo-2-nitrofluoreno. Uma nueva reacción cromática muy sensible de la piridina  Proposed 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine as a reagent for 2-methyl-1-4-naphthoquinone  EPONYMY    Novelli reaction for 2-methyl-1-4-naphthoquinone (synthetic K vitamin) 1941 Novelli reagent
- [Antonio José da Costa Nunes](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-jose-da-costa-nunes/): Antonio José da Costa Nunes, Brazilian geotechnical engineer (Rio de Janeiro 29 April 1916 – Rio de Janeiro 03 August 1990) ACHIEVEMENTS First to use tieback walls to stabilise a soil slope (1957) and developed the technique of excavating a wall from the top down as tie backs were installed Information extracted from J.A.R. Ortigão & H. Brito. Tieback walls. In: Handbook of slope stabilization. Ortigão, J.A.R. & Sayão, Alberto S.F. (editors). 2004 Developed a new method for stabilizing rock slopes employing anchor bolts. Conceived reinforced concrete wall with anchored buttresses. This method was known as Brazilian method. With Dirceu de
- [Antonio Alves de Noronha](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-alves-de-noronha/): Antonio Alves de Noronha, Brazilian civil engineer (Teresina 16 September 1904 – Paris 18 June 1962) Worldwide respected as an authority in reinforced concrete Designed and leaded the building of nearly 2000 works Designed the world’s biggest arc with intermediate stage at the bridge over Rio das Antas, 186 meters (1952) Designed the world’s biggest prestressed elliptic shell without ribs in games room dome of Hotel Quitandinha, Petrópolis (1943)  Honored with Honoris Causa title from ETH of Zurich in commemoration of institution centennial (1955)
- [Alfredo Navarro](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-navarro/): Alfredo Mónico Navarro Benítez, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 04 May 1868 – Montevideo 17 May 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Pointed out clearly hydronephrosis steps  Discovered the influence of estrogens on prostatic cancer independently from Huggins Described a new pain sign in femorocutaneous nerve for diagnosis of appendicitis Las appendicitis. Rev. Fac. Med. 1(10):6-14, 1896 Described Navarro ligament or Tuffier-Navarro ligament (=Tuffier inferior ligament) Contribution à l’etude de l’hydronéphrose. Doctoral Thesis (1894) Developed Baudet-Navarro technique for resection of the left costochondral arch Cirurgia del espacio subfrenico. Rev. Med. Urug. 1:49-52, 1898 Described a sign for pancreatitis Las estreches duodenales en la pancreatitis. An. Fac. Med.
- [Ahmed Abdel El Nayal](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmed-abdel-el-nayal/): Ahmed Abdel Latif El Nayal, Egyptian phycologist (fl.1931-64) DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Valid Genus Pseudoleptosira 1935 (Chlorophyta) Species Aphanizomenon strictum Aulosira cylindrica 1937 Cladophora glomerata Closterium strigosum Cosmarium subpachydermum Fischerella irregularis Nayalia terrestris 1935 Oedogonium richterianum Pseudoleptosira calcarea Tribonema microspora Ulothrix glauca Volvox fertilis  HONORS Nayalia P.C. Silva 1959 (Chlorophyta)
- [Ahmad Nawawi](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmad-nawawi/): Ahmad Nawawi Bin Hoji Ayob, Malaysian mycologist and plant pathologist (Perak 11 January 1937 – DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Brachiosphaera 1976 Camposporidium 1988 with Kuthubutheen Canalisporium 1989 with Kuthubutheen Clathrosporium 1987 with Kuthubutheen Clavariana 1976 Condylospora 1976 Cryptophialoidea 1987 with Kuthubutheen Dendrosporomyces 1977 with Webster & Davey Filosporella 1976 Flabellocladia 1985 Isthmophragmosphora 1992 with Kuthubutheen Jerainum 1992 with Kuthubutheen Kiliophora 1993 with Kuthubutheen Laridispora 1976 Nidulispora 1990 with Kuthubutheen Obeliospora 1990 with Kuthubutheen Paracryptophiale 1994 with Kuthubutheen Phalangispora 1982 with Webster Quadricladium 1989 with Kuthubutheen Tetrabrachium 1987 with Kuthubutheen Tricladiomyces 1985 Tricladiospora 1988 with Kuthubutheen Triscelosporium 1987 with Kuthubutheen Species 92 HONORS Nawawia Marvanová 1980 (Fungi)
- [A.K.M. Nurul Islam](https://neglectedscience.com/a-k-m-nurul-islam/): Abul Khayer Mohammed Nurul Islam, Bengali phycologist and hydrobiologist (Natore District, Rajshahi Division, 27 October 1928 – Dhaka 01 July 2006) Described the valid genus Kirchneriellosaccus 1969 (Chlorophyta) and about 300 new algal species and varieties   
- [Zilkar Cavalcante Maranhão](https://neglectedscience.com/zilkar-cavalcante-maranhao/): Zilkar Cavalcante Maranhão, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 1913 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 14 September 1995) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Principaes pragas da figueira cultivada. Rev. Agric. 13:140-57, 1938 Carunchos, gorgulhos, traças e outros insetos destruidores dos grãos leguminosos, cereais e seus subprodutos. Rev. Agric. Piracicaba 14:55-72, 1939 Pragas das Cucurbitáceas cultivadas. Rev. Agric. 14(9-10):371-88, 1939 Os insetos nocivos e o seu poder destruidor. Sitios e fazendas 7(5):24, 1942 Plantas inseticidas. Rev. Agric. 29(3-4):113-121, 1954 With S. Simão. Os insectos como agentes polinizadores de mangueira. Anais Esc. Sup. Agr. Luiz de Queiroz 16:299-304, 1959 With F.A. M. Mariconi & A.R.
- [Yisheng Mao](https://neglectedscience.com/yisheng-mao/): Yisheng Mao, Chinese structural engineer (Dantu, Jiangsu Province 09 January 1896 – Beijing 12 November 1989) Authored over 200 papers and 6 books Regarded as founder of modern bridge engineering Authored his dissertation Secondary stresses in Bridge Truss where enunciated Mao law (1919) MEMBERSHIP Senior Member, International Bridge and Structural Project Association Foreign Academician, National Academy of Sciences, United States (1956) Honorary Members, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers 
- [Y.K. Mathur](https://neglectedscience.com/y-k-mathur/): Y.K. Mathur, Indian palaeobotanist Alone or with his wife Kawal Mathur described many new species DESCRIBED FOSSIL & SPORAE GENERA Bankurapollis 1987 with Chopra Clavatricolporoidites 1966 Drasipollenites 1980 with Jain Durgaipollenites 1987 with Chopra Echimonocolpites 1966 Echitetrasporites 1995 with Prasad & Jain Foveopentacolpites 1987 with Chopra Gangapollenites 1987 with Chopra Hooghlypollenites 1987 with Chopra Kindopollis 1980 with Jain Ladakhipollenites 1980 with Jain Naeratisporites 1969 with K. Mathur Padmapollenites 1987 with Chopra Psilainaperturites 1966 Psilamonocolpites 1966 Psilatetracolporites 1963 Retihexacolpites 1966 Retiinaperturites 1966 Retinonacolpites 1966 Retioctacolpites 1966 Retipentacolpites 1966 Retiseptacolpites 1987 with Chopra Retitetracolpites 1966 Retitricolporoidites 1966 Rinnesporites 1980 with Jain Sagaripollis 1987 with Chopra Scabradiporites 1980 with Jain Scabramonocolpites 1966 Scabrapentaporites 1963 Striainaperturites 1966 Striamonocolpites 1969 with K. Mathur Striamonoletes 1966 Verrunonacolpites 1966  HONORS Mathurisporites Kalgutkar & Janson 2000 (Fossil Fungi)
- [Wolfgang Meckbach](https://neglectedscience.com/wolfgang-meckbach/): Wolfgang Wilhelm Richard Franz Joachim Meckbach, German-born Argentine atomic physicist (Frankfurt aus Meno, Hessen Province 22 May 1919 – San Carlos de Bariloche 31 August 1998) Expert on microwave spectroscopy With Manlio Abele. Design and performance of a hot cathode magnetically collimated arc discharge ion source. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 30:335, 1959 Discovered the non-existence of isotope effect in charge changing collisions With E.R. Salvatelli & G. Lantschner. Search for a possible isotope effect in charge changing collisions involving hydrogen and deuterium. J. Physics B2:772, 1969  HONORS    Asteroid 7971 Meckbach
- [Walter Baptist Mors](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-baptist-mors/): Walter Baptist Mors, Brazilian plant chemist (São Paulo 23 November 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 06 October 2008) ACHIEVEMENTS Isolated plant compounds with toxicity to cattle    Isolated many plant chemicals acting as snake venom antidotes, for example wedelactone of Eclipta prostata  With M.C. do Nascimento, J.P. Parente, M.H. da Silva, P.A. Melo & G. Suarez Kurtz. Neutralization of lethal and myotoxic activities of South American rattle snake venoms by extracts and constituents of the plant Eclipta prostata (Asteraceae). Toxicon 27(9):1003-9, 1989   Discovered hipoglicemiant effect of anti-diabetic plant Myrcia uniflora   Identified 14, 15-epoxi-geranylgeraniol, from fruits oil of Pterodon pubescens which prevents the penetration of cercariae of Schistosoma into the skin
- [Wagner Waneck Martins](https://neglectedscience.com/wagner-waneck-martins/): Wagner Waneck Martins, Brazilian electrical engineer (São Paulo 08 February 1924 – São Paulo 18 July 2004) From Czech/Slovak descent CONTRIBUTIONS Created Numerical Transform (1964) Discovered Pulsating Energy Converted Electromechanically (PECEM) in 1994 Discovered that magnetic super pulse of pulsating energy converted electromechanically (PECEM) transformation is a macroscopic manifestation of one global inter-atomic quantum leap and submitted a paper about it to Science review (1998)  Developed Boolean arithmetic and obtained a general resolution of Boolean equations Developed Boolean linguistics Presented Esperangol a mathematical computation language  Presented The new financial PRAICE system in the book The mathematical model of interest – A systematic approach from Antonio
- [Vincent Clifford Moran](https://neglectedscience.com/vincent-clifford-moran/): Vincent Clifford Moran, South African agricultural entomologist (Salisbury, Rhodesia 22 September 1937 – Received international acclaim for his research on insect pests and the use of insects for biological control of alien weeds  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.G. Zimmerman & J.H. Hoffmann. Biological control in the management of invasive alien plants in South Africa and the role of working for water programme. S. Afr. J. Science p. 34-40, 2004 With J.H. Hoffmann. Localized failure of a weed biological control agent attributed to insecticide drift. Agric. Ecosyst. Environm. 52:197-203, 1995 With J.H. Hoffmann & H.G. Zimmermann. Objectives, constraints and tactics in the biological
- [Victor F.B. de Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-f-b-de-mello/): Victor Froilano Bachmann de Mello, Brazilian geotechnical engineer (Panaji, Goa 15 May 1926 – São Paulo 01 January 2009) Son of Portuguese microbiologist Froilano de Mello (1887-1955) and German-Swiss mother Influenced dam engineering throught the world for his research and developments on behavior of compacted saprolites and residual soils Performed the first accurate report about penetration tests in shallow foundations (1967-71) Patented Stabilization of Soils (Chemical Solidification) US2651619  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Landslides by maximized infiltration: fundamental revision of stability calculations and stabilizing drainages (2003) Lessons of Adjustments to Tropical Saprolites and Laterites (1989) Embankment dams and dam foundations (1989) Destabilization of rockfill
- [Vicente Marcano](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-marcano/): Vicente Marcano Echenique, Venezuelan scientist (Caracas 27 October 1848 – Valencia, Carabobo State 17 July 1891) Brother of physician and anthropologist Gaspar Marcano Performed studies on chemistry, agronomy, geology and anthropology ACHIEVEMENTS Chemistry Synthesized a new molecule, the stibonium chloride Sobre un Nuevo cuerpo. El cloruro de estibonio. (1878) Discovered perseite from avocado seeds, leafs and fruits With A.C. Muntz. Sur La perseite, matiere sucree analogue a La manite. Compt. Rend. 99 (1): 38-40, 1884  Obtained a quercite-similar substance from Pouteria sapota Obtained protein bromelin from Ananas comosus (1891), an important enzyme in chemical industry Studied the chemical composition of fruits, cereals and toxic plants   Performed
- [Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins](https://neglectedscience.com/ubirajara-ribeiro-martins/): Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins de Souza, Brazilian entomologist (São Paulo 08 July 1932 – São Paulo 26 May 2015) Authored over 460 papers Internationally recognized as an authority on systematics of family Cerambycidae Member, International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, London (1984-2000) Described at least 270 genera and over 2,000 new species in Coleoptera besides other taxa HONORS Martinsia Chemsak & Linsley 1967 (Coleoptera) Martinsellus Hudepohl 1985 (Coleoptera) Birandra Santos-Silva 2002 (Coleoptera) Biribellus Galileo 1987  Gurubira Napp & Marques 1999 Subgenus Martinsmyia Galati 1990 (Diptera) LINKS http://www.revistas.usp.br/azmz/article/view/108539/107648
- [Tsing Chao Maa](https://neglectedscience.com/tsing-chao-maa/): Tsing Chao Maa, Taiwanese entomologist (1910 – 1992) DESCRIBED INSECTA TAXA Family Myrmiciidae 1949 (Fossil Hymenoptera) Genera Hymenoptera Alloxylocopa 1939 Ancylocopa 1954 Apoxiphia 1949 Bohea 1944 Bomboixylocopa 1939 Cingalixiphia 1949 Copoxyla 1954 Dryeiphia 1949 Eoxeris 1949 Eoxiphia 1949 Genaxiphia 1949 Hyperxiphia 1949 Indoxiphia 1949 Jungicephus 1949  Moaxiphia 1949 Myrmoibalia 1949 Nasoxiphia 1949 Palpixiphia 1949 Paraxiphia 1949 Scelidoloba 1961 with Yoshimoto Sigmatapis 1953 Sinicephus 1949 Urosyrista 1944 Diptera Aoroura 1971 Ardmoeca 1969 Brachyotheca 1962 Gypoeca 1969 Lobolepis 1966 Megastrebla 1971 Oncoposthia 1966 Phthona 1969 Psilacris 1971 Rhyponotum 1969 Struthiobosca 1963 Hemiptera Aecalus 1965 Blastacaena 1963 Diurocoris 1956 with Lin Labrosyne 1963 Platycotta 1963 Romachaeta 1963 Tapinacaena 1963 Trigonurella 1963 Dermaptera Araeomerus 1974 Xeniaria 1974 HONORS Maabella Hastriter & Bush 2006 (Diptera) Maacoccus Tao, Wong & Chang 1983 (Hemiptera) Maacynips Yoshimoto 1963 (Hymenoptera) Maaltica Samuelson 1969 (Coleoptera) Maana Soulier Perkins 1998 (Hemiptera) Maaserphus Lin 1987 (Hymenoptera)
- [Tryambak Shankar Mahabale](https://neglectedscience.com/tryambak-shankar-mahabale/): Tryambak Shankar Mahabale, Indian botanist and paleobotanist (Ahmednagar 19 October 1909 – 03 July 1983) Authored over 140 research papers Performed studies on plant morphology and embryology Discovered that the fern Regnellidium diphyllum produces rubber being the first report of lactescence in Pteridophyta (1949) before Labouriau   DESCRIBED Living Species Folioceros dixitianus 1942 (Bryophyta) Isoetes sahyadriensis 1938 (Pteridophyta) Fossil Genera Tetracoccosporium 1972 with Biradar (Fungi) Kamthioxylon 1980 with Vagyani (Plantae) Species Fungi Diplodites rodei 1968 Tetracoccosporium eocenum 1972 with Biradar Plantae Euphorbioxylon sagarense 1963 with Deshpande Kamthioxylon adhariense 1980 with Vagyani Palmocarpon insigne 1950 Palmoxylon khondaliensis 1981 with Kulkarni Salvinia intertrappea 1950 Sonneratioxylon intertrappeum 1975 with Biradar Taxaceoxylon kateruense 1973 with Rao Terminalioxylon tomentosum with Deshpande HONORS Mahabalella Sutton &
- [Tomás Leandro Marini](https://neglectedscience.com/tomas-leandro-marini/): Tomás Leandro Marini, Argentine ichthyologist and fisheries biologist (Buenos Aires 27 February 1902 – Buenos Aires 02 December 1984) DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES   Engraulis anchoita 1935 with Hubbs Hypostomus commersonoides 1933 with Nichols & LaMonte Hypostomus meleagris 1933 with Nichols & LaMonte Hypostomus niger 1933 with Nichols & LaMonte Merluccius hubbsi 1933 Mullus argentinae 1933 with Hubbs Pimelodus brevis 1933 with Nichols & LaMonte Psammobatis bergi 1932 Raia gallardoi 1933 Squatina argentina 1930 Squatina guggenheim 1936 Squatina punctata 1936 Trichomycterus alterus 1933 with Nichols & LaMonte
- [Thomas Maclear](https://neglectedscience.com/thomas-maclear/): Thomas Maclear, Irish-born South-African astronomer (Newton Stewart, Tyrone County 17 March 1794 – Cape Town 14 July 1879) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Verification and extension of La Caille’s Arc of Meridian at the Cape of Good Hope (1866) An account of the fall of a meteoritic stone in the Cold Bokkeveld, Cape of Good Hope. Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. London Further particulars of the fall of the Cold Bokkeveld meteorite. Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. London Geography of the Cape: longitude of Graham’s Town. S. Afr. Comm. Advertiser (1850) Catalogue  of 4810 stars for the epoch 1850, from observations made at the Royal Observatory
- [Thales Martins](https://neglectedscience.com/thales-martins/): Thales Cesar de Padua Martins, Brazilian endocrinologist (Rio de Janeiro 29 September 1896 -Rio de Janeiro 31 July 1979)  ACHIEVEMENTS Performed original researches on comparative endocrinology and animal psychology Obtained and assayed testicle interstitial hormone Demonstrated the hypophysis regulation via gonads  Performed researches about parabiosis independent from Kallas   Performed impacting studies about hormones effect on motor function of genital musculature Showed repetitious effect of injected extracts from anterior lobule of pituitary in laboratory animals attenuates progressively in time (anti-hormones) Discovered independently Friedmann reaction (Friedman-Martins test) With L. Fraenkel demonstrated the presence of corpus luteum in venomous ovoviviparous snakes ovaries  O diagnóstico da gravidez
- [Syed Qasim Mehdi](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-qasim-mehdi/): Syed Qasim Mehdi, Pakistani geneticist and molecular biologist (Lucknow 13 February 1941 – Lahore 28 September 2016)  His discoveries have shown eight new mutations in the tumour suppressor gene p53 in breast cancer patients, four new genetic loci responsible for night blindness and new genes responsible for non-syndromic deafness and microphthalmia in Pakistani families (until 1998) CONTRIBUTIONS (7,745 citations) With D.M. Walsh, S.H. Shah, M.A. Simpson, N.V. Morgan et al. A novel ABCA 12 mutation in two families with congenital ichthyosis. Scientifica (2012) With S. Khaliq, A. Abid, D.R.A. White, C.A. Johnson et al. Mapping of a novel type III variant of Knobloch
- [Syed Hamid Mahmood](https://neglectedscience.com/syed-hamid-mahmood/): Syed Hamid Mahmood, Pakistani entomologist (1924 – DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Baguoidea 1967 Bakera 1967 Banosa 1967 Basilana 1967 Benglebra 1969 with Ahmed Bengueta 1967 Dapitana 1967 Dayas 1967 Elbelus 1967 Guinobata 1967 Hardiana 1967 Hussainiana 1969 with Ahmed Imugina 1967 Kidraneuroidea 1967 Makilingana 1967 Mindanaoa 1967 Pemoasca 1967 Penangiana 1967 Pruthius 1967 Qadria 1967 Quercinirvana 1970 with Ahmed Rabiana 1967 Ratbura 1967 Sandalla 1967 Sandanella 1967 Serratulus 1967 Singapora 1967 Singhardina 1967 Thailocyba 1967 Thailus 1967 Thampoa 1967 HONORS Mahmoodia Dworakowskia 1969 (Hemiptera) 
- [Sushil Kumar Mukherjee](https://neglectedscience.com/sushil-kumar-mukherjee/): Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, Indian agricultural chemist (Barisal, Bengal 13 October 1914 – Kolkata 18 November 2006) Authored over 200 research papers Suggested potentiometric titration of clays with tetramethylammonium hydroxide in the presence of its salts Proposed non-equivalence of binding sites Applied the concept of Donnan equilibrium for the determination of ion activity in colloidal clays Reported that metal ions exchanged followed the order Cu 2+> Mn 2+> Zn 2+ Showed that non-ionic organic molecules of polar character could be absorbed on its basal plane surfaces Demonstrated the usefulness of viscosity measurements in estimation of the predominant clay mineral in artificial mixtures or soils Established
- [Sisir Kumar Mitra](https://neglectedscience.com/sisir-kumar-mitra/): Sisir Kumar Mitra, Indian radio astronomer (Calcutta 24 October 1890 – Calcutta 13 August 1963) ACHIEVEMENTS First to obtain experimental evidence for E layer of the ionosphere (1930) Located C and D layers of ionosphere in With P. Shyam. Absorbing layer of the ionosphere at low height. Nature 135:953-4, 1935 Determined that ions in the F ionosphere’s layer caused luminescence of the night sky Explained Appleton ionization anomaly    Published Upper Atmosphere, basic reference for researches in this area (1947) Papers in Nature With H. Rakshit. Refraction of light waves by electrons. Nature 123:796-9, 1929 With H. Rakshit, P. Shyam et al. Effect of
- [Silvio Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/silvio-machado/): Silvio Machado, Brazilian mathematician (Porto Alegre 02 September 1932- Rio de Janeiro 28 July 1981) With L. Nachbin & J.B. Prolla proved that the polynomials of finite type from a real locally convex space into another are dense in the space of all continuous function with the compact open topology Enunciated Bishop-Machado theorem On Bishop’s extension of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem. Indag. Math. 39:218-224, 1977. Eponym of Machado lemma and Prolla-Machado condition SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Aproximação ponderada em fibrados vetoriais. An. Acad. Bras. Weighted Grothendieck subspaces. Trans. AMS 186 With J.B. prolla. An introduction to Nachbin spaces With l. Nachbin & J.B. Prolla.
- [Silvina Menu Marque](https://neglectedscience.com/silvina-menu-marque/): Silvina Adela Menu-Marque Giudici, Argentine zoologist and limnologist (fl. 1970) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA PISCES Genus Bullockia 1978 with Arratia, Chang and Rojas Species Silvinichthys mendozensis 1978 with Arratia, Chang & Rojas Trichomycterus duellmani 1984 with Arratia Trichomycterus roigi 1984 with Arratia CRUSTACEA Genus Karunkina 2002 Species Boeckella antiqua 2000 with Balseiro Boeckella diamantina 1994 with Rodríguez Zuñiga Diacyclops andinus 2001 with Locascio de Mitrovich Halicyclops ramirezi 2007 with Sorarrain Karunkina fueguina 2002 HONORS Silvinichthys Arratia 1998 (Pisces)
- [Shah Mashhood Alam](https://neglectedscience.com/shah-mashhood-alam/): Shah Mashhood Alam, Indian entomologist (Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh 07 October 1921 – DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Cheilonicetus 1975 with Shafee & Agarwal Neoadelencyrtus 1975 with Hayat & Agarwal Neocharitopus 1975 with Hayat & Agarwal Paraspidiotiphagus 1956 Prochiloneuroides 1975 with Hayat & Agarwal Proleuroceroides 1975 with Shafee & Agarwal Pseudanasius 1975 with Hayat & Agarwal Pseudmicroterys 1975 with Shafee & Agarwal  Richardsius 1957 Species About 130 HONORS (Hymenoptera) Mashhoodia Shafee 1972 Mashhoodiella Hayat 1972
- [Sergio Menge de Freitas](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-menge-de-freitas/): Sérgio Menge de Freitas, Brazilian astrophysicist and pianist (Rio de Janeiro 04 August 1932 – Rio de Janeiro 25 March 1998) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Stellar motions along I=60-240 and I+150-330 inhomogeneous frequency distribution of spectral types. An. Inst. Geocien. 13:69-72, 1990 An odd behavior of nearby stars velocity components in the direction I=330’b=0º. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Series 49:687-90, 1982 Dispersion inhomogeneities of nearby stars velocities along the direction I=330 b=0º. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 41:433-6, 1980 Uma aplicação de métodos estatísticos e projetivos ao estudo das distribuições estelares. An. Inst. Geocien. 1 (1977) Velocity ellipses in the galactic plane: regional variations and
- [Santiago Antuñez de Mayolo](https://neglectedscience.com/santiago-antunez-de-mayolo/): Santiago Angel de La Paz Antuñez de Mayolo Gomero, Peruvian engineer and physicist (Huaclán, Aija Province 10 January 1887 – Lima 20 April 1967) ACHIEVEMENTS Invented an electrolytic condensator employed in radio receptor and electronic equipments (1904) Predicted the existence of neutron in Third Panamerican Scientific Congress, Lima (1924) and the existence of positron in Los Tres elementos constitutivos de la materia (1932) Proposed an equation unifying electromagnetic and gravitational fields Une meme equation pour le champ electromagnetique et le champ gravitationnel (1934) Established the existence of 4 asteroids (1930) Enunciated a Parabolic Law of Planetary Distances in Solar System Nueva ley de las
- [Samuel Manuwa](https://neglectedscience.com/samuel-manuwa/): Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa, Nigerian surgeon (Ogun State 04 March 1903 – Lagos 24 September 1975) Invented Manuwa excision knife An excision knife for tropical ulcers. Brit. Med. J. 13 April, p.574, 1946 HONOURS Welcome Prize in Medicine Robert Wilson Memorial Prize in Chemistry 
- [Samarendra Nath Maulik](https://neglectedscience.com/samarendra-nath-maulik/): Samarendra Nath Maulik, English / Indian entomologist (Tamluk, West Bengal State 25 December 1881 – London 09 July 1950) Enunciated Maulik principle Eponym of Maulik organ or metafemoral spring DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA  Adalurnus 1936 Akantaka 1916 Alafia 1936 Anastena 1936 Anisoderopsis 1916 Apaksha 1926 Aprionota 1929 Asamangulia 1915 Asutosha 1926  Aulostyrax 1929 Avinasa 1936 Bijukta 1936 Bikasha 1931 Bimala 1926 Cneoranella 1936 Cnestispa 1930  Codiohispa 1930 Dercetisoma 1936 Eka 1931 Ekagonia 1916 Galerotella 1936 Galerupipla 1936 Glaucosphaera 1926 Gopola 1926 Griva 1926 Hoplasomedia 1936 Jacobyana 1926 Kamala 1926 Kari 1923 Keeta 1931 Lamellipalpodes 1921 Lamellipalpus 1921 Lanka 1926 Mimagitocera 1936 Neorthaea 1926 Nesohaltica 1929 Nesohispa 1913 Nonispa 1933 Pharangispa 1929 Plesistia 1929  Pratima 1931 Pycnophthalma 1929 Rhabdotohispa 1913 Shairia 1936 Shamshera 1936 Solephyma 1936 Squamispa 1928 Swargia 1936  Taphinellina 1936 Throscoryssa 1928 Trikona 1916 Wallaceana 1928 HONORS Maulika Basu & Sengupta 1980 (Coleoptera)
- [Salvador Mazza](https://neglectedscience.com/salvador-mazza/): Salvador Mazza, Argentine hygienist and parasitologist (Rauch, Buenos Aires Province 06 June 1886 – Monterrey, Mexico 09 November 1946) Son of Italian immigrants Authored about 260 works Confirmed the existence of Chagas disease and performed important studies about it (Chagas-Mazza disease) Described the chagasic dacrioadenitis or Mazza-Benítez sign With Clemente Benítez. Comprobación de La naturaleza esquizotripanósica y frecuencia de la dacrioadenitis en la Enfermedad de Chagas. Presencia de granulaciones en la forma ocular de esta enfermedad. Publ. MEPRA 31, 1937  Described the chagomes as cutaneous manifestations in Chagas disease  With Ramón S. Freire. Manifestaciones cutaneas en Enfermedad de Chagas. Chagomas de
- [Ruy Gomes de Moraes](https://neglectedscience.com/ruy-gomes-de-moraes/): Ruy Gomes de Moraes, Brazilian parasitologist (Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo State 1909 – Rio de Janeiro 13 September 1973) Modified Baermann apparatus and developed Baermann-Moraes method for detecting helminth larvae in feces, culture and soil. Contribuição para o estudo do Strongyloides stercoralis e da estrongiloidose no Brasil. Rev. Serviço Esp. Saude publica 1(3):507-624, 1948. Discovered Trichosporon ribeiroi, a new agent of nodular trichomycosis or black piedra Novo agente de tricomicose nodular: “Trichosporon ribeiroi” n.sp. Cultura Médica 3:64-89, 1941. Developed a new method for treatment of strongyloidiasis employing bismuth salts Ensaio de um novo método de tratamento da estrongiloidose pelos sais de bismuto. Rev.
- [Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourao](https://neglectedscience.com/ronaldo-rogerio-de-freitas-mourao/): Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, Brazilian astronomer (Rio de Janeiro 25 May 1935 – Rio de Janeiro 25 July 2014) ACHIEVEMENTS Published more than 100 papers and 85 books Recorded phantom Saturn ring (1960) Established the periodic character of Jupiter’s bands A search for periodicity in the thickness of Jupiter (1962) Established new relations in the application of Thiele-Innes method (1964) Developed a new method for computing circular orbits of visual double stars (1966) Discovered invisible companion star of Aitken 14 (1971) Discovered with Belgian Henri Debehogne 14 asteroids (1980) Authored Encyclopedic Dictionary of Astronomy and Astronautics (1988), the first of
- [Roberto Macias](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-macias/): Roberto Aristobulo Macías, Argentine mathematician (1944 – Salta 10 August 2022) CONTRIBUTIONS With C. Segovia. Weighted norm estimates for the maximal operator of the Laguerre functions heat diffusion semigroup. Studia Math. 172:149-67, 2006 With C. Segovia. Heat-diffusion maximal operators for Laguerre semigroups with negative parameters. J. Funct. Anal. 229(2):300-16, 2005 With M.S. Riveros. One-sided extrapolation at infinity and singular integrals (2000) With E. Harboure & C. Segovia. An extrapolation theorem for pairs of weights. Rev. Un. Mat. Argentina 40(3-4):37-48, 1997 With E. Harboure, C. Segovia & J.L. Torrea. Some estimates for maximal functions on Kothe function spaces. Israel J. Math. 90:349-71,
- [Roberto Eusebio Mancini](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-eusebio-mancini/): Roberto Eusebio Mancini Doria, Argentine morphologist (Buenos Aires 26 September 1914 – 03 February 1977) Son of Italian immigrants Internationally recognized as one of world’s foremost experts on histophysiology of human testis  Performed studies about testes functions, connective tissue in human and animals and use of fluorescent substances  Characterized cytological, embryological and histochemically the child human testis With R. Narvaitz & J.C. Lavieri. Origin and development of the germinative epithelium and Sertoli cells in the human testis. Cytological, cytochemical and quantitative study. Anat. Rec. 136:477-89, 1960 With O. Vilar, I.E. Lavieri, I.A. Andrade & I.I. Heinrich. Development of Leydig cells in
- [Ricardo Miledi](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-miledi/): Ricardo Miledi y Dau, Mexican neurobiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 15 September 1927 – Irvine, California State 18 December 2017) Authored over 500 publications ACHIEVEMENTS Performed classical studies and discoveries about mechanisms of synaptic and neuromuscular transmission With B. Katz established that ion channels when acetylcholine stimulated let a current flow cells inward (1967-70) With B. Katz showed the existence of ion channels in neuromuscular synapses With B. Katz discovered that calcium ion influx in pre-synaptic terminal is required to produce  neurotransmitter release (1965) With B. Katz reported the first estimate of the conductance of a synaptic channel (1970) With B. Katz introduced
- [Ricardo Mañé Ramírez](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-mane-ramirez/): Ricardo Mañé Ramírez, Uruguayan / Brazilian mathematician (Montevideo 14 January 1948 –Montevideo 09 March 1995) World leader on dynamical systems Authored 51 works with 1,333 citations His book Introdução de teoria ergódica (Ergodic theory and differentiable dynamics) was translated into English language (1987)  Showed that normal hiperbolicity is required for persistence of invariant manifolds (1974) Defined quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms Proved that the interior in the C1 topology of the set of expansive diffeomorphisms is the set of quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms (1975) Proved that a compact metric space exhibiting expansive homeomorphisms must be finite dimensional and every minimal set of such homeomorphisms is zero dimensional  (1979) INTRODUCED
- [Ricardo Maldonado](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-maldonado/): Ricardo Maldonado C., Chilean histologist Developed with Herminia San Jose Lobo, the Maldonado-San Jose stain A phloxine azure hematoxylin sequence for differential staining of cells in pancreatic islets. Biotechnic & Histochemistry 42(1):11-13, 1967.   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. San Jose, C. Martinoya & B. Gunther. Cell size and body weight in some homeotherms and poikilotherms. Acta Physiol. Lat. Am. 24:328-35, 1974 Estudio macroscopico, microscopico y histoquimico de Concholepas concholepas. Rev. Biol. Mar. 12(1-3):121-7, 1965 With F. Loebel S., Estudios histoquimicos sobre la sustancia de Nissl (1958)
- [Ricardo Francisco Marseillan](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-francisco-marseillan/): Ricardo Francisco Marseillan, Argentine-born Brazilian physiologist (Bahía Blanca 01 April 1933 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 04 May 1981) His major scientific contributions are the study of the effects of antibiotics on the cochlea and vestibular apparatus With E.M. Krieger. Aortic depressor fibers in the rat: an electrophysiological study. Am. J. Physiol. 205:771-4, 1963 (paper in top journal) DEVELOPED METHODS Methods for studying electric activity of auditory pathway Techniques for implant of permanent electrodes for recording evoked potentials or single neuron activities With M. Grellet & Colafemina developed the calorie test with electron nystagmographic recording (1969) With J.V. P. Leite.
- [Reza Mansouri](https://neglectedscience.com/reza-mansouri/): Reza Mansouri, Iranian physicist (Tehran 08 January 1948 – Developed Mansouri-Sexl test theory of relativity (1977) With S. Ghassemi & S. Khakshournia. Generalized Friedman equations for a finite thick brane. J.H.E.P. (2006) With K. Nozari. Methods of gluing manifolds in general relativity. J. Math. Phys. 43:1519-35, 2002 With K. Nozari. A new distributional approach to signature change. Gen. Rel. Grav. 32:253-69, 2000 With F. Nasseri. A model universe with variable space dimension – its dynamics and wave-function. Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999) With M. Khorrami & M. Mohazzab. A decrumpling model of universe. Helv. Phys. Acta 69:237, 1996 A new class
- [Renato Marinoni](https://neglectedscience.com/renato-marinoni/): Renato Contin Marinoni, Brazilian entomologist (Curitiba 26 March 1939 – Curitiba 29 June 2011) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Anasillus 1978 with Martins Ateralphus 2001 with Restello & Iannuzzi Eucoelosis 1995 with Iannuzzi Exalphus 2001 with Restello & Iannuzzi Neoamymoma 1977 Neohebestola 1977 Neopachystola 1977 Piola 1974 Species About 125 Others Diarthrodes falcipes 1964 (Crustacea) HONORS Marinonicoris Carvalho 1988 (Hemiptera) 
- [Raul Matera](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-matera/): Raul Floreal Matera Granata, Argentine neurosurgeon (Buenos Aires 07 May 1915 – Buenos Aires 21 March 1994) From Calabrese father DEVELOPED METHODS With R. Carrillo. Nueva tecnica operatoria minima. Leucotomia selectiva en el dolor visceral. Seara Medica 5(2-4):133-42, 1950 Antibioticos y quimioterarapicos en neurocirurgia. Tecnica de su empleo. Resultados terapeuticos (Antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents in neurosurgery: technic and use and therapeutic results). Dia Med. 25(5):92-6, 1953 DESCRIBED SIGNS Signos yodoventriculograficos en las aracnoiditis encefalicas. Rev. Neurol. Bs. Aires 11(3):231-83, 1946 Matera-Insausti sign (a painful paravertebral percussion) 
- [Raul Marsal Cordoba](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-marsal-cordoba/): Raul Jaime Marsal Córdoba, Argentine-born Mexican geotechnical engineer (Buenos Aires 11 January 1915 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 December 1990) ACHIEVEMENTS Stablished worldwide used criteria for design in built works with rockfillings. Proposed Marsal method Large scale testing of rockfill materials. Journal of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. ASCE 93(2):27-43, 1967. Proposed Marsal apparatus, a triaxial apparatus to test rockfill samples (1973) Triaxial apparatus for testing rockfil samples. 2nd Panam. CSMFE, Brazil, vol. 2, 67, 1963. Held at least 12 US patents. AWARDS Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award, American Society of Civil Engineers. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Unconfined compression and vane shear tests in
- [Raul Dodsworth Machado](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-dodsworth-machado/): Raul Dodsworth Machado, Brazilian microscopist (Belo Horizonte 11 June 1917 – Rio de Janeiro 05 August 1996) Authored about 80 scientific papers Performed outstanding contributions to knowledge of Electrophorus electricus ultrastructure Authored with K.R. Porter classic papers on plant cell division and endoplasmic reticulum of plant cells METHODS With M.E. Fonseca, N. Frimer, R.E. Mendonça & J.N. Couceiro. A combined staining technique developed for virus particle observation in the electron microscope. Rev. Bras. Biol. 44(1):37-40, 1984 With N.M. Pereira, W. de Souza & F.T. de Castro. Isolation and properties of flagella of Trypanosomatids. J. Protozool. 24(4):511-4, 1977  Developed a method for observation of
- [Ramón Macías](https://neglectedscience.com/ramon-macias/): Ramón Macías Zepeda, Mexican surgeon (Villa de los Reyes, Michoacán State 14 January 1856 – Ciudad de Mexico 04 September 1916) With Regino Gonzalez performed the third case of perineal prostatectomy in the world using a new procedure (1896) that described in 1897  Le cure radicale  du prostatisme: quelques idees originales et nouveaux chirurgicaux. Rev. d. Anat. Pathol. et Clin. Mexico (1897) Introduced a number of improvements to hysterectomy  Described a technique for intermittent drainage of pleura before Mozingo La canalización intermitente de la pleura. Rev. Anat. Patol. Clin. 2:485-80, 1879 Developed a treatment for urethral narrowings (1885) DEVELOPED/INVENTED A dilator mirror for
- [Ramesh Chandra Misra](https://neglectedscience.com/ramesh-chandra-misra/): Ramesh Chandra Misra, Indian geologist and petrologist (1913 – 07 June 2002) Described with Singh & Kumar the fossil species Colonella kajrahatensis and Conophyton vindhyaense (1974) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Role of plants and micro-organisms in the formation of rocks and mineral deposits of economic importance. Geophytol. (1976) With A.R. Bhattacharya. Geology of the area around Kapkot, Almora district, U.P. Him. Geol. 2:252-70, 1972 With D.M. Banerjee. Sedimentological studies in the Calc zone of Pithoragahr, U.P. (1968) With D.M. Banerjee. Stratigraphy, correlation and tectonics of Sarju-Pungar valley area, District Almora and Pithoragahr, U.P. Publ. Centr. Adv. Stud. Geol. Punjab Univ. 5:101-13, 1968  With R.P. Sharma. Geology of
- [Ram Charan Mehrotra](https://neglectedscience.com/ram-charan-mehrotra/): Ram Charan Mehrotra, Indian inorganic chemist (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 16 February 1922 – Jaipur 11 July 2004) Authored about 500 research papers Suggested the applicability of an universal type of indicators with acidic and basic functions Described the synthesis and properties of a number of highly polymeric species First successfully synthesized aluminum carboxylates (1953)
- [Rafael Gioia Martins Neto](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-gioia-martins-neto/): Rafael Gioia Martins-Neto, Brazilian paleoentomologist (São Paulo 15 June 1954 –  Barbalha, Ceará State 06 August 2010) Authored 103 works and 151 notes With O.F. Gallego proposed the term and concept of thanaethology (death behavior) applied to paleontology (2006) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Insecta Families Araripelocustidae 1995 (Orthoptera) Archaeopneumoridae 1987 (Orthoptera) Argentinoblattidae 2005 with Gallego (Orthoptera) Babinskaiidae 1989 with Vulcano (Neuroptera) Bouretidae 1987 (Orthoptera) Brauckmanniidae 2007 (Orthoptera) Delpuenteblattidae 2007 with Gallego (Blattoptera) Limaiidae 1989 with Vulcano (Neuroptera) Mancusoblattidae 2005 with Gallego (Blattoptera) Palaeoleontidae 1992 (Orthoptera) Paranoikiidae 2002 with Zamboni & Popov (Heteroptera) Prezotophlebiidae 2007 (Orthoptera) Pseudonerthridae 2005 with Ruf & Goodwyn (Heteroptera) Taiophlebiidae 2007
- [Radi Macruz](https://neglectedscience.com/radi-macruz/): Radi Macruz, Brazilian cardiologist (São Paulo 25 July 1925 – São Paulo 30 November 2020) Son of Lebanese immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Macruz index (P/P-R segment ratio) With J.K. Perloff & R.B. Case. A method for the electrocardiographic recognition of atrial enlargement. Circulation 17:882-9, 1958 Developed revascularization technique of right coronary for acute infarction of myocardium With E.J. Zerbini & L.V. Decourt. Cirurgia de revascularização no enfarte agudo do miocárdio. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 23:353-68, 1970 With R.G. Casassa, A.A. Pacher, E. Rossotti, E. Armelin, E.D. Nero Jr & J. Tranchesi. Gradiente sistólico transvalvar nas estenoses aórticas. Novo método para sua determinação. Arq. Bras. Cardiol.
- [Quintino Mingoia](https://neglectedscience.com/quintino-mingoia/): Quintino Sante Mingoia, Italian / Brazilian chemical pharmacist (Caltanissetta, Sicily 01 November 1902 – Milano 1982) Developed a simplified process to obtain amphetamine Patented a preparation process of new heterocyclic compounds for therapeutic use Perfected the synthesis of sulphathiazoles Created a simple method for sulpha dosage employing thiocole alkaline solution in Arch. Biol. 24:183-91, 1940 Developed insecticide Di-nitro-otophenol or IB 946 Oddo-Mingoia method NEW METHODS & SUBSTANCES Nuove sintesi di composti organici del selenio. Gazz. Chim. Ital. 58:667, 1928 Su alcuni nuovi composti infdolici e funzione mista. Gazz. Chim. Ital. 61:646, 1931 Su alcuni nuovi fosfossidi et acidi fosfonici a nucleo
- [Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis](https://neglectedscience.com/prasanta-chandra-mahalanobis/): Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian statistician (Calcutta 29 June 1893 – Calcutta 28 June 1972) From a Bengali family   ACHIEVEMENTS  Authored 271 articles and 5 books Introduced the concepts of pilot surveys, optimum survey design, repetition and interpenetrating network of samples and sampling planes   Described a variety of designs such as simple random sampling with or without replacement, stratified, systematic and cluster sampling (1944) Proposed various techniques for assessment and control of errors Laid down an axiom for the validity of cluster analysis called dimensional convergence of D2 (c.1924) Obtained bivariate generalized Lorenz curves (1958) Established statistically that the region of highest control
- [Prafulla Chandra Mitter](https://neglectedscience.com/prafulla-chandra-mitter/): Prafulla Chandra Mitter, Indian organic chemist (Barisal, Pakistan 22 June 1882 – Calcutta 12 July 1957) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered the isiminazole group of oxo-chloro compounds With P. Gupta first synthesized rubiadin, an anthraquinone derivative (1927-8) With P.N. Bagchi offered an explanation for the formation of some 12 and 16-carbon acids occurring in nature (1939) DEVELOPED METHODS A general method for the synthesis of pyrimidines Ghosh-Mitter procedure in Quart. J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 4:353-66, 1928 With H. Biswas. On an inductive method for the study of natural products. Part I. The naturally occurring anthraquinone derivatives. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 5:769-78, 1928 LINKS http://insaindia.res.in/BM/BM1_6605.pdf   
- [Prabhat Kumar Maithy](https://neglectedscience.com/prabhat-kumar-maithy/): Prabhat Kumar Maithy, Indian paleobotanist (fl.1961 DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Cyanophyceae Aphamocapsaopsis 1977 with Shukla Chlorogloeaopsis 1975 Ghoshia 1984 with Mandal Microcystiopsis 1983 with Misra Neophormidium 1983 with Misra Palaeohydrococcus 1983 with Misra Palaeomicrocystis 1975 Palaeoscytonema 1977 with Shukla Palaeowestiellopsis 1983 with Misra Sclerococcus 1982 with Bhargava Vesicophycus 1984 with Mandal Vindhyacapsiopsis 1983 with Mandal Plantae Barakaroxylon 1962 with Surange Dichotomopteris 1974 Gondwanophyton 1974 Indoxylon 1963 with Surange Neomariopteris 1974 Pachwarophyllum 1990 with Prasad Palmatophyllites 1965 Rotundocarpus 1965 Santhalea 1977 Stellotheca 1978 with Mandal Sporae & Pollen (With Lele 1969) Crucisaccites 1964 Gondwanopollis 1969 Pachysaccus 1969 Rimospora 1969 Rugasaccites 1969 Algae Saccifera 1983 with Mandal Cnidaria Ramapuraea 1984 with Shukla Not Classified Amjohrea 1992 Misraea 1987 with Babu
- [Pio Manuel Martínez](https://neglectedscience.com/pio-manuel-martinez/): Pio Manuel María Martínez Curbelo, Cuban surgeon and anesthesiologist (Nueva Paz, La Habana Province 05 June 1906 – 01 May 1962) Proposed a modification of Kulenkampf brachial plexus block technique Nueva tecnica de la anestesia del plexo braquial: ventajas de esta anestesia regional  em clinica ortopédica. Rev. Med. Cub. 5:27-31, 1933 Developed Continuous Peridural Segmental Anesthesia Technique (first presented in 1947) Continuous peridural segmental anesthesia by means of an urethral catheter. Curr. Res. Anesth. Analg. 28:12-23, 1949  Created a continuous rachidial anesthesia with thin needle catheter (1950) and proposed a thinner trocar
- [Peter MacOwan](https://neglectedscience.com/peter-macowan/): Peter MacOwan, English-born South African botanist and mycologist (Hull, England 14 November 1830 – Uitenhagen, Cape Province 30 November 1909) DESCRIBED Plantae Species Agasthoma wrightii 1890 Aspalathus argyrella 1890 Aspalathus humilis 1889 with Bolus Athrixia fontana 1881 Babiana macrantha 1890 Berkheya caffra 1890 Berkheya debilis 1890 Bowkeria cymosa 1896 Bowkeria simplicifolia 1896 Garuleum tanacetifolium Geissorhiza bellendenii 1892 Habenaria arachnoides 1893  Helichrysum argyrolepis 1890 Lamiostachys tubulosa 1893 Leonotis laxifolia 1893 Lobelia laxa Moraea xerospatha 1897 Polygala confusa 1890  Polygala gymnoclada 1890 Ranunculus baurii 1881 Senecio cornu-cervi 1869 Senecio harveyanus 1890 Senecio napifolius 1890 Senecio prionites 1881 Senecio rumicifolius 1881 with Bolus Senecio serratus 1881 with Bolus Senecio surculosus 1869 Senecio tropaeolifolius 1867 Senecio trullifolius 1881 Senecio tysonii 1890  Stachys obtusifolia 1893 Fungi Valid Genus Lopharia 1881 with Kalchbrenner Species Aecidium chlorophyti Aecidium
- [Pedro Severiano de Magalhães](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-severiano-de-magalhaes/): Pedro Severiano de Magalhães, Brazilian physician and helminthologist (Salvador 02 July 1850 – Rio de Janeiro 09 May 1927) ACHIEVEMENTS Described the presence of filariae in human heart. This filaria species was named Dirofilaria magalhaesi in his honor. Descrição de uma espécie de filarias  encontradas no coração humano. Rev. Cursos Prat. Theor. Fac. Med. Rio de Janeiro 3:129-215, 1887 First to describe Black Piedra, a cutaneous disease (Horta confirmed that it was a new disease in 1911) Uma novidade de pathologia indigena, um caso autochtone de “piedra”. Rev. Med. São Paulo 9:143-5, 1901 Coined the term microfilaria before Le Dantec With Oscar Bulhões developed
- [Pedro de Moura](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-de-moura/): Pedro de Moura, Brazilian geologist and engineer (Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 16 June 1901 – Rio de Janeiro 11 June 1988) Discovered the first commercial oil field in Brazil (Candeias, Bahia State) 1941 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With G. Fernandes. Geologia do petróleo na Bahia. Rev. Esc. Minas Ouro Preto 18(4), 1953 Aspectos técnicos do problema do petróleo no Brasil (1948) With A.I. de Oliveira. Geologia da região de Corumbá e minérios de manganês e ferro do Urucum, Mato Grosso. Bol. Div. Fom. Prod. Mineral 62:13-29, 1944 O Relevo da Amazônia. Rev. Bras. Geogr. 5(3):323-42, 1943 Bacia do Alto Paraguai. Rev. Bras. Geogr.
- [Panchanan Maheshwari](https://neglectedscience.com/panchanan-maheshwari/): Panchanan Maheshwari, Indian botanist and microscopist (Jaipur, Rajasthan 09 November 1904 – Delhi 18 May 1966) Worked embryological aspects of many plants belonging to more than 1000 species First to describe many embryological features peculiar to aquatic plants First to study fertilization under experimental conditions Performed the first experiment of direct pollination of ovules with formation of viable cells in vitro With N.S. Rangaswamy & K. Kanta. Test tube fertilization in a flowering plant. Nature 194:1214-7, 1962 Standardized the classification of embryo sac types Authored An Introduction to the Embriology of Angiosperms (1950), the first work in this field and translated into several languages Developed Maheshwari
- [Pablo Luis Mirizzi](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-luis-mirizzi/): Pablo Luis Mirizzi Agueda, Argentine surgeon (Cordoba 25 January 1893 – Cordoba 28 August 1964) Son of Italian immigrants Authored over 200 works Conceived intraoperative cholangiography or mirizzigraphy With C. Quiroga Losada. La exploración de las vias biliares principales en el curso de la operación. (1931)   Described Mirizzi syndrome  Physiologic sphincter of the hepatic bile duct. Arch. Surg. 41:1325-33, 1940 Established primary suture for treatment of choledocus (1942) Described Mirizzi sign (1942) and Mirizzi test or fistulography Designed a radio surgical table Eponym of Randall-Mirizzi forceps for calculi HONORS    President, International Congress of Surgery, Munich (1959)
- [Oswaldo Mooser](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-mooser/): Oswaldo Mooser, Swiss / Mexican vertebrate paleontologist (Maienfeld 23 December 1903 – Sankt Gallen 15 July 1983) Worked at Mexico (1927-1981) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Fossil Vertebrata Mammalia Species Aguascalientia wilsoni 1974 with Dalquest Asinus aguascalentensis 1958 Austrohippus albidens 1968 Bison aguascalentensis 1975 with Dalquest Camelops traviswhitei 1975 with Dalquest Canis cedczoensis 1975 with Dalquest Catagonus brachydontus 1980 with Dalquest Dinohippus muelleri 1965 Equus (Dolichohippus) mexicanus 1973 Equus parastylidens 1958 Hippotigris ocotensis 1957 Nannippus aztecus 1968 Nannippus hesperides 1968 Neohipparion monias 1963 Neohipparion otomii 1959 Onager arellanoi 1958 Onager (Hesperohippus) hibbardi 1958 Onager (Hesperohippus) oviedoi 1958 Onager zoyatalis 1958 Palaeolama guanajuatensis 1980 with Dalquest Teleoceras ocotensis 1980 with Dalquest Tetrameryx tacubayensis 1975 with Dalquest Reptilia Species Gopherus auffenbergi 1972 Gopherus pargensis 1980 Living Lepidoptera Species Ceratomia hoffmanni 1942
- [Oscar Monte](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-monte/): Oscar Monte de Almeida, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 04 July 1895 – Belo Horizonte 01 July 1948) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA TAXA Hemiptera Genera Acanthotingis 1940 Leptotingis 1938 Nectocader 1937 Paratagalis 1943 Phymacysta 1942 Species Acanthocheila denieri 1940 Acanthocheila rustica 1942 Acanthotingis apicicornis 1940 Aepycysta decorata 1941 Amblystira hirsta 1940 Amblystira melanosoma 1941 Atheas cearanus 1947 Birabena carvalhoi 1947 Corycera fallax 1942 Corycera gibbosa 1938 Corycera pusilla 1942 Corycera schubarti 1946 Corycera rocha-limai 1940 Corythaica bosqi 1938 Corythaica umbrosa 1938 Corythucha argentinensis 1940 Corythucha boliviana 1946 Corythucha globulifera 1940 Corythucha socia 1940 Corythucha translucida 1946 Dicysta fonsecai 1940 Gargaphia argillacea 1943 Gargaphia boliviana 1947 Gargaphia bergi 1940 Gargaphia brunfelsiae 1938 Gargaphia comosa 1941 Gargaphia costa-limai 1940 Gargaphia holoxantha 1942 Gargaphia inca 1943 Gargaphia interrogationis 1941 Gargaphia lanei 1940 Gargaphia mirabilis 1938 Gargaphia stigma 1946 Leptobyrsa pulchra 1940 Leptocysta terlia 1946 Leptodictya dilatata 1942 Leptodictya
- [Oreste Moretto](https://neglectedscience.com/oreste-moretto/): Oreste Moretto Bassi, Argentine civil engineer (Las Varillas, Cordoba province 21 January 1916 – 1997) ACHIEVEMENTS  Published a method to calculate negative friction known as Moretto-Bolognesi method (1959) Pile Foundations Stressed by Negative Friction. Proc. First Pan-Am. Conf. on Soil Mech. Found. Eng. Mexico 1959. 3:315-325, 1959.  Developed Bolognesi-Moretto splice. AWARDS Houssay Prize, Organization of American States (1979)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY     An investigation of the Strength of welded stirrups in Reinforced Concrete Beams. Journal of American Concrete Institute. Proceedings V. 17(2): 141-162, 1945. An investigation on effect of certain factors on the strength and compressibility of clays. Doctoral thesis. University of Illinois.
- [Olaf Mielke](https://neglectedscience.com/olaf-mielke/): Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, German-born Brazilian entomologist (Bonn 12 June 1941 – DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Amysoria 2002 Atlanteuptychia 2013 with Freitas, Barbosa & Santos  Austinus 2016 with Casagrande Chalypyge 2002 Creonpyge 2002 Cyanopyge 2002 Cyclopyge 2002  Emeryus 2020 with Zacca & Casagrande Emmeleus 2016 with Casagrande Ginungagapus 2015 with Carneiro & Casagrande  Gunayan 2002 Igapophilus 1980 Jaiba 1999 with Lemaire & Tangerini Jonaspyge 2002 Jongiana 2002 with Casagrande Melanopyge 2002 Mimardaris 2002 Mysarbia 2002 Ochropyge 2002 Paracogia 1977 Parelbella 1995 Peba 1968 Prenda 2012 with Freitas Prittwitzia 1970 with Brown Propapias 1992 Protelbella 1995 Pseudocroniades 1995 Radiatus 1968 Rufocumbre 2017 with Dolibaina & Casagrande  Saniba 2003 with Casagrande Stegosatyrus 2013 with Zacca, Pyrcz, Casagrande, Freitas & Boyer   Vanima 2020 with Zacca & Casagrande Species About 160 HONORS Mielkea Zajciw 1965 (Coleoptera) Mielkeana Razowski &
- [Octavio Mangabeira Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/octavio-mangabeira-filho/): Octavio Mangabeira Filho, Brazilian medical entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1913 – Salvador 04 May 1963) Recognized as world authority on leishmaniasis vectors studies World pioneer on morphology and determination of periods of development phases in Phlebotominae under laboratorial conditions Standardized sandflies breeding under laboratorial conditions  DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera Evandromyia 1941 Viannamyia 1941 Subgenera  Castromyia 1942 Pressatia 1942 Psychodopygus 1942 Species About 50 Sandflies species
- [Nelson Maculan Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/nelson-maculan-filho/): Nelson Maculan Filho, Brazilian industrial and computational engineer (Londrina, Paraná State 19 March 1943 – Created algorithms for use in the field of combinatorial optimization  Proposed formulation for s-directed spanning tree With Armin Claus and independently of J. Beasley & R. Wong proposed a reformulation of Steiner graph problem through a digraph obtained from a G graph OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS/SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.T. Bornstein, M. Portugal & L. de Lima Pinto. Multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems with a cost and several bottleneck objective functions: an algorithm with reoptimization. Computers & Operations Research 39:1969-76, 2012. With R. Q. Nascimento, A.F. Uzeda & L.A.F. Cabral. A Model
- [Nelamangala Vedavyasachar Madhusudana](https://neglectedscience.com/nelamangala-vedavyasachar-madhusudana/): Nelamangala Vedavyasachar Madhusudana, Indian physicist (Mysore, Karnataka State 09 May 1944 – Authored over 160 papers First to demonstrate the electromechanical coupling effects in cholesteric liquid crystals First to demonstrate the suppression induced by curvature in the smectic A phase of the crystals Elucidated the phenomenon of smectic A phase with tilted molecules caused by off-axis molecular dipoles Suggested an explanation for the anti-parallel correlations of near-neighborn molecules and apolar direction of highly polar compounds Demonstrated the impact of flexoelectricity in nematic phase transitions Discovered many relationships between elastic constants and molecular organizations Discovered high strength defects in impure nematics Found
- [Naércio Aquino Menezes](https://neglectedscience.com/naercio-aquino-menezes/): Naércio Aquino Menezes, Brazilian ichthyologist (Aracaju 27 May 1937 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Amphiarius 2007 with Marceniuk Bryconadenos 2005 with Weitzman, Evers & Burns  Carlarius 2007 with Marceniuk Chrysobrycon 1998 with Weitzman Lepidocharax 2011 with Ferreira & Quagio-Grassiotto Nematocharax 1986 with Weitzman & Britski Phallobrycon 2009 with Ferreira & Netto-Ferreira Potamosilurus 2007 with Marceniuk Species 61 (until 2019) LINKS http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp
- [Naomi Millard](https://neglectedscience.com/naomi-millard/): Naomi Adeline Helen Bokenham Millard, South African marine zoologist (Cape Town 16 July 1914 – 12 June 1998) DESCRIBED VALID HYDROZOA TAXA Family Halopterididae 1962 Genera Bicorona 1966 Corhiza 1962 Silhouetta 1973 with Bouillon Uniscyphus 1977 Species 66 HONORS Millardiana Wedler & Larson 1986 (Hydrozoa)
- [Nanuza Luiza de Menezes](https://neglectedscience.com/nanuza-luiza-de-menezes/): Nanuza Luiza de Menezes, Brazilian plant morphologist (São Roque, São Paulo State 27 September 1934 – Described a new kind of underground system in Vernonia species (Rhizophores) With M.G. Sajo & R.A. Azevedo. Um novo e peculiar tipo de sistema subterrâneo em espécies de Vernonia da serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Bol. Bot. Univ. S. Paulo 7(1):33-38, 1979 Described a new kind of fruit in Velloziaceae With M.S. Souza. Um novo tipo de fruto em Velloziaceae. 58th Congr. Nac. Botanica v.1, 2007 First to show the presence of transfusion tracheids in a flower plant Traqueídes de transfusão no gênero Vellozia Vand. Cien.
- [Nai Ben Ming](https://neglectedscience.com/nai-ben-ming/): Nai Ben Ming or Naben Min, Chinese crystal physicist (Jiangsu Province 09 August 1935 – Developed etching method for revealing dislocation lines and networks in body centered cubic crystals First to observe the birefringence image of end on screw dislocations and gave it a detailed explanation according to the anisotropy of both elastic and photoelastic properties of crystals Described the defect mechanism of crystal growth based on atomic configurations around defects and its intrinsic properties Generalized the screw dislocation mechanism to the growth mechanism assisted by any type of dislocation proposing new growth mechanisms Proposed the stacking fault, twin lamella, re-entrance corner-assisted
- [Mutis family](https://neglectedscience.com/mutis-family/): José Celestino Mutis y Bosio, Spanish-born Colombian botanist and geographer (Cadiz 06 April 1732 – Santafé de Bogotá 11 September 1808) Described nocturnal variations in barometer Discovered daily salty air in the tropics  Created a specific for dysentery (1810) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera  Acaena 1771 Barnadesia 1781 Bejaria 1771 Castilleja 1782 Consuegria 1810 (Incertae Sedis) Escallonia 1821 Espeletia 1808 Lozania 1810 Manettia 1771 Pera 1784 Pombea 1810 (Incertae Sedis) Vallea 1782 Species About 70 HONORS (Asteraceae) Mutisia Linnaeus filius 1782 Flosmutisia Cuatrecasas 1986 His nephew, Sinforoso Mutis Consuegra, Colombian botanist (Bucaramanga 15 July 1773 – Bogotá 22 August 1822) Described the section Amaria 1810 (Fabaceae) Honored in genus incertae sedis Consuegria Mutis (1810)
- [Muhammad Ramzan Mirza](https://neglectedscience.com/muhammad-ramzan-mirza/): Muhammad Ramzan Mirza, Pakistani ichthyologist (1936 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genus Naziritor 1985 with Javed Species Barilius naseeri 1986 with Rafiq & Awan Barilius pakistanicus 1978 with Sadiq Batasio pakistanicus 1989 with Jan Clupisoma naziri 1973 with Awan Gagata pakistanica 1999 with Parveen & Javed Glyptothorax pemjabensis 1971 with Kashmiri Glyptothorax sufii 1975 with Asghar Bashir Nangra robusta 1973 with Awan Naziritor zhobensis 1967 Paraschistura alepidota 1970 with Banarescu Paraschistura lepidocaulis 1981 with Nalbant Paraschistura lindbergi 1965 with Banarescu Paraschistura microlabra 1981 with Nalbant Paraschistura naseeri 1963 with Ahmad Schistura afasciata 1981 with Banarescu Schistura anambarensis 1970 with Banarescu Schistura arifi 1981 with Banarescu Schistura curtistigma 1981 with Nalbant Schistura fascimaculata 1981 with Nalbant Schistura harnaiensis 1969 with Nalbant Schistura kohatensis 1981
- [Moura Brasil family](https://neglectedscience.com/moura-brasil-family/): José Cardoso de Moura Brasil, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Iracema, Ceará State 10 February 1846 – Rio de Janeiro 01 January 1928) He was chief of L. Wecker ophthalmological  clinic at Paris Developed a new process for cataract extraction employing a mixed flap with iridotomy Ophtalmologia. Novo processo para a extracção da catarata: extracção por um pequeno retalho mixto com iridotomia. União Médica, 1881 First used jequirity oil in ophthalmology Memoire sur le jequirity. Traitement de la conjunctivite granuleuse, aigue et chronique par l’Abrus precatorius ou jequirity. Ann. Ocul. 301, 1882 Developed an eye drops that bears his name (1913) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratamento
- [Morna Mathias](https://neglectedscience.com/morna-mathias/): Frances Celia Morna Mathias, English-born South African petrologist and geochemist (20 May 1913 – Nee Frances Celia Morna Cameron-Swan being granddaughter of physicist and chemist Joseph Wilson Swan SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.J. Gurney, J.C. Siebert & G. Moseley. Kyanite  eclogites from the Rietfontein kimberlite pipe, Mier Coloured Reserve, Gordonia, Cape Province. Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 30:46-52, 1971 With J.C. Siebert & P.C. Rickwood. Some aspects of the mineralogy and petrology of ultramafic xenoliths in kimberlite. Contr. Miner. Petrol. 26:75-123, 1970 With P.C. Rickwood. Diamondiferous eclogite xenoliths in kimberlite. Lithos 3:223-5, 1970 With P.C. Rickwood. Ultramafic xenoliths in the Matsoku kimberlite pipe, Lesotho.
- [Montenegro brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/montenegro-brothers/): Benedito Augusto de Freitas Montenegro, Brazilian surgeon (Jaú, São Paulo State 07 April 1888 – São Paulo 22 August 1979) From Spanish father Internationally known as a great name in gastro duodenal surgery  Performed the first total gastrectomy in Americas (1923) Developed a number of surgical methods between them Montenegro method or Finsterer-Montenegro method for treating gastro duodenal ulcers  Eponym of Montenegro ligament As a soccer player played for Associação Atletica Mackenzie (1902-5) LINKS www.cbcsp.org.br/redator/item13663.shtml His brother, João Baptista de Freitas Montenegro, anatomical pathologist (Bocaina, São Paulo State 05 October 1892 – São Paulo 19 December 1980) Described Montenegro reaction or test
- [Monge family](https://neglectedscience.com/monge-family/): Carlos Monge Medrano, Peruvian physician (Lima 13 December 1884 – Ancón, Lima 15 February 1970) Authored over 150 scientific works on medicine, parasitology, biology, Andean pathology, anthropology and history Described Monge disease or chronic mountain sickness (1925) its simptomatology and pathogeny Defined physiological and anatomical mechanisms of adaptation to high elevations Showed that coca leaf chewing played a role in aiding the metabolism in high-altitude populations Proposed the concept of Andean Biology HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Chicago (1948) His son  Carlos Augusto Monge Cassinelli, physician (Lima 01 September 1921 – Lima 25 February 2006) Authored over 600 publications on
- [Monckeberg family](https://neglectedscience.com/monckeberg-family/): Fernando Rafael Monckeberg Barros, Chilean nutritional pediatrician (Santiago de Chile 26 June 1926 – Authored over 130 papers, 60 book chapters and 12 books Authored relevant studies about jejunal mucosa in infant malnutrition-mental With A. Reid, O. Brunser, A. Maccioni & I. Contreras. Jejunal biopsies in infant malnutrition with special reference to mitotic index. Pediatrics 38:605-12, 1966 With A. Reid, O. Brunser, A. Maccioni & I. Contreras. Jejunal mucosa in infant malnutrition. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 21:976-83, 1968 Distinguished marasmus from kwashiorkor With O. Brunser, G. Donoso, H. Flores, A. Maccioni, M. Perretta & A. Stekel. Marasmus y kwashiorkor. Dos entidades clinicas diferentes
- [Mohammed Babar Mirza](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-babar-mirza/): Mohammed Babar Mirza, Indian parasitologist and helminthologist (Hyderabad 08 December 1900 – Germany 21 June 1976) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera (Nematoda) Diserratosomus 1933   Setarospiculum 1939 Species Cyrnea coraci 1938 Enterobius zakiri 1956 with Siddiqi Physaloptera achari 1935 Physaloptera fulleborni 1934 with Singh Physaloptera masoodi 1934  Seratospiculum varani 1939 with Basir Spirura narayani 1938 Strongyloides akbari 1935 with Narayan Sublura hindi 1936 Syphacha sciuri 1934 with Singh HONORS (Nematoda) Mirzaiella Basir 1942 Mirzaloptera Wason & Johnson  1977 
- [Mohammad Kasim Moosa](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-kasim-moosa/): Mohammad Kasim Moosa, Indonesian carcinologist and oceanographer (Jakarta 25 February 1937 – DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Families                    Alainosquillidae 1991 Crossotonotidae 1981 with Serene Pseudochelidae 2004 with De Grave Genera Alainosquilla 1991 Alimopsoides 1991 Anchisquillopsis 1985 Heterosquillopsis 1991 Neoanchisquilla 1991 Neopalicus 1981 with Serene Palicoides 1981 with Serene Paracoridon 1991 Paralimopsis 1991 Parapalicus 1981 with Serene Pseudopalicus 1981 with Serene Species 42 valid HONORS Kasim Manning 1995 (Crustacea)
- [Miranda Ribeiro family](https://neglectedscience.com/miranda-ribeiro-family/): Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro, Brazilian vertebrate zoologist (Rio Preto, Minas Gerais State 21 February 1874 – Rio de Janeiro 08 January 1939) Authored 147 publications DESCRIBED VALID NEW TAXA Diptera Genera Basilia 1903 Holophthalmyia 1907 Subgenus Pseudelytromyia 1907 Species Basilia ferruginea 1903 Basilia (Pseudelytromyia) speiseri 1907 Holophthalmyia siqueirae 1907  Paratrichobius longicrus 1907 Fossil Mammalia Genus Plicodontinia 1938 Species Plicodontinia mourai 1938 Reptilia Species Bothrops lutzi 1915 Aves Species Hemitriccus obsoletus 1906 Oreophylax moreirae 1906 Pyrrhura pfrimeri 1920 Subspecies Crypturellus obsoletus hypochraceus 1938 Electron platyrhynchum chlorophys 1931  Hemitriccus obsoletus obsoletus 1906 Fregata ariel trinitatis 1919 Pionus maximilianus metanoblepharus 1920 Mammalia Genus Callimico 1912 Species Monodelphis umbristriata 1936 Saguinus melanoleucus 1912 Subspecies Calluromys lanatus vitalinus 1936 Ctenomys minutus bicolor 1914 Mazama goyazoubira rondoni 1915 Micoureus paraguayanus travassosi 1936 Sciurus aestuans
- [Milton Thiago de Mello](https://neglectedscience.com/milton-thiago-de-mello/): Milton Thiago de Mello, Brazilian microbiologist and veterinarian (Rio de Janeiro 05 February 1916 – Brasilia 01 October 2024) From Swiss descent Authored 245 scientific works Laid the foundations for control of mites that attack fungal cultures employing kerosene With A.E. Area Leão & V. Mayor. Acarinos infestadores de cultura de cogumelos. Biologia, classificação e métodos de combate. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 42(3):559-608, 1945 Técnica para colheita, transporte e cultivo de material para diagnóstico da peste. Fol. Atual. Saúde Publ. 1-6:10-1, 1968 With Diamante I. Ortiz da Silva. Prova da microdiluição para o diagnóstico sorológico de leptospirose usando antígenos comerciais. O
- [Milton Fontes Magarão](https://neglectedscience.com/milton-fontes-magarao/): Milton Fontes Magarão, Brazilian bacteriologist and phthisiologist (Itaporanga d’Ajuda, Sergipe State 08 March 1903 – Rio de Janeiro 15 November 1986) Authored 71 publications WHO recognized his laboratory as world reference in atypical mycobacteria  Identified distinct strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Performed the first tests of microbian resistance to bacteriostatics  METHODS  With H. Linhares modified the Corper-Stoner method (1949) Improved Darzins method for isolating tubercle bacilli from pathological material (Darzins-Magarão method) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY     With A.O. Lima & N. Bethlem. Alguns aspectos da imunologia da tuberculose. J. Pneumol. 11(2):98-106, 1985 With R.C. Mortatti & A.O. Lima. O complexo “Mycobacterium tuberculosis” (1980) With H.M. Brascher,
- [Miguel Angel Moron Rios](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-angel-moron-rios/): Miguel Angel Morón Ríos, Mexican entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 October 1952 – Xalapa 22 August 2017) Regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on scarab beetles larvae DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera/Subgenus Archedinus 1990 with Krikken Belicinus 2012 with Arce Perez & Shepard Subg. Bucaphalanus 2012 with Ramírez Ponce Chelilabia 1999 with Nogueira Halffterinetis 2007 with Nogueira Iridosoma 1991 with Delgado Castillo Macropoidelimus 1983 Mazahuapertha 1999 with Nogueira Mesosternus 1988 Nayarita 1999 with Nogueira Paraheterosternus 1983 Parisoleoides 1987 Plesiosternus 1983 Saccharoscaptus 2015 with Gross Yaaxkumukia 1999 with Nogueira Species 291 (136 of them in genus Phyllophaga) HONORS Moronopeilos Brailovsky 1988 (Hemiptera) Moronius Grossi & Vaz de Mello 2015 (Coleoptera) Moroniella Ramírez Ponce 2015 (Coleoptera) LINKS http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372019000100301 (Spanish) http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372017000300538&lng=pt&nrm=iso (Spanish)
- [MIDDLE EAST](https://neglectedscience.com/middle-east/): Fatin Gokmen, Turkish astronomer (Akeksi 06 January 1877 – Istanbul 1955) Conceived of using a particular quadrant to make a table of the minimum and maximum values of the variations of the azimuth and the hour angle for a certain latitude  His son, Tarik Gokmen, astronomer (Istanbul 26 November 1918 – 1985) Group-sequence criterion for series of observations. Rev. Fac. Sci. Univ. Istanbul Serie C 19(3):171-92, 1954  William Deab Nimeh, Lebanese gastroenterologist (Deir El Kamar 27 July 1891 – ?) Developed Nimeh method for the determination of the size of the liver and spleen by hepatosplenography and hepatosplenometry New method for the determination of
- [MEXICO](https://neglectedscience.com/mexico/): Ponciano Aguilar Frías, Mexican mining engineer and topographer (Guanajuato 14 November 1853 – Guanajuato 10 April 1935) Devised a new method for identifying minerals by means of electric arc (pyroelectric analysis) (1915-1930) Honored in mineral species aguilarite Genth 1891   José Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano, Mexican geologist and paleontologist (Mapimi, Durango State 05 February 1857 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 March 1941) Colaborated to Mexican Geological Chart, presented in Universal Exposition of Paris with great success (1889) First to describe the formation of kaolin in basaltic rocks (1907) Described Ptychomya diazi 1906 (Fossil Mollusca) Alberto Barajas y Celis, Mexican mathematician (Ciudad de Mexico 17 July 1913
- [Mervyn William Mansell](https://neglectedscience.com/mervyn-william-mansell/): Mervyn William Mansell, South African entomologist (Bedford, Eastern Cape 19 November 1944 – Authored over 60 research papers DESCRIBED NEUROPTERA TAXA Family Psychopsidae 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Genera Afroptera 2019 with Abdalla Amerocroce 1983 Annulares 2004 Carnarviana 1983 Morandida 1983 Pamares 1990 Siccanda 2019 with Abdalla Tjederia 1977 Species Afroptera acuta 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera albi 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera balli 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera brinkmani 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera cylindrata 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera folia 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera koranna 2019 with Abdalla Afroptera maraisi 2019 with Abdalla Amerocroce boliviana 1983 Annulares aspoecki 2004 Annulares lanner 2004 Austrocroce occidens 1983 Cabralis pallidus 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Cabralis zambeziensis 2017 with Bakkes & Sole Carnarviana cretata 1983 Carnarviana janthorum 1983 Coberotha angolana 1994 with
- [Maximino Martínez](https://neglectedscience.com/maximino-martinez/): Maximino Martinez y Martínez, Mexican botanist (Huasca de Ocampo District, Hidalgo State 30 May 1888 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 June 1964) Internationally recognized for his work on economic botany Authored over 100 works  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Balmea 1942 Valid Species Abies durangensis 1942 Abies vejarii 1942 Balmea stormae 1942 Erodium saxatile 1934 Juniperus blancoi 1946 Juniperus comitana 1944 Juniperus durangensis 1946 Juniperus jaliscana 1946 Juniperus monticola 1946 Peltogyne mexicana 1961 Picea chihuahuana 1942 Pinus douglasiana 1943 Pinus durangensis 1942 Pinus herrerae 1940 Quercus macdougallii 1964 Quercus mulleri 1953 Quercus sanchez-colinii 1954 Solandra guerrerensis 1967 Others 24 subspecies, 15 varieties and 14 forms SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Plantas utiles de Mexico Apuntes para una monografia del pochote El arbol del balsamo Las
- [Mauro Taveira Magalhães](https://neglectedscience.com/mauro-taveira-magalhaes/): Mauro Taveira Magalhães, Brazilian plant chemist (Rio de Janeiro 24 May 1929 – 1997) ACHIEVEMENTS Identified and isolated the first odoriferous nitroderived compound (1-nitro-2-phenylethane) in essential oils With O.R. Gottlieb. Occurrence of 1-nitro-2-phenylethane in Ocotea pretiosa and Aniba canelilla. J. Org. Chem. 24:2070, 1959. Discovered dalbergiones, a new class of natural products  and suggested the name neoflavanoids With W.B. Eyton, W.D. Ollis, I.O. Sutherland, L.M. Jackman & O.R. Gottlieb. The neoflavanoid group of natural products. I. Dalbergiones: a new group of natural products. Tetrahedron 21(9):2683-96, 1965   With R. Braz Filho, W.B. Eyton & O.R. Gottlieb. A química de leguminosas brasileiras. XII. As apuleínas, flavona-hepta
- [Mattos Pimenta family](https://neglectedscience.com/mattos-pimenta-family/): Aloysio de Mattos Pimenta, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 13 December 1912 – June 1987) With J.M. de Castro. Avaliação prática do volume de sangue perdido em neurocirurgia. Nova variante técnica para a avaliação visual. Rev. Paul. Med. 47:375-8, 1955 Derivação aracnoido-ileo-vesical com alça intestinal totalmente excluída no tratamento da hidrocefalia. Nota prévia (1956) Hemopalidotomia – modificação da técnica de Cooper (1959) With L.H. Mattos Pimenta & M. Okamura described Black/Amazonas River syndrome (1973), an arteriovenous difference between both sides of brain hemisphere With L.H. Mattos Pimenta & M. Okamura. Carotid fibromuscular dysplasia: crushing therapeutic method. Seara Med. Neurocir. 13(1):23-9, 1984
- [Mario Rubens Montenegro](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-rubens-montenegro/): Mário Rubens Guimarães Montenegro, Brazilian pathologist (10 March 1923 – Botucatu, São Paulo State 11 February 2005) With K. Iabuki proposed guinea pig as experimental model of paracoccidiodomycosis research  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.F. Pontes & L.C. Silva. Considerações sobre o conceito e classificação das cirroses. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 77:29-40, 1956 With F.G. Germuth & C. Flanagan. The relationship between the chemical nature of the antigen, antigen dosage, rate of antibody synthesis and occurrence  of arteritis and glomerulonephritis hypersensitivity. Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 10:149-69, 1957 With D.A. Eggert. Topography of atherosclerosic lesions in the coronary arteries. Lab. Inves. 18:586-93, 1968  Anticorpo antimiocárdico
- [Mario Molina](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-molina/): Mario José Molina Pasquel y Henríquez, Mexican chemical engineer (Ciudad de Mexico 19 March 1943 – Ciudad de Mexico 07 October 2020) Developed the CFC ozone depletion theory With F. Sherwood Rowland. Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine-atom catalysed destruction of ozone. Nature 249:810-2, 1974 Showed that chlorine-activation reactions take place very efficiently in the presence of ice under polar stratospheric conditions Proposed and demonstrated that chlorine peroxide (produced by decomposition of CFCs) would act as an ongoing catalyst for the destruction of ozone in the polar stratosphere With L.T. Molina. Production of chlorine oxide (Cl2O2) from the self-reaction of the chlorine oxide
- [Maria Ema Mulgura](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-ema-mulgura/): Maria Ema Mulgura, Argentine botanist (1943 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Atriplex nitrophiloides 1984 Atriplex quixadensis 1993 with Del Vitto & Petenatti Atriplex sorianoi 1979 Lippia ganevii 2015 with Salimena Oxalis morronei 2011 with A. López Tragia giardellii 1986 with Gutierrez de Sanguinetti Others Atriplex cordobensis subsp. grandibracteata 1981 Section Dentium 2008 with Peralta Oxalis sellowiana var. alba 1973 HONORS Mulguraea O’Leary & Peralta 2009 (Verbenaceae)
- [Marcos Moshinsky](https://neglectedscience.com/marcos-moshinsky/): Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky, Ukrainian-born Jewish Mexican physicist (Kiev 20 April 1921 – Ciudad de Mexico 01 April 2009) Authored over 300 papers and 5 books (about 5000 citations) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered the diffraction in time (1952) Introduced the concept of transformation parenthesis or brackets for functions of harmonic oscillation (1959) With T.A. Brody prepared the tables of transformation brackets With V. Bargmann introduced the systematic use of harmonic oscillators to solve problems in physics (1960-1) With P. Kramer introduced states of permutation symmetry (1966-8) Invented Dirac oscillator HONORS Houssay Prize, OAS (1990) UNESCO Prize for Scientific Research (1997) Eugene Wigner Medal (1998) Weizmann
- [José Oiticica Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-oiticica-filho/): José Rodrigues Leite e Oiticica Filho, Brazilian entomologist and photographer (Rio de Janeiro 28 February 1906 – Rio de Janeiro 26 July 1964) Regarded as one of best photographers in the world in according to Fédération d’Art Photographique (c.1944) and Photographic Society of America (1949) His name was included in the list of best photographers in the world by Féderation Internationale d’ Art Photographique Authored over 60 papers DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA GENERA Adhemarius 1939 Almeidella 1946 Autogramma 1946 Cicia 1964 Duboisvalia 1955 Feschaeria 1954 Frostetola 1955 Hista 1954 Lapaeumides 1954 Pantophaea 1946 Psigida 1959 Riechia 1954 Sagenosoma 1946 Tosxampila 1955 Uestiudia 1955 Yagra 1955 Zegara 1954 HONORS (Lepidoptera) Oiticicia Michener 1949    Oiticicastnia Lamas 1995 Citioica Travassos & Noronha 1965  Oiticella Travassos & Noronha
- [José Antonio O'Daly](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-odaly/): José Antonio O’Daly Serraille, Venezuelan physician (Valencia, Carabobo State 03 January 1908 – Caracas 21 April 1992) Authored over 40 scientific works Created and improved histological techniques Nota preliminar y demostraciones acerca de un nuevo metodo para la impregnación argentica de las neurofibrilas. IV Jorn. Venez. Anat. Patol. (1956) Nuevos procedimientos en histologia. Rev. Polic. Caracas 30, 1936 Proposed a new dissolvent for paraffin El ruber solvente en tecnica histologica. Rev. Sur Amer. Morfol. 4(2), 1946  First isolated and described the etiologic agent of chromomycosis (1937) that was later named Cladosporium carrionnii by Trejos in 1954 With Bruni described villonodular pigmented tenosynovitis (1953)
- [José Antonio de la Ossa](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-de-la-ossa/): José Antonio de La Ossa, Cuban botanist (La Habana ? – 1829) Described the valid genus Pinillosia 1836 (Asteraceae) HONORS Ossaea De Candolle (DC) 1828 (Melastomataceae)
- [Joseph O'Neil](https://neglectedscience.com/joseph-oneil/): Joseph A. O’Neil, English-born South African missionary and entomologist (London 23 October 1867 – Harare, Zimbabwe 10 May 1952) Collected new insect species such as Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Arachnida Described two butterfly species Acraea ruperti 1919 & Acraea swynnertoni 1919 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Entomology The Carabidae of Salisbury, Mashonaland. S.Afr. J. Nat. Hist. 2(1):52-72, 1920 Notes on some Rhodesian moths of the family Saturniidae and their larvae. Ann. Durban Museum 2:149-68, 1919 The Acraeas of Southern Rhodesia. Proceed. Trans. Rhod. Scient. Assoc. 17(2):25-65, 1919 The Hawkmoths of Mashonaland. Rhod. Agr. J. 15:158-68, 1918-9 The Emperor Moths of Southern Rhodesia. Rhod. Agr. J. 14:47, 1917 Others A
- [Jose Oca Balda](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-oca-balda/): José Antonio Oca Balda, Argentine Navy officer and hydrographer (Santo Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires Province 15 April 1887 – Buenos Aires 09 May 1939) INVENTIONS/PATENTS (18 in Argentina & USA) Torpedo controller with handle for dispersion Automated electric iron Stove with ambivalent source of power A combined heating system (1925) Alternated time controlled mechanism for irons US 1350933 Electric iron US 1366480 (1919) Time-controlled starting and stopping mechanism US 1368828A (1919) Time-controlled electric heater US 1371184A (1919) Electric heating system US 1369702 (1920)
- [Jose Maria Orensanz](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-orensanz/): José María (Lobo) Orensanz Barreiro, Argentine marine biologist (Mar del Plata 09 October 1945 – 05 January 2015) DESCRIBED VALID POLYCHAETA TAXA Genera Abyssoninoe 1990 Lumbrinerides 1973 Lumbrineriopsis 1973 Mammiphitime 1990 Pettiboneia 1973 Pinniphitime 1990 Pleijelius 2006 with Salazar Vallejo Species Arabella protomutans 1990 Australonuphis casamiquelorum 1974 Chaetozone larae 2017 with Elias & Rivero Cossura heterochaeta 1976 Drilonereis simplex 1974 Drilonereis viborita 1990 Eunice austropacifica 1990 Flabelligena erratica 1974 Glycinde henningi 2007 with Boeggemann Harmothoe madrynensis 2012 with Barnich & Fiege Hemipodus olivieri 1974 with Gianuca Hyalinoecia incubans 1990 Kinbergonuphis oligobranchiata 1974 Kirkegaardia morae 2017 with Elias & Rivero Leptoecia vivipara 1990 Lumbrinerides gesae 1973 Lumbrineris knipovichana 1973 Mammiphitime tridentata 1990 Marphysa galluccii 1990 Nothria anoculata 1974 Ophelina alata 2003 with Elias, Bremec & Lana Ophelina gaucha 2003 with Elias, Bremec & Lana
- [Jorge Olarte](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-olarte/): Jorge Olarte Alvarez, Colombian-born Mexican microbiologist (Velez, Santander Department 28 February 1916 – 14 May 2005) Authored 151 papers With J.A. de La Torre & A. McWhorter identied and isolated Salmonella azteca (1956) With G. Varela & J. Zozaya described Salmonella mexicana 1942 and Aerobacter amigdalina 1943  Isolated and classified a number of Salmonella strains Established the scientific basis of oral hydration  With J. de La Torre & J. Larracilla. La vía oral para hidratación y correción del desequilíbrio hidroelectrolitico en enfermos de diarrea ambulatoriamente menores de dos años. Mem. IX Reun. Reglam. Asoc. Investig. Pediat. Cuernavaca (1956) Authored important researches about etiopathogeny of acute diarrhea New concepts on the etiopathogenesis
- [Javier Ortiz de la Puente](https://neglectedscience.com/javier-ortiz-de-la-puente/): Javier Ortiz de La Puente Denegri, Peruvian zoologist (Lima 15 April 1928 – Lima 18 October 1952) AUTHORED Estudio monografico de los quirópteros de Lima y alredores. Publ. Museo Hist. Nat. Javier Prado serie A 7:1-48, 1951 Los patos del Peru. Ser.Div.Cient. 4:3-20, 1952 MEMBERSHIP Member, American Society of Mammalogists (1950) HONORS Ortizia Roewer 1952 (Arachnida) Incaspiza ortizi Zimmer 1952 (Birds)
- [Jan H. Oosthuizen](https://neglectedscience.com/jan-h-oosthuizen/): Jan H. Oosthuizen, South African zoologist (died 1994) DESCRIBED HIRUDINEA TAXA  Genera Batracobdelloides 1984 Parapraobdella 2011 with Phillips & Siddall Species Alboglossiphonia macrorhyncha 1978 Alboglossiphonia polypompholyx 1988 with Hussein & El-Shimy Batracobdella cheili 1978 Batracobdella conjugata 1978 Theromyzon bifarium 1993 with Davies Theromyzon trizonare 1993 with Davies  HONORS  Oosthuizobdella Sawyer 1986 (Hirudinea)
- [Isaac Ochoterena](https://neglectedscience.com/isaac-ochoterena/): Jacobo Isaac Ochoterena Mendieta, Mexican biologist (Atlixco, Puebla 28 November 1885 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 April 1950) Authored over 230 works on cell reproduction, hereditary transmission, comparative histology, câncer and onchocercosis First to observe microfilariae in human eye (1930) Described the helminth species Foleyellides striatus and Micropleura sigmodoni with Caballero (1932) and the fungal species Sabouradites (aleurocloster) urenae 1924 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El dolor desde el punto de vista biologico (1949) El medio biologico y el estado social en las zonas oncocercosas (1948) Lecciones acerca de lós órganos del oído y de la vista (1946) Lecciones acerca del órgano de la vista (1945) Distribución geográfica de los
- [Ifedayo Olawole Oladapo](https://neglectedscience.com/ifedayo-olawole-oladapo/): Ifedayo Olawole Oladapo, Nigerian structural engineer (Ondo 24 November 1932 – Ondo 06 March 2010) Developed limits state design method for structural concrete SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.J. Doehner. Tests on a 120 ft prestressed concrete bridge girder. Synopsis 291, 1973 The limit states of cracking and deflexion in prestressed concrete design (1971) Stability of tensile cracks in prestressed concrete beams. J. Struct. Divis. (1969) Relationship between moment capacity at flexural cracking and at ultimate in prestressed concrete beams. Proceed. ACI J. 65(10):863-74, 1968 The Strength of concrete mixes in tropical climates. West African Chartered Engineer 15:7-15, 1966 Extensibility and modulus of rupture
- [Hikmet Ozbek](https://neglectedscience.com/hikmet-ozbek/): Hikmet Ozbek, Turkish agricultural entomologist (Oltu 01 January 1940 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genus Silifka 1992 with Argaman (Hymenoptera) Species Coleoptera (with Tozlu & Rezjek 2003) Acanthocinus aedilis Acanthocinus griseus Agapanthia cardui Agapanthia coeruleipennis Batocera rufomaculata Blepisanis vittipennis Cardoria scutellata  Coptosia bithyniensis Helladia armeniaca Helladia humeralis Helladia millefolii Helladia praetextata Mesosa nebulosa Monochamus galloprovincialis Musaria boeberi Musaria puncticollis Neomusaria merkli Niphona picticornis Oberea erythrocephala Oberea oculata Opsilia coerulescens Oxylia argentata Phytoecia caerulea Phytoecia croceipes Phytoecia geniculata Phytoecia icterica Phytoecia pubescens Phytoecia virgula Pilemia hirsutula Pogonocherus perroudi Pogonocherus sieversi Pteromallosia albolineata Saperda carcharias Saperda perforata Semnosia imperatrix Semnosia scovitzi Theophilea cylindricollis  Diptera (with Dils 2006)
- [Hernando Ordoñez](https://neglectedscience.com/hernando-ordonez/): Julio Hernando Ordoñez Garay, Colombian physiologist (Villeta, Cundinamarca 08 July 1910 – Bogotá 10 January 2008) Authored over 65 papers Discovered prosthenic contraction, a new mode of muscle contraction Sobre uma contracción hallada en el musculo gastrocnemio de la rana durante un tetano perfecto. Contracción prosténica. Rev. Fac. Med. Univ. Nacional de Colombia 2, 1933 Contracción prostenica II. Su causa. Rev. Fac. Med. Univ. Nacional de Colombia 3, 1934 Fisiologia general de la contracción prosténica. Doctoral Thesis, Fac. Medicina, Univ. Nac. Colombia (1935) Described Ordoñez melanosis Melanosis de causa desconocida. Carencia nutritiva, vida em altura y trastornos hipofisiarios como posible causa. An. Soc.
- [Gustavo Orcés](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-orces/): Gustavo Edmundo Orcés Villagomez, Ecuadorian zoologist (Quito 25 July 1902 – Quito 21 March 1999) DESCRIBED SPECIES  Reptilia Anolis proboscis 1956 with Peters Anolis vanzolini 1996 with Williams, Matheus & Bleiweiss Sibynomorphus oligozonatus 1989 with Almendariz Sibynomorphus petersi 1989 with Almendariz Pisces Rhinodoras boehlkei 1976 with Glodek & Whitmire Pseudochalceus bohlkei 1967 Xyliphius lepturus 1962 Xyliphius melanopterus 1962 Ernstichthys megistus 1961 Brochis multiradiatus 1960 Platysilurus olallae 1977 
- [Giovanni Onore](https://neglectedscience.com/giovanni-onore/): Giovanni Onore, Italian-born Ecuadorian Marianist missionary and entomologist (Costigliole d’Asti, Asti Province, Piemonte 20 June 1941 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Coleoptera Species With Gara 1989 Acrocinus longimanus Deretrachys pellitus Deretrachys villiersi Desmiphora fasciculata Leiopus superstes Oncideres saga Paramallocera ilinizae Parandra galapagoensis Parandra glabra Pyrodes batesi Steiastoma breve Steiastoma melanogenys Stenodontis spinibarbis Teaniotes marmorata Trachyderes hilaris Trachyderes succintus With Bartolozzi et al. Sphaenognathus (Chiasognathinus) xerophilus 2006 Sphaenognathus (Sphaenognathus) matheusi 1991 with Bomans Sphaenognathus (Sphaenognathus) sanchezi 1991 with Bomans Syndesus luki 2011 with Zilioli Others Species Tunga trimamillata 2002 with Pampiglione, Trentini, Fioravanti & Rivasi (Siphonaptera) HONORS Onoralna Boulard 1996 (Hemiptera) Onorecoris Heiss 2013 (Hemiptera) Onoreidium Vaz de Mello 2008 (Coleoptera)
- [Gerardo Ocfemia](https://neglectedscience.com/gerardo-ocfemia/): Gerardo Offemaria Ocfemia, Philippine plant pathologist (Guinobatan, Albay 23 April 1891 – Pasay City 16 November 1959) Studied the cause of bunchy-top of abaca or Manila hemp and its method of transmission (1930) Designed insect-proof chambers (1931) Proposed an insect as vector of the Fiji disease of sugar cane (1932) Proposed that cadang-cadang disease of coconut is a virus disease (1937)
- [Fritz Ottensooser](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-ottensooser/): Friedrich (Fritz) Ottensooser, German-born Brazilian geneticist and hematologist (Nuremberg 19 July 1891 – São Paulo 24 December 1974) ACHIEVEMENTS Suggested a mathematical formula for computing racial mixture through blood groups known as Bernstein-Ottensooser method for studying genetic markers Calculo do grau de mistura racial através dos grupos sanguíneos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 4(4):531-7, 1944 Discovered that lectins of Vicia graminea seeds are able to agglutinate human blood group N. With K. Silberschmidt. Haemagglutinin anti-N in plant seeds. Nature 172:914, 1953 Described cold lectins, plant agglutinins which act more strongly as temperature is decreased With M. Sato. Cold lectins. Vox sanguinis 8(6):733-4, 1963 With M.
- [Feyzi Onder](https://neglectedscience.com/feyzi-onder/):  Feyzi Onder, Turkish entomologist (Odemis 18 December 1943 – 25 March 2000) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genus Lodosia 1996 with Ahmad (Hemiptera) Species Alloeotomus doesburgi 1974 Arma neocustos 1990 with Ahmad Arma neoisnpirata 1990 with Ahmad Cyphostethus ministriatus 1993 with Ahmad Cyphostethus pallidus 1993 with Ahmad Dictyonota (Dictyonota) astragali 1982 with Stusak Galeatus helianthi 1977 with Lodos Lodosia gonocoxa 1996 with Ahmad Mecomma (Mecomma) pervinius 1974 Mecomma lodosi 1979 Peribalus (Asioperibalus) hoberlandti 1980 with Lodos Picromerus brachypterus 1990 with Ahmad Picromerus pseudobidens 1990 with Ahmad Pseudopantilius ghaurii 1975 Risibia verbasci 1980 with Lodos Sciocoris (Aposciocoris) atifi 1982 with Lodos Solenoxythus alkani 1975 Tarisa igdirensis 1978 with Lodos Tinigs (Neolasiotropis) ottomana 1982 with Hericart HONORS Onderothops Ghauri 1978 (Hemiptera)
- [Ezequiel Ordoñez](https://neglectedscience.com/ezequiel-ordonez/): Ezequiel Ordoñez Aguilar, Mexican petroleum geologist, stratigrapher and engineer (near the town of Llerma, Mexico State 10 April 1867 – Ciudad de Mexico 08 February 1950) Authored over 130 scientific works on petrology, geology, geography and archeology MEMBERSHIP Honorary Member, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Honorary Member, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences HONORS Ordonezite Switzer & Foshag 1954 (Mineral)
- [Evandro de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/evandro-de-oliveira/): Evandro Pinto da Luz de Oliveira, Brazilian microneurosurgeon and neuroanatomist (Florianópolis 08 November 1945 – CONTRIBUTIONS With A.F. Joaquim, J.P.C. de Almeida, M.J. dos Santos, E. Ghizoni & H. Tedeschi. Surgical management of intradural extramedullary tumors located anteriorly to the spinal cord. J. Clin. Neurosci. 19(8):1150-3, 2012 With J.P. Mattos, M.J. Santos, J.F. D. Zullo, A.F. Joaquim & F. Chaddad Neto. Dissection technique for study of the cerebral sulci, gyri and ventricles. Arq. Neuro-Psiq. 66:282-7, 2008 With A.C. Mussi. Dural entrance of the bridging vein into the transverse sinus provides a reliable measure for preoperative planning: an anatomic comparison between cadavers and
- [Ernesto Osorno Mesa](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-osorno-mesa/): Ernesto Osorno Mesa, Colombian medical entomologist and parasitologist (Bogotá 1904 – Bogotá 28 June 1976) Demonstrated that Haemagogus spp. are arboreal mosquitoes With J.C. Bugher, J. Boshell Manrique, M. Roca García. Epidemiology of jungle yellow fever in Eastern Colombia. American J. Hygiene 39:16-51, 1944 DESCRIBED New Techniques for Studying Medical Insects Una nueva tecnica para el estudio microscopio de los huevos de Anopheles. Caldasia 4 (20):447-51, 1947 With H. Osorno. Una nueva tecnica para disecar rapidamente glandulas salivales de mosquitos. Rev. Higiene 24(3):232-5, 1950 With H. Osorno Mesa. Nuevas tecnicas para disecar glândulas salivales, estômagos de mosquitos y determinar oocistos de Plasmodium en ejemplares infectados en condiciones naturales.
- [Emico Okuno](https://neglectedscience.com/emico-okuno/): Emico Okuno, Brazilian physicist (July 1936 – From Japanese ancestry With C. M.G. Lattes, C.M.Q. Orsini, I.I.G. Pacca, M.T. Cruz, Y. Fujimoto & K. Yokoi saw a new resonance with mass in fireballs type events (1963) With J.F. Lima & M.E.G. Valério. Thermally assisted tunneling: an alternative model for the thermoluminescence process in calcite. Phys. Rev. B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 64(14):1-6, 2001 METHODS/DEVICES With R.C. Falcão. On a method of dose rate calculation at the maze entrance of medical linear accelerator rooms. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 86(1-4):225-7, 1999. With C.M. Sunta & E.M. Yoshimura. An Analytical Method For Thermoluminescence Growth Curve
- [Edward & Inge Oliver](https://neglectedscience.com/edward-inge-oliver/): Edward “Ted” George Hudson Oliver, South African botanist (Cape Town 14 October 1938 – Regarded as a world authority on subfamily Ericoideae Authored over 110 papers and books DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Stokoeanthus 1976 Subgenera Anomalosepala 1987 Metagyne 1976 Species 185 (157 of genus Erica) Subspecies 35 (31 of genus Erica) HONORS Tedingea Muller-Doblies & Muller-Doblies 1985 (Amaryllidaceae) for both His wife Inge Magdalene Nitzsche Oliver, botanist (Lichtenburg, Ngaka Modiri Nolema, North West 18 December 1947 – Stellenbosch, Western Cape 06 July 2003) Co-described 16 species and 22 subspecies of genus Erica (all with her husband) The only one species with another person is Sebaea amicorum 2001 with Beyers 
- [Eduardo Sabino de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-sabino-de-oliveira/): Eduardo Sabino de Oliveira, Brazilian engineer (São Paulo 02 December 1904 – São Paulo 06 April 1993)  Studied hydrated alcohol technology as an energy propulsion in engine bench tests being his experiences were commented positively by Association des Chimistes de France and by Empire Motor Fuel Committee (1920-30s) Discovered vehicle acceleration tests With Lauro de Barros Siciliano made fundamental research about the viability of using ethanol as carburant in internal combustion engines (1937) and developed the first Brazilian modern prototypes of ethanol-powered engines in the automotive industry Demonstrated the alcohol requirements for greater efficiency as fuel in gasoline engines Demonstrated that
- [Cornelius Osten](https://neglectedscience.com/cornelius-osten/): Cornelius Osten, German-born Uruguayan botanist (Bremen 11 February 1863 – Montevideo 06 September 1936) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Gunnera herteri 1932 Notocactus megapotamicus 1941 Ritterocactus erubescens Subspecies Cyperus flavus redolens Gymnocalycium hyptiacanthum schroederianum 1941 Harrisia tortuosa uruguayensis 1941 Varieties 25 Forms 19
- [Claes Christian Olrog](https://neglectedscience.com/claes-christian-olrog/): Claes Christian Olrog, Swedish-born Argentine ornithologist (Stockholm 11 June 1912 – San Miguel de Tucumán 02 November 1985) Authored over 100 papers and books DESCRIBED AVIAN TAXA Species Larus atlanticus 1958 Tyranniscus australis 1966 with Contino Subspecies Aegolius harrisii dabbenei 1979   Athene cunicularia partridgei 1976 Caprimulgus longirostris patagonicus 1962 Caprimulgus rufus saltarius 1979 Catharus dryas blakei 1973 Celeus lugubris castaneus 1963 Eudromia elegans magnistriata 1959 Eudromia elegans riojana 1959 Grallaria albigula cinereiventris 1970 with Contino Muscisaxicola flavinucha brevirostris 1949 Nothoprocta cinerascens parvimaculata 1959 Nothura maculosa pallida 1959 Pseudoseisura gutturalis ochroleuca 1959   Tigrisoma fasciatum pallescens 1950 Uropsalis lyra argentina 1975
- [Chike Obi](https://neglectedscience.com/chike-obi/): Chukwunwike (Chike) Edozien Umezei Obi, Nigerian mathematician (Zaria, Kaduma 07 April 1921- Onitsha, Anambra State 13 May 2008) Gave monumental contribution to area of modelling with second order non-linear different equations Contributed to finding a solution to Fermat’s theorem (1994) Fermat’s last theorem. Algebras Group Geom. 15(3):289-98, 1998 A system of order 2 in which small subharmonics and large subharmonics coexist. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect A 108(1-2):35-44, 1988 Analytical theory of non-linear oscillations. I. An existence theorem for periodic oscillations of equations of the second order. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 76:285-96, 1974 A non-linear differential equation of the second order
- [Carlos Ospina](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-ospina/): Carlos Sebastián Ospina Delgado, Colombian civil engineer (Bitaco, La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca 27 June 1920 – Bogotá 19 October 2013) Internationally renowned as a consultant on projects as dams, tunnels, roads, bidges and mining projects Planned, designed and developed engineering projects such as roads, water supplies, electric power transmission and distribution and industrial plants, all of which characterized by innovative solutions He had been directly involved in 14 of the world’s greatest dam projects SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Marulanda. Colombian experience with NATM concepts. Felshau 6(4), 1998 Hydroelectric power in Colombia. Intern. Water Power Dam Constr. 39(7):33-8, 1987 With J.
- [Carlos Ochoa](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-ochoa/): Carlos Manuel Ochoa Nieves, Peruvian plant breeder and botanist (Cusco 27 November 1920 – Lima 11 February 2008) Gained international recognition as plant breeder and expert in economic botany   Authored over 150 publications Described 88 species and 101 subspecies, varieties and forms in Solanaceae (about 70 are wild potato species) Created potato varieties such as Renacimiento, Yungay, Mantaro, antarqui e Tomasa Condemayta HONORS  William Brown Center Award for Plant Genetic resources (2001) Distinguished Botanist, Society for Economic Botany (1997) Feinstein Hunger Award, Brown University (1994) Honorary Member, New York Academy of Sciences (1993) Houssay Prize, OAS (1992) Frank N. Meyer Medal, Crop Science
- [Carlos Augusto Costa Pires de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-augusto-costa-pires-de-oliveira/): Carlos Augusto Costa Pires de Oliveira, Brazilian otorhinolaryngologist (c.1942 – CONTRIBUTIONS With F. Bahmad Jr., S.R. de Palma, S.N. Merchant, R.L. Bezerra, C.E. Seidman & J.G. Seidman. Locus for familial migrainous vertigo disease maps to chromosome 5q35. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryng. 118:670-6, 2009 METHODS With H.F. Oliveira, V.R. Bollela, W.T. Anselmo-Lima & M. Nakanishi. A feasible, low cost, reproductive lamb’s head model for endoscopic sinus surgery training. PLos One 12 (2017) With K.M.A. Sarmento, A.L.L. Sampaio & T.G.T. Santos. High-frequency conductive hearing loss as a diagnostic test for incomplete ossicular discontinuity in non-cholesteatomatous chronic suppurative otitis media. PLoS One 12:1-10, 2017
- [Carlos Alberto O'Donell](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-odonell/): Carlos Alberto O’Donell, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 11 October 1912 – San Miguel de Tucumán 14 February 1954) Authored over 60 works some of them dealing with plant anatomy  Internationally known as an authority on Convolvulaceae family  DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera Iseia (1953)  Tetralocularia (1960)  Species Bernardia argentinensis 1955 with Lourteig Bonamia boliviana 1950 Bonamia holti 1960 Convolvulus lilloi 1959 Convolvulus schulzei 1953 Ipomoea acutisepala 1950 Ipomoea altoparanaensis 1952 Ipomoea angustisepala 1953 Ipomoea asplundii 1952 Ipomoea cardenasiana 1950 Ipomoea cearensis 1953 Ipomoea cheirophylla 1959 Ipomoea chodatiana 1950 Ipomoea colombiana 1953 Ipomoea decemcornuta 1953 Ipomoea densibracteata 1950 Ipomoea descolei 1950 Ipomoea homotrichoidea 1948 Ipomoea jujuyensis 1948 Ipomoea killipiana 1950 Ipomoea lanuginosa 1950 Ipomoea lilloana 1950 Ipomoea longistaminea 1950 Ipomoea magniflora 1953 Ipomoea malpighiphila 1950 Ipomoea marginisepala 1950 Ipomoea oranensis 1948 Ipomoea padillae 1959 Ipomoea
- [Bibiano Fernandez Osorio y Tafall](https://neglectedscience.com/bibiano-fernandez-osorio-y-tafall/): José Manuel Ramón Bibiano Fernandez Osorio y Tafall, Spanish / Mexican hydrobiologist and economist (Pontevedra 03 December 1902 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 August 1990) Authored over 200 scientific works on hydrobiology and natural resources DESCRIBED TAXA Family Lophodiniaceae 1942 (Dinoflagellata) Genus Microdiaptomus 1942 (Crustacea) Species Crustacea Leptodiaptomus cuauhtemoci 1941  Microdiaptomus cokeri 1942 Dinoflagellata Ceratocorys alleni 1940 Lophodinium dadayi 1942 Parahistioneis pieltaini 1942 Prorocentrum mexicanum 1940 Tintinnopsis campbelli 1941 Protozoa Climacocylis balboana 1941 Codonellopsis colombiana 1941 Coxliella bolivari 1941 Daturella beltrani 1941 Luminella neocalifonica 1941 Petalotricha kofoidi 1941 Rhabdonella spiroides 1941 Schmidingerella mexicana 1941 Senosemella acapulcensis 1941 Senosemella nicaraguensis 1941 Trachelomonas amphoriformis 1942 Trachelomonas beltrani 1942 Trachelomonas spectabilis 1942 Trachelomonas veracruzana 1942 Xistonella americana 1941 HONOURS  Tafallia Bonet 1946 (Collembola) Osorioichthys Casier 1954 (Fossil Pisces)
- [Bernardo Ochoa](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardo-ochoa/): Bernardo Ochoa Arismendy, Colombian pediatric surgeon (Barbosa, Antioquia Department 14 August 1926 – Medellín 25 December 2016) Discovered the urofacial syndrome or Ochoa syndrome (described by Elejalde) Elejalde, B.R. Genetic and diagnostic considerations in three families with abnormality of facial expression and congenital urinary obstruction: the Ochoa syndrome. Am. J. Med. Genet. 3(1):97-108, 1979  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Trauma of the external genitalia in children: amputation of the penis and demasculation. J. Urol. 160:1116-9, 1998 Surgical complications of ascariasis. World J. Surg. 15:222, 1991 With R.J. Gorlin. Urofacial (Ochoa) syndrome. Am. J. Med. Genet. 27(3):661-7, 1987 HONOURS Invited, American Congress of Pediatrics (1990) Visiting Scientist,
- [Benjamin Orozco](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-orozco/): Benjamín Orozco Espinoza, Salvadorean physical chemist (San Salvador 22 May 1868 – San Salvador 22 October 1941) METHODS Ensayo de un procedimiento electro-colorimétrico para el desage de huellas de manganeso en las rocas DEVICES Establecimiento de una válvula electrolitica de una sola cuba, con un dispositivo para hacer variar el voltaje entre limites determinados, para la transformación de las corrientes alternas bifásicas en corriente continua Aparato inscriptor electrico para la determinación de la temperatura de fusión de ciertas substancias Probeta de doble brazo para analisis volumétrico com lectura instantânea de fracciones de milímetro Balanza sensible para analisis cuantitativo, con dispositivo especial para pesadas
- [Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-oluwakayode-osuntokun/): Benjamin Oluwakayode Iseolorunpo Adisa Osuntokun, Nigerian neurologist (Okemesi, Ado-Ekiti 06 January 1935 – Cambridge, England 22 September 1995) Authored 321 works Discovered the basis of tropical ataxic neuropathy Chronic cyanide intoxication and a degenerative neuropathy in Nigeria. Thesis. Ibadan University, 1969 Described with Italian L. Luzzatto & Nigerian neurosurgeon E. Latendu Odeku the Osuntokun syndrome Congenital pain asymbolia and auditory imperception. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 31:291-6, 1968 HONORS     Langley Memorial Prize (1967-71)
- [Ayub Khan Ommaya](https://neglectedscience.com/ayub-khan-ommaya/): Ayub Khan Ommaya, Pakistani neurosurgeon (Mian Channu, Punjab 14 April 1930 – Islambad 11 July 2008) From Pakistani Muslim father and French Catholic mother Authored over 175 articles, chapters and books Invented Ommaya reservoir (1963) Published the first coma score for classification of traumatic brain injury (1966) With Di Chiro & Doppman pioneered spinal angiography (1967) Reported the treatment of spinal cord arterio-venous malformation by percutaneous embolization of an intercostals artery using stainless steel pellets (1968) First reported cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea occurring with primary empty sella Invented an inflatable collar that attaches to motorcycle helmets as a protection against spinal injury
- [Alfredo Manuel Offermann](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-manuel-offermann/): Alfredo Manuel Offermann, Argentine agronomist and agricultural chemist (Buenos Aires 29 September 1909 – ?) Showed that terminal bud wilt of potato is a virosis With E.R. Vitoria. Estudio sobre un vírus produtor del marchitamiento apical de la papa. Rev. Arg. Agron. 8:105-13, 1941   TECHNIQUES/PATENTS Nueva técnica rápida para la valoración turbidimetrica del cálcio soluble en suelos (1949) Tecnicas de analisis rápidos para la valoración química de los elementos asimilables del suelo. Arch Frut. Uruguay 4(3):353-60, 1951 Instrument for measuring the moisture and temperature of soil US2869359 A (1953)
- [Alfred George Oettlé](https://neglectedscience.com/alfred-george-oettle/): Alfred George Oettlé, South African oncologist (Port Elizabeth 22 June 1918 – 06 January 1967) Became convinced that at least 80 percent of cancers were induced by environmental factors SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cancer research in Africa illustrated by a recent epidemic of cancer of the gullet (1967) With F. de Waard. A cytological survey of postmenopausal estrus in Africa. Cancer 18:450-9, 1965 The aetiology of primary carcinoma of the liver with an outline of the myotoxin hypothesis. J. Natl Cancer Inst. 39:817-25, 1965 Tumours of the testis in South Africa. Leech 34:142-8, 1964 Cancer in Africa, especially in regions South of the
- [Alejandro Ogloblin](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-ogloblin/): Alejandro Aleksandrovich Ogloblin, Russian-born Argentine entomologist (Samarkand, Uzebekistan 29 July 1891 – Castelar, Buenos Aires Province 17 September 1967) Described 53 new genera in Hymenoptera Valid Genera Bruchomymar 1939 Callodicopus 1955 Chaetomymar 1946 Cnecomymar 1963 Cremnomymar 1952 Dicopomorpha 1955 Eucleruchus 1940 Gahanopsis 1946 Kalopolynema 1960 Neolitus 1935 Neosthethynium 1964 Nesopolynema 1952 Oncomymar 1957 Platypolynema 1960 Platysthenium 1946 Polynemula 1967 Schizophragma 1949 Scolopsopteron 1952 Tetrapolynema 1946 Zemicamptoptera 1961 with Annecke HONORS Alexogloblinia Cortés 1944 (Diptera) Ogloblinia Canals 1933 (Arachnida) Ogloblinisca Hedqvist 1968 (Hymenoptera)
- [Alaide Braga de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/alaide-braga-de-oliveira/): Alaíde Braga de Oliveira, Brazilian plant chemist (Morada Nova de Minas, Minas Gerais State 10 March 1941 – NEW CHEMICALS With L.R. Simões, G.M. Maciel, G.C. Brandão, J.D. Souza Filho & R.O. Castilho. Chemical constituents of Distictella elongata (Vahl) Urb. (Bignoniaceae). Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 85(3):873-9, 2013 (first report of a flavone heteroside in a species of the Bignoniaceae family) With R. Batista, P.A. Garcia, M. Castro, JM. Miguel del Corral et al. Synthesis, cytotoxicity and antiplasmodial activity of novel ent-kaurane derivatives. Eur. J. Medic. Chem. 62C:168-76, 2012 With R. Batista, J.M. Miguel del Corral & A. San Feliciano. New oxidized ent-kaurane and
- [Wilhelm Otto Neitz](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-otto-neitz/): Wilhelm Otto Daniel Martin Neitz, South African veterinarian and protozoologist (Potgeietersus, today Mokopane 17 November 1906 – Pretoria 18 August 1979) Authored over 133 scientific publications With G. de Kock, R.M. Du Toit & C.J. Van Heerden described Tzaneen disease (1937) With R.M. du Toit identified the plurality of strains of the bluetongue virus (1948) Discovered the enigmatic disease of calves known as sweating sickness is caused by bite of Hyalomma truncatum (1954)   Identified and described Theileria parva lawrencei as causative agent of Corridor disease (1955) Named Corridor disease (1956) Discovered the chemotherapeutic cure for ruminant heartwater employing sulphonamides being the first use of this
- [Vishwa Nath](https://neglectedscience.com/vishwa-nath/): Vishwa Nath, Indian zoologist and microscopist (Amritsar, Punjab 25 June 1897 – 19 December 1976) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A morphological and cytochemical account of spermatogenesis (1965) With B.L. Gupta & P. Sehgal. Mitochondria and Golgi bodies in the spermatogenesis of Periplaneta americana as studied under the phase contrast microscope. Res. Bull. Punjab Univ. Sci. 112:317-26, 1957 Cytology of spermatogenesis. Intern. Rev. Cytol. 5:395-453, 1956 With S. Singh. The nematode sperm. Res. Bull. Punjab University 91:121-35, 1956 Golgi bodies in the spermatogenesis of pulmonate gastropods (1955) With S. Dyal. On the nature of the yolk nucleus of spider. J.R. Micr. Soc. 53(2):122-8, 1933 A demonstration
- [Virpi Niemela](https://neglectedscience.com/virpi-niemela/): Virpi Sinikka Niemela, Finnish-born Argentine astronomer (Helsinki 26 December 1936 – La Plata 18 December 2006) Authored over 130 papers about massive stars First to show that stars with Wolf-Rayet emission spectrum display absorption intrinsic lines too Discovered and analysed spectroscopic orbits of many binary systems with Wolf-Rayet component in Southern Hemisphere Proposed the analysis of interstellar medium around Theta Muscae in order to find his HI interstellar bubble With C. Cappa de Nicolauu. The interstellar bubble around Theta Muscae. Astron. J. 89:1398-03, 1984 Studied the Supernova 1983K spectrum before reach its maximum luminosity With M.T. Ruiz & M.M. Phillips. The
- [Victor Neumann-Lara](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-neumann-lara/): Victor Neumann Lara, Mexican mathematician (Huejutla de Reyes, Hidalgo State 06 June 1933 – Puebla 26 February 2004) From German father Introduced the notion of dichromatic number of a digraph and the definition of the chromatic number of a digraph (1982) With L. Montejano proved a Mengerian theorem for long paths (1984) With J. Urrutia showed that in any set of n points in the plane in general position there is always a pair of points such that any circle through them contains at least n=2 points (1985) With E. Rivera Campo proved a Chvátal-Erdos type theorem concerning the existence of a spanning
- [Tulsidas Khimandas Nariani](https://neglectedscience.com/tulsidas-khimandas-nariani/): Tulsidas Khimandas Nariani, Indian plant virologist (Karachi 14 July 1921- ?) DESCRIBED NEW PLANT DISEASES Mungbean yellow mosaic virus (1960) With K.L. Dhingra. A mosaic disease of groundnut caused by tomato spotted wilt virus (1953) With M. Hollings described clover yellow vein virus (1964) With Y.S. Ahlawat & K.K. Sardar. Leathery leaf virus, a new virus disease of citrus (1979) A cucumber mosaic virus transmitted by aphids With T.K. Kandaswami a cowpea mosaic virus disease (1961) With B.C. Sharma reported a mosaic disease of Cape gooseberry (1971) 
- [Thekke Kuruppathe Narendran](https://neglectedscience.com/thekke-kuruppathe-narendran/): Thekke Kuruppathe Narendran, Indian entomologist (Trichur, Kerala State 24 February 1944 – Kerala State 31 December 2013) Authored 380 papers DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Ajantha 2000 Alareka 1999 with Rajmohana  Anumanniola 2003 Aprostoporoides 2004 Atullya 1988 with Surekha Axanthosomella 2001 Aximogastroma 1994 Bomyiabius 2004 Borneostichus 2006 Boucekiola 2005 Calicuta 1999 with Rajmohana Cherianella 1994 Eubeckerella 1999 Fronsoma 1994 Gibsonoma 1994 Grisselliella 1988  Grooca 1997 with Surenshan Hayatiella 1989 Hayatiola 2006 Heydoniella 2003 Idukkiella 2007 Josephiella 1994 Kiggaella 2005 Kostjurixia 2007 Lasalleola 2003  Manipurella 2003 Neobephrata 1989 with Padmasenan Neoblepharidatta 1997 with Sheela Neoclarkinella 1996 with Rema Neoepistenia 1995 with Sureshan Neoeurytomaria 1994 Neogasterichus 2003 Neohaltichella 1989 Neoirichohalticella 2006 Neokopinata 2003 Neomestocharella 2002 with Fousi Neotoxeumorpha 2002 Neotrimorus 1997 with Rajmohana Nigropria 2000 with Rajmohana Paraiemea 1998 with Sureshan Philippinoma 1994 Ramanuja 1989 Ramdasoma 1989 Sthulapada 1989 Subbaella 1994 Systolema 1994  Tanushyama 1986 Thresiaella 1989  Townesoma 1994 Vadana 1999 with Rajmohana Virendrania 2005
- [Tatsuhiko Nakano](https://neglectedscience.com/tatsuhiko-nakano/): Tatsuhiko Nakano, Japanese / Venezuelan natural products chemist (Osaka 04 February 1925 – Kyoto October 2004) Authored over 100 papers, 4 book chapters and one book Isolated about 40 active physiologically compounds from a number of plants Elaborated new methods for synthesis of active biologically sesquiterpenes Synthesized 7 active biologically metabolites with antiinflamatory and antiviral action from Porifera OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With R. Torrellas Hidalgo, A. Martin, J.D. Medina & M.A. Maillo. An efficient method for the synthesis of methyl 12α-hydroxy-isocopal-13(14)-en-15-oate, a key precursor to a variety of sesterterpene marine sponge metabolites. Nat. Prod. Letters 12(2):139-43, 1998 With M.I. Hernandez. Reaction of methyl 12-hydroxy
- [Subramanian Nagarajan](https://neglectedscience.com/subramanian-nagarajan/): Subramanian Nagarajan, Indian plant pathologist (Chennai November 1945 – Gained international recognition as wheat pathologist Formulated Indian stem rust rules for Puccinia graminis tritici With H. Singh. Indian stem rust rules – an epidemiological concept on the spread of wheat stem rust. Plant Dis. Rep. 59:133-6, 1975 OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS With J. Kumar, A.K. Sharma & R. Kumar. A new technique to develop artificial epiphytotics of foliar blight in wheat (Triticum aestivum). Ind. J. Agric. Sci. 69(1):48-51, 1999 With S.K. Nayar, P. Bahadur & S.B. Singh. Occurrence of new virulent pathogenic forms in race 77 of Puccinia recondita f.sp. tritici in India. Curr. Sci. 56: 844-5, 1987   With P.
- [Stefan Meiring Naudé](https://neglectedscience.com/stefan-meiring-naude/): Stefan Meiring Naudé, South African physicist (De Doorns, Western Cape 31 December 1904 – 27 April 1985) Discovered the isotope N 15 An isotope of nitrogen, mass 15. Phys. Rev. 34:1498-9, 1929 An isotope of nitrogen, atomic weight 15 (Corrections). Phys. Rev. 35:130-1, 1930    Developed an electrode holder With T.J. Hugo & H. Verleger. An electrode holder for operating arcs and sparks in controlled atmospheres. Rev. Scien. Instrum. 22:210, 1951 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The isotopes of nitrogen, mass 15, and oxygen, mass 18 and 17, and their abundances. Phys. Rev. 36:333-46, 1930 Quantum analysis of the rotational structure of the first positive
- [Severo Navia](https://neglectedscience.com/severo-navia/): Severo Navia, Mexican chemist and mineralogist (Silao, Guanajuato State 1842 – 1903) With V. Fernandez discovered the mineral species guanajuatite (1873) described by del Castillo With Fernandez discovered several chemical compounds  With Fernandez developed the alcoholic tincture of Guayacán resin as a reagent for recognizing manganese oxides, alkalis and alkaline carbonates (1886) Empleo de una sola lamina de turmalina, para reconocer si una substancia birefringente és de una o dos ejes de doble refracción (Employment of one tourmaline slide for verifying if a birefringent substance displays one or two axis of double refraction). La Naturaleza 1(4):33-4, 1878 His mineralogical works were
- [Roddam Narasimha](https://neglectedscience.com/roddam-narasimha/): Roddam Narasimha, Indian fluid dynamicist (Bangalore, Karnataka 20 July 1933 – Bangalore, Karnataka 14 December 2020) Authored over 200 papers and 5 books Internationally known for his studies of transition between laminar and turbulent flow, the structure of shock waves, various characteristics of fully developed turbulent flow, the fluid dynamics of clouds, near-surface temperature distributions and eddy fluxes in tropical atmospheric boundary layers His models for the transition zone between laminar to turbulent flows are widely used Proposed new scaling laws for atmospheric turbulent flow in the tropics Showed that swept wings characteristic of modern transport aircraft can sometimes experience several transition
- [Raul Novaro Tamini](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-novaro-tamini/): Raul Novaro Tamini, Argentine clinician (Buenos Aires 1878 – ? 1953) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Novaro-D’Amato sign or inverted Pitres sign Novaro, R & D’Amato, H.J. Consideraciones sobre un nuevo signo en las neoplasias pleuro-mediastino-pulmonares. Monograph. A.Guidi Buffarini, Buenos Aires, 1920.  Described Novaro-Bermúdez sign Novaro, R. & Bermúdez Zolezzi, H. Consideraciones sobre un signo de adherencias del espacio infrahepatico. Anales del instituto Modelo de Clin. Med. 9(1):210-231, 1925.
- [Plutarco Naranjo](https://neglectedscience.com/plutarco-naranjo/): Plutarco Floresmilo Naranjo Vargas, Ecuadorian allergologist and pharmacologist (Ambato 18 June 1921-  Quito 27 April 2012) Authored 300 papers ou monographs and 94 books and leaflets   Demonstrated that plants death during hoar-frost is due to changes in pH towards acidity with clotting of intracellular coloids Necrosis fría de las plantas (1947) Demonstrated that three antihistaminic substances association presented a synergic effect with decreasing of side effects. This paved a way towards a drug named Hista3 launched in the market with international success With E. Banda de Naranjo. Studies of the combined action of some antihistaminic agents. Ann. Allergy 11(6):699-716, 1953 Proposed dissolve penicillin in
- [Phaibul Naiyanetr](https://neglectedscience.com/phaibul-naiyanetr/): Phaibul Naiyanetr, Thai carcinologist (21 February 1938 – DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Genera Chinapotamon 1994 with Dai Chulathelphusa 1994 Dromothelphusa 1992 Esanpotamon 1997 with Ng Esanthelphusa 1994 Kanpotamon 1993 Mekongthelphusa 1985 Neolarnaudia 1987 with Tuerkay Neotiwaripotamon 1975 with Dai Pudaengon 1995 with Ng Sayamia 1994 Siamosquilla 1989 Stelomon 2000 with Yeo Thaiphusa 1993 with Ng Thaipotamon 1993 with Ng Thaksinthelphusa 1993 Species About 75 HONORS Phaibulamon Ng 1992 (Crustacea) 
- [Pedro Nowosad](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-nowosad/): Pedro Nowosad, Brazilian mathematician (Porto Alegre 30 June 1934- From Polish father and Bessarabian mother ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced concept of Gerschgorin family or G-function in Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 37:163-5, 1965. Introduced idea of regular boundary Isoperimetric eigenvalue problems in algebras. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 21: 401-65, 1968 With R. Tovar showed validity of Carleman’s inequalities in reflexive Orlicz spaces HONORS Honorary Full Professor, Istituto per la Ricerca di Base, Monteroduni, Italy (1995) EPONYMY Nowosad-Tovar inequality Nowosad G functions Nowosad theorem   Nowosad lemma
- [Pedro Nava](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-nava/): Pedro da Silva Nava, Brazilian rheumatologist (Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 05 June 1903 –Rio de Janeiro 05 March 1984) He is most known as writer in his native country Authored about 300 works on rheumatology and others medical subjects Described the reactive arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis) and first to propose it as autoimmune disease in Brasil Medico (1959) Described Still disease in adult (1955) before Bywaters (1974) Rev. Med.Municipal (1955) Described allergo-bacterian rheumatism in Brasil Médico (12-3):222-3, 1953 With E.B. Negreiros & I. Malogolovkin. Allergo-bacterial rheumatism: preliminary note. Med.Cir. Farm. 206:235-6, 1953 Described tachycardia in lupus erythematosus (Brasil Medico 1953)
- [Paulo Nogueira Neto](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-nogueira-neto/): Paulo Nogueira Neto, Brazilian entomologist and ecologist (São Paulo 18 April 1922 – São Paulo 25 February 2019) He was member of Brundtland Commission 1987 responsible for sustainable development definition   DEVELOPED A rational beehive for Brazilian bees know as Paulo Nogueira Neto (PNN) rational box (1948, improved in 1956, 1970 and 1997) A beehive for general use of Brazilian bees (1963) A beehive for Meliponine bees   HONORS Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize (1981) with Maria Thereza Jorge Pádua Golden Ark (1983) Subgenus Nogueirapis Moure 1953 (Hymenoptera)  
- [Paulo da Cunha Nóbrega](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-da-cunha-nobrega/): Paulo da Cunha Nóbrega, Brazilian veterinarian (Amparo, São Paulo State 04 August 1907 – Campinas, São Paulo State 23 January 1974) Authored 64 scientific works With J. Reis proposed inoculation in pigeons as way for diagnosis of avian cholera in Arqu. Inst. Biol. 8:183, 1937 With J. Reis described a new technique for chicken embryo egg based vaccine preparation for avian spirochaetosis in Arqu. Inst. Biol. S. Paulo 12:87, 1941 Described Eimeria rhynchoti 1936 (Protozoa Apicomplexa) with J. Reis and  Bacterium arthropyogenes that cause arthritis in fowls (1940) With couple J. Reis & A.S. Reis authored Tratado de Ornitopatologia (Treatise of Ornithopathology) translated to many
- [Pablo Negroni](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-negroni/): Pablo Negroni Rava, Argentine medical mycologist (Buenos Aires 03 June 1904 – Buenos Aires 04 June 1992) Described a new skin disease With P.L. Baliña. Intertrigo des orteils et onyxis dus à un nouveau parasite. Ann. Dermat. Syphil. Ser 7 3:8-20, 1932  Developed first vaccine for actinomycosis  Vacuna curativa de la actinomicosis. Rev. Arg. Derm. 16:45-52, 1932 First to apply auxanographic method to filamentous fungi (1938) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Fonsecaea 1936 Pseudallescheria 1944 with I. Fischer Species Acremonium spinosum 1933 (agent of superficial white onychomycosis) Chrysosporium spinulosum 1963 with Freire Geotrichum redaelli 1940 with I. Fischer Nectaromyces rattus 1947 with Daglio Prototheca ciferrii 1941 with Blastein (recognized
- [P.L. Narasimha Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/p-l-narasimha-rao/): P.L. Narasimha Rao, Indian biochemist and microbiologist (Cuddapah District, Andhra Pradesh 12 June 1913 – Mysore 21 December 2013) Authored more than 100 research papers Obtained chemicals with antibiotic properties from plants and fungi Proposed tetrahydroxanthone structure for morellin from Garcinia sp. Isolated and purified terpenes, guttiferin, pigment gamboge and certain purines and derivatives Isolated the antibiotic neomorellin and pterygospermin (1946) Discovered antimicrobian properties of benzyl isothiocyanate  and related compounds With Uma described Streptomyces champavatii (1959) 
- [P. Susai Nathan](https://neglectedscience.com/p-susai-nathan/): Prabala Susai Nathan or Prabala Susainathan, Indian entomologist and collector (18 April 1891 – 17 March 1976) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Some important pests of the Malay Peninsula. Proc. 5th Entom. Mtg. Pusa p.28-33, 1924 The fruit moth problem in the northern Circars. Agric. J. India 19:402-4, 1924 Fruit-sucking moths of South India. Proc. 5th Entomol. Mtg. Pusa p.123-7, 1924 With Y. Ramachandra Rao. A note on Pamtelphusa hydrodomus Herbst, the freshwater crab of South India. Proc. 5th Entom. Mtg Pusa p. 136-40, 1924 Birds friends and foes of farmers. Bull. Dept. Agric. Madras 81:24, 1921 With R.T.V. Ayyar & J.A. Muliyil. A preliminary investigation of  “pollu” disease of pepper disease
- [Mário Nakano](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-nakano/): Mario Nakano, Brazilian veterinarian (São Paulo 01 February 1928 – São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo State 07 June 2024) Son of Japanese immigrants Headed Poultry Pathology Department at Instituto Biologico, one of the world-renowned laboratories in avian pathology Authored 102 scientific papers & 2 books With W.L.N. Torres, G. Moreno, J.A. Bottino & J.C. Panetta. Estudo sobre um novo suplemento de alimentos a base de cloranfenicol. O Biológico 36(4):101-7, 1970 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With S.R. Baquer. Egg-inoculation technique for the preparation of Newcastle disease vaccine, 1961 With R.C. Bueno & S.R. Baquer. Doenças das aves em São Paulo. Análise de 28.147 casos.
- [Muthuvelu Nadchatram](https://neglectedscience.com/muthuvelu-nadchatram/): Muthuvelu Nadchatram, Malaysian acarologist (Kampung Chetty, Port Jackson 27 December 1927 – Kuala Lumpur 21 November 2011) Authored about 150 scientific papers First to show that colour of ticks or mites reflected its habitat and lifestyle First to take pictures of reproductive behavior of mites With J. Audy. A method of rearing individual trombiculid mites in the field. Nature 174:1021, 1954 DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Bishoplinia 1965 with Vercammen-Grandjean Colobatriglyphus 1983 with Fain Ereynetoides 1962 with Fain Heaslipioides 1966 with Vercammen-Grandjean & Traub Lorillatum 1963 Mesonyssoides 1962 with Fain Micronychites 1981 with Fain & Lukoschus Micronychitoides 1981 with Fain & Lukoschus Nakhoda 1975 with Domrow Nasalialges 1980 with Fain Rattimyobia 1980 with Fain
- [Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan](https://neglectedscience.com/mudumbai-seshachalu-narasimhan/): Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (Thandarai, Tamil Nadu State 07 June 1932 – 16 May 2021) Pioneer of the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties Proved Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem (1965) With G. Harder introduced canonical filtrations on algebraic vector bundles  With S. Ramanan proved the existence of universal connections in differential geometry (1961-3) and introduced the notion of Hecke correspondence between moduli spaces of vector bundles With Nori proved that there are only finitely many smooth projective curves having a given abelian variety With Simha showed the existence of a global moduli space EPONYMY Drezet-Narasimhan theorem (1989) Harder-Narasimhan stratification
- [Mohammed Nizamuddin](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-nizamuddin/): Mohammed Nizamuddin, Pakistani phycologist (Atsar, Bihar, India 11 January 1930 – Karachi 16 January 2011) Authored 120 research papers and 5 books DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Family Seirococcaceae 1962 Valid Genus Stolonophora 1969 (Phaeophyceae) Species Bryopsis aishae 1995 Bryopsis manorensis 1995 Bryopsis pakistanica 1995 Bryopsis qasimensis 1995 Caulerpa faridii 1964 Caulerpa manorensis 1964 Caulerpa qureshii 1964 Chaetomorpha gigonii 1965 with Shabdir Ali (Fossil) Closterium pakistanicum 1995 with Masud ul Hassan & T. Rasool Codium afaqhusainii 2001 Codium aliyae 2001 Codium bilobum 2000 Codium boergesenii 2001 Codium faridii 2000 Codium fastigiatum 2001 Codium fimbriatum 2000 Codium gerloffii 2000 Codium hawkesbayense 2001 Codium islamii 2000 Codium laevigatum 2001 Codium manorense 2001 Codium pakistanicum 2000 Codium pseudolatum 2001 Codium robustum 2001 Codium saifullahi 1999 Codium shameeli 1997 Codium tobrukense 1993 with El Menifi Fathalla Cottoniella libyensis 1990
- [Moacyr Rossi Nilsson](https://neglectedscience.com/moacyr-rossi-nilsson/): Moacyr Rossi Nilsson, Brazilian veterinarian (São Paulo 03 October 1927 – São Paulo 18 July 1992) Authored about 50 works Gained international recognition for his studies on rabies Published the first work on resistence genetics to rabies virus With M. Siqueira, O.A. Sant’Anna, T.T. Nilsson & M. Genari. Rabies virus immunity in genetically selected high and low responder lines of mice. Infect. Immunol. 25(1):23-6, 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.A. Silva & G.V. Rivello. Isolamento de vírus rabico de morcego não hematófago da espécie Phyllostomus hastatus hastatus (Pallas). Arq. Inst. Biol. Animal 4:115-20, 1961 With O.A. Pereira, W. Sugay & E.E. Trapp. Ocorrência de
- [Mario Novello](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-novello/): Mario Novello, Brazilian cosmologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 August 1942 – From Italian ancestry Authored 189 papers and 17 books Showed that gravitation is a result of self-interaction of gamma fields in J. Math. Physics 12:1039, 1971 Explained the origin of neutrinos masses in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 1:252, 1971 Suggested that weak forces changes in account to Universe evolution state (1972) Showed that weak and electromagnetic forces are consequences of self-interaction of gamma fields in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 13:74, 1973 With the physicist José Martins Salim found non-singular rays for our Universe in Physical Review D20:377, 1979 With the physicist
- [Manuel Nuñez Tovar](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-nunez-tovar/): Manuel Bautista de las Mercedes Nuñez Tovar, Venezuelan medical entomologist and parasitologist (Caicara de Maturín, Monagas State 24 September 1872 – Maracay, Aragua State 27 January 1928) First to explain the miiasis transmitted by mosquitoes DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Fransaia 1927 with Dyar Species Aedes argyrites 1926 with Dyar Culex bihaicola 1927 with Dyar Culex macaronensis 1926 with Dyar Haemagogus celeste 1926 with Dyar Phlebotomus evansi 1924 Phlebotomus maracayensis 1924 Phlebotomus otamae 1924 Phlebotomus rangeli 1924 Simulium lugubre 1928 with Lutz Simulium versicolor 1928 with Lutz Trichoprosopron pusillum 1928 with Lutz Wyeomyia caracula 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia favor 1928 with Dyar Wyeomyia felicia 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia gausapata 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia guadians 1927 with Dyar Wyeomyia pampithes 1928
- [Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan](https://neglectedscience.com/mandayam-jeersannidhi-narasimhan/): Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Madras 1891 – 24 September 1970) First introduced fungicidal control measures for Koleroga disease of areca palm (1910s) Established that debris of diseased nuts on the ground had oospores (1970) First to show the mycotoxin due to Heterosporium in cereals Postulated the concept of epicentre for the heteroecious rusts (1969) Showed fungi Entomophthora lecani could be used for the biological control of insects on a massive scale With M.J. Thirumalachar & M.C. Srinivasan established the morphological basis for differentiating Entomophthora from Conidiobolus  DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA Derexia 1970 Georgefischeria 1963 with Thirumalachar Sclerophthora 1953 with Thirumalachar & Shaw HONORS  (Fungi) Narasimhania Thirumalachar & Pavgi
- [Madhavan Parameswaran Nayar](https://neglectedscience.com/madhavan-parameswaran-nayar/): Madhavan Parameswaran Nayar, Indian botanist (Nagercoil, Travancore State 27 January 1932 – Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala State 09 December 2016) Authored about 250 scientific papers and 25 books DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera (Melastomataceae) Neodriessenia 1977 Pseudodissochaeta 1969 Tayloriophyton 1968 Species and others 77 species, 20 varieties and one subspecies  HONORS Nayariophyton Paul 1988 (Malvaceae)
- [Luis Alejandro Novelo](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-alejandro-novelo/): Luis Alejandro Novelo Retana, Mexican botanist (Ciudad de Mexico 24 February 1951 – Ciudad de Mexico 18 June 2006) Expert on aquatic vascular plants DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Cipoia 2004 with Philbrick & Irgang Diamantina 2004 with Philbrick & Irgang Vanroyenella 1993 with Philbrick Species Ceratolacis pedunculatum 2004 with Philbrick & Irgang Cipoia inserta 2004 with Philbrick & Irgang Diamantina lombardii 2004 with Philbrick & Irgang Marathrum rubrum 1993 with Philbrick Noveloa longifolia 1995 with Philbrick Podostemum irgangii 2001 with Philbrick Podostemum ovatum 2004 with Philbrick Vanroyenella plumosa 1993 with Philbrick HONORS Noveloa Philbrick 2001 (Podostemaceae) LINKS Luis Alejandro Novelo Retana (1951-2006) (scielo.org.mx) (spanish)
- [Leopoldo Nachbin](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-nachbin/): Leopoldo Nachbin, Jewish Brazilian mathematician (Recife 07 January 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 03 April 1993) Son of Polish father and Austrian mother ACHIEVEMENTS Published 110 papers Performed pioneer works about holomorphy in infinite dimension Realized the first systematic study of topological vector spaces (1948) Presented required and sufficient conditions in order to a continuous functions space to be  bornological   Defined certain weighted spaces and compact element in a lattice Initiated the study of topological ordered spaces Demonstrated that a distributive lattice displaying elements 0 and 1 where all prime filter is maximal is a Boolean algebra (1947) Extended Stone-Weierstrass theorem to
- [Kshitindramohan Naha](https://neglectedscience.com/kshitindramohan-naha/): Kshitindramohan Naha, Indian geologist (Comilla, Bengal 02 January 1932 – Kolkata, West Bengal 24 May 1996) Estimated kinematic significance of deformation lamellae in quartz (1959) Worked out methods of elucidating the large scale structure of migmatites Developed methods of recognizing angular run conformity in metamorphic terraces and coaxial refolding prior to non-coaxial deformation 
- [Keshavan Raghavan Nair](https://neglectedscience.com/keshavan-raghavan-nair/): Keshavan Raghavan Nair, Indian statistician (Paravur, Kerala State 13 May 1910 – Bangalore 20 November 1993) Introduced the concept of partially balanced incomplete block designs Established the Laguerre-Samuelson inequality in J. Ind. Soc. Agr. Stat. (1948) On a method of getting confounded arrangements in the general symmetrical type of experiment. Sankhya 4:121-38, 1938 On a simple method of curve fitting. Sankhya 6:121, 1942 Eponym of Nair-Thomson inequality (1948)
- [K.V. Natarajan](https://neglectedscience.com/k-v-natarajan/): K.V. Natarajan, Indian mycologist (Kovilur, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu 21 April 1942 – Madras 21 April 2007) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Syamithabeeja 1976 with Subramanian Tretophragmia 1973 with Subramanian Species At least 55 HONORS Natarajania Pratibha & Bhat 2006 (Fungi)
- [K.S.S. Nambooripad](https://neglectedscience.com/k-s-s-nambooripad/): Komanamana Sankaranarayanan Subramonian Nambooripad, Indian mathematician (Puttumanor, Ernakulam District, Kerala State 06 April 1935 – Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala State 04 January 2020) Characterised axiomatically the structure of the set of idempotents in a regular semigroup (1979) Developed an alternative approach to describe the structure of regular semigroups Developed the concept and terminology of a biordered set (1970s) EPONYMY  Nambooripad structure theorem for regular semigroups Hartwig-Nambooripad partial order (1980) Ehresmann-Schein-Nambooripad theorem
- [José Antonio Nolla](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-nolla/): José Antonio Bernabé Nolla Cabrera, Puerto Rican plant pathologist (Mayaguez 24 May 1902 – Mayaguez 14 August 1987) A new alternaria disease of onions (Allium cepa L.) Phytopathology 17(2):115-32, 1927 (Alternaria allii) Described a new leaf and bulb scale anthracnose of onions (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) Onion-leaf anthracnose. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 10:245-6, 1926 Described Curvularia trifolii f. sp. amaryllidis in Phytopathology 59:1348, 1969
- [Jose Negrete Martinez](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-negrete-martinez/): José Gabino Negrete y Martínez, Mexican neurophysiologist and computer scientist (Ciudad de Mexico 09 June 1929 – First to set modulatory role of hormones in synaptic mechanism in a general way Influencia de la Corteza Suprarrenal sobre el Sistema Exterofector. Bul. Inst. Estud. Med. Biol. 10(1-6):41-83, 1952 Discovered the selective and destructive manner that capsaicin affects upon synaptic vesicles and its modulatory nature With G. Yankelevich. Anestesia local producida por capsaicina. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. Mexico 17(2):65-8, 1957 Discovered that newborn animals don’t display reflex palsy immediately after spinal cord lesions With C. Guzmán, A. Fernandez & E.C. del Pozo.
- [Joon Namkung](https://neglectedscience.com/joon-namkung/): Joon Namkung / Chun Namgung, South Korean arachnologist (1920 – 14 May 2013) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA SPECIES Agroeca coreana 1989 Allomengea beombawigulensis 2002 Allomengea coreana 1969 with Paik Araniella coreana 2002 Atypus magnus 1986 Atypus quelpartensis 2002 Atypus sternosulcus 2006 with Kim, Kim, Jung & Lee Atypus suwonensis 2006 with Kim, Kim, Jung & Lee Coelotes samaksanensis 2002 Cybaeus mosanensis 1967 with Paik Dolichocybaeus whanseunensis 1967 with Paik Galloisiana kosuensis 1974 Galloisiana magnus 1986 Leptoneta coreana 1969 with Paik Leptoneta handeulgulensis 2002 Leptoneta hogyegulensis 1969 with Paik Leptoneta hwanseonensis 1987 Leptoneta kwangreungensis 2004 with Kim & Lee Leptoneta secula 1987 Leptoneta soryongensis 1969 with Paik Leptoneta spinipalpus 2004 with Kim & Lee Leptoneta waheulgulensis 1991 Leptoneta yebongsanensis 2004 with Kim & Lee Leptoneta yongdamgulensis 1969 with
- [Jean Nicolini](https://neglectedscience.com/jean-nicolini/): Jean Nicolini, Brazilian astronomer (São Paulo 09 April 1922 – Americana, São Paulo State 23 July 1991) Son of French immigrants PERFORMANCE With Observatoire de Paris-Meudon colaborated in determining Venus rotation period Performed observations on TLPs in Apollo Project of NASA (1968-72) Standard Observer, AAVSO  (1961-91) Honored in prix George Bidault de L’Isle by Societé Astronomique de France for photographic researches about Venus and Mars planets (1963) LINKS See http://astronomiaemfortaleza.blogspot.com/2011/07/20-anos-sem-jean-nicolini-1922-1991.html (in Portuguese)
- [Jayant Vishnu Narlikar](https://neglectedscience.com/jayant-vishnu-narlikar/): Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, Indian cosmologist (Kolhapur, Maharashtra State 19 July 1938 – ACHIEVEMENTS With F. Hoyle developed Hoyle-Narlikar conformal gravity theory With P.K. Das provided an explanation for abnormal redshifts of quasars With K.M.V. Apparao & N. Dadhich developed white hole concept as exploding sources of energy With S.M.S. Chitre proposed the hypothesis of the gravitational curvature of radio waves due to the presence of galaxies (1978) HONORS  Prix Janssen, Société Astronomique de France (2004)
- [Janardan Nanda](https://neglectedscience.com/janardan-nanda/): Janardan Nanda, Indian electrical engineer (Cuttack, Orissa 15 August 1937 – Delhi 16 August 2016)  Authored over 350 papers Innovated many powerful load flow algorithms widely referred  Developed an innovative model for transmission loss formulation through a set of new A coefficients Discovered a classical model based on co-ordination equations for optimum reactive power dispatch Demonstrated the reduction of cost of governors in power plants by a design with a higher value of speed regulation parameter than used in practice First to propose a continuous-discrete mode strategy for automatic generation control of thermal and hydro-thermal systems First to apply bacterial foraging
- [Israel Nussenzveig](https://neglectedscience.com/israel-nussenzveig/): Israel Nussenzveig, Brazilian physician (São Paulo 25 February 1923 – Sâo Paulo 15 January 2019) From Jewish Polish family Conceived open kidney puncture biopsy (1955) published in Rev. Paul. Medicina 55:311-5, 1959 Established an original mathematical correlation between the arterial pressure of arms and thigh enabling the computation of pressure in a segment With B. Tranchesi, M.F. Lion, J.T.A. Tartari, T. Fujioka & J. Tranchesi. Pressão arterial nos membros superiors e inferiores em 600 indivíduos normais. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 15:51-76, 1950 Showed the presence of brain embolism in patients with chronic Chagas disease With B.L. Wajchenberg, A. Spina-França, R. Macruz, J. Timoner &
- [Hussein Foad Nagaty](https://neglectedscience.com/hussein-foad-nagaty/): Hussein Foad Nagaty, Egyptian helminthologist and parasitologist (1903 – ?) DESCRIBED DIGENEA/TREMATODA TAXA Genera Aphanuroides 1962 with Abdel Aal Koseiria 1942 Mahrosa 1961 with Abdel Aal Megacreadium 1956 Nagmia 1930 Neidhartia 1937 Paracryptogonimoides 1961 with Abdel Aal Paraproctotrematoides 1972 Spiritestis 1948 Species About 50 valid
- [Hiroshi Nagai](https://neglectedscience.com/hiroshi-nagai/): Hiroshi Nagai, Japanese-born Brazilian plant breeder and pathologist (Tokyo 17 July 1935 – Campinas, São Paulo State 2003) Authored over 100 scientific and popular works Developed heat and disease-resistant cultivars of lettuce, pepper, sweet pepper, okra, and tomato DEVELOPED CULTIVARS Tomato Angela (1969) Angela Gigante (1976) Angela Gigante I-5.100 (1978) IAC-Santa Clara (1985) Lettuce Brasil 48 (1973) Brasil 202 & 221 (1977) Brasil 303, 304 & 311 (1979) Brasil serie 600 (1987) Pepper Agronomico 10 G (1971) Agronomico 11 (1972) Agronomico 4 (1973) IAC Ubatuba (1987) Sweet Pepper Myr 10 Myr 29 Agronomico 8 (1968) Agronomico 9 (1971) Agronomico 13 (1985)
- [Hermann Niemeyer](https://neglectedscience.com/hermann-niemeyer/): Hermann Niemeyer Fernandez, Chilean biochemist (Ovalle 26 October 1918 – Santiago de Chile 07 June 1991) From German father Authored over 100 papers In Fritz Lippmann laboratory observed that oxidative phosphorylation resulting from respiratory chain in liver was ruled via ADP and other ATP phosphate acceptors availability Proposed glycogen synthesis involving glyconucleotides in Metabolismo de los hidratos de carbono en el higado (1955) His works on enzymes induction using diets and hormones gained international repercussion With M.L. Cardenas, T. Ureta, L. Clark-Turri & J. Peñaranda discovered the sigmoidal kinetics of protein monomer (1975)  Described 4 hexokinase isozymes   Papers in top journals
- [Herch Moyses Nussenzveig](https://neglectedscience.com/herch-moyses-nussenzveig/): Herch Moyses Nussenzveig, Brazilian physicist (São Paulo 16 January 1933 – Rio de Janeiro 05 November 2022) His real birth date is June 1932 but recorded only in 1933 Son of Jewish Polish parents and brother of physician Israel Nussenzweig and parasitologist Victor Nussenzveig His doctoral thesis with original contributions Solution of a diffraction problem I & II. The narrow double wedge was published in Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. A 252:1-30 & 31-51, 1959 Explained mathematically the light scattering that constitutes the rainbow First explained colors decomposition close to shadows that form meteorological halo Demonstrated that halo is a tunneling phenomenon (1969) With
- [Hector Maria Nano](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-maria-nano/): Hector María Nano Colombo, Argentine ophthalmologist (Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province 17 October 1912 – 1982) CONTRIBUTIONS Telegradímetro para campimetrias. Sem. Med. 47(2);441-3, 1940  With E. Frigerio & M.A. Scenna. Operación de Sato para la sinequia anterior y modificaciones en su tecnica. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 30:337, 1955 Una nueva entidad del fundus. Degeneración discoide translucida de la retina. Sem. Med. 118:1036-8 & 1061, 1961 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Fotocoagulación en la retinopatia diabetica. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 44(8):231-7, 1969 With H. Pérez. Spicers pseudoneuritis. Arch. Oftalm. Bs. Aires 43(7):208-10, 1968 With H.A. Pérez & J. Lapalma. Uveitis edematosa crônica (cyclitis crônica de
- [Gert Cornelius Nel](https://neglectedscience.com/gert-cornelius-nel/): Gert Cornelius Nel, South African botanist (Greytown, Natal Province 06 April 1885 – Stellenbosch 16 February 1950) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Rhodohypoxis 1914 (Hypoxidaceae) Species 106  HONORS Nelia Schwantes 1928 (Aizoaceae)
- [G.K.B. Navale](https://neglectedscience.com/g-k-b-navale/): G.K.B. Navale, Indian palynologist and paleobotanist (fl.1955-1992) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae/Pollen Brazilea 1967 with Tiwari Cruciferoipollenites 1979 with Misra Dashkinipollenites 1979 with Misra Disectispora 1967 with Tiwari Icacinoipollenites 1979 with Misra Plumbaginacipites 1979 with Misra Plantae Anogeissusoxylon 1964 Castanoxylon 1964 Hopeoxylon 1963 HONORS Navalesporites Sarate & Ram-Awatar 1984 (Fossil Sporae)
- [Estanislao Noguera Gomez](https://neglectedscience.com/estanislao-noguera-gomez/): Estanislao Noguera Gómez, Venezuelan pharmacist (Los Leques, Miranda State 28 May 1879 – Caracas 11 March 1953) Prepared the ethylic esther of chaulmoogra oil Alteraciones de los esteres etilicos del chaulmoogra (1924) Observaciones practicas en la preparación de los esteres etilico de aceite de chaulmoogra Developed a method of purifying the chaulmoogra oil Contribución al estudio de los aceites de chaulmoogra Analisis de vinos. Metodos empleados em el Laboratorio del Ministerio de Sanidad y Asistencia Social. Rev. Soc. Ven. Quimica 2(6-7):8-25, 1942 Estudio fisiologico de una sustancia extraida de la levadura de cerveza semejante a la insulina With P. Gonzalez Rincones. Yeast
- [Eran Nakoman](https://neglectedscience.com/eran-nakoman/): Eran Nakoman, Turkish geologist and palynologist (1940 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE & POLLEN GENERA Aequitriradisporites 1966 Alternisporites 1975 Anatoliensisporites 1967 Barssisporites 1975 Bharadwajisporites 1975 Canisporites 1975 Corsinipollenites 1965 Dicolporopollenites 1968 Disulcipollenites 1960 Duplopollenites 1966 Echinatisporites 1966 Enzonalapollenites 1966 Extrapunctatosporites 1966 Fenestripollenites 1966 Hacquebardisporites 1975 Hamulatisporites 1966 Luberisporites 1975 Lusatisporites 1966 Macroleptolepidisporites 1966 Megacincturisporites 1975 Microfoveolatosporites 1966 Monoleiotriletisporites 1966 Naumovaisporites 1975 Nevesisporites 1975 Syncolpopollenites 1966 Toroisporites 1966 Triaxisporites 1975 Vedatisporites 1966
- [Enrique Nuñez y Palomino](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-nunez-y-palomino/): Enrique Bernardo Nuñez de Villavicencio y Palomino, Cuban surgeon and gynecologist (Madruga, La Habana Province 16 January 1872 – New York 15 September 1916) Authored over 50 papers DEVELOPED A method of elastic compression for obtaining hemostasis Manera de aplicar la compression elastica para obtener la hemostasis provisional en las intervenciones sobre el hombro. El Progreso Medico (1901) Nuevo procedimento de hemostasia provisional en las intervenciones en el hombre (1901) A cutback intra-abdominal procedure of round ligaments of uterus Un proceder de acortamiento intra-abdominal de los ligamentos redondos con suspensión de utero (1900) A suture procedure for median laparotomy Un proceder
- [Ennapada Sundaram Narayanan](https://neglectedscience.com/ennapada-sundaram-narayanan/): Ennapada Sundaram Ayyar Narayanan, Indian entomologist (Palghat, Malabar 15 February 1904 – 1990) DESCRIBED NEW ARTHROPODA SPECIES Hymenoptera Acmopolynema bagichae 1960 with Subba Rao & Kaur Acmopolynema incognita 1960 with Subba Rao & Kaur Acmopolynema orientale 1960 with Subba Rao & Kaur Aenasius indicus 1961 Ageniaspis indicus 1960 Amblynotus syrphidiphagus 1941 Anastatus acherontiae 1960 with Subba Rao & Ramachandra Anastatus dentatus 1960 with Subba Rao & Ramachandra Anselmella kerrichi 1958 with Subba Rao & Patel Monstranusia antennatus 1960 Chrysopophagus bangalorensis 1957 with Subba Rao & Sangwan Cirrospilus phyllocnistoides 1960 Closterocerus agromyzae 1960 with Subba Rao & Ramachandra Dusmetia sangwani 1957 with Subba Rao & Sangwan Ectromatopsis indica 1957 with Subba Rao & Sangwan Goetheana thripsivorus 1962 with Subba
- [Elisa G. Nicora](https://neglectedscience.com/elisa-g-nicora/): Elisa Gernaela Juana Raquel Nicora de Panza, Argentine botanist (Buenos Aires 08 March 1912 – Buenos Aires 09 February 2001) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Eragrostis cataclasta 1969 Hordeum bonariense 1977 with Parodi Hordeum cordobense 1980 with Bothmer & Jacobsen Hordeum mustersii 1977  Hordeum santacrucense 1977 with Parodi Hordeum setifolium 1977 with Parodi Melica hunzikeri 1999 Nicoraepoa stepparia 1977 Poa boelckei 1977 Poa durifolia 2000 with Giussani & Roig Poa hachadoensis 1977 Poa mendocina 1998 with Roig Poa nahuelhuapiensis 1977 Poa pederseni 1995 Poa ragonesei 1995 Puccinellia parodii 1999 Rytidosperma sorianoi 1973 Setaria parodii 1968 Setaria uruguayensis 1970 Sporobolus linaerifolius 1993 Tripogon ekmanii 1991 with Rúgolo Trisetum ambiguum 1988 with Rúgolo Varieties 26 HONORS Nicoraepoa Soreng & Gillespie 2007 (Poaceae)
- [Edmundo Ferraz Nonato](https://neglectedscience.com/edmundo-ferraz-nonato/): Edmundo Ferraz Nonato, Brazilian marine zoologist (Campinas, São Paulo State 01 June 1920  – São Paulo 14 April 2014) DESCRIBED ANNELIDA POLYCHAETA TAXA Species Amphicteis latibranchiata 1981 Anaitides tamoya 1981 Arenicola brasiliensis 1958 Axiothella gregaria 1996 with Petti Bonuania humilis 1996 with Petti  Chone insularis 1981 Drilonereis mulleri 1981 Drilonereis pseudofilum 1996 with Petti Euarche rudipalpa 1984 with Amaral  Eunice sebastiani 1965 Euniphysa rudis 1981 Eunoe papillosa 1982 with Amaral Eunoe serrata 1982 with Amaral  Euphionella besnardi 1982 with Amaral  Goniadides uncata 1981 with Amaral Grubeulepis bractetata 1981 Gyptis callithrix 1981 with Amaral  Hemipodus rotundus 1981 with Amaral  Iphitime sartorae 1991 with Paiva Laetmonice parva 1982 with Amaral Lagisca lepida 1982 with Amaral Laonice branchiata 1986 with Bolívar & Lana Lepidasthenia esbelta 1982 with
- [Edgar Rangel Netto](https://neglectedscience.com/edgar-rangel-netto/): Edgar Rangel Netto, Brazilian astronomer (fl.1973) DISCOVERED / OBSERVED ASTEROIDS With H. Debehogne, L.E. Machado, G.G. Vieira, J.F. Caldeira & S. Vaz. 262 positions of asteroids and their dependences-ESO La Silla, Chile, February 10-25, 1985. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis. 13:161, 1986 (6) With H. Debehogne, L.E. Machado, G.G. Vieira & J.F. Caldeira. Observed asteroids at the GPO La Silla, Chile 1983 SEP. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis. 11:43, 1985 (9) With H. Debehogne, L.E. Machado, J.F. Caldeira & G.G. Vieira. 308 astrometric positions of minor planets in February and March 1981, ESO, La Silla, Chile. Acta Astron. 33(1):171-81, 1983 (14) With H.
- [Dilma Solange Napp](https://neglectedscience.com/dilma-solange-napp/): Dilma Solange Napp, Brazilian entomologist (1944 – Porto Alegre June 2018) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera With U.R. Martins Abaiba 2006 Acabyara 2006 Acanthonessa 1982 Adiposphaerion 1992 Alastos 1982 Amoaba 2006 Apoclausirion 1992 Aruama 2006 Beaveriella 2005 Cephaloplon 1986 Chaetosopus 1988 Clausirion 1982 Corupella 2006 Cotychroma 2005 Delemodacrys 1979 Ecoporanga 2006 Frondipedia 1984 Glomibidion 1985 Goatacara 2006 Jampruca 1982 Monnechroma 2005 Morphaneflus 1992 Neomallocera 1992 Nesiosphaerion 1982 Parasphaerion 1992 Pilisphaerion 1992 Potisangaba 2009 Protomallocera 1992 Sphaerioeme 1992 Spinoplon 1985 Tacyba 2002 Tobipuranga 1996 Unabiara 2002 Unatara 2006 Upindauara 2006 Alone or with others Achenoderus 1979 Aglaoschema 1994 Aguassay 2001 with Mermudes Allopeba 1999 with Reynaud Anisotyma 2009 with Monné Assycuera 2001 with Monné Caperonotus 1993 Dilocerus 1980 Exallancyla 2000 with Monné Gurubira 1999 with Marques Mimonneticus 2000 with Monné Monnecles 1999 with Santos Parunxia 1977 Potiapua 2009 with Monné Timabiara 2001 with Mermudes Timbaraba 2004 with Monné Species About 780 HONORS Solangella Martins 1997
- [Devendra Datt Nautiyal](https://neglectedscience.com/devendra-datt-nautiyal/): Devendra Datt Nautiyal, Indian palaeobotanist and plant anatomist (Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh State 13 July 1934 – February 1999) PLANT ANATOMY With S.K. Chaturvedi & S. Mukherji. Studies on some endangered Indian asclepiads (1990) With D.D. Pant & D.R. Misra. Gametophytes of Ophioglossaceae (1984) With D.D. Pant & Singh Sudha. Cuticular studies of reproductive organs of Gnetum and Ephedra. Phytomorphology 28(2):142-50, 1978 With D.D. Pant. Cuticle and epidermis of recent Cycadales: leaves, sporangia and seeds. Senckenb. Biol. 44(5):257-347, 1963 With D.D. Pant. The epidermal structure of the sporangia of some modern cycads. Curr. Sci. 32(12):559-61, 1963 With D.D. Pant. On the anatomical structure of the
- [Cesar Nahoum](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-nahoum/): Cesar Roberto Dias Nahoum, Brazilian andrologist (Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro State 13 July 1944 – With W.A. Hadler noticed that male genitalia presents a high number of mast cells (1987) Proposed that histamine injection directly in the penis for treatment of male impotence (1988) PATENTS (Home & Abroad) Utilização de drogas eretogênicas e respectivas metodologias de aplicação PI9203277-0 A2 (1992) & US5908853 A (1993) Novel compositions EP0655914 A4 (1992) Method of treating sexual dysfunction in animals with h agonist WO1994004120 A3 (1993) Use of histamine-2 agonist for treatment of sexual dysfunction EP0655914 B1 (1993) The use of h2 and h3 agonists
- [Fernando Paulino](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-paulino/): Fernando Paulino Soares de Souza, Brazilian surgeon (30 September 1906 – 19 February 1990) Authored 300 works and book chapters Developed Paulino’s procedure, a suture constriction of the lung upper lobe with partial thoracoplasty in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis A toracoplastia com apicólise total e amarração de pulmão. Rev. Med. Cir. Brasil 56:7, 1948  Thoracoplastie avec apicolise totale et ligature du sommet du pulmon. Giornata Mediche Internationale, Verona, Italy, July 28-31, 1949 Developed technique of jejunum pouch in total gastrectomy known as Paulino pouch Gastrectomia. Descrição da técnica baseada em 140 operações sem mortalidade. O Hospital 39(2):165-77, 1951 A new
- [Felix Pifano](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-pifano/): Felix Pifano Capdevielle, Venezuelan parasitologist and tropical physician (San Felipe, Yaracuy State 01 May 1912 – Caracas 08 August 2003) From Italian, French and Basque descent Authored over 200 scientific works Regarded as a world authority on tropical endemic diseases Showed another human trypanosomiais caused by Trypanosoma rangeli With M. Mayer, R. Medina & E. Domínguez C. Nouvelle trypanosomiasis humaine de la région neotropica produité par la Trypanosoma rangeli Tejera 1920. Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 41:671-80, 1948 Proposed the existence of two complexes in mucocutaneous leishmaniasis With J.V. Scorza. Aspectos inmunologicos de las leishmanias que parasitan el hombre, com especial referencia a la Leishmania brasiliensis
- [Felix Nelson Ponnamperuma](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-nelson-ponnamperuma/): Felix Nelson Ponnamperuma, Sri Lankan pedologist (Galle, Ceylon 08 July 1920 – Kandy, Sri Lanka 11 December 1992) Regarded as a world-renowned authority on chemistry of submerged soils   One of the firsts to apply thermodynamics to flooded soil systems Explained quantitatively the kinetics of pH, redox potential, electrical conductivity and important ions in flooded soils
- [Ernesto Paterniani](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-paterniani/): Ernesto Paterniani, Brazilian agronomist and plant geneticist (São Paulo 17 February 1928 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 18 June 2009) Son of Italian immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a number of improved varieties of maize, such as Piramex, Centralmex, Perola Piracicaba, ESALQ VF-1, ESALQ VD-2, Piranão VF-1, Piranão VD-2, Pirapoca, ESALQ VD-2 waxy, etc. Developed new efficient methods for maize improvement Selection among and within half-sib families in a Brazilian population of maize (Zea mays L.). CropScience 7(3):212-6, 1967 With R. Vencovsky. Reciprocal recurrent selection in maize (Zea mays L.) based on test crosses of half-sib families. Maydica 22:141-152, 1977. Phenotypic recurrent selection for prolificacy in maize.
- [Ernesto Paccard](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-paccard/): Ernesto Paccard, Uruguayan pharmacist (died Montevideo 21 April 1915) DEVELOPED General method for treatment of acute poisonings (1906) A voting electric apparatus A new industrial tincture 
- [Ernest Paulini](https://neglectedscience.com/ernest-paulini/): Ernest Paulini, Hungarian-born Brazilian chemical engineer and parasitologist (18 January 1920 – Belo Horizonte 13 September 2013) Developed new techniques for prevention of parasitic diseases such as medicamentous salt for malaria DEVICES Da aplicação de moluscicidas. V. Um vertedouro desmontável para medir a vazão de água corrente. Rev. Bras. Malar. Doen. Trop. (1968) Da aplicação de moluscicidas. VI. Nomograma para o cálculo de moluscicidas. Rev. Bras. Malar. Doen. Trop. (1968) On the application of molluscicides. III. A centrifugal pump apparatus for the application of concentrated liquid molluscicides. Rev. Bras. Malariol. Doen. Trop. 13:61-3, 1961 Da aplicação de moluscocidas. I. Um dispositivo
- [Enrique Pouey](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-pouey/): Enrique Pouey, Uruguayan gynecologist and obstetrician (Montevideo 09 May 1858 – Montevideo 08 May 1939) Developed (1898) and presented (1904) the cone-shaped exhaustion technique for total extirpation of cervical mucosae known as Pouey operation or Forgue operation (in France) or Sturmdorf operation (in United States) Developed a procedure for treatment of chronic uterine inversions employing continuous traction Traitement de l’inversion uterine chronique par la traction elastique prolongée du col combinée a la propulsion du fond de l’utérus. Sem. Gynecol. 10:45-53, 1897 Eponym of Pouey-Stajano sign of tubal ectopic pregnancy or Laffont sign (consisting of peritoneal irritation and subscapular reflex pain; 1930s)
- [Enrique Perez Arbelaez](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-perez-arbelaez/): Enrique Perez Arbelaez, Colombian Jesuit, scientist and author (Medellín 01 March 1896 – Bogotá 22 January 1972) Authored 37 books Described the plant species Lindsaea colombiana (1928) Metodo quimico-industrial para la desfibración de las bromeliáceas. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Ciencias 6(22-3):235-43, 1945 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Plantas utiles de Colombia (1947) Hilea Magdalenesa – Prospección económica del valle tropical del Río Magdalena (1949) Recursos naturales de Colombia HONORS  Arbelaezaster Cuatrecasas 1986 (Asteraceae) LINKS http://www.accefyn.org.co/sp/academicos/Silla_15_Enrique_Perez_Arbelaez.htm (bibliography)
- [Edwin Percy Phillips](https://neglectedscience.com/edwin-percy-phillips/): Edwin Percy Phillips, South African botanist (Sea Point, Cape Town 18 February 1884 – Cape Town 12 April 1967) Authored over 200 scientific papers DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA  Genera Allenia 1944 Basutica 1944 Inezia 1932 Keetia 1926 Pseudognidia 1944 Pseudoscolopia 1927 Spatallopsis 1946 Stapeliopsis 1932   Struthiolopsis 1944 Stultitia 1933 Susanna 1950 (for his wife Susan Kriel) Theilera 1927 Ursiniopsis 1951 Species 255 HONOURS Erepsia N.E. Brown 1925 (Aizoaceae)
- [Eduardo Palma](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-palma/): Eduardo Carlos Palma Bellmunt, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 28 July 1907 – 1994) Of Genovese descent from paternal side Authored 223 scientific works Developed a venous bypass for femoropopliteal arteriopathy employing autologous vein (1956) First described surgical bypass of iliofemoral vein utilizing the contralateral saphenous vein as a crossover graft known as cross over vein graft or Palma operation  With F. Risi, H. Tobler & F. del Campo. Tratamiento de los trastornos postflebiticos mediante anastomosis venosa safeno-femoral cotrolateral. Bull. Soc. Surg. Uruguay 29:135-45, 1958 With R. Esperon. Vein transplants and grafts in the surgical treatment of the post-phlebitic syndrome. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 1:94, 1960
- [Edna Pauline Plumstead](https://neglectedscience.com/edna-pauline-plumstead/): Edna Pauline Janisch Plumstead, South African palaeobotanist, stratigrapher and coal geologist (Cape Town 15 September 1903 – Johannesburg 23 September 1989) Authored the first report about fossil fructifications of Glossopteris species being then invited to Geological Society of London (1953) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Hirsutum Jongmansis 1961   Lanceolatus 1952 Lerouxia 1961 Pluma 1958 Scutum 1952 Vannus 1963 Species Bifariala intermittens 1958 Euryphyllum antarcticum 1969 Gangamopteris stephensonii 1973 Gladiponum dutoitides Glossopteris fuchsii 1962 Gonophylloides strictum Jongmansis transvaalensis 1958 Lanceolatus derouxides 1952 Lanceolatus palaeovittarius Otozamites antarcticus 1962 Ottokaria buriadica 1956 Ottokaria transvaalensis 1956 Platyphyllum albanense 1967 Pluma longicaulis 1958 Plumsteadia lerouxii Plumsteadia stricta 1958 Scutum leslium 1952 Scutum thomasii Vannus gondwanensis 1963 Walikalia juckesii 1975 HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Plumsteadia Rigby 1963 Plumsteadiella  Le Roux 1966 Plumsteadiostrobus Chandra
- [Edmundo Pisano](https://neglectedscience.com/edmundo-pisano/): Edmundo Enrique Pisano Valdés, Chilean plant geographer and ecologist (Punta Arenas, Magallanes & Antartica Chilena 19 May 1919 – Santiago de Chile 20 March 1997) Described Fuchsia magellanica var. eburnea 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La estepa patagônica como recurso forrajero en Aysén y Magallanes (1984) Bosquejo fitogeográfico de Fuego-Patagonia. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 12:159-71, 1981 Fitogeografia de Fuego-Patagonia chilena (1977) Caractreristicas de la biota magallanica derivadas de factores especiales. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 6:123-37, 1975 Fitogeografia de la Peninsula de Brunswick. Anal. Inst.Patagonia 4:141-206, 1973 La vida en los Parques Nacionales. Anal. Inst.Patagonia (1973) Estudio ecológico preliminar de Parque Nacional “Los Pinguinos” (Estrecho de Magallanes). Anal. Inst.Patagonia 2(1-2):76-95, 1971 Geografia
- [Edmundo Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/edmundo-pereira/): Edmundo Pereira, Brazilian botanist (Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 19 March 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 16 May 1986) Authored 53 papers DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Bromeliaceae 110 species, 30 varieties, one subspecies and 4 forms   Others 3 species, 3 varieties and one form HONORS Edmundoa Leme 1997 (Bromeliaceae) 
- [Dulcie Alicia Powell](https://neglectedscience.com/dulcie-alicia-powell/): Dulcie Alicia Powell, Jamaican / US botanist (Albert Town 31 December 1924 – Leonardtown, Maryland, USA 15 May 2016) Described the plant species Evolvulus antillanus 1979 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.R. Fosberg, D. Otobed. M.H. Sachet, R. Oliver & J.E. Canneld. Vascular plants of Palau with vernacular names. (1980) The Convolvulaceae of the Lesser Antilles. J. Arn. Arb. 60(2):219-71, 1979 With D.F. Austin & D. H. Nicholson. Convolvulus grandiflorus Jacquin (Convolvulaceae) re-examined. Brittonia 30:199-202, 1978 With D.F. Austin & D.H. Nicholson. Stictocardia tilifolia (Convolvulaceae) revisited. Brittonia 30:195-8, 1978 With R.A. Howard. The introduction of rubber producing species in the West Indies. Econ. Bot. 17:337-49, 1963 Spices in Jamaica (1963)
- [Domingo Ribeiro dos Guimarães Peixoto](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-ribeiro-dos-guimaraes-peixoto/): Domingos Ribeiro dos Guimarães Peixoto, barão de Iguaraçu, Brazilian physician (Recife 14 August 1790 – Rio de Janeiro 29 April 1846) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Considerations physiologiques et médicales sur les sympathies. Transac. Med. 1:30-61 & 184-223, 1830 Dissertation inaugurale sur les medicaments bresiliens, que l’on peut sustituer aux medicaments exotiques dans la pratique de la medicine au Bresil et sur les sympathies considerées sous les rapports physiologique et medicale. Thesis, Faculté de Medicine de Paris (1830) Prolegômenos, ditados pela obediência, que servirão às observações, que for dando das moléstias cirúrgicas do país, em cada trimestre (1820) Memória sobre a encephalite, acompanhada da
- [Divya Darshan Pant](https://neglectedscience.com/divya-darshan-pant/): Divya Darshan Pant, Indian paleobotanist (Raniket 18 October 1919 – 09 May 2001) Authored over 300 publications Papers in Nature & Science With D.D. Nautiyal. Seed-bearing Ottokaria-like fructifications from India. Nature 207:623-4, 1965 Need for a standardized international glossary of terms in Botany. Science 119: 910-1, 1954 Triassic plant remains from the Salt Range in the Punjab. Nature 163:214, 1949 DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Plantae Ahmadia 1991 with Srivastava Arauspiropitys 1987 with Singh Arberiella 1960 with Nautiyal Asansolia 1976 with Misra Birsinghia 1995 with Nautiyal & Chaturvedi Birsinghpuria 1985 with Nautiyal & Tiwari Bulbospermum 1985 with Nautiyal & Tiwari  Catervoxylon 1987 with Singh Caulophyllites 1979 with Singh Chapmanoxylon 1987 with Singh Cheirophyllum 1978
- [Dionisio Pelaez](https://neglectedscience.com/dionisio-pelaez/): Dionísio Pelaez Fernandez, Spanish-born Mexican medical entomologist and parasitologist (Madrid 06 July 1915 – 29 May 1998) Authored about 80 works DESCRIBED TAXA Hemiptera Genera Aetheonota 1955 Parapterola 1942 Pieltainellus 1970 Species Aconophora mirandai 1966 Anchon boneti 1935 Anchon dilaticornis 1935 Anchon poensis 1935 Asterola (Parapterola) ramburi 1942 Cladonota bolivari 1945 Cladonota gonzaloi 1945 Cladonota hoffmanni 1940 Cladonota luctuosa 1945 Cladonota pieltaini 1945 Cladonota plummieri 1945 Cladonota zeledoni 1967 Dacaratha hyalina 1935 Gargara escalerai 1935 Gargara proxima 1935 Gargara rubens 1935 Jacobiana macrocerus 1936 Leptocentrus bolivari 1935 Monocentrus flavigaster 1935 Monocentrus rotundicornis 1935  Orthobelus gomezmenori 1936 Paraxiphopoeus elegans 1935 Pieltainellus boneti 1968 Platybelus colladoi Platybelus macrocerus 1936 Platybelus auriculatus 1941 Platycentrus auriculatus 1935 Spiniger mexicanus 1942 Spongophorus inflatus 1945 Stalobelus globifer 1935 Stalobelus nodulatus 1935 Stalobelus tenuispina 1935 Triatoma bolivari 1987 with Carcavallo & Martínez Triatoma
- [Devendra Prasad](https://neglectedscience.com/devendra-prasad/): Devendra Prasad, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Patna 09 April 1928 – ?) DESCRIBED HELMINTH SPECIES Acanthosentis thapari 1969 with Sahay & Nath Astiotrema siddiqii 1980 with Lal Clinostomum magadhatum 1980 with Singh Euclinostomum samastipurensis 1997 with Thakur Gorgoderina chauhani 1990 with H. Prasad Mesocoelium melanostictusi 1984 with Singh Postorchigenes rishikeshii 1970 with Lal Rhabdochona (Globochona) mazeedi 1965 with Sahay Rhabdochona dasi 1965 with Sahay Spinitectus komiyai 1965 with Sahay Stoylotrema ultivitellaria 1979 with Singh Tremiorchis tigrinarum 1974 with Sinha & Sahay HONORS Devendrosentis Sahay, Sinha & Ghosh 1971 (Acanthocephala)
- [Decio Paiola](https://neglectedscience.com/decio-paiola/): Décio Paiola, Brazilian dental surgeon (São Paulo 19 April 1931 – São Paulo 03 December 2011) With Janete Silva de Sousa performed the first approach surgery of mandible in a newborn employing osteogenic distraction with totally intraoral technique The use of Intra Oral Distraction Osteogenesis for the Treatment of Severe Upper Airway Obstructive in Children with Micrognathia. J. Oral Maxill. Surgery 34(1):54, 2005 With M.M. Soares, F. Guerra & C. Soares. Implant position correction by distraction osteogenesis. Intern. J. Oral Maxill. Facial Surg. 43(1): 110, 2005 With M.M. Soares, F.L.B. Guerra & L.H.M. Marinho. Biodegradable screws for the fixation of alveolar distraction devices.
- [Darrel Plowes](https://neglectedscience.com/darrel-plowes/): Darrel Charles Herbert Plowes, South African born Zimbabwean botanist and ornithologist (Estcourt, Natal Province 04 April 1925 – DESCRIBED ASCLEPIADACEAE TAXA Genera Anomalluma 1993 Australluma 1995 Borealluma 1995 Caudanthera 1995 Crenulluma 1995 Cryptolluma 1995 Cylindrilluma 1995 Hermanschwartzia 2003 Larryleachia 1996 Lavrania 1986 Monolluma 1995 Neopectinaria 2003 Pendulluma 2013 Pleuralluma 2008 Sanguilluma 1995 Saurolluma 1995 Somalluma 1995 Spiralluma 1995 Sulcolluma 1995 Vadulia 2003 Species 42   Aves Valid Subspecies Emberiza capensis smithersii 1951
- [Crodowaldo Pavan](https://neglectedscience.com/crodowaldo-pavan/): Crodowaldo Pavan, Brazilian geneticist  (Campinas, São Paulo State 01 December 1919 – São Paulo 03 April 2009) With T. Dobzhansky discovered the first case of morphological polymorphism in Drosophila sp. (1943) Two types of heterochromatin in Drosophila nebulosa. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sciences 32:137-45, 1946 With M. Breuer proposed that puffs in the polytene chromosomes could be a cytologic manifestation of genes in activity and showed that the genes are the same in all tissues of a given individual however distinct genes are turned on in distinct tissues or even in the same tissue at different times during the development (1952) independently from German W.
- [Clovis Paiva](https://neglectedscience.com/clovis-paiva/): Clóvis de Azevedo Paiva, Brazilian ophthalmologist (São Bento do Una, Pernambuco State 16 July 1917 – Recife 20 June 2000) Praised for famous names in ophthalmology like Joaquín Barraquer and Louis J. Girard SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Paiva Filho. Estudo da pressão média da artéria oftálmica e da pressão de perfusão ocular em indivíduos submetidos a cicloergometria. Arq. Bras. Oftalm. 62(1):44-7, 1999 With V. Maia & J. Owen. Córnea verticillata associada a doença de Fabry. Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 32:471-9, 1973 Lenticone anterior (lentiglobo). Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 31:193-5, 1972 Síndrome de Goldenhaar (displasia oculo-auriculo-vertebral). A propósito de um caso. Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 30(2):139-45, 1971 Edema
- [Clodomiro Picado](https://neglectedscience.com/clodomiro-picado/): Clodomiro Picado Twight, Costa Rican biologist (Dept. San Marcos de Jinotepe, Nicaragua 17 April 1887 – San Jose de Costa Rica 16 May 1944) From Scottish descent Authored over 115 scientific works Developed various anti-venom sera Authored Poisonous serpents of Costa Rica: their venoms, antiophidic therapy (1931) with international repercussion  Demonstrated inhibitory action of fungi Penicillium sp. on bacterial growth before Fleming (1923) and isolated and described its products (1923-7) Pioneer on theory of ageing immunology demonstrating the existence of autoantibodies as normal constituents of blood serum that play a role in a series of successive hormonal cycles that characterizes the human life
- [Clemente Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/clemente-pereira/): Clemente Pereira, Brazilian zoologist (São João da Bocaina, São Paulo State 01 January 1906 – São Paulo 30 October 1958) Authored 106 works being 70 of them scientific DEVELOPED METHODS/TECHNIQUES/DEVICES  A practical apparatus for culture and growth of monoxenic nematode larvae (1935) A dispositif for xenodiagnosis for Chagas disease (1939) With Z. Vaz a simple and rapid process for in toto-mounting of nematodes in balsam (1934) A method for diaphanization of arthropods using an alcaline solution of sodium carbonate (1940) With M.P. de Castro a method of argentic impregnation for studying internal morphology of microscopic invertebrates in toto-mounting (1943) With H. Medina
- [Ciro Peluffo](https://neglectedscience.com/ciro-peluffo/): Ciro Antonio Peluffo Berutti, Uruguayan microbiologist (Montevideo 19 April 1909 – 07 July 2009) Developed a simplified method for serological diagnosis of salmonellosis in Metodo simplificado de diagnostico serologico de las salmonelas With E. Hormaeche modified Kristensen-Lester-Jurgens green agar medium (1959) With E. De Robertis invented a special chamber to observe the motility of bacteria  DESCRIBED SALMONELLA SEROVARES Salmonella arechavaleta 1944 with Hormaeche & Pereyra Salmonella berta 1938 with Hormaeche & Salsamendi Salmonella butantan 1946 with Bier, Amaral & Biocca Salmonella carrau 1944 with Hormaeche & Pereyra Salmonella cerro 1938 with Hormaeche & Salsamendi Salmonella gaminara 1939 with Hormaeche Salmonella grumpensis 1944 with Hormaeche & Pereyra Salmonella montevideo 1936 with
- [Chih Ping](https://neglectedscience.com/chih-ping/): Chih Ping or Zhi Bing, Chinese zoologist and paleontologist (Kaifeng, Henan Province 09 April 1886 – Beijing 21 February 1965) His real name was Pingchih Chai Authored over 65 papers on vertebrate morphology, physiology, animal taxonomy and paleontology Described 5 new species of Gastropod mollusks (1932) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA  Arthropoda Cainoblattinopsis 1931 (Orthoptera) Chironomaptera 1929 (Diptera) Coptoclava 1928 (Neuroptera) Mesoforficula 1935 (Dermaptera) Mesohemerobius 1928 (Neuroptera) Mesolygaeus 1928 (Hemiptera) Mesotendipes 1928 (Diptera) Mesotenopsis 1935 (Ephemeroptera) Paraulacus 1928 (Hymenoptera) Perlariopsis 1928 (Plecoptera) Sinoelaterium 1928 (Coleoptera) Sinoephemera 1935 (Ephemeroptera) Sinonemoura 1928 (Plecoptera) Sinoperla 1928 (Plecoptera) Mollusca Parunio 1931 Vertebrata Mesoclupea 1933 with Yen (Pisces) Polyechmatemys 1930 (Reptilia) Sinohadrianus 1929 (Reptilia) HONORS Pingia Chang 1935 (Amphibia) Pingiella Baker 1945 (Mollusca) Pingius Hsiung 1932 (Protozoa) Pingolepis Chang &
- [Chien Pei](https://neglectedscience.com/chien-pei/): Chien Pei / Jian Pei, Chinese botanist (1902 – 1969) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Series (1982 with Chen) Congestiflorae, Pyramidatae, Subscaposa & Umbraculiformes Species Actinidia hypoglauca 1948 with Law Anemone oligocarpa 1933 Anemone petiolulata 1933 Aspidistra caespitosa 1939 Callicarpa chinyunensis 1982 with Fang Callicarpa hungtaii 1982 with Chen Callicarpa salicifolia 1982 with Fang Chloranthus hainanensis 1935 Chloranthus multistachys 1935 Chloranthus chekiangensis 1936 Clematis dilatata 1936 Clematis kweichowensis 1934 Clematis laxpaniculata 1936 Clerodendron henryi 1932 Clerodendrum longilimbum 1932 Clerodendron longipetiolatum 1932 Clerodendron luteopunctatum 1982 with Chen Gymnotheca involucrata 1934 Magnolia spathulata 1934 Marrubium supinum 1935 Pinellia peltata 1935 Premna confinis 1977 with Chen Premna dopii 1932 Premna fohaiensis 1977 with Chen Premna longipila 1932 Premna paisehensis 1982 with Chen Premna parvilimba 1932 Premna pilosa 1932 Premna sunejiensis 1932 Premna szemaoensis 1932 Premna tenii 1932
- [Charles Pinel](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-pinel/): Charles Pinel, French-born Brazilian merchant and botanical collector (Paris 05 May 1802 – Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro State 18 July 1871) Son of famous psychiatrist Philippe Pinel Authored Nouvelle  classification de la familie des orchidées. Bull. Acad. Roy. Sciences Bell. Lettr. 22-23(1):87, 1856 HONORS   Pinelia Lindley 1853 (Orchidaceae)
- [Charles Dillon Perrine](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-dillon-perrine/): Charles Dillon Perrine, US-born Argentine astronomer (Steubenville, Ohio State 28 July 1867 –Villa del Totoral, Cordoba Province 21 June 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered 9 comets (1895-1902) between them Perrine-Mrkos comet (1896), Perrine-Lamp (1896) and Perrine-Chofardet (1898) Discovered 2 moons of Jupiter: Himalia (1904) and Elara (1905) Developed a method for astronomical photographs HONORS   Prix Lalande, Académie des Sciences de France (1897)  Perrine crater in Moon Asteroid 6779 Perrine   
- [Charles A. Paiva](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-a-paiva/): Charles A. Paiva, Indian entomologist (Purneah, Bihar 30 May 1878 – 11 August 1919) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Metrocoropsis 1919 Paralibavius 1919 Species Amemboa lyra 1918 Angilovelia yalba 1918 Bagauda cavernicola 1919 Chrysocoris garoensis 1919  Colpura sulcata 1919 Dasynus relatus 1919 Cymoninus turaensis 1919 Enithares intha 1919 Enithares lactea 1919 Eusthetus insularis 1918 Exithemis similis 1919 Gorpis annulatus 1919 Harpactor varians 1918 Hebrus bombayensis 1919 Himacerus assamensis 1919 Metrocoropsis fermoratus 1919 Microvelia atromaculatus 1919 Microvelia burmanica 1918 Microvelia sexualis 1917 Nabis assamensis 1919 Nerthus kempi 1919 Nychia infuscata 1918 Onychotrechus lyra 1918 Paralibavius singularis 1919 Perittopus maculatus 1919 Sastragala trilineata 1919 Scadra castanea 1919 Sigara dubia Sigara septemlineata 1918 Ventidius distanti 1918 HONOURS Paivanana Distant 1918 (Hemiptera)
- [Cesar Ferreira Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-ferreira-pinto/): Cesar Ferreira Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and parasitologist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 02 April 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 28 July 1964) Authored about 300 works between them Artropodes parasitas e transmissores de doenças (1929-30) with international recognition With Magarinos Torres demonstrated the mode of eliminating eggs by Schistosoma mansoni in gastrointestinal tube (1945)  De la présence d’un stigmate respiratoire sur les tarses du Cimex hemipterus, C. lectularius, Pediculus humanus, Haematopinus eurysternus et chez les larves de Triatoma megista. Bol. Biol. 8:115-28, 1927   METHODS With A.F. Almeida. Um novo método para profilaxia da esquistossomose mansoni. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 40(3):291-318, 1944 Technica para o estudo das sanguesugas.
- [Carlos Rodolfo Pereyra](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-rodolfo-pereyra/): Carlos Rodolfo Pereyra, Argentine psychiatrist (La Plata 09 April 1903 – 02 August 1965) From his studies on endovenous insulin gave rise to a medicine named InsuloHepat Hipertonico sold by Laboratorio Bagó Developed a new method for cessation of hypoglycemic coma and prevention of irreversible coma in Prensa Medica (1944) Authored Esquizofrenia – demencia precoce (1943) quoted in review The Lancet (1944) Authored the book Semiologia y psicopatologia de los processos de la esfera intelectual (1951) that received rave reviews from The American Journal of Psychiatry (1953) LINKS https://www.alcmeon.com.ar/5/20/a20_09.htm
- [Carlos Palacios](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-palacios/): Carlos Antonio Palacios García, Venezuelan histologist and microscopist (Caracas 09 February 1925 – 10 August 1997) Authored over 50 scientific works World expert on ultrastructure and biochemistry of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Blastomyces dermatidis Described the cardiac conducting system from histologic and histochemical point of view Described Councilman bodies and electron microscopic differentiation of Langerhans islets grains in the female rat Developed intradermic method for inoculation in manufacture of aftosa vaccine and others modification in this vaccine used worldwide LINKS http://www.cazadoresdemicrobios.com.ve/consulta_biografia.php?id_biografia=123 (in Spanish)
- [Carlos Emilio Porter](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-emilio-porter/): Carlos Emilio Porter Mosso, Chilean naturalist (Valparaiso 20 August 1867 – Santiago 13 December 1942) From American descent Authored over 400 works between publications, scientific communications and books Discovered 332 animal (mainly insects), 5 bryophytes and 2 fossil mollusks species that were sent to other researchers DESCRIBED VALID ANIMALIA TAXA Genus/Subgenus Brethesiella 1920 (Hymenoptera) Neplas 1927 (Diptera) Hymenoptera Apanteles barrosi 1920 Apanteles brethesi 1917 Apanteles laorae 1923 Apanteles reedi 1920 Apanteles riverae 1916 Cyanopterus izagai 1920 Meteorus chilensis 1926 Perilitus stuardoi 1926 Hemiptera Aonidomytilus espinosai 1920 Corizus thomasi 1916 Erlacda signoreti 1929 Geocoris barrosi 1915 Lutevopsis chilensis 1923 Mepraia spinolai 1933 Niesthrea campoi 1921 Thyreocoris surrai 1933 Crustacea Cervimunida johni 1903 Idotea delfini 1903 Paromola rathbuni 1908 Diptera Liriomyza gayi 1915 Coleoptera Hesperophanes
- [Carlos de Paula Couto](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-de-paula-couto/): Carlos de Paula Couto, Brazilian paleontologist (Porto Alegre 30 August 1910 – Porto Alegre 15 November 1982) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN TAXA Order Xenungulata 1952 Family Pampatheriidae 1954 Genera Abothrodon 1944 Bobbschaefferia 1970 Camargomendesia 1978 Colbertia 1952  Derorhynchus 1952 Didelphopsis 1952 Epidolops 1952  Gaylordia 1952 Guggenheimia 1952 Ischyrodidelphis 1952 Lamegoia 1952 Macraucheniopsis 1952 Marmosopsis 1962  Megahippus 1981 Minusculodelphis 1962 Mirandaia 1952 Mirandatherium 1952  Monodelphopsis 1952 Neosclerocalyptus 1957 Palaeocladosictis 1961 Plesiotoxodon 1982 Protodidelphis 1952  Pseuderemotherium 1954 Pseudodiodomus 1979 Purperia 1982  Tetragonostylopsis 1963  Xenocnus 1980  Xenodelphis 1962 HONORS (Fossil Mammalia except one) Paulacoutoia Purper 1979 (Ostracoda) Pauladelphys Goin, Case, Woodburne, Vizcaino & Regueiro 1999 Paulacoutomys Vucetich, Souza Cunha & Alvarenga 1993 Carolopaulacoutoia McKenna & Bell 1997 Carolocoutoia Goin, Oliveira & Candela 1998
- [Candido Patiño Mayer](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-patino-mayer/): Candido Patiño Mayer, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 04 December 1884 – 1948) DESCRIBED NEW CLINICAL SIGNS  (e.g. Patiño-Mayer sign) Dilatation of colon as habitual cause of chronic constipation: two roentgenographic signs. La Semana Medica 1:179-83, 1932 El megacolon como una causa habitual de constipación crônica (a propósito de dos signos radiológicos) With A.C. Gourdy. Linfocitosis sanguínea em lós sifilíticos (signo diagnostico y pronostico) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Sifilis pulmonar. La Semana Medica (1916) La tuberculosis febril y la tuberculina. Semana Medica 2:377, 1917 Síndrome esplacno-hepato-hematico por paludismo oculto. Caso de paludismo autóctono de la ciudad de Buenos Aires o sus alrededores. Rev. Ass.
- [Bruno Petriella](https://neglectedscience.com/bruno-petriella/): Teofilo Bruno Pascual Petriella, Argentine paleobotanist (1943 – 1984) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Order Corytospermales 1981 Genera Austrostrobus 1973 with Morbelli Bororoa 1972 Euxylophoroxylon 1972 Menucoa 1969 Weinmannioxylon 1972 Species Austrostrobus ornatum 1973 with Morbelli Bororoa andreisii 1972 Bororoa anzulovichii 1972 Bridelioxylon americanum Bumbudendron millanii 1985 with Arrondo  Dicroidium lancifolium 1978 Elaeocarpoxylon sloaneoides 1972 Euxylophoroxylon chiquichanensis 1972 Goeppertella herbstii 1982 with Arrondo Lycopodiopsis millanii 1979 with Arrondo Medullopitys menendezii 1983 Menucoa cazauii 1969 Podocarpoxylon mazzonii 1972 Rhizophoroxylon spallettii 1972 Umkomasia speciosa Weinmannioxylon multiperforatum 1972 Weinmannioxylon pluriradiatum 1972 HONORS (Fossil Plantae) Petriellaea T.N.Taylor, del Fueyo & E.L. Taylor 1994   Brunoa Artabe, Zamuner & Stevenson 2004
- [Bruno Carlos Palombini](https://neglectedscience.com/bruno-carlos-palombini/): Bruno Carlos Palombini, Brazilian pneumologist (Rio Grande do Sul State c.1935 – Porto Alegre 06 June 2015) Authored over 290 papers and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS With P.R.K. Souza. A new technique for improving the reproducibility of rate of sweating and sweat composition in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (1970) With P.R.K. Souza. Cystic fibrosis: an improved diagnostic method utilizing constant current iontophoresis (1972) Proposed a pulmonary cycle for Mammomanogamus laryngeus With L.C. Severo, L.M. Conci, J.J. Camargo & M.R. André Alves. Syngamosis: two new Brazilian cases and evidence of a possible pulmonary cycle. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 82(3):467-8, 1988 With
- [Bento Pickel](https://neglectedscience.com/bento-pickel/): Bento José Pickel, German-born Brazilian Benedictine monk and botanist (Markelsheim, Bad Mergentheim State 28 July 1890 – São Paulo 04 April 1963) Authored over 130 scientific and popular papers Dermatite purulenta produzida por duas espécies de Paederus sp. (Col. Staph). Rev. Entomol. 2(3):775-93, 1940 DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Gossypiospermum crimeanum 1958 Mimosa coelho-de-moraesii 1958 with Handro Myrocarpus leprosus 1955 Saranthe marcgravii 1939 Terminalia camuxa 1958 Terminalia mameluco 1958 HONORS Pickeliana Mello Leitão 1932 (Arachnida)
- [Benjamin Peary Pal](https://neglectedscience.com/benjamin-peary-pal/): Benjamin Peary Pal, Indian plant geneticist and breeder (Mukundpur, Punjab 26 May 1906 – New Delhi 14 September 1989) Authored over 160 scientific publications and 5 books DEVELOPED NP700 and NP800 series  (varieties of wheat) which combat a particular type of rust N809 variety of wheat that can combat all 3 types of rust (1954) More than 40 varieties of roses  HONORS Benjpalia Subramanian & Bhatt 1989 (Fungi) 
- [Benedito de Oliveira Paiva](https://neglectedscience.com/benedito-de-oliveira-paiva/): Benedito de Oliveira Paiva, Brazilian agronomist (Pirapetinga, Minas Gerais State 12 November 1889 – Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 March 1974) Performed studies about plant tolerance to toxic aluminium of soils Proposed a scale to characterizing the wheat sensibility to acidity of soils Seleção e adubo (1944). This work was translated into English as Selection and Fertilization in the annals of congress Plant Adaptation to Mineral Stress in Problem Soils occurred in Beltsville, Maryland, United States (1976) DEVELOPED VARIETIES & CULTIVARS Wheat Colonias Trintanni Trapeano Trintecinco Patriarca Novosurto Riosulino Farrapo Combate Nordeste Planalto Alegrete Seberi Toropi Others Quarentão
- [Baini Prashad](https://neglectedscience.com/baini-prashad/): Baini Prashad, Indian malacologist and ichthyologist (Kirtapur, Punjab 17 January 1894 – Calcutta 18 January 1969) Discovered that the mantle was specifically responsible for the production of shell sculpture in Vivipariidae DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mollusca Genera Balwantia 1919 Eocremnoconchus 1928 Eolymnium 1919 Indonaia 1918 Indopseudodon 1922 Saptadonta 1934 Sinonovacula 1924 With Annandale Alocinma 1919 Astenothyra 1921 Atyscaphander 1924 Heudiella 1924 Parafossarulus 1924 Turbinicola 1921 Pisces Genera (with Mukerji 1929) Indostomus Parasphaerichthys Species Glyptothorax burmanicus 1929 with Mukerji Homaloptera rupicola 1929 with Mukerji Indostomus paradoxus 1929 with Mukerji Leptocephalus milnei 1919 with Southwell Leptocephalus vermiculatus 1919 with Southwell Microphis dunckeri 1929 with Southwell  Olyra horae 1929 with Mukerji Parasphaerichthys ocellatus 1929 with Mukerji Pseudolaguvia tuberculata 1929 with Mukerji Cestoda Genera Ilisha 1918 with Southwell HONORS
- [Authos Pagano](https://neglectedscience.com/authos-pagano/): Authos Gloi Ischiros Mateo Domingo Pagano, Uruguayan-born Brazilian economist, lawyer, statistician and philosopher (Montevideo 21 September 1903/9 – São Paulo 12 March 1976) Authored over 2,500 articles and 12 books His doctoral thesis O coeficiente instantâneo de mortalidade (1939) gained acclaim and received a Cuban prize His Lições de Estatística (1943) propelled British mathematician T.N.E. Greville to publish Laws of Mortality which satisfy a uniform seniority principle (1957) His Lições de Estatística was translated into English by Michigan University (1952); a third edition of this book received a prize by Actuarial Institute of London (1956) O coeficiente instântaneo de mortalidade: estabelecimento analytico e sua applicação à pesquiza de leis de sobrevivência
- [Autar Singh Paintal](https://neglectedscience.com/autar-singh-paintal/): Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist (Mogkok, Burma 24 September 1925 – Delhi 21 December 2004) Authored about 400 publications ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered several sensory receptors such as atrial B receptors (1953), ventricular pressure receptors (1955), gastric stretch receptors (1954), muscle pain receptors (1960) and mucosal mechanoreceptors of the intestines Discovered juxtapulmonary capillary or type J receptors (1955) Established the properties of various receptors Characterized the reflex and sensory actions of pulmonary J receptors Introduced the concept of viscerosomatic inhibition With R.L. Riley showed that aortic chemoreceptors were stimulated by reducing oxygen availability (1976) Discovered the principle relating to the relative dilution of
- [Arturo Posnansky](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-posnansky/): Arthur Posnansky, Austrian-born Bolivian anthropologist, archaeologist and geographer (Wien 13 April 1873 – La Paz 13 September 1946) Proposed a new secondary sexual character Un Nuevo caracter sexual secundario. Rev. Soc. Cient. Bolivia 1 (1930) Developed a device for craniometric measures in photographies Ein neues craneometrisches instrument und seine Verwendung zur Herstellung von Messbildern (1913) Patented a machine for quinoa’s large-scale production Gained international recognition for his studies about old civilizations of Titicaca Lake Authored Tihuanacu, la cuna del hombre americano (1945), a classical work of universal archaeology HONORS Posnanskytherium Liendo Lazarte 1943 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Arsene Puttemans](https://neglectedscience.com/arsene-puttemans/): Arsene Puttemans, Belgian-born Brazilian mycologist and landscape gardener (Bruxelles 28 February 1873 – Rio de Janeiro 03 May 1937) German mycologist P. Hennings described 7 genera and 205 new species from the material that he collected (1902-6) Observed Magnaporthe grisea on the wheat and Cladosporium fulvum on potato plant   Described the inflorescences disease of cauliflower caused by Alternaria brassicae Sacc. (1911) Showed that the propagation of sugar cane mosaic was due to a Thrips species in Brazil (1926) Reported the bean disease caused by Isariopsis griseola (1906) Puccinia justiciae 1934 (rust of Achillea millefolium) Uredo rochaei (rust of Myrciaria jaboticaba) Puccinia cambucae (rust of Myrciaria plicato-costata) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Cercospora chrysanthemi 1911 (cercosporal leaf spot) Cercospora eranthemi 1934 Colletotrichum
- [Arcadio Poveda](https://neglectedscience.com/arcadio-poveda/): Renan Arcadio Poveda Ricalde, Mexican astronomer (Merida, Yucatán Province 15 July 1930 – 24 March 2020) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as founder of infrared stellar cosmogony (1964-7) Developed Poveda method for calculating the mass of elliptical, spherical and ellipsoidal galaxies (1958) Discovered a relationship between the mass of a stellar powder-free system and its total luminosity (1961) Predicted that younger stars are involved in a gaseous and brilliant powder capsule in infrared (1965) With C. Allen & J. Ruiz showed that perturbations in young collapsing clusters originate runaway stars (1967)  With L. Woltjer discovered a linear relationship (Sigma-D relationship) between the radio brightness
- [Antonio Sidney Pompeu](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-sidney-pompeu/): Antonio Sidney Pompeu, Brazilian plant geneticist (Taquaritinga, São Paulo State 16 June 1938 – Of Italian descent from paternal side    DEVELOPED NEW VARIETIES OF DRY-BEANS With O. Paradela Filho. Novas linhagens do feijoeiro (Phaseolus vulgaris) dos grupos Rosinha e Roxinho, resistentes ao fungo da antracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum). Summa Phytopath. 5(3-4):153-8, 1979 Catú, Aeté 3, Aroana 80, Moruna 80, Carioca 80 & Aysó (1982) IAC-Oirã, IAC-Poitara & IAC-Tupã (1987) IAC-Maravilha, IAC-Una, IAC-Carioca Pyatã, IAC Carioca Aruã, IAC Carioca Akytã & IAC-Bico de Ouro (1997) IAC- Carioca Eté & IAC-Carioca Tybatã (1999) with S.A.M. Carbonell, M.F. Ito & N. Bortoletto IAC-Votuporanga, IAC-Ybaté &
- [Antonio Maria Pineda](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-maria-pineda/): Antonio María Pineda Bujanda, Venezuelan surgeon (Barquisimeto, Lara State 27 September 1850 – Barquisimeto, Lara State 05 October 1941) Authored over 50 medical works INVENTIONS Folding operation tables Pineda catheter An electric thermometer (Pineda ideal thermometer)   An eye teno-neurotome used to section of optical nerve (presented in 1922) Spatula for removal of foreign bodies in bladder A spatula for dissections A cautery torch Pineda probe for urinary retention  A procedure to make refractory clay made instruments (1917) Magic tube for poising railways 
- [Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-carlos-pacheco-e-silva/): Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist (São Paulo 29 May 1898 – São Paulo 27 May 1988) Authored original studies about general pathology of syphilitic infection of the nervous centers with many citations in literature Related the presence of Schaudinn spirochaeta in the tissues of nervous centers within the lymphatic channels (Virchow-Robin spaces) and in the proximity of the blood vessels, as well as in the intimate fibers of optic vessels Demonstrated the granular form of syphilis germ in brain With C. Tretiakoff. Uma forma particular da síndrome peduncular alterna. Mem. Hosp. Juqueri 1:101-6, 1924 Eponym of Pacheco e Silva-Oliveira
- [Antonio & Therezinha Paiva](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-therezinha-paiva/): Antonio Cechelli de Mattos Paiva, Brazilian biochemist (Mogi Mirim, São Paulo State 21 June 1929 – São Paulo 18 May 2006) Authored about 150 papers With his wife gained international recognition for their work on polypeptides syntheses SYNTHESES OF PEPTIDES With T.B. Paiva et al. New specific antagonists of angiotensin I and II (1973) With T.B. Paiva & M.E. Miyamoto. An analogue peptide of pepsitensin (1973) With T.B. Paiva & M.E. Miyamoto. Synthesis of a proposed pepsitensin. J. Med. Chem. 16(3):280, 1973 With M. Tominaga, J.M. Stewart & T.B. Paiva. New bradykinin potentiating peptides (1975) With G. Goissis & V.L.A. Nouailhetas.
- [Anita Dolly Panek](https://neglectedscience.com/anita-dolly-panek/): Anita Dolly Panek, Polish-born Brazilian biochemist (Cracow 01 September 1930 – Authored about 160 papers Determined the primary function of trehalose in baker’s yeast as an energy source for cell division Function of trehalose in yeast cells. Arch. Biochim. Biophys. 98:349, 1962 Showed that endogenous trehalose protects cells against damage caused by freezing (1988) Demonstrated that the trehalose is required for survival of cells when submitted to various kinds of stresses such as dehydration, ethanol, heat and germination Purified partially baker’s yeast trehalase With N.O. Souza. Purification and properties of baker’s yeast trehalase. J. Biol. Chem. 239(6):1671-3, 1964 Showed the existence
- [Angelo Pires do Prado](https://neglectedscience.com/angelo-pires-do-prado/): Angelo Pires do Prado, Brazilian entomologist (São Lourenço do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 01 February 1942 – Campinas, São Paulo State 25 August 2013) Authored one book and 117 papers DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Family Syringogastridae 1969 Genera Aristocerina 1975 with Borgmeier Brachyphlebina 1975 with Borgmeier Brachycosta 1976 Borgmeieria 1976 Borgmeiriphora 1976 Colyeria 1975 with Borgmeier Cyrtophorina 1975 with Borgmeier Dorsochaeta 1975 with Borgmeier Lenkokroeberia 1966 Lopesiodinia 1973 Neotraginops 1973 Paraphryssopoda 1983 with Guimarães & Papavero Platydipteron 1975 with Borgmeier Stylusa 1975 with Borgmeier Trichocerina 1975 with Borgmeier Species About 100 HONORS Pradomyia Gaimard 2007 (Diptera)
- [Andrés Posada Arango](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-posada-arango/): Andrés Posada Arango, Colombian physician, naturalist, geographer, ethnographer and historian (Medellín 11 February 1839 – Medellín 13 March 1923) With Osorio introduced the term piedra and described clinical aspects of black piedra (1876) Proposed the term bufin for active principle of frog poison (1871)  Proposed that the diet could be detected in dead body due to reaction between blood and sulphuric acid in Estudios medico-legales relativos a la identidad. Anales Acad. Med. Medellin 3(11):322-39, 1891  Aided in production of Dictionnaire Encyclopedique des Sciences Medicales DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Plantae  Bromelia longissima 1909 Cleome applanata 1909 Ficus minutaefolia 1909 Ficus venenata 1871 Oreodaphne oleifera 1891 Panopsis yolombo 1950 Pernettya locifolia Smilax sanguinea 1909
- [Anastasio Pirion](https://neglectedscience.com/anastasio-pirion/): François (Anastase) Pirion, French-born Chilean father and naturalist (Ambon, Morbihan 1888 – 1959) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Costumbres de algunos odonatos de Marga-Marga. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 37:78-82, 1933 Excursión a la cordillera de Tinguirica. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 34:170-80, 1930 Observaciones sobre 3 odonatos del Valle de Marga-Marga. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 32:95-7, 1928 Aves observadas em el Valle de Marga-Marga. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 31:102-15, 1927 With F. Jaffuel. Hymenopteres de la Vallee de Marga-Marga. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 30:362-83, 1926 With F. Jaffuel. Plantas fanerógamas del Valle de Marga-Marga. Rev. Chil. Hist Nat. 25:350-405, 1923 Algunas ideas de los mapuches acerca de los
- [Americo Pomales Lebron](https://neglectedscience.com/americo-pomales-lebron/): Americo Pomales Lebrón, Puerto Rican microbiologist (Guayama 01 January 1904 – 16 December 1984) DEVELOPED METHODS With B.M. Thomason, W.B. Cherry & B.R. Davis. Rapid presumptive identification of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in faecal smears by means of fluorescent antibody. I. Preparation and testing of reagents. Bull. World Health Org. (1961) With C. Fernandez. A method for estimating the number of bacteria in liquids and tissues. J. Bacteriol. 64(6):837-45, 1952 With P. Morales Otero. A method for preservation of oxalate plasma for fibrinolytic tests. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 41:609, 1939
- [Amanda Pellegrino de Iraldi](https://neglectedscience.com/amanda-pellegrino-de-iraldi/): Amanda Angela Pellegrino de Iraldi, Argentine (San Nicolás 1917 – Buenos Aires 22 February 2007) Daughter of Italian immigrants Authored over 150 works ACHIEVEMENTS First to describe spontaneous atherosclerosis of female rat Obtained the first experimental generalized atherosclerosis First to identify adrenergic synaptic vesicles First to formulate the coexistence of neurotransmitters in nervous system METHODS With G. Rodríguez de Lores & E. De Robertis developed original procedures for isolating synaptosomes and synaptic vesicles With G. Rodríguez de Lores & E. De Robertis developed De Robertis method of differential centrifugation for isolation of synaptic terminals (1962) With C.J. Tandler. A silver-reducing component
- [Aluizio Prata](https://neglectedscience.com/aluizio-prata/): Aluízio da Rosa Prata, Brazilian infectologist and parasitologist (Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 01 June 1920 – Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 13 May 2011) Authored over 275 papers, 48 book chapters and 7 books Considered as a world expert on schistosomiasis Showed foundations and applications of retal biopsy in schistosomiasis diagnosis and evaluation of its therapy. Beyond this developed a method for finding Schistosoma in animal organs A biópsia retal na esquistossomose mansoni e tratamento. Doctoral Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia (1957)   Described an advanced hepatic form of schistosomiasis without splenomegaly (with Z. Andrade) Fibrose hepática de Symmers
- [Allan Robert Phillips](https://neglectedscience.com/allan-robert-phillips/): Allan Robert Phillips, US-born Mexican ornithologist (New York City 25 October 1914 – San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León State 26 January 1996) DESCRIBED AVIAN TAXA Valid Species Empidonax oberholseri 1939 Leucolia wagneri 1966 Phaethornis griseoventer 1962 Subspecies 154
- [Alfred Polson](https://neglectedscience.com/alfred-polson/): Alfred Gustave Polson, South African biochemist (Brandfort, OFS 11 March 1912 – 2001) Demonstrated the possibility of protein fractioning of plasma by polyethylene glycol precipitation (1964) Developed a number of techniques for separation and purification of animal and plant viruses such as precipitation by polyethylene glycol    New amino acids in bacterial hydrolysates. Nature, 1948   METHODS/TECHNIQUES A new method for measuring diffusion constants of biologically active substances. Nature 154:223, 1944 A quantitative chromatographic method of analysis on filter paper (1948) With J. Dent & S.M. Lawrence. Improved diluents for the production of African horse-sickness virus vaccine. Nature, 1951  With G. Selzer. A
- [Alexandrino Pedroso](https://neglectedscience.com/alexandrino-pedroso/): Alexandrino de Moraes Pedroso, Brazilian bacteriologist  (Cotia, São Paulo State 1881 – São Paulo 1922) With E. Brumpt first reported the importance of pets in epidemiological cycle of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (1913) With José Maria Gomes observed first chromoblastomycosis or Lane-Pedroso-Gomes  disease (1911) but didn’t publish  until 1920, losing his priority to Max Rudolph. Its etiologic agent was named  Fonsecaea pedrosoi in his honor With J.M.Gomes. Sobre quatro casos de dermatite verrucosa produzida por Phialophora verrucosa. An. Paul.Med. Cir. 11:53-1, 1920 With Pedro Dias da Silva first to growing Leishmania brasiliensis in culture Introduced improvements in Nicolle medium 
- [Alejandro Posadas](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-posadas/): Alejandro Posadas Martínez, Argentine physician and surgeon (Saladillo, Buenos Aires Province 28 December 1870 – Paris 21 November 1902) First described coccidioidomycosis or Posadas-Wernicke disease and its histopathology Un nuevo caso de micosis fungoidea con psorospermia. Circulo Med. Arg. 15:585-97, 1892 Modified Delorme incision to treat infected pleural effusions becoming a hydatid delivery with partial and temporary thoracoplasty, pulmonary anchorage, cyst treatment and wound closure without drainage (Posadas operation) Cirurgia del pulmón (lesiones asepticas). Toracoplastia temporaria y parcial para la extirpación de los quistes hidatidicos de pulmon. Thesis (1898) Developed subperiostal amputations  Developed Posadas procedure for treatment of inguinal hernia Developed
- [Alejandro Piatnitzky](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-piatnitzky/): Alejandro Matveevich Piatnitzky, Russian-born Argentine geologist (Russia 14 December 1879 – Buenos Aires 28 December 1959) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA SPECIES (1938) Natica shehuena  Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia) feruglioi Trigonia palaeopatagonica Trigonia rolli  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Relaciones estratigráficas de la region del Río Chubut. Bol. Inf. Petroleras 23(259):173-85, 1946 Apuntes sobre la composición y estrutura geológica del Golfo de San Jorge. Bol. Inf. Petroleras 19(219):49-63, 1942 Observaciones geológicas al Oeste de Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Bol. Inf. Petroleras 13(165):45-85, 1938 Estudio geologico de la región del Río Chubut y del Río Genua (Patagonia Central). Bol. Inf. Petroleras 13(137):83-118, 1936 Retico y Liasico de los valles de los ríos
- [Alejandro C. Paladini](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-c-paladini/): Alejandro Constantino Paladini, Argentine biochemist (Buenos Aires 19 April 1919 – 15 September 2012) With L.F. Leloir identified and isolated 2 new coenzymes (1948) With R. Caputto, C.E. Cardini and L.F. Leloir discovered sugar nucleotides, determined its chemical nature and showed that play a key role in sugar interconversion and polysaccharides synthesis (1948) Established the structure of antibiotic tyrocidine A (1951-2) With J.M. Dellacha, J.A. Santomé & M.A. Enero isolated and characterized ovine growth hormone (1970) With J. A. Santomé & J.M. Dellacha elucidated amino acid sequence and the structure of bovine growth hormone (1973) With R.D. Conde, J.A. Santomé &
- [Alcides Prado](https://neglectedscience.com/alcides-prado/): Alcides Prado, Brazilian zoologist and physician (Limeira, São Paulo State 23 August 1893 – Santos, São Paulo 08 January 1963)  DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Valid Reptilia Species Apostolepis goiasensis 1942 Atractus andinus 1944 Atractus arangoi 1939 Atractus biseriatus 1941 Atractus indistinctus 1940 Atractus manizalesensis 1940 Atractus sanguineus 1944 Atractus variegatus 1942 Atractus vertebrolineatus 1941 Atractus wagleri 1945 Siphlophis worontzowi 1940 Thamnodynastes rutilus 1942 Bacteria Bartonella pseudocebi 1927 with Pessoa Arachnida Bothriurus melloleitaoi 1934 Centruroides danieli 1939 with Rios-Patino Rhopalurus dorsomaculatus 1938 Rhopalurus goiasensis 1939 Diptera Coquillettidia albifera 1931 Uranotaenia ditaenionota 1931 With Fonseca 1932 Genus Townsendmyia Species Coenosia flavicauda  Ctenoprosballia butantani Homoneura fasciventris Lauxania fasciata Lauxania javanensis Oxysarcodexia amarali Peckia florencioi Phobeticomyia preapicalis Ravinia belforti  Sarcophaga townsendi Stephanostoma argenteum Stephanostoma humerale 
- [Alberto Prosén](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-prosen/): Alberto F. Prosén, Argentine entomologist and arachnologist (Buenos Aires 1902 – Buenos Aires 23 April 1972) DESCRIBED TAXA Genera Microtriatoma 1952 with Martínez (Hemiptera) Vaziella 1954 (Coleoptera) Species About 190 species between insects and arachnids HONORS Prosenella Lane 1959 (Coleoptera) Proseniella Kohler 1953 (Lepidoptera)  Alberprosenia Martínez & Carcavallo 1977 (Hemiptera)
- [Afranio Peixoto](https://neglectedscience.com/afranio-peixoto/): Julio Afrânio Peixoto, Brazilian psychiatrist and coroner (Lençois, Bahia State 17 December 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1947) Internationally known as criminologist  Authored 15 psychiatric works His thesis Epilepsia e crime (1898), aroused great interest in foreign scientific circles Sugested a protocol for autopsies like that of  Virchow. Two great names of forensic medicine Locard and Lombroso praised Peixoto’s protocol    Inspeção de naso-faringe por um novo processo de autópsia. Gaz. Med. Bahia, 1901 Established a criterion for characterize the symptoms of paranoia With J. Moreira. Paranoia e os syndromes paranoides. Brasil Medico (1904) & Arq. Bras. Psiq. Neurol. Cie. Afins
- [Adriano Lucio Peracchi](https://neglectedscience.com/adriano-lucio-peracchi/): Adriano Lucio Peracchi, Brazilian zoologist (São Paulo 03 August 1938 – With M.R. Nogueira. Fig-seed predation by 2 species of Chiroderma: discovery of a new feeding strategy in bats. J. Mammal. 84:225-33, 2003 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Coleoptera Abiliella 1964 Enocleroides 1972 Paracregya 1964 Mammalia Dryadonycteris 2012 with Nogueira, Lima & Simmons Species Coleoptera Abiliella fasciata 1964 Corinthiscus cyanicollis 1962 Corinthiscus pici 1960 Corinthiscus spectabilis 1960 Corinthiscus tricinctus 1962 Corinthiscus zellibori 1962 Cregya seabrai 1962 Enocleroides inaequalipennis 1972 Lasiodera quadrivittata 1960 Muisca cylindricollis 1962 Paraleyrodes bondari 1971 Phytocerum distinguedum 1964 with Soares Phytocerum zikani 1964 with Soares Acari Spelaeorhynchus jimi 1991 Spelaeorhynchus soaresi 1991 Spelaeorhynchus wenzeli 1991 Mammalia Dryadonycteris capixaba 2012 with Nogueira, Lima & Simmons Myotis izecksohni 2011 with Moratelli, Dias & Oliveira Myotis lavali 2011
- [Adolfo Martins Penha](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-martins-penha/): Adolfo Martins Penha, Brazilian veterinarian (Rio de Janeiro 1904 – São Paulo 09 January 1990) Developed a vaccine for calves diarrhea Modified the method of preparation of crystal violet phenol vaccine introducing glycerine or D’Apice method (1944) With R. Cury & M. D’Apice. Vacina contra a peste suína. Técnica de preparo. Factores que interferem na sua eficiência. Imunização por via intradérmica. Arq. Inst. Biol. 18 (1947) Proposed intradermic application of this vaccine  With M. d’Apice & R. Cury. Vaccination against hog cholera with crystal violet vaccine by the intradermic route. J. Amer. Vet. Med. Assn. 92:230, 1948 With Luiz Braz Siqueira
- [Adilson Dias Paschoal](https://neglectedscience.com/adilson-dias-paschoal/): Adilson Dias Paschoal, Brazilian agronomist and acarologist (08 November 1941- DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Valid Families Aleurodamaeidae 1985 with Johnston Hammeriellidae 1989 Idiodamaeidae 1987 Lyrifisselidae 1989 Nooliodidae 1989 Pheroliodidae 1987 Pedrocortesellidae 1987 Genera Adrodamaeus 1982 Andesperuviella 1989 Calipteremaeus 1987 Hammeriella 1989 Hexachaetoniella 1987 Johnstonella 1982 Lopheremaeus 1988 Lopholiodes 1987 Lyrifissella 1989 Nooliodes 1989 Novazelandiella 1989 Octoliodes 1987 Odontodamaeus 1982 Paralopheremaeus 1987 Pleodamaeus 1982 Species 43 between Acari and Insects
- [Adel Barreto Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/adel-barreto-pinto/): Adel Barreto Pinto, Brazilian railway engineer (São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul State 12 June 1859 – Rio de Janeiro 20 April 1927) Several discoveries and mechanical inventions attributed to him PATENTS A new method of preserving meat, fats, birds and other foods employing electricity (1891) Fat maintenance (1893) Process for preserving meat CA47814A (1895)  Signalling for railroads (1903) & (1907) Exploitation of electric power produced by train for railroad signalling  (1903) Hydraulic elevator for electricity output  (1905) Maintenance, sterilization and transportation of dairy products, juices and wines (1906) Electric sign for railroads (1907) Adel automated block system to avoid railroad
- [Abel Antonio Peirano](https://neglectedscience.com/abel-antonio-peirano/): Abel Antonio Peirano, Argentine geologist and petrographer (Buenos Aires 05 June 1896 – San Miguel de Tucumán 10 July 1969) Authored over 60 works Collected new animal, plants and fossil species beyond archaeological artifacts  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observaciones generales sobre la tectónica y los depositos terciarios del cuadrángulo 26°S-64° 30W° 28°G’S-67°W en el noroeste argentino. Acta Geol. Lilloana (1956) Consideraciones sobre las rocas mixtas magmático-metamorficas de las “Sierras Pampeanas” del noroeste argentino. Cuad. Miner. Geol. 4(14):77-103, 1945  Agua del Dionisio. Um centro volcanico moderno em el districto Hualfín, Depto. Belén, Prov. Catamarca. Cuad. Miner. Geol. 3:12, 1944-5 Estudio geologico de la Sierra de la Ramada,
- [Wilson Ikekuchu Beniah Onuigbo](https://neglectedscience.com/wilson-ikekuchu-beniah-onuigbo/): Wilson Ikekuchu Beniah Onuigbo, Nigerian pathologist (28 April 1928 – CONTRIBUTIONS Metastasis to the umbilicus – possible racial difference. J. Nat. Med. Assoc. 79(2):193-4, 1987 An index of community awareness of appendicitis. Tropical Doctor 13(3): 134-5, 1983 Human model for studying seed-soil factors in blood-borne metastasis. Arch. Pathol. 99(6):342-3, 1975 Human model for comparing localization factors in metastasis. Arch. Pathol. 95(4):260-1, 1973 A modified theory of retrograde lymphatic metastasis in lung cancer. Brit. J. Dis. Chest 57:120-5, 1963 A mono block formalin fixation method for investigating cancer metastasis. Z. Krebsforsch. 65:209-10, 1963 Papers in top journals With A. Johnson, M.H. Karpati
- [Waldyr Muniz Oliva](https://neglectedscience.com/waldyr-muniz-oliva/): Waldyr Muniz Oliva, Brazilian mathematician (Santos, São Paulo State 16 June 1930 – DEVELOPED CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS Introduced Birkhoffian at finite or infinite dimensions Introduced the concept of the attractor of a retarded functional differential equations Proposed the specific notion of compact global attractor (1970s) Une definition équivalente à l’involution de E. Cartan pour les systemes d’equations aux derivées partielles. Cahiers Topol. Geom. Diff. Categor. 11(2):201-5, 1969 CONTRIBUTIONS Presented a characterization for the notions of regular and singular curves With I. Kupka. The non-holonomic mechanisms. J. Diff. Equations 169(1):169-89, 2001 Presented a mathematical model for analyzing population dynamics involving human and
- [Thomas Risley Odhiambo](https://neglectedscience.com/thomas-risley-odhiambo/): Thomas Risley Odhiambo, Kenyan entomologist (Alego, Nyanza Province 04 February 1931 – Nairobi 26 May 2003) Authored over 130 papers and monographs HEMIPTERA GENERA DESCRIBED Ambonea 1961 Anapsallus 1960 Bowdenella 1961 Chiloxis 1961 Cometocoris 1960 Dhohochilus 1968 Duducoris 1962 Gampsoderma 1960 Kuomocoris 1967 Madondo 1968 Makakix 1967 Metopicoris 1960 Narinellus 1965 Nasutimiris 1961 Notocheila 1961 Nyodochilus 1968 Odhukochilus 1968 Otuchis 1968 Petasma 1961 Prosopicoris 1960 Ragwelellus 1962 Rakula 1967 Rayieria 1962 Rhyssicoris 1960 Stibaromma 1961 Xenolygus 1968 Zacheila 1961 Described at least 90 hemipteran species    HONORS Albert Einstein Medal 1979 Genus Odhiamboella Schuh 1974 (Hemiptera)
- [Teodoro Oniga](https://neglectedscience.com/teodoro-oniga/): Teodoro Oniga, Romanian-born Brazilian engineer (Iapa, Maramures County 02 February 1917 – Rio de Janeiro 18 April 2011) Authored about 200 works CONTRIBUTIONS With F. Schiel. Some new methods of dust analysis. Chem. Abstr. 43:61, 1949 Developed flat collectors with selective surface and a solar refrigerator with ammonia cycle Absorption cooling units with fixed conoidal reflector. UN Conference on New Sources of Energy 6S70, 1964 Proposed Oniga trivalent ternary logic (1974) Found new vegetable oils from seeds of Jatropha pohliana, Jatropha curcas, Joannesia princeps and Talauma ovata With A.J.B. Barreto. Novos oleos vegetais brasileiros. Informativo do INT 12(21):3-6, 1979 PATENTS Process and apparatus for true color reproduction
- [Sergio Mascarenhas Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-mascarenhas-oliveira/): Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 02 May 1928 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 31 May 2021) ACHIEVEMENTS World authority on dielectrics and Costa Ribeiro effect Authored nearly 200 publications    One of the first in the world that extended and melt monocrystals to study charges release First to note the appearing of electrical charges during a solid sublimation Observation of the Costa Ribeiro effect in the process of sublimation of para-phenilene diamine. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 26:345-8, 1954 Showed that heat transmission through a fluid dielectric was intensely affected by the action of electric fields known as electrothermal
- [Sebastião José de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/sebastiao-jose-de-oliveira/): Sebastião José de Oliveira, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 03 November 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 16 April 2005) Authored 77 scientific and popular papers DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera Brasixenos 1966 with Kogan Corytibacladius 1995 with Messias & Santos Laurotanypus 1992 with Messias & Silva-Vasconcelos Lopescladius 1967  Species 70 HONORS Oliveiriella Wiedenburg & Fittkau 1997 (Diptera)
- [Roy Oosthuizen](https://neglectedscience.com/roy-oosthuizen/): Roy Don Frederick Oosthuizen, South African amateur paleontologist (East London 09 December 1923 – Prins Albert, Zwartskraal 20 September 1999) Collected several invertebrate species from the Bokkeveld Group SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.D. Waterston & B.W. Oelofsen. Cyrtoctenus wittenbergensis sp.nov. (Chelicerata: Eurypterida), a large sweep-feeder from the Carboniferous of South Africa. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, Earth Sci. 76:339-58, 1985 Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Afr. 87:125-40, 1984 An attempt to determine the provenance of the Southern Dwyka from palaeontological evidence. Palaeont. Africana 24:27-9, 1981 With M.R. Cooper. Archaeocyatha-bearing erratics from the
- [Ricardo Nestor Orfila](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-nestor-orfila/): Ricardo Nestor Orfila, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 07 November 1909 – Buenos Aires 26 October 1967) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA TAXA Lepidoptera Tribes Callicorini 1952 Catonephilini 1952 Subfamilies Acraginae 1961 Dalcerinae 1961 Genera Abnormipterus 1935 Breyeriana 1957 Catrielia 1960 with Schajovskoy Coironalia 1961 with Schajovskoy Costalimaida 1958 Dagostinia 1963 with Schajovskoy Dalargentina 1961 Franciscoia 1963 with Schajovskoy Gatesclarkeia 1957 with Rossi Huechulafquenia 1964 with Schajovskoy Johnlaneia 1964 with Schajovskoy Lacaria 1960 with Schajovskoy Laninia 1958 with Schajovskoy Lepidojulia 1952 Martindoelloia 1963 with Schajovskoy Micheneria 1957 with Rossi Moureia 1957 with Rossi Namuncuria 1951 Pleurosoma 1935 Pucaraia 1960 with Schajovskoy Sarobeia 1962 with Schajovskoy Sphecops 1935 Vianania 1954 Neuroptera Tribe Verticillicerini 1949 Genus Pastranaia 1955 Hymenoptera Subfamily Schletterereriinae 1949 HONORS  Orfilaia Haedo Rossi 1955 (Coleoptera)
- [Ricardo Hector Omarini](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-hector-omarini/): Ricardo Hector Omarini Tedesco, Argentine geologist (Cordoba 17 March 1946 – Salta 28 June 2015) With A. Yague, S.Pichowiak, K.W. Damm, J.G. Viramonte & L. Garcia Cacho. Santa Rosa de Tastil granitic complex, Salta, Argentina. An unusual “S” type granite. Actas 1º Congr. Geol. Argent. 4:199-22, 1987 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Gioncada, L. Vezzoli, R. Mazzuoli, V. López-Azarevich, R. Sureda, M. Azarevich & J. Ruch. Topaz magmatic crystallization in rhyolites of the Central Andes (Chivinar volcanic complex, NW Argentina): constraints from texture, mineralogy and rock chemistry. Lithos 184-7:62-73, 2014 With V. Acocella, A. Gioncada, U. Riller, R. Mazzuoli & L. Vezzoli.
- [Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-ortiz-valdivieso/): Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso, Colombian Jesuit father and orchidologist (Floridablanca, Santander Department 31 January 1926 – Bogotá 18 July 2012) DESCRIBED ORCHID TAXA Genera Eloyella 1979 Notyliopsis 1996 Santanderella 2011 Section Monotrema 2011 Species 107 HONORS Valdiviesoa Kolanowska & Szlachetko 2015 (Orchidaceae)
- [Oliveira family](https://neglectedscience.com/oliveira-family/): Euzébio Paulo de Oliveira, Brazilian geologist, paleontologist and petrographer (Abaeté, Minas Gerais State 14 August 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 12 October 1939) Authored 146 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Plantae Dadoxylon derbyi 1936 Invertebrata Biconvexiella roxoi 1936 Langella imbituvensis 1930 Nuculana woodworthi 1930 Orbiculoidea guaraunensis 1930 Quinquenella rionegrensis 1930 HONORS (Fossil) Euzebiola Sommer 1954 (Algae)  Eusebia Maury 1930 (Bivalvia)  Oliveirania Maury 1927 (Annelida)  Oliveiraia Mendes 1954 (Mollusca) His son, Paulo Erichsen de Oliveira, geologist and paleontologist (Ponta Grossa, Paraná State 04 November 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 25 September 1969) From Danish ancestry by maternal side  DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA SPECIES Anchura roxoi 1951 Anomia aracajuensis Aturia ackermanni 1958 Baculites kegeli 1957 Coilopoceras lucianoi  1969
- [Odriozola family](https://neglectedscience.com/odriozola-family/): Manuel Odriozola Romero, Peruvian physician (Lima 26 March 1826 – Lima 27 June 1888) First to perform special studies over nasal miyasis Authored the first study about Peruvian verruca or bartonellosis in Estudio acerca de la verruga peruana (1858) Authored Verrugas i gusanera de las narices in Gaceta Medica de Lima 1:140, 1858, a work that was praised by French medical community His son, Ernesto Odriozola Benavides, physician (Lima 06 May 1862 – Lima 16 March 1921) His doctoral thesis Les lésions du coeur consecutives a l’atherome des coronaires (1888) received a gold medal from Faculté de Medecine de Paris Authored La maladie de
- [Nobuo Oguri](https://neglectedscience.com/nobuo-oguri/): Nobuo Oguri, Japanese-born Brazilian shipbuilder (Tokyo 06 December 1925 – Rio de Janeiro 27 November 2014) Developed a methodology for management of shipyards Along the Portuguese-born Manoel Ribeiro Gonçalves were the main names of the Brazilian shipbuilding industry building modern ships comparable to that from other great centers of shipbuilding COLABORATED IN SHIPBUILDING ore/oiler Docepolo (1975), the greatest ship built at Southern Hemisphere in that day ore/oil carriers Docefjord & Tijuca (1986) were the world record-breakers among ships of their type oiler Bicas (1984), the first ship to meet the requirements of the International Maritime Organization for fully segregated ballast tanks
- [Nicolas Osorio](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolas-osorio/): Nicolas Osorio Ricaurte, Colombian pathologist (Bogotá 10 September 1838 – Anapoima 21 December 1905) Authored Une tumeur provenant de la substance grise cephalorachidienne. Thesis (1865) First observed “pigmentum” in blood, 6 years ahead of Laveran in Higado Pigmentado (1874). In this work presented anatomo-pathologically the visceral lesions of paludism  Presented the first case of black piedra (1874) in Sur la piedra, nouvelle espece d’affection parasitaire des cheveux  With Posada Arango introduced the term piedra and described clinical aspects of black piedra SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tratados sobre las quinas Estudio sobre las fiebres Ligaduras elásticas Hernia estrangulada Habitaciones de los obreros Aneurisma de
- [Nelson Onuchic](https://neglectedscience.com/nelson-onuchic/): Nelson Onuchic, Brazilian mathematician (Brodosqui, São Paulo State 12 March 1926 – São Carlos, São Paulo State 03 September 1999) From Austrian descent ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 49 works Obtained important findings about P spaces and uniform structures that earned him renown in international scientific community (1958-60) Introduced new concepts in asymptotic equivalence Generalized the concept of  exit point Extended Waszewski topological method for differential equations with time-delay Obtained an instability criterion more generalized that from Hale concept (1971) EPONYMY Hartman-Onuchic theorem (1963) Hale-Onuchic asymptotic method (1964)    See (in Portuguese) http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/brc/33004137031P7/2006/badin_mg_me_rcla.pdf
- [Nei Fernandes de Oliveira Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/nei-fernandes-de-oliveira-jr/): Nei Fernandes de Oliveira Jr., Brazilian physicist (Campinas, São Paulo State 20 May 1941 – With Y. Shapira discovered virtual bicritical point (1979-80) With C. Becerra & Y. Shapira discovered Lifshitz multi critical point (1980) DEVELOPED A system for measuring differential magnetic susceptibility down to 0.3 K using modulated field A system for precise measurements of magnetization in plastic dilution refrigerators (1994) With G. Vellego & A. C. Medugno a continuous process for production of NbTi superconducting nanowires Technology for obtaining ultra low temperatures under intensive magnetic fields Designed and built devices for cryogenic research A new generation of resonant detectors employing spherical
- [Masayuki Okumura](https://neglectedscience.com/masayuki-okumura/): Masayuki Okumura, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 16 July 1927 – From Japanese ancestry Performed the second and third cases of intestinal transplantation in the world literature (1968-9) First intestine transplant in the world in which the patient survived for 10 days (1968) First to demonstrate the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in intestinal myenteric plexus First to reproduce megaesophagus, megastomach, megabladder and megacolon in experimental Chagas’disease With A. Correa Netto. Experimental production of “megas” in animals inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi (in Portuguese). Rev. Hosp. Clin. Fac. Med. S. Paulo 16:338-41, 1961 His work about pre-hospitalar first aid of patients that suffered traffic accidents gained international repercussion (1982)
- [Mario Ramos de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-ramos-de-oliveira/): Mário Ramos de Oliveira, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 11 July 1918 – São Paulo 29 October 2004) His thesis Gastroileostomia inadvertida: contribuição para o seu estudo clinico, radiologico e anatomo patologico (1953) gained international repercussion With P.W. Assis Pires, E.E. Camargo, W.E. Mittelstaedt & M.B. Speranzini. Medida do refluxo duodenogástrico: padronização de nova técnica com Rosa Bengala marcada com I131. Rev. Hosp. Clinicas 43(1):40-4, 1988 With I. Fujimura, D. Birolini, L.T. Horita, T. Okagawa & O.S. Simonsen. A standardized operative procedure in patients with duodenal trauma. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 43(1):35-9, 1988 With F.B. Jatene, M.J. Bechara, J.F. Biscegli, B. Langer & D. Birolini. Intraoperative
- [Manoel Antonio Vital de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/manoel-antonio-vital-de-oliveira/): Manoel Antonio Vital de Oliveira, Brazilian official and hydrographer (Recife 28 September 1829 – Paraguay 03 February 1867) Achieved international projection due to his maritime charts. His most complete work was posthumous, Roteiro da Costa do Brasil, do Rio Mossoró ao Rio São Francisco do Norte (1869). HONORS   Legion of Honour (France) Order of Saint Maurice & Saint Lazarus (Italy)
- [Luiz de Queiroz Orsini](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-de-queiroz-orsini/): Luiz de Queiroz Orsini, Brazilian electrical engineer (Rio de Janeiro 10 September 1922 – São Paulo 20 January 2018) With R.H. Mazzilli. Sudden increase in the ionosphere F2 region ionization associated with solar flares. Nature 193:462, 1962 DEVELOPED With R.V. Camargo. An electrolytic tank to the study of circuits and fields (1952) With A.H. Guerra Vieira. Realização de um radio-interferômetro para a localização de fontes extra-terrestres. An.Acad. Bras. Ciencias 30:299-06, 1958 Método simples para a medida de pequenas capacitâncias. Eletricidade 2(9):8-9, 1959 With J. Angerami. Description of an anti-interference filter for the C3 ionosonde. Nota prévia. CERF 5 (1961) HONOURS Life
- [Lilia Pinto de Ornellas](https://neglectedscience.com/lilia-pinto-de-ornellas/): Lilia Figueiredo Pinto de Ornellas, Brazilian paleontologist and poetess (Tupanciretã, Rio Grande do Sul State 17 October 1936 – Porto Alegre 17 July 2015) DESCRIBED FOSSIL INSECTA TAXA Families (with Pinto) Carpenteropteridae 1991 Latiscutellidae 1974 Narkeminidae 1991 Narkemocacurgidae 1978 Pricecoridae 1974 Proedischiidae 1978 Genera Afrochoristella 1978 with Pinto Afrosharovia 1994 with Pinto Gondwanaptera 1981 with Pinto Latiscutella 1974 with Pinto Minicythere 1974 Paranarkemina 1980 with Pinto Permipsythone 1980 with Pinto Pricecoris 1974 with Pinto Proedischia 1978 with Pinto Species  Afrochoristella maclachlani 1978 with Pinto Afrosharovia permiafricana 1978 with Pinto Carpenteroptera rochacamposi 1978 with Pinto Gondwanaptera capsii 1981 with Pinto Irajanarkemina rodendorfi 1978 with Pinto Latiscutella santosi 1974 with Pinto Minicythere heinii 1974 Paranarkermina kurtzi 1980 with Pinto Paranarkemina
- [Leonardo Oliva](https://neglectedscience.com/leonardo-oliva/): Francisco Leonardo de La Trinidad Oliva Alzaga, Mexican physician, pharmacist and botanist (Ahualulco de Mercado, Jalisco State 29 October 1814 – Guadalajara 06 November 1872) AUTHORED Lecciones de Farmacologia (1853-4) Tratado de Terapeutica (1860) Flora Medica (1870) Discurso sobre La Botanica extranjera e indigena (1870) Ensayo sobre uma carpologia aplicada à La higiene y à la terapeutica Comentarios a la obra de Historia Natural Mexicana del dr. Francisco Hernandez Cucurbitáceas ó calabaceñas. La Naturaleza 1 El copal. La Naturaleza 1 Flórula del departamento de Xalisco. La Natureza 5  HONORS Olivaea Schultz-Bipontinus 1872 (Asteraceae)
- [Lejeune de Oliveira](https://neglectedscience.com/lejeune-de-oliveira/): Lejeune Pacheco Henriques de Oliveira, Brazilian hydrobiologist (São Brás de Suaçui, Minas Gerais State 16 November 1915 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1982) Authored important works about sanitary conditions of fluvial and marine water from Rio de Janeiro Enunciated law of lagoons concentration under uniform successive renovations Sobre a lei de concentração das lagunas e sua aplicação no caso da lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 53(2-4):263-76, 1955 Discovered magnetotactic algae With H. G.P. Lins de Barros, D.M.S. Esquivel & J.A. Danon. Magnetotactic algae. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 54:258-9, 1982 Invented devices to collect bottom material, thermometer for
- [Julio Ortiz Perez](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-ortiz-perez/): Julio Ortiz Perez, Cuban obstetrician (Matanzas 27 May 1898 – ?) Developed Ortiz Perez subcutaneous symphysiotomy (1925) and buttoned scalpel for cartilage (Ortiz Perez scalpel) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Nota sobre la inducción o facilitación del parto. Rev. Med. Cubana 70:340-50, 1959 Symphysiotomy versus difficult fórceps. Am. J. Obst. Gynec. 66(4):781-3, 1953 With J. Blanco Herrera & O. Valdes Cruz. El problema de la dolor en el parto normal. Vida Nueva 66 (1):1-16, 1950 Doce anos de sinfisiotomia subcutanea. Arch. Med. Interna 1:254-73, 1935 With J. Ramírez Olivella. Tratamiento de la distocia pelviana en Cuba
- [Juhani Ojasti](https://neglectedscience.com/juhani-ojasti/): Juhani Ojasti, Finnish-born Venezuelan ecologist (Viipuri, today Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast 12 April 1934 – Recognized as expert in the management and exploitation of wild fauna mainly capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) and Orinoco turtle (Podocnemis expansa) Authored about 80 papers and book chapters, 21 technical reports and 7 books Performed biological, ecological and systematical studies on Venezuelan mammalians With H. Heatwole & A. Maldonado. A trapping method for capturing lizards. Herpetologica 20:212-3, 1964 DESCRIBED MAMMALIA TAXA Species Dasyprocta guamara 1972 Lonchorhina orinocensis 1971 with Linares Subspecies Pteronotus parnellii paraguanensis 1974 with Linares Dasyprocta punctata zuliae 1972
- [Juan María Obarrio](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-maria-obarrio/): Juan María Felix Obarrio Langdon, Argentine neuropsychiatrist (Buenos Aires 18 May 1878 – Buenos Aires 25 May 1958) Contributions Reflejo paradojal de la pupila a la luz en un caso de sifilis y corea. Sem. Med (1916) With A. Gareiso. Contribución al estudio de los reflejos en corea de Sydenham. Sem. Med. 32 (1926) El estupor es un síndrome parkinsoniano. Rev. Arg. Neur. 3:385, 1929 With A. Gareiso & A.J.Petre. Sindrome adiposo genital de Babinski-Froehlich com adiposidad dolorosa y miopatia. Prensa Med. Arg. 19:1224-9, 1932 With E. Dowling & E.A. Pedace. Síndrome de la linea media cerebelar. Sem. Med. 41:2, 1934
- [Juan Jose de Oteiza](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-de-oteiza/): Juan José de Oteiza y Vértiz, Mexican cleric and scientist (Ciudad de Mexico 08 February 1777 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 September 1810) Assisted famous German Alexander Von Humboldt on statistical and geographical researches in Mexico Published essays on physical experiments and studies about Teotihuacán pyramids (1803) He was physics professor in Colegio de Minería (1804-10) HONOR Oteiza La Llave 1832 (Asteraceae)
- [Juan Augusto Olsacher](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-augusto-olsacher/): Juan Augusto Olsacher, Argentine geologist and mineralogist (Cordoba 18 March 1903 – Cordoba 16 May 1964) From Austrian father and German mother Authored 36 works Improved Hobson procedure for obtaining block diagrams (1960) Described mineral species achavalite (1939) and schmiederite (1962) HONORS  Olsacherite Hurlbut Jr & Aristaraín 1969 (Mineral)
- [Peckolt](https://neglectedscience.com/peckolt/): Theodor Peckolt, German-born Brazilian pharmacist and plant chemist (Pechen, Niederlausitz, Silesia 13 July 1822 – Rio de Janeiro 21 September 1912) Published nearly 170 publications between books and papers Performed chemical analysis of 285 plant species (for example Amazon guarana)   Described 2 plant species: Trophis brasiliensis 1883 (Moraceae) and Momordica papillosa 1862  (Cucurbitaceae) Performed the first analysis on chaulmoogra oil in the world (1866) before John Moss did it in India (1879) Introduced the sapucainha oil (Carpotroche brasiliensis) for treatment of a number of skin affections (1860s) The first to perform analysis on honey from Melipona genus bees ISOLATED Agoniadin (today plumerid), a glycosid from Plumeria lancifolia, the first iridoid
- [Pavlovsky family](https://neglectedscience.com/pavlovsky-family/): Alejandro Jacobo Pavlovsky Leguizamón, Argentine surgeon (Paraná 18 August 1896 – 28 July 1976) From Jewish Russian descent of paternal side Authored over 400 works with 6 books Published the first cases of free skin grafting with Padgett’s dermatome With Mario M. Harris. Injerto libre de piel. Bol. Acad. Argent. Cir. 27:816, 1943 TECHNIQUES / DEVICES Criteria for resection in subtotal and total gastrectomy. Prensa Med. Argent. 42(26):1925-8, 1955 Forceps for porto-caval anastomosis in coarctation of the aorta. Bol. Trab. Acad. Arg. Cir. 35(26):740-1, 1951 With J. Schavelzon. New material for plumbing in pulmonary tuberculosis. Prensa Med. Argent. 36(26):1211-6, 1949 Tecnica operatoria para
- [Paulus Aulus Pompeia](https://neglectedscience.com/paulus-aulus-pompeia/): Paulus Aulus Pompéia, Brazilian physicist and engineer (Sorocaba, São Paulo State 01 October 1911 – 10 February 1993) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered penetrating showers in cosmic rays with Wataghin and Santos With G. Wataghin & M.D. S. Santos. Simultaneous penetrating particles in the cosmic radiation I. Physical Review 57:61, 1940. With G. Wataghin & M.D. S. Santos. Simultaneous penetrating particles in the cosmic radiation. II. Physical review 57:339, 1940.   Proposed criteria for distribution problems related to statistical physics Distribution problems related to statistical physics. An. Acad. Bras. Cien. 27(2):123-36, 1955  Introduced new criteria of randomness With A. de Moraes. Time distribution analysis related
- [Pascual Palazzo](https://neglectedscience.com/pascual-palazzo/): Pascual Palazzo Milano, Argentine civil engineer (Rio Cuarto, Cordoba Province 27 November 1890 – 09 May 1980) Introduced the concept of guiding velocity Introduced the concept and designed the first parkway in the world (1936) Created the double loop system for gaining entrance of the bridges Created the C curves of constant centrifugal coefficient between two routes of distinct velocities Established criteria for computation and design of roads and streets 
- [Parodi family II](https://neglectedscience.com/parodi-family-ii/): Lorenzo Parodi, Italian-born Argentine naturalist (Genova 06 May 1857 – Lanús, Buenos Aires Province 15 January 1932) Performed collections and discoveries of fossil vertebrates and archaeological pieces His son, Rodolfo Parodi Bustos, Argentine paleontologist (Necochea, Buenos Aires Province 13 September 1903 – San Salvador de Jujuy 14 November 2004) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIA SPECIES Lestodon malacarensis 1952 with Parodi Megatherium arnodin-chibraci 1977 Plohophorus sirollii 1975 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Mas sobre la clasificación de los mastodontes argentinos. Rev. Mus. Arg. Cien. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia 4(2):9-15, 1987 Paleoantropologia argentina. El origen del hombre americano a luz de los descubrimientos efectuados desde principios del siglo (1978) Notas sobre milodontinos
- [Parodi family](https://neglectedscience.com/parodi-family/): Armando Santiago Parodi Trabucco, Argentine microbiologist and parasitologist (Haedo, Buenos Aires Province 06 May 1909 – 23 June 1969) Isolated the Junín virus, causative agent of hemorrhagic Argentine fever With D.J. Greenway, H.R. Rugiero, M. Frigerio, J.M. de la Barrera, N. Nettler, F. Garzón, M. Boxaca, L.B. Guerrero & N.R. Nota. Sobre la etiologia del brote epidémico de Junin. El Dia Medico 30:2000-10, 1958 Studied the characteristics of Junín virus  With C.E. Coto, M. Boxaca, S. Lajmanovich & S. Gonzalez. Characteristics of Junín virus. Arch. fur d. Ges. Virusforsch. 19(4):393-402, 1966  With M. Weissenbacher demonstrated that immune serum prevents death by Junín virus Developed
- [Paris Pismis](https://neglectedscience.com/paris-pismis/): Marie Paris Pismis de Recillas, Turkish-born Mexican astronomer (Ortaköy Village, Besiktas District, Istanbul  30 January 1911 – Ciudad de Mexico 01 August 1999) Nee Mari Sukiasyan of Armenian descent Authored over 120 papers Gained international recognition for her studies on ionized nebulae kinematics Carried out some of the first photometric observations of young stellar clusters Discovered the reason for the waves of spiral galaxies rotation curves based on different stellar populations (1960s) Explained the structure of spiral galaxies Demonstrated that period-luminosity relationship of RR Lyra variable stars in M3 was distinct from Cepheids stars (1940s) Suggested the existence of Mildly Active Galactic
- [Oswald Otto Popper](https://neglectedscience.com/oswald-otto-popper/): Oswald Otto Popper, South African surgeon (28 March 1899 – Dunkeld, Johannesburg 14 August 1957) From Austrian parents Elaborated the transtympanic method of labyrinth fenestration without opening for the mastoid (1946) Designed surgical instruments such as a suction dissector, a bronchoscope with proximal lighting, a double-blade hemostatic guillotine and an adenotome PATENTS Means for the insertion of intra-vaginal packs US2416642A (1947) Vaginal pack device US2351836A (1944) 
- [Orfilio Pelaez](https://neglectedscience.com/orfilio-pelaez/): Orfilio Orestes Pelaez Molina, Cuban ophthalmologist (Cespedes District, Camaguey Province 17 November 1923 – La Habana 17 January 2001) Developed a new surgical treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (1987) Described and named a scleral sign called tattoo sign 
- [Olivério Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/oliverio-pinto/): Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto, Brazilian ornithologist (Jaú, São Paulo State 11 March 1896 –Piracicaba 13 June 1981) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Aves Species Hylopezus nattereri 1937 Neopelma chrysolophum 1944 Synallaxis infuscata 1950 Subspecies Attila rufus hellmayri 1935 Campylorhamphus trochilirostris guttistriatus 1955 with Camargo Campylorhamphus trochilirostris omissus 1933 Cercomacra laeta sabinoi 1939 Chlorostilbon lucidus berlepschi 1938 Chordeiles pusillus saturatus 1957 with Camargo Cichlocolaptes leucophrus holti 1941 Conopophaga melanops nigrifrons 1954 Cranioleuca semicinerea goyana 1936 Cranioleuca vulpina solimonensis 1938 Cyanocorax chrysops insperatus 1961 with Camargo Deconychura longicauda zimmeri 1974 Dendrocincla fuliginosa taunayi 1939 Furnarius tricolor araguaiae 1952 with Camargo  Glyphorhynchus spirurus paraensis 1974 Hylocharis chrysura lessoni 1955 Hypocnemis flavescens perflava 1966 Hypoedaleus guttatus leucogaster 1932 Momotus momota marcgravianus 1961 with Camargo  Myiozetetes similis pallidiventris 1935 Myrmeciza
- [Nuno Alvares Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/nuno-alvares-pereira/): Nuno Álvares Pereira, Brazilian pharmacologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 August 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 10 January 2012) Authored over 100 scientific works mainly on natural products pharmacology With H. Moussatché gave pioneering contributions to knowledge of corticotrophic hormones Proposed a method for dosage of heparin Notas sobre a padronização e ensaio da heparina. Rev. Bras. Farm. 11:423, 1953 Discovered alkaloid polyneuridine from Aspidosperma polyneuron With L. Antonaccio, B. Gilbert, C. Dejerassi et al. Polyneuridine, a new alkaloid from Aspidosperma polyneuron and some observations on mass spectra of indole alkaloids. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 84 (2161): 70, 1962 With R.J. Siqueira Jaccoud first showed
- [Nicolas Puente Duany](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolas-puente-duany/): Nicolás de la Caridad Puente Duany, Cuban anatomical pathologist and oncologist (Santiago de Cuba 06 December 1899 – Miami, Florida 17 March 1991) Authored 266 papers, 7 monographs and 6 books Proposed a histogenetic-based classification of breast sarcoma Sarcoma de las mamas. Arch. Cuban. Cancerol. 13:91, 1954 Skin tumors of spinocerebellar structure and benign nature. A new clinical form. Multiple and recurring spinocrebellar epitheliomas with a tendency toward spontaneous cicatrization. Arch. Cub Cancerol. 13 (10-12):327-81, 1954 Spinous cell pseudoepithelioma (keratoacanthoma) of the skin of the anterior face of the torax: a new multiple massive and localized clinical variety. Arch. Cub Cancerol. 18 (1-3):1-14,
- [Nicola Petragnani](https://neglectedscience.com/nicola-petragnani/): Nicola Petragnani, Italian-born Brazilian organic chemist (Rome 16 May 1929 – São Paulo 05 December 2015) Son of world-famous microbiologist Gianni Petragnani Authored about 100 original papers With A. R. Katritzky, O. Meth-Cohn & C.S. Rees authored the book Tellurium in organic synthesis (1994) Authored one chapter in volume 11 of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry ACHIEVEMENTS With J.V. Comasseto, W. Nakamura & C.A. Brandt discovered aryl (selenotelluro) acetals, a new class of non-metallic elements compounds (1983) With J.V. Comasseto & J.T.B. Ferreira performed the acetylenic selenides (1981) With J.V. Comasseto performed the first synthetic application of vinyl selenides (1978) With J.V. Comasseto first to add diazoalkanes
- [Neville Stuart Pillans](https://neglectedscience.com/neville-stuart-pillans/): Neville Stuart Pillans, South African botanist (Rosedale, Rosebank 02 May 1884 – Cape Town 23 March 1964) Described the valid genus Stapeliopsis 1928 (Asclepiadaceae) and about 290 plant species HONORS Nevillea Esterhuysen & Linder 1984 (Restionaceae) Pillansia L. Bolus 1914 (Iridaceae)  
- [Nelson Papavero](https://neglectedscience.com/nelson-papavero/): Nelson Papavero, Brazilian entomologist and science historian (São Paulo 09 March 1942 – Authored World Oestridae (Diptera), Mammals and Continental drift (1977), a reference work in this area Theoretical contributions With J. Llorente Bousquets. Nuevo concepto en biologia comparada: el eidoforonte. Publ. Espec. Museo Zool. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mexico 5:21-9, 1992 With J. Llorente Bousquets & J.M. Abe. Formal definitions of some new biological and geological terms for use in biogeography. Biogeographica 70(4):193-203, 1994 With J. Llorente Bousquets & J.M. Abe. Proposal of a new system of nomenclature for phylogenetic systematics. Arq. Zool. 36(1):1-145, 2001 DESCRIBED DIPTERA GENERA Acrocomyia 1977 Albibarbefferia 1997 with Artigas
- [Narayana Krishna Pillai](https://neglectedscience.com/narayana-krishna-pillai/): Narayana Krishna Pillai, Indian carcinologist (Tiruvalla, Kerala 1921 – 16 March 2013) DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEA GENERA Amblycephalon 1954 Choniomyzon 1962 Cirolanoniscus 1966 Conopomatus 1960 Eudactylinopsis 1968 Humesiella 1973 with Sebastian Indanthura 1966 with Eapen Indoclausia 1974 with Sebastian Kabataella 1984 with Prabha Metataeniacanthus 1963 Parechetus 1962 Pseudanisomysis 1976 Pseudechetus 1979 with Prabha Pseudoirona 1964 Pseudorbitacolax 1971 Pumiliopsis 1967 Stockia 1974 with Sebastian Tambalagamia 1961 HONORS Pillainus Kabata 1983 (Crustacea)
- [Mário Pinotti](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-pinotti/): Mário Pinotti, Brazilian sanitarist (Brotas, São Paulo State 21 January 1894 – Rio de Janeiro 03 March 1972) Developed Pinotti method employing chloroquine salt against malaria (1952). This salt was used as therapeutic and/or prophylactic     HONORS Bernhard Nocht Medal, Bernhard Nocht Institut für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg  (1954) Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1959)  OFFICES Brazilian Health Minister (1950-4; 1958-60)
- [Miguel Puiggari](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-puiggari/): Miguel Puiggari Llobet, Spanish-born Argentine chemist (Barcelona 26 April 1827 – Buenos Aires 14 April 1889) Discovered a new mineral Niqueluranita, o nuevo mineral de níquel y uranio del Cerro de Famatina. An. Soc. Cien. Arg. 1:339-40, 1876 Developed new dosage methods Invented ammonio-nitrometry Amoninitrometria o nueva sistema para dosar el amoniaco, el azoe de las materias orgânicas y el acido nítrico existentes en la atmosfera libre o confinada, en las tierras, en los abonos, etc. Rev. Farmacia 11:173-88, 1873 PATENTS The tick pesticide Sarnol (1903) With N. Venezia. Process for the purifying and clarifying of water. US1392524A (1917) A patent about guano
- [Mauricio Matos Peixoto](https://neglectedscience.com/mauricio-matos-peixoto/): Mauricio Matos Peixoto, Brazilian mathematician (Fortaleza 15 April 1921 – Rio de Janeiro 28 April 2019) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1974) ACHIEVEMENTS Attained international recognition on important results about stability of differential systems Regarded as a pioneer in dynamical systems on surfaces   Introduced sigma decomposition or focal decomposition concept (1982) Introduziu all-flows space (1959) Modified original definition of structural stability of Andronov-Pontrjagin flows  (1959) Introduced closing lemma Introduced  metric space sigma of differential equations   Proved that  structurally stable flows are dense on surfaces (c.1965) Proved that flows on closed surfaces are generically structurally stable Demonstrated structural stability of geometric
- [Mary Agard Pocock](https://neglectedscience.com/mary-agard-pocock/): Mary Agard Pocock, South African phycologist (Rondebosch, Cape Town 31 December 1886 – Grahamstown 10 July 1977) Recognized as a world authority on Volvocalean green algae systematics and morphology Authored about 30 papers DESCRIBED VALID ALGAE TAXA Genera Aiolocolax 1956 (Rhodophyta) Onychocolax 1956 (Rhodophyta) Rhodomelopsis 1953 (Rhodophyta) Astrephomene 1954 (Chlorophyta) Species Aiolocolax pulchellus 1956 Astrephomene gubernaculifera 1954 Balticola capensis 1960 Balticola zimbabwiensis 1960 Colacopsis velutina 1953 with Martin Dysmorphococcus africanus 1962 Gelidiocolax margaritoides 1953 with Martin Gelidiocolax suhriae 1953 with Martin Gonimophyllum africanum 1953 with Martin Gonium multicoccum 1955 Gonium octonarium 1955 Hydrodictyon patenaeforme Janczewskia meridionalis 1953 with Martin Microcolax africanus 1953 with Martin Onychocolax polysiphoniae 1956  Plocamiocolax papenfussianus 1953 with Martin Polysiphonia caespitosa 1953 Rhodomelopsis africana 1953 Selenoderma africana 1933 Sphaerocystis poweri 1933
- [Mario Parisi](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-parisi/): Mario Nestor Parisi, Argentine cell physiologist and biophysicist (Buenos Aires 01 October 1939 – ACHIEVEMENTS With J. Chevalier & J. Bourguet first to find a low water permeability associated with a high aggregate surface area in the apical membrane (1983) With J. Bourguet proposed a model for water specific pass through plasmatic membrane (1983) With P. Ford, G. Amodeo, C. Capurro, C. Ibarra, R. Dorr & R. Ripoche proposed progesterone as regulator for water transfer in epithelial barriers (1996) With P. Ford, J. Merot, A. Jawerbaum et al. reported the first study correlating water permeability and aquaporin mRNa expression in mammalian
- [Mariano Pacheco Herrarte](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-pacheco-herrarte/): Mariano Pacheco Herrarte, Guatemalan agriculturalist (Quetzaltenango 24 April 1878 – after 1968) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Agriculture in Guatemala (1944) Cultivo de la Hevea brasiliensis (caucho de Pará) 1944 El mejoramiento de nuestros arboles y arbustos por medio del injerto (1941) La hibridación de plantas. Rev. Agric. Guatemala 17:237-41, 1940 El mejoramiento del cafeto (1939) El cultivo intensivo del café. Rev. Agr. Guatemala 15(3):140-2, 1938 Practicas agrícolas para mejorar los cultivos, aumentar y abaratar la producción (1937) El cultivo de la cana de azúcar. Rev. Agr. Guatemala 14:152-4, 1936 HONORS  Pachecoa Standley & Steyermark 1943 (Fabaceae)
- [Maria del Carmen Perrilliat](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-del-carmen-perrilliat/): Maria del Carmen Perrilliat Montoya, Mexican paleomalacologist (1938 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Acanthoxenophora 2001 with Vega Mexfusus 2004 with Vermeij, Herbert & Vega Mexopus 2001 with Kiel Orrstreidi 2013 with Cristin Subgenus Caribiella 1972 Species Abra (Abra) nicoli 1977 Acanthoxenophora sinuosa 2001 with Vega Acteon (Acteon) dalli 1974 Acteon (Acteon) pilsbryi 1974 Agladrillia boesei 1973 Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) mauryae 1973 Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) thalmannii 1973 Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) vermeij 2010 Amaurellina guerrera 2000 with Vega & Corona Ampullina palmeri 1963 Anadara (Rasia) veracruzana 1976 Anadara woodringi 1960 Anchura denticulata 2001 with Kiel Anomalofusus beui 2004 with Kiel Architectonica bajaensis 2013 Architectonica bieleri 2013 Atys (Aliculastrum) santarosaensis 1974 Bactrocythara tehuantepecensis 1973 Beisselia kilburni 2004 with Kiel Beisselia kirstenae 2004 with Kiel Beisselia kollmanni 2004 with Kiel Brachycythara santarosaensis 1973 Bursa
- [Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-augusto-piraja-da-silva/): Manuel Augusto Pirajá da Silva, Brazilian parasitologist (Camamu, Bahia State 28 January 1873 – São Paulo 01 January 1961) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed first complete description of Schistosoma mansoni and clarified his full life cycle La schistosome à Bahia. Arch. Parasit. 13:415, 1908  First to correlate mansonic schistosomiasis and glomerulopathy (1908) First described schistosomal cercaria Cercaire brésilienne (Cercaria blanchardi) à queue bifurquée. Arch. Parasit. 15:398-400, 1912  Demonstrated transmission mode of Trypanosoma cruzi by faeces of its vector With E. Brumpt. Existence du Schizotrypanum cruzi Chagas, 1909 à Bahia (Matta de São João). Biologie du Conorhinus megistus. Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 5(1):22-6, 1912 Perfected treatment technique of cutaneous leishmaniasis by employing tartar
- [Man Kyu Pak](https://neglectedscience.com/man-kyu-pak/): Man Kyu Pak, South Korean amateur botanist (Gurye County, Jeollanam-do Province 13 April 1906 – 1988) Authored An enumeration of Korean plants (1946) & Flora of Korean Pteridophyta (1961) HONORS Mankyua Sun, Kim, Kim & Park 2001 (Pteridophyta)
- [Malur R. Narasimha Prasad](https://neglectedscience.com/malur-r-narasimha-prasad/): Malur Ramaswamy Iyengar Narasimha Prasad, Indian reproductive physiologist and comparative endocrinologist (Bangalore, Karnataka 01 May 1923 – Bangalore, Karnataka 07 October 1987) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Effects of intranasal administration of hormonal steroids on serum testosterone and spermatogenesis in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatto). Biol. Reprod. 22:935-40, 1980 With T. Karkun & M. Rajalakshmi. The maintenance of the epididymis in the castrated golden hamster by testosterone and dihydrotestosterone. Contraception 9:471-85, 1974 With M. Rajalakshmi, G. Gupta & T. Karkun. Control of epididymal function. J. Reprod. Fertil. Suppl. 18:215-22, 1973 With S. Mohla. Early action of oestrogen on the incorporation of 3H-uridine in the blastocyst
- [Makanji Kalyanji Patel](https://neglectedscience.com/makanji-kalyanji-patel/): Makanji Kalyanji Patel, Indian plant pathologist (Bardoli Gujarat 28 February 1899 – Naysari, Gujarat State 28 February 1967) Authored over 140 papers Developed Patel agar for isolating crown-gall bacterium With Y.S. Kulkarni showed Dolichos biflorus (kulthi) as a new host of Xanthomonas phaseoli sojense (1949) Described more than 50 bacterial diseases from India DESCRIBED DISEASES AND AGENTS Alternaria burnsii 1938 with B.N. Uppal & M. Kamat (alternaria blight of cumin) Bremia gramicola var. indica 1948 Xanthomonas badri 1950 with Kulkarni & Dhande Xanthomonas campestris pv. Uppali (1948) that causes disease of Ipomoea muricata Xanthomonas desmodii, a new bacterial leaf spot of Desmodium diffusum D.C. Curr. Sci. 18:213, 1949 With L. Moniz & Y.S. Kulkarni
- [Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-hildebrando-pereira-da-silva/): Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva, Brazilian parasitologist (Santos, São Paulo State 16 September 1929 – São Paulo 24 September 2014) Considered as one of world’s foremost authorities on malaria Authored over 120 scientific works being 80 of them about malaria Studied molecular biology of Plasmodium sp. Described genetic regulation of regulator genes With H. Eisen, P.H. Brachet & F. Jacob. Regulation of repressor expression in bacteriophage. I. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sciences 66:855-62, 1970    Described the role of chemotactic agents as cell differentiation inducers With M. Darmon & P.H. Brachet. Chemotactic signals induce cell differentiation in Dictyostelidium dicoideum. Proceed. Natl. Acad. Sciences 72:3163-66, 1975  
- [Luiz de Rezende Puech](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-de-rezende-puech/): Luiz Manuel de Rezende Puech, Brazilian orthopedist (São Paulo 28 May 1884 – São Paulo 04 January 1939) Designed a method for the treatment of paralytic talipes calcaneus SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tabes dorsalis et tabes combine. Arch. Bras. Psych. Neurop. Scien. Aff. 2(1): 58-97, 1906 Ginecologia e alienação mental. Arch. Bras. Psych. Neurop. Scien. Aff. 3-4: 352-76, 1907 Algumas deformidades congênitas. Annaes Paul. Med. Cir. 3(2-4), 1915    Atestados de óbito. Annaes Paul. Med. Cir. 277-83, 1919    Osteocondrite deformante infantil. Bras. Med. 141, 1921 A moléstia de Heine-Medin e suas paralysias residuais: conceito atual, etiológico, pathológico e clínico. Annaes Paul. Med. Cir., 1924 
- [Luiz Cintra do Prado](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-cintra-do-prado/): Luiz Cintra do Prado, Brazilian engineer and physicist (Amparo, São Paulo State 16 December 1904 – São Paulo 28 February 1984) Composed some pieces for piano Introduced a number of original contributions to measurement’s technique A radioatividade das fontes hidrominerais (1938) Sobre uma fórmula simples e precisa para as correções barométricas. An. Acad. Bras. Cien. 13 (1941) Un nomogramme pour l’hygrometrie. Anais acad. Bras. Ciencias 16(3):181-4, 1944 An exponential form for the hereditary function in the termo-dielectric phenomenon. Anais Acad. Brasi. Ciencias 28(2):149-60, 1946 HONOURS Marquis World Who’s Who (1979-80)
- [Luis Peña Guzmán](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-pena-guzman/): Luis Enrique Peña Guzmán, Chilean entomologist (Santiago 25 January 1921- Santiago 27 September 1995) Authored 350 papers Collected and discovered many new species of insects, amphibians, reptilians, arachnids, birds and fossils in South America DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Coleoptera Genera Australocerambyx 1971 Epipodonta 1974 Eunycterinus 1971 Paranycterinus 1971 Ulumoides 1974 Another genus 1963 Species More than 100 between species between Coleoptera & Lepidoptera Aves Subspecies   Asthenes humicola goodalli 1989 with Marin & Kiff Diuca diuca chiloensis 1964 with Philippi Geositta rufipennis harrisoni 1989 with Marin & Kiff HONORS Luispenaia Martínez 1972 (Coleoptera) Penacoris Carvalho & Rosas 1966 (Hemiptera) Penaia Freytag & DeLong 1971 (Hemiptera) Penaincisalia Johnson 1990 (Lepidoptera) Penapis Michener 1965 (Hymenoptera) Penaphlebia Peters & Edmunds 1972 (Ephemeroptera)
- [Luis Jorge Poveda](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-jorge-poveda/): Luis Jorge Poveda Alvarez, Costa Rican botanist and plant chemist (Turrialba 06 December 1945 – Authored over 70 scientific works DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Caryodaphnopsis burgeri 1988 with Zamora Coccoloba bejuco 1991 with Sanchez Copaifera camibar 1989 with Zamora & Sanchez Croton corinthius 2003 with Gonzalez Croton megistocarpus 2003 with Gonzalez Eugenia glandulosopunctata 1986 with Sanchez Ficus lasiosyce 2003 with Gonzalez Guettarda turrialbana 1988 with Zamora Hoffmannia stephaniae 2004 with Gonzalez Hymenaea osanigraseminae 2018 with Aguilar & Santamaria Inga coprocarpa 1991 with Zamora Jatropha costaricensis 1978 with Webster Krugiodendron acuminatum 2003 with Gonzalez Pouteria lecythidicarpa 1991 with Sanchez Roldana scandens 1992 with Kappelle Sclerolobium costaricense 1991 with Zamora Unonopsis theobromifolia 1988 with Zamora Verbesina tapantiana 1990 with Hammel HONORS Povedadaphne Burger
- [Luis Enrique Pierini](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-enrique-pierini/): Luis Enrique Pierini, Italian-born Argentine dermatologist (Montecassiano, Macerata, Ancona Province 03 July 1899 – Buenos Aires 17 July 1987) Described Pasini-Pierini atrophoderma With D. Vivoli. Atrofodermia idiopatica progressiva (Pasini). Giorn. Ital. Mal. Vem. Pelle 77:403-9, 1936 Described melanotic prurigo or Pierini-Borda prurigo With J. M. Borda. Prurigo melanótico. Rev. Arg. Dermat. 3:32, 1947 Developed histamine test for diagnosis of leprosy Reacciones cutaneas de la histamine en dermatosis diversas. La Semana Medica 18:1159, 1931 
- [Luis de la Peña Auerbach](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-de-la-pena-auerbach/): Luis Fernando de la Peña Auerbach, Mexican theoretical physicist (Texmelucan, Puebla State 23 July 1931 – Authored over 100 papers and 10 books A world pioneer in stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics Proposed and developed a formalism of stochastic mechanics that allows proper distinction between classical and quantum stochastic processes Made central contributions to stochastic electrodynamics being invited to write the book The Quantum Dice: An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics (1996) With A.M.Cetto. Simple relationship between energy and adiabatic invariants for systems with a power-law potential. Am. J. Physics 52:539-42, 1984 New formulation of Stochastic Theory and Quantum Mechanics. J. Math. Phys.
- [Luciano Palet](https://neglectedscience.com/luciano-palet/): Luciano P.J. Palet, Argentine analytical chemist (died 1919) Sobre algunos reactivos nuevos generales de alcaloides y su uso microquimico. Rev. Politecn. 10:275-80, 1909 Proposed Suessoel, a new artificial edulcorant and sweetning compound (1914) Note sur une nouvelle reaction extremement sensible de l’apomorphine (1916) Developed a test for the detection of selenium in sulphuric acid based upon the color produced with aspidospermine in Anales Soc. Qui. Argentina 5:121-3, 1917 An extension of the application of a mixed solution of potassium ferricyanide and ferric chloride to the characterization of alkaloids, glucosides and other substances of vegetable origin. Ann. Soc. Quim. Arg. 6:156-8, 1918
- [Lourival Domingos Possani](https://neglectedscience.com/lourival-domingos-possani/): Lourival Domingos Possani, Brazilian-born Mexican toxicologist (Santo Angelo, Rio Grande do Sul State 09 July 1939 – Authored 500 publications (with about 19,700 citations by Google Scholar, about 17,000 by ResearchGate and about16,600 by Research.com) Described a number of novel toxins form scorpions, reptiles, molluscs, spiders and wasps Described the toxic venom peptides that affect the function of ion channels of excitable cells First to report peptides that block potassium (K+) channels (noxiustoxin 1986 and ergtoxin from Centruroides noxius) Found peptide toxins with immune-modulatory function and that with antibiotic and antiparasitic activity Other peptides with interesting biological activities such as specific toxins for
- [Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi](https://neglectedscience.com/lorenzo-raimundo-parodi/): Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi, Argentine botanist and agronomist (Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province 23 January 1895 – Buenos Aires 21 April 1966) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera/Subgenera Erianthecium 1943 Gymnachne 1938 Hemimunroa 1937 Microbriza 1981 Oplismenopsis 1937 Thrasyopsis 1946 Pseudosporobolus 1928 Species 128 Others 1 subtribe, 2 subfamilies, 80 varieties and 13 forms HONOURS Parodiodoxa O.E. Schulz 1929 (Brassicaceae)  Parodianthus Troncoso 1941 (Verbenaceae)  Parodiodendron Hunziker 1969 (Euphorbiaceae)  Parodiolyra Soderstrom & Zuloaga 1989 (Poaceae)  Parodiophyllochloa Morrone, Denham, Aliscioni & Zuloaga 2008 (Poaceae)   Lorenzochloa Reeder & Reeder 1968 (Poaceae)  Section Parodiochloa Hubbard 1981 (Poaceae)
- [Llewellyn Ivor Price](https://neglectedscience.com/llewellyn-ivor-price/): Llewellyn Ivor Price, Brazilian paleontologist (Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State 09 October 1905 – Rio de Janeiro 09 June 1980) Son of American parents Authored over 50 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA  Genera Apodichelys 1954 Araripemys 1973 Araripesaurus 1971 Araripesuchus 1959 Baurusuchus 1945 Candelaria 1947 Itasuchus 1955 Mourasuchus 1964 Peirosaurus 1955 Prionosuchus 1948 Pristiguana 1973 with Estes Protorothyris 1937 Romeria 1937 Roxochelys 1953 Sphagesaurus 1950 Species About 20 HONORS (Fossil) Pricecoris Pinto & Ornellas 1974 (Hemiptera) Pricemys Gaffney, Meylan, Wood, Simmons & Campos 2011 (Reptilia)
- [Livio Dante Porta](https://neglectedscience.com/livio-dante-porta/): Livio Dante Porta, Argentine locomotive engineer (Paraná, Entre Rios Province 21 March 1922 -Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province 10 June 2003) Recognized as one of world’s foremost locomotive engineers of 20th century Introduced innovative improvements in steam locomotives Proposed several new designs for steam locomotives (2-10-0, 2-10-10-2) in 1960s and 1970s and the Argentina locomotive (1949) DEVELOPED Lempor, Lemprex and Kylpor exhaust systems or blast pipes GPCS System (Gas Producer Combustion System) 1966 A steam bus (with Gustavo Durán) A modern steam car (1970) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY A graphical method of adjustment (1946) Theory of cyclonic combustion in locomotive
- [Leonel Plasencia](https://neglectedscience.com/leonel-plasencia/): Leonel Plasencia y Montes, Cuban physician (Madruga, La Habana 05 January 1877 – La Habana 17 January 1923) Established haematological formulae for inflammatory and cancerous processes (1901) Ensayo de una nueva clasificación de los epitelios. Progr. Med. 12:98-104, 1902 Nuevos metodos de coloración de parasitos en la sangre. Rev. Med. Trop. La Habana 3(8):123-6, 1902 Neue methode der farbung von Blutparasiten. Arch. f. Schiffs. u. Tropen-Hyg. 7(7):337, 1903 Una variedad del Strongyloides intestinalis. Rev. Med. Trop. La Habana 9:177-92, 1903 Described the semiological value of eosinophils and established hematological formulas Significación biologica del leucocito de granulación eosinofila (1905) Albuminoscopio para luz artificial (1911)
- [Kuang Pan](https://neglectedscience.com/kuang-pan/): Kuang Pan / Guang Pan, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1962-97) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Plantae Acerites 1983 Amentostrobus 1983 Bennettidicotis 1983 Casuarinites 1983 Cycadicotis 1983 Filicidicotis 1983 Illicites 1983 Juradicotis 1983 Juramagnolia 1983 Kadsurites 1983 Lianshanus 1983 Liaoningdicotis 1983 Polygalites 1983 Setarites 1983 Sinodicotis 1983 Yanliaoia 1977 HONORS Pankuangia Kimura, Ohana, Zhao & Geng 1994 (Fossil Plantae)
- [Kaset Pitakpaivan](https://neglectedscience.com/kaset-pitakpaivan/): Kaset Pitakpaivan, Thai geologist and paleontologist (fl.1955-99) DESCRIBED TRILOBITA TAXA Genus  Ozawainella 1966 Species Parafusulina methikuli 1965 Parafusulina parva 1965 Skinnerella loeyensis 1965 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.B. Waterhouse & N. Mantajit. Early Permian brachiopods from Ko Yao Noi and near Krabi, Southern Thailand. Mem. Geol. Survey Thailand 4 Part 2:43-213, 1981 With R. Ingavat & R. Toriyama. Fusuline zonation and faunal characteristics of the Ratburi Limestone in Thailand and its equivalents in Malaysia. Geol. Paleont. Southeast Asia 21:43-62, 1980 With R. Ingavat. Lepidolina multiseptata (Deprat) transient multiseptata Deprat in Thailand. Geol. Paleont. South. Asia 21:37-41, 1980 With S. Bunopas, P. Vella & I. Sukroo. Preliminary paleomagnetic results from Thailand sedimentary rocks.
- [Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe](https://neglectedscience.com/karl-wilhelm-ludwig-pappe/): Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe, German-born South African botanist (Hamburg 1803 – 14 October 1862) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Orothamnus 1848 (Proteaceae) Species (alone) Aspalathus involucrata 1862 Gladiolus ludwigii 1877 Gladiolus spathaceus 1892 Hyppoxis crassifolia 1878 Hyppoxis triandra 1878 Muraltia ericifolia 1860 Muraltia rupestris 1860 Orothamnus zeyheri 1848 Strychnos decussata 1862 Tritonia aurea 1847 Species (with Rawson; most of them from 1858) Allosorus capensis Allosorus consobrinus Allosorus cordifolius Asplenium dentatum Asplenium discolor Asplenium gracile Asplenium lobatum Asplenium rutamaria Asplenium zeyheri Athyrium laxum Blechnum atherstonii Blechnum cycadoides Blechnum dalgasirnsiae Cheilanthes glandulosa Cheilanthes refracta Goniopteris silvatica Gymnogramna namaquensis Lastrea catoptera Lomaria decipiens Lotononia strigosa 1862 Nephrodium ecklonianum  Nephrodium plantatium Phymatodes elongata Pterospsis angustifolia 1857 HONORS Pappea Ecklon
- [Kap Yong Paik](https://neglectedscience.com/kap-yong-paik/): Kap Yong Paik, South Korean arachnologist (23 December 1914 – 1996) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA Genera Alloclubionoides 1992 Coreodrassus 1984 Shiragaia 1992 Species Agelena choi 1965 Agelena jirisanensis 1965 Agyneta palgongsanensis 1991 Allagelena koreana 1965 Alloclubionoides bifidus 1976 Alloclubionoides coreanus 1992 Alloclubionoides dimidianus 1974 Alloclubionoides euimi 1976 Alloclubionoides kimi 1974 Alloclubionoides lunatus 1976 Alloclubionoides ovatus 1976 Alloclubionoides quadrativulvus 1974 Alloclubionoides terdecimus 1978 Allomengea coreana 1969 with Namkung Anguliphantes nasus 1965 Apollophanes macropalpus 1979 Arctosa chungjoonensis 1994 Arctosa hallasanensis 1994 Arctosa keumjeungsana 1994 Arctosa kwangreungensis 1986 with Tanaka Arctosa pargongensis 1994 Arctosa pungcheunensis 1994 Arcuphantes ehippianus 1985 Arcuphantes keumsanensis 1984 with Seo Arcuphantes pennatus 1983 Arcuphantes pulchellus 1978 Arcuphantes scitulus 1974 Belisana amabilis 1978 Blabomma uenoi 1969 with Yaginuma Callobius koreanus 1966 Cheiracanthus taegense 1990 Cheiracanthus uncinatus 1985 Cicurina kimyoungkii 1970 Cicurina phaselus 1970 Cladothela tortiembola 1992 Clubiona coreana 1990 Clubiona haeinsensis 1990
- [Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy](https://neglectedscience.com/kalyanapuram-rangachari-parthasarathy/): Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy, Indian mathematician (Madras 25 June 1936 – With R.L. Hudson respected as a pioneer on quantum stochastic calculus   With R.L. Hudson discovered a quantum Ito’s formula and a non-commutative stochastic calculus (1984) With Schmidt & Hudson developed a theory of continuous tensor products of Hilbert spaces Unraveled deep connections that exist between stochastic processes, free quantum fields, group representations and operator algebra  Eponym of Hudson-Parthasarathy equations and Kostant-Parthasarathy-Ranga Rao-Varadarajan determinants (1967) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich (1994)  
- [K.N. Prasad](https://neglectedscience.com/k-n-prasad/): Kedar N. Prasad, Indian geologist and paleontologist (07 January 1924 – ?) Authored Ecology of the fossil Hominoidea from the Siwaliks of India. Nature 232 (5310): 413-4, 1971 DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genus Piramys 1974 (Reptilia) Species Astarte venkatappayai 1957 (Mollusca) Brachyodus manchharensis 1954 (Mammalia) Coelodus jacobi 1959 with Menon (Pisces) Dicoryphochoerus fategadensis 1964 (Mammalia) Lissemys piramensis 1974 (Reptilia) Penaeus kapurdii 1966 (Crustacea) Pholidophorus indicus 1977 with Yadagiri (Pisces) Pholidophorus kingi 1977 with Yadagiri (Pisces)  Piramys auffenbergi 1974 (Reptilia) Ruticeros compressa 1974 (Mammalia) Sivaladapis magrii 1970 (Mammalia) Sivapithecus aiyengari 1962 (Mammalia) Taeniopteris kashmirensis 1951 with Das Hazra (Plantae) Ursus footei 1986 with Yadagiri (Mammalia)
- [Julio Palacio](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-palacio/): Emilio Julio Palacio Paldao, Argentine clinician (Buenos Aires 11 February 1894 – 06 September 1977) Authored over 160 works  Proposed the atelectatic origin of Black stumps  DESCRIBED Radiological sign of juxta-opaque clarity or Atelectatic sign of lungs (Castex-Palacio-Mazzei sign) Recurrent esophageal syndrome of Palacio-Mazzei Pseudocavitary syndrome by tracheal diversion (Palacio syndrome) Castex-Palacio-Mazzei thoracic brachial syndrome Inhaling homolateral deviation 
- [Juan Papadakis](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-papadakis/): Juan S. Papadakis, Greek / Argentine agronomist, climatologist and statistician (Naxos 28 March 1903 – 1997) Developed new varieties of wheat Improved concepts and methodologies in climatology Developed the concept of monthly climate (1975) Proposed a new climatic classification (1966) First proposed the idea of extracting information from neighboring experimental plots as a means of controlling for variation (1920) A rapid method for determining soil moisture. Soil Science 51(4):279-82, 1941 Authored Geografia Agrícola Mundial (Agricultural Geography of the World), the first work of this kind in the world (1952) EPONYMY  Papadakis climate diagram Papadakis potential evapotranspiration method Papadakis constant (0,5625) Papadakis method of
- [Juan José Padilla](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-padilla/): Juan José Padilla, Guatemalan priest and scientist (died 17 July 1749) Built public clocks with improvements Developed a cylinder music box Performed astronomical calculations Authored over 20 works on sciences, philology, religion and other themes SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Arte de Perspectiva Noticia breve de todas las reglas más principales de la Arithmetica Practica Arte de la musica combinatória com que aún los menos diestros pueden componer facilmente Arte para saber las naciones y eclipses con solo el uso de la Aritmetica Arte de Aritmetica Practica (1732) Ortografia latina y castellana (1733) Baratillos matemáticos o miscelanea de experimentos físicos, maquinas, etc Tratado de hacer y
- [Juan Ignacio Puiggari](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-ignacio-puiggari/): Juan Ignácio Puiggari, Spanish-born Brazilian plant and fungi collector (Barcelona 03 May1823 – São Paulo 07 August 1900) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Noticia sobre algunas criptogámas nuevas halladas en Apiahy, provincia de San Pablo en el Brasil. An. Soc. Cient. Arg. 11:201-16, 1881 Noticia de algunas diatomeas y otras algas microscópicas observadas en Barcelona HONORS Puiggariella Brotherus 1908 (Musci) Puiggariopsis Menzel 1992 (Musci) Puiggaria Bolivar 1887 (Orthoptera)
- [Juan de Palafox y Calva Galvez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-de-palafox-y-calva-galvez/): Juan de Palafox y Calva Galvez, Mexican mathematician and clockmaker (born in Puebla XVIII century) INVENTED Designed and built a new instrument to grind wheat (1732) A new instrument to make and sharpen metallic files (1739) Cyclometer (1732) An odometer (1738)
- [Juan Arnaldo Pisano](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-arnaldo-pisano/): Juan Arnaldo Pisano, Argentine paleontologist (? – 1967) Described fossil species Phtoramys hidalguense 1965 with Pascual & Ortega SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Um nuevo significativo caso de adición prismatica observada en el premolar cuarto (p4) inferior de um ejemplar del gênero Cavia (Rodentia, Caviidae). Ameghiniana 3(6), 1964 Resultados de la aplicación del método estratigráfico em la explotación de um paradero indígena en Cañada Honda (Provincia de Buenos Aires). A propósito de la presencia de cuevas de vizcachas (1959) With J.F. Bonaparte. Dos nuevos paraderos indigenas neolíticos de la cuenca del Río Luján. Industria lítica (1950) HONORS (Fossil) Pisanosaurus Casamiquela 1967 (Reptilia) Pisanodon Zetti 1972 (Mammalia)
- [João Murça Pires](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-murca-pires/): João Murça Pires, Brazilian botanist (Bariri, São Paulo State 08 July 1917 – Belém 21 December 1994) Authored 65 papers Performed the first employment of Preston lognormal curve for ecological analysis of tropical trees communities With T.H. Dobzhansky & G.A. Black. An estimate of the number of species of trees in an Amazonian Forest Community. Botanical Gazette 114(4):467-77, 1953 With G. O. Castro & N.T. da Silva authored the paper Application of some phytosociological techniques to Brazilian rain forest. Amer. J. Bot. 43(10):911-41, 1956 with great repercussion in this field DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Family Saccifoliaceae 1978 with Maguire Genera Belemia 1981 (Nyctaginaceae)
- [João Consani Perrone](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-consani-perrone/): João Consani Perrone, Brazilian biochemist (Passa Quatro, Minas Gerais 22 January 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 20 May 1979) With colleagues the studies about castor bean cake gave them a number of scientific discoveries  METHODS Perrone method (chromatographic technique for separation of dinitrophenyl aminoacids)  Separation of aminoacids as dinitrophenyl derivatives. Nature 167:513-5, 1951 A new method for chromatographic operating of peptides Um novo método para o funcionamento cromatográfico de peptídeos. Rev. Quim. Ind. 26(300):16, 1957 Developed an industrial process for detoxifying castor bean cake With A. Iachan, G.B. Domont, L.V. Disitzer, V.R.O. Castro, R. Roitman & S.M. Gomes. Contribuição ao estudo
- [João Bosco Prolla](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-bosco-prolla/): João Bosco Prolla, Brazilian mathematician (24 June 1935- First to establish a vector-valued extension of Bishop’s theorem Enunciated Prolla best approximation theorem in hyperconvex metric spaces in Numer. Funct. Anal. Optimiz. 5:449-55, 1982-3. With L. Nachbin & S. Machado proved that the polynomials of finite type from a real locally convex space into another are dense in the space of all continuous function with the compact open topology Introduced the concept of antisymmetric set in weighted spaces (1971) With R.M. Aron showed that the finite type polynomials on a Banach space are exactly the weakly continuous polynomials (1980) Generalized Von Neumann’s
- [Joviano Pacheco](https://neglectedscience.com/joviano-pacheco/): Joviano Augusto do Amaral Pacheco, Brazilian mine engineer and geologist (Capivari, São Paulo State 31 December 1873 – São Paulo 30 May 1949) Described Roxochelys harrisi 1913 (Fossil Reptilia) Authored Relatório elucidativo do esforço geológico da região compreendida entre o meridiano 4º, rio Itararé e os paralelos 23º34’ e 24º38’. Rev. Inst. Geogr. Geol. 11(4):296-303,  HONOURS (Fossil) Pachecoa Harris 1919 (Mollusca) Pachecoia Almeida 1950 (Crustacea)
- [José Piazza](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-piazza/): Giuseppe Piazza, Swiss-born Argentine chemical engineer (Blenio District, Ticino Canton 20 March 1892 – ?) DEVELOPED  Methods  Generalized the procedure of electric discharges at low pressures  Gasometric procedure for determination of solid substances  Distillation procedures based on a rotating system of his own invention  Contribución al estudio de la destilación fraccionada. Nuevo metodo para la determinación rapida de las curvas de equilibrio entre temperatura y composición del liquido y del vapor (1927) Devices  Nuevo motor termico (1938) Destilacción fraccionada con aparatos de contracorrente intensa (1941) (developed a distiller) Piezometro de laboratorio (1942) Electromagnetic rotary viscometer  Glass thread microbalance 
- [José Pellegrino](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-pellegrino/): José Pellegrino, Brazilian parasitologist and tropical physician (Passagem de Minas, Minas Gerais State 11 November 1922 – Belo Horizonte 10 February 1977) From Italian parents Authored over 350 papers Described two Diptera species, Lutzomyia ferreirana and L. firmatoi with Barretto & Martins (1956)   First report about Chagas disease transmission by blood transfusion Transmissão da doença de Chagas pela transfusão sanguínea. Primeiras comprovações sorológicas de esquizotripanos em doadores e em candidatos a doadores de sangue. Rev. Bras. Med. 6(5):297-301, 1949 Identified 14, 15-epoxi-geranylgeraniol, from fruits oil of Pterodon pubescens which prevents the penetration of cercariae of Schistosoma into the skin of host With M.F. Santos Filho, H.J. Monteiro, B. Gilbert & W.B.
- [José Leal Prado](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-leal-prado/): José Leal Prado de Carvalho, Brazilian biochemist (Alfenas, Minas Gerais State 08 September 1918 – São Paulo 11 January 1987) Authored most of his works joint to his wife biochemist Eline Michelet Sant’Anna Prado (1921-2007) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered metacorticoid hypertension independently of S. Fridman   Demonstrated the tissue conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II, the first demonstration of the presence of converting enzymes in tissues With E. A. Carlini & Z. Picarelli. Pharmacological activity of hypertension I and its conversion into hypertension II. Bull. Soc. Chim. Biol. 40:1825-34, 1958   Performed important studies on metabolism and release of kinins First described clostripain, a
- [José J. Puente](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-j-puente/): José J. Puente, Argentine dermatologist (1901 – 1947) Described cheilitis glandularis simplex or simple glandular cheilitis (Puente syndrome) With A. Acevedo. Queilitis glandular. Rev. Med. Lat. Am. 12:671, 1927 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Quevedo & C.P. Malbrán. Prurigo y liquenificación de cara. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. 26:1127, 1942 Necrobiosis lipoidica diabética. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. (1941) Panniculitis nodularis recidivans febrilis durch Staphylokokken. Ein fall von granuloma lipophagicum der Brust. Zbl. Haut u-Geschl-Kr. 63:672, 1940 Tuberculide rosaceiforme de Lewandowsky. Rev. Arg. Dermatosif. 24:614, 1940 Formas anatomos clínicas del estimeno de la vulva y del síndrome anarrectogenital. Rev. Med. Lat. Am. 23:367-410, 1938 Queilitis glandular simple y
- [José Domingo Parodi](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-domingo-parodi/): José Domingo Parodi, Italian botanist and pharmacist in South America (Genoa 1823 – Paris 01 December 1889) Described 75 new plant species Sobre um nuevo alcaloide descubierto en las hojas del Vinal (Prosopis ruscifolia Gris). Rev. Farm. 25:201-4, 1877 Nuevo alcaloide hallado en El Naranjillo de Jujuy (Xanthoxylum naranjillo Gris). Rev. Farm. 28:408-10, 1880 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the useful plants of Paraguay Notas sobre algunas plantas usuales del Paraguay, de Corrientes y de Misiones Nota sobre la composición quimica de la yerba mate (1859) Algunas observaciones sobre el cultivo y la composición quimica del tabaco paraguayo (1860) Observaciones botanico-quimicas sobre una nueva especie
- [José Aristodemo Pinotti](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-aristodemo-pinotti/): José Aristodemo Pinotti, Brazilian gynecologist and oncologist (São Paulo 20 December 1934 –São Paulo 01 July 2009) Cousin of gastroenterologist Henrique W. Pinotti Internationally renowned as expert on breast tumor surgery  Authored 671 papers, 49 books and 131 book chapters (until 2005) Showed the relationship between menstrual ovulatory cycles and breast cancer risk Modified a number of surgical techniques Introduced the technique of post-mastectomy immediate reconstruction worldwide used TECHNIQUES With J. Ueno, A. C. T. Nisida & G. N. Garcia. Associação de laparoscopia com nova técnica de minilaparotomia no tratamento de paciente com endometriose peritoneal e mioma uterino intramural de grande
- [José Antonio Pastrana](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-pastrana/): José Antonio Pastrana, Argentine agricultural entomologist (19 November 1907 – 13 July 1994) Authored over 100 papers DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Cappsia 1953 Deltinea 1961 Riculoides 1952 Species Alucita arriguttii 1960 Alucita bridarolli 1951 Alucita jujuyensis 1953 Alucita proseni 1951 Alucita tandilensis 1960 Arcola malloi 1961 Cappsia bourquini 1953 Ceromitia laninensis 1961 Ceromitia lizeri 1961 Ceromitia pucaraensis 1961 Ceromitia schajovskoii 1961 Choreutis merzoccai 1991 Coleophora breyeri 1963 Coleophora chiarelliae 1963 Coleophora haywardi 1963 Deltinea costalimai 1961 Eupastranaia martinezi 1952 Enarmonia araucariae 1950 Hexeretmis willineri 1954 Homeosoma crouzelae 1991 Homeosoma deltaeparanensis 1991 Homeosoma esquelensis 1983 Homeosoma gentilii 1983 Homeosoma heinrichi Homeosoma llanoi 1991 Homeosoma orfilai 1983 Homeosoma neuquensis 1983 Homeosoma schajovskoyi 1983 Homeosoma yivoffi 1991 Laspeyresia araucariae 1951 Midilia orfilai 1960 Midilia martineziana 1960 Phyllocnistis bourquini 1960 Postplatyptilia genisei 1989 Riculoides galliaella 1952 HONORS Pastranaia Orfila 1955 (Neuroptera) Eupastranaia Becker 1973 (Lepidoptera)
- [Joseph Lennox Pawan](https://neglectedscience.com/joseph-lennox-pawan/): Joseph Lennox Donatien Pawan, Trinidad & Tobago microbiologist (Port of Spain 06 September 1887 – 03 November 1957) From Chinese descent Authored classic studies on bat rabies epidemiology With Hurst established the paralytic type of rabies virus manifestations in bats (1931-2) Showed definitely the human transmission of rabies by bats (1936) proving the studies of Carini & Horta (1911) First to isolate the rabies virus from a insectivorous bat (1936) Developed a vaccine for bat rabies
- [Jose Perez Larios](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-perez-larios/): José Perez Larios, Mexican mining engineer (fl.1946-81) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F. Guerra Pena & S. Hernandez y Sanchez Mejorada. The use of air photographs in the development of the natural resources of Mexico (1963) Exploración minera de sal en domos en el Estado de Louisiana, Estados Unidos (1960) With J. Martínez Bermudez, S. Cortez Obregón, L. Torres-Villegas, A. Gamboa Avitia, S. Cruz Castellán & M. Puebla Peralta. La cuenca carbonífera de la Mixteca (1956-7) Geological study of the region where the Guadalcazar stanniferous places are located (1948) HONORS Perezlaria Delevoryas & Gould 1971 (Fossil Plantae)
- [Jose Palacios Vargas](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-palacios-vargas/): José Guadalupe Palacios Vargas, Mexican entomologist (1952 – Genera Collembola Americabrya 1987 with Mari Mutt Austrogastrura 1999 with Thibaud Borgesminthurinus 2020 with Vacaflores-Argandoña Dietersminthurus 1998 with Cuellar & Vazquez Celegastrura 2000 with Mendoza & Villalobos Ecuadogastrura 2001 with Thibaud Honduranura 2017 Mexicaphorura 2013 with Catalán Nahuanura 1986 with Najt Sernatropiella 2019 Speleonura 2007 with Simón Benito Spinaethorax 2016 with Papac Tabasconura 2015 with Catalán Tenentiella 1997 with Vazquez Troglobius 1990 with Wilson Troglospinotheca 1999 Varelasminthurus 2015 com Silva & Bellini Acari Family Proterorhagiidae 1991 with Lindquist Genus Proterorhagia 1991 with Lindquist Species About 300 being 225 Collembola and 70 others in Acari, Protura & Diplura
- [Jose Antonio Presno](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-presno/): José Antonio Presno Bastiony, Cuban surgeon (Regla, La Habana 19 March 1876 – La Habana 12 September 1953) Married to a niece of urologist Joaquín Albarrán Nueva incisión para las operaciones sobre las vias biliares. Resultados obtenidos en el tratamiento de los abscesos del higado por la operación y las inyecciones de emetina (1915) Nuevo concepto de sindrome colicos hepaticos y sus deducciones quirurgicas. Gac. Med. 21:239-46, 1905-6 Una modificación a la tecnica de raqui-cocainización. Arch. Soc. Est. Clinicos 11:1889, 1901 Tecnica de fijación del cuello uterino después de la histerectomia sub-total (1918) HONOURS Grey Turner Memorial Lecture (1922) His son, José Antonio
- [John Parry](https://neglectedscience.com/john-parry/): John Parry, English-born South African mineralogist (London 25 November 1863 – Kimberley 06 October 1931) Described mineral species afwillite (with F.E. Wright; 1925) and bultfonteinite (with A.F. Williams & F.E. Wright; 1932) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observations in Kimberley diamonds mines of peculiar formations noted upon mine openings and appliances – minute animal organism held responsible for phenomena (1923) Minerals deposited by bacteria in mine water. Eng. Min. J.I. Press 115(23):1011-6, 1923 HONORS Parryite A.F. Williams 1932 (Mineral)  
- [Jiang / Kiang Pan](https://neglectedscience.com/jiang-kiang-pan/): Jiang Pan / Kiang Pan, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1955-2003) With L.B. Halstead & Y.H. Liu. Agnathans from the Devonian of China. Nature 282 (5741):831-03, 1979 DESCRIBED FOSSIL PISCES GENERA Asiaspis 1975 Brevipetalichthys 1999 with Ji Changyanophyton 1961 Clarorbis 1992 with Ji Dayongaspis 1985 with Zheng Diandongpetalichthys 1978 with Wang Duynaspis 1978 with Wang Duynolepis 1982 with Wang Geraspis 1993 with Chen Grammaspis 1997 with Lu Guangxipetalichthys 1997 with Ji Hanyangaspis 1975 with Liu Hohsienolepis 1978 Hunanolepis 1978 with Tzen Hyperaspis 1992 Hyrcanaspis 1982 with Janvier Kiangsuaspis 1962 Konoceraspis 1992 Kueichowlepis 1975 with Wang Lianhuashanolepis 1978 with Wang Lungmenshanaspis 1975 with Wang Macrothyraspis 1992 Microhoplonaspis 1992 Nakaolinaspis 1978 with Wang Neoduyunaspis 1978 with Wang Neosinacanthus 1975 with Liu Orientolepis 1978 with Wang Paraduynaspis 1978 with Wang Pentathyraspis 1992 Qingmenaspis 1981 with Wang Sanchaspis 1981
- [Jerjes Pantoja-Alor](https://neglectedscience.com/jerjes-pantoja-alor/): Jerjes Pantoja-Alor, Mexican paleontologist (fl.1959) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Trilobita (with Robison 1968) Bifodina Gymnagnostus Leurostega Plicatolinella Tinaspis Mollusca (with Alencaster 1998) Douvillelia Huetamia Coelenterata Blastozopsammia 2004 with Filkorn Species Trilobita (with Robison 1968) Akoldinioidia sulcata Angelina spinosa Asaphellus artus  Asaphellus aspinus Asaphellus communis Bienvillia grandis Bifodina longifrons Elkanaspis variagranula Gymnagnostus gongros Gymnagnostus mexicanum Leurostega aphelix Micragnostus curvatus Mictosaukia globosa Onychopyge sculptura Parabolinella prolata Parabolinella tumifrons Parabolinella variabilis Pharostomina mexicana Plicatolinella ocula Shumardia ctenata Tinaspis totoyaca Mollusca (with Alencaster) Amphitriscoelus pluriloculata 2004 Caprina massei 1996 Douvillelia skeltoni 1998 Huetamia buitronae 1998 Mollusca (with Skelton & Masse 2004) Amphitriscoelus primaevus Pantojaloria estanciensis Coelenterata (with Filkorn 2009) Actinaraea michoacanensis Actinastrea chumbitaroensis
- [Jayme Regallo Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/jayme-regallo-pereira/): Jayme Regallo Pereira, Brazilian pharmacologist (Manaus 03 May 1893 – São Paulo 14 August 1963) Authored over 100 scientific works with special focus in active principles of plants Found that frequency of discharge from the cells of the superior cervical ganglion and other peripheral nerve cells is directly proportional to the frequency of impulses delivered to them from the preganglionic fibres With H.O. Veach. Studies on the innervation of smooth muscle. II. On the frequency of nerve impulses entering and leaving the superior cervical ganglion. J. Physiol. 60(4):329-41, 1925 Described bilikinin, a parasympathomimetic factor of the bile (1961) and the similarity
- [Jacob Palis](https://neglectedscience.com/jacob-palis/): Jacob Palis Jr., Brazilian mathematician (Uberaba, Minas Gerais State 15 March 1940 – From Greek-Lebanese father and Syrian mother Authored over 80 papers Respected as one of founders of modern theory of dynamical systems and one of world’s foremost in field of multivariable dynamic systems  First to prove mathematical stable systems occur in any configuration space  Proved that gradient-like dynamical systems in lower dimensions are stable providing the first class of stable systems existing on any smooth configuration space     Established the opening and structure stability of  Morse-Smale systems   Demonstrated the existence of structurally stable dynamics systems in all 3-dimension compact varieties   Demonstrated the
- [Ivo Pitanguy](https://neglectedscience.com/ivo-pitanguy/): Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (Belo Horizonte 05 July 1923 – Rio de Janeiro 06 August 2016) Recognized as one of the world’s most eminent plastic surgeons Regarded as father of cosmetic surgery Authored over 800 works between papers, book chapters and books Authored Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery of the Head and Body (1981), a reference in this field Developed and innovated hundreds of plastic and aesthetic surgery techniques  Described transareolopapilar incision (1966) Described lipoabdominoplasty independent from Calla (1967) Established basic principles of breast plastic surgery (1959) CREATED/DEVELOPED Aponeurotic expansion of corrugator Block technique in frontal lifting   Juxtapilous
- [Irajá Damiani Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/iraja-damiani-pinto/): Irajá Damiani Pinto, Brazilian invertebrate paleontologist (Porto Alegre 03 July 1919 – Porto Alegre 21 June 2014) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Insecta Afrochoristella 1978 with Ornellas Afrosharovia 1994 with Ornellas Archangelskyblatta 1972 Blattulopsis 1990 Cacurgulopsis 1996 with Adami-Rodrigues Carpenteroptera 1990 Diaphpterum 1999 Fonsecablatta 2001 with Mendes  Fulgoringruo 1990 Gondwanaptera 1981 with Ornellas Gondwanoperlidium 1978 with Purper Latiscutella 1974 with Ornellas Mesoblattinopsis 1989  Paracicadopsis 2000 with Piñeiro Paranakermina 1980 with Ornellas Perlapsocus 2000 with Piñeiro Permipsythone 1980 with Ornellas  Pricecoris 1974 with Ornellas Proedischia 1978 with Ornellas Prosbolecicada 1987 Rigattoptera 1996 Sanctipaulus 1956 Sphecorydaloides 1995 Velisoptera 1997 with Adami-Rodrigues Xenoptera 1986 Species (26) Arachnida Gondwanarachne 1980 with Hunicken Ostracoda Bisulcocypris 1958 with Sanguinetti Diaphanocypris 1990 with Wuerdig Keslingiella 1981 with Purper Nealecythere 1983 with Purper Petrisigmoopsis 1981 with Purper Sohnicythere 1983 with Purper   HONORS (Fossil) Irajapintoseidon Beltan
- [Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans](https://neglectedscience.com/illtyd-buller-pole-evans/): Illtyd Buller Pole Evans, Welsh-born South African botanist and plant pathologist (Llanmaes, near Cardiff 03 September 1879 – Umtali, Rhodesia 16 October 1968) DESCRIBED PLANTAE & FUNGI SPECIES Plantae Aloe aculeata 1915 Aloe angelica 1934 Aloe globuligemma 1915 Aloe longibracteata 1915 Aloe petricola 1917 Aloe pienaarii 1915 Aloe pretoriensis 1914 Aloe simii 1917 Aloe sladeniana 1920 Aloe suprafoliata 1916 Aloe wickensii 1915 Fungi Aecidium bulbines with Hennings Diplocystis junodii with Bottomley Diplodia natalensis 1911 Elmerococcum peglerae Endophyllum macowanii 1909 Epichloe eragrostis Haploravenelia natalensis with Sydow & Sydow Macalpinomyces pretoriensis Penicillium digitariae  Puccinia dimorphothecae 1916 Puccinia gerberae 1916 Puccinia inflorescenticola 1916 Puccinia kentanensis 1917 Puccinia pienaarii Puccinia stonemanniae 1912 with Sydow Sorosporium inscopicuum Sorosporium simiii 1916 Sorosporium tembuti with Hennings Sporisorium elionuri with Hennings Uromyces pedicellata Ustilago sladenii
- [Ildefonso Perez Vigueras](https://neglectedscience.com/ildefonso-perez-vigueras/): Ildefonso Perez Vigueras, Cuban veterinarian (Pinar Del Río 18 February 1892 – La Habana 14 September 1959) Authored over 80 works DESCRIBED TAXA Family Prosogonotrematidae 1940 (Trematoda) Genera Trematoda Choanodiplostomum 1944 Macrorchitrema 1940 Paradinurus 1958 Prosogonotrema 1940 Schwartzitrema 1941 Nematoda Laurotravassoxyuris 1938 Parahistiostrongylus 1941 Torrestrongylus 1935 Species 29 in Trematoda 18 in Nematoda 8 in Cestoda 2 in Diptera Culicidae 1 in Acari Ixodidae   HONORS Perezitrema Barus & Moravec 1967 (Trematoda)
- [Huan Wu Peng](https://neglectedscience.com/huan-wu-peng/): Huan Wu Peng, Chinese theoretical physicist (Changchun, Jilin Province 06 October 1915 – 28 February 2007) Formulated the Heitler-Peng integral equation With W. Heitler. Anomalous Scattering of Mesons. Phys.Rev. 62:81-2, 1942 Honored in asteroid Penghuanwu 48798
- [Heriberto Pieter](https://neglectedscience.com/heriberto-pieter/): Heriberto Pieter Bennett, Dominican physician (Ciudad Trujillo 16 March 1884 – Santo Domingo 19 May 1972) From Congolese descent (his father was born in Curaçao and his mother in Saint Thomas Island) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a procedure for staining blood smears in order to diagnosing malaria Notas sobre la coloración de las placas de sangre en paludismo (1912) An important work about inheritance of alkaptonuria  Une familie d’ alcaptonuriques. Presse Medicale 33:1310, 1925 Authored a work worldwide requested Apuntes de Cancerolojia para el prontuario del medico practico (1961-4) Developed a method for revealing color photo plates BIBLIOGRAPHY Baruk-Bachet’s Tsedek test applicable for
- [Henry Richard Pearson](https://neglectedscience.com/henry-richard-pearson/): Henry Richard Pearson, British-born Brazilian entomologist (Paris 12 June 1911 – Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro State 2004) Authored 23 papers DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA SPECIES Dirphiopsis wanderbilti 1958 Mimallo almeidai 1951 Mimallo neoamilia 1951 Tolypida spitzi 1984 HONORS Pearsonema Freitas & Mendonça 1960 (Nematoda)
- [Henry Harold Welch Pearson](https://neglectedscience.com/henry-harold-welch-pearson/): Henry Harold Welch Pearson, English-born South African botanist (Long Sutton, Lincolnshire 28 January 1870 – Wynberg, Cape Town 03 November 1916) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genus Ceraria 1912 with Stephens (Didiereaceae) Species   About 75 HONORS Pearsoniella Fritsch & Rich 1924 (Chlorophyta) Pearsonia Dümmer 1912 (Fabaceae)
- [Henrique Walter Pinotti](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-walter-pinotti/): Henrique Walter Pinotti, Brazilian gastroenterologist (São Paulo 27 May 1929 – São Paulo 21 June 2010) Son of Italian immigrants Cousin of gynecologist José Aristodemo Pinotti Authored 817 works and 38 books and monographs DEVELOPED Cardiomyectomy with partial fundoplication (1974) known as Pinotti operation First subtotal esophagectomy via cervicoadominal with diaphragm transection (1974) Esophagocardiomyotomy with esophagogastropexy With J.J. Gama Rodrigues, G. Ellenbogen, R. Arab Fadul & A. Raia. New bases for the surgical treatment of megaesophagus: esophagocardiomyotomy with esophagus-fundus-gastropexy. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 20:331-4, 1974   Extrapleural approach to the esophagus through frenolaparotomy. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 22 (2):57-60, 1976 Subtotal esophagectomy
- [Henri François Pittier](https://neglectedscience.com/henri-francois-pittier/): Henri François Pittier, Swiss-born Venezuelan naturalist and geographer (Bex, Vaud Canton 13 August 1857 – Caracas 27 January 1950) DESCRIBED TAXA Plantae Valid Genera Abarema 1927 (Mimosaceae) Bombacopsis 1916 (Malvaceae) Ceratophytum 1928 (Bignoniaceae) Decazyx 1922 with Blake (Rutaceae) Frantzia 1910 (Cucurbitaceae) Goethalsia 1914 (Malvaceae) Gyranthera 1914 (Malvaceae) Llewelynia 1939 (melastomataceae) Lubaria 1929 (Rutaceae) Tonduzia 1908 (Apocynaceae) Wercklea 1916 with Standley (Malvaceae) Animalia Coleoptera Species About 90 (with Biolley in 1895) HONORS Pittieria Von Martens 1901 (Mollusca)
- [Hem Singh Pruthi](https://neglectedscience.com/hem-singh-pruthi/): Hem Singh Pruthi, Indian agricultural entomologist (Deska Village, Sialkot District, Punjab 23 February 1897 – 23 December 1969) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Baileyus 1930 Balcluthina 1930 Bella 1930 Magnentius 1930 Parasitades 1936 Sunda 1936 Trocnadella 1930 Species About 60 HONORS Pruthiana Izzard 1955 (Hemiptera) Pruthiorosius Ghauri 1964 (Hemiptera) Pruthius Mahmood 1967 (Hemiptera) Pruthidiplosis Mani 1934 (Diptera)  
- [Helion Povoa](https://neglectedscience.com/helion-povoa/): Helion de Menezes Povoa, Brazilian pathologist (Campos, Rio de Janeiro State 23 March 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 09 April 1944) With Antonio Cerqueira Luz. Uma nova reação coloidal bicorada para diagnóstico da neurossifilis (1928) Calciopexia solar, documentação experimental. Rev. Bras. Tuberc. 3(10):631, 1933 Nova classificação das anemias. J. Clin. Rio 19:369-72, 1938 Classificação das anemias. An. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de Janeiro 17-27, 1938 Authored Patologia da Arteriosclerose (1940) in which exposed new concepts about this disease that were confirmed later A cutaneous test in prognosis of syphilis His son, Helion Póvoa Filho, pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 06 July 1929
- [Helio Gelli Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/helio-gelli-pereira/): Hélio Gelli Pereira, Brazilian virologist (Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro State 23 September 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 17 August 1994) Of Italian descent from maternal side DISCOVERIES Known internationally for his work on vertebrate viruses Elucidated the nature of the fibre, penton and hexon antigens of adenoviruses and first revealed the morphology of adenovirus With R.C. Valentine. Antigens and structure of the adenovirus. J. Biol. Mol. 13:13-20, 1965 Discovered picobirnavirus (PBV), a new virus group with segmented double-stranded RNA With T.H. Flewett, J.A. Candeias & O.M. Barth. A virus with a bisegmented double-stranded RNA genome in rat (Oryzomys nigripes) intestine. J.
- [Hans Raj Pajni](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-raj-pajni/): Hans Raj Pajni, Indian entomologist (Amloh, Punjab State 22 June 1932 – DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Amrikus 1982 with Sidhu Barimononychus 1982 with Kohli Barioscapus 1990 with Kohli Brahmacalcidodes 1987 with Dhir  Breviepistomus 1987 with Sidhu & Kumar Cylindralcidodes 1987 with Dhir Gobinda 1987 with Sidhu & Kumar Himachala 1990 Hypurodes 1982 with Kohli   Indocurculio 1994 with Singh & Gandhi Indodinorrhopalus 1981 with Sood Indoegrias 1982 with Kohli Indomecus 1987 with Gandhi Indomecyslobus 1987 with Dhir Indophytoscaphus 1982 with Sidhu Manoja 1982 with Bhateja Marshalla 1990 Neomecyslobus 1987 with Dhir Ornatalcidodes 1987 with Dhir Patialus 1991 with Kumar & Rose  Pritmus 1981 with Sood Pseudmesalcidodes 1987 with Dhir Pseudochaetodera 1974 with Bedi Pseudophagiophloeus 1990 with Sood & Tewari Pseudophytoscaphus 1990 Rivaliera 1974 with Bedi Shiva 1982 with Bhateja
- [Guillermo Patterson](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-patterson/): Guillermo Patterson Medrano, Panamanian chemist (Ciudad de Panamá 13 February 1884 – Ciudad de Panamá 10 May 1964) DEVELOPED A new method for electrolytic separation of lead from copper (1911) A new method for the determination of lead (1911) Antimony tetrasulphide, a new explosive (1912) HONORS Life Fellow, Royal Society of London Invited Member, New York Academy of Sciences Honorary Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- [Guido Pabst](https://neglectedscience.com/guido-pabst/): Guido Frederico João Pabst, Brazilian botanist (Porto Alegre 14 September 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 27 April 1980) Authored about 200 scientific works DESCRIBED ORCHIDACEAE TAXA Valid Genera Mesadenella 1953 with Garay Rauhiella 1978 with Braga Species About 200 HONORS (Orchidaceae) Pabstia Garay 1973 Pabstiella Brieger & Senghas 1976
- [Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-cezar-pavanelli/): Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli, Brazilian fish parasitologist (Londrina, Paraná State 22 April 1948 – DESCRIBED NEW FISH PARASITES Helminths Genera Brooksiella 1999 with Rego & Chubb Cangatiella 1991 with Santos Chambriella 1999 with Rego & Chubb Jauella 1985 with Rego Nupelia 1991 with Rego Paramonticellia 1991 with Rego Pseudovancleaveus 2003 with Franca, Isaac & Takemoto Travassiella 1987 with Rego Species Cangatiella arandasi 1991 with Santos Chambriella agostinhoi 1992 with Santos Chambriella paranaensis 1989 with Rego Cucullanus tucunarensis 2013 with Lacerda, Takemoto, Marchiori & Martins Dadayius pacupeva 2003 with Lacerda & Takemoto Dadayius puruensis 2011 with Lopes, Karling, Takemoto, Rossoni & Ferreira Demidospermus labrosi 2003 with Franca, Isaac & Takemoto Demidospermus mandi 2003 with Franca, Isaac & Takemoto Demidospermus
- [Genésio Pacheco](https://neglectedscience.com/genesio-pacheco/): Genésio Pacheco, Brazilian bacteriologist and veterinarian (São Fidelis, Rio de Janeiro State 05 May 1890 – Rio de Janeiro 06 February 1973) Authored about 300 publications DISCOVERIES Discovered Pacheco disease of parrots With O. Bier. Epizootie chex les perroquets du Brésil. Relations avec Le psittacose. C.R. Séance Soc. Biol. 105:109-111, 1930 Discovered a new disease affecting  freshwater fishes being caused by an ultra virus Doença de peixes fluviaes do Brasil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 30(3):327-71, 1935 Showed an unknown type of fuchsinophilic granulation in genus Corynebacterium (1933) METHODS With A. Godoy modified the method for preparing Litmus whey by using a kaolin for facilitating the
- [Generosa Emilia Pontual Peres](https://neglectedscience.com/generosa-emilia-pontual-peres/): Generosa Emília Pontual Peres de Paula Lopes, Brazilian mycologist and lichenologist (Santo Amaro, Bahia State 09 January 1925 – DESCRIBED TAXA Valid Genera Lichenes Podoxyphiomyces 1961 with Valle & Batista Fungi Akaropeltopsis 1966 with Batista  Anopeltis 1960 with Batista Batistina 1961 Catenella 1963 with Batista Clypeophialophora 1962 with Batista Dichelostroma 1963 with Batista Ellisia 1965 with Batista Ionophragmium 1961 Kmetiopsis 1960 with Batista Leucoconiella 1960 with Batista & Maia Polyetron 1963 with Batista Polypedia 1959 with Batista Powellia 1964 with Batista Setomyces 1961 with Batista Spinomyces 1961 with Batista Staibia 1966 with Batista Vonarxella 1965 with Batista & Bezerra Wardinella 1960 with Batista Species About 270 between Lichens and Fungi
- [Fritz Plaumann](https://neglectedscience.com/fritz-plaumann/): Friedrich (Fritz) Plaumann, German-born Brazilian entomologist (Preussisch Eylau, Prussia 02 May 1902 – Seara, Santa Catarina State 22 September 1994) Discovered and collected 1,469 entomological species and subspecies (Orthoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Lepidoptera), 124 in Hydrocaridae, 12 mites, 4 spiders, one mollusk and an amphibian new to science With Carl J. Drake described three new species in Hemiptera: Xiphovelia lacunana 1953, Microvelia novana 1955 and Zetekella pulla 1956 Entitled the foremost insect collector of Latin America in the 20th century by Californian Academy of Sciences SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Ueber das Sammeln im brasilianischen Urwald. I. Koleopt. Rdsch. 23:236-43, 1937 Beitrage zur Lepidopterenfauna von Sta. Catharina, SudBrasilien. Entomol.
- [Frederico Pimentel Gomes](https://neglectedscience.com/frederico-pimentel-gomes/): Frederico Pimentel Gomes, Brazilian biostatistician (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 19 December 1921 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 24 November 2004) Authored about 210 papers and 13 books   ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced the concept of derigral, a hybrid between derivative and integral Introdução ao Estudo dos Derigrais. Thesis, ESALQ, Univ. São Paulo, 1948 Calculated the maximal velocity of capillary rising With H. Penna Medina. Movimento capilar da agua do solo. I. Determinação da velocidade máxima da ascensão capilar (1951) With E. Malavolta developed the concept of physiological economical critical level for foliar diagnosis Foliar diagnosis in Brazil. In: Plant Analysis and Fertilizer Problems (W.
- [Francisco Silvério Pereira](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-silverio-pereira/): Francisco Silvério Pereira, Brazilian entomologist and Catholic father (Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais State 05 October 1913 – 23 February 1991) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Anisocanthon 1956 with Martínez Antillacanthon 1966 with Vulcano  Astaenomoechus 1960 with Martínez Bdelyropsis 1960 with Vulcano & Martínez Bolbaffer 1969 with Vulcano & Martínez Bolbocaffer 1969 with Vulcano & Martínez Bolboceroides 1969 with Vulcano & Martínez Brasilucanus 1961 with Vulcano Canthomoechus 1960 with Martínez Chapincanthon 1966 with Vulcano Coprocanthon 1956 with Martínez Cretaceimelittommoides 1987 with Vulcano (Fossil) Deltepilissus 1946 Francmonrosia 1960 with Martínez Geocanthon 1956 with Martínez Goniocanthon 1956 with Martínez Holocanthon 1956 with Martínez Isocopris 1960 with Martínez Microbolbus 1969 with Vulcano & Martínez Mimobolbus 1969 with Vulcano & Martínez Neocanthidium 1964 with Martínez & Halffter  Nesocanthon 1956 with
- [Francisco Pereira Passos](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-pereira-passos/): Francisco Pereira Passos, Brazilian railway engineer (São João Marcos, Rio de Janeiro State 29 August 1836 – Atlantic Ocean 12 March 1913) With US engineers solved the problem of steepness of the ravines in Dom Pedro II railway (in early 1860s) Presented a technical solution for railway curve of maneuvering yard in Dom Pedro II railway Employed a new system of inclined planes for transposition of mountain range (Serra do Cubatão) at Santos-Jundiaí railway (1868) With João Teixeira Soares built a 30% runway with internationally unique features in Corcovado railway (1882-4) Led the design and building of Corcovado railway, one of
- [Francisco Pacheco Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-pacheco-silva/): Francisco Pacheco Silva, Brazilian geotechnical engineer (Americana, São Paulo State 1918 – São Paulo 03 October 1974) First to publish studies about shearing strength of a soft clay Resistência ao cisalhamento de um depósito de argila mole. Anais Assoc. Bras. Mecan. Solos 1:42-50, 1951 (Separata) Shearing strength of a soft clay depost near Rio de Janeiro. Geotechnique 3(7):300-6, 1953 Performed the first systematic experimental trial of using lateritic soils as floor base (1950s) Developed an electrical cell for neutral pressure measurements Célula elétrica de medida de pressões neutras. Anais II Congr. Bras. Mecan. Solos 1:341-4, 1958 Developed Pacheco Silva method A
- [Francisco Pacheco Mendivil](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-pacheco-mendivil/): Francisco Pacheco Mendivil, Mexican agronomist (Navojoa, Sonora State 10 October 1922 – Ciudad Obregón, Sonora State 16 November 2010) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA (1964) Centuriatus Culmus Dampfius Efflagitatus Erus Explorator Filiolus Gradus Lanternarius Lapsus Microaugyles Neoheterocerus Olmedous Peditatus Tropicus SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Plagas y organismos benéficos de interés para Mexico (1999) Plagas de los Cultivos Oleaginosos de Mexico (1994) Plagas del cultivo de la soya em Mexico (1990) Plagas de los cultivos agrícolas en Sonora y Baja California (1985) Plagas del Valle de Iaqui (1970)
- [Francis Chamberlain Partridge](https://neglectedscience.com/francis-chamberlain-partridge/): Francis Chamberlain Partridge, South African mineralogist (Cape Town 23 November 1903 – Pretoria 28 July 1939) Described mineral species arandisite A new tin mineral from South-West Africa. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 37:205-11, 1934 First to report properties of trevorite in reflected light Trevorite and a suggested new-nickel bearing silicate from Bon Accord, Sheba siding, Barberton District. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 46:119-26, 1944 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With S.H. Haughton. The meteorite fall of Macibini, Zululand. Trans. Geol. Soc. S. africa 41:205-10, 1939 With O.R. Van Eeden, L.E. Kent & J.W. Brandt. The mineral deposits of the Murchison Range, East of Leysdorp
- [Fernando Perez](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-perez/): Fernando Perez, Argentine physician, diplomat and pianist (Buenos Aires 06 February 1863 – 1935)   Discovered Coccobacillus foetidus ozenae (1899) and associated it to ozena (1908) Described tube for intubation of diphtheric children Described the relationship of middle ear to endocranial cavity (1905) Created pinacology (1930s) HONORS Doctor Honoris Causa, Universitá di Roma
- [Fernando Paulsen](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-paulsen/): Fernando Paulsen, Chilean entomologist (1842 – 1908) Collected insects and plants that sent to other researchers Authored Lampara cazadora de mariposas nocturnas (1908) Honored in genus Paulsenius Germain 1895(Coleoptera) 
- [B.R. Subba Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/b-r-subba-rao/): B.R. Subba Rao, Indian entomologist (fl.1957-86) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA GENERA Acanthomymar 1970 Acridencyrtus 1979 Anneckia 1970 Botryoideclava 1980 Burksoma 1978 Cladiscodes 1977 Desantisella 1971 Eugeniana 1961 with Narayanan & Patel Hamusencyrtus 1978 with Hayat Heimbrella 1978 Kubja 1984 Mangoma 1986 Narayanella 1976 Neoplatycerus 1965 Obtusiclava 1973 Risbecoma 1978 Rozanoviella 1974 Turnerella 1971
- [B.R. Jagannatha Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/b-r-jagannatha-rao/): B.R. Jagannatha Rao, Indian paleontologist (fl.1963-96) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genus Orbiqia 1962 with Mangain (Foraminifera) Species Goniomyia stoliczkai 1980 with Ayyasami (Ammonite) Orbiqia chasensis with Mangain 1962 (Foraminifera) HONORS Raoceras Ayyasami 1993 (Ammonite)
- [Austin Roberts](https://neglectedscience.com/austin-roberts/): J. Austin Roberts, South African vertebrate zoologist (Pretoria 03 January 1883 – Transkei 05 May 1948) DESCRIBED VALID VERTEBRATA TAXA Mammalia Subfamilies Cricetomyinae 1951 Petromyscinae 1951 Genera Chlorotalpa 1924 Eremitalpa 1924 Neamblysomus 1924 Neoromicia 1926 Sauromys 1917 Species 12 Subspecies 82 AVES Genera (1922) Achaetops Campicoloides Dendroperdix Hemimacronyx Myioparus Notopholia Pseudohirundo Smutsornis Swynnertonia Subgenera Glaucestrilda Melananas Nyctiperdix Species & Subspecies Many
- [Augusto Ruschi](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-ruschi/): Augusto Ruschi, Brazilian biologist (Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo State 12 December 1915 – Vitoria 03 June 1986) From Italian parentage Authored about 470 works being 380 papers and 22 books Gained international recognition for his studies about hummingbirds, orchids and tropical botany    Regarded as a world authority on hummingbirds being the first to breed hummingbirds in captivity   Held the greatest written work about hummingbirds Developed the concept of ecological or forest reserve (1951) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Animalia Mammalia Valid Subspecies Natalus stramineus espiritosantensis 1951 Aves Valid Species Amazilia rondoniae 1982 Phaethornis margarettae 1972 Valid Subspecies Amazilia versicolor kubtchecki 1959 Augastes scutatus soaresii 1963 Campylopterus largipennis diamantinensis 1963 Plantae
- [August Rimbach](https://neglectedscience.com/august-rimbach/): August Rimbach, German-born Ecuadorian botanist and plant physiologist (Jena 1862 – Riobamba 07 July 1943) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The forests of Ecuador. Tropical woods 31:1-9, 1932 Die Verbreitung der Wurzelverkurzung im Pflanzenreich (1929) Die Wurzelverkurzrung bei den groen Monokotylenformen. Ber. d. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 40:196-02, 1922 Uber die Verkurzung des Hypocotyls. Ber. d. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 39:285, 1921 Observaciones sobre plantas forrajeras. Rev. Minist. Industr. Montevideo (1916) Physiological observations on the subterranean organs of some Californian Liliaceae (1902) Physiological observations on some perennial herbs. Bot. Gaz. 30:171-88, 1900 Beitrage sur Physiologie der Wurzeln. Ber. d. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 17:18-35, 1899 Ueber Lilium martagon. Ber. d.
- [Atta ur Rahman](https://neglectedscience.com/atta-ur-rahman/): Atta ur Rahman, Pakistani organic chemist (Delhi, British India 22 September 1942 – Authored 970 publications, 151 books and 37 patents Authored influential books Biosynthesis of Indole Alkaloids (1983) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (the first textbook to have a detailed discussion on 2D-MNR spectroscopy) Stereoselective synthesis in organic chemistry ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered several hundred new natural products i.e. bioactive substances (alkaloids, saponins, withanolides, sesquiterpenes and triterpenoids) from plants as well as marine plants and animals many of which exhibited exciting biological activities including anti-oxidant, anti-epileptic, anti-leishmaniasis, anti-AIDS, immunomodulating, anti-asthmatic, analgesic, nematicidal and anti-cancer activities Reported a number of binary and dimeric alkaloids from terrestrial
- [Arturo Rotor](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-rotor/): Arturo Belleza Rotor, Philippine physician and writer (Manila 07 June 1907 – 09 April 1988) Described Rotor syndrome With L. Manahan & A. Florentin. Familial non-hemolytic jaundice with direct Van den Bergh reaction. Acta Medica Philippina 5:37-49, 1948
- [Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-rosenblueth-stearns/): Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns, Mexican neurophysiologist (Ciudad Guerrero, Chihuahua State 02 October 1900 – Ciudad de Mexico 20 September 1970) From Jewish Hungarian father and Irish-descent mother Considered one of the world’s most important neurophysiologists and a founder of cybernetics Authored 153 papers and 4 monographs ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated that DNA was the main responsible for genetic transmission (1944) With Norbert Wiener Set the bases of cybernetics With N. Wiener & J. Bigelow. Behavior, Purpose and Teleology. Philosophy of Science 10(1):21, 1943  Elaborated a mathematical model that describes impulses in a neuron network and perform a statistical analysis of communication process between neurons  Discovered negative
- [Arrigo Antonio Raia](https://neglectedscience.com/arrigo-antonio-raia/): Arrigo Antonio Raia, Brazilian surgeon (Araraquara, São Paulo State 23 August 1912 – São Paulo 23 October 2019) Authored 287 papers and 85 book chapters First to describe the lesions of myoenteric plexus  of stomach caused by Trypanosoma cruzi Distinguished the differences of acquired and congenital megaesophagus DEVELOPED SURGICAL TECHNIQUES With J E M Cunha & M.C.C. Machado. New technique of pancreaticojejunal anastomosis after partial pancreaticoduodenectomy. American Journal of Surgery 139:451-453, 1984. With H.W. Pinotti, B. Zilberstein, G. Ellenbogen & J.J. Gama-Rodrigues. Lateral deviation esophagostomy. New simplified technical procedure. Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam. 12(2):135-41, 1982 With H.W. Pinotti, B. Zilberstein & W.M.Pollara. Esophagectomy without
- [Armando Octavio Ramos](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-octavio-ramos/): Armando Octavio Ramos, Brazilian neuropharmacologist (São Paulo 1932 – 1992) Co-discovered neurokinin With L.F. Chapman, H. Goodell & H.G. Wolff. Neurokinin: a polypeptide formed during neuronal activity in man. Trans. Amer. Neurol. Assoc 42 (1960) With A.P. Corrado & C.T. Escobar clarified the potentiation mechanism caused by antibiotics amino glycosides to curare-induced neuromuscular block SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W.P. Bastos. Isoamiline as inhibitor of muscarinic acid and nicotinic ganglionic receptors. Pharmacology 4(1):39-44, 1970 With R. Scivoletto. Tyramine effects before and after isoproterenol on the isolated reserpinized heart. Pharmacology 1:312-6, 1968 With L. Ramos & J.A.F. Caldeira. Action of antipyretic-analgesic drugs on intraocular
- [Antonio Romero](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-romero/): Antonio A. Romero, Argentine Army officer and explorator (18??-1929) Collected specimens of fossil vertebrates and plants such as the first marine crocodile of the country (1898) and the Pyrotherium romeroi (described by F. Ameghino in 1888) Developed a new system of removable car (1913) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Un fuerte desconocido por los historiadores de Buenos Aires. Bol. Bibl. Nacional Peru 22(1):633-5, 1928 La explotación del petroleo en el Neuquén. Teorias equivocadas y estudios geologicos imaginarios praticados (1926) Homo pampaeus. Contribución al estudio de origen y antiguedad de la raza humana en Sud America según recientes descubrimientos. Anales Soc. Cient. Arg. LXXXVI:5-48, 1918 La obra
- [Antonio Raimondi](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-raimondi/): Giovanni Antonio Raimondi, Italian-born Peruvian naturalist and geographer (Milano 19 September 1824 – San Pedro de Lloc, La Libertad Dept 26 October 1890) Authored over 150 works Discovered new species of marine invertebrates in central and southern portions of Peru Discovered 80 new plant species Collected 31 000 specimens between animals, plants, rocks, minerals and ethnographic material being 2000 mollusks, 4000 insects and 2665 birds DESCRIBED Plantae Species Chloraea undulata ex Colunga 1857 Culcitium discolor ex Herrera 1921 Verbena stachys 1913 Mineral Sideronatrite (1878) Huantajayite (1876) variety  Tarapacaite (1878) Malinowskite (1876) variety Arequipite (1878) Cuprochalcite (1872) Described archaeological site of Chavín de Huantar Conceived
- [Antonio Carlos Rocha Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-carlos-rocha-campos/): Antonio Carlos Rocha Campos, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Araras, São Paulo State 03 March 1937 – São Paulo 22 July 2019) First to identify a boulder pavement in Antarctica (2012) With M. Kuchenbecker, W. Duleba, P.R. dos Santos & F.M. Canile. A (tidal-marine) boulder pavement in the late Cenozoic of Seymour Island, Antarctica: contribution to palaeogeographical and palaeoclimatic evolution of West Antarctica. Antarctic Science 29(6):555-9, 2017 DESCRIBED Fossil Mollusca Genera Tayoa 1964 Pindorama 2006 with Anelli & Simões Carnauba 2009 with Anelli, Simões & Peck Species Adamusium auristriatum 2008 with Quaglio, Anelli, dos Santos & Perinotto Attenuatella paulistana 1969 Australomya sinuosa 1993 with Simões Carnauba oiticica 2009 with Anelli,
- [Antonino dos Santos Rocha](https://neglectedscience.com/antonino-dos-santos-rocha/): Antonino dos Santos Rocha, Portuguese-born Brazilian nephrologist (Portugal 06 November 1936 – São Paulo 19 October 1990) Internationally recognized as an authority on renal physiology and physiopathology    A number of his works were considered international classics in the field Discovered chloride channel on the Henle loop ascending limb Proposed a new model of countercurrent system With J.P. Kokko, F.C. Rector Jr & M. Imai. Experimental and theoretical evidence for the passive equilibration model of countercurrent multiplication system. Proc. 5th Intern. Congr. Nephrol. 2:91-6, 1972   Performed the first direct experiments on the thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop and discovered that transepithelial potential
- [Annamalai Ramanathan](https://neglectedscience.com/annamalai-ramanathan/): Annamalai Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (Madras 29 August 1946 – Chicago 12 March 1993) Gave a notion of stability for principal G-bundle on a Riemann surface Constructed a moduli space for semistable principal bundles with a real reductive structure group With S. Ramanan proved that the tensor product of a semistable vector bundles is semistable (1984) With V.B. Mehta introduced the notion of a Frobenius split variety and compatibly split subvarieties (1985) Proved that a principal G-bundle admits an Einstein-Hermitian connection if and only if it is polystable (1988) EPONYMY Ramanan-Ramanathan theorem Rumford-Mehta-Ramanathan restriction theorem Raghunathan-Ramanathan theorem Kumar-Narasimhan-Ramanathan lemma Ramanathan lemma Ramanathan
- [Anjali Roy](https://neglectedscience.com/anjali-roy/): Anjali Roy, Indian mycologist (fl.1961-98) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.B. De. Taxonomy of Hexagonia scutellata comb. nov. J. Mycopath. Research (1998) With A.B. De. New records of Polyporaceae from India (1997)   With A.B. De. Polyporaceae of India (1996) With B. Bhattacharjee & A.L. Majumder. Beta-glucosidase of a white-rot fungus Trametes gibbosa. Biochem. Internat. 28(5), 1992 With A. Mitra & S. Dutta. New records of two wood rotting fungi from India. Indian Forester 11(2): 1985 With M.S. Singh. Studies on human pathogenic fungi from soil (1984-5) With A. Pal & A.B. De. Nuclear behavior in basidia of Polyporus antihelminthicus Berk. Nova Hedwigia 36,  Studies on the Indian polypores. VI.
- [Angel Roffo](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-roffo/): Angel Honorio Roffo Gazzo, Argentine oncologist (Buenos Aires 30 December 1882 – Buenos Aires 24 July 1947) Performed over 400 studies about cancer and authored 6 books ACHIEVEMENTS Recognized tobacco as most significant cause of lung cancer Realized that the tar in cigarettes was primarily cancer responsible Identified polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as the principal carcinogenic agents in tobacco His discoveries about tobacco as agent of cancer were forgotten and rediscovered by European and US researchers a few decades later Suggested a relationship between skin cancer and overexposure to the Sun Krebs und Sarcom durch Ultraviolett und Sonnenstrahlen. Zeitschrift fur Krebsforschung 41:448-67,
- [André Pinto Rebouças](https://neglectedscience.com/andre-pinto-reboucas/): André Pinto Rebouças, Brazilian engineer (Cachoeira, Bahia State 13 January 1838 – Funchal, Madeira Island 09 May 1898) ACHIEVEMENTS Suggested multiple docks (1863) Developed a kind of torpedo in time of war against Paraguay Published an incomplete monograph “Ensaio de um vocabulário technico da arte de construir e das sciencias accessorias, nas línguas franceza, ingleza e nacional” (1867-8), with which aided to elaborate an engineering’s technical terminology. These technique normalization anticipated that it occurred in Europe (1868-9)     Figured out an original design of a pier with perpendicular moles (1867), the first in the world. This concept was adopted later in New York City
- [Anders Fredrik Regnell](https://neglectedscience.com/anders-fredrik-regnell/): Anders Fredrik Regnell, Swedish-born Brazilian physician and naturalist (Stockholm 07 June 1807 – Caldas, Minas Gerais State 12 September 1884) Described the orchid species Brasiliorchis serotina 1881 with Barbosa Rodrigues HONORS  Regnellidium Lindman 1904 (Pteridophyta) Neoregnellia Urban 1924 (Malvaceae) 
- [Ananda R. Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/ananda-r-rao/): Ananda R. Rao, Indian palaeobotanist (fl. 1931-81) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Cycadophytites 1959 with Bose Dicotylirhizos 1957 Nipaniorhua 1946 Nipaniostrobus 1943 Ontheodendron 1931 with Sahni Podostrobus 1971 with Bose Rajmahalia 1934 with Sahni Species Cycadophytites florini 1959 with Bose Dicotylirhizos sahnii 1957 Dictyozamites hallei 1933 with Sahni Nipaniorhua granthia 1947 Nipaniostrobus sahnii 1943 Ontheodendron florini 1931 with Sahni Palmoxylon feistmantelii 1969 with Achutan Palmoxylon kraeuseli 1966 with Menon Palmoxylon mahabalei 1967 with Menon Palmoxylon maheshwarii 1964 with Menon Palmoxylon narayanii 1962 with Menon Palmoxylon parthasarathyi 1964 with Menon Podostrobus rajmahalensis 1943 Rajmahalia paradoxa 1934 with Sahni Sphenopteris rajmahalensis 1934 with Sahni Stachyotaxus sampathkumaram 1963 Others Algae Genus Oedogoniites 1957 Species Cyclotella iyengaria 1962 with Awasthi Oedogoniites palanensis 1957 Fungi Species Microthyriacites cooksinae 1959 Microthyriacites sahnii 1959 Palaeosordaria lagena 1959 Perisporiacites varians 1959 Phragmothyrites
- [Amílcar Arandas Rego](https://neglectedscience.com/amilcar-arandas-rego/): Amílcar Arandas Rego, Portuguese-born Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Barcelos, Portugal 30 June 1934- GENERA & SPECIES DESCRIBED (Helminths) Genera Lentiella 1964 Cleberia 1967 Parachoanotaenia 1967 Brayela 1984 Gibsoniela 1984 Jauella 1985 (with Pavanelli) Harriscolex 1987 Houssayela 1987 Travassiella 1987 (with Pavanelli) Nupelia 1991 (with Pavanelli) Paramonticellia 1991 (with Pavanelli) Mariauxiella 1995 (with de Chambrier) Brooksiella 1999 (with Chubb & Pavanelli) Chambriella 1999 (with Chubb & Pavanelli) Euzetiella 1999 (with de Chambrier & Vaucher) Pseudocrepidobothrium 2001 (with V. Ivanov) Scholzia 2005 with Pertierra & Chambrier Species 50  Others  3 species of Trypanosoma See www.diplectanum.dsl.pipex.com/rego  
- [Americo Ricaldoni](https://neglectedscience.com/americo-ricaldoni/): Jose Domicio Americo Ricaldoni Saroldi, Uruguayan clinical pathologist (Montevideo 21 October 1868 – Montevideo 06 July 1928) From Italian parentage Brother of Teobaldo J. Ricaldoni ACHIEVEMENTS Reported the first clinical cause of amebic granuloma With A. Berta. La disenteria amibiana en el Uruguay. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 1:31-190, 1916 Developed hematological techniques for distinguishing cytologically the different types of leukemic conditions With A. Berta. Estados leucemicos y paraleucemicos. An. Fac. Med. Montevideo 1:477-593, 1916 Described Pancoast-Tobias tumor Paralisis atrofica radicular inferior del plexo braquial, por esclerosis epiteliomatosa procedente del domo pleural, en el curso   de um cancer latente del pulmón. Las lesiones
- [Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri](https://neglectedscience.com/amal-kumar-raychaudhuri/): Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, Indian / Bengali physicist (Barisal, British India 14 September 1923 – 18 June 2005) Authored 48 papers and 6 books Derivated Raychaudhuri equation independently of  Landau   Relativistic cosmology. I. Phys. Rev. 98:1123, 1955 Enunciated Raychaudhuri theorem Theorem for non-rotating singularity free universes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80:645, 1998 A new theorem in relativistic cosmology. Mod. Phys. Lett. 15:391, 2000 EPONYMY Raychaudhuri identity Raychaudhuri scalar
- [Alvaro Reynoso](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-reynoso/): Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso y Valdés, Cuban agronomist and chemist (Alquízar, Habana Province 04 November 1829 – La Habana 11 August 1888) ACHIEVEMENTS Nouveau procédé pour reconnaitre l’iode et le brome. Ann. Chimie et Phys. 26:285, 1849 Note sur plusieurs nouvelles combinations de l’amoniaque avec les cyanoferrures et, en particulier, avec le cyanoferrure de nickel. Comptes Rendus 33:409 & Ann. Chimie et Phys. 30:252, 1850 Sur un nouveau mode de separation de l’acide phosphorique d’avec les oxydes metalliques. Note sur le preparation des acides metalliques. Comptes Rendus 32:644, 1851 Demonstrated the action of water on many compounds under high pressure and temperature Action
- [Aline Renoux](https://neglectedscience.com/aline-renoux/): Aline Renoux-Meunier, Caribbean phycologist of Guadeloupe (fl.1965-94) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D. Pietkiewicz et al. Notes taxinomiques préliminaires sur Caulerpa taxifolia et Caulerpa mexicana (1994) Inventaire des algues marines des cotes d’Haiti (1978) Etude preliminaire de la flore algale de la mangrove du Grand Cul de sac marin. Nouv. Agron. Antilles-Guyane. 3(2):77-97, 1977 With G. Renoux. Notions d’écobiocoenotique marine, excursions en Martinique (1975) Etude de la végétation algale du cap Saint-Martin (Biarritz). Bull. Cent. Etudes Rech Sci. Biarritz 5:378-564, 1965 HONOURS Renouxia Fredericq & Norris 1995 (Rhodophyta)
- [Alfredo Rei do Rego Barros](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-rei-do-rego-barros/): Alfredo Rei do Rego Barros, Brazilian entomologist (fl.1940-85) DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Lepidolutzia 1956 Lepidonewtonia 1956 Leucanopsis 1956 Machadoia 1956 Pseudohemihyalea 1956 Romualdia 1957 Wanderbiltia 1958 Mellamastus 1959 Lepipyranga 1966 Bodosa 1969 (with Machado Filho) Pseudohyaleucerea 1971 (with Machado Filho 1971) Histioea 1971 with Machado Filho Species Adeloneivaia schubarti 1970 with Mielke Agyrtidia olivensis 1970 with Machado Filho Ammalo buritiensis 1975 Ammalo travassosi 1975 Citheronia bodoquena 1966 with Travassos Cresera espiritosantensis 1958 Cresera tinguaensis 1957 Eacles lemairei 1973 with Tangerini Elysius amapaensis 1971 Elysius itaunensis 1971 Histioea paraensis 1971 with Machado Filho Leptarctia nigrorubra 1959 Mielkesia paranaensis 1968 with Mielke Pareuchaetes misatlensis 1956 Pareuchaetes pseudoinsulata 1956 Pseudohyaleucera manicorensis 1971 with Machado Filho Wanderbiltia wanderbilti 1958  HONORS Regobarrosia Watson 1975 (Lepidoptera)
- [Alfred Rosenblatt](https://neglectedscience.com/alfred-rosenblatt/): Alfred Rosenblatt, Polish/Peruvian mathematician (Krakow 22 June 1880 – Lima 08 July 1947) Authored more than 300 publications SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Uber die existenz von integralen gewöhnlicher differentialgleichungen (1909) Geometrja analityczna na plaszczyznie (1926) Zagadninie torbulencji Sur certains mouvements stationnaires plans de liquids visqueux. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 189:450-2, 1929. Sur certains mouvements des liquides visqueux incompressibles (1933) Solutions exactes des equations du movement des liquids visqueux (1935) Sobre la representación conforme de dominios planos limitados variables. Doctoral Thesis, Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Peru (1936) With G. García. Sur La formule de Stokes dans la théorie de La gravite (1937) With G. García.
- [Alfonso Romo de Vivar](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-romo-de-vivar/): Alfonso Romo de Vivar y Romo, Mexican organic chemist (San Francisco de los Romos, Aguascalientes 30 April 1928 – Authored over 170 works Studied molecular structures of natural products from Mexican flora and discovered new chemicals from them Gained international recognition for his studies on sesquiterpenic lactones Proposed biogenetical relationships of certain subgroups of natural products Isolated and determined chemicals as mexicanines A, B and C (1959-61), zaluzanines (1967) and franserine (1968) Discovered that seeds of many species from genus Yucca had steroidal glycosides (1975-7) and showed that their oils were edible Patented a method for synthesizing natural steroids of pharmaceutical importance from Yucca sp. (Mexican Patent 139297, 1979)
- [Alexander William Roberts](https://neglectedscience.com/alexander-william-roberts/): Alexander William Roberts, Scottish-born South-African astronomer (Farr, Sutherland 04 December 1857 – Alice, Eastern Cape 27 January 1938) Authored over 100 works Discovered some variable stars With H.N. Russell demonstrated that the components of some of binary star systems are low-density stars with gigantic diameters  Developed a visual photometer HONORS Lunar crater Roberts LINKS http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-astr-roberts_aw.html
- [Alberto Carlos Riccardi](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-carlos-riccardi/): Alberto Carlos Riccardi, Argentine geologist, paleontologist and stratigrapher (Buenos Aires 18 June 1942 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Amosiceras 2006 with Sabattini & Pagani Araucanites 1976 with Westermann Bonarelliceras 2005 with Medina Chondromileia 1979 with Westermann Gerthiceras 1982 with Westermann  Jeletzkyites 1983  Koloceras 1987 with Aguirre Ureta Piatnitzkyceras 2005 with Medina Pseudoneuqueniceras 1991 with Westermann Pseudoteudopsis 2016 Puchenquia 1972 with Westermann Sobraliceras 2006 with Medina Stehnocephalites 1989 with Westermann & Elmi Stolleyiceras 2005 with Medina Sueroceras 1974 with Sabattini Tuberosciponoceras 2007 with Medina Westermanniceras 2000 Species At least 50  HONOURS Honorary Fellow, Geological Society of America (2001) President, International Union of Geological Sciences (2008-12) Genus Riccardiceras Westermann 1995 (Ammonites)
- [Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga](https://neglectedscience.com/albert-rakoto-ratsimamanga/): Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga, Malagasy physician and diplomat (Tananarive 28 December 1907 – Antananarivo 16 September 2001) Authored over 350 scientific publications (10 books) Authored a number of works on suprarenal hormones biochemistry and their relations with vitamins DEVELOPED Nicoscorbine Vitascorbol Polytissular antitoxic principles for leprosy (Patelen) Pentacyclic triterpenes Antidiabetic compound from Eugenia jambolana (Madeglucyl) Madetoxyl (antitoxic) Madetussyl (antitussic) Cortine (for treating post-surgical shock)  Synthetic compound for leprosy (with H. Bu Hoi) Hyperproteic food for malnutrition Madecassol (ulcer) Amaranthus extracts (absorbable calcium) Aloe divaricata extracts (nephritic and hepatic concretions) Passiflora aurantia extracts (hypotensive and relaxant) Centella brahmi-vallari total triterpenes (ulcer) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Acide ascorbique et travail musculaire La
- [Agustín Roque](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-roque/): Agustín L. Roque, Cuban / US histopathologist (fl.1948-70) Developed Roque trichrome  Chromotope aniline blue method of staining Mallory bodies of Laennec cirrhosis. Labor. Invest. 2(5):15-21, 1953 Other methods With N.A. Jafarey & P. Coulter. A stain for the histochemical demonstration of nucleic acids. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 11:266-74, 1965 A modification of Cajal’s gold sublimate method for tissue fixed in formalin. Acta Neuropathol. 6(1):88-92, 1966
- [Agustín Eduardo Riggi](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-eduardo-riggi/): Agustín Eduardo Riggi Ortiz, Argentine geologist, geographer and pedologist (Buenos Aires 19 September 1904 – Buenos Aires 11 June 1979) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La Antartida Argentina: su geografia y su geologia (1950) With M. Tschapek. Arcillas como base impermeable (1949) Withn M. Tschapek. Quimica coloidal del suelo (1949) With D. Cappannini. Bosquejo general de los materiales originários de los suelos (1948) Cuencas geohidrograficas de Argentina (1944) Ambientes hidrogeologicos de Argentina (1943) With M.T.C. de Riggi. Contribución al conocimiento de los yacimientos de cromo de la provincia de Cordoba. Industria Minera 23, 1943 Observaciones geológicas en el SW de Santiago del Estero. Physis
- [Adolfo Max Rothschild](https://neglectedscience.com/adolfo-max-rothschild/): Adolfo Max Rothschild, Jewish Brazilian pharmacologist (São Paulo 09 September 1926 – Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State 10 April 2009) Observed reversible granular swelling of mast cells  With M. Rocha e Silva & I. Vugman established the role of cellular energetic metabolism in histamine release  Demonstrated the importance of experimental utilization of celluloses sulphate as depleting agent of bradykinin precursor Demonstrated the importance of bradykinin release in mediating adrenaline-induced lung edema Developed methods and techniques for studying histamine release With M. Rocha e Silva. Experimental design for bioassay of a material inducing strong tachyphylactic effect (anaphylatoxin). Br. J. Pharmacol. Chemother. 11(3):252-62,
- [Abrahão Rotberg](https://neglectedscience.com/abrahao-rotberg/): Abrahão Rotberg, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1912 – São Paulo 01 November 2006) From  Jewish Romanian parents  Internationally known on leprosy allergy and immunology  Authored about 200 scientific and popular works Distinguished tuberculoid leprosy and Virchowian leprosy (1933) Demonstrated the value of Mitsuda reaction forecast (1934) Proposed the existence of a genetic factor of natural resistance to leprosy (factor N of Rotberg) and hansen-anergic fringe of susceptilibility to disease Some aspects of immunity in leprosy and their importance in epidemiology, pathogenesis and classification of forms of the disease; based on 1529 lepromin tested cases. Rev. Bras. Leprol. Suppl.
- [A. Ranga Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/a-ranga-rao/): Anne Ranga Rao, Indian geologist and paleontologist (Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh State 10 October 1930 – Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand State 1999) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN TAXA Genera Auxalophus 1972 Indohyus 1971 Kalakotia 1972 Paratritemnodon 1973 Species  Auxalophus quadrangularis 1972 Hyrachus asiaticus 1973 with Obergfell Indohyus indirae 1971 Kalakotia simplicidentata 1972 Khirtharia inflata 1972 Kunmumella kalakotensis 1971 Paratritemnodon indicus 1973 Others Brachiopoda (with Waterhouse 1989) Genus Lamniplica 1989 Species Arctitreta bapensis Lamniplica punctata Strophalosia perfecta HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Raoella Sahni & Khare 1971 (Fossil Mammalia)  Obergfellia Cooper, Seiffert, Clements, Madar, Bajpai, Hussain & Thewissen 2014 His spouse, Friedlinde Albertine Obergfell, German paleontologist (Germany 24 November 1915 – Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand State 2007) Described
- [Xuesen Qian](https://neglectedscience.com/xuesen-qian/): Xuesen Qian or Hsueh-sen Chien or Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese engineer and physicist (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 11 December 1911- Beijing 31 October 2009) His relative is Nobel Prize winner Roger Yonchien Tsien Recognized as one of the world’s leading aerodynamicists ACHIEVEMENTS A method for predicting the compressibility burble With M.C. Chang. A similarity law for stressing rapidly heated thin-walled cylinders A method for comparing the performance of power plants for vertical flight Developed a method for two dimensional subsonic compressible flow and a procedure which enables the prediction of the compressibility burble from test data obtained at low air speeds With T. Von Karman gave
- [Weichang Qian](https://neglectedscience.com/weichang-qian/): Weichang Qian or Weizang Chien, Chinese physicist (Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province 09 October 1912 – Shanghai 30 July 2010) Authored over 200 papers and 18 monographs Studied new generalized variational principles and established a new variational functional Suggested using the Lagrange multiplier for eliminating the constraint conditions of all kinds of variational problems and established a new variational function using it  Put forward a systematic method to construct generalized variational principles (1964) published only in 1979 Introduced the intrinsic methods in elasticity (1944) With J.L. Synge authored a pioneering classical work on the intrinsic theory of plates and shells in solid mechanics Established
- [Sanqiang Qian & Zehui He](https://neglectedscience.com/sanqiang-qian-zehui-he/): Sanqiang Qian (Tsien), Chinese nuclear physicist (Huzhou, Zhejiang Province 16 October 1913 – Beijing 28 June 1992) Discovered a new kind of fission in uranium atoms Developed some inventions Honored with Henri de Parville Award for Physics (1946) His wife, Zehui He, physicist (Suzhou, Jiangsu Province 05 March 1914 – Beijing 20 June 2011) With L. Vigneron & R. Castel proved the existence of ternary fission, explained its mechanism and predicted the mass spectrum of the fragments (1946) Performed the first observation of quaternary fission (1946) First observed the elastic scattering of electrons with positrons A new precise and simple method
- [Roberto Quadrelli](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-quadrelli/): Roberto Quadrelli Sanchez, Uruguayan medical geneticist (Montevideo 15 January 1937 – Described new mutations and complex chromosome rearrangements With A. Vaglio, A. Quadrelli et al. A 14 year follow up of a case detected prenatally of partial trisomy 13q21.32-q ter and monosomy 18q22.3-qter as a result of a maternal complex chromosome rearrangement involving chromosomes 63 and 18. Genet. Test. Mol. Biomol. (2009)   Described a new syndrome With A. Vaglio, S. Reyno, A. Lemes et al. Uruguay facio-cardio-musculo-skeletal syndrome: a novel X-linked recessive disorder. Am. J. Med. Genet. 95:247-65, 2000 With S. Reyno, A. Vaglio, A. Lemes & A. Silveri. Displasias esqueléticas: aproximación a
- [Renyuan Qian](https://neglectedscience.com/renyuan-qian/): Renyuan Qian, Chinese polymer chemist (Changshu, Jiangsu Province 19 September 1917 – 2003) Authored 240 papers, 40 review articles and book chapters (until 1997) Introduced a concept of cohesional entanglement through local nematic interaction of neighboring chain segments (1997) Proposed dynamic contact concentration concept Proposed a new predictive equation for liquid diffusion coefficients (1996) Created methods for modifying the distribution of molecular weight to adapt to the requirements of processing function of polypropylene Developed new types of organic conductors Developed an electronic circuit for the precise measurements of dipole moments With Q. Ying, P. Xie & Y. Liu applied a new
- [Quisumbing brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/quisumbing-brothers/): Eduardo Arguelles y Quisumbing, Philippine botanist (Santa Cruz, Laguna 24 November 1895 – Quezón City 23 August 1986) Authored 137 papers Described 186 new plant species SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medicinal Plants of Philippines (1951) Vegetable poisons of the Philippines. Philipp. J. Forest 5:146, 1947 With J.B. Juliano. Development of the ovule and embryo sac in Coccos nucifera L. Bot. Gaz. 84:279-93, 1927 With A.W. Thomas. Conditions affectant la determination quantitative des sucres réducteurs par la liqueur de Fehling. Elimination de certaine erreurs dans les methods. Am. Soc. 43:1503-26, 1921 Comparative study of conditions affecting the determination of reducing sugars by Fehling solution (1921) Determination
- [Muhammad Afzal Hussain Qadri](https://neglectedscience.com/muhammad-afzal-hussain-qadri/): Muhammad Afzal Hussain Qadri, Pakistani entomologist and philosopher (Badayun, India 07 February 1912 – Karachi 06 December 1974) Introduced a number of new concepts in insect morphology, particularly on the piercing and sucking mechanism of bugs and lice and the genitalia of Orthoptera Described the genera Allocolpocephalum 1939 (Mallophaga) and with Mirza Ziartissus 1966 (Hemiptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Rogas aligharensi. n.sp. (A pink boll-worm parasite). Curr. Sci. 2:209, 1933    External and internal anatomy of the buffalo louse Haematopinus tuberculatus Burmeister. Publ. Alig. Mus. Univ. Indian Insect Types 1, 1935 Studies on the Mallophaga of North Indian birds. Z. Parasiten. 8(2):226-38, 1935 The male genitalia of Mallophaga infesting North
- [Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi](https://neglectedscience.com/mazhar-mahmood-qurashi/): Mazhar Mahmood Qurashi, Pakistani physicist and crystallographer (Punjab 08 October 1925 – Islamabad 21 November 2011) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.K.M. Ahsanullah. Fine structure discontinuities in the intermolecular activation energy of flow of 2% to 3% aqueous ethyl alcohol. Proceed. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A Math Phys. Sci 285 (1043):480-500, 1965 With M.H. Barnes. The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups. V – Descloizite and conichalcite (Pt.3).  Can. Mineral.8(1):23-39, 1964 With A.K.M. Ahsanullah. Preliminary determination of temperature dependence of refractive index of water and its first derivative. Pakist. J. Scient. Ind. Research 6:243, 1963 Use of anti-symmetric component
- [Luiz Padilha de Quadros](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-padilha-de-quadros/): Luiz Padilha de Quadros, Brazilian micropaleontologist and biostratigrapher (Rio de Janeiro 01 August 1939 – With J.H.G. Melo. Método prático de preparação palinológica em sedimentos do pré-mesozóico. Bol. Geoc. Petrobras 1:205-14, 1987 Genera Chapadella 1981 Citrocalculus 1971 with Troelsen Focusphaera 1986 Jandiatubaites 1986 Limaites 1986 Polyedrina 1986 Petrobrasiella 1971 with Troelsen Petrovina 1997 with Loboziak, Melo & Streel Pseudomaranhites 1996 Pyloferites 1999 Sommerochitina 1985 with Costa Tinacula 1999 Trilobus 1999 Species Apiculatisporis paranaensis 1995 with Marques-Toigo & Cazzullo-Klepzig Baltisphaeridium colonialis 1999 Braarudosphaera batiliformis 1971 with Troelsen Braarudosphaera minuta 1971 with Troelsen Braarudosphaera stylifer 1971 with Troelsen Chapadella mendesi 1981 Comasphaeridium daemoni 2002 Cymbosphaeridium armatus 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Dictyotidium souzae 2002 Divetipellis tianguaense 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn &
- [Luiz Manoel Pinto de Queiroz](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-manoel-pinto-de-queiroz/): Luiz Manoel Pinto de Queiroz, Brazilian industrial chemist and pharmacist (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State ? – São Paulo 31 March 1933) BRAZILIAN PATENTS Processo de fabricação de café concentrado, denominado café concentrado Queiroz (1899) Applicação da fibra da planta Hibiscus tiliaceus a fabricação de tecidos cordoaria, etc. (1903) With Octavio Pacheco Silva. Nova aplicação dos vegetais Hibiscus tiliaceus, Aristida pollens, Gossypium, Musa paradisíaca textilis e Cecropia palmata para obtenção de celulose, pasta de papel, filtros e tecidos (1905) Adubos aperfeiçoados polysu (1908) Um apparelho aperfeiçoado para gerar gazes formicidas (1919)  
- [Luis Alberto Quesada Allue](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-alberto-quesada-allue/): Luis Alberto Quesada Allué, Argentine insect biochemist (Bordeaux, France 23 November 1942 – Authored over 120 papers being most of them published in first-level journals Described the chitin synthesis in insects With L.R. Marechal & E. Belocopitow. Chitin synthesis in Triatoma infestans and other insects. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 26(5):349-63, 1976 Found polyprenol-phosphates sugars in insects and studied its biosynthesis With L.R. Marechal & E. Belocopitow. Biosynthesis of polyprenol phosphate sugars by Ceratitis capitata extracts. FEBS Lett. 67(3):243-7, 1976 Presented the first evidence of a protein glycosylation in a pluricellular invertebrate through dolichyl derivatives in Mol. Cell. Biochem. 33(3):149-55, 1980 Performed the first studies about glycoproteins
- [Lingxi Qian](https://neglectedscience.com/lingxi-qian/): Lingxi Qian, Chinese civil engineer (Wuxi, Jiangsu Province 16 July 1916 – 20 April 2009) Proposed no shear moment distribution method Discovered a simplified method of analyzing suspension bridge (1940s) Proved complementary energy can be a powerful energy variation principle for non-linear problem (1950) Proposed a novel ladder type of dam (1959) Discovered crown cantilever method to calculate arch dam Proposed a new type of buttress dam, the terraced dam Proposed a generalized variational principle for the limit analysis in solid mechanics (1965)  With Y.K. Sui & W.X. Zhong proposed an arithmetic of structure  optimization (1983) Eponym of Qian Lingxi formula
- [Juan Carlos Quiroga](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-quiroga/): Juan Carlos Quiroga, Argentine paleontologist (1951 – July 1988) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cuantificación de la corteza cerebral en moldes endocraneanos de mamíferos girencefalicos. Procedimiento y aplicación en tres mamíferos extinguidos. Ameghiniana 25(1):67-84, 1988 With M.T. Dozo. The brain of Thylacosmilus atrox, extinct South American saber-tooth carnivore marsupial. J. fur Hirnforsch. 29:573-86, 1988   The endocranial cast of the advanced mammal-like Therioherpeton cagnini (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the Middle Triassic of Brazil. J. fur Hirnforsch. 25:285-90, 1984 The brain of the mammal-like reptile Probainognathus jenseni (Therapsida, Cynodontia). A correlative paleo-neurological approach to the neocortex at the reptile-mammal transition. J. fur Hirnforsch. 21:299-36, 1980 The brains of two mammal-like reptiles (Cynodontia-Therapsida). J. f.
- [John Isaac Quin](https://neglectedscience.com/john-isaac-quin/): John Isaac Quin, South-African veterinarian (Klerksdorp 15 February 1900 – 19 March 1950) First described the technique for estimating degradability in the rumen With J.G. Van der Wath & S. Myburgh. Studies on the alimentary tract of Merino sheep in South Africa. 4. Description of experimental technique. Onderstrepoort J. Vet. Sci. Anim. Industry  11:341-60, 1938 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C. Rimington & C.G.C.S. Roets.  The nature of photosensibilization agents in geldcop. J. Vet. Sci. 14(2):6-45, 1928 With C. Rimington. Tribulosis and methaemoglobinaemia in South African sheep. Nature 130:926-7, 1932 Studies on the photosensitization of animals in South Africa. Onderstepoort J. Vet. Sci.
- [Hernan Quintana](https://neglectedscience.com/hernan-quintana/): Hernán Quintana Godoy, Chilean astrophysicist (Curicó 19 November 1942 – Proposed that dark matter may consist of leptons and heavy neutrinos With D. Pierini, R. Suhada, R. Fassbender, A. Nastasi, H. Boehringer, M. Salvato et al. First simultaneous optical / near-infrared imaging of an X-ray selected, high redshift cluster of galaxies with GROND: the galaxy population of XMMU JO3387+0030at Z=1,1 (2012) With G. Lamer, A. de Hoon, R. Fassbender, H. Bohringer, A. Schwope, R. Suhada & D. Pierini. XMMUJ 144845+085357, a new x-ray (2011) With G. Lamer, A. de Hoon, R. Fassbender, H. Bohringer, A. Schwope, R. Suhada, D. Pierini & J.
- [Germano Rodrigo Quast](https://neglectedscience.com/germano-rodrigo-quast/): Germano Rodrigo Quast, Brazilian astrophysicist (Santa Catarina State 1942 – Found a new young stellar association calling it All Sky Young Association and developed a method to find young associations and to define their high probability members With C.A.O. Torres & D. Montes. The All Sky Young Association (ASYA): a new young association. Proceed. Intern. Astron. Union 10 (S314), 2015 With C.A.P.C.O. Torres, C.H.F. Melo, M. Sterzik, J.R. de la Reza & L. da Silva. A method to search for associations of young stars (2003) With R. de la Reza, C.A.P.C.O. Torres, L. da Silva & E. Jilinski discovered Pisces Association
- [Geraldo Queiroga](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-queiroga/): Geraldo Queiroga, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Belo Horizonte 22 March 1913 – Belo Horizonte 01 March 1976) Nephew of ophthalmologist Hilton Rocha New surgical technique for glaucoma (Irido-sclerecto-cyclodialysis), combining cyclodyalisis, Foroni’sclerectomy and iridectomy Irido-esclerecto-ciclodialisis. Doctoral Thesis (1939) Photography of the fundus of the eye: simplified method. Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 18:205-10, 1959 Retinal photography and ophthalmoscopy combined in one instrument. Am. J. Ophthalm. 49(6):1403-6, 1960 Slit-lamp ophthalmoscope. Am. J. Ophthalm. 62(1):161-3, 1966 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Eletroretinograma: suas possibilidades clínicas (1953) Lampe à gente et photographie. Ophthalmologica 140:129, 1960 Electroretinography, its clinical possibilities. Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. 30:303-10, 1967 Possibilidades de um tonômetro óptico PATENTS An integrated
- [Frank Herbert Quina](https://neglectedscience.com/frank-herbert-quina/): Frank Herbert Quina, US-born Brazilian physical chemist (New York 23 March 1947 – Described methodology for analysis of reaction velocities in complex systems With H. Chaimovich. Conceptual framework for ion-exchange im micellar solutions. J. Phys. Chem (1979) Described how the anthocyanins act as a sunblock in plants With P. Ferreira da Silva, L. Paulo, A. Barbafina, E. Eisei & A. Maçanita. Photoprotection and the photophysics of acylated anthocyanins. Chem A. Europ. J. 18:3736-44, 2012 With V.O. Silva, A.A. Freitas & A.L. Maçanita. Chemistry and photochemistry of natural plant pigments: the anthocyanins. J. Phys. Org. chem. 29:594-9, 2016 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With O.
- [Fortunato Quesada](https://neglectedscience.com/fortunato-quesada/): Fortunato Quesada Larrea, Peruvian surgeon (Trujillo 05 May 1895 – Lima 09 March 1966) DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES  Colon fixation to the peritoneum Quesada procedure for treatment of the diaphyseal fractures A effective technique for angle radiography of the clavicle fractures Technique for the Roentgen diagnosis of fractures of the clavicle. Surg. Gynec. Obstet. 42:424-8, 1926  Neues Verfahren bei der Schadel-Gehirn Topographie. Rev. Med. Lat. Amer. 14:609-11, 1929  
- [Dahe Qin](https://neglectedscience.com/dahe-qin/): Dahe Qin, Chinese meteorologist and glaciologist (Lanzhou, Gansu Province 04 January 1947 – Authored over 400 scientific publications Respected as a world leader in glaciology and climatic change research Revealed that the hydrogen isotope content in the southwestern área of Antarctic ice surface is 40% higher than that in the southeast His findings on the distribution of stable isotope ratio in precipitation in relation to temperature, and on sources of water vapour and multiple substances and their transport pathways represent the most extensive and comprehensive research on Antarctic surface snow layer and ice sheet internationally up to present day Demonstrated the applicability of
- [Comlan Quenum](https://neglectedscience.com/comlan-quenum/): Comlan Alfred Auguste Quenum, Beninois physician (Ouidah 10 January 1926 – Brazzaville 15 August 1984) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Braillon, J.P. Capron, M.A. Hervé & C. Degott. Liver in obesity. Gut 26:133-9, 1985 With T. Davion, J.P. Capron, M. Andrejak, P. Geoffroy & D. Capron-Chivrac. Hepatite aigué due à la carbamazepine (Tégrétol). Etude d’un cas et revue de la littérature. Gastroenterol. Clin. Biol. 8:52-6, 1984  With J.P. Capron, C. Degott, J. Bernuau, M.F. Saint Marc Girardin, S. Zafranie, D. Dhumeaux & J.P. Benhamou. L’hyperplasie nodulaire régénératrice du foie, étude de 15 cas et revue de la littérature. Gastroenterol. Clin. Biol. 7:761-9,
- [Antonio Quelce Salgado](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-quelce-salgado/): Antonio Quelce-Salgado, Brazilian human geneticist (Castro, Paraná State 22 September 1932 – Described Grebe-Quelce-Salgado chondrodysplasia A new type of dwarfism with various bone aplasias and hypoplasia of the extremities. Acta Genet. Stat. Med. 14:63, 1964 A rare genetic syndrome. Lancet 1:1430, 1968  Papers in top journals With N. Freire Maia & A. Freire Maia. Parity effect on abortions. Lancet 1 (7284):774-5, 1963 With N. Freire Maia. Lethal mutations in Brazilian human populations. Nature 189:80, 1961
- [Woon Hah Paik](https://neglectedscience.com/woon-hah-paik/): Woon Hah Paik, South Korean entomologist (13 January 1917 – 2000) Genus Angelacarus 1980 (Acari) SPECIES Angelacarus coreanus 1980 (Acari) Atheroides suwonensis 1971 (Hemiptera) Caenohomalopoda koreana 1981 with Tachikawa & Paik Delphioniobium hanla 1971 (Hemiptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A check list of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Korea. Korean J. Plant Prot. 23:193-5, 1984 Catalogue of parasite predator-host insects of Korea (1982) Tentative catalogue of the oribatid mites (Cryptostigmata: Acari) of Korea. Kor. J. Plant Prot. 19:251-7, 1980 Notes on Protura. Korean J. Plant Prot. 18:189-98, 1979 With J. Namkung. Studies on the rice paddy spiders from Korea (1979) A list of Oribatei (Acari) of Korea. Korean J. Plant
- [Wladimir Lobato Paraense](https://neglectedscience.com/wladimir-lobato-paraense/): Wladimir Lobato Paraense, Brazilian parasitologist and malacologist (Igarapé-Mirim, Pará State 16 November 1914 – Rio de Janeiro 11 February 2012) Internationally known as leading expert on Planorbidae Mollusca Authored 171 papers Developed in vitro culture of exo-erythrocytary form of Plasmodium gallinaceum  With  H. Meyer & V. Menezes. Estudos sobre Plasmodium gallinaceum. Comportamento dos esporozoitos em cultura de baço embrionário. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2(1):89-94, 1942 Proved existence of exo-erythrocyte cycle in malaria independently of Reichenow & Mudrow (1943; published in 1944) O ciclo exoeritrocitário dos parasitas da malária. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 41(3):469-93, 1944 Demonstrated that malarial parasites induce production of distinct antibodies and
- [Wenzhong Pei](https://neglectedscience.com/wenzhong-pei/): Wenzhong Pei / Wenchung Pei, Chinese anthropologist, archaeologist and paleontologist (05 March 1903 – 18 September 1982) Discovered Zhoukoudian man (1929) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIA TAXA Genus Fenhoryx 1958 Species Ailuropoda microta 1962 Ailuropoda minor 1962 Arctonyx minor 1987 Canis cyonoides 1934 Canis variabilis 1934 Crocidura wangi 1936 Elephas kiangnanensis 1987 Felis teilhardi 1934 Fenhoryx wanchihyii 1958 Hyaena zdanskyi 1934 Hydropotes pleistocenica 1941 with Teilhard de Chardin Hystrix magna 1987 Microtus complicidens 1936 Oriensictis melina 1934 Pachycrocuta licenti 1934 Tetralophodon liuchengensis 1987 Trilophodon wufengensis 1965 Youngia epitingi 1941 with Teilhard de Chardin Subspecies Viverricula malaccensis fossilis 1987 HONORS (Fossil) Peisorex Kowalski & Li 1963 (Mammalia) Peilepis Wang 1984 (Pisces) Peia Li 2009 (Pisces)
- [Walter Pinto Jr](https://neglectedscience.com/walter-pinto-jr/): Walter Pinto Jr., Brazilian clinical geneticist (1944 – ABOUT DISEASES With L. Toma, C.P. Dietrich & H.B. Nader. Caracterização bioquímica de uma nova mucopolissacaridose. Arq. Biol. Tecnol. 24:67-9, 1981 With A. Billis, A.C. Lima, l.S. Queiroz, E.M. Cia & E.R. Oliveira. Adenoma of bladder in siblings with renal dysplasia. Urology 16(3):299-302, 1980 (found renal dysplasia in adenoma of urinary bladder) With L.I. Gardner, R.L. Neu, R.S. Shah, M. Co, E.R. Lehr & G.A. Bahr. Family with three apparently balanced t (3:15) (p27;q22) translocation carriers. Amer. J. Dis. Children 133:1002-5, 1979 With L.I. Gardner & P. Rosenbaum. Abnormal genitalia as a presenting sign
- [Visconde de Prados](https://neglectedscience.com/visconde-de-prados/): Camilo Maria Ferreira Armond, visconde de Prados, Brazilian scientist (Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 07 August 1815 – Rio de Janeiro 14 August 1882) Studied and worked in France as aide-préparateur under physician Marie Guillaume Alphonse Devergie (1798-1879) His thesis, Essai sur l’etude de la vie at Academie de Medecine de Paris (1837), was acclaimed by experts Studied the flora of Rio de Janeiro State corresponding with botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868) Performed astronomical studies and published them in Tratado de Astronomia Aplicada e de Geodesia from Emmanuel Liais and in Anais do Imperial Observatório Astronômico da Corte Authored report about
- [Vijay Kumar Patodi](https://neglectedscience.com/vijay-kumar-patodi/): Vijay Kumar Patodi, Indian mathematician (Guna, Madhya Pradesh 12 March 1945 – Mumbai 21 December 1976) Derived a formula for the index of a linear elliptic operator on a compact manifold (1971) With Atiyah & Singer introduced eta invariant, a special invariant of a compact Riemannian manifold (1973-5) First to prove local equivariant Atiyah-Singer index theorem Gave a combinatorial formula for Pontryagin classes (1976) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1974) EPONYMY Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem Atiyah-Bott-Patodi index theorem Atiyah-Bott-Patodi space Atiyah-Patodi-Singer invariant Patodi cancellation lemma
- [Victor Manuel Patiño](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-manuel-patino/): Victor Manuel Patiño Rodríguez, Colombian agronomist, ethnobotanist, plant geneticist and historian (Zarzal, Valle del Cauca 08 December 1912 – Cali 15 January 2001) Authored 116 publications (29 books) between them Una exploración agricola en Sudamerica (1945) Discovered Borojoa patinoi named in his honor HONORS  Patinoa Cuatrecasas 1953 (Malvaceae) LINKS  http://dintev.univalle.edu.co/cvisaacs/victor/obra.htm (bibliography)
- [Vicente Pardo Castello](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-pardo-castello/): Vicente Pardo Castelló, Cuban dermatologist (La Habana 06 December 1892 – Miami 21 May 1967) Introduced nails into clinical diagnosis (1936) independently of Mangin (1932) First to describe Sjogren-Larsson syndrome With H. Faz. Ichthyosis – Little’s disease. Arch. Dermat. Syphil. 26:915, 1932 Described Pardo Castello congenital palmoplantar keratoderma or keratosis palmoplantar hereditária mutilans independently of Vohwinkel (1929) With J.J. Mestre. Symmetric palmar and plantar keratoderma and ainhum. Arch. Dermat. Syphil. 19:154, 1929 Described diffuse leukonychia or pseudomacrolunula (1960) Eponym of Pardo Castello syndrome With F. Tiant & R. Piñeiro showed the constancy of lesions of peripheral nerve trunks in leprosy (1947)
- [Velarde Perez Fontana](https://neglectedscience.com/velarde-perez-fontana/): Velarde Perez Fontana, Uruguayan surgeon (Nueva Palmira, Colonia Department 09 May 1897 – 03 January 1975) Nuevo metodo de operar en el quiste hidatico del pulmón. Arch. Intern. Hidat. 7:267-300, 1947  Developed Perez Fontana cystectomy for pulmonary hydatid Nuevo metodo de operar en el quiste hidatico del pulmón. Arch. Pediat. Urug. 19:5, 1948 A new treatment for rachidial hydatidosis Nuevo tratamento de la hidatidosis raquidea. Arch. Int. Hidat. 9:443-567, 1950 With L. Surraco. Nuevo metodo de operar en el quiste hidatico del riñon. Arch. Intern. Hidat. 11(1-2):483-91, 1950 Perez Fontana method for inguinal hernia Nouvelle methode pour le traitement des hernies inguinales.
- [Uttam Prakash](https://neglectedscience.com/uttam-prakash/): Uttam Prakash, Indian palaeobotanist (02 December 1925 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA Adenantheroxylon 1968 with Tripathi Ailanthoxylon 1958 Albizinium 1973 Amooroxylon 1983 with Bande Artocarpoxylon 1978 with Lalitha Atalantioxylon 1978 with Lakhanpal & Bande Baphioxylon 1970 with Lakhanpal Brachystegioxylon 1970 with Lakhanpal Burseroxylon 1973 with Tripathi Callistemonites 1986 with Bande & Mehrotra Callistemonoxylon 1986 with Bande & Mehrotra Canarioxylon 1973 with Breasinova & Awasthi Cassinium 1973 Cercidiphylloxylon 1971 with Brezinova & Buzek Coryloxylon 1971 with with Brezinova & Buzek Dialiumoxylon 1978 with Lakhanpal Dichrostachyoxylon 1976 Duabangoxylon 1970 with Awasthi Elaeocarpoxylon 1963 with Dayal Entandrophragminium 1976 Euphorbiocarpon 1983 with Bande & Mehrotra Gymnosporioxylon 1984 with Lalitha Heritieroxylon 1981 with Lakhanpal & Awasthi Heyneoxylon 1980 with Bande Holigarnoxylon 1970 with Awasthi Homalioxylon 1972 with Tripathi Hyphaeneocarpon 1982 with Bande & Ambwani
- [Un-chul Paek](https://neglectedscience.com/un-chul-paek/): Un-chul Paek, South Korean optical physicist (Jinju, Gyeongnam Province 02 December 1934 – Gwangju 03 May 2011) Held at least 44 patents Developed a furnace for drawing fibers and techniques for high-speed drawing, cooling and coating of these fibers OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS  With S. Oh, K.R. Lee & Y.J. Chung. Fabrication of helical long-period fiber gratings by use of a CO2 laser. Opt. Letters 29(13):1464-66, 2004 With Y.G. Han, S.H. Kim, S.B. Lee & Y. Chung. Development of a novel core mode blocker with H-2 loaded Ge-B co-doped fiber. IEEE Electronics Letters 39(15):1107-8, 2003 With Y.G. Han, S.H. Kim, S.B. Lee, Y. Chung
- [Troels Myndel Pedersen](https://neglectedscience.com/troels-myndel-pedersen/): Troels Myndel Pedersen, Danish-born Argentine botanist (Copenhagen 26 September 1916 – Corrientes 05 April 2000) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera (Amaranthaceae) Hebanthodes 2000 Lecosia 2000 Quaternella 1990 Siamosia 1987 with K. Larsen Species Alternanthera bahiensis 1995 Alternanthera collina 1997 Alternanthera inaccessa 1997 Alternanthera piptantha 2000 Alternanthera serpens 1997 Carex rupicola Cerastium rivulariastrum 1970 with Möschl Cyperus grossianus 1972 Eleocharis strobilacea 1961 Eryngium mesopotamicum 1997 Gomphrena ferruginea 1976 Gomphrena hatschibachiana 2000 Gomphrena phaeotricha 1976 Gomphrena radiata 1976 Gomphrena riparia 2000 Gomphrena spissa 1997 Gomphrena tríceps 1997 Gomphrena vitellina 1990 Guilleminea chacoensis 2000 Guilleminea fragilis 2000 Guilleminea hirsuta 2000 Hebanthodes peruviana 2000 Hydrocleys modesta 1961 Hydrocleys grosourdyana 1961 Lecosia formicarum 2000 Lecosia oppositifolia 2000 Pfaffia argyrea 2000 Pfaffia minarum 1997 Pfaffia ninae 1997 Pfaffia rotundifolia 1997 Pfaffia sarcophylla 1997 Pfaffia townsendii 1990 Pfaffia tuberculosa 1997 Quaternella confusa 1990 Quaternella ephedroides 1997 Scirpus guaraniticus 1961
- [Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian](https://neglectedscience.com/thavamani-jegajothivel-pandian/): Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian, Indian fisheries biologist (Madurai District, Tamil Nadu 15 June 1939 – About 250 papers Developed a model for predicting the transformation of food energy into growth Published the paper that became a citation classic Intake, digestion, absorption and conversion of food in the fishes Megalops cyprinoides and Ophiocephalus striatus. Marine Biology 1:16-32, 1983 Discovered haploid and tetraploid catfishes With R. Koteeswaran. Natural occurrence of monoploid and polyploids in the Indian catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis. Curr. Sci. 76:1134-7, 1999 Obtained the first generation of  supermales (YY) in tilapia, barbs ang guppy species and superfemales (XX) in guppy species to sire monosex progenies Demonstrated that
- [Teresa Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/teresa-pinto/): Teresa Pinto Hamuy, Chilean psycho physiologist (died 2008?) Modified Sutherland box With S. Aronsohn, P. Toledo & P. Asenjo. Analysis of a guided-response procedure in visual discrimination by rats. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 47(3):311-7, 1987 With C. Passig, W.M. Jenkins, J.A. Arraztoa, H. Guadagno & R. Olivares. Development of a computerized system for simultaneous visual discrimination in rats. Behav. Brain research 47(2):199-201, 1992 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P. Espina Marchant, D. Bustamante, P. Morales & M. Herrera-Marschitz. Rat strain influences the use of the egocentric learning strategies mediated by neostriatum. Exp. Brain Res. 193(2):205-12, 2009 With P. Espina Marchant, D. Bustamante, P.
- [Sindhu Amrut Paradkar](https://neglectedscience.com/sindhu-amrut-paradkar/): Sindhu Amrut Paradkar, Indian palaeobotanist (20 November 1930 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA GENERA Plantae Apocinaceoxylon 1970 with Chitaley & Subnedar Bauhinioxylon 1972 with Nakada Cestroxylon 1971 with Bhutada Chitaleypushpam 1971 Deccanocarpon 1975 Mohgaoanthus 1985 with Dixit Oleoxylon 1971 with Joshi Paraferonioxylon 1985 with Dixit Rhizomites 1971 Shoreoxylon 1972 Todisporangidites 1980 with Barlinge Trialata 1986 with Dixit Velamenorhizos 1977 with Barlinge Fungi Arbusculites 1976 Ascochytites 1982 with Barlinge Chlamydosporites 1975 Dactylosporites 1976 Helicominites 1982 with Barlinge Monodictyites 1982 with Barlinge Mougeotiates 1982 with Barlinge Palaeoleptosphaeria 1982 with Barlinge
- [Setembrino Petri](https://neglectedscience.com/setembrino-petri/): Setembrino Petri, Brazilian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Amparo, São Paulo State 25 September 1922 – São Paulo 01 March 2023) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA & FORAMINIFERA TAXA Genus Guiratingia 1966 with Fulfaro (Bivalvia) Mendesia 1962 (Foraminifera) Species Actinopteria langei 1967 Ammobaculites copei 1962 Ammobaculites hartti 1962 Ammonia mendesi 1957 Angulogerina paraensis 1957 Anomalina calumbiensis 1957 Anomalinoides itatigensis 1962  Anomalinoides petrobrasi 1962 Bigenerina euzebioi 1962 Bolivina pirabensis 1957 Bolivina rhombica 1954 Bolivina striatula 1954 Bolivina tinocoi 1962 Cibicides americanus 1954 Cibicides cururuensis 1954 Cibicides mendesi 1962 Cibicides pirabensis 1957 Cibicidina hoelfeldi 1962 Cibicidina paraensis 1957 Cibicidina sergipana 1962 Conorbella americana 1957 Dentalina borgesi 1962
- [Sergio Porto](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-porto/): Sergio Pereira da Silva Porto, Brazilian physicist (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 19 January 1926 – Novosibirski, Siberia 21 June 1979)  Recognized as world authority in spectroscopy and laser His laboratory at Bell Labs became one of the most important laboratories in the field of solid state spectroscopy  Authored over 150 papers First to use laser radiation as an excitation source in Raman spectroscopy  With D. L. Wood. Ruby optical maser as a Raman source. Optical Society of America 52(3): 1962. With H. Kogelnik first to obtain Raman spectra using He-Ne continuous laser (1963) With N. Jannuzzi. New singlet transitions in the
- [Santiago Pinasco](https://neglectedscience.com/santiago-pinasco/): Santiago Felipe Pinasco Carreras, Argentine atomic physicist (20 May 1922 – 09 January 2006) DEVELOPED With R.A.P. Gayoso described a modified linear pulse amplifier (1958) With M. C. Kopp a micro-microammeter (1958) Transistorized linear amplifier (1960) With C. Marazzi. Electrical meter amplifier (1962) Aerial prospecting equipment for uranium (1962) With J.R.Lorenzetti a linear amplifier (1963) With J.L. Blankenship. Design of low-noise vacuum tube pulse amplifiers for semiconductor-detector spectroscopy (1965) With A. Battisto. Integrador logarítmico y medidor de período, velocidad de respuesta y fluctuación estadística (1967)    Linear pulse amplifier with three tubes 
- [Samuel Barnsley Pessoa](https://neglectedscience.com/samuel-barnsley-pessoa/): Samuel Barnsley Pessoa, Brazilian parasitologist and sanitarian (São Paulo 31 May 1898 – São Paulo 03 September 1976) From United States ancestry Authored 352 scientific works between papers, books and monographs Authored Parasitologia Médica / Medical Parasitology (1946), adopted in foreign institutions Presented Pessoa classification of clinical forms in schistosomiasis Developed a method for Phlebotominae capture With I.A. Sherlock. Métodos práticos para a captura de flebótomos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 24:331-40, 1964 Developed Correa-Pessoa technique for preparation of Leishmania antigens   Segunda nota sobre a vacinação preventiva na leishmaniose tegumentar americana com leptomonas mortas. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Med. 19:105, 1941  With V. Amato Neto & C. Magaldi.
- [Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr.](https://neglectedscience.com/salvador-de-toledo-piza-jr/): Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr., Brazilian entomologist and cytogeneticist (Capivari, São Paulo State 28 December 1898 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 22 January 1988) Authored over 1200 publications between books, papers and popular articles Authored papers with international repercussion on invertebrate cytogenetics With A. Zamith reported new exceptional meiotic mechanisms or mis-meiosis (1946) Discovered diffuse centromere in Tytius bahiensis DESCRIBED ORTHOPTERA & ARACHNIDA TAXA Orthoptera Valid Genera Acrephyllum 1973 Anapolisia 1980 Balneum 1967 Beierella 1978 Bertius 1974 Choirorhynchus 1974 Ctenophorema 1967 Herbardius 1980 Megatympanon 1958 Mendesius 1960 Meneghelia 1980 Metaphotina 1964 Miroceroys 1936 Paracoelophyllum 1972 Paraviadana 1980 Pelecynotum 1967 Phanerocercus 1980 Phaneropterella 1977 Phaneropteroides 1940 Piracicaba 1967 Polyurena 1967 Tympanotriba 1971 Wattenwylia 1938 Arachnida Valid Genera Anoplogynus 1938 Cercopachylus 1940 Inhuma 1938  Paratricommatus 1943 Progonyleptiodellus 1940 Styloleptes 1943 Species Over 300
- [Sadettin Pekmezciler](https://neglectedscience.com/sadettin-pekmezciler/): Sadettin Pekmezciler, Turkish geologist and mining engineer (1907 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Permocarbonifere productif du Sud de la Turquie. Compt. Rend. V Congr. Strat. Geol. Carbonifere Paris 2:655-6, 1963 Relationship between ages and degrees of carbonization of natural coals of Turkey (1961) Introduction to the Stratigraphy of Natural Coal in Turkey (1961) A general outlook on the Turkish lignites (1955) An exploration report on the Celtek lignite. M.T.A. Special Report nº 2025 (1953) With R. Egemen. Rapport geologique sur le Carbonifere d’Amasra. M.T.A. Report nº 1636 (1945) HONORS Pekmezcileripollenites Agrali 1969 (Fossil Sporae/Pollen)
- [Ruy Perez Tamayo](https://neglectedscience.com/ruy-perez-tamayo/): Ruy Perez Tamayo, Mexican immunologist and pathologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 08 November 1924 – Ensenada, Baja California State 27 January 2022) With M. Ihnen described the effect of methionine on wounds cicatrization With R. Kretschmer performed important studies on role that antibodies play in immune rejection (1953) With I. Monfort first demonstrated the presence of collagenase in the normal myocardium (1975) With I. Monfort. Two antigenically different types of macrophages. Exp. Biol. Med. 138(1):204-7, 1971 With K.K. Jain, A.J. Braze & M.A. Shapiro presented the first report of aberrant right subclavian artery and scimitar syndrome in the same patient (2012) With A.
- [Rosendo Pascual](https://neglectedscience.com/rosendo-pascual/): Rosendo Pascual Ruiz, Argentine paleontologist (Godoy Cruz, Mendoza Province 10 July 1925 – La Plata 23 December 2012) Authored 143 papers Cited as the first paleomammalogist to work at Antarctic DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN GENERA Allocavia 1962 Anargyrolagus 2007 with Carlini & Goin Argentodytes 2007 with Kielan-Jaworowska, Ortiz-Jaureguizar, Vieytes e Goin Bonapartherium 1980 Borhyaenidium 1963 with Bocchino Campanorco 1984 with Bond & Vucetich Chasichimys 1967 Chasicorays 1967 Cocatherium 2006 with Goin, Tejedor, Geffo et al. Monotrematum 1992 with Archer, Ortiz-Jaureguizar et al. Neoanchimys 1961 with Bondesio Ocnerotherium 1954 Oxybunotherium 1965 Palangania 1998 with Goin, Candela, Bond & Escribano Paradelphomys 1968 with Patterson Patagonia 1987 with Carlini Pattersomys 1967 Predidolops 1980 Procardiomys 1961 Reigia 1983 Simpsonotus 1979 with Vucetich & Fernandez Sudamerica 1985 with Scillato-Yané  Xenocardia 1963 with
- [Rodolfo Pasqualini](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-pasqualini/): Rodolfo Quirino Pasqualini Guzzetti, Argentine endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 20 May 1909 – Buenos Aires 18 March 2004) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed Pasqualini-Etala test or pitressin test for exploration of renal function With E. Etala. Hipófisis y excreción de cloruro de sodio. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 16:161-73, 1940  Discovered Pasqualini syndrome or pseudoeunuchoidism With G. E. Bur. Sindrome hipoandrogenico con gametogenesis conservada: clasificación de La insuficiência testicular. Rev. Assoc. Med. Arg. 64:6, 1950  First to demonstrate the therapeutic action of sodium salicylate upon rheumatic fever El tratamiento de la fiebre reumatica,una larga experiencia y una hipótesis personal. Prensa Med. Arg. 37(15):757-69, 1950    Discovered oligophrenia associated with
- [Rocco Van Pletzen](https://neglectedscience.com/rocco-van-pletzen/): Jan Jacobus Rocco Van Pletzen, South African acarologist (24 July 1922 – Bloemfontein 27 October 2009) DESCRIBED ACARI SPECIES Alaskozetes bouvetoyanensis 1971 with Kok Brasilobates durbanensis 1963 Dometorina marionensis 1971 with Kok Halozetes edwardensis 1971 with Kok Ischeloribates minutus 1965 Ischeloribates rustenburgensis 1963 Ischeloribates tzizikamaensis 1965 Oribatula subantarctica 1971 with Kok Pedrocortesella africana 1963 Pedrocortesella parva 1963 Protoribates natalensis 1963 Scheloribates elsi 1965 Scheloribates louwi 1965 Scheloribates obtusus 1963 Scheloribates robustus 1963 Scheloribates variabilis 1965 Topobates heterodactylus 1963 HONORS Pletzenoppia Balogh 1983 (Acari)  
- [Roberto Magalhaes Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-magalhaes-pinto/): Roberto Regis Magalhães Pinto, Brazilian helminthologist and parasitologist (Abadia dos Dourados, Minas Gerais State ? ) DEVELOPED METHODS With M. Tendler. A simple device to immobilize mice for infection with Schistosoma mansoni cercariae. J. Parasitol. 67(4):583-4, 1981 With L. Gonçalves, D. Noronha, J.J. Vicente & D.C. Gomes. Introdução da técnica modificada do “swab” anal como diagnóstico de oxiurídeos em animais de laboratório (1991) With L. Gonçalves, D. Noronha, J.J. Vicente & D.C. Gomes. Helminth parasites of conventionally maintained laboratory mice. II. Inbred strains with an adaptation of the anal swab technique. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 93(1):121-6, 1998 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Deliria 1980 with
- [Ricardo Pablo Platzeck](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-pablo-platzeck/): Ricardo Pablo Platzeck, Argentine optics physicist (Tres Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province 15 October 1912 – City Bell, Buenos Aires Province 02 February 1979) From Bohemian descent Specialist on construction, testing and treatment of telescope mirrors ACHIEVEMENTS Gaviola-Platzeck caustic test With E. Gaviola. On the errors of testing and a new method for surveying optical surfaces and systems. Journal of the Optical Society of America 29:484-500, 1939. Platzeck-Gaviola spectrograph Designed the first all-reflection optics spectrograph with E. Gaviola (1943) Designed the Platzeck-Littrow nebular spectrograph (1946) Platzeck Non-focal Method With A. Maiztegui & E. Gaviola. Non-focal methods for determining 2nd and 3rd contacts in total-center
- [Raul Pereira Valdés](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-pereira-valdes/): Raul Agustín Pereira Valdés, Cuban pediatrician and radiologist (La Habana 05 May 1904 – United States August 1994) Authored about 100 papers Created intravenous angiocardiography or radio opaque angiography (1937) With A. Castellanos & A. Garcia López. La angio-cardiografia radio-opaca. Arch. Soc. Est. Clin. 523:31, 1937   Performed the first retrograde dye injection into aorta (chest retrograde aortography) and developed an automatic apparatus for rapid injection of the dye With A.W. Castellanos & A. Garcia López. L’angiocardiographie chez l’enfant. Presse Med. 46:1474, 1938     With A. Castellanos developed lower and upper cavographies Described a new radiological sign for diagnosing aorta coarctation With A.W. Castellanos.
- [Raghavan Sridharan Pillai](https://neglectedscience.com/raghavan-sridharan-pillai/): Raghavan Sridharan Pillai, Indian zoologist (1932 – DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Amphibia Genus   Bufoides 1973 with Yazdani Species Bufoides meghalayanus 1973 with Yazdani Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis 1981 Gegeneophis krishni 1999 with Ravichandran Ghatophryne rubigina 1981 with Pattabiraman Ichthyophis garoensis 1999 with Ravichandran Ichthyophis husaini 1999 with Ravichandran Ichthtyophis longicephalus 1986 Micrixalus gadgili 1990 with Pattabiraman Micrixalus nudis 1978 Micrixalus thampii 1981 Microhyla chakrapani 1977 Odorrana mawphlangensis 1977 with Chanda Raorchestes shillongensis 1973 with Chanda Uraeotyphlus interruptus 1999 with Ravichandran Zakerana murthii 1979 Pisces Species Lepidocephalichthys goalparensis 1976 with Yazdani HONORS (Pisces) Pillaia Yazdani 1972  Pillaibrachia Britz 2016 (Pisces)
- [Rafael Palacios](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-palacios/): Rafael Palacios de la Lama, Mexican molecular biologist (Ciudad de Mexico 27 March 1944 – Recognized as one of the world’s experts on the genetics of Rhizobium and genome dynamics Defined the notion of amplicon With M. Flores, S. Brom, T. Stepkowski, M.L. Girard & G. Davila. Gene amplification in Rhizobium: identification and in vivo cloning of discrete amplifiable DNA regions (amplicons) from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. Phaseoli. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sciences USA 90: 4932-6, 1993 Demonstrated the genome of genus Rhizobium sp. as a dynamic and complex structure with a number of repeating sequences Proposed a general scheme for designing and obtaining alternative genomic structures based on nucleotide-sequence
- [Rafael Pacheco Luna](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-pacheco-luna/): Rafael Pacheco Luna, Guatemalan ophthalmologist (Guatemala 1882 – Guatemala 16 March 1968) Brother of naturalist Juan José Rodríguez Luna and grandson of physician and surgeon José Luna Arbizu (1805-1888) Proposed Onchocerca volvulus as a causative agent of Robles disease (1918) First to study and classify the ocular lesions of the Robles disease (his description remained classical) Disturbances of vision in patients harboring certain filarial tumors. Am. J. Ophthalm. (1918) Una nueva etiologia de las cataratas congenitas (1944) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notes on onchocercosis in Guatemala. Brit. J. Ophthalm. 30:234-7, 1946 El tracoma en Guatemala. Arch. Asoc. Evit. Ceguera Mexico 2:241-4, 1944 Two cases of onchocercosis
- [Pontis Videla Family](https://neglectedscience.com/pontis-videla-family/): Horacio Guillermo Pontis Videla, Argentine plant biochemist (Mendoza 24 March 1928 – Mar del Plata 05 August 2019) First to report fructose-containing nucleotides in fungi (with James & Baddiley; 1960) and plants (with Gonzalez; 1963) With N. Gonzalez. Uridine diphosphate fructose and uridine diphosphate acetylgalactosamine from Dahlia tubers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 69:179-81, 1963 Synthesized the fructose 2-phosphate, the first ketose in literature or the first sugar phosphate with P group linked to hemiacetal-hydroxyl group With C.L. Fischer. Synthesis of D-fructopyranose 2 phosphate and D-fructofuranose 2-phosphate. Biochem. J. 89:452, 1963 Demonstrated that the metabolism of fructans was regulated by hormone action (1965) Separation of
- [Poey family](https://neglectedscience.com/poey-family/): Felipe Poey y Aloy, Cuban naturalist and geographer (La Habana 26 May 1799 – La Habana 28 January 1891)   From French father and Spanish mother His study about respiration and circulation of aligators had great repercussion With C. Finlay concluded that female mosquitoes transmitted the yellow fever Showed that many fish characters vary with age such as the size and relative position of eyes and mouth DESCRIBED TAXA Pisces Genera Epinnula 1854 Erotelis 1860 Gambusia 1854 Girardinus 1854 Gramma 1868 Grammicolepis 1873 Halieutichthys 1863 Hollardia 1861 Joturus 1860 Limia 1854 Lucifuga 1858 Microgobius 1876 Pontinus 1860 Pythonichthys 1868 Rivulus 1860 Verilus 1860 Valid Species About 120 Lepidoptera (1832) Genera Acrolophus   Amphonyx   Erithales   Mastigophorus   Syllepis   Mollusca Genus Pineria 1854
- [Plinio Pinto e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/plinio-pinto-e-silva/): Plínio Pinto e Silva, Brazilian veterinary anatomist (São Paulo 04 August 1912 – São Paulo 29 November 2005) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With V.J.M. Campos, S. Melo Dias & A.M. Orsi. The vesical medial artery Rauch 1963, of the dog (Canis familiaris). Anat. Anz. 160:59-63, 1985 With S. Mello Dias, V.J.M. Campos, A.M. Orsi, M.C.O. Dayoub & R.M. Define. The urinary tract of Gallus gallus Indian River species. II. Trajectory and relations of the ureter with Blood vessels. Anat. Histol. Embryol. 13(1):64-7, 1984 With V.J.M. Campos & S. Mello Dias. The urogenital artery of the adult dog. Anat. Anz. 155(1-5):31-7, 1984 With S. Mello Dias, V.J.M. Campos,
- [Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty](https://neglectedscience.com/pisharoth-rama-pisharoty/): Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty, Indian physicist and meteorologist (Kollengode, Kerala State 10 February 1909 – Pune 24 September 2002) Authored over 100 publications ACHIEVEMENTS Found that the Indian summer monsoon is a delayed response to the inadequate poleward transport of heat in the Northern Hemisphere during the antecedent winter Showed the consequences that mid-latitude low pressure systems moving eastward across the Northern Himalaya cause A standard atmosphere for the tropics. Ind. J. Met. Gephys. 10 (1959) Radio isotope techniques for the measurement of river bed variations. Proceed. Symp. Hydrometeorol. India (1964) OTHERS With C.V. Raman & P. Nilakantan. Quantum theory of x-ray
- [Pirovano family](https://neglectedscience.com/pirovano-family/): Ignacio Pirovano Ayeno, Argentine surgeon (Buenos Aires 23 August 1844 – Buenos Aires 01 July 1895) From Italian father and Austrian mother  ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a test for herniotomy Designed Pirovano apparatus for continuous extension Described a surgical treatment for cranial fractures (1878) His nephew and son in law Aquiles Juan Pirovano Naón, surgeon (Buenos Aires 09 May 1885 – Buenos Aires 26 May 1943) Developed Pirovano method of end-to-end anastomosis of vessels Nouveau procedé de suture arterielle et veineuse. Revue de Chirurgie 29(10), 1909 Performed first case of homologous arterial transplant in the world Un cas de greffe arterielle. Presse Med. 19:55, 1911
- [PHILIPPINES](https://neglectedscience.com/philippines/): Geminiano Tiongson de Ocampo, Philippine ophthalmologist (Malolos 16 September 1907 – 02 September 1987) Authored 207 papers and 8 books Designed a corneal dissector (1956)  Perla Esperanza Oreta Dizon Santos Ocampo, Philippine pediatrician (Dagupan, Pangasinan 25 July 1931 – Manila 29 June 2012) Authored over 200 papers and 10 books Developed super oral rehydrating solution for diarrhea HONOURS Offices Membership, Expert Advisory Panel on Maternal and Child Health of World Health Organization (1980-2) President, International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (1989-92) Awards Child Health Foundation Medal and Prize, WHO (1985) Langholz International Award for Nutrition  Dogramaci Medal and Prize for Pediatric Education  
- [Philippi family](https://neglectedscience.com/philippi-family/): Rudolph Amandus Philippi, German-born Chilean naturalist (Charlottenburg, Berlin 14 September 1808 – Santiago de Chile 23 July 1904) Authored 453 works DESCRIBED TAXA PLANTAE Valid Genera 44 Species 1017 (50 of them are Pteridophyta) Fungi Species 3 ANIMALIA Invertebrata Genera Diptera 51 Coleoptera 14 Hymenoptera 7 Orthoptera 4 Lepidoptera 3 Hemiptera 2 Mollusca 43 Crustacea 17 Coelenterata 7 Polychaeta 5 Hirudinea 3 Echinodermata 2 Pantopoda 2 Arachnida 1 Tunicata 1 Valid Vertebrata  Mammalia Species 9 Subspecies 9 Aves Species 13 Subspecies 11 Reptilia Species 3 Amphibia Species 6 Pisces Genus Genypterus 1857 Species 14 HONORS Philippiella Spegazzini 1897 (Caryophyllaceae) Philippia Gray 1845 (Mollusca), Philippius Germain
- [Phelps family](https://neglectedscience.com/phelps-family/): William Henry Phelps, US-born Venezuelan geographical explorer and ornithologist (New York 14 June 1875 – Caracas 09 December 1965) DESCRIBED AVES TAXA Species Amazilia distans 1956 with Wetmore Basileuterus zimmeri 1941 with Gilliard Catamenia mucuchesi 1941 with Gilliard Crypturellus ptaritepui 1944 with Zimmer Diglossa disjuncta 1944 with Zimmer Grallaria chthonia 1956 with Wetmore Myioborus albifrons 1946 with Phelps Jr. Myioborus cardonai 1944 with Zimmer Myioborus pariae 1949 with Phelps Jr. Philydor hylobius 1956 with Wetmore Picumnus nigropunctatus 1950 with Zimmer Rallus wetmorei 1944 with Zimmer  Scytalopus nigricans 1953 Subspecies 206 (135 with his son) HONORS Phelpsia Lanyon 1984 (Aves) Phelpsiella Maguire 1958 (Rapateaceae) His son, William Henry Phelps Jr., Venezuelan ornithologist and geographical explorer (San Antonio
- [Peter Heinrich Polemann](https://neglectedscience.com/peter-heinrich-polemann/): C. Peter Heinrich Polemann, German-born South African chemist and apothecary (Altona, Holstein 1779 – Cape Town 16 April 1839) Authored Verhandeling over net maken brandewyn en die verbetering van den gewonen kaapschen brandewyn; met eenige inleidende aanmerkingen (1826) HONORS   Polemannia Ecklon & Zeyher 1837 (Apiaceae) Polemanniopsis Burtt 1989 (Apiaceae)
- [Pedro Paulet](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-paulet/): Pedro Eleodoro Paulet Mostajo, Peruvian astronautical engineer (Tiabaya, near of Arequipa 02 July 1874 – Buenos Aires 30 January 1945) DESIGNED Designed and built the first liquid fuel rocket engine A reaction engine for rocket propulsion known as Paulet engine (1897) Girandula propulsion system for rockets (1900) An early spaceship prototype named Avion-Torpedo (1902) Proposed the nuclear-propelled rockets (1927) and a new thermoelectric power system for common use (1930) HONORS Asteroid Paulet 4443 LINKS http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/winter01/paulet.html
- [Pedro Padilla](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-padilla/): Pedro L. Padilla, Argentine Navy officer (1869 – 1921) DEVELOPMENTS/INVENTIONS Built a phone An automatic buoy A defense torpedo A Viewing table A device for performing on-board rowing exercises An oscillating plate for artillery drills in polygons LINKS https://www.centronaval.org.ar/boletin/BCN855/855-MARINOS-ILUSTRES.pdf (Spanish)
- [Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan](https://neglectedscience.com/madabusi-santanam-raghunathan/): Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan, Indian mathematician (Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh State 11 August 1941 – One of the world’s leading researchers in algebraic groups and their discrete subgroups Authored the Book Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups (1972) a standard reference work in the area   Solved Selberg conjecture for non-uniform lattices Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1970) EPONYMY  Raghunathan vanishing theorem Raghunathan conjectures Raghunathan criterion Lubotzky-Mozes-Raghunathan theorem Prasad-Raghunathan theorem Raghunathan lemma
- [M G Ramdas Menon](https://neglectedscience.com/m-g-ramdas-menon/): Mannoore Gopala Ramdas Menon, Indian entomologist (Ernakulum District, Kerala State 01 March 1913 – Trichur, Kerala State 28 February 1990) DESCRIBED GENERA Hemiptera Basuaneura 1971 with Ramakrishna Cassianeura 1971 with Ramakrishna Ceratopemphigiella 1958 with Pawar Duttaella 1971 with Ramakrishna Erythroneuropsis 1973 with Ramakrishna Indianella 1973 with Ramakrishna Kodaikanalia 1973 with Ramakrishna Kybos 1972 with Ramakrishna Murreeana 1971 with Ramakrishna Pruthius 1972 with Ramakrishna Pusaneura 1971 with Ramakrishna Pusatettix 1971 with Ramakrishna Ratburella 1973 with Ramakrishna Sabourasca 1972 with Ramakrishna Spatulostylus 1973 with Ramakrishna Sundara 1972 with Ramakrishna Viridasca 1972 with Ramakrishna Zyginopsis 1973 with Ramakrishna Hymenoptera (with Farooqi) Parapilkhanivora 1973 Pilkhanivora 1973 Acari (with Ghai) Indodromus 1969 Indoseius 1970 SPECIES About 75 (including Embioptera) HONORS Menonia George 1936 (Orthoptera) Ramdasoma Narendran 1994 (Hymenoptera) Ushamenona Malhotra &
- [Luis Felipe Rodriguez](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-felipe-rodriguez/): Luis Felipe Rodríguez Jorge, Mexican radio astronomer (Merida, Yucatán State 29 May 1948 – From Lebanese-descent mother Authored over 300 papers with more than 20,000 citations (two of his papers were cover of Nature) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered high velocity bipolar outflows in regions of star formation (1980) Detected neutral hydrogen in planetary nebulae (1982) Discovered the mechanism that powers Herbig-Haro objects (1981 & 1985) Obtained evidences of protoplanetary disks in young stars (1986, 1992, 1996 & 1998) Discovered the first source with superluminal motions in Milky Way (1994) With F. Mirabel established the concept of micro-quasars (1992) Presented detailed ionization structure models of gaseous
- [Luis Enrique Ruiz Terán](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-enrique-ruiz-teran/): Luis Enrique Ruiz-Terán, Venezuelan botanical explorer and pharmacist (Mucuchíes, Rangel District, Mérida 10 June 1923 – Mérida 18 February 1979) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Carramboa wurdackii 1976 with López Figueras Justicia odonellii 1976 with De Marco Libanothamnus griffinii 1976 with López Figueras Monticalia masonhalei 1981 with López Figueras Ruilopezia cuatrecasasii 1974 with López Figueras Ruilopezia lopez-palacii 1976 with López Figueras HONORS Ruizanthus Schuster 1978 (Hepaticae) Ruizterania Marcano-Berti 1969 (Vochysiaceae) Ruilopezia Cuatrecasas 1976 (Asteraceae) Ruizgenin, a steroidal sapogenin diol  
- [Ludwig Riedel](https://neglectedscience.com/ludwig-riedel/): Ludwig Riedel, German-born Brazilian botanist and plant collector (Berlin 02 March 1790 – Rio de Janeiro 06 August 1861) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Wunderlichia 1873 (Asteraceae) Species Lasiandra mutabilis 1884 Paepalanthus bryoides 1831 Wunderlichia mirabilis 1884 HONORS Riedeliella Harms 1903 (Fabaceae) 
- [Lucas Roselli](https://neglectedscience.com/lucas-roselli/): Francisco Lucas Roselli, Uruguayan paleontologist and archaeologist (Carmelo, Colonia Department 18 October 1902 – Nueva Palmira, Colonia Department 22 November 1987) From Italian parents ARCHAEOLOGY Una ceramica prehispanica, campanuliforme y antropomorfa. Nuestra Tierra (1969) Una ceramica prehispanica, ornitomorfa y ceremonial del Uruguay. Amerindia (1964) Sensacional hallazgo arqueologico en Punta Chaparro. El eco de Palmira (1942) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Ichnofossil Genera Devincenzichnus 1939 Ellipsoideichnus 1987 Fontanaichnus 1976 (Fontanai 1939) Isociesichnus 1987 Madinaichnus 1987 Martinezichnus 1987 Microichnus 1987 Monesichnus 1987 Palmiraichnus 1938 Rebuffoichnus 1987 Teisseirei 1938 (Teisseireichnus 1987) Uruguayichnus 1976 (Uruguayi 1938) Species Ampullaria bergeroi 1939 Devincenzichnus murguiai 1939 Ellipsoideichnus meyeri 1987 Fontanaichnus /Fontanai kraglievichi 1939 Isociesichnus diplocamara 1987 Madinaichnus larranagai 1987 Martinezichnus francisi 1987 Microichnus lafurcadai 1987 Monesichnus ameghinoi 1987 Palmiraichnus castellanosi 1938 Palmiraichnus minor 1938 Rebuffoichnus casamiquelai 1987 Teisseirei / Teisseireichnus barattinia 1938 Uruguayichnus / Uruguayi auroranormae 1938 Uruguayichnus / Uruguayi rivasi 1987 Mammalia (1976) Genera Fiandraia Gilsolaresia Heteroglyptodon
- [Leopoldo Rio de La Loza](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-rio-de-la-loza/): Leopoldo Rio de La Loza Guillén, Mexican chemist and pharmacist (Ciudad de Mexico 14 November 1807 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 May 1876) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 70 works Extracted from Perezia adnata the crystalline form of pipitzahoic acid (1852) today known as perezone. This substance have multiple uses as purgative, dye and detector of sodium salts. Described a new reactive paper Nuevo papel reactivo. Periodico Soc. Filoiatr. Mexico 1:112, 1844 A procedure for obtaining calomel Nuevo procedimiento para obtener el proto-cloruro de mercúrio. Periodico Soc. Filoiatr. Mexico 1:153-5, 1844 A simple method for preparing zinc varerianate Metodo facil para preparar el varerianato de
- [Leonídio Ribeiro](https://neglectedscience.com/leonidio-ribeiro/): Leonídio Ribeiro Filho, Brazilian coroner (São Paulo 04 November 1893 –  27 February 1976)  ACHIEVEMENTS   Joined Castellanos regarded as a founder of clinical dactyloscopy First to report histopathologically the anatomo-physiological changes on fingerprints caused by leprosy (1933) Demonstrated irrefutably for the first time the relation of cause and effect between the existing change in the papillary designs and the lesions shown by the leprosy patients (1933) Discovered diagnostic signs on fingerprints due to many nervous diseases and created and named dactylodiagnosis Proposed white lines as pathological signs following lesions (1935) First to adopt the motion pictures in criminal investigation as general
- [Leo C. Rimando](https://neglectedscience.com/leo-c-rimando/): Leo Cacdac Rimando, Philippine agricultural entomologist and actor (Naguilian, La Unión 26 August 1933 – 14 August 2006) DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Tribes Aponychini 1966 Eutetranychini 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Genera Aponychus 1966 Chaudhria 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Makilingeria 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Mullederiopsis 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Pritchardina 1962 Wooderia 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Species Amblyseius cinctus 1966 with Corpuz-Raros Amblyseius cracentis 1966 with Corpuz-Raros Amblyseius imbricatus 1966 with Corpuz-Raros Aponychus corpuzae 1966 Aponychus rarus 1966 Aponychus vannus 1968 Bryobia pritchardi 1962 Eotetranychus cendanai 1962 Eotetranychus spanius 1962 Eustigmaeus baguioensis 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Eustigmaeus barrioni 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Eustigmaeus manus 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Eustigmaeus molawini 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Eustigmaeus rarosi 1997 with Corpuz-Raros Exothorhis bixae 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Exothorhis damortis 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Exothorhis eorhis 1996 with Corpuz-Raros Exothorhis leonis 1996 with
- [Krishnalyer Ramakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/krishnalyer-ramakrishnan/): Krishnalyer Ramakrishnan, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Calicut, Kerala State 22 November 1920 – 1978) DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA Alpakesa 1954 with Subramanian Sapucchaka 1956 HONORS (Fungi) Ramakrishnania Ramachar & Bhagyanarayna 1979 Ramakrishnanella Kamat & Ullasa 1970 
- [Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan](https://neglectedscience.com/kollagunta-gopalaiyer-ramanathan/): Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (Hyderabad 13 November 1920 – Bombay 10 May 1992) Gained international recognition for his researches on analytic theory of quadratic forms, modular functions and discontinuous groups Obtained a formula for the discriminant of a division algebra Solved the problem of constructing infinitely many classes of mutually incommensurable discrete groups of the first kind in classical semisimple groups Proved that complete space-like submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector in a De Sitter space are totally umbilical independent of K. Akutagawa & Q.M. Cheng LINKS http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/aa/aa64/aa6411.pdf
- [Keshava Prabhakar Rode](https://neglectedscience.com/keshava-prabhakar-rode/): Keshava Prabhakar Rode, Indian geologist and palaeobotanist (Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh 03 November 1903 – 1985) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Plantae Genus Tricoccites 1933 Species Cyclanthodendron sahnii Nipadites hindi 1933 Palmoxylon hislopii 1933 Palmoxylon kawalami 1933 Palmoxylon sahnii Parajugloxylon mohgaoense 1936 Rhizopalmoxylon penchiensis 1934 Tricoccites trigonum 1933 Others Hyolithes rohitaswei 1946 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geo-kinetic Evolution of Greater India (1954) With M.W. Chaudhuri. Crystal dissociation in the formation of minerals and rocks (1954) The Gondwana Formations of India and the nature of Gondwanaland (1953) A new theory of sheet movements and continental expansion (1953) Khondalite-charnockitic association in Palamau District, Bihar. Pr. Ind. Sci. Congr. Ass. 35(3):143, 1948 On the origin the origin
- [Kanakanahalli Ramachandra](https://neglectedscience.com/kanakanahalli-ramachandra/): Kanakanahalli Ramachandra, Indian mathematician (Mandya, Mysore State 18 August 1933 – Bangalore 17 January 2001) Authored over 200 papers Considered one of the world’s greatest number theorists in his time Proved the six exponentials theorem independently of S. Lang  First to study the fractional moments of the Riemann zeta function Enunciated many theorems EPONYMY Siegel-Ramachandra-Robert elliptic units Balasubramanian-Ramachandra theorem Ramachandra kernel 
- [Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan](https://neglectedscience.com/kalpathi-ramakrishna-ramanathan/): Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan, Indian meteorologist (Kalpathi Village, Palghat, Kerala State 28 February 1893 – 31 December 1984) ACHIEVEMENTS Performed important discoveries on the vertical thermal structure of atmosphere (1933) Devised ways of correcting observations for atmospheric scattering by aerosols (1940s) Worked out the first diagram portraying the zonal vertical thermal structure of the Earth’s atmosphere Showed that the tropopause is low over the polar regions and high above the equatorial zone First to publish diagram showing the distribution of upper air temperatures over the world up to 25 km in summer and winter Discovered quasi biennial oscillations of total ozone in
- [Julio Rey Pastor](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-rey-pastor/): Julio Rey Pastor, Spanish / Argentine mathematician (Logroño 14 August 1888 – Buenos Aires 21 February 1962) Son in law of surgeon Avelino Gutierrez ACHIEVEMENTS Authored Elementos de analisis algebraico (1917), in which introduced his own discoveries and innovations Enunciated theorem of Rey Pastor and Rey Pastor algorithm in Rendiconti di Palermo, 1931 Developed new summation methods Un metodo de sumacion de series. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 55, 1931 Demonstrated Jordan theorem for closed polyhedral varieties in topology of n-dimensional space Introduced synthetic reasoning in complex geometry First demonstrated homeomorphism as a geometric correspondence Defined index of a doman in regard to a
- [Juan Tomas Roig](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-tomas-roig/): Juan Tomás Roig y Mesa, Cuban botanist (Santiago de las Vegas, La Habana 31 May 1877 – La Habana 20 February 1971) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Banara brittonii 1922 Byrsonima luacesii 1953 with Acuña Byrsonima moensis 1953 with Acuña Castela leonis 1950 with Acuña  Castela victorinii 1950 with Acuña Lyonia leonis 1956 with Acuña Lyonia maestrensis 1956 with Acuña Malpighia martiana 1953 with Acuña Malpighia wrightiana 1953 with Acuña Ocotea bucherii 1949 with Acuña  Ocotea victorinii 1949 with Acuña Palicourea moralesii 1962 with Acuña Palicourea ponce-leonis 1962 with Acuña Palicourea torrei 1962 with Acuña Palicourea van-hermannii 1962 with Acuña Psychotria alainii 1962 with Acuña Psychotria byrsonimifolia 1962 with Acuña Psychotria lopezii 1962 with Acuña Symphysia alainii 1956 with Acuña Vaccinium alainii 1956 with
- [Juan María Rodríguez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-maria-rodriguez/): Juan María Rodríguez Arangoity, Mexican obstetrician (Ciudad de Mexico 27 January 1828 – Ciudad de Mexico 24 June 1894) Pioneer in diagnose pregnancy employing combined palpation and auscultation Developed techniques for obstetrical exploration   Introduced a number of innovations in midwifery Modified the version by outer manoeuvre Modified the Kiwish procedure for dilation of cervix uteri (1870) Enunciated rules for hand extraction of fetus  Enunciated precise rules for oxytocic administration Pointed out the differencial pelvis of Mexican people  With José Ignacio Capetillo modified the Ortega procedure of embryotomy 
- [Juan Arturo Rivero](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-arturo-rivero/): Juan Arturo Rivero Quintero, Puerto Rican herpetologist (Santurce, San Juan State 05 March 1923 – Mayaguez 03 March 2014) Authored over 100 scientific papers, 21 books & 3 book chapters Described the genus Stefania 1966 and 152 new species in Amphibia Described one Reptilia species Anolis occultis 1965 with Williams 
- [João Ramos e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-ramos-e-silva/): João Ramos e Silva, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 11 June 1898 – 26 November 1983) Authored over 250 works, notes, comments, conferences and book chapters Described keratoderma marginalis volia mannum or marginal keratoderma of the palms known as Ramos e Silva disease Queratoderma marginal das palmas. Med. Cutan. 2:27-36, 1962 Sur la “kératodermie marginal des paumes”. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil. 89:24-31, 1962  Developed a intradermic reaction for sporotrichosis (Ramos e Silva-Padilha Gonçalves reaction) Nota sobre o valor diagnóstico da esporotriquina. O Hospital 38:625, 1950  Described macrocheilitis as a manifestation of paracoccidioidomycosis With A. Padilha Gonçalves. La macrocheilite de la blastomycose. J. B.
- [João Evangelista Rick](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-evangelista-rick/): Johann Evangelista Rick, Austrian-born Brazilian jesuit and mycologist (Dombim 19 January 1869 – Salvador do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 06 May 1946) DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA Aldrigiella 1934 Anthoseptobasidium 1943 Basidiodendron 1938 Brauniella 1955 Bresadolina 1928 Coniophorames 1934 Crystallocystidium 1940 Cystidiodendron 1943 Dacryomycetopsis 1958 Gloeoasterostroma 1938 Gloeopeniophorella 1934 Grandiniochaete 1940 Irpicochaete 1940 Odontiochaete 1940 Protoradulum 1933 Radulochaete 1940 Stereofomes 1928 Zanchia 1958 HONORS Rickia Cavara 1899 (Fungi)
- [José Rosemberg](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-rosemberg/): José Rosemberg, Jewish Brazilian pneumologist and phthisiologist (London, England 19 September 1909 – São Paulo 24 November 2005) From Austrian father and Polish mother Authored 212 works on tuberculosis, 68 on smoking and 14 books Internationally known for his work on tuberculosis control With N. de Sousa Campos & Jamil N. Aun showed that BCG vaccine exerts protecting power against leprosy HONORS Palmes Academiques de France (1970) Tobacco and Health Medal, WHO (1991)
- [José Reis](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-reis/): José Reis, Brazilian veterinarian and science popularizer (Rio de Janeiro 12 June 1907 – São Paulo 16 May 2002) Recognized as a world expert on avian diseases Coined the term ornithopathology With P.C. Nóbrega described Eimeria rhynchoti 1936 (Protozoa Apicomplexa)  With P. C. Nóbrega proposed inoculation in pigeons as way for diagnosis of avian cholera in Arqu. Inst. Biol. 8:183, 1937 Described Aspergillum keratomycosis in Arqu. Inst. Biol. 11:437-50, 1939 With P. C. Nóbrega described a new technique for chicken embryo egg based vaccine preparation for avian spirochaetosis in Arqu. Inst. Biol. S. Paulo 12:87, 1941 Developed a prophylactic vaccine for avian yaws  With his
- [José Ramírez Mateos](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ramirez-mateos/): José Aurelio Ramírez Mateos, Mexican naturalist and physician (Ciudad de Mexico 12 November 1852 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 April 1904) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bursera aptera 1894 Bursera morelensis 1896 Bursera trijuga 1894 Casimiroa pubescens 1896 Pterostemon rotundifolia SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudio bacteriológico de las aguas potables de la Ciudad de Mexico Raices de la vid atacadas por la filoxera La fumagina del cafeto El picudo del algodonero La vegetación de Mexico (1899) La papaya voladora Sinonimia vulgar y botânica de las plantas mexicanas (1902) Herbario de Cervantes Razas primitivas de America Noticias acerca de algunas laminas de la iconografia inédita de la Flora Mexicana
- [José Manuel Ruiz](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-manuel-ruiz/): José Manuel Ruiz, Brazilian helmintologist and parasitologist (Dourado, São Paulo State 04 February 1913 – São Paulo 28 March 1959) From Spanish parents METHODS Described perfusion and collecting techniques for Schistosoma sp. Técnica de perfusão para a coleta de Schistosoma mansoni em animais de laboratório. Mem. Inst. Butantan 24(2):101-9, 1952  Processo rápido de perfusão do sistema porta-hepático de mamíferos para coleta de esquistossomídeos, aplicável aos trabalhos de campo. Mem. Inst. Butantan São Paulo 25(2):29-33, 1953 DESCRIBED TREMATODA/NEMATODA TAXA  Valid Genera (all Trematoda) Aliptrema 1954 with Leão  Liophistrema 1943 with Leão & Artigas Neoctangium 1943 Westella 1943 with Leão & Artigas Species Aliptrema ribeiroi 1954 with Leão Catadiscus freitaslenti 1943 Cercaria acaudata 1952
- [José Manuel Riveros](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-manuel-riveros/): José Manuel Riveros Nigra, Paraguayan-born Brazilian physical chemist (Asunción 16 April 1940 – Performed important contributions to ion-molecule reactions in gas phase Described Riveros reaction or α-elimination of CO leading to the carbonylation of the esther, an efficient way of generating  a solvated ion in the gas phase at low pressures (1968) With S.M. José & K. Takashima. A novel reaction to generate anion adducts in the gas phase (1989) With P. C. Isolani, H.V. Linnert, M.C. Kida-Tinone et al. Construção e desempenho de um espectrômetro de massa por transformada de Fourier. Quim. Nova 15:351-3, 1992 With Z. Zhu. A kinetic method to
- [José Manuel Rivero Carvallo](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-manuel-rivero-carvallo/): José Manuel Rivero Carvallo, Mexican cardiologist (Tehuacán, Puebla State 01 April 1905 – Ciudad de Mexico 15 February 1993) ACHIEVEMENTS Described Carvallo sign Signo para el diagnostico de las insuficiencias tricuspideas. Arch. Inst. Cardiol. Mex. 16:531, 1946 Described the use of Rivero Carvallo maneuver in the diagnosis of tricuspid stenosis El diagnostico de la estenosis tricuspidea. Arch. Inst. Cardiol. Mex. 20:1-11, 1950 Described the sign of the double apical thrust El signo de doble choque apexiano. Arch. Inst. Cardiol. Mex. 32(5):387-99, 1962 Designed a manouevre to determine apex area Studied syndrome of compression of the left main bronchus or King-Landau-Rivero syndrome
- [José Andrés Ramos Alemar](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-andres-ramos-alemar/): José Andrés Ramos Alemar, Puerto Rican entomologist (1915 – 1989) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Antillotolania 1957 Deiroderes 1957 Gaetopsis 1957 Jibarita 1957 Oreopenes 1957 Monobeloides 1979 Paraprosoptropis 1946 Spathenotus 1957 HONORS Ramosella McKamey & Deitz 1996 (Hemiptera) Ramosulus Young 1977 (Hemiptera)
- [Jose Ruiz Herrera](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ruiz-herrera/): José Ruiz Herrera, Mexican mycologist and biochemist (Ciudad de Mexico 12 May 1935 – Authored about 300 publications with about 8,700 citations in according to Research Gate Recognized as foremost expert on fungal cell wall in the world Proposed a new mechanism of regulation of gene expression With I. Salas Vargas. Inhibición de la elongación de RNA m. Un nuevo mecanismo de regulación de la expresión genetica (1973) With I. Salas Vargas. Regulation of nitrate reductase at the transcriptional and translational levels in Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 425:492-501, 1976 Isolated chitin synthetase and developed a technique for synthesizing microfibrils of cell wall in vitro
- [Jose Ellis Ripper Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ellis-ripper-filho/): José Ellis Ripper Filho, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 25 February 1939 – Authored 71 papers and one book Developed innovative technologies in photonics His lab was the third in the world to obtain second generation semiconductor laser PATENTS (15; incomplete) With T.L. Paoli. Mode locking in semiconductor lasers US3696310A (1969) With T.L.Paoli. Optical coupling of adjacent stripe contact geometry semiconductor lasers US3701044A (1970) With T.L. Paoli. Dynamic fm control of the trasverse modes of a self-pulsing semiconductor laser US3723903A (1971) With L. Asaro. Double heterojunction laser containing intermediate homojunction CA968443A & DE2258087A1 (1971)
- [Jorge Reynolds](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-reynolds/): Jorge Reynolds Pombo, Colombian biomedical engineer (Santafé de Bogotá 22 June 1936 – From British father and relative to scientist Francisco José de Caldas Authored 174 papers Discovered the similarity between that human and cetacean hearts Obtained the electrocardiogram records of several aquatic vertebrates (1984) Designed and built electrocardiogram equipment suitable to whales researches (1985) First to study the cardiac effects of alpinism (1978) DEVELOPED The first external pacemaker with inner electrodes and external electronic unit (1958) An equipment for electrocardiogram via telemetry (1971) With Jorge Hernando Ulloa & Jorge Ulloa Domínguez. The first external venous pacemaker in the world for prevention of
- [Jorge Redón](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-redon/): Jorge Juan Redón Figueroa, Chilean lichenologist (1936 – DESCRIBED LICHENES SPECIES Haematomma campanense 1978 with Walkowiak Lecanactis pseudamylacea 1972 with Follmann Omphalodina johowii 1972 with Follmann Pertusaria epibryon 1985 Pseudocyphellaria imshaugii 1992 with Galloway HONORS (Lichenes) Redonia Dodge 1973  Redonographa Lücking, Tehler & Lumbsch 2013 
- [Jisheng Ruan](https://neglectedscience.com/jisheng-ruan/): Jisheng Ruan, Chinese microbiologist (Tangshan City, Hebei Province 1926 – Developed a method for controlling soft rot disease of cabbage (1956) Helped to establish the importance of spore surface ornamentation in the classification and identification of Actinomycetes (1964) Developed a method to distinguish between aerial and substrate hyphae in coverslip cultures for recognition of actinomycete genera (1963) published in Acta Microbiologica Sinica (1974) Discovered several new interesting bioactive compounds such as benzamides, quinazolines, azalomycin macrocyclic lactones and a new sesquiterpene from Streptomyces strains With D. Qiu & Y. Huang developed improved methods for selective isolation of diverse actinomycetes of genus Micromonospora and a genus-specific nested
- [Jesus Romo Armería](https://neglectedscience.com/jesus-romo-armeria/): Jesús Romo Armería, Mexican organic chemist (Aguascalientes 09 October 1922 – Ciudad de Mexico 14 May 1977) Authored 156 works ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first chemical synthesis of steroidal compounds Isolated and determined structurally a great variety of substances from Mexican flora With C. Djerassi isolated cuauchicine, a diterpenoid alkaloid from Garrya laurifolia (1954) Isolated helenine, a sesquiterpenic lactone Developed a method to obtain female hormones estradiol and progesterone from Dioscorea sp. With G. Rosenkranz developed a method for aromatization of rings of cholesterol series compounds (1950-1) With C. Djerassi, G. Rosenkranz, S. Kaufmann & J. Pataki. Steroids VII. Contribution to the bromination of ∆4 3-ketosteroids and a new
- [Jerzy & Graciela Rzedowski](https://neglectedscience.com/jerzy-graciela-rzedowski/): Jerzy Rzedowski, Jewish Polish-born Mexican botanist and plant ecologist (Lwow, today Ukraine 27 December 1926 – Patzcuaro, Michoacán State 28 March 2023) Authored about 120 papers, 9 books and 45 book chapters Regarded as a world expert on Burseraceae family DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Bonetiella 1957 (Anacardiaceae) Buchlomimus 1965 with Reeder & Reeder (Poaceae) Enriquebeltrania 1980 (Euphorbiaceae) Gypsacanthus 1986 with Jaramillo (Acanthaceae) Mirandea 1959 (Acanthaceae) Velascoa 1997 with Calderón (Crossosomataceae) Species   188 HONOURS Asa Gray Award, American Society of Plant Taxonomists (1995) Millenium Botany Award (1999) Cuatrecasas Medal for excellence in Tropical Botany, Smithsonian Institute (2005) Genus Rzedowskia Medrano 1981 (Celastraceae)  His wife, Graciela Calderón Díaz-Barriga, Mexican botanist (Salvatierra, Guanajuato State 14
- [Janis Racenis](https://neglectedscience.com/janis-racenis/): Janis Racenis, Latvian-born Venezuelan zoologist, biogeographer and ecologist (Riga 10 April 1915 – Caracas 10 April 1980) DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Chrysobasis 1959 Hylaeonympha 1968 Junix 1968 Leucobasis 1959 Sciotropis 1959 Species Acanthagrion luteum 1958 Aedaeschna andresi 1958 Allopodagrion lepidum 1959 Anisagrion meridionale 1953 Brechmorhoga innupta 1954 Bromeliagrion fernandezianum 1958 Chalcothore montgomeryi 1968 Chrysobasis buchholzi 1968 Epipleoneura fernandezi 1960 Epipleoneura machadoi 1960 Epipleoneura metallica 1955 Epipleoneura pallida 1960 Epipleoneura spatulata 1960 Epipleoneura venezuelensis 1955 Helveciagrion lacustris 1984 with Jurzitza Hetaerina medinai 1968 Hetaerina westfalii 1968 Hylaeonympha magoi 1968 Iridictyon trebbaui 1968 Junix elumbis 1968 Leucobasis candicans 1959 Macrothemis guarauno 1957 Macrothemis nobilis 1957 Macrothemis rupicola 1957 Megapodagrion arachne 1959 Mesamphiagrion fernandezi 1955 Mesamphiagrion weibezahni 1955 Mnesarete scintilla 1968 Neocordullia biancoi 1970 Neoneura cristina 1955 Neoneura gaida 1953 Nephepeltia leonardina 1953 Philogenia ferox 1959 Rhinonaeschna draco 1958 Sciotropis cyclanthorum 1959 Tramea minuta 1982 with De
- [Jaime Rafecas](https://neglectedscience.com/jaime-rafecas/): Jaime Luis Rafecas Garcia, Argentine-born Peruvian mechanical engineer (Buenos Aires 01 September 1941 – PERUVIAN PATENTS (mainly seals) precinto de seguridade con sello de doble andaje (1997) precinto metálico rígido de doble seguro para contenedores (1999) precinto de seguridade fijo con cierre triple (2001) precinto de seguridade ajustable con traba oculta (2002) precinto de seguridad de multiple traba (2004) precinto de seguridade con sello de cuatro anclajes (2005) scanner para lectora de código de barras de tinta invisible (2006) precinto de seguridade del tipo de cierre simple (2007) adaptador de precinto de seguridade para caja porta medidor electrico (2007) precinto de
- [J.H. Robinson](https://neglectedscience.com/j-h-robinson/): J.H. Robinson, Barbados paleontologist and phycologist (fl. 1934-41) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  The occurrence and distribution of the diatoms in the oceanic beds of Barbados. J. Barbados Mus. Hist. Soc. 3(3):149-52, 1936 The study of the organic remains in the oceanic beds of Barbados with special reference to the diatoms. J. Barbados Mus. Hist. Soc, 1(2):80-4, 1934 Some recente marine diatoms of Barbados HONORS Robinsonetta Hanna & Brigger 1964 (Fossil Diatoms)
- [Isaías Raw](https://neglectedscience.com/isaias-raw/): Isaías Raw, Jewish Brazilian biochemist (São Paulo 26 March 1927- São Paulo 14 December 2022) ACHIEVEMENTS First demonstrated the possibility of sub mitochondrial fractions to catalyze oxidative phosphorylation Showed the presence of b5 and P450 cytochromes on mitochondrial outer membrane  Established the role of b5 cytochrome in methemoglobin With N. Petragnani & O.C. Nogueira. Methaemoglobin reduction through cytochrome b5. Nature 184:1651, 1959 Demonstrated the presence of messenger RNA in nucleolus With R. Brentani & M. Brentani. Role of nucleolar ribonucleic acid in incorporation of ribosomal amino acid. Nature 201:1130, 1964 With T. Lau, B.J. Schmidt & A. Piva. Pain insensitivity, a new metabolic disease.
- [Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-rodriguez-iturbe/): Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe, US / Venezuelan hydraulic engineer (Caracas 08 March 1942 – 28 September 2022) Internationally respected as expert on hydraulic climatology Recognized as the foremost surface water hydrologist in the world   Described tridimensional fundamental structure of hydrographic cuencas and the mechanisms that give rise of them   Formulated one of the first self-similar models to simulate extreme behavior Introduced Bayesian approaches to estimate parameters of stream flow simulating models and to select models of extremes Developed the Geomorphological Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (GIUH) to quantify the discharge of a basin as function of basin geometry and rainfall First to provide a
- [Hugo Roberts Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-roberts-fernandez/): Hugo Roberts Fernandez, Cuban sanitarist and military physician (Trinidad, Las Villas Province 20 July 1868 – La Habana 05 June 1948) Patented a thermos regulator (1925) Invented a device to generate and inject hydrocyanic acid into antrum of the rats (Golden Medal in San Francisco World Fair, 1915)
- [Hilton Rocha](https://neglectedscience.com/hilton-rocha/): Hilton Ribeiro da Rocha, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Cambuquira, Minas Gerais State 23 December 1911 – Belo Horizonte 23 May 1993) Authored over 100 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Improved surgical technique for catarata with intraocular lens implant  Developed an immune therapy  for retinitis pigmentosa Discovered a method of viewing the angle of the anterior chamber With L.J. Antunes, L.E. Ferreira & J.A. Nogueira Machado. Lymphocytes and glucocorticosteroids in vitro: a new auxiliary technique for identification of open angle glaucoma. Metabolic Ophthal. 2:15-17, 1978 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY O ângulo da câmara anterior. Thesis (1942) With J. Alves Garcia. Ophtalmoplegia externa bilateral congênita familial. Brasil Med. 4:4, 1937
- [Hilario Roxas](https://neglectedscience.com/hilario-roxas/): Hilario Atanacio Roxas, Philippine marine zoologist (Mariquina, Rizal 29 October 1896 – ?) DESCRIBED MARINE SPECIES Fish Taenioides caniscapulus 1938 with Ablan  Ciliate Protozoa Metacylis kofoidi 1940 Rhabdonella fenestrata 1940  Tintinnidium ampullarium 1941 Tintinnopsis bacoorensis 1940 Tintinnopsis manilensis 1941 Cnidaria Anthelia elongata 1933 Anthelia molenderi 1933 Anthelia palawanense 1933 Capnella sabangensis 1933 Cespitularia hypotentaculata 1933 Cespitularia quadriserta 1933 Dendronephthya griffini 1933  Dendronephthya guggenheimi 1933 Dendronephthya malaya 1933 Dendronephthya manyanensis 1933 Dendronephthya moseri 1933 Heteroxenia lighti 1933 Heteroxenia medioensis 1933 Heteroxenia mindorensis 1933 Heteroxenia minuta 1933 Heteroxenia palmae 1933 Heteroxenia philippinensis 1933 Heteroxenia pinnata 1933 Lemnalia bantayensis 1933 Lemnalia bournei 1933 Lemnalia faustinoi 1933 Lemnalia grandispina 1933 Lemnalia scasa 1933 Lemnalia zimmeri 1933 Litophyton lighti 1933 Litophyton orientale 1933 Sansibia boquetei 1933  Sarcophyton moseri 1933 Sarcophyton tersum 1932 Stereonephthya campanulata 1933 Xenia amparoi 1933   Xenia cylindrica 1933 Xenia delicata 1933 Xenia
- [Henrique Roxo](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-roxo/): Henrique de Brito Belford Roxo, Brazilian psychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 04 July 1877 – Rio de Janeiro 17 February 1969) Authored Manual de Psiquiatria (Handbook of Psychiatry) that was greeted by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1921) Described a new form of delirious psychosis that named chronic automated hallucinatory delirium  Systematized chronic hallucinatory delirium. Arq. Bras. Neur. Psiq. (1913) Developed Roxo method (treatment of intermittent delirium employing intramuscular injections of atropine valerianate) Proposed a method for treating epilepsy employing bromide, luminal, belladonna and potassium boric tartrate (1925) Proposed formulations and treatments for melancholia, cenesthesia, epilepsy and schizophrenia Proposed the importance of oculo-cardiac
- [Henrique da Rocha Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-da-rocha-lima/): Henrique da Rocha Lima, Brazilian tropical physician and anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1879 – São Paulo 12 April 1956) ACHIEVEMENTS Described genus Rickettsia and species Rickettsia prowazeki, etiologic agent of exanthematic typhus independently from H. Topfer (1916) With M. Mayer & H. Werner performed histopathological studies on bartonellosis (1913) Recognized nature and origin of Carrión disease or bartonellosis Characterized histopathologically bartonellosis discovering intracellular localization of its etiologic agent known as Rocha Lima inclusions Described Rocha Lima lesion or sign that is a hepatic mediolobular necrosis used as post-mortem diagnosis of yellow fever Demonstrated that epizootic lymphangitis and histoplasmosis were fungal diseases (1913) Performed
- [Heinrich Rheinboldt](https://neglectedscience.com/heinrich-rheinboldt/): Heinrich Rheinboldt, German/Brazilian chemist (Karlsruhe, Baden 11 August 1891 – São Paulo 05 December 1955) The famous chemist Heinrich Caro, one of founders of BASF, was his grandfather Authored 181 publications, being 5 books   Gained international recognition in complexes chemistry  Developed thaw-melt method for studying binary systems in thermal analysis With K. Henning & M. Kircheisen. Eine method zur untersuchung binarer systeme. I. J. Prakt. Chem. 111:242, 1925. Reported that most of adducts were 1:1 or 1:2 compounds Zuzammensetzung und Aufbau organischer Molekulverbindung. Z. Angew. Chem. 39:765, 1926. Rheinboldt reaction Eine einfache reaktion auf sulfhydrylgruppen. Ber. 60:184-6, 1927  First to obtain selenium
- [Hector Rodriguez Zubieta](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-rodriguez-zubieta/): Hector José Rodríguez Zubieta, Argentine marine and naval engineer (Buenos Aires 1929 – 23 January 2005) From Spanish parentage Gained international recognition in 1970s His shipyard Alianza raised the Argentine shipbuilding industry to the highest productivity standards in history (exported 37% of its production; over 50 vessels of many kinds) Presented creative ideas and developed revolutionary shipbuilding processes  
- [Hans Werner Rzeppa](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-werner-rzeppa/): Hans Werner August Rzeppa, German-born Brazilian chemist and entrepneur (Breslau, Germany 11 June 1916 – São Paulo 21 August 1998) Invented lyophilization process employed to preparing anti-snake venom serum   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Th. Wagner-Jauregg. Hemmung glykolytischer systeme durch Schwermetalle und Wiederaufhelring der Henmung. Zeitsch. f. Physiol. Chemie 243:166-72, 1936 With R. Kuhn & H. Vetter. Zur spezifitat des Lactoflavins: Ersatz der methylgruppen durch den tetramethylen. Ber. Deut. Chem. Ges. 70:1302-14, 1937 With G. Rosenfeld, L. Nahas & S. Schenberg. Hemolysis and blood concentration of sulfones in vitro. Mem. Inst. Butantan 24(2):69-76, 1952 With F.A. Berti, L.M. Zilti et al. Chemotherapy of
- [Hans Reichardt Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-reichardt-filho/): Hans Reichardt Filho, Brazilian entomologist (Santos 25 January 1939 – Campos do Jordão, São Paulo State 03 June 1976) Authored about 70 works  DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Baenningeria 1976 Claudiella 1976 with Vanin   Ctenobostrychus 1962 Delevea 1976 Helluobrochus 1974 Hintonia 1973 Lenopachus 1976 with Vanin Mystroceridius 1970 Scaphydra 1973 Yava 1976 with Hinton Ytu 1973 Species About 135 among Coleoptera and Dermaptera HONORS Subgenus Reichardtula Whitehead 1977 (Coleoptera) 
- [H. Srinivasa Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/h-srinivasa-rao/): H. Srinivasa Rao, Indian zoologist (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu State 16 July 1894 – 14 August 1971) DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATA TAXA Mollusca Genera Angulyagra 1931 Ekadanta 1928 Indosuccinea 1924 Saptadanta 1934 with Prashad Species Ekadanta shanensis 1928 Ercolania gopalai 1937 Indosuccinea khandalla 1924 Limax acuminata with Annandale Limax biacuminata 1925 with Annandale Limax luteola 1925 with Annandale Limax stagnalis 1925 with Annandale Limnaea horae 1925 with Annandale Limnaea latior 1955 with Annandale   Limnaea shanensis 1925 with Annandale Saptadanta nasika 1934 with Prashad Segmentina taia 1925 with Annandale Succinea gravelyi 1924 Taia crassicallosa with Annandale Vermetus andamanicus 1933 with Prashad Porifera Valid Genus Acanthostylotella 1932 with Burton Valid Species Callyspongia pambanensis 1941 Clathria (Clathria) antyaja 1932 with Burton Clathria (Thalysias) micropunctata 1932 with Burton Clathria (Wilsonella) foraminifera 1932
- [Gustavo Rivas Mijares](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-rivas-mijares/): Gustavo Rivas Mijares, Venezuelan health and environmental engineeer (Nueva Valencia del Rey, Carabobo State 07 November 1922 – 30 November 2014) Authored 157 research papers and technical works beyond 11 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Marciales. Ensayos para la simplificación del tratamento de aguas. Acta Cient. Venez. 45:54-61, 1994 With L. Marciales. Origen de la turbiedad en aguas superficiales. Acta Cient. Venez. 43(2):103-8, 1992 Abastecimiento de aguas y alcantarillados (1983) Tratamiento del agua residual (1976) La desinfección del agua en áreas tropicales (1970) With E.E. López. Comportamiento de lechos bio-percoladores (1968) Eficiencias de filtros percoladores biológicos en remover la DBO de un liquido residual
- [Giovanni (Juan) Ramorino](https://neglectedscience.com/giovanni-juan-ramorino/): Juan (Giovanni) Ramorino, Italian / Argentine geologist and paleontologist (Genova 1840 – Genova 14 April 1876) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Sopra ter piccoli Chironectes trovati nel golfo di Genov. Estr. dall’ Arch. Per la Zool. 1(2), 1861  Apuntes del curso de mineralogía, dictados en la Universidad de Buenos Aires en el año de 1867 Sopra le caverne di Liguria, e specialmente sopra una recentemente scoperta a Verezzi presso finale. Mem. Acad. Sci. Torino 24(2):277-304, 1868  Memoria sobre la piedra movediza del Tandil HONORS Ramorinoa Spegazzini 1924 (Fabaceae)
- [Gilberto Rodríguez](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-rodriguez/): Gilberto Domingo Rodriguez Ramírez, Venezuelan hydrobiologist and carcinologist  (Caracas 12 May 1929 – Caracas 16 May 2004) Regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on Neotropical freshwater crustaceans   Authored important works on ecology of estuarine systems With Humberto Díaz discovered pseudo lungs in crabs of Pseudothelphusidae family (1977) DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Tribe Strengerianini 1982 Genera  Eidocamptophallus 1989 with Hobbs Epithelphusa 1972 with Smalley Lobithelphusa 1982 Martiana 1980 Odontothelphusa 1982 Oedothelphusa 1980 Orthothelphusa 1980 Prionothelphusa 1980 Tehuana 1972 with Smalley Species/Subspecies 82 Plantae Species Heliconia aurea 1954 Heliconia nanna 1954 Heliconia schaeferiana 1954 HONORS (Crustacea) Rodriguezus Campos & Magalhães 2005 Subgenus Rodriguezia Bott 1969 
- [Gilberto Righi](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-righi/): Gilberto Righi, Brazilian invertebrate zoologist (São Paulo 01 January 1937 – São Paulo 26 February 1999) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Oligochaeta Families Narapidae 1993 with Varela Tumakidae 1996 Genera Aicodrilus 1971 Alexidrilus 1971 Amazo 1976 with Ayres & Bittencourt Amazonidrilus 1993 Areco 1978 with Ayres & Bittencourt Assudrilus 1971 Atatina 1971 Bauba 1980 Belladrilus 1984 Bribri 1984 Brunodrilus 1971 Chibui 1985 with Guerra Cirodrilus 1975 Cotinchytraeus 1974 Curacaodrilus 1979 with Kanner Dariodrilus 1978 with Ayres & Bittencourt Exisdrilus 1978 with Ayres & Bittencourt Goiascolex 1971 Guamaia 1975 Kaketio 1979 with Kanner Lourdesia 1994 Maipure 1996 Marcusaedrilus 1979 with Kanner Meridrilus 1993 Metataxis 1985 Narapa 1993 with Varela Opisthocordis 1984 Perolofius 1983 with Nemeth Praedrilus 1971 Santomesia 1984 Tairona 1984 Tiguassu 1978 with Ayres & Bittencourt Tonperoge 1975 Tuiba 1976 with Ayres & Bittencourt Tumak 1996 Tupidrilus 1974 Tupinaki 1996
- [George Alexandre dos Reis](https://neglectedscience.com/george-alexandre-dos-reis/): George Alexandre dos Reis, Brazilian immunologist (05 November 1953 – Rio de Janeiro 07 April 2019) Showed the macrophage role in T lymphocytes-induced streptococcal carditis lesions With M.A. Barcinski. Role of macrophage-dependent determinant selection in the induction phase of streptococcal carditis. Lancet 8198 (2):777-9, 1980 With M. Gaspar & M.A. Barcinski. Immune recognition in the streptococcal carditis of mice. The role of macrophages in the generation of heart-reactive lymphocytes. J. Immunol. 128:1514-21, 1982 First to demonstrate that self immunological tolerance is determined by histocompatibility genes With E.M. Shevach. Antigen-presenting cells from non-responder strain 2 guinea pigs are fully competent to present
- [Gastão Rosenfeld](https://neglectedscience.com/gastao-rosenfeld/): Gastão Rosenfeld, Hungarian-born Jewish Brazilian biomedical scientist (Budapest 26 July 1912 – São Paulo 15 July 1990) From Hungarian father and Egyptian mother from French ascent ACHIEVEMENTS Studied properties of natural toxins Authored many important studies on physiopathology of poisoning by animals  A new method for studying Hematozoa Novo método para pesquisa de hematozoários. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Med. 18:306, 1941 Método rápido de coloração de esfregaços de sangue. Noções práticas sobre corantes pancrômico e estudo de diversos fatores. Mem. Inst. Butantan 20:315-28, 1947 Developed Rosenfeld staining, a rapid pan-chromic staining for blood smears combining May-Grunwald and Giemsa methods  Corante pancrômico para a hematologia
- [G.N. Ramachandran](https://neglectedscience.com/g-n-ramachandran/): Gopalasamudran Narayana Iyer Ramachandran, Indian structural biologist and crystallographer (Ernakluam, Kerala State 08 October 1922 – Chennai 07 April 2001) Authored 250 publications ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as one of founders of molecular biophysics With W.A.Wooster proposed a length unit in yards for scanning and assessing generally any structure mainly polypeptides   With Wooster first determinated the elastic constants of cubic crystals from diffuse x-ray reflections (1949) With Gopinath Kartha proposed the triple helical structure of collagen molecule introducing the concept of coiled-coil structure (1954) Discovered bridge regions in biological molecules, a region bridging α-helical and β-sheet conformations known as Ramachandran bridges With S.
- [G. Chandrasekhara Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/g-chandrasekhara-rao/): G. Chandrasekhara Rao, Indian marine zoologist DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Anthohydra 1973 with Salvini-Plawen (Cnidaria) Apolaophonte 1987 with Wells (Crustacea) Asterocomes 1962 (Crustacea) Balucopsylla 1972 (Crustacea) Eoschizopera 1976 with Wells (Crustacea) Helmutkunzia 1962 (Crustacea) Planodasys 1970 with Clausen (Gastrotricha) Psammothuria 1968 with Ganapati (Echinodermata) Species About 80 species in Crustacea, Gastrotricha, Cnidaria, Tardigrada, Echinodermata and Mollusca HONORS (Crustacea) Raowellsia Ozdikmen 2008 Raoleptomesochra Karanovic 2004 
- [Franco da Rocha](https://neglectedscience.com/franco-da-rocha/): Francisco Franco da Rocha, Brazilian psychiatrist and psychologist (Amparo, São Paulo State 23 August 1864 – São Paulo 08 November 1933) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored in 1904 Esboço de psiquiatria forense (Outline of forensic psychiatry) that was translated into German  Authored one chapter in Traité Internationale de Psychopathologie, organized under the direction of Pierre Marie  His scientific works had wide repercussion in national and international media SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Alcoolismo e loucura. Soc. Med. Cirurgia Do Rio De Janeiro-Conferência. 1918 Asilo-colônia de alienados de Juqueri. Arq. Criminologia, Med. Legal e Psiquiatria, Buenos Aires. 1902. Assistência familiar aos alienados em S. Paulo. Arq. Bras. Psiqu Neur Ciências Afins
- [Francisco Raggi](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-raggi/): Francisco Federico Raggi Cardenas, Mexican mathematician (Ciudad de Mexico 1940 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 June 2012) Authored 38 papers Developed homological algebra relative to hereditary torsion theory Developed methods for studying properties of lattice in nonhereditary torsion theories First to study the big lattice of preradicals over a ring from the lattice theory point of view (2002) and developed methods for studying it Defined finite length dimension Characterized classes of very important rings such as V-rings or semisimple rings Defined prime preradicals and prime submodules of a module Defined the concept of a main injective module, whose fully invariant submodules are in
- [Francisco Dias da Rocha](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-dias-da-rocha/): Francisco Dias da Rocha, Brazilian naturalist and archaeologist (Fortaleza 23 August 1869 – Fortaleza 25 July 1960) Obtained a compound named rochaplasm that employed to cure aftosa SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Catálogo da collecção de aves do Muzeu Rocha. Bol. Muz. Rocha 1(1):23-39, 1960 Subsídios para o estudo da fauna cearense (Catálogo das espécies por mim coligidas e notadas). Rev. Inst. Cear. 62:102-35, 1948 Botanica medica cearense (1919) Chelonios do Ceará (1911) Conchas – Catalogo da coleção de conchas univalves, determinadas, em parte, pelo prof. H. Von Ihering. Bol. Mus. Rocha 7:41-53, 1908 Abelhas. Bol. Museu Rocha (1908) HONORS Rochadiplosis Tavares 1917 (Diptera)
- [Frances Charlton de Rivero](https://neglectedscience.com/frances-charlton-de-rivero/): Frances Charlton de Rivero Palacio, US-born Venezuelan stratigrapher and micropaleontologist (New York 1904 – 197?) DESCRIBED VALID FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA Genus Conglophragmium 1963 with Bermudez Species (with Coryell 1940) Cibicides perforatus Cibicides sinistralis Fissurina crenulata Frondicularia bulbosa Globigerina haitiensis Lagenonodosaria extensa Lagenonodosaria sigmoidea Laticarinina angustata Lingulina tricrenata Marginulina howeana Marginulina papillata Nodosaria helicata Nodosaria sublineata Pseudoglandulina trochoformis Robulus oblongus Textularia warrenites Uvigerina laviculata Uvigerina quadrata Vaginulina obliquata Valvulineria collias SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Codigos estratigraficos: unos comentarios. Bol. Inform. Asoc. Venez. Geol, Minas y Petroleo 8(8):219-23, 1965 Ecologia, paleoecologia y distribución estratigrafica de los arrecifes orgânicos. Geos 11:41-122, 1964 With P.J. Bermudez. Estudio sistematico de
- [Flaminio Ruiz](https://neglectedscience.com/flaminio-ruiz/): Serapio Flamínio Ruiz Pereira, Chilean father and entomologist (Bulnes, Ñuble Province, Biobío Region 1883 – Santiago 08 November 1942) DESCRIBED ARTHROPODA SPECIES Coleoptera Allidiostoma porteri 1924 Diptera (with Reed 1941) Apiophora elvirae Midacritus wagenknechti Mitrodetus chilensis Mitrodetus matthei Mitrodetus reedi Hymenoptera Alloscirtetica gazullai 1938 Alloscirtetica porteri 1938 Anthidium adriani 1935 Anthidium edwini 1935 Anthidium espinosai 1938 Centris orellanai 1940 Epiclopus wagenknechti 1938 Leioproctus ibanezi 1944 Lonchopria porteri 1936 Lonchopria rufitorax 1942  Megachile coquimbensis 1938 Megachile distinguenda 1941 Megachile wagenknechti 1936 Mourecolletes andinus 1938 Nothanthidium rudolphi 1938 Parepeolus stuardi 1935 Svastrides orellanae 1935 HONORS Ruizantheda Moure 1964 (Hymenoptera)  Ruiziella Cortés 1951 (Diptera)
- [Fernando Cesar Ramírez](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-cesar-ramirez/): Fernando Cesar Ramírez, Argentine marine zoologist (fl.1963) Performed studies on ecology of marine plankton DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA SPECIES Bomolochus globiceps 1968 with Vervoort Eupelte minuta 1971 Hemicyclops thalassius 1966 with Vervoort Leuroleberis poulseni 1970 with Moguilevsky Macrochiridothea estuaria 2009 with Poore & Schiariti  Monstrilla patagonica 2008 with Suarez-Morales & Derisio Monstrillopsis igniterra 2008 with Suarez-Morales & Derisio Prokroyeria meridionalis 1975 HONORS Ramirezia Zamponi 1979 (Cnidaria)
- [Felix Ramacciotti](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-ramacciotti/): Felix Elvecio Ramacciotti, Argentine microbiologist (fl.1937-80) Metodos de diferenciación de las espécies de Brucella. Identification of a new type: Brucella intermedia or brucei. Rev. Med. Cordoba 45:277-83, 1957 DEVELOPED METHODS Tratamiento de la brucelosis cronica por antigenoterapia: nueva vacuna con la cepa de Brucella suis (1976) With A. Santolaya. Hemocultivo en brucelosis con sangre lavada. Rev. Asoc. Bioquim. Argent. 29(100):201-7, 1955 Metodo rápido para el aislamiento de Brucella en sangre circulante, mediante el embrión del pollo. Rev. Fac. Cien. Med. Univ. Nac. Cordoba 9(1), 1950 With J.C. Tey & J.C. Villalba. Un procedimiento practico para el concentrado de la materia fecal en su examen parasitologico (1937)
- [Feiga Rosenthal](https://neglectedscience.com/feiga-rosenthal/): Feiga Rebeca Tiomno Rosenthal, Brazilian chemist (Rio de Janeiro 27 December 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 19 December 2018) Sister of physicist Jayme Tiomno and sister in law of chemist Ernesto Tolmasquim Authored over 130 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Estudos sobre uma gordura encontrada no solo. Rev. Quim. Industr. 29 (336):55-7, 1960 Notas sobre uma resina fóssil do Nordeste. Rev. Quim. Ind. 28:15-21, 1959 Goma de catingueira (1956) Contribuição ao estudo da resina de cipó de breu (1953) Goma de cajueiro: estudo quimico e tecnologico (1951) Goma de baraúna (1950) DISCOVERIES With T. Nakamura, A.M.C. Espindola & M.R. Jochimek. Structure of starch
- [Federico Rutllant](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-rutllant/): Federico Rutllant Alsina (or Alcina), Spanish-born Chilean astronomer (Agullana, Alto Ampurdán Cataluña 24 April 1904 – Chile 15 April 1971) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Gutierrez. Accurate photographic positions of minor planets obtained at Santiago, Chile. Minor Planet Circular 1985 (1960) With A. Gutierrez. Accurate photographic positions of minor planets obtained at Santiago, Chile. Minor Planet Circular 1965 (1), (1960) With H. Moreno & A. Gutierrez. Accurate photographic positions of minor planet (51) Nemausa obtained at Santiago, Chile. Minor Planet Circular 1803 (1), 1958 With H. Moreno, A. Gutierrez & C. Torres. Accurate photographic positions of minor planets obtained at Santiago, Chile. Minor
- [Eugenio Rangel](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenio-rangel/): Eugenio dos Santos Rangel, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (1877-1953) Identified and characterized zone spot of Cucurbitaceae caused by fungus Leandria momordicae (1915) Described Puccinia paulensis that causes pepper rust DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Didymothozetia 1915 Leandria 1915 Mycovellosiella 1917 Oswaldina 1921 Phaeophleosphora 1916 Species 67
- [Ettore Rugai](https://neglectedscience.com/ettore-rugai/): Ettore Rugai, Brazilian microbiologist at Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo (fl.1939-1968) DEVELOPED Thermal migration method for isolating nematode larvae from feces With T. Mattos & A. P. Brisola. Nova tecnica para isolar larvas de nematóides das fezes: modificações do método de Baermann. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz. 14:58, 1954   Rugai-Rugai culture medium With his wife Raquel Teixeira Rugai. Meio de cultura para diferenciar o grupo Proteus e Providencia de outras enterobactérias pela l-triptofano desaminase (1964) Rugai-Araújo culture medium With A. de Araújo. Culture medium for presumptive identification of Gram negative enteric rods. Rev. Inst. Adolfo Lutz 28:79-83, 1968 With A. Souza. Culture of Trypanosoma cruzi in great volums
- [Ernest Raharizonina](https://neglectedscience.com/ernest-raharizonina/): P. Ernest Raharizonina, Malagasy entomologist SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Aspect de la recherche em matiere de lutte intégrée réalisée au DRFP (1988) Recherches sur la biologie et la pathologie d’Europtera punctillata Saalmuller (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampiidae), ravageur endémique du pin à Madagacar (1979) Observations sommaires concernant le Landy-Kely Europtera punctillata (Saalmuller) à Mandaratsy, Tananarive (1973) HONORS Raharizonina Villiers 1982 (Coleoptera)
- [Enrique Rioja](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-rioja/): Enrique Tomás Rioja LoBianco, Spanish / Mexican marine zoologist and hydrobiologist (Santander 16 February 1895 – Mexico 20 September 1963) From Italian mother Authored 220 works among papers, books and monographs DESCRIBED MARINE TAXA Annelida Polychaeta Family Fabriciidae 1923 Oweniidae 1917 Subfamilies Filograninae 1923 Myxicolinae 1923 Syllinae 1925 Valid Genera Mexieulepis 1961 Neanthioides 1918 Crustacea Valid Genera Creaseriella 1953 Donaldsoncythere 1942 Typhlopseudothelphusa 1952 Typhlotricholigioides 1953 Species About 75 valid species between polychaetes and crustaceans HONORS   Riojatrema Lamothe Argumedo 1964 (Trematoda) 
- [Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-rosenblueth-deutsch/): Emilio Rosenblueth Deutsch, Mexican earthquake engineer (Ciudad de Mexico 08 April 1926 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 January 1994) Nephew of physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns Authored about 280 scientific articles With Nathan M. Newmark authored a classic book Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering (1971) Recognized as world leader in the development of the probability theory for the analysis of seismic response of linear systems ACHIEVEMENTS Introduced the concept of optimal design of structures to the section of tremors (1971) Authored several innovative structural systems that helped in obtaining efficient solutions to important engineering problems Developed a probabilistic model for studying the influence
- [Emilio Ribas](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-ribas/): Emilio Marcondes Ribas, Brazilian hygienist (Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo State 11 April 1862 – São Paulo 19 December 1925) Authored notable works about alastrim and smallpox Distinguished alastrim or variola minor from variola major or smallpox A propósito do alastrim. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 14(16):, 1911 Authored many clinical studies and therapeutic methods employed in leprosy treatment HONORS   Invited by Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (U.K.) to give lecture about his successful means employed against yellow fever in Brazil (1909)  Invited by French Government to participate in a medical mission against yellow fever in Martinique Ribas-Torres disease (variola minor or
- [Eliezer de Carvalho Rios](https://neglectedscience.com/eliezer-de-carvalho-rios/): Eliezer de Carvalho Rios, Brazilian malacologist (Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul State 09 November 1921 – Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul State 25 March 2015) He was a University Professor of Chemistry  DESCRIBED TAXA  Subgenus Ledavolvarina 1985  (in honor to his wife Leda da Silva Rios) Species Anachis renatae 2009 Bursa barcellosi 1973 with Matthews & Coelho Caelatura barcellosi 1995 with Absalão Caelatura spirocordata 1995 with Absalão Cleantioides vonprahli 1988 with Ramos Conella ledaluciae 1981 with Tostes Eulima mulata 1990 with Absalão Falsamargarita stephaniae 2005 with Simone Fusiturricula maesae 1985 Inodrillia ricardoi 2009 Latirus devyanae 1994 with Costa & Calvo Marginella cloveri 1970 with Matthews  Metula anfractura 1968 with Matthews Mitra saldanha 1970 with Matthews Nanomelon
- [Edwyn Charles Reed](https://neglectedscience.com/edwyn-charles-reed/): Edwyn Charles Reed, English-born Chilean naturalist (Bristol, England 07 November 1841 – Concepción 05 November 1910) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA GENERA Cadeguala 1892 Dumonela 1894 Liphanthus 1894 Neomutilla 1898 Neosphex 1894 Pseudolarra 1894 Others Cyanotarus 1874 (Coleoptera) Rochrosoma 1899 (Hemiptera) Tana 1888 (Diptera) Trachysarus 1874 (Coleoptera) HONORS (Hymenoptera) Subg Reedapis Michener 1989 Reedomutilla Mickel 1964  Edwinyana Moure 1954  Edwynia Aldrich 1930 (Diptera)
- [Eduardo Rapoport](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-rapoport/): Eduardo Hugo Rapoport, Argentine ecologist and biogeographer (Buenos Aires 03 July 1927 – San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro Province 16 May 2017) From Jewish Russian ancestry Anticipated the vicariance concept Defined transition zones Obtained the first evidences in favour of Rapoport rule named in his honor (1975; 1982) With M.V. Capparelli & J.E. Rabinovich. La irregularidad, un nuevo parametro para describir la distribución espacial de organismos. Acta Cient. Venez. 22(1):26-7, 1971  Una medida de la micro-heterogeneidad en la distribución espacial de los artropodos edáficos. Folia Entomol. Mex. 23-4:113-5, 1972 Authored the book Areografia: las estratégias geográficas de las especies (1975;
- [Edmundo Alfredo Ruveda](https://neglectedscience.com/edmundo-alfredo-ruveda/): Edmundo Alfredo Ruveda, Argentine organic chemist (Corrientes 18 March 1934 – Rosario 14 December 2018) With M.D. Preite, J, Zinczuk, M.I. Colombo, J.A. Bacigalupo & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Resolution and absolute configuration of a tricyclic lactone. A potentially useful precursor of highly functionalized terpenoids. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 4:17, 1993 With M. Gonzalez Sierra, A.C.Olivieri & M.I. Colombo. The absolute stereochemistry of the novel dioxiaspiroditerpenoids strictanonic and grindelistrictiacid . Stereoselective synthesis of strictanonic acid methyl esther and its C6 epimer. J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. I 1:1393, 1989 With T.S. Kaufman & M. Gonzalez Sierra. Synthesis of an Alberta oil sand bitumen CJ10
- [Edgard Roquette Pinto](https://neglectedscience.com/edgard-roquette-pinto/): Edgard Roquette Pinto, Brazilian anthropologist, ethnologist and writer (Rio de Janeiro 25 September 1884 – Rio de Janeiro 18 October 1954) His full name was Edgar Roquette Carneiro de Mendonça Pinto Vieira de Mello Performed anthropometric measurements in Indians of Nambiquara, Paresis and Urupás tribes With B. Vinelli Baptista. Contribution à l’Anatomie Comparée des Races Humaines (1926) Laid the basis of forensic entomology in tropical lands With O. Freire. Nota sobre a fauna cadavérica no Rio de Janeiro. A Tribuna Médica 21:413-7, 1908 With O.B. de Couto e Silva & A. Ozorio de Almeida. Sobre um novo veneno sagitário dos índios
- [Dorival da Fonseca Ribeiro](https://neglectedscience.com/dorival-da-fonseca-ribeiro/): Dorival da Fonseca Ribeiro, Brazilian chemist (Campinas, São Paulo State 16 November 1907 – Atibaia, São Paulo State 1960) Authored 32 works OBTAINED/SYNTHESIZED NEW COMPOUNDS Obtained the urucine from Bixa orellana in Rev. Biol. Hyg. 6:68-90, 1935 Sobre um novo sal de bismuto – Iodo-lecitanato de bismuto Rev. Biol. Hyg. 4:44-6, 1934 Contribuição ao estudo da aurotherapia. Sobre um novo composto áurico, o morrhuato de ouro. Bras. Med. 29:577, 1934 Síntese de um novo sal de ouro. Bras. Med. 20:557, 1934 DEVELOPED METHODS Sobre um método de esterificação de ácidos graxos (1934) Esteres de ácidos gordos e seu emprego em hypodermia. Sobre um
- [Dioscoro Rabor](https://neglectedscience.com/dioscoro-rabor/): Dioscoro Siarot Rabor, Philippine zoologist and conservationist (Carcar, Cebu 18 May 1911 –College Laguna, Luzon 25 March 1996) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Aves Species Dicaeum proprium 1966 with Ripley Erythura coloria 1961 with Ripley Micromacronus sordidus 1968 with Ripley Napothera sorsogonensis 1967 with Rand Otus mirus 1968 with Ripley Ptilimopus arcanus 1955 with Rand Stachyris nigrorum 1952 with Rand Subspecies With Rand Aethopyga boltoni malindangensis 1957 Aracnothera clarae malindangensis 1957 Brachypteryx montana andersoni 1967 Coracina striata boholensis 1959 Corvus enca sierramadrensis 1961 Cyornis herioti camarinensis 1967 Dasylophus superciliosus cagayanensis 1967 Dicaeum anthonyi masawan 1957 Dicaeum hypoleucum cagayanense 1967 Dicaeum trigonostigma isidro 1969 Ficedula hyperythra malindangensis 1957 Ficedula westermanni palawanensis 1962 Harpactes ardens linae 1959 Harpactes ardens luzonensis 1952 Hypothymis azurea catarmanensis 1969 Ixos everetti
- [Diego Rodríguez](https://neglectedscience.com/diego-rodriguez/): Diego Rodríguez, Mexican mathematician, astronomer and engineer (Atitalac, Hidalgo State 1596 – Ciudad de Mexico 1668) He was a mercedarian Performed important contributions to knowledge of comets Determined Mexico city longitude (1638), more accurate that measurements from A. Von Humboldt centuries later   Elaborated his own logarithmic tables of trigonometric functions independent from E. Gunter BIBLIOGRAPHY Modo de Calcular qualquier eclipse del Sol y Luna Doctrina General repartida por capítulos de los eclipses del Sol y Luna Tratado de las ecuaciones. Fabrica y uso de La tabla algebraica discursiva Tractatus Proemiabium Mathematices y de Geometria De los logaritmos y aritmetica Tratado del modo de
- [Damaso de Rivas](https://neglectedscience.com/damaso-de-rivas/): Damaso de Rivas Alemán, Nicaraguan pathologist and parasitologist (Diria, Granada 11 December 1874 – ?) Developed Telemann-Rivas method or Damaso de Rivas method An efficient and rapid method of concentration for the detection of ova and cysts of intestinal parasites. Am. J. Trop. Med. 8:63-72, 1928 Acute trichiniasis with special reference to diagnosis and a new treatment by the application of heat to the small intestine. J. Parasitol. 26(6):24-5, 1940 (Suppl.)  
- [Clóvis da Cruz Reis](https://neglectedscience.com/clovis-da-cruz-reis/): Clóvis da Cruz Reis, Brazilian odontologist (Muriaé, Minas Gerais State 22 August 1930 – Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State July 1996) Developed and created techniques and equipment for dentistry His procedures in the field of implantodontics were internationally recognized  DEVELOPED Controle Constante de Qualidade (CCQ) ou Quality Constant Control, a rehabilitation system  Bioform, an innovative implant for osteointegration Allumina With M.C.A. Cruz & V. Cruz Silva. Utilization of alumina (Al2O3) as a membrane for guided tissue regeneration. Odontol. Mod. 20(6):6-13, 1993 TECHNIQUES/BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Cruz. Reposição cirúrgica do nervo mandibular para a colocação de implantes. Rev. Bras. Implant. 4(2), 1998 With M.
- [Cherubala Pathayapurayil Ramachandran](https://neglectedscience.com/cherubala-pathayapurayil-ramachandran/): Cherubala Pathayapurayil Ramachandran, Malaysian parasitologist (Kuala Lumpur 03 June 1936 – 12 January 2019) Established new methods to improve the treatment, control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis Made most of the clinical trials globally of the drug ivermectin Developed laboratory infection model (Brugia infections in Aedes sp.) With J.F.B. Edeson & W.E. Kershaw. Aedes aegypti as an experimental vector of Brugia malayi. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasit. 54:1-375, 1960 DESCRIBED HELMINTHS TAXA Species Litomosa aelleni 1979 with Tibayrenc & Bain Litomosa maki 1979 with Tibayrenc & Bain Onchocerca dewittei 1977 with Bain, Petter & Mak HONOURS Mary Kingsley Award (1999)
- [Charles Theodore Ramsden](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-theodore-ramsden/): Charles Theodore Ramsden de La Torre, Cuban naturalist (Santiago de Cuba 11 February 1876 – Santiago de Cuba 24 August 1951) From English father and nephew of naturalist Carlos de la Torre DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Reptilia Valid Species (with Barbour) Anolis allogus 1919 Anolis mestrei 1916 Anolis quadriocellifer 1919 Anolis rubribarbus 1919 Sphaerodactylus intermedius 1919 Sphaerodactylus scaber 1919 Mollusca Amphistemma pilsbryana 1914 Annularia mayensis 1914 with Torre Annularisca prestoni 1914 Arangia scobinata 1915 with Torre Brachypodella torreana 1914 Diplopoma torrei 1915 Gongylostomella mayensis 1915 with Torre Limadora tollini 1915 Planostemma intusfalcata 1929 with Torre Pseudosubulina iridescens with Torre Caracolus marginella goodrichi Lepidoptera Ganyra josephina menicae 1914 Kricogonia cabrerai 1920 Xylophanes clarki 1921 HONORS Ramsdenia Preston 1913 (Mollusca)
- [Charles Frederick Robbs](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-frederick-robbs/): Charles Frederick Robbs, Brazilian microbiologist and plant pathologist (Olinda, Pernambuco State 18 January 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 03 January 2012) From English father Authored about 100 works The second in the world to report mycoplasma-like organisms causing plant diseases  With E.W. Kitajima. Association of a mycoplasma-like organism with chayote witche’s broom. International Congress of Plant Pathology. p.80. 1978. Proposed the term pathovar and suggested the term subspecies for some genera of bacteria With J.W. Young, D.W. Dye, J.F. Bradbury & G.C. Panagopoulos A proposed nomenclature and classification for plant pathogenic bacteria. New Zealand J. Agric. Res. 21:153-77, 1978 DESCRIBED Erwinia
- [Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman](https://neglectedscience.com/chandrasekhara-venkata-raman/): Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist (Thiruvanaikoil, Tiruchirappalli, Madras 07 November 1888 – Bangalore, Karnataka 21 November 1970) Authored 465 publications ACHIEVEMENTS A new method for the absolute determination of frequency. Proc. Royal Soc. London, 1919. Discovered with K.S. Krishnan and independently from Landsberg & Mandelshtam, inelastic scattering of light or Raman effect (1928) With K.S. Krishnan. A new type of secondary radiation. Nature 31, 1928 Discovered the quantum photon spin With S. Bhagavantam. Experimental proof of the Spin of the Spin. Nature 129:22, 1932. Provided the correct theoretical explanation for the acousto-optic effect (Raman-Nagendra Nath theory of diffraction of light by
- [Chakravartula Gopal Krishna Ramanujam](https://neglectedscience.com/chakravartula-gopal-krishna-ramanujam/): Chakravartula Gopala Krishna Ramanujam, Indian palaeobotanist and palynologist (Guntur, Andhra Pradesh State 25 August 1931 –  DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Sporae/ Pollen Bacubrevitricolpites 1981 with Rao Baksipollis 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Clavapalmaedites 1978 with Rao Clavaperiporites 1966 Clavasyncolpites 1981 with Rao Clavatricolporites 1966 Crotonisulcites 1978 with Rao Crotonoidaepollenites 1981 with Rao Echinosulcites 1975 with Rao Edvapollis 1975 with Rao Farsonsidites 1982 Foveoretitricolpites 1975 with Rao Grandizonaropollis 1966 Hexagonopollis 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Hippocrateaceaedites 1966 Iridacidites 1987 Jacobipollenites 1966 Loranthipites 1982 with Rao Margocolporites 1966 Neyvelipollenites 1966 Neyvelisporites 1972 Ornasporonites 1978 with Rao Ornatetradites 1981 with Rao Ornatriporites 1981 with Rao Padappakkarapollis 1981 with Rao Paravuripollis 1978 with Rao Pentadesmapites 1985 with Reddy & Sharma Permathyrites 1982 Pseudocolpopollis 1975 with Rao Quilonipollenites 1978 with Rao Retipilonapites 1966 Scabramonoletes 1966 Striatocolporites 1966 Trilatiporites 1966 Triquetropollis 1984 with Reddy
- [Cecilio Romaña](https://neglectedscience.com/cecilio-romana/): Cecilio Felix Romaña Berón de Astrada, Argentine parasitologist (San Javier, Santa Fe Province 16 June 1899 – Barcelona, Spain 09 February 1997) Authored about 180 works (120 of them on Chagas disease) Described ocular chagome or Romaña sign Acerca de un sintoma inicial de valor para el diagnostic de la forma aguda de la enfermedad de Chagas. La conjuntivitis schizotripanosomica unilateral (hipótesis sobre la puerta de entrada conjuntival de la enfermedad). MEPRA 22:16-25, 1935 Established technical basis for Chagas disease prophylaxis employing residual action insecticides (i.e. Gammexane or BHC in 1947) independently from Pellegrino & Dias With J.W. Abalos. Acción del
- [Carmen Emilia Benitez de Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/carmen-emilia-benitez-de-rojas/): Carmen Emilia Benítez de Rojas, Venezuelan botanist (1937 – DESCRIBED SOLANACEAE TAXA Cestrum darcyanum 1999 with Sawyer  Cestrum jaramillanum 1995 with D’Arcy Cestrum neblinense 1990 with D’Arcy Cestrum ruizteranium 1995 with D’Arcy Cestrum tilletti 1995 with D’Arcy Cuatresia hunzikeriana 1995 with Martínez Deprea paneroi 1992 with Martínez Lycianthes francisci 2000 Schwenckia alvaroana 2006 Schwenckia huberi 1990 Schwenckia trujilloi 1990 Sessea jorgenseni 2001 Solanum badilloi 1987 Solanum orientale 1984 Solanum valadinervium 1985 with Knapp Witheringia wurdackiana 1997 HONORS Rojasimalva Fryxell 1984 (Malvaceae)
- [Carlos Rusconi](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-rusconi/): Carlos Rusconi Sassi, Argentine paleontologist and archaeologist (Buenos Aires 02 November 1898 – Mendoza 22 February 1969) From Italian parentage Authored about 500 works Described one subfamily Eumysopinae (1935) and two species Catagonus wagneri 1930 & Ctenomys australis 1934 of living mammals  DESCRIBED NEW GENERA Trilobita 39 Mammalia Acrotypotherium 1936 Allalmeia 1946 Brasilochoerus 1930 Interchoerus 1930 Macrocavia 1933 Megactenomys 1930 Nothydrochoerus 1935 Notopachyrucos 1933 Parachoerus 1930 Tapiralium 1934 Tranyocastor 1936 Xenohydrochoerus 1934  Pisces Anatoia 1946 Caminchaia 1946 Cenechoia 1946 Challaia 1946 Echentaia 1946 Guaymayenia 1946 Neochallaia 1949 Pasambaya 1946 Reptilia Acrohydraspis 1934 Ancanamunia 1942 Ilchunaia 1946 Notocaiman 1937 Purranosaurus 1948 Rhamphostomopsis 1933  Uruguaysuchus 1933 Xenosuchus 1933 Amphibia Chigutisaurus 1948 Icanosaurus 1950 Otuminisaurus 1948 Crustacea Culampaia 1949 Estheriopsis 1947 Huarpeana 1954 Graptolita Challapora 1949 Mendograptus 1950 Notograptus 1948   Aves Cunampaia 1946 Querandiornis 1958 Echinodermata Antunia 1955 Salagastiana 1951 Mollusca Charruia 1955 Quilicanella 1952 Cnidaria Mendoconularia 1951 Mendopora 1948 Bryozoa Paraguataia 1948  HONORS Rusconia Kraglievich
- [Carlos Ruiz Fuller](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-ruiz-fuller/): Carlos Enrique Ruiz Fuller, Chilean geologist and mining engineer (Valparaíso 23 September 1916 – Santiago 28 March 1997) From English and Danish ancestry Described a new Kind of metamorphic bed of contact Los yacimientos de hierro de la región noroccidental de Copiapó, un tipo no descrito de yacimiento de contato metamórfico. Boletín Minero 552:820-87, 1943 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Distribution and characteristics of Chilean copper deposits (1990) With F. Peebles. Geologia, distribución y genesis de los yacimientos metalíferos de Chile (1988) With I. Hayami & S. Maeda. Some late Triassic Bivalvia and Gastropoda from the Domeyko range of North Chile. Trans. Proc. Paleont. Soc. Jpn.
- [Carlos Rivero Solar](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-rivero-solar/): Carlos Rivero Solar, Venezuelan inventor (Cabure, Falcón State 04 November 1826 – Cabure, Falcón State 13 June 1904) INVENTIONS Water-powered mill A machine to hull coffee beans A machine for grinding sharp tools like machetes, knifes and others A rodent trap A wood drill El Pájaro Serrano, a hawk-inspired flight apparatus (1868)
- [Carlos Renson](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-renson/): Carlos Renson, Belgian-born Salvadorean apothecary and plant collector (Amberes 1858 – El Salvador 30 Mar 1941) ACHIEVEMENTS Nouveau procede de recherches des Trichines dans les viandes. In Bull. de la Soc. belge de microscopie, X, p. 2i, 1884, SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J. Puente, 1889, Informe sobre la expedición cientlfica a los ausoles de Ahuachapin: San Salvador Univ. No. 2, ser. 1 ; repr., 1929, in Garcia, MA, Diccionario Histórico-Enciclopedico de la Republica de El Salvador, Conservación del maíz y de los frijoles. Boletín de Agricultura (El Salvador) 3:483-485. 1903. Contribución a Analisis Toxicológica del Mercurio, Proceedings of the second Pan American
- [Carlos de Toledo Rizzini](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-de-toledo-rizzini/): Carlos de Toledo Rizzini, Brazilian botanist and lichenologist (Monteiro Lobato, São Paulo State 18 April 1921 – 03 October 1992) Authored with W.B. Mors & N.A. Pereira, Medicinal Plants of Brazil (2000), with international repercussion Authored with W.B. Mors Useful Brazilian plants (1966) translated into English and German  Proposed a preparation method of pollen grains for mounting Estudos sobre as Acanthaceae. Bol. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, Bot. 8:1-38, 1947  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Apterokarpos 1975 Arapatiella 1975 with Mattos Ixocactus 1953 Liberatia 1947 Morsacanthus 1952 Pupilla 1949 Species About 340 
- [Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/calyampudi-radhakrishna-rao/): Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Indian statistician and mathematician (Hwuina, Hadagalli Village, Bellary District, Karnataka State 10 September 1920 – Respected as one of great statisticians of 20th century ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 350 research papers and 14 books Devised the criterion of second order efficiency Established optimal properties of maximum livelihood estimation Introduced differential geometric concepts in statistical inference and appear Introduced analysis of dispersion in multivariate analysis (MANOVA) Enunciated concept of orthogonal arrays of strength d (1949) Created Rao efficient score test (1947) HONORS Wilks Medal, American Statistical Association (1989) National Medal of Science, United States (2002) Mahalanobis International Award, International Statistical Institute
- [Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal](https://neglectedscience.com/cadambathur-tirunvenkatacharlu-rajagopal/): Cadambathur Tirunvenkatacharlu Rajagopal, Indian mathematician (Triplicane, Madras 08 September 1903 – Madras 25 April 1978) Authored 80 papers Recorded relations between certain classical limit theorems (1947) Proved and/or extended Tauberian theorems Gave an analogue of Edmond Landau’s theorem on partial sums of Fourier series Eponym of Rajagopal lemma 
- [C.R. Narayan Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/c-r-narayan-rao/): C.R. Narayan Rao, Indian herpetologist and ichthyologist (Coimbatore 15 August 1882 – Bangalore 02 January 1960) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Amphibia Genus Ramanella 1925 with Ramanna Species Duttaphrynus brevirostris 1937 Fejervarya modesta 1920 Indirana longicrus 1937 Indirana tenuilingua 1937 Micrixalus elegans 1937 Micrixalus kottigeharensis 1937 Micrixalus narainensis 1937 Micrixalus swamianus 1937 Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis 1937 Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris 1920 Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus 1937 Ramanella anamalaiensis 1937 Ramanella minor 1937 Ramanella mormorata 1937 Ramanella triangularis 1918  Ramanella variegata 1918 Raorchestes charius 1937 Sphaerotheca leucorhyncha 1937 Zakerana mysorensis 1922 Zakerana parambikulamana 1937 Zakerana sauriceps 1937 Pisces Species Botia striata 1920 Garra bicornuta 1920 Garra platycephala 1920 Nemachilichthys shimogensis 1920 HONORS Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta & Bossuyt 2010 (Amphibia)
- [Bruno Rangel Pestana](https://neglectedscience.com/bruno-rangel-pestana/): Bruno Rangel Pestana, Brazilian biomedical scientist (São Paulo 15 September 1881 – São Paulo 05 December 1971) Authored 49 scientific works (until 1951) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed a serum for bubonic plague With Vital Brazil prepared anti Elaps serum and noted that species presenting great  sensibility to venoms are that which produce more antibodies (1910) With Sebastião de Camargo Calazans developed agar-lactose-rosolic acid Calazans-Rangel Pestana medium for bacilli Emprego do acido rosolico no isolamento e identificação dos bacilos do grupo coli-tífico-disentérico em meios sólidos. Mem. Inst. Butantan 7:283, 1932   Discovered etiologic agent of nambiuvú or canine rangeliosis named Rangelia vitalii in his honor O nambyuvú. Rev.Med. S. Paulo 22:423-6, 1910
- [Barry Ramachandra Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/barry-ramachandra-rao/): Barry Ramachandra Rao, Indian physicist (Visakhapatnan District, Andhra Pradesh State 21 November 1922 – Visakhapatnan District, Andhra Pradesh State 24 September 2005) Authored over 300 papers Discovered a new phenomenon in light diffraction, absorption and dispersion and ionospheric drifts With P.R.K.L. Padmini found a new relation between ultra-sonic velocity and latent heat of vaporization (1960) Found that the ratio of the temperature coefficients of the ultrasonic velocity and density is nearly equal to 3 for most organic liquids Performed theoretical and modelling studies of low latitude ionosphere Discovered that in the high frequency region in the diffraction patterns follow Bragg’s law
- [Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna](https://neglectedscience.com/bangalore-puttaiya-radhakrishna/): Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna, Indian geologist (Bangalore 30 April 1918 – Bangalore 26 January 2012) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Groundwater in Karnataka. Geol. Soc. India (2006) Holocene chronology and Indian prehistory. J. Geol. Soc. India 51:133-8, 1998 Neogene uplift and geomorphic evolution of the Indian Peninsula. Curr. Sci. 64:787-93, 1993 Cauvery – its geological past. J. Geol. Soc. India 40:1-12, 1992 Suspect tectono-stratigraphic terrane elements in the Indian subcontinent. J. Geol. Soc. India 34(1):1-24, 1989 Gold in laterite: a surprising challenge in metallogeny (1989) Economic significance of quartz-pebble conglomerate. Mem. Geol. Soc. India 9:717, 1988 Purana basins of India. Mem. Geol. Soc. India (1987)
- [Alberto Juan Solari](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-juan-solari/): Alberto Juan Solari Rodríguez, Argentine cytogeneticist (Buenos Aires 04 February 1934 – Discovered XY pair in the meiosis of placental mammals The behavior of the XY pair in mammals. Intern. Review Cytology 38:273-317, 1974 First to study the set of synaptonemal complexes in human spermatocytes Synaptonemal complexes and associated structures in microspread human spermatocytes. Chromosoma 81(3):315-37, 1980 With M.I. Pigozzi. First demonstration of the substructure of recombination nodules. Biocell 22 (3): 177-86, 1998 With L.F. Rossi. Nueva organela compuesta de citoqueratina en los ovocitos del armadillo Chaetophractus villosus (2017) DEVELOPED METHODS / SOME DISCOVERIES With C.J. Tandler. An “axis-like” material in the centromeric
- [Alberto José de Sampaio](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-jose-de-sampaio/): Alberto José de Sampaio, Brazilian botanist and geographer (Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 05 February 1881- Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State 30 December 1946) From Portuguese and French descent  Authored 174 works Presented a new phytogeographic division of Brazil used worldwide DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA  Genera (With Kuhlmann) Clinostemon 1928 (Lauraceae) Pseudocalymma 1933(Bignoniaceae) Species Acianthera acuminatipetala 1916 Acianthera gouveiae 1916 Adenocalymma biternata 1938 Adenocalymma longilineum 1936 Adianthum multisorum 1916 Adiantum rondonii 1916  Barbosella dusenii 1909 Clinostemon mahuba 1917 Cyathea uleana 1923 Diplazium mattogrossense 1916 Elaphoglossum jurunae 1916 Hemitelia caesariana 1935 Martinella iquitoensis 1935 Memorea cinnabarina 1938 Memorea cuminaensis 1938 Memorea madeirensis 1938 Memorea rondonii 1938 Memorea tridenticalyx 1938 Microstylis humicola 1923 Miscanteca duckei 1917 Octomeria duckei 1923 Pecluma hoehnii 1916 Pleurothallis
- [Agustín Stahl](https://neglectedscience.com/agustin-stahl/): Anton Adolf August Stahl or Agustín Stahl, Puerto Rican physician, naturalist, archaeologist and ethnologist (Curaçao 21 January 1842 – Bayamón 12 July 1917) From German father and Dutch mother Described Clusia gundlachii and Marialva elliptica in 1884 Besides collecting plants, gathered 2,300 animal specimens and 800 indigenous artifacts SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Pictografias indo-boricanas del litoral (1907-17) Un caso de neurosis vasomotora de las extremidades. Erytromelalgia Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(71), 1908 Demonstración de dos casos de neuropatias y dos de teratologia. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 6(65), 1908 Dos nuevas entidades patológicas. Bol. Asoc. Med. Puerto Rico 1(8-9), 1903 Estudios Etnologicos de los indios Borinqueños (1889) Estudios sobre
- [Ady Raul da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/ady-raul-da-silva/): Ady Raul da Silva, Brazilian plant geneticist (Rio de Janeiro 02 August 1917 – 18 September 2011) Developed 26 wheat (IAS13, IAS20, São Borja, Piratini) and 2 oatmeal cultivars With J.M.V. Andrade & J.C. Leite. Duas novas cultivares de trigo para a região do Brasil Central: BR9 Cerrados e BR10 Formosa. Pesq. Agrop. Bras. 19:109-13, 1984 Improved selection methods for wheat varieties resistant to rust and other diseases Identified new races of wheat rust Estudos preliminaries para a produção de variedades de trigo resistentes as ferrugens no Brasil. Serv. Nac. Pesq. Agron. B1 (1947) (isolated seven races of leaf rust) With
- [Adrien Sumichrast](https://neglectedscience.com/adrien-sumichrast/): Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast, Swiss-born Mexican naturalist and collector (Yvorne, Vaud Canton 15 October 1828 – Tonale, Chiapas State 26 December 1882) Performed collections of many animal and plant species mainly birds and reptiles SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notes sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens de la partie occidentale de l’isthme de Tehauntepec. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 15:162-90, 1906 Observations sur les moeurs de l’Heloderma horridum. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 80:676-9, 1875 The geographical distribution of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz with a list of the migratory species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:542-63, 1869 Note
- [Adelmo Scivittaro](https://neglectedscience.com/adelmo-scivittaro/): Adelmo Scivittaro, Brazilian agronomist and entomologist (27 May 1932 – DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Schoenfeldtiopsis 1977 with Soares Taphroderoides 1975 Taphroderopsis 1975 Species (with Soares) Claeoderes kirschi 1977 Hyperephanus proseni 1977 Hyphantus dentipes 1977 Hyphantus desbrochersi 1977 Hyphantus diringshofeni 1977 Hyphantus ignotus 1977 Hyphantus inoratus 1977 Hyphantus sulcatus 1977 Hyphantus vaurieae 1977 Hyphantus zikani 1977 Nemobrenthus bechynei 1979 Nemobrenthus pereirai 1979 Proteramocerus appendiculatus 1972 Proteramocerus forcipula 1972 Schoenfeldtiopsis zikani 1977 (Alone) Hephebocerus soaresi 1981 Monrosiaia inpai 1976 Monrosiaia kleinei 1975 Monrosiaia monicae 1975 Monrosiaia sulcata 1978 Monrosiaia walkyriae 1975 Taphroderes bolivianus 1975 Taphroderes dimidiatus 1975 Taphroderes monnei 1975 Taphroderes venezuelanus 1975 Taphroderopsis abdominalis 1975 Taphroderopsis bicolor 1975 Taphroderopsis claviger 1975 Taphroderopsis goianus 1975 Taphroderopsis mammillatus 1975 Taphroderopsis marisae 1975 Taphroderopsis mendax 1975 Taphroderopsis patriciae 1975 Taphroderopsis similis 1975 Taphroderopsis soaresi 1975 Taphroderopsis ubirajarai 1975
- [Abundio Sagastegui Alva](https://neglectedscience.com/abundio-sagastegui-alva/): Abundio Sagastegui Alva, Peruvian botanist and geographer (Guzmango, Contumazá Province, Cajamarca Dept 23 October 1932 – Trujillo, Trujillo Province, La Libertad Dept. 26 October 2012)  DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera (with Dillon) Caxamarca 1999 Jalcophila 1986 Parachionolaena 1992 Pseudoligandra 1990 Species About 100 HONORS International Biographic Center (2005) Associate Researcher, Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Associate Researcher, Ohio State University of Columbus Associate Researcher, University of Chicago Honor Medal, English Biodiversity Institute
- [Abel Ambrosio Sarasola](https://neglectedscience.com/abel-ambrosio-sarasola/): Abel Ambrosio Sarasola, Argentine plant pathologist (1912 – ?) Authored some papers with his wife Maria Amalia Rocca de Sarasola DESCRIBED NEW DISEASES With M.A.Rocca de Sarasola. Una enfermedad de la lechuga producida por Stemphylium botryosum en la Argentina. Rev. Fac. Agr. La Plata 33:83-91, 1957 Nueva enfermedad del olivo en la Argentina causada por Cercospora cladosporioides Sacc. Rev. Fac. Agr. La Plata 41-7, 1951  Alternaria tenuis Nees como etiologico de una nueva enfermedad del olivo. Lilloa 21:7-24, 1949 Dos enfermedades semejantes causadas por Botrytis cinerea y Ovularia viciae en las alverillas forrajeras (Vicia spp.). Dagu 3(3), 1946 Dos septoriosis de las alamedas argentinas. Rev. Arg. Agron. 2:20-43, 1944 Una nueva
- [Abdus Salam](https://neglectedscience.com/abdus-salam/): Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and mathematician (Santok Das village, Sahiwal district, Punjab Province 29 January 1926 – Oxford, England 21 November 1996) ACHIEVEMENTS Predicted parity violation in weak interaction independent from Lee & Yang and Landau (1956) Introduced chiral symmetry in the neutrino’s theory Theorized the existence of proton decay With S. Glashow and J. Goldstone proved mathematically the Goldstone’s theorem With S. Weinberg first to apply Higgs mechanism to electroweak symmetry breaking (1964) Predicted magnetic photon (1966) Predicted existence  of weak neutral currents, Z particles and W particles (1967) Named electroweak force (1967) With S.Weinberg and S. Glashow unified weak
- [Abbas Shafiee](https://neglectedscience.com/abbas-shafiee/): Abbas Shafiee, Iranian pharmaceutical and organic chemist (01 September 1937 – 15 June 2016) Authored 473 papers, 8 essays and 5 books CONTRIBUTIONS With M. Madhavi, S. Dianat, B. Khavari, S. Moghini et al. Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel imidazo-pyrimidin-3-amines as anticancer agents. Chem. Biol. Drug Des. 89(5):797-805, 2017 With R. Hariri, Z. Ashfar, M. Madhavi, M. Safavi et al. Novel tacrine-based pyrano[3’,4’,5, 6]pyrano[2,3-b]quinolones:synthesis and cholinesterase inhibitory activity. Arch. Pharm. 349(12):915-24, 2016  With S. Dianat, S. Moghimi, M. Madhavi, H. Nadri et al. Quinoline-based imidazole-fused heterocycles as new inhibitors of 15-lipoxygenase. J. Enzyme Inhib. Med. Chem. 31 (Sup3):205-9, 2016 With M. Alipour,
- [Wilma Rose Coelho Ribeiro](https://neglectedscience.com/wilma-rose-coelho-ribeiro/): Wilma Rose Coelho Ribeiro, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (died 1998) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.J. Tozetto. Tratamento pós colheita de goiaba (Psidium guajava L.) contra podridão de Guignardia psidii. Rev. Bras. Frutic. 20(2):229-34, 1998 With F. Gauch. Ocorrência de espécies de Pythium potencialmente micoparasitas, com oogônio equinulado, em solos de Brasilia., Distrito Federal. Fitop. Bras. 23:176-9, 1998 With M.F. Santos, M.G.R. Faiad & A.N. Salomão. Avaliação da qualidade sanitária e fisiológica das sementes de caroba. Rev. Bras. Sementes 20(1):1-6, 1998 With M.F. Santos, M.G.R. Faiad & S.M. Sano. Fungos associados as sementes de baru (Dipteryx alata Vog.). Rev. Bras. Sementes 19:1359, 1997 With L. Tozetto. Leaf
- [William Antonio Rodrigues](https://neglectedscience.com/william-antonio-rodrigues/): William Antonio Rodrigues, Brazilian botanist (São João del Rei, Minas Gerais State 26 June 1928 – Authored over 160 works including 75 papers, 34 book chapters and 2 books DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus  Micrandropsis 1973 (Euphorbiaceae) Species   Allantoma pauciramosa 1974 Aniba lancifolia 1976 with Kubitzki Anisophyllea manausensis 1971 with Pires Chrysophyllum durifructum 1974 Compsoneura rigidifolia 1989 Corythophora rimosa 1974 Couratari longipedicellata 1974 Couratari prancei 1974 Dalechampia olympiana 1957 with Kuhlmann Dicymbe arenicola 1980 Dicypellium manausense 1968 Erythroxylum albertianum 1957 with Kuhlmann Guatteria friesiana 2008 Hymenolobium discolor 1980 with Mattos Iryanthera campinae 1982 Iryanthera inpae 1981 Micrandropsis scleroxylon 1971 Monopteryx inpae 1975 Ophiocaryon manausense 1972 Peltogyne subsessilis 1974 Phyllanthus manausensis 1971 Pouteria echinocarpa 1974  Rauia prancei 1971 with Silva  Vantanea denisae 1982 Virola caducifolia 1977 Virola coelhoi 1977 Virola
- [Wilhelm Rau](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-rau/): Wilhelm Rau, German-born Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Ludwigshafen, Palatinate 30 July 1874 – Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State 11 May 1953) Discovered Gomphodontosuchus brasiliensis (1927) described by Von Huene  Described fossil plants Cedroxylon canoasense (1931) & Dadoxylon butiense (1933) HONORS Rauisuchus Von Huene 1942 (Fossil Reptilia)   
- [Vulimiri Ramalingaswami](https://neglectedscience.com/vulimiri-ramalingaswami/): Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian physician (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh 08 August 1921 –  New Delhi 28 May 2001) Authored 225 scientific works Respected as an international authority on nutritional pathology With M.G. Deo first developed a non-human model of kwarshiorkor in rhesus monkeys Elucidated pathology and pathogenesis of the syndrome of protein-energy malnutrition in children  Established the role of proteins in the syndrome of protein-energy malnutrition, earlier attributed to calorie deficiency Related chronic hepatitis B virus to primary hepatocellular carcinoma (1975) Co-described the non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis (1962) Established viral aetiology of nutritional cirrhosis First demonstrated that actual damage of the rods and cones
- [Virgilio Raffinetti](https://neglectedscience.com/virgilio-raffinetti/): Virgilio Raffinetti, Argentine engineer (San Juan 29 December 1869 – Buenos Aires 21 November 1946) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Differencia de longitude entre los observatories de Cordoba y La Plata (1904) Descripción de los instrumentos astronômicos del Observatorio de La Plata seguida de uma nota sobre los adelantos mas recientes de la astronomia (1904) Lecciones de geometria descriptiva HONORS Raffinetti 3648 (Asteroid)
- [Victor A. Ramos](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-a-ramos/): Victor Alberto Ramos, Argentine geologist (Buenos Aires 22 April 1945 – First to determine that the tectonic plates of Andes were locked in a flat slab subduction Discovered accretionary tectonics as part of the Andes formation First to study and propose the horizontal subduction under Andean range mountains SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (about 16,000 citations) With V.D. Litvak, A. Folguera & M. Spagnuolo. An Andean tectonic cycle: from crustal thickening to extension in a thin crust. (34°-37°SL). Geosc. Frontiers 5:351-67, 2014 With M. Spagnuolo, V.D. Litvak, A. Folguera & G. Bottesi. Neogene magmatic expansion and mountain building processes in the southern Central Andes. 36-37° S, Argentina.
- [Veridiana Victoria Rossetti](https://neglectedscience.com/veridiana-victoria-rossetti/): Veridiana Victoria Rossetti, Brazilian plant pathologist (Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, São Paulo State 15 October 1917 – São Paulo 26 December 2010) From a family of Italian immigrants Nephew of Two-Time winner of World Soccer Cup Italian Coach Vittorio Pozzo Authored over 450 scientific works, 2 books and over 10 book chapters Gained international recognition for her studies on citrus virology With E. Kitajima et al. showed that citrus leprosy is a plant viral disease (1972)  With C.M. Chagas proved the transmission of citrus leprosy by tissue grafts Developed ingenious methods for diagnosing citrus diseases Concluded that hemipteran species Platytylus bicolor as vector
- [Venkatraman Radhakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/venkatraman-radhakrishnan/): Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Indian radio astronomer (Tondaripet, Madras 18 May 1929 – Bangalore 03 March 2011) Son of Nobel Prize physicist C.V. Raman Authored over 80 papers Detected radio waves from Van-Allen like belts surrounding Jupiter First to determine the true rotation of the core of Jupiter (1958)  Performed the first systematic application of interferometry to polarized hightness distributions Established the picture of a magnetized rotating neutron star Proposed the paradigm of curvature radiation from polar caps of neutron stars Proposed recycled pulsars Authored an important observational and theoretical work on different aspects of pulsars Designed and built hang-gliders, micro-light aircrafts and
- [Vallurupalli Sita Raghavendra Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/vallurupalli-sita-raghavendra-rao/): Vallurupalli Sita Raghavendra Rao, Indian biophysicist (01 February 1931 – 26 September 2013) Authored over 150 articles Authored the book Conformation of Carbohydrates, only one of its kind (1988) First to develop methods for investigating the structure of oligosaccharides and long-chain polysaccharides by using the idea of dihedral angles and of the bonds meeting at the bridge oxygen Showed that random coil conformation of amylose is comprised of largely left-handed helical segments interspersed with short right handed helical segments Explained how lectins recognize the subtle configurational differences in saccharides Gave important contributions to stereochemistry of pyranose sugars and their derivatives that were
- [Ulises Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/ulises-rojas/): Ulises Rojas Benfeldt, Guatemalan physician and naturalist (San Marcos 29 March 1881 – Ciudad de Guatemala 16 June 1959) Authored 115 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Curso de zoologia (1911) Manual de horticultura, jardineira y arboricultura (1933) Elementos de Botanica General Curso completo de anatomia y fisiologia humana Hibridaciones sobre Euchlaena mexicana Schrad., Teocinte Las plantas y sus productos HONORS Rojasianthe Standley & Steyermark 1940 (Asteraceae)
- [Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/tiruppattur-venkatachalamurti-ramakrishnan/): Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan, Indian theoretical physicist (Tamil Nadu 14 August 1941 – Authored 150 research publications and 3 books (until 2012) PRESENTED NEW THEORIES With M. Yussouff introduced the density functional theory of freezing (1990) With K. Sur presented a perturbation theory for the thermodynamic properties of a mixed-valent impurity in a metal (1982) Density-wave theory of first-order freezing in two dimensions (1982) With E. Abraham, P.W. Anderson & D.C. Liciardello. Scaling theory of localization: absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions. Phys. Rev. B22:3519, 1979 With M. Yussouff. First-principles order-parameter theory of freezing. Phys. Rev. B19:2775, 1979 With M. Yussouff.
- [Thirumalachari Ramasami](https://neglectedscience.com/thirumalachari-ramasami/):  Thirumalachari Ramasami, Indian leather chemist (Kolkata 15 April 1948 – Authored over 240 papers ACHIEVEMENTS Developed innovative technologies and without international equivalents Developed technologies for improved tanning salts and systems for leather field Significantly advanced the understanding of the factors controlling the reactivity and applications of chromium compounds in biological matrices such as chromium induced apoptosis of human lymphocytes Successfully related assemblies and long-range ordering phenomena in biosystems to the functional properties Demonstrated stabilization of unusual oxidation states of chromium Demonstrated anomalous reactivity of chromium III PATENTS (41; incomplete list) With U.S. Kasiviswanathan, N.M. Devasikhamani, K.A. Kalai, A.K. Johnson, V. Arummugan,
- [Theodoro Augusto Ramos](https://neglectedscience.com/theodoro-augusto-ramos/): Theodoro Augusto Ramos, Brazilian mathematician and engineer (São Paulo 26 June 1895 – Rio de Janeiro 05 December 1937) Proposed representation of two-variable sum functions by Weierstrass double integral Sobre as funcções de variáveis reaes. Doctoral thesis, Escola Politécnica do Rio de Janeiro (1918) Explained hydrogen spectrum bands using Relativity Theory independent from Sommerfeld A theoria da Relatividade e as Raias Espectraes do Hydrogenio. Revista Polytechnica 74:181-88, 1923 Sobre a estrutura do Espectro das raias do Hydrogenio. Revista Polytechnica 78-9:503-7, 1923 His work Integrais definidas das funções discontínuas (1926) received a laudation from French mathematician Emile Borel   In this work Named
- [Thekkepat Ramakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/thekkepat-ramakrishnan/): Thekkepat Ramakrishnan, Indian biochemist (Bangalore 14 March 1922 – Bangalore 15 February 2008) Elucidated the metabolism and molecular biology of Mycobacteria Elucidated the mechanism of action of antitubercle drugs like isoniazid, streptomycin and rifampicin First reported the enzyme isocitrate lyase  Isolated the first transducing phage for Mycobacteria  Proposed RNA polymerase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a good target for devising new drugs  
- [Teodoro Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/teodoro-rojas/): Teodoro Rojas Vera, Paraguayan botanist and plant collector (Asunción 25 September 1877 – Asunción 03 September 1954) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogo de las gramineas del Herbario del Jardín Botanico de Asunción (1944) Los algarrobos del Paraguay. Darwiniana 5:276-9, 1941 Observaciones sobre las “cañas tacuaras” del Paraguay. Rev. Arg. Agron. 3(4):254-6, 1936  With K. Fiebrig. Flora y gea del Nordeste de Paraguay (1935) With K. Fiebrig. Ensayo fitogeográfico sobre el Chaco Boreal. Rev. Jard. Bot. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paraguay (1933) Maderas del Paraguay. Bol. Tierras y Colonias (1925) With M. Michalowski, K. Fiebrig & J. Vogt. Las arboles y arbustos del Paraguay. Rev. Jard. Bot. Mus.
- [Teobaldo Ricaldoni](https://neglectedscience.com/teobaldo-ricaldoni/): Teobaldo Julio Ricaldoni Saroldi, Uruguayan-born Argentine engineer, physicist and inventor (Montevideo 24 May 1861 or 1865 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 22 September 1923) From Italian parentage Brother of Americo Ricaldoni ACHIEVEMENTS IN ASTRONOMY Performed discoveries on Neptune and Pluto Predicted a Mercury moon in magmatic state   INVENTIONS Wireless telegraph (1899) and its receiver   A new system of wireless radial transmission Panoramoscope, a new periscope system (1908) A new design of parachute   Propelling system for navigation without wings or propellers Ornitoptero, a new design of helicopter A torpedoes deviation system Brush fire, a novel weapon design    “Electric Cannon” Life buoy named
- [Taracad Subramania Ramakrishnan](https://neglectedscience.com/taracad-subramania-ramakrishnan/): Taracad Subramania Ramakrishnan, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Malabar District, Madras 25 August 1899 – 02 December 1971) Authored over 85 papers  Established efficient methods of control of most of the diseases affecting the rubber tree CONTRIBUTIONS With V. Seethalakshmi. Phytophthora cyperi-bulbosi sp.nov. on Cyperus bulbosus Vahl. Curr.Sci. 22:149-50, 1953 With N.V. Sundaram. A new rust of Antidesma in India. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 35:26-8, 1952 Two new rusts from South India. Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 34:141-5, 1951 With K.V. Srinivasan. On two new rust fungi. Curr. Sci. 19 (1):25-7, 1950 With K. Ramakrishnan. Chaconia tectonae Ramakrishnan T.S. & K. sp.nov. on teak. Indian Phytopathology 2:17-9, 1949 Uromyces acori Ramakrishnan
- [Taikyue Ree](https://neglectedscience.com/taikyue-ree/): Taikyue Ree, South Korean chemist (Yesan, Chungnam 26 January 1902 – 1992) Authored about 200 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R.P. Smith, J.L. Magee & H. Eyring. The inductive effect and chemical reactivity. I. General Theory of the Inductive Effect and Application to Electric Dipole Moments of Haloalkanes. J Amer Chem Soc 73(5):2263-2268, 1951 With I. Higuchi & H. Eyring. Adsorption Kinetics. I. The system of alkali atoms on Tungsten. J Amer Chem Soc 77(19):4969-4975, 1955 With I. Higuchi & H. Eyring. Adsorption Kinetics. II. Nature of the Adsorption Bond. J Amer Chem Soc 79(6):1330-1337, 1957 With H. Eyring & N. Hirai.
- [Surapaneni Nageswara Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/surapaneni-nageswara-rao/): Surapaneni Nageswara Rao, Indian entomologist (1924 – 1995) DESCRIBED INSECTA TAXA Diptera Genera Amraemyia 1950 Apamargamyia 1978 with Sharma Bothriochloamyia 1977 with Sharma Coronostoma 1958 Diplodontomyia 1951 Globocephalonema 1987 with Anand Haplusiella 1952 Mohwadiplosis 1957 Neohaplusia 1951 Neoprotoplonyx 1952 Species Over 35 Hymenoptera Species At least 15
- [Sundararaman Ramanan](https://neglectedscience.com/sundararaman-ramanan/): Sundararaman Ramanan, Indian mathematician (Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu State 20 July 1936 – Expert on algebraic geometry With M.S. Narasimhan proved the existence of universal connections in differential geometry (1961-3) Showed that moduli space of vector bundles on an algebraic curve has the same local deformation space as that of the curve Gave a method of identifying the local deformations of moduli and a phenomenon of non-existence of Poincaré families for some of moduli spaces in low genus Proved that irreducible homogenous bundles on rational homogeneous varieties are stable (1966) Explained Capelli identity in terms of an element of the universal enveloping
- [Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan](https://neglectedscience.com/srinivasa-iyengar-ramanujan/): Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (Erode, Tamil Nadu 22 December 1887 – Chetput, Madras 26 April 1920) Discovered mock theta functions (1920) Imagined a method for calculating the value of π number Derived a formula for determination of quantity of primes lower than a given previously number   Discovered properties of congruency, symmetry and other kinds of relations First to discover some arithmetical properties of p(n), the number of unrestricted partitions of n  EPONYMY Hardy-Ramanujan-Littlewood circle method Roger-Ramanujan identities (1913) Rogers-Ramanujan continuous fraction Hardy-Ramanujan number Ramanujan conjecture Ramanujan congruence Ramanujan theta function   Landau-Ramanujan function    Landau-Ramanujan constant Ramanujan primes (1919) Ramanujan sum (1918)
- [Sol Rabasa](https://neglectedscience.com/sol-rabasa/): Sol Libertario Rabasa, Argentine geneticist and oncologist (Teodelina, Santa Fe Province 25 February 1915 – Rosario 22 April 2006) CONTRIBUTIONS With S.M. Martinez, M.C. Tarres, M.M. Liborio, H. Robledo & J.C. Picena. Modelo murino de la diabetes clinicamente benigna de los jovenes (MODY). Medicina (B Aires) 44:145-52, 1984 With L. Rumi, M.E. Colmerauer, R. Braylan & C.D. Pasqualini. Phenomenon of enhancement associated with murine leukemia. Medicina 31(5):372-6, 1971 Methods With F. Bergmann. A method to measure the renal sensitivity to ADH in the rat. Acta Physiol. Latinoam. 14:89, 1964 With F. Bergmann. A method to reduce the individual variation in antidiuretic
- [Sivaraj Ramaseshan](https://neglectedscience.com/sivaraj-ramaseshan/): Sivaraj Ramaseshan, Indian physicist (Calcutta 10 December 1923 – Bangalore 29 December 2003) Relative of Nobel prize winners being nephew of physicist C.V. Raman and cousin of astrophysicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Performed studies on optics, magnetooptics, solid state physics and crystallography Authored 178 papers With K. Venkatesanm & N.V. Mani proposed a novel method for determining the phase angles without ambiguity in non-centro-symmetric crystals that formed the basis of the Multiple Anomalous Dispersion (MAD) in 1957 First to solve the structure of centrosymmetric crystals Established the multiwave anomalous x-ray scattering method for the determination of phases of reflection Proposed the use of
- [Silvano Raia](https://neglectedscience.com/silvano-raia/): Silvano Mario Attilio Raia, Brazilian surgeon (São Paulo 01 September 1930 – From Italian parents With S. Mies & J.R. Nery described and carried out the first liver transplant between living donors in the world (1988) DESCRIBED TECHNIQUES/METHODS  Developed an innovative technique in which hepatic cells from a same donor (IPS cells) are 3D bioprinted and used in transplants  With M. Zatz, E. Goulart, L.C. Caires Jr., K.A. Telles-Silva, B.H.S. Araújo, S.A. Rocco, M. Sforca, I.L Sousa, G.S. Kobayashi, C.M. Musso, A.F. Assoni, D. Oliveira, E. Caldini & P. I. Telkes. 3D bioprinting of liver spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem
- [Sergio Machado Rezende](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-machado-rezende/): Sergio Machado Rezende, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 03 October 1940 – Authored about 230 papers and 6 books With F.M. de Aguiar obtained the first experimental observation of chaotic dynamics in excited magna by parallel pumping in Physical Review Letters 56:1070-3, 1986 With Antonio Azevedo first to report chaos control in magnetic systems, being the first time in any physical system in Physical Review Letters 66:1342-5, 1991   With A. Azevedo, C. Chesman, F.M. Aguiar, X. Bian & S.S. Parkin first to note biquadratic coupling in ultra-thin films in Physical Review Letters 76:4837-40, 1996 With F.M. de Aguiar, M.A. Lucena & A. Azevedo
- [Sergio de Almeida Rodrigues](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-de-almeida-rodrigues/): Sergio de Almeida Rodrigues, Brazilian marine zoologist (São Paulo 10 June 1937 – São Paulo 14 October 2003) Nephew of medical mycologist Floriano Paulo de Almeida Internationally respected as an authority on Thalassinid Crustaceans DESCRIBED VALID MARINE TAXA   Crustacea Genera Marcusiaxius 1972 with Carvalho Poti 1992 with Manning  Species Aegla perobae 1977 with Hebling Axianassa australis 1992 with Shimizu Biffarius delicatulus 1992 with Manning Ctenocheles holthuisi 1978 Eucalliax cearaensis 1992 with Manning Lepidophthalmus sinuensis 1991 with Lemaitre Lepidophthalmus siriboia 1993 with Felder Marcusiaxius lemoscastroi 1972 with Carvalho Paraxiopsis pindatyba 1991 with Rodrigues Poti gaucho 1992 with Manning Sergio guara 1971 Sergio guassutinga 1971 Sergio mirim 1966 Tunicata Botryllus tabori 1962   Pyura mariscata 1966 Pyura millari 1966 HONORS Sergio Manning &
- [Santosh Kumar Ray](https://neglectedscience.com/santosh-kumar-ray/): Santosh Kumar Ray, Indian petrologist and mineralogist (Calcutta 31 January 1908 – Calcutta 07 September 1976) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With K. Gopalan, J.R. Trivedi, M.N. Balasubramanyan & C.A. Sastry. Rb-Sr chronology of the Khetri copper belt, Rajasthan (1979) Structural history of the Saladipura pyrite pyrrhotite deposit and associated rocks, Khetri belt, Rajasthan. J. Geol. Soc. India 15:227-38, 1974 Inversion of fold hinge in superposed folding: an example from the Precambrian of Central Rajasthan, India (1974) With K. Naha. Structural and metamorphic history of the “Simla klippe”: a summary. Himalayan Geology 1:1-24, 1971 With K. Naha. Metamorphic history of the Jutogli-series in the
- [Santiago Roth](https://neglectedscience.com/santiago-roth/): Kaspar Jacob Roth, Swiss-born Argentine explorer, paleontologist, geologist and hydrologist (Herisau 14 June 1850 – Buenos Aires 24 August 1924) Discovered Pontimelos man (1881) DESCRIBED MAMMALIA FOSSIL TAXA Order  Notoungulata (1903) Genera Blastoconus 1903 Calodontotherium 1903 Colhuapia 1901 Colhuelia 1901 Degonia 1901 Diplodon 1901 Eurystephanodon 1903 Eutrochodon 1903 Grypolophodon 1903 Helicolophodon 1903 Heteroglyphis 1899 Heterolophodon 1903 Isolophodon 1903 Lafkenia 1903 Lelfunia 1901 Lemudeus 1903 Lonkus 1901 Megalacrodon 1900 Megalophodon 1903 Monoeidodon 1898 Monolophodon 1903 Nesciotherium 1898 Nesodonopsis 1898 Notamynus 1903 Notorhinus 1903 Ortholophodon 1901 Otronia 1901 Palyeidodon 1898 Pehuenia 1901 Periphragnis 1899 Picunia 1901 Plesiofelis 1903 Plesiomegatherium 1911 Plesioxotodon 1901 Polymorphis 1899 Proacrodon 1899 Prostylophorus 1901 Pseudopithecus 1901  Puelia 1901 Pyramidon 1901 Rankelia 1901  Rhyphodon 1899 Setebos 1901 Tachytypotherium 1903 Tehuelia 1901 Trigonolophodon 1903 Trilobodon 1901 HONORS Santiagorothia Hitz, Reguero, Wyss & Flynn 2000 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [S. Senathi Rajah](https://neglectedscience.com/s-senathi-rajah/): Sinnathamby Senathi Rajah, Malaysian geologist (Batu Gajah 13 January 1933 – 11 December 2025) CO-DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA SPECIES Eoparafusulina malayensis 1979 with Igo & Kobayashi Parafusulina chungi 1979 with Igo & Kobayashi Skinnerella johorensis 1979 with Igo & Kobayashi Skinnerella yini 1979 with Igo & Kobayashi SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Nature and Origin of Gossans on Brunswick no 6 Deposit, Gloucester County, New Brunswick. Thesis, Univ. Western Ontario, London (1962) Younger Mesozoic sedimentary rocks stage of Johore, W. Mal. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 53(10):2187-9, 1969 With E. Kon’no & K. Asama. The Late Permian Linggin Flora from the Gunong Blumut area, Johore, Malaysia. Bull. Nat. Sci. Museum
- [Rísquez family](https://neglectedscience.com/risquez-family/): Francisco Antonio Rísquez Alfonso, Venezuelan physician and pharmacist (Juan Griego, Nueva Esparta 10 December 1856 – Caracas 10 July 1941) Authored over 500 works With B. Mosquera enunciated concept of paratyphic fevers  (1893) Described malarial melanemia or Rísquez sign (1893)  HONORS Nocht Medal (1928) His son, Jesus Rafael Rísquez Gonzalez, physician (Caracas 24 October 1883 – Caracas 11 December 1947) With Pedro del Corral described Neisseria venezuelensis (1935) Un nuevo remedio contra la tripanosomiasis. Vargas 12(8):119-24, 1921 Authored classical works on anatomical pathology of schistosomiasis Note on the invasion of the lymphatic glands by the ova of Schistosoma mansoni Notes on bilharziosis in Venezuela.
- [Rubidge family](https://neglectedscience.com/rubidge-family/): Richard Nathaniel Rubidge, Welsh-born South African geologist (Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales 11 February 1820 – Port Elizabeth 08 August 1869) He was a collector of fossil and living plants SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the changes rendered necessary in the geological map of South Africa by recent discoveries of fossils. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. (1865) On the relations of the Silurian schists with the quartzose rocks of South Africa. Geol. Magazine (1864) Physical features of the Eastern Province. Eastern Province Magazine 2:229-33, 1862 The Dicynodon formation. Eastern Province Magazine 2:111-5 & 173-7, 1862     Recent rocks. Eastern Province Magazine 2:29-32, 1862 On the metamorphosis of
- [Rosendo Rubi](https://neglectedscience.com/rosendo-rubi/): Rosendo Rubi Altamirano, Nicaraguan physician and inventor (León 1861 – León 06 January 1942) Developed a new treatment for gangrenous septicemia Septicemia gangrenosa. Nuevo tratamiento. Universidad León (1895) Invented and demonstrated successfully a radio device for transmiting voice patented in USA (1900)
- [Rolla Seshagiri Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/rolla-seshagiri-rao/): Rolla Seshagiri Rao, Indian botanist (19 August 1921 – Delhi Noida 23 February 2015) With V.H. Kapadia, Sukh Dev & M.Y. Ansari discovered that the alkaloid colchicine could be sourced from Iphigenia stellata for commercial purposes (patented in 1971) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Blumea venkataramanii 1973 with Hemadri Chonemorpha pedicellata 1953 Cyanotis arcotensis 1967 Cyanotis cerifolia 1966 with Kammathy Glyphochloa goaensis 1968 with Hemadri Iphigenia magnifica 1979 with Ansari  Iphigenia sahyadrica 1979 with Ansari Pimpinella katrajensis 1976 with Hemadri Pollia hasskarlii 1964 Rubus ghanakantae 1972 with Joseph Tricarpelema glanduliferum with Joseph  HONORS Seshagiria Ansari & Hemadri 1971 (Asclepiadaceae)
- [Rodolfo Rohr](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-rohr/): Rodolfo Rohr, Austro-Hungarian born Brazilian chemical engineer and entrepneur (Dorog, Komárom-Esztergom County 18 July 1926 – Campinas, São Paulo State 24 March 2018) Developed technology for sterol extraction by molecular distillation Proposed a vaporization tunnel (solution of neem oil and water) for fighting cattle ticks Suggested technology for power generation based on agricultural wasters and biogas for rural regions BRAZILIAN & FOREIGN PATENTS With A. Nikzad & A.K. Kuszlik. Method and device for purifying high melting organic raw products or compound mixtures by means of fractionated melting crystallisation from solvent mixtures (2006) US8056362B2; US20090209773; MY158640A; BRPI0613978; EP1907088; WO2007012214 With R. Rohr.
- [Rodolfo Robles](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-robles/): Rodolfo Robles Valverde, Guatemalan physician (Quetzaltenango 14 January 1878 – Ciudad de Guatemala 08 November 1939) Discovered that filariasis causes eye lesions First to show the existence of onchocerciasis in the American continent (Robles disease) With Pacheco Luna described the life cycle and transmission of the onchocerciasis, identifying the Simulium flies as the vector (1916-9) With E. Brumpt Identified nematode Onchocerca volvulus as causative agent of onchocercosis and described its epidemiology  (1915) Proposed excision surgery and intratumoral injections for treatment of this disease Eponym of Robles disease or onchocercosis and Robles sign SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Onchocercose humaine au Guatemala produisant la cécité et l’erysipele du litoral (Erisipela
- [Rizo-Patrón family](https://neglectedscience.com/rizo-patron-family/): Antenor Rizo-Patrón Lequerica, Peruvian mining engineer (Lima 20 November 1867 – Lima 07 July 1948) Discovered a new mineral in 1900 that was named patronite in his  honor by J.J. Bravo (1906) His son, Alfonso Rizo-Patrón Remy, mining and metallurgical engineer (Miraflores 09 April 1917 – Lima 11 August 2012) Patented processes of phosphates production
- [Rio de La Loza brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/rio-de-la-loza-brothers/): Francisco Río de La Loza Miranda, Mexican chemist (Ciudad de Mexico 23 January 1856 – 1901) Son of chemist Leopoldo Río de la Loza and half-brother of Maximino Río de la Loza Performed chemical analysis of plant species with medicinal value Extracted the alkaloid erythrocoralloidine from Erythrina coralloides Estudio sobre el colorín. An. Inst. Med. Nac. Rev. El Estudio 3:159-65, 1877  With E.A. Armendariz isolated the alkaloid talaumine from Talauma mexicana   Estudio del yolloxochitl Talauma Mexicana Don. Na. Inst. Med. Nac. 1:241, 1894 Isolated 31 active principles from Mexican plants such as alkaloid hymenocallin and glucoside coryamyrtine SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Materia Medica Mexicana part 1, 1894 
- [Ringuelet family](https://neglectedscience.com/ringuelet-family/): Raul Adolfo Ringuelet, Argentine zoologist, biogeographer, hydrobiologist, ecologist and parasitologist (La Plata 10 September 1914 – Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province 29 April 1982) From French ancestry Authored 202 scientific works and 8 books Determined new systems of biological types from benthic fauna Proposed a character-index for differentiation of specific and infraspecific fishes taxa (1964) Performed the first studies about heterotrophic ciliates of Antarctica With L.A. Bulla. Un nuevo artefacto para el muestreo estratificado de plankton en ambientes someros (A new stratified sampler for shallow waters) Physis Sect B 33(87):241-6, 1974 DESCRIBED TAXA Hirudinea Families Cyclobdellidae 1972 Diestecostomatidae 1953 Mesobdellidae 1972 Nesophilaemonidae 1982
- [Ricardo Ronderos](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-ronderos/): Ricardo Arturo Ronderos, Argentine entomologist (Santa Rosa, La Pampa Province 17 September 1928 – La Plata 03 March 1995) DESCRIBED ARTHOPODA TAXA ORTHOPTERA Genera Argemiacris 1978 Bogotacris 1980 Boliviacris 1990 with Cigliano Circacris 1989 with Cigliano Comansacris 1990 with Cigliano Coyacris 1991 Descampsacris 1972 Haroldgrantia 1967 with Carbonell & Mesa Hazelacris 1981 Intiacris 1990 with Cigliano Keyacris 1991 with Cigliano Keyopsis 1993 with Cigliano Maeacris 1983 Mariacris 1989 with Turk Orotettix 1994 with Carbonell Ponderacris 1991 with Cigliano Radacris 1983 with Sanchez Yuangasacris 1987 Species About 155 OTHERS Genus Cuyana 1969 with Capri (Anoplura) Species Culex xenophobus 1965 (Diptera) Cuyana maurii 1969 with Capri (Anoplura) Eulinognathus hepperi 1969 with Capri (Anoplura) Hesperoctenes chorote 1960 (Hemiptera) Hesperoctenes giganteus 1960 (Hemiptera) Hesperoctenes minor 1962 (Hemiptera) Hoplopleura scapteromydis 1965 (Anoplura)
- [Ricardo Rimini](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-rimini/): Ricardo Rimini di Cave, Uruguayan biomedical scientist and sportsman (28 January 1908 – ?) He participated in Olympic Games of Helsinki as fencer (1952) Developed an apparatus for pleural washing and aspiration Presentación de un aparato para lavado y aspiración pleural. Hoja Tisiologica 8, 1948  WITH J.L. DUOMARCO Authored the first study about intra-abdominal pressure in human (1947) Important studies on venous pressure in human First to show clearly the abdomen behaves as a fluid-filled container with a flexible anterior abdominal wall (1947) Suggested that venous collapse is a hydrostatic analogy of a waterfall (1954) 
- [Riazuddin](https://neglectedscience.com/riazuddin/): Riazuddin, Pakistani theoretical physicist (Ludhiana, Punjab 10 November 1930 – Islamabad 09 September 2013) Authored 165 publications, 3 books and 5 book chapters Authored the books Theory of Weak Interaction in Particle Physics (1969) with R.E. Marshak & C.P. Ryan and A modern introduction to particle physics (1992) with Fayyazuddin ACHIEVEMENTS First to use the dispersion relation for Compton scattering of virtual photons on pions to analyze their charge radii (1959) With Fayyazuddin the firsts to apply current algebra in neutrino scattering to determine the scale invariance of chiral symmetry (1972) With L.K. Pandit proposed a precursor of Melosh transformation Introduced SU(3) symmetry in the
- [Renato Radicella](https://neglectedscience.com/renato-radicella/): Renato Radicella, Italian-born Argentine nuclear and radiochemist (Messina 06 July 1934 – 22 April 2011) Authored over 50 papers and books Developed new methods for radioisotopes production DESCRIBED NEW RADIOISOTOPES Sb-126 (with H. Bosch) Sb-126m, Sb-128 and Sb-128m (with I. Franz & J. Rodríguez) OTHERS CONTRIBUTIONS With R.A. Caro, T. de Paoli, A.A. Hager & R. Szyszkowsky. Preparation, physicochemical properties and biological behaviour of a radiogold colloid stabilized with gelatine of isoelectric point 92. Int. J. Appl. Radiat. Isotopes 23(8):382-4, 1972  With H. Kurcbart, S. Quiroga & R.A. Caro. Microdetermination of iodine in carrier-free 131 I solutions (1972) With R.P. Fragoso. A new method
- [Remigio Rigal](https://neglectedscience.com/remigio-rigal/): Remigio Rigal Stegmann, Argentine geologist (Buenos Aires 23 April 1894 – 1990) From German descent SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Provisión de agua a la Villa de Ancasti, Provincia de Catamarca. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argentina 3(4):261-9, 1948 El yacimiento de magnetita de hierro, indio y outros menores del Departamento San Rafael, Provincia de Mendoza. Bol. Direc. Minas Geol. 52:9-11, 1942 Breve reseña sobre algunos yacimientos de carbón de la Cordillera Patagonica (1940) Resultados del reconocimiento de los afloramientos de carbón de las zonas de Ñorquincó, Rio Negro y Cushamen, Chubut (1939) Contribución al conocimiento de las Salinas Grandes de la Provincia de Cordoba. Bol.
- [Raulino Reitz](https://neglectedscience.com/raulino-reitz/): Raulino Reitz, Brazilian father, historian and botanist (Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina State 19 September 1919 – Itapema, Santa Catarina State 19 November 1990) From German descent World authority on Bromeliaceae plants  Discovered 5 new genera and 327 plant species (described by other botanists) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Aechmea apocalyptica 1962 Aechmea bambusoides 1964 with Smith Aechmea blumenavii 1952 Aechmea kertesziae 1952 Aechmea kleinii 1953 Aechmea pimenti-velosoi 1952 Aechmea polyantha 1974 with Pereira Aechmea winkleri 1975 Alcantarea vinicolor 1974 Anthurium lacerdae 1957 Anthurium pilonense 1958 Billbergia alfonsi-joannis 1952 Billbergia seidelii 1964 with Smith Canistrum triangulare 1956 with Smith Crinodendron brasiliense 1958 with Smith Dyckia cabrerae 1962 with Smith Dyckia coximensis 1970 with Smith Dyckia glandulosa 1967 with Smith Dyckia ibiramensis 1962 Dyckia monticola 1962
- [Raul Rodríguez Barrios](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-rodriguez-barrios/): Raul Rodríguez Barrios, Uruguayan neuro-ophthalmologist (Montevideo 02 September 1911 – Montevideo 05 August 2001) Authored over 170 papers Developed a suction or aspiration technique for congenital and juvenile cataract Succión directa de las cataratas congenitas y juveniles (1956) Created suction needle for extraction of congenital cataract (built by Swiss company Greis-Haber) known as Rodríguez Barrios needle With María Julia Massera Lerena authored Fondo de Ojo (Fundus), praised by review Ophthalmology Highlights to be more complete textbook about this field in any language (1959) With M.D. Bottinelli & J. Medoc described the syndrome of ocular depression and convergency (1959)  One of the first in the
- [Rao Yelseti Ramachandra Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/rao-yelseti-ramachandra-rao/): Rao Bahadur Yelseti Ramachandra Rao, Indian agricultural entomologist (Yemmiganur, Adoni Taluk, Karnool District, Andhra Pradesh 11 September 1885 – 01 June 1972) Internationally acknowledged expert on locusts Described Homopteran species Palmaspis phoenicis 1922 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Desert locust in India (1960) The areas of origin of locust flights in the different parts of India with reference to the question of their control. Curr. Sci. 14(2), 1945 Some results of studies on the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forsk.) in India. Bull. Entom. Res. 33(4):241-65, 1942 The life cycle, particularly sexual maturation in relation to climate and other factors, and methods of study. Proc. 3rd Int. Locust
- [Raja Ramanna](https://neglectedscience.com/raja-ramanna/): Raja Ramanna, Indian nuclear physicist (Tiptur, Karnataka State 28 January 1925 – Mumbai 24 September 2004) Enunciated theory of heavy nuclei giving rise to radiation Presented the stochastic theory of fragment mass and charge distribution in nuclear fission Gave geometrical interpretation of atomic and nuclear binding energies Involved in the development of a new kind of ion chamber
- [Rafael Romero Castañeda](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-romero-castaneda/): Rafael R. Romero Castañeda, Colombian botanist (Cienaga, Magdalena Department 28 March 1910 – Bogotá 10 January 1973) DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA Valid Genus Uribea 1962 with Dugand Valid Species Aragoa dugandii 1958 Aragoa kogiorum 1951 Aragoa perez-arbelaeziana 1972 Matisia giacomettoi 1970 Trianaea neovisae 1973 Uribea tamarindoides 1962 with Dugand HONORS Romeroa Dugand 1952 (Bignoniaceae) Castanedia King & Robinson 1978 (Asteraceae)
- [Rafael Rangel](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-rangel/): José Rafael Rangel Estrada, Venezuelan parasitologist (Betijoque, Trujillo State 25 April 1877 –Caracas 20 August 1909) Described with Romero Sierra Diptera species Aedes dominicii 1907 Studied an equine disease known as “peste boba” from which obtained a trypanosome species. It was described and named Trypanosoma venezuelense by Mesnil   
- [Rafael Ramírez Merchán](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-ramirez-merchan/): Rafael Francisco Ramírez Merchán, Colombian obstetrician (died Bogotá 1986) Developed a new obstetric maneuver for dystocia before Maughan (1956) & Kutcipal (1959) The Presentation of an original technique for applying forceps in posterior varieties of the vertex. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 1:60, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La psicoprofilaxis obstetrica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 34(4):238-43, 1983 With A. Velasco Chiriboga, A. Ariza, E. Aaron & E. Cabal. Las espátulas de Velasco. Evaluación clinica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 26:111, 1975   With L. Rojas. Rotura uterina. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 20(5):365-71, 1969  Tratamiento de las septicemias puerperales por imunotransfusión (1942) Miomatosis uterina y embarazo
- [Rafael Ramos Galvan](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-ramos-galvan/): Rafael Ramos Galván, Mexican pediatrician (Ciudad de Mexico 09 July 1914 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 November 1998) Authored about 450 works With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez characterized the child severe malnutrition First described nutritional recovery syndrome With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Described nutritional neutropenia and the clinical features of polineuritis Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With J. Cravioto, F. Gómez & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With F. Gómez showed the chlorine
- [Rabello family](https://neglectedscience.com/rabello-family/): Francisco Eduardo Accioli Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 31 December 1905 – 25 January 1989) Authored about 200 scientific works Enunciated the polarity concept in various clinical forms of leprosy A clinico-epidemiological classification of the forms of leprosy. Int. J. Leprol. 5:343-56, 1937 Classified leprosy in four types: virchowian, tuberculoid, dimorphous and undetermined (1938) Created a conceptual system of dermatological nomenclature Described the late reaction of Montenegro test Pointed out new allergy aspects of the lympho-granulomatosis disease Claimed attention for the first time to the possibility of cross reactions between Koch and Hansen’s antigens-antibodies Eponym of Rabello colliquative neuritis and Rabello impetiginoid
- [Pushpa Narayan Rathie](https://neglectedscience.com/pushpa-narayan-rathie/): Pushpa Narayan Rathie, Indian-born Brazilian statistician (16 November 1941 – CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.C.S.M. Ozelim & A.K. Rathie. On a new identity for the H-function with applications to the summation of hypergeometric series. Turk. J. Math. 42:924-35, 2018 With P.H. D. Silva & G.G. olinto. On a new skew generalized logistic distribution. J. Raman. Soc. Math 7 Math. Sci. 5:1-20, 2016 With R.O. Silva, P.H. D. Silva & J.M.A. Mota. On the new skew distribution using Azzalini’s formula. Mathem. Aeterna 6(4):649-73, 2016 With C.R. R. Eirado. On new invertible skew and symmetric distributions. Statis. Res. Lett. 3:17-22, 2014 With R. Matsushita &
- [Prafulla Chandra Ray](https://neglectedscience.com/prafulla-chandra-ray/): Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist (Raruli-Katipara Village, Khulna District, Bangladesh 02 August 1861 – Calcutta 16 June 1944) Authored over 150 papers Famous as historian of Indian chemistry His thesis Conjugated Sulphates of Copper Magnesium Group: A study of isomorphous mixtures and molecular combinations was judged the best in Edinburgh University winning the Hope Prize (1887)  His publications on mercurous nitrite and its derivatives brought him international recognition First prepared mercurous nitrite (1896) Synthesized ammonium nitrite in pure form  Characterized and prepared many compounds of zinc, cadmium, mercuric iodide, etc. 
- [Pierfelice Ravenna](https://neglectedscience.com/pierfelice-ravenna/): Pierfelice Ravenna, Chilean botanist (1938 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Valid Genera Ainea 1979 Ateixa 1971 Catila 1983 Cearanthes 2000 Cobana 1974 Colima 1968 Diamena 1987 Diora 1987 Eithea 2002 Iguala 1968 Kelissa 1981 Lethia 1986 Leucothauma 2009 Ona 2009  Onira 1983 Tocantinia 2000 Subgenera Actine 1983 Cyclogyne 2001 Enoscordum 1978 Euryscordum 1991 Fulgituba 1974 Monanthoscordum 1978 Platyscordum 1978 Surgentia 2000 Tupianthes 2003 Viruflos 1962 Sections Adnata 1988 Andesine 2000  Calolirion 1988 Elatia 1981 Juncella 1988 Lenitium 2000 Nais 1981 Nidia 2000 Nivella 2001 Platyella 1988 Scirpeocharis 2000 Segetia 2003 Sipacapa 2000 Suavia 2005 Synexa 2000 Viperella 2002 HONOURS Herbert Medal, International Bulb Society (1974)
- [Philippe Rasoanaivo](https://neglectedscience.com/philippe-rasoanaivo/): Philippe Rasoanaivo, Malagasy plant chemist and ethnobotanist (Ouest Ambohijanahary 13 August 1946 – Antananarivo 13 July 2016) Authored over 150 research articles and more than 70 book chapters and entries Made huge contributions in ethnobotany based drugs and phytomedicines, discovering  several bioactive compounds Authored studies on hazolava, traditional plant in his native country, important for treating psychiatric and sleep disorders, convulsions and male sexual dysfunction Discovered a novel malaria chemo-sensitizing alkaloid named malagashanine Discovered some novel tropane alkaloids that reverse the multi-drug resistance of cancer cells His research on the wound-healing properties of Ilex mitis (Aquifoliaceae) gave rise to extract of trade name
- [Pedro Ruiz Gallo](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-ruiz-gallo/): Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Peruvian military (Etén, Chiclayo Province 24 June 1831 – Callao 24 April 1880) Published a treatise about aerial navigation named Estudios Generales sobre navegación aerea y resolución de este importante problema (1878) INVENTIONS A musical Box consisting string-based (1841) Created a vaccine against small-pox (1856) Designed a flying aircraft El Ornitoptero much similar to motorized hang-glider (1878) In according to some sources  invented a marine torpedo,  a machine gun and one  submarine  
- [Pedro Miguel Ruiz Carranza](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-miguel-ruiz-carranza/): Pedro Miguel Ruiz Carranza, Colombian herpetologist (Bogotá 03 February 1932 – Bogotá 12 September 1998) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA TAXA Valid Genera Osornophryne 1976 with Hernandez Hyalinobatrachium 1991 with Lynch Atopophrynus 1982 with Lynch Species  81 HONORS Rulyrana Guayasamín, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzaguena, Rada & Vila 2009 (Amphibia)
- [Paulo Ribenboim](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-ribenboim/): Paulo Ribenboim, Brazilian-born Canadian mathematician (Recife 13 March 1928- Authored nearly 120 works INTRODUCED The notion of the rings of generalized power series The notion of the P-torsion subgroup of a group Several types of realization of groups A general fixed-point theorem for multivalued mappings defined on generalized ultrametric spaces (with S. Priess-Crampe) EPONYMY Ribenboim approximation theorem   Ribenboim fixed-point theorem   Krull-Ribenboim approximation   Ribenboim functions Ribenboim generalized formal power series   
- [Paulino Recch](https://neglectedscience.com/paulino-recch/): Paulino Moser Recch, Brazilian amateur entomologist and botanist (Amparo, São Paulo State 26 November 1886 – 1970) From Tirolese descent  Studied hybridization and genetic amelioration of orchids and grapevines  Honored in genus Recchia Lane 1966 (Coleoptera)
- [Patcha Ramachandra Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/patcha-ramachandra-rao/): Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist (Kavutavaram, Andhra Pradesh 21 March 1942 – Madurai, Coimbatore 10 January 2010) Expert on physical metallurgy and materials science Authored over 230 research papers ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered novel intermetallic phases and phases with 5-fold rotational symmetry Discovered a new class of quasicrystals in magnesium alloys Proposed a standard expression of free energy of the undercooled liquid for thermodynamic treatment of under cooled liquids  Successfully synthesized calcium carmonate, calcium hydroxyl apatite and some nanocrystals through biomimetics Developed a number of innovative techniques for the preparation, characterization and modeling of metastable products including the first ever predesigned quasicrystalline alloy
- [Pasumamula Narayan Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/pasumamula-narayan-rao/): Pasumamula Narayan Rao, Indian helminthologist (Hyderabad 09 August 1927 – DESCRIBED NEMATODA GENERA Corydiella 1965 with Rao Psilocephala 1958 Pteronemella 1958   Singhiella 1958 Spininematoides 1985 with Anand Travassossinema 1958 HONORS Raonema Kloss 1966 (Nematoda)
- [Pannuri Rama Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/pannuri-rama-rao/): Pannuri Rama Rao, Indian mycologist (fl.1960-1990) DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Annellophorella zizyphi 1971 with Manoharachary Beltraniella humicola 1962 Camarosporium microsporum 1964 with Rao Chaetomella terricola 1963 Chaetomium amberpetense 1964 with Reddy Chaetomium elongatum 1964 with Reddy Chaetomium osmaniae 1964 with Reddy Coniochaeta boothii 1973 with Manoharachary Graphium terricola 1975 with Manoharachary, Raghuveer Rao & Rehaua Masoniella indica 1960 with Salam Myrothecium indicum 1963 Nectria humicola 1969 Prathigada bauhiniae 1975 with Raghuveer Rao & Manoharachary  Pseudocercospora websteri 1982 with Raghuveer Rao & Manoharachary Robillarda saxenae 1974 with Manoharachary Stemphylionna terricola 1972 with Manoharachary Subbaromyces aquatica 1974 with Manoharachary Xenosporium shoranoorense 1973 with Rao Zebrias cochinensis 1967 HONORS Ramaraomyces N.K. Rao, Manoharachary & Goos 1989 (Fungi)
- [Palle Rama Rao](https://neglectedscience.com/palle-rama-rao/): Palle Rama Rao, Indian material scientist and metallurgist (Kurnool, Madras State 30 June 1937 – Authored about 160 papers Gave important contributions on x-ray diffraction broadening in deformed metals and stacking faults Identified and characterized crystal defects Developed ultra-high strength steel for rocket motor castings Developed new methods of analysis of x-rays line broadening MEMBERSHIP Elected International Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Life Member, American Society of Materials (2004)
- [Pablo Rudomin](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-rudomin/): Pedro Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty, Mexican neurophysiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 15 June 1934 –  Son of Jewish Russian immigrants Authored over 122 papers Suggested that presynaptic inhibition of muscle spindles and tendinous receptors afferent terminals are mediated by last order distinct interneurons  Showed that aortic and sinus nerve afferent terminals are not influenced by presynaptic mechanism (1968) With Burke & Zajac described a second form of posttetanic potentiation (1976) With H. Kato, C.A. Cuellar, R. Delgado-Lezama, I. Jimenez Estrada, E. Manjarez & C.R. Mirasso reported the first evidence of the phenomenon of travelling electrical waves produced by populations of interneurons within the
- [Ovidio Rebaudi](https://neglectedscience.com/ovidio-rebaudi/): Ovidio Rebaudi Balestra, Paraguayan chemist (Asunción, 31 December 1860 – Buenos Aires, Argentine 17 October 1931) From Italian father and Argentine mother Authored the first chemical analysis of Stevia rebaudiana, isolating the glycoside stevioside (1900) Developed a new procedure of active tannin dosage for the leather Honored in glycoside rebaudioside 
- [Oswaldo Ramírez](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-ramirez/): Oswaldo Ramírez Cienfuegos, Salvadorean dermatologist (Santa Ana 1924 – 13 April 1985) First described erythema dyschromicum perstans or Ramírez syndrome Los cenicientos: problema clinico. First Central American Congress of Dermatology, San Salvador, El Salvador, December 5-8, 1957 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cromoblastomicosis en El Salvador: reporte de un caso.  Arch. Col. Med. El Salvador 9:218-23, 1956 Dermatologia en barro en El Salvador. Actas Finales V Congr. Ibero-Latinoam (Buenos Aires), p.1137-43, 1963 With A. Trejos. Local Heat in the treatment of sporotrichosis. Mycopathology 30:47-53, 1966 The ashy dermatosis (erythema dyschromicum perstans): epidemiological study and report of 139 cases. Cutis 3:244-7, 1967 Various skin and venereal
- [Oswaldo Luiz Ramos](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-luiz-ramos/): Oswaldo Luiz Ramos, Brazilian physician (São Paulo 17 May 1928 – 30 May 1999) Authored 172 works Coauthored two classical works about hepatic function in dogs With H.O. Wheeler. Determinants of the flow and composition of bile in the unaenesthestized dog during constant infusion of sodium taurocholate. J. Clin Invest. 39:151-70, 1960 With N.B. Javitt, H.O. Wheeler, K.J. Baker & S.E. Bradley. The intrahepatic conjugation of sulfobromphthalein and glutathione in the dog. J. Clin. Invest. 39:1570-7,1960  Authored a habilitation thesis with international repercussion Portal hemodynamics and liver cell function in hepatic schistosomiasis. Gastroent. 47:241-7, 1964 HONOURS Invited, Chamber for High Blood
- [Osvaldo Alfredo Reig](https://neglectedscience.com/osvaldo-alfredo-reig/): Osvaldo Alfredo Reig Barutta, Argentine zoologist and paleontologist (Buenos Aires 14 August 1929 – Buenos Aires 13 March 1992) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATA TAXA SUPRAGENERIC 16 taxonomic hierarchies one of them being the subfamily Tylomyinae 1984 of living mammals FOSSIL GENERA Amphibia Chacophrys 1963 with Limeses Saltenia 1959 Vieraella 1961 Reptilia Herrerasaurus 1963 Ischisaurus 1963 Proterochampsa 1959 Saurosuchus 1959 Triassolestes 1963 Mammalia Abalosia 1991 with Quintana Chasicostylus 1957 Cholomys 1980 Dankomys 1978 Pliolestes 1955 Stipanicicia 1956  Thylatheridium 1952 Thylophorops 1952 Species About 40 living and fossil species HONORS (Fossil Mammalia) Reigechimys Verzi, Vucetich & Montalvo 1994 Reigia Pascual 1983 Reigitherium Bonaparte 1990 LINKS HTTP://www.fundacionazara.org.ar/Publicaciones/Arandu/REIG.pdf
- [Oscar Rosler](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-rosler/): Oscar Roesler (Rosler), Brazilian paleobotanist (Mafra, Santa Catarina State 03 December 1938 – Belo Horizonte 26 June 2018) DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL TAXA Plantae Genera Fildesia 1987 com Rohn & Czajkowski Ilexoidephyllum 1989 with Rohn Species Annularia occidentalis 1974 Annularia readi 1974 Asterotheca derbyi 1972 Buriadia figueirensis 2012 with F.S. Torres Fildesia pulchra 1987 with Rohn & Czajkowski Glossopteris grafi 1984 with Rohn Glossopteris dorizonensis 1984 with Rohn & Oliveira Babinski Glossopteris margiondulata 1984 with Rohn Glossopteris riorastensis 1984 with Rohn & Oliveira-Babinski Glossopteris singenervis 1984 with Rohn Glossopteris spathulato-emarginata 1984 with Rohn Ilexoidephyllum permicum 1989 with Rohn Paulophyton dolianitii 1999 com Iannuzzi Pecopteris bracatingaensis 1986 with Rohn Pecopteris cadeadensis 1986 with Rohn Pecopteris dolianitii 1986 with Rohn Pecopteris esperancensis 1986 with
- [Orlando Rangel](https://neglectedscience.com/orlando-rangel/): Orlando da Fonseca Rangel, Brazilian pharmacist (São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro State 29 February 1868 – Rio de Janeiro 20 December 1934) Authored over 100 works Important studies with good repercussion in Europe A noz de kola na terapêutica. Anais Acad. Nac. Medicina (1896) Em torno da dosagem e do mechanismo de acção dos mercúrios no tratamento da syphilis (1926) A syphilis e seu tratamento (1926-34) Applied Nernst principle to explanation of the choice of metal for a micelle constitution in colloidal chemotherapy   Nova contribuição ao estudo da eletroquimioterapia coloidal (1918) Proposed a hypothesis about oxidase nature Das oxidases e seu
- [Nicolas Rojas Acosta](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolas-rojas-acosta/): Nicolás Rojas Acosta, Argentine botanist (Ensenada Grande, Corrientes Province 10 September 1873 – San Fernando, Buenos Aires Province 17 April 1947) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera (1897) Acantharia Leucoxyla Malpighiantha Trifoliada Species About 130 
- [Nerio Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/nerio-rojas/): José Nerio A. Rojas Sosa, Argentine coroner (Santiago Del Estero 07 March 1890 – Buenos Aires 01 April 1971) Authored over 300 works between them classical books about legal medicine and forensic psychiatry that brought him international recognition Described a sign in purulent stomatitis (with Belbey) With Belbey developed a method for treating drug addiction employing adrenaline injections many times a day (1926)  EPONYMY Rojas crucial pseudo fraying Rojas sign or crucial fraying (1929) Rojas tactile docimasia
- [Nanoo Ravi](https://neglectedscience.com/nanoo-ravi/): Nanoo Ravi, Indian agrostologist (1938 – DESCRIBED PLANT SPECIES Chrysopogon copei 2001 with Mohanan Chrysopogon purushothamanii 2001 with Mohanan & Kiran Raj Dimeria agasthyamalayana 2001 with Kiran Raj Dimeria chelariensis 1995 Dimeria copei 1996 Dimeria eradii 1995 Dimeria idukkiensis 1992 with Anil Kumar Dimeria josephii 2001 with Mohanan Dimeria kalavoorensis 1996 Dimeria mahendragiriensis 1995 with Saxena & Brahman Dimeria namboodiriana 1997 with Mohanan Dimeria sivarajani 1996 with Mohanan Dimeria sreenarayanae 1992 with Anil Kumar Fimbristylis angamoozhiensis 1993 with Anil Kumar Fimbristylis pseudonarayanii 1993 with Anil Kumar Fuirena ponmudiensis 1994 with Anil Kumar Fuirena simpsonii 2003 with Mohanan & Shaju Grammitis pilifera 1980 with Joseph Hibiscus sreenarayanius 1994 with Anil Kumar Ischaemum abrahamii 2001 with Mohanan & Rajesh Ischaemum fischeri 2001 with Kiran
- [Mohammad Ataur Rahman](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammad-ataur-rahman/): Mohammad Ataur Rahman, Pakistani biochemist (Ajmer, British India 24 June 1929 – Karachi 26 September 2015) Authored over 200 research papers and 6 books ACHIEVEMENTS Developed animal model of malnutrition Demonstrated that the malnutrition can be successfully overcame by especially reconstituted vegetable protein-rich diet Showed that the glycolytic pathway plays important role in diabetics as well as in senile cataract formation His studies on urolithiasis and schizophrenia have attracted international recognition SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A. Gul & S,N, Hasnain. Role of fructose concentration on cataractogenesis in senile diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 247(6):809-14, 2008 With M. Abdulkader.
- [Mithan Lal Roonwal](https://neglectedscience.com/mithan-lal-roonwal/): Mithan Lal Roonwal, Indian entomologist and primatologist (Jodhpur, Rajasthan State 18 September 1908 – Jodhpur, Rajasthan State 22 July 1990) Authored about 400 works Proposed Roonwal hypothesis on prediction of desert locust swarms (1946) On a new evolutionary phenomenon: the sharp increase of intraspecific variation in minimum populations, as evidenced by desert locus. Rec. Indian Mus. 51(4):481-525, 1953 Population dynamics and evolutionary problems in the desert locust with a new theory on gregarization. J. Zool. Soc. India 9(1):72-96, 1957 Showed the taxonomic value of micro-sculpturing on the wings of the various families of the Isoptera (1973) With S.C. Verma & M.L.
- [Miguel Ramírez Goyena](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-ramirez-goyena/): Miguel Ramírez Goyena, Nicaraguan scientist (Leon 05 December 1857 – Managua 23 June 1927) He is most known as a botanist DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA  Genera Perenideboles 1911 (Acanthaceae) Pochota 1909 (Bombacaceae) Species Acacia glutea 1909 Asclepias plumierifolia 1911 Bixa upatensis 1909 Boldoa ovatifolia 1911 Capparis zelayana 1909 Cassia inaequilatera 1909 Chaetogastra dichotoma 1909 Cissus digitinervis 1909 Gaudichaudia chamorrii Gesnera elliptica 1911 Gossypium nicaraguense 1909 Gossypium volubile 1909 Hiraea cycloptera 1909 Jussiaea gomezi 1909 Leucaena blancii 1909 Lorentea castelloniana 1911 Montanoa trilobita 1911 Perenideboles ciliatum 1911 Phytolacca altamiranii 1909 Pochota vulgaris 1909 Reana luxis 1911 Schoenus molle 1911 Schrankia trijuga 1909 Solanum mamosissimum 1911 Spathodea cymosa 1911 Wigandia darii 1911 Varieties More than 15
- [Miguel C. Rubino](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-c-rubino/): Miguel Rubino Carroccia, Uruguayan veterinarian (Durazno 12 December 1886 – Pando, Canelones 07 May 1945) Son of Italian immigrants  Added the letter C to one distinguish from a namesake Authored 54 works DISCOVERIES First demonstrated that premunition was transmissible to sheep Demonstrated that ticks of cattle can inhabit and develop in other species like sheeps and goats Established concentration and time of acaricide baths METHODOLOGY Developed a method for studying Trichinella spiralis larvae in conserved meat Metodo para constatar el estado de vida o muerte de las larvas de triquinas (Trichinella spiralis Owen) enquistadas, en las carnes conservadas. Rev. Minist. Industrias 7:47, 1919 Developed
- [Maximiliano Ruiz Castañeda](https://neglectedscience.com/maximiliano-ruiz-castaneda/): Maximiliano Ruiz Castañeda, Mexican biomedical scientist (Acambay, Mexico State 05 December 1896 – Ciudad de Mexico 01 October 1992) With H. Zinsser & H. Mooser identified murine typhus (Rickettsia typhi) in 1930 With C. Carrillo Cardenas. A new approach to treatment of brucellosis. Am. J. Med. Sci. 226(5):504-8, 1953 METHODS/TECHNIQUES Proposed the differential stain for the detection of rickettsiae and chlamydial elementary bodies in tissue samples  A new stain for rickettsia bodies. J. Infect. Dis. 47(5):416-7, 1930  With H. Zinsser. Method of obtaining large amounts of Rickettsia prowazeki by x-ray radiation of rats. Exper. Biol. Med. 29(7), 1932 Perfected a vaccine for exanthematic typhus known as Castañeda
- [Mauricio Rocha e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/mauricio-rocha-e-silva/): Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva, Brazilian pharmacologist (Rio de Janeiro 19 September 1910 –São Paulo 19 December 1983) Authored about 300 papers and 7 books Co-authored with J. Garcia Leme & H. Rothschild Chemical Mediators of the acute inflammatory reaction edited by Pergamon Press in 1972 and worldwide used With O.G. Bier noticed that the hemolysis is inhibited by hypertonic concentrations of NaCl (1935) Demonstrated that role of histamine in the permeability of inflammation With O.G. Bier. Histamine as the primary cause of the increased capillary permeability in inflammation (1939)  First stated the proteolytic theory of histamine release (1938) Proved the heparin liberation in
- [Matias Gonçalves de Oliveira Roxo](https://neglectedscience.com/matias-goncalves-de-oliveira-roxo/): Matias Gonçalves de Oliveira Roxo, Brazilian geologist and paleontologist (Rio de Janeiro 21 April 1885 – Rio de Janeiro 02 August 1954) Authored 67 works DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Mollusca Artemon andradai 1940 Aylacostoma septecincta 1937 Aylacostoma woodwardi 1924 Biomphalaria bourguyi 1924 Ecuadoria minor 1937 Neritina etheridgi 1924 Brachiopoda Schizocrania rectangularis 1926 Vertebrata Alligator parahybensis 1929 (Reptilia) Lepidotes piauhyensis 1936 with Lofgren (Pisces) Roxochampsa paulistanus 1936 (Reptilia) Trigodonops lopesi 1921 (Mammalia) HONORS (Fossil) Roxoa Mendes 1952 (Mollusca) Roxochelys Price 1953 (Reptilia) Roxochampsa Pinheiro, Pereira, Souza, Brum, Lopes, Machado, Bergqvist & Simbras 2018 (Reptilia)
- [Mario Rigatto](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-rigatto/): Mário Rigatto, Brazilian cardiopneumologist (Porto Alegre 12 January 1930 – Porto Alegre 17 January 2000) Authored 380 publications DEVELOPED METHODS With D. Martínez, R.P. Low, R.P. Pereira, C.A.M. Gottschall & M.L. Leão. Sistema de arquivo e processamento de provas de função pulmonar por computador. J. Bras. Pneumol. 6(4):162, 1981 With E.O. Andrade, G.R. Rocha & D. Martínez. Método simplificado de detecção precoce de obstrução das vias aéreas em fumantes (1980) Determination of cardiac output using nitrous oxide in closed circuit. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 21 Suppl 1:1-21, 1968 Pulmonary recirculation: measurements at rest during exercise by a method which estimates the concentration of
- [Marilia Regali](https://neglectedscience.com/marilia-regali/): Marilia da Silva Pares Regali, Brazilian micropaleontologist and palynologist (Mogi Mirim, São Paulo State 03 January 1930 – São Paulo State 01 June 2018) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Alaticolpites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Bahiaporites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Complicatisaccus 1987 Echitricolpites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Mystheria 1986 with Sarjeant Psiladicolpites 1989 Psilaperiporites 1974 with Uesugi & Santos Psilastephanoporites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Scabraperiporites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Sergipea 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Tricornites 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Tucanopollis 1989 Species Alaticolpites limai 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Apectodinium caiobense 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Aquilapollenites magnus 1974  with Uesugui & Santos Areoligera espiritosantensis 1974 with Uesugui & Santos Bahiaporites reticularis 1974
- [Mariano Eduardo de Rivero](https://neglectedscience.com/mariano-eduardo-de-rivero/): Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Peruvian naturalist, chemist and archaeologist (Arequipa 22 October 1798 – Paris 06 November 1857) Authored at least 33 scientific works ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered mineral humboldtine (1821) Note sur une combination de l’acide oxalique avec le fer trouve a Kolowsereux, prés Berlin em Boheme. Ann. Chim. Phys. 18:207-10, 1821 Proposed employing ammoniac in aqueous solution as alternate to mercuric chloride in silver extraction Sobre el beneficio de los metals de plata mediante la amalgamación (1822) Described 3 new mineral species in Nueva Granada (e.g. gay-lussite) With J.B. Boussingault. Tres species nuevas minerales de la Nueva Granada (1824)
- [Maria Elena Ramirez](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-elena-ramirez/): Maria Eliana del Carmen Ramírez Casali, Chilean phycologist (Talca 11 August 1948 – DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Species (Rhodophyceae) Callophyllis concepcionensis 2011 with Arakaki & Alveal Callophyllis macrostiolata 2011 with Arakaki & Alveal Gastroclonium cylindricum 1989 with Santelices & Abbott Glaphyrosiphon chilensis 2010 with Leister & Gabrielson Neosiphonia peruviensis 2012 with Bustamante, Won & Cho Porphyra longissima 2018 with Meynard & Contreras Porcia Porphyra luchea 2018 with Meynard & Contreras Porcia Pyropia orbicularis 2014 with Contreras Porcia & Guillemin Pyropia variabilis 2018 with Zapata, Meynard & Contreras Porcia Subspecies Desmarestia ligulata muelleri 1993 with Peters (Phaeophyceae) HONORS Mariaramirezia Calderón, Boo, Mansilla & Boo 2016 (Rhodophyta)   
- [Marco Aurelio Rivarola](https://neglectedscience.com/marco-aurelio-rivarola/): Marco Aurelio Rivarola, Argentine pediatric endocrinologist (Buenos Aires 03 January 1936 – Found many new (at least 26) genetic mutations and variations involved in syndromes DEVELOPED METHODS With A. Belgorosky. Determination of albumin-bound thyroxine in human serum. Clin. Chem. 36:699, 1990 With A. Belgorosky. Determinación de la globulina ligadora de tiroxina (TBG) y de la prealbumina ligadora de tiroxina (TBPA) por analisis de saturación y separación con carbón dextran. Rev. Arg. Endocr. Metabolismo 25:73-8, 1988 With A. Belgorosky, E.A. Chaler & S.B. Cigorraga. Photoaffinity labeling of extracellular and intracellular androgen binding proteins. Acta Physiol. Pharmac. Lat. Am. 36(1):1-11, 1986 With A.
- [Marcel Roche](https://neglectedscience.com/marcel-roche/): Marcel Roche Dugand, Venezuelan physician and scientist (Caracas 15 August 1920 – Miami 03 May 2003) From French descent Authored 101 scientific papers and 12 books and monographs Found that heme iron from meat increased the absorption of iron from other sources known as meat effect With M. Layrisse & C. Martínez Torres. Effect of interaction of various foods on iron absorption. Amer. J. Clin. Nutr. 21:1175, 1968 Designed a special apparatus for observation and filming of hookworm METHODS With M.E. Perez Gimenez & A. Levy. Isotopic tracer method for measurement of iron lost into and re-absorbed from Gastro-intestinal bleeding lesions.
- [Manuel L. Roxas](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-l-roxas/): Manuel Luz Roxas, Philippine agronomist (Lipa, Batangas 19 June 1888 – 06 September 1958) Expert on agricultural chemistry and food technology Authored 95 scientific papers  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The effect of some stimulants upon rice. Phil. Agric. Forester 1:89, 1912 Lipase in the germinating coconut. Phil. Agric. Forester 3:33-9, 1914 The reaction between amino acids and carbohydrates as a probable cause of humin formation. J. Biol. Chem. 27:71-93, 1916 With R. V. Manio. Industrial alcohol from cassava. Philip. Agriculturist 10:75-84, 1921 Effect of bunga on sugar cane. Phil. Sugar News 96, 1927 The manufacture of sugar from nipa sap. J. Sci. 40:185,
- [Manuel J. Rivera](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-j-rivera/): Manuel Jesús Rivera, Chilean agricultural entomologist (Curicó 08 April 1875 – Curicó 04 October 1910) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La enfermidad en los fréjoles. Bol. Soc. Agr. Sur 70(1):14-7, 1910 Un insecto nocivo en las arboledas de Concepción que no conviene propagar en el pais. Bol. Soc. Agric. Sur 9(10):523-7, 1909 Insectos nocivos a la Araucana imbricata (1907) Ciclo biológico de la filoxera según Balbiani. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 7(1):17-21, 1907 Informe sobre la plaga de la langosta en las províncias de Bio-Bio i Malleco. Anales Agron. 7(2):242-51, 1906 Instruciones sobre la recolección i envio de insectos nocivos a la agricultura. Anales Agron. 7(1):22-8, 1906
- [Madhu Sudan Rawat](https://neglectedscience.com/madhu-sudan-rawat/): Madhu Sudan Rawat, Indian palynologist (fl.1963-84) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae & Pollen Asperitricolporites 1972 with Venkatachala  Asterisporites 1971 with Venkatachala   Auriculiretisporites 1973 with Venkatachala  Caperetriporites 1972 with Venkatachala Cauveripollis 1973 with Venkatachala Coneopollis 1973 with Venkatachala Costatipollenites 1973 with Venkatachala Granodiporites 1963 with Varma Iugopollis 1972 with Venkatachala Lacrimapollis 1973 with Venkatachala Maculoporites 1973 with Venkatachala Punctodiporites 1963 with Varma Retidiporites 1963 with Varma Tricollareporites 1973 with Venkatachala Fungi Foveodiporites 1963 with Varma Psilodiporites 1963 with Varma Striadiporites 1963 with Varma  
- [Hussein Mohamed Sadek](https://neglectedscience.com/hussein-mohamed-sadek/): Hussein Mohamed Sadek, Egyptian physical chemist (15 January 1917 – ?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.Y. Khalil & M.T. Hanna. Kinetics and solvent effects in the acid hydrolysis of potassium ethyl malonate in dioxane-water and acetrone-water mixtures. Monat. f. Chem. 108(2):469-75, 1977 With A.A. El Harakani 7 V.M. Sabet. The dissociation constant of p-nitroanilinium ion in water-acetonitrile solvents. Z. Phys. Chem. 97(5-6):225-33, 1975 With V.M. Sabet. Adsorption of potential determining ions on TrO4 (1971) With A.K. Helmy, V.M. Sabet & T.F. Tadros. Adsorption of potential determining ions at the aluminium oxide aqueous interface and the point of zero charge. J. Electroanal. Chem. 27:257-66, 1970
- [Hugo Salomon](https://neglectedscience.com/hugo-salomon/): Hugo Salomon, German-born Argentine physician (Coblenz 28 February 1872 – Buenos Aires October 1954) Described distinct morphological types of gastric bacteria in a variety of animal species (1896) Proposed the existence of diabetes innocens (1914)  EPONYMY Salomon test for stomach ulcer  Salomon-Saxl or neutral sulphur test  for sulphur in urine (1910) Porges-Salomon reaction for syphilis (1908)
- [Hsing-Chien Sze](https://neglectedscience.com/hsing-chien-sze/): Hsing-Chien Sze or Xingjian Si, Chinese paleobotanist (Zhuji, Zhejiang Province 11 March 1901 – 19 July 1964) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Family Sublepidodendraceae 1943 Genera Acanthopteris 1931 Amdrupiopsis 1952 with Li Changyanophyton 1952 Cladophlebidium 1931 Dictyophyllum 1933 Heleniodendron 1936 Hsiangchiphyllum 1949 Lopinopteris 1958 Macroglossopteris 1931 Phoroxylon 1951 Plagiozamiopsis 1943 Pseudotasniopteris 1951 Rhizomopsis 1933 with Gothan Sinoctenis 1931 Sinophyllum 1952 with Li Sinozamites 1956 Taeniocladopsis 1956 Yuania 1953 HONORS (Fossil) Szea Yao & Taylor 1988 (Plantae) Szecalamitina Doweld 2012 (Plantae) Szecyathus Vologdin 1957 (Archaeocyatha) Szecladia Yao, Liu, Rothwell & Mapes 2000 (Plantae) Szeaspis Chang 1959 (Trilobita) Szeioxylon Wang, Jiang & Qin 1994 (Plantae) Szelepis Liu 1979 (Pisces)
- [Hermenegildo Santapau](https://neglectedscience.com/hermenegildo-santapau/): Hermenegildo Santapau, Spanish-born Indian jesuit and botanist (La Galera, Tarragona 05 December 1903 – Bombay 13 January 1970) Authored 216 scientific publications DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Achyranthes coynei 1949 Argyreia boseana 1958 with Patel Asystasia dalzelliana 1948 Barleria prattensis 1949 Bidaria khandalensis 1949 Canscora khandalensis 1949 Chamaesyce bombaiensis 1954 Chlorophytum borivilianum 1955 with Fern. Dicliptera ghatica 1952 Dolichos ghaticus 1956 with Panthaki Gastrochilus dalzellianus 1949 Habenaria panchganiensis 1957 with Kapadia Hedyotis maheshwarii 1963 with Merch. Hoya iconum 1956 Indigofera oreophila 1956 with Panthaki Ipomoea pallida 1958 with Patel Ipomoea salsettensis 1958 with Patel Ipomoea tropica 1957 with Patel Leea edgeworthii 1953 Murdannia nudiflora 1953 Nilgirianthus asper 1951 Operculina tansaensis 1958 with Patel Pachygone zeylanica 1964 with Wagh Pimpinella multiradiata 1949 Solanum macannii 1948 Tephrosia jamnagarensis 1958  Vigna khandallensis 1948 HONORS  Santapauinda C.V.
- [Heraclides Cesar de Souza Araújo](https://neglectedscience.com/heraclides-cesar-de-souza-araujo/): Heraclides Cesar de Souza Araújo, Brazilian leprologist (Imbituva, Paraná State 24 June 1886 – Rio de Janeiro 10 August 1962) Authored over 260 publications CONTRIBUTIONS Obtained world renown in clinical and experimental leprology. He was leprosy expert of WHO Described Actinomyces lepromatis (1928)  Described leprotic verrucous dermatitis (1937).  Dermatite verrucosa leprótica. Estudo de 3 casos. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 32(2): 311-320, 1937. Developed a technique for preparing antigens of cultures of acid-alcohol resistants bacillum from leprosy procedency that resulted in Souza Araújo leprolins. These cultures were deposited in American Type Culture Collection as Leprosy Cultures Souza Ataújo I, II and III.  Intradermo-reacções
- [Helmut Sick](https://neglectedscience.com/helmut-sick/): Heinrich Maximilian Friedrich Helmut Sick, German-born Brazilian ornithologist and entomologist (Leipzig 10 January 1910 – Rio de Janeiro 05 March 1991) Authored over 200 papers Discovered over 10 plant taxa and 50 animal taxa from Brazil DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Aves Valid Species Cinclodes pabsti 1969 Lepidothrix vilasboasi 1959 Merulaxis stresemanni 1960 Scytalopus novacapitalis 1958 Valid Subspecies Coryphaspiza melanotis marajoara 1967 Dendrocincla fuliginosa trumaii 1950 Eupsittula pertinax paraensis 1959 Paroaria baeri xinguensis 1950 Seicercus xanthoschistos tephrodiras 1939 Sporophila bouvreuil crypta 1968 Streptoprocne biscutata seridoensis 1991 Urocissa flavirostris schaferi 1939 Lepidoptera Valid Species Desmoclystia prouti 1941 Epipsestis nigropunctata 1941 Euparyphasma obscura 1941 Hypsidia australica 1938 Macrothyatira subaureata 1941 Microthyatira decorata 1941 Nemacerota decorata 1941 Nemacerota griseobasalis 1941 Neotogaria hoenei 1941 Systatica bilineata 1938 Isoptera Species
- [Helen Schwartz](https://neglectedscience.com/helen-schwartz/): Helen M. Schwartz, South African veterinarian (fl.1945-84) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.A. Schoeman & M.S. Farber. Utilization of urea by sheep. I. Rates breakdown of urea and carbohydrates in vivo and in vitro. J. Agric. Sci. 63(3):289-96, 1964 With F.M.C. Gilchrist. Microbiology in the rumen in relation to the nutrients and physiology of the rumen. South Afr. J. Animal Science 2:161, 1972 With F.M.C. Gilchrist. Microbial interactions with the diet and the host animal (1975) With R.I. Mackie, F.M.C. Gilchrist, A.M. Roberts & P.E. Hannah. Microbiological and chemical changes in the rumen during the stepwise adaptation of sheep to high concentrate diets.
- [Hector Supicci Sedes](https://neglectedscience.com/hector-supicci-sedes/): Hector Supicci Sedes, Uruguayan race driver (Montevideo 15 March 1903 – Victoria, Atacama, Chile 04 December 1948) Introduced many improvements in his racing car being which some of them were incorporated to rallies and common cars  Windshield washer for racing cars (1938) A exhaust pipe for engine (1937) Improved cooling system employing an additional tank Improved automobile lighting   Introduced a complementary oil tank underneath the tray  Strengthened suspension, lateral beam and axle with worksheets   Introduced a protective shielding and coating with shellac on sparking plug and disposer Carpets with crossbars under the wheels   Double absorber on wheels (1935) Introduced naphtha tanks
- [Hasan Kamel al Sabbah](https://neglectedscience.com/hasan-kamel-al-sabbah/): Hasan Kamel al-Sabbah, Lebanese engineer and inventor in United States (Nabatieh 16 August 1895 – Lewis, New York State 31 March 1935) Established many techniques for protection of the excitation transformers over current and rotor over load PATENTS (70 US and foreign being 27 on solar power) Solar cell (1930) Converters Circuits for use with rectifiers 5 on electric distribution, transforming and translating circuits 3 on TV transmission of pictures and views 2 on cathode ray tube (As Sabah cathode ray tube) 6 on rectifying compound systems 24 on electric power conversion and excitation systems 4 on pressure and temperature control
- [Hari Pall Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/hari-pall-singh/): Hari Pall Singh, Indian micropaleontologist and palaeobotanist (Hoshiarpur District, Punjab State 19 June 1932 –   DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae Amtaspora 1984 with Sarkar Biformaesporites 1972 with Kumar Collospermumpollis 1984 with Tripathi Coniatisporites 1972 with Kumar Densiverrupollenites 1984 with Tripathi Dettmannites 1972 with Kumar Garotriletes 1978 with Singh Haradisporites 1972 with Kumar Iraqispora 1964 Lametatriletes 1972 with Kumar Lunzisporites 1964 with Bharadwaj Metamonoletes 1972 with Kumar Mosulipollenites 1964 Peroaletes 1964 with Bharadwaj Pinjoriapollis 1981 with Saxena Quadrangulosaccites 1982 with Saxena Surmaspora 1984 with Rao Umiaspora 1964 with Srivastava & Roy Venusteaesporites 1972 with Kumar Dinoflagellata Subathua 1980 with Khanna Fungi Siwalikiathyrites 1982 with Saxena HONORS Singhiapollis Kar & Sah 1970 (Fossil Sporae)
- [Har Dayal Srivastava](https://neglectedscience.com/har-dayal-srivastava/): Har Dayal Srivastava, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (15 June 1908 – 20 October 1989) With Dutta elucidated the life history of Schistosoma indicum (1951-5) Published the life cycle of Clinostomum piscidum (1959) Studied the life history of Stephanofilaria assamensis, the causative parasite of hump sore of cattle and its treatment  Studied an unique form of dermatitis in cattle, the cutaneous microfilariasis or Srivastava dermatitis of cattle Studied the morphology and taxonomy of trematode parasites of Indian freshwater and marine fishes DESCRIBED HELMINTHOLOGICAL TAXA Trematoda Valid Genera Duttiella 1980 with Prasad & Maurya Eumasenia 1951 Folliorchis 1948 Hurleytrema 1939  Indoderogenes 1937 Mehrailla 1939 Mehraorchis 1934 Neonotoporus 1942 Nicollodiscus 1939 Orientodiscus 1937 Polyorchitrema 1939 Thapariella 1955 Tubanguia 1935 Yamagutia 1939 Cestoda   Valid Genera Barbusa 1975
- [Hans Stammreich](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-stammreich/): Hans Stammreich, German-born Brazilian spectroscopist (Remscheid, Renania 16 July 1902 – São Paulo 06 March 1969) Authored 86 papers with classical works in molecular Raman spectroscopy ACHIEVEMENTS With Adolf Miethe (1924) and independent from H. Nagaoka (1925) discovered transmutation of mercury to gold  Obtained the first Raman spectra of a number of materials With O. Sala, R. Forneris & A.G. Ayrosa developed the technique of the excitation of Raman spectra with helium lamps in Technique and results of excitation of Raman spectra in the red and near infrared region. Spectrochim. Acta 8:41-45, 1956 With R. Forneris made the first use of extreme-red excitation
- [Hans Joachim Schumacher](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-joachim-schumacher/): Hans Joachim Schumacher, German-born Argentine physical chemist (Siegburg, North Rhine Westphalia 23 September 1904 – La Plata September 1985) Authored over 300 scientific papers Determined the dissociation energy of the fluorine molecule Performed the first reliable studies of the low pressure fall-off regions of the thermal dissociation reactions of nitryl chloride (1931), difluorine monoxide (1934) and perfluoroperoxide (1937) His studies on ozone decompositions as well as reactions of ozone with fluorine, chlorine and bromine molecules attracted international recognition (1930s) Demonstrated the specific influence of added inert gases and provided the first reliable collision efficiencies in unimolecular reactions Elucidated complex reaction mechanisms of highly
- [Gumersindo Sayago](https://neglectedscience.com/gumersindo-sayago/): Gumersindo Sayago Gallardo, Argentine pneumologist (Santiago Del Estero 10 December 1893 –  Cordoba 29 March 1959) Considered as an authority on surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cheesy focus in lung. Journal Am. Med. Association 79(2): 594, 1922 Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Am. Rev. Tuberc. 15:544, 1927 With I.J. del Villar. Variaciones de la colesterolemia en los periodos terminals de la tuberculosis pulmonar del adulto. Rev. Soc. Arg. Biol. 7:423-7, 1931 Sobre un caso de tumor primitivo de pulmón. Neoplasmes 12-13:62, 1933 With L.L. Dobric. Sobre una observación de enfisema gigante de rapida aparición. La Semana Med. 42(2):10, 1935
- [Guillermo Seeber](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-seeber/): Guillermo Rodolfo Seeber Cayol, Argentine physician (Buenos Aires 08 November 1876 – ?) Identified rhinosporidiosis (1893) and described the causal agent Rhinosporidium seeberi  (1900) without named it Un Nuevo esporozoario parasite del hombre. Dos casos encontrados em polipos nasales. Doctoral Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (1900) A new suspensor for treating blennorrhagic orchiepididymitis Un Nuevo suspensorio para el tratamiento de la orquiepididimitis blenorragica (1905)
- [Govind Swarup](https://neglectedscience.com/govind-swarup/): Govind Swarup, Indian radioastronomer (Thakurdwara, Uttar Pradesh State 23 March 1929 – Pune, Maharashtra State 07 September 2020) Authored over 125 papers and 4 books ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered type U solar radio bursts Found the first example of a steep spectrum “bridge” of radio emission between the two radio lobes of a radio galaxy (1962) First provided high-resolution angular data for more than 1000 weak radio sources (1970s) Discovered a relation between the angular sizes of radio sources and their flux density Developed a gyro-radiation model for explaining the microwave solar emission With A. Maxwell. A new spectral characteristic in solar radio
- [Gopala Krishna Sastri](https://neglectedscience.com/gopala-krishna-sastri/): G. Gopala Krishna Sastri, Indian economic geologist (fl.1948-82) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.S. Sastry. Chemical characteristics and evolution of the laterite profile in Hazaridadar bauxite plateau, Madhya Pradesh., India. Econ. Geol. 77:154-62, 1982 With C.S. Sastry. Physics and chemistry of the hydrothermal system at the Panguna porphyry copper deposit, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Econ. Geol. 77(1):127-53, 1982 Some features of the central Indian type bauxite deposits and their bearing on exploration and exploitation (1981) Note on a chrome and two manganese garnets from India. Mineral. Mag. 33:508-11, 1963 Paragenesis of a cordierite-garnet granulite from Assam, India. Geol. Mag. 100(4):331-6, 1963 Determination of
- [Gopal Swarup](https://neglectedscience.com/gopal-swarup/): Gopal Swarup, Indian plant helminthologist (30 May 1928 – 16 July 2011) DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genus Brevicephalodera 1988 with Kaushal Species Bifurcohaptor chauhani 1984 with Jain Bifurcohaptor kulkarnii1984 with Jain Bifurcohaptor ramalingami 1984 with Jain Bitylenchus vulgaris 1972 with Upadhay & Sethi Brevicephalodera bamboosi 1988 with Kaushal Brevicephalodera sacchari 1988 with Kaushal Bucephalopsis lateroporus 1985 with Jain Bucephalus stunkardi 1985 with Jain Ditylenchus indicus 1967 with Sethi Divittus chonai 1968 with Sethi Helicotylenchus punicae 1968 with Sethi Heterodera sorghi 1982 with Jain, Sethi & Srivastava Heterodera zeae 1970 with Koshy & Sethi Macrorhynchus zeae 1968 with Sethi Neocalceostoma microformis 1968 Neodolichorhynchus phaseoli 1968 with Sethi Paramazocraes minutum 1984 with Jain Paratrophurus housei 1964 with Raski & Prasad Tylenchorhynchus berberidis 1968 with Sethi
- [Giorgio Schreiber](https://neglectedscience.com/giorgio-schreiber/): Giorgio Schreiber, Italian-born Jewish Brazilian cytologist and geneticist (Trieste 19 February 1905 – Belo Horizonte 01 January 1977) Twin brother of Italian zoologist and hydrobiologist Bruno Schreiber Authored 216 works Known internationally for his studies on quantitative cytogenetics, cytochemistry and caryometry Proposed the existence of an intermediate phase in the nuclear volume doubling that called it sesquiphase Le grandezze nucleari nella spermatogenesi. La “sesquifase” nella intercinesi spermatogoniale. Atti R. Accad. Lincei R.C. Cl. Fís. Mat. Nat. Ser 8A 2t:843-7, 1947  Proposed the term elaxis for a proportional and discontinuous reduction of nuclear size during ontogenesis (1943)  Clarified the phenomenon of neoteny in Proteus sp.  With
- [Ghavameddin Scharif](https://neglectedscience.com/ghavameddin-scharif/): Ghavameddin Scharif (Charif), Iranian botanist, mycologist and plant pathologist (fl.1947-71) DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Plantae (with Aellen) Anabasis calcarea 1952 Cornulaca leucacantha 1950 Horaninovia aptera 1950 Horaninovia platyptera 1950 Fungi Cercoseptoria cydoniae 1959 Coniothyrium ochradeni 1957 with Petrak Coniothyrium salvadorae 1957 with Petrak Sclerotium intestinum 1956 with Petrak Bacteria Corynebacterium iranicum 1961 HONORS Scharifia Petrak 1955 (Fungi)
- [Gerhard Sohnge](https://neglectedscience.com/gerhard-sohnge/): Adolf Paul Gerhard Söhnge, South African geologist (Saron, Tulbagh District, Western Cape Province 10 November 1913 – 14 July 2006) From German parents DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES With H. Strunz & B.H. Geier. Stottit, ein neues mineral-germanium, und seine paragenese in Tsumeb. Neues Jahr. Miner. Monats. (1958) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.N. Theron. Table Mountain: geology and erosional development of a unique coastal mountain range (1994) With C.J.B. Dreyer. Crocidolite and amosite deposits of the Republics of South Africa and Bophuthatswana. Geol. Survey Pretoria (1992) Tsumeb: a historical sketch (1967) With T.W. Gevers. Geology along the northwestern margin of the Khomas Highlands between
- [George Alfredo Seiglie](https://neglectedscience.com/george-alfredo-seiglie/): George Alfredo Seiglie Aguayo, Puerto Rican/Cuban micropaleontologist (La Habana Province 26 February 1926 – Texas, USA 26 July 1988) Authored over 100 articles DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA Families Alveovalvulinidae 1986 with Fleisher & Baker Buliminoididae 1970 Duquepsammidae 1987 Ponceamminidae 1991 Ungulatellidae 1964 Genera & Subgenera Altasterella 1965 Ammoanita 1987 with Baker  Asterigerinita 1966 with Bermudez Asterotrochammina 1963 with Bermudez Ayalaina 1960 Bermudezita 1960 Biasterigerina 1965 with Bermudez Claudostriatella 1965 with Bermudez Corrugatella 1965 with Bermudez Cycloputeolina 1977 with Grove Discomuralina 1964 Duquepsammia 1987 with Baker Eoeponidella 1965 Fastigiella 1965 with Bermudez Glabratellina 1965 with Bermudez Glaucoammina 1969 with Bermudez Heronallenita 1965 with Bermudez Longiapertina 1966 with Bermudez Miosorites 1977 with Grove Neoglabratella 1965 with Bermudez Neopateoris 1963 with Bermudez Nubeculinita 1964 Orectostomina 1965 Pannellaina 1976
- [Genaro Sisto](https://neglectedscience.com/genaro-sisto/): Genaro Sisto Pallaert, Argentine pediatrician and hygienist (Ayacucho, Buenos Aires Province 02 February 1870 – 23 August 1923) From Italian father Described Sisto sign (constant aphonic crying  as a sign of congenital syphilis in infancy) Heredo-Syphilitic Cry. Ann. Med. Chr. (1909) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Contribución al estudio de la poliomielitis anterior aguda (1895) Las inyecciones epidurales como tratamiento de la enuresis o incontinencia esencial de orina: uretrocistitis blenorragica en un niño de 10 años  tratado por la urotropina (1906) Conferences de pathologie infantile (1910) Les cris chez le nourissons et la syphilis hereditaire (1910) Cerebrospinal fluid in syphilitic and hereditary syphilis. Ann.
- [Gabriel Soares de Sousa](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriel-soares-de-sousa/): Gabriel Soares de Sousa, Portuguese-born Brazilian chronist and sertanist (Lisboa c.1540 – Bahia Province 1592) Authored Tratado Descriptivo do Brasil or Descriptive Treatise of Brazil (1587) which displays an encyclopedic character. Published only in 1851   Performed a detailed description of Brazilian flora and fauna Suggested that flies could transmit certain diseases later confirmed by Castellani (1907) Described diseases like tungiasis  Identified yaws or frambesia before Piso First to describe maculo or epidemic gangrenous proctitis  Gave the first report about the transmission of a infectious disease (yaws) by an insect   Established the notion of contagiousness into a disease First to describe the role that
- [Fuad Amin Sabra](https://neglectedscience.com/fuad-amin-sabra/): Fuad Amin Sabra, Lebanese neuropsychiatrist (Beirut 13 February 1919 – 27 April 2005) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.K. Afifi. Treatment of toxic and drug induced neuropathies. Modern Treatment 5(6):1236, 1968 With H.A. Reimann. Hereditary spastic paraplegia (primary lateral sclerosis): a report of three cases in a family. Middle East Med. J. 1:75-8, 1962 Observations on one hundred cases of cerebral angioma. J. Am. Med. Ass. 170(13):1522-4, 1959 Withn H. Zellweger & Y. Green. The clinical diagnosis of inclusion body encephalitis (Dawson). Helv. Paediat. Acta 13(1):81-7, 1958 HONOURS Honorary Member, American ECG Society (1950) Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University (1963) Visiting Professor of Neurology,
- [Friedrich Sellow](https://neglectedscience.com/friedrich-sellow/): Friedrich Sellow or Sello, German naturalist and etnographer in Brazil (Potsdam 12 March 1789 – Belo Oriente, Minas Gerais State October 1831) Collected thousands of specimens among plants, seeds, wood samples, mammals, birds, mollusks, amphibians, fishes, worms, insects, shells, skins, bird nests, bird eggs, skeletons, anatomical pieces, cranes, rocks, minerals, ethnographic drawings and indigenous artifacts sent to German institutions DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bignonia bellas  Philodendron hastatum Salvia splendens HONORS (Plantae) Selloa Kunth 1818 (Asteraceae) Sellocharis Taubert 1889 (Fabaceae) Friedsellowia Lowe, Coiffard, Mohr & Bernardes de Oliveira 2013 (Fossil)
- [Francisco Soca](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-soca/): Vicente Francisco Soca Barreto, Uruguayan pediatrician (Soca, Canelones Department 24 July 1856 – Montevideo 29 March 1922) His parents were from Canary Islands  Brother in law of surgeon Eduardo Blanco Acevedo Authored Los soplos anorgânicos de la punta del corazón en el niño (1886) Proposed the role of age in the Friedrich disease a law about pain onset in this disease (Soca law) Etude clinique sur la maladie de Friedrich (1889)  First study about heritable diseases of nervous system  Proposed laringeal vertigo as a sign of asthma SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A propos d’um cas de polynévrite émetinique suive de mort. Bull. Mem.
- [Francisco San Roman](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-san-roman/): Francisco Javier San Román y San Román, Chilean engineer and geographer (Copiapó 1837 – Santiago de Chile 1902) From Argentine parents Gained recognition of US and European peers for his topographic charts Member of a number of scientific foreign associations With S. Muñoz, A. Chadwick & A. Pizarro authored Carta geografica del desierto y cordilleras de Atacama (1892) Collected some archaeological artifacts such as a knife in Cerro Chuculani and one vessel of Sama SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L. Sund. Estudios geologicos y topograficos del desierto y la cordillera de Atacama (1911) El Desierto y la Cordillera de Atacama (1896) two volume Hidrologia del desierto
- [Francisco Mauro Salzano](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-mauro-salzano/): Francisco Mauro Salzano, Brazilian human geneticist (Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul 27 July 1928 – Porto Alegre 28 September 2018) Considered as one of the leading experts on population genetics and genetical analysis of Amerindians Gave 1,511 scientific contributions including 532 articles, 60 book chapters and 21 books Authored 33 papers with more than 100 citations (16,750 by Semantic Scholar and 20, 209 by Research.com) ACHIEVEMENTS First to illustrate the genetic diversity and some rare genetic conditions in Native Americans The blood groups of South American Indians. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 15:555-79, 1957 With C.V. Tondo. Hemoglobin types of
- [Francisco Alberto Saez](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-alberto-saez/): Francisco Alberto Saez Sanchez, Uruguayan cytogeneticist (Montevideo 10 March 1898 – Montevideo 27 April 1976) Authored over 200 works (126 scientific works) Gained international recognition for his researches on orthopteran cytogenetics and its taxonomic implications Investigaciones sobre los cromosomas de algunos ortopteros de la America del Sur. I. Numero y organización de lós complejos em cuatro gêneros de acridios. Rev. Museo La Plata 32:317-61, 1930 Variación numérica en correlación con la existência de cromosomas multiples en Aleuas vitticolis sp. (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Rev. Museo La Plata 32:317-61, 1930 Estructura de los cromosomas en dos especies del genero Aleuas. Actas Congr. Nac. Med. Rosario (1935) Oserved the genetic mutation
- [Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-adolfo-sauvalle/): Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle Chanceaulme, Cuban botanist (Charleston, South Carolina 01 July 1807 – Regla, La Habana 30 January 1878) From French parents Authored Nuevo metodo para la conservación de las carnes en la Isla de Cuba (1867) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Calycogonium ellipticum Calycogonium productum Casearia aquifolia Jatropha peltata Margaritopsis acuifolia Myginda pungens  Sabal mexicana Sagraea macrandra Terminalia angustifolia Zanthoxylum gracile Zanthoxylum phyllopterum Zanthoxylum stenopterum HONORS Sauvallea Wright 1871 (Commelinaceae)
- [Ferdinand Stoliczka](https://neglectedscience.com/ferdinand-stoliczka/): Ferdinand Stoliczka, Czech-born Indian zoologist and paleontologist (Bilany, near Kromeriz, Moravia 07 June 1838 – Moorghi, Ladakh 19 June 1874) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Genera Mollusca (Living & Fossil) Allopagus 1871 Amplostoma 1868 Arcotia 1868 Chalmasia 1871 Clandestinum 1867 Dejanira 1859 Egerella 1870 Electroma 1871 Ficulopsis 1867 Fustiaria 1868 Glossocardia 1870 Gonilia 1871 Gosavia 1866 Hindsiella 1871 Homalina 1870 Icanotia 1870 Itruvia 1867 Lewisiella 1868 Lymnocardium 1870 Mohrensternia 1865 Mutiella 1871 Myina 1870 Palaeomoera 1870 Petricolana 1870 Placastraea 1873 Pulsellum 1868 Pypisoma 1873 Sphaeriola 1871 Stirpulina 1870 Thetironia 1870 Veniella 1870 Venilicardio 1870 Volviceramus 1871 Bryozoa Orbitulipora 1862 Spiroporina 1865 Stichoporona 1862 Arachnida Gagrella 1869 Thomisus 1869 Crustacea Typilobus 1871 Amphibia Ansonia 1870 Vertebrata Species & Subspecies Mammalia Hemiechinus auritus albulus 1872 Aves Saxicola macrorhynchus 1872 Pyrrhocorax graculus forsythi 1874 Reptilia Ablepharus grayanus 1872 Cnemaspis affinis 1870 Cnemaspis wicksi 1873 Cyrtopodion kachhense 1872 Cyrtopodion lawderanum 1871 Eutropis rugifera 1870 Gerrhopilus andamanensis 1871 Gongylosoma
- [Federico Schickendantz](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-schickendantz/): Friedrich (Federico) Schickendantz, German-born Argentine chemist and naturalist (Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate State 15 January 1837 – Buenos Aires 04 April 1896) ACHIEVEMENTS Developed new procedures in mineral processing in order to obtain higher yields Proposed diffusion method Discovered a new sodium-potassium-calcium sulfate   Un nuevo sulfato de sódio, potássio y cálcio. Bol. Acad. Nac. Cien Cordoba 3:85-7, 1879.   Developed Schickendantz method for separating gold from copper Extracted alkaloids from many plant species Developed methods for separating alkaloids berberine and oxyacanthine Discovered alkaloid aspidospermine or quebrachine independently of German chemists Fraude & Hesse (1878) Introduced use of sulphurous acid for sugars purification Invented a
- [Federico Sabina](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-sabina/): Federico Juan Sabina Císcar, Mexican mathematician and physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 1945 – Predicted dynamic and static properties of new composite materials Discovered a new kind of surface waves on elastic materials With J. Bravo-Castillero, R. Rodríguez Ramos, J.A. Otero & H. Mechkour obtained an unified general formula for all effective properties of periodic multilaminated magneto-electro-elastic composites (2007)  With L.D. Perez Fernandez, J. Bravo Castillero & R. Rodríguez Ramos presented different types of constitutive relations of linear thermo-magneto-electro-elasticity (2008) With R. Rodríguez Ramos, J. Bravo Castillero, R. Guinovart-Díaz et al. found a relation among the antiplane effective constants from the solutions
- [Farrokh Saidi](https://neglectedscience.com/farrokh-saidi/): Farrokh Saidi, Iranian gastric surgeon (Teheran 22 November 1929 – TECHNIQUES With N. Nikbakhsh & H. Fahimi. A new technical approach to cancers of the cervical oesophagus. Arch. Iran. Med. 15(5):298-302, 2012 With M. Keshoofy, A. Abbassi-Dezfulli, Z.H. Ahamadi & M.B. Shadmehr. A new approach to the palliation of advanced proximal gastric cancer. J. Am. Coll. Surg. 189(3):259-68, 1999 With A. Abbassi, M.B. Shadmehr & G. Khoshnevis. Endothoracic endoesophageal pull through operation. A new approach to cancers of the oesophagus and proximal stomach. Asl.J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 102(1):43-9, 1991 Determination of stool: CEA level as a new screening test for large
- [Farida Habib Shah](https://neglectedscience.com/farida-habib-shah/): Farida Habib Shah, Malaysian molecular biologist (Melaka 29 June 1948 – 01 November 2016) Authored about 250 papers First to show a successful integration of the desaturase enzyme system in transgenic oil palm Developed molecular marker techniques for determining the genetic diversity of oil plants   Developed DNA markers for medicinal plants
- [Evaristo Penna Scorza](https://neglectedscience.com/evaristo-penna-scorza/): Evaristo Penna Scorza, Brazilian mineralogist and petrographer (Lavras, Minas Gerais State 20 August 1899 – Belo Horizonte 29 March 1969) Authored 55 works SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Distribuição das rochas ultrabásicas no Brasil. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 40:119-26, 1968 With L.J. Moraes & R.A. Barbosa. Estudo geológico da região da barragem de Sobradinho, Estado da Bahia (1965) Olivina melilitito, uma rocha rara e até agora desconhecida no Brasil continental. Eng. Min. Metal. XLI (252):235-7, 1965 Duas rochas alcalinas das ilhas Martim Vaz. Notas Prelim. Estudos DNPM/DGM 121:1-7, 1964 Geologia de Diamantino, Estado de Mato Grosso. Notas Prelim. Estudos DNPM 104, 1960 With W. Kegel &
- [Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig](https://neglectedscience.com/eugenia-sacerdote-de-lustig/): Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig, Italian-born Argentine histologist and oncologist (Torino 09 November 1911 – Buenos Aires 27 November 2011) Cousin of Nobel Prize-winner Rita Levi-Montalcini Authored over 180 papers Developed and improved culture techniques for tumoral and healthy cells Her histological researches about cancer obtained international acclaim OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS With E. Bal de Kier Joffé, L. Puricelli & M.C.C. Vidal. Characterization of two murine mammary adenocarcinoma tumors with different metastatic ability. J. Exper. Clin. Cancer Research 2:151-69, 1983 With L. Puricelli, E.B. Kier Joffé & L. Davel. Isolation and partial characterization of a morphogenetic factor from human leucocyte interferon. Cell. Mol. Biol.
- [Enrique Modesto Sivori](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-modesto-sivori/): Enrique Modesto Sívori, Argentine plant physiologist (Melincué, Santa Fe Province 11 August 1910 – La Plata 05 January 1979) With F. Nakayama & E. Cigliano. Germination of Achira seed (Canna sp.) approximately 550 years old. Nature 219:1269-70, 1968 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.E. Cascarini de Torre & R.R. Filgueira. Use of the BET method to measure área of internal exposed surfasse to leaves. Photosynthetica 18:365-9, 1984    With J.R. Alaniz. A possible xanthoxin-like inhibitor in the heliomorphic plants of Tropaeolum majus. Phyton 37:153-8, 1979 With J.R. Alaniz. Relationships between the dwarfing of Tropaeolum majus and asparagine synthesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 14(4):653-9, 1973 With V. Sonvico &
- [Ennakkal Sudarshan](https://neglectedscience.com/ennakkal-sudarshan/): Ennakkal Chandy George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (Pallam, Kottayam, Kerala State 16 September 1931 – Texas, USA 14 May 2018) Born in a Syrian family Authored over 500 publications With R. Marshak & S. Okubo originated chiral V-A theory of the weak forces (1958) With R. Marshak discovered universal law of vecto-axial vector weak interaction Introduced the diagonal representation for formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics (1963) independently of Glauber (Sudarshan-Glauber representation) Proved the equivalence of classical wave optics to quantum optics and predicted quantum optical effects With B. Misra proposed quantum Zeno effect (1977) First to use broken symmetry
- [Emilie Snethlage](https://neglectedscience.com/emilie-snethlage/): Henriette Mathilde Marie Elisabeth Emilie Snethlage, German-born Brazilian ornithologist (Gransee Kraatz, Brandenburg State 13 April 1868 – Porto Velho 25 November 1929) DESCRIBED VALID AVES TAXA Species Akletos goeldii 1908 Cercomacra ferdinandi 1928 Hemitriccus griseipectus 1907 Hemitriccus iohannis 1907 Hemitriccus minor 1907 Hemitriccus mirandae 1925 Hylexetaster stresemanni 1925 Hylopezus paraensis 1910 Myrmotherula iheringi 1914 Myrmotherula sclateri 1912 Knipolegus franciscanus 1928 Phylloscartes roquettei 1928 Picumnus limae 1924 Picumnus varzeae 1912 Rhegmatorhina berlepschi 1907 Xiphocolaptes franciscanus 1927 Subspecies Campylorhamphus procurvoides multostriatus 1907 Cercomacra nigrescens ochrogyna 1928 Conopias trivirgata berlepschi 1914 Conopophaga aurita pallida 1914 Euchrepomis spodioptila meridionalis 1907 Hemitriccus griseipectus griseipectus 1907 Hemitriccus minor minor 1907 Hylexetaster stresemanni stresemanni 1925 Hylophilus hypoxanthus inornatus 1914 Hylophilus muscicapinus griseifrons 1907 Hylophilus ochraceiceps lutescens 1914 Isleria hauxwelli hellmayri 1906 Momotus momota cametensis 1912 Myrmotherula iheringi iheringi 1914 Neomorphus geoffroyi dulcis 1927
- [Emil Sabbaga](https://neglectedscience.com/emil-sabbaga/): Emil Sabbaga, Brazilian nephrologist (São Paulo 16 October 1926 – São Paulo 04 March 2016) Authored over 270 scientific works First report in literature about the occurrence of a true polyuria in the diuretic phase With I. Nussenzveig, E. Vasconcellos, J.B. Magaldi, C. Villela de Faria, H. Pastore, T. Adachi & J.P. Rodrigues Lima. Acute renal failure produced by snake-bite of the Crotalus and Bothrops genera: occurrence of a true polyuria in the diuretic phase . IV Intern. Congr. Nephrol. (1969) With C.V. de Faria & J.B. Magaldi. Técnica para determinação de substâncias anti-diuréticas (1951) With Abrahão Salomão Filho & E. Pereira. Teste de nitrito modificado no
- [Eliseo Segura](https://neglectedscience.com/eliseo-segura/): Eliseo Victor Segura Castellano, Argentine surgeon (Yacanto, Córdoba Province 21 July 1870 – Buenos Aires 14 September 1946) NEW TECHNIQUES Perfected transeptal hypophysectomy Modified and perfected Hirsch endoscopic transnasal approach (1910) Segura method of sphenoidal and sella turcica opening by endoseptal way for treatment of sinusitis (1923) Segura procedure for bleeding esophageal varices Developed surgical instruments such as Segura-Bracht forceps and Segura retractor
- [Elias Ramón de la Sota](https://neglectedscience.com/elias-ramon-de-la-sota/): Elias Ramón de la Sota, Argentine botanist and paleobotanist (San Miguel de Tucumán 27 September 1932 – La Plata 20 January 2014) DESCRIBED LIVING & FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Fossil Genera Dizeugotheca 1961 with Archangelsky Eligodendron 1966 with Archangelsky Living Species Asplenium lilloanum 1973 Blechnum austrobrasilianum 1975 Blechnum pampasicum 2005 with Durán Blechnum rosenstockii 1973 Cheilanthes volcanensis 1972 Elaphoglossum yungense 1973 Hymenophyllum capurroi 1972 Marsilea punae 1976 Microgramma mortoniana 1973 Pecluma barituensis 2007 with Martínez Pecluma oranense 1995 Polypodium apagalolepis 1967 Polypodium bolivari 1967 Polypodium bradei 1965 Polypodium jahannis-bladwinii with Mickel Polypodium mickelii 1967 Polypodium oranense 1960 Polypodium ruiz-lealii 1960 Polypodium singeri 1960 Polypodium venturii 1961 Pteris famatinensis 1972 Salvinia herzogii 1962 Salvinia nuriana 1997 with Cassá Thelypteris catamarcensis 1973 Thelypteris jujuyensis 1973 Thelypteris nubicola 1973 Thismia singeri 1960 Fossil Species
- [Eduardo Schmitter Villada](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-schmitter-villada/): Eduardo Schmitter Villada, Mexican mineralogist and petrographer (Toluca 21 June 1904 – 1982?) From Swiss father SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Z. de Cserna, P.E. Damon, D.E. Livingston & L.J. Kulp. Edades isotopicas de rocas metamorficas del centro y sur de Guerrero y de una monzonite cuarcífera de Sinaloa. Bol. Inst. Geol. UNAM 26:195-204, 1974 With Z. de Cserna, C. Fries Jr, J. Rincón Orta & J. Solorio-Munguia. Nuevos datos geocronometricos paleozoicos del sur de Mexico. Bol. Asoc. Mex. Geol. Petroleros 26:195-204, 1974 With C. Fries Jr., Z. de Cserna, C. Rincón Orta, A. Wesley & J. Solorio-Munguia. Edad Precámbrica tardia del Esquisto Taxco, Estado
- [Edson Saad](https://neglectedscience.com/edson-saad/): Edson Abdalla Saad, Brazilian cardiologist (Igarapava, São Paulo State 12 July 1935 – Rio de Janeiro 03 June 2005) From Lebanese parents ACHIEVEMENTS  Described systematically the digestive lesions of Nicolas-Favre disease and was the first to treat them employing glucocorticoids With S. Coutinho & J. Rodrigues da Silva first to demonstrate the existence of clinical forms of schistosomiasis with post-sinusoidal portal hypertension and describe its clinical and anatomopathological figure  Authored works distinguishing schistosomiasis from other hepatopathies using supra-hepatic venography Performed the first systematic hemodynamical studies in Chagas disease and the first left catheterization in this disease (1969) Performed the first in vivo
- [Dulal Pada Sadhu](https://neglectedscience.com/dulal-pada-sadhu/): Dulal Pada Sadhu, Indian nutritional physiologist (Kapilmuni, Bangladesh 09 May 1916 – ?) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered the role of deamination and transamination on the protein action mechanism in rats and ruminants Discovered the fundamental mechanism in the field of energy exchange in the living organism Demonstrated the stenothermal stage in the evolution of thermal regulation in animals  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Effect of feeding higher doses of urea on the rumen metabolism in goat. Ind. Vet. J. 45:735-9, 1986 With S.N. Das. Effect of acetazolamide on insulin sensitivity in dogs with alloxan diabetes. Ind. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 22:301-4, 1978 With S.K. Basu. Skin thermometry
- [Diogenes Santiago Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/diogenes-santiago-santos/): Diógenes Santiago Santos, Brazilian microbiologist, biochemist and molecular biologist (Gandu, Bahia State 28 June 1942 – Porto Alegre 23 June 2017) Authored about 200 scientific works (with about 3,000 citations and h index 31) Solved the three-dimensional structure of 39 proteins deposited in Protein Data Bank (PDB) With I. Schrank, A. Zaha & E.F. Araújo. Construction of a gene library from Azospirillum brasilense and characterization of a recombinant containing the nif structural genes. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Research 20:321-30, 1988 With J.C.D. Hinton, A. Sarafi, J. Sidebotham, C. Higgins, T.A. Owenhughes & G.D. Pavitt. H-NS A Novel DNA-Binding Protein Involved in Maintaining Chromatin
- [Dimitri Sucre](https://neglectedscience.com/dimitri-sucre/): Dimitri Ivan Sucre Benjamín, Panamanian-born Brazilian botanist and nurseryman (23 December 1935 – Rio de Janeiro 28 August 2000) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Dioscorea margarethia 1970 with Barroso & Guimarães Dioscorea pseudomacrocapsa 1971 with Barroso & Guimarães Dorstenia alberti 1974 with Carauta & Valente Dorstenia grazielae 1973 with Carauta & Valente Dorstenia milaneziana 1974 with Carauta & Valente Ferdinandusa edmundoi 1962 Galianthe dichasia 1970 with Costa Malanea centralis 1963 Mitracarpus baturitensis 1971 Mitracarpus flagellatus 1969 Mitracarpus froesii 1971 Neoregelia lymaniana 1974 with Braga Pitcairnia burle-marxii 1971 with Braga Psylllocarpus psyllocarpoides 1971 Remijia cinchonicarpa 1962 Remijia grazielae 1962 Remijia hirsuta 1962 Remijia kuhlmannii 1962 Spermacoce egleri 1970 with Costa Spermacoce limae 1971 Spermacoce noronhensis 1969 Tillandsia grazielae 1975 with Braga Tillandsia nuptialis 1969 with
- [Dezao Su](https://neglectedscience.com/dezao-su/): Dezao Su / Te Tsao Su, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1955-2011) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PISCES TAXA Families Peltopleuridae 1959 Siyuichthyidae 1985 Genera Asialepidotus 1959 Bogdaichthys 1985 Changichthys 1991 Chungkingichthys 1974 Ctenolepidotrichia 1992 with Poplin Dsungarichthys 1985 Fukangiichthys 1978 Jialingichthys 1983 Liaoxiichthys 1992 Manasichthys 1985 Neobaleiichthys 1985 Nieerkunia 1992 Plesiofuro 1992 Plesioperleidus 1983 with Li Shuniscus 1983 Sinoeugnathus 1959 Sinoglossus 1986 Siyuichthys 1980 Suziichthys 1992 Tianfuichthys 1996 Tianshanicus 2011 Triassodus 1984 Uighuroniscus 1985 Wayaobulepis 1999 Weixiniscus 1994 Yuchoulepis 1974 Zaxilepis 1994 Species Anathaelion longshanensis 1963 Asialepidotus shingyiensis 1959 Bogdaichthys fukangensis 1985 Bogdaichthys serratus 1985 Changichthys dalinghensis 1991 Chungkingichthys tachuensis 1974 Ctenolepidotrichia turfanensis 1992 with Poplin Dsungarichthys bilineatus 1985 Fukangiichthys longidorsalis 1978 Hemiculturellus longicephalus 1962 with Liu Jialingichthys serratus 1983 Lepidotes yaoanensis 1980 Lepidotes xinjinensis 1983 Lycoptera longicephalus 1963 with Liu Lycoptera lungteensis 1963 with Liu Lycoptera polyspondylus 1963 with Liu Lycoptera tungi 1963 with Liu Manasichthys elongatus 1985 Manasichthys tuguluensis 1985 Neobaleiichthys
- [Demetrio Sodi Pallares](https://neglectedscience.com/demetrio-sodi-pallares/): Demetrio Sodi Pallares, Mexican cardiologist (Ciudad de Mexico 08 June 1913 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 August 2003) Authored over 150 papers and 18 medical and philosophical books ACHIEVEMENTS Established rational basis of practical electrocardiography Established many parameters for position analysis and myocardial performance   With E. Cabrera, Vizcaíno & Soberón showed intracavitary potential in man and dog under normal conditions (1947) With Soberón, Estandía & Rodríguez first published intracavitary potential morphology of cardiac left ventricle   With E. Cabrera enunciated the concept of endocardioelectric deductive electrocardiography With Zuckerman & Abdo Bisteni described electrocardiographic changes in acute pulmonary hypertensive cardiopathy   With Gustavo Medrano,
- [David Domingo Sabatini](https://neglectedscience.com/david-domingo-sabatini/): David Domingo Sabatini, Argentine cytologist in United States (San Carlos de Bolívar, Buenos Aires Province 10 May 1931 – Regarded as one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of protein sorting in cells and membrane biogenesis Authored over 120 papers First reported Golgi apparatus involvement in the formation of chromaffin granules and the exocytotic character of catecholamines release from medullary cells Introduced glutaraldehyde as a new fixative for electron microscopy and cytochemical studies (1961) Performed classical studies on protein synthesis Discovered that the nascent polypeptide chain emerging from the large ribosomal subunit is responsible for the attachment of the
- [Cora Sadosky](https://neglectedscience.com/cora-sadosky/): Cora Sadosky Ratto, Argentine mathematician (Buenos Aires 23 May 1940 – Long Beach, California 03 December 2010) From Jewish Russian descent Authored over 50 papers on functional and harmonic analysis and operator theory INTRODUCED With M. Cotlar and R. Arocena the concept of generalized Toeplitz kernels (1979) With M. Cotlar the notion of algebraic scattering systems (1987) Integral operators of the type of parabolic fractional integration With R. Wheeden a weighted norm inequality With M. Cotlar the notion of a scattering system d commuting evolution operators EPONYMY Cotlar-Sadosky lifting theorem (1979) Cotlar-Sadosky extension theorem Cotlar-Sadosky algebraic scattering systems
- [Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede](https://neglectedscience.com/christian-julius-wilhelm-schiede/): Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede, German-born Mexican physician and botanist (Cassel 03 February 1798 – December 1836) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Amphipterygium 1923 (Anacardiaceae) Species Achimenes grandiflora Agave obscura 1830 Campanula carnica Dasylirion acrotricha Linum chamissonis 1826  Pinus oocarpa Pinus patula with Deppe Solanum oxycarpum Spiraea mexicana Swietenia multijuga Tigridia violacea Vanilla inodora Vanilla pompona   Zeltnera stricta HONORS  Schiedea Chamisso & Schlechtendal 1826 (Caryophyllaceae) Schiedeella Schlechter 1920 (Orchidaceae) 
- [Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian](https://neglectedscience.com/chirayathumadom-venkatachalier-subramanian/): Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Ernakulam, Kerala State 11 August 1924 – Bangkok 05 February 2016) ACHIEVEMENTS Proposed a new system of classification of Hyphomycetes based on conidium ontogeny (1962) Elucidated the “wild type” in the genus Fusarium of Indian soils (1950) Recognized and defined six basic spore types in Hyphomycetes Proposed new concepts and terms about conidiogenesis Authored the monograph Hyphomycetes widely used by mycologists throughout the world to this day (1971) DESCRIBED Over 130 new genera of Hyphomycetes, Coelomycetes and Ascomycota (at least 78 are valid) beyond many species in these groups  HONORS (Fungi) Ascosubramania Rajendran 1997   Civisubramaniana Vittal & Dorai 1986 
- [Cheruparambil Sankarankutty](https://neglectedscience.com/cheruparambil-sankarankutty/): Cheruparambil Sankarankutty, Indian-born Brazilian marine zoologist (Trichur District, Kerala State 31 January 1937 – A simplified and cheap tripping mechanism for oceanographic and limnological studies. Neritica 5(1):27-34, 1990 BRAZILIAN PATENTS (for marine research) Incubadora para cultivo de larvas de organismos aquáticos modelo Sankarankutty MU8201713-1 U2 (2002) Amostrador de água modelo Sankarankutty MU760338-9 U2 (1996) Mensageiro eletrônico modelo Sankarankutty MU6800334-0 U2 (1988) Garrafa tipo Van Dorn-Sankarankutty MU6800335-8 U2 (1988) Mecanismo para fechamento da rede de plâncton modelo Sankarankutty MU6800336-6 U2 (1988) DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEA TAXA Genus Pseudoporcellanella 1962 Species Neoxenophthalmus garthii 1969 Porcellanella haigae 1963 Pseudoporcellanella manioliensis 1962 Trichia indica 1968 HONORS Cherusius Low & Ng 2012 (Crustacea)
- [Changxu Shi](https://neglectedscience.com/changxu-shi/): Changxu Shi, Chinese metallurgist and materials scientist (Xushui District, Hebei Province 15 November 1920 – Beijing 10 November 2014) Authored over 300 papers Established Fe-Mn-Ar and Cr-Mn-N steel systems With M.Z. Cao, X.J. Wan & S.J. Gao. A new analysis of hydrogen diffusion in metals with trapping. J. Mater. Sci. Tecnol. 5(4):247-53, 1989 DEVELOPED                             First iron-nickel base superalloy Hot corrosion resistant casting nickel-base superalloy Technology of low segregation superalloy With G.X. Sui, B. Zhou & Z.G. Zheng. Vinylon-reinforced aluminium laminate or Virall, a new superhybrid composite material (1993) HONOURS 28468 Shichangxu (Asteroid) Innovations in Real Materials Award, International Union of Materials
- [Cezar Martins de Sa](https://neglectedscience.com/cezar-martins-de-sa/): Cezar Martins de Sá, Brazilian molecular geneticist (1948 – Brasilia 25 January 2011) Co-discovered the prosome, a small RNP complex With H.P. Schmid, O. Akhayat, F. Puvion, K. Koehler & K. Scherrer. The prosome: an ubiquitous morphological distinct RNP particle associated with repressed mRNPs and containing specific ScRNA and a characteristic set of proteins. EMBO J. 3(1):29-34, 1984 With H.P. Schmid, A. Horsch, K. Scherrer, F. Broders, O. Akhayat & M.F. Grossi de Sá. Prosomes. Ubiquity and inter-species structural variation. J. Mol. Biol. 187(4):479-93, 1986 With M.F. Grossi de Sá, O. Akhayat, F. Broders & K. Scherrer isolated the prosomes from
- [Carola Sutton](https://neglectedscience.com/carola-sutton/): Carola Ana Sutton de Licitra, Argentine helminthologist and parasitologist (Buenos Aires 24 April 1946 – La Plata 09 April 2000) DESCRIBED NEMATODA/TREMATODA TAXA Genera Guerrerostrongylus 1991 with Durette-Desset Lagostonema 1987 with Durette-Desset Malvinema 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Nematomystes 1980 with Chabaud & Durette-Desset Pseudoquinqueserialis 1981 Tapironema 1997 with Chabaud & Durette-Desset Trichofreitasia 1991 with Durette-Desset Species Enterobius yagoi 1979 Graphidioides kravetzi 1995 with Durette-Desset Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis 1991 Durette-Desset Echinostoma platensis 1994 with Lunaschi Heteroxynema viscaciaea 1989 with Hugot Lagostonema ecasiense 1987 with Durette-Desset Malvinema carolinae 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Malvinema frederici 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Malvinema victoriae 2003 with Digiani & Durette-Desset Nematomystes rodentiphilus 1980 Physaloptera calnuensis 1989 Pseudoquinqueserialis caviae 1981 Rictularia massoiai 1979 Stilestrongylus aureus 1985 with Durette-Desset Stilestrongylus azarai 1985 with Durette-Desset Stilestrongylus flavescens 1991 with Durette-Desset
- [Carlos Stuardo Ortiz](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-stuardo-ortiz/): Carlos Stuardo Ortiz, Chilean entomologist (Yungay, Nuble Province 02 December 1895 – Santiago 15 August 1962) DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Genera Aneriophora 1952 with Cortés Pritchardia 1946 Species Celidosphenella poecilla 1946 Hemipenthes edwardsi 1946 Hephaestion iopterus 1935 Hirmoneura orellanae 1936 Hirmoneura silvae 1936 Hyrmophlaeba ruizi 1936 Microplophorus magellanicus 1935 with Ruiz Trichophthalma jaffueli 1936 Trichophthalma morenii 1939 Trichophthalma porteri 1934 Trupanea stonei 1946 Trupanea omphrale 1946 HONORS Stuardomyia Cortés 1945 (Diptera) Stuardosatyrus Herrera & Etcheverry 1965 (Lepidoptera)
- [Carlos Stajano](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-stajano/): Carlos V. Stajano Cibils, Uruguayan surgeon (Montevideo 10 October 1891 – Montevideo 1976) From Italian father  Described Stajano subcostal syndrome or Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome La reacción frenica em ginecologia. Semana Medica Bs. Aires 27:243-8, 1920 Described a pain in right hypochondrium when one is in Trendelenburg position as a sign of peritoneal hemorrhage (1926)  Described the “clinical masks” of pelvic congestion (1931) Proposed trophic reflex as the key mechanism of post-traumatic phenomena EPONYMY Stajano pseudocervicitis Stajano shock Pouey-Stajano sign of tubal ectopic pregnancy or Laffont sign (consisting of peritoneal irritation and subscapular reflex pain; 1930s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La fluxion intersticial refleja en
- [Carlos Spegazzini](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-spegazzini/): Carlo Luigi Spegazzini or Carlos Luis Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist, mycologist and explorer (Bairo, Torino Province 20 April 1858 – La Plata 01 July 1926) Authored about 320 papers Described a new variety of rubber La verdenasquina, nueva variedad de caucho. Anales Soc. Cien. Arge. 78:71-3, 1914 Described Puccinia arachidis, causative agent of peanuts rust Described the tobacco rust (1888) independent from Farlow (1885) Described Septoria lycopersici, causal agent of septoriosis or Septoria spot Described Pasmo, a disease of flax (1909) First reported citrus leprosis (1920) Other fungi causing diseases in plants Ustilago paraguayensis (loose smut of Bermuda grass) Cintractia peribebuyensis (smut of Cyperus) Meliola malacotricha (black
- [Carlos Segovia Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-segovia-fernandez/): Carlos Segovia Fernandez, Spanish-born Argentine mathematician (Valencia, Spain 07 December 1937 – Buenos Aires 03 April 2007) Authored 47 papers   Gave relevant contributions to study of classical operators for Laguerre functions  With R. Wheeden defined fractional square functions involving fractional derivatives  With R.L. Wheeden introduced generalizations of Lusin function adapted to fractional integration study and showed that a multiplication commutator of a f function is regularizer of equal order to differentiability order of f function With R.A. Macías generalized Fefferman-Stein theory for homogenous spaces Eponym of Macías-Segovia metrization theorem   CONTRIBUTIONS With R. Testoni. One-sided strongly singular operators (2009) A multiplier theorem for one-sided Hardy
- [Carlos Segers](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-segers/): Carlos Luis Maria Segers Ríos, Argentine amateur astronomer (Iquique, Tarapacá Chile 08 December 1900 – Buenos Aires Mayo 1967) From Argentine father and Chilean mother Authored Las estrellas variables de periodo largo (1955) Honored in Segers lunar crater 
- [Carlos Rodolfo Schreiter](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-rodolfo-schreiter/): Carlos Rodolfo Schreiter, German-born Argentine naturalist and archaeologist (Chemnitz 13 August 1885 – Tucumán 30 March 1942) Described Lepidopteran species Rothschildia maurusius 1925 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Natural Sciences Notas entomo-biologicas y otras. Acta Zool. Lilloana 7:44, 1943 Estudio fisiografico de la Quebrada del Portugués, departamento de Monteros. Bol. Museo Hist. Nat. Univ. Nac. Tucumán 2(11); 33-5, 1936 Contribución al estudio de los papilionidos del norte argentino y Papilio argentinus Jorg. (nueva especie) (1930) Sphingidae. Estudio sobre las especies tucumanas de esta familia. Bol. Museo Hist. Nat. Univ. Nac. Tucumán 9, 1926  Observaciones biológicas sobre las espécies tucumanas de los gêneros Dysdaemonia, Rothschildia y Copaxa (1925) Estudio preliminar de una colección de
- [Carlos María Squirru](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-maria-squirru/): Carlos María Squirru, Argentine surgeon (La Plata 22 March 1891 – ?) From Italian descent With E. Finocchietto described mixed inguinal hernia (1917) and developed Squirru-Finocchietto method for repair of inguinal hernia Reported visualization of the biliary tract incidental to injection of lipiodol being the first successful attempt at cholangiography With E.L. Lanari. Roentgenographs of biliary passages. Rev. Asoc. Med. Arg. 37:125, 1924   Eponym of Squirru non-total emasculation 
- [Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-de-siguenza-y-gongora/): Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, Mexican geographer and historian (Ciudad de Mexico 14 August 1645 – Ciudad de Mexico 22 Aug 1700) Authored Libra astronomica y filosofica (1690) regarded as one of the most important works from Latin America in his day Determinated the position of the comet of 1680 being his work highly praised for great astronomers of his day as Flamsteed and Cassini Claimed that comets are wandering stars before Halley Built an instrument for studying Sun eclipses  Performed hydrological maps of Mexico Valley (1691) Studied Aztec history and Toltec writing Mapped Pensacola Bay and the mouth of Mississipi River (1693)  
- [Carlos Alberto Sagastume](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-sagastume/): Carlos Alberto Sagastume, Argentine biochemist (La Plata 21 April 1891 – 13 September 1944) With H. Giovambattista. Tecnica sensible y rapida para determinar la glicosuria. Rev. Fac. Cien. Quimicas 11:7-10, 1936 A new yeast. Anales Asoc. Quim. Argentina 23:440, 1925 With V. Oliva. Perfectionnement à notre dispositif pratique pour doser l’urée dans le sang
- [Carlos Alberto Campos Seabra](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-alberto-campos-seabra/): Carlos Alberto Campos Seabra, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 05 September 1916 – 25 March 2001) DESCRIBED TAXA Tribe Basipterini 1987 with Fragoso & Monné (Coleoptera) Genera Costalimacris 1988 & Limacridium 1988 with Carbonell (Orthoptera) Gnathopraxithea 1985 with Tavakilian (Coleoptera) Species Orthoptera Aegimia alvarengai 1956 with Costa Lima Costalimacris neotropica 1988 with Carbonell Limacridium viridis 1988 with Carbonell   Coleoptera Basiptera castaneipennis 1987 with Fragoso & Monné Gnathopraxithea sarryi 1985 with Tavakilian Melzerella costalimai 1961 Meroscelisus thoracicus 1942 Montesia bosqi 1961 Nilio barthi 1954 with Costa Lima Stictosomus espiritosantensis 1942 Thaumasus gigas 1987 with Fragoso & Monné Hemiptera Apiomerus bosqi 1952 with Costa Lima & Hathaway Apiomerus carvalhoi 1951 with Costa Lima & Hathaway Apiomerus chinai 1951 with Costa Lima & Hathaway Apiomerus
- [Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke](https://neglectedscience.com/carl-august-wilhelm-schwacke/): Carl August Wilhelm Schwacke, German-born Brazilian botanist and explorer (Alfeld, Lower Saxony State 29 July 1848 – Barbacena, Minas Gerais State 11 December 1904) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genera Mezia 1891 Amburana 1894 with Taubert Species Beilschmiedia taubertiana 1892 Cinnamodendron dinisii 1898 Cinnamomum taubertiana 1895 with Mez Coccoloba cereifera 1898 Diplusodon koehnei 1900 Heisteria silvianii 1900 Iryanthera paradoxa 1886 Lavoisiera caparaoensis 1891 Lavoisiera senaei 1900 Maytenus muelleri 1886 Mezia araujoi 1891 Mezilaurus lindaviana 1892 with Mez Microlicia schreinerii 1891 with Cogniaux Myrcia caparoana 1908 Myrsine congesta 1898 Ocotea abbreviata 1892 with Mez Quiina magallano-gomesii 1898 HONORS Schwackaea Cogniaux 1891 (Melastomataceae)
- [Candido Lima da Silva Dias](https://neglectedscience.com/candido-lima-da-silva-dias/): Candido Lima da Silva Dias, Brazilian mathematician (Mococa, São Paulo State 31 December 1913 – São Paulo 15 September 1998) Published Espaços vetoriais topológicos e sua aplicação nos espaços funcionais analíticos Boletim da Soc. Mat. De São Paulo 5:1-58, 1950, where introduced topological vector spaces to analytic functionals theory and resulted in eponym Köthe-Silva Dias-Grothendieck duality SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Sobre o conceito de funcional analítico. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 25(1), 1942 Sobre a regularidade dos funcionais definidos no campo das funções localmente analíticos. Doctoral Thesis (1942) O conceito de functional analítico e a aplicação da teoria dos funcionais analíticos ao estudo de sua solução de
- [Buenaventura Suarez](https://neglectedscience.com/buenaventura-suarez/): Buenaventura Suarez Lencinas, Argentine Jesuit missionary, geographer and astronomer (Santa Fe de la Veracruz 03 September 1679 – Uruguay 24 August 1750) Authored a lunar calendar covering 101 years named Lunario de un Siglo (1744) which was praised by famous Swedish scientists like Anders Celsius and Per Wargentin Authored astronomical works (about Venus transit) submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1748-9) being the first scientific work of American continent in specialized magazines  Performed astronomical observations on comets, lunar eclipses, latitude determinations and other astronomical data highly praised by many European scientists   Studied the behavior of Jovian, Mars
- [Brian Roy Stuckenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/brian-roy-stuckenberg/): Brian Roy Stuckenberg, South African entomologist (Eastern Cape 07 April 1930 – Natal 08 February 2009) From Danish descent Authored over 100 works  With his wife Pamela Jean Usher Stuckenberg developed some novel collecting techniques for Tabanidae DESCRIBED DIPTERA TAXA Families Athericidae 1973 Bolbomyidae 2001 Errinidae 1956 Genera Afrominettia 1971 Afrothaumalea 1960 Alhajarmyia 2003 Austrolauxania 1971 Cainohomoneura 1971 Curupirina 1970 Dyticomyia 1971 Eupaulianina 1956 Isalomyia 2002 Mettinia 1971 Micropachycerina 1971 Namamyia 2000 Namaquamyia 2002 Neonamyia 1971 Nesocurupira 1970 Nimettia 1971 Pandasyophthalmus 1954 Perianthomyia 1996 Procestrotus 1971 Prosamyza 1971 Pseudoprochaetops 1971 Succinatherix 1974 Suraginella 2000 Teratolauxania 1971 Tongamya 1966 Trichacantha 1955 Vermilynx 1995 Vermipardus 1960 Xeritha 1966 Zanjensiella 1971 Species About 160 HONORS Stuckenbergiana Scherer 1963 (Coleoptera) Stuckenbergiella Cogan 1971 (Diptera)   Stuckenbergina Oldroyd 1962 (Diptera) Stuckenbergiola Lindner 1965 (Diptera) Stuckenbergomyia Smith 1971 (Diptera) Stuckenberginiella Zwick & Mary Sasal 2010
- [Boyle Chunder Sen](https://neglectedscience.com/boyle-chunder-sen/): Boyle Chunder Sen, Indian clinician (fl.1887-93) Described Indian childhood cirrhosis or Sen syndrome Infantile cirrhosis. Indian Med. Gaz. 22:338, 1887 Authored Nubile Age of Females in India, physiologically treated (1890)
- [Birbal Sahni](https://neglectedscience.com/birbal-sahni/): Birbal Sahni, Indian geologist and palaeobotanist (Bhera, Shahpur District, West Punjab 14 November 1891 – Lucknow 10 April 1949) Brother of geologist Mulk Raj Sahni and uncle of paleontologist Ashok Sahni Made improvements in the technique of studying fossil plants Discovered Pentoxyleae (1947), a new group of fossil gymnosperms DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA Asterochlaenopsis 1930 Austroclepsis 1932 Barakaria 1920 with Seward  Buriadia 1920 with Seward Cyclanthodendron 1944 with Surange Enigmocarpon 1937 Indostrobus 1931 Massulites 1943 with H.S. Rao (Sporae) Moranocladus 1926 with Seward Nipaniophyllum 1948 Ontheodendron 1933 with A.R. Rao Palaeosordaria 1943 with H.S. Rao Pataloxylon 1920 Pondicherria 1933 Rajmahalia 1934 with A.R. Rao Rodeites 1943 Sausarospermum 1934 with Srivastava Takliostrobus 1931 Viracarpon 1934 HONORS (Fossil) Birbalsahnia Bajpai & Maheshwari 1991 (Plantae) Sahnia Vishnu-Mittre
- [Benedicto & Hélia Soares](https://neglectedscience.com/benedicto-helia-soares/): Benedicto Abílio Monteiro Soares, Brazilian arachnologist and entomologist (São Paulo 12 September 1914 – Botucatu, São Paulo State 12 December 1985) DESCRIBED TAXA Arachnida Genera Alone Camposicoloides 1944 Capichabesia 1944 Chaquesia 1944 Heliella 1945 Melloleitaniania 1943 Mitopernoides 1944 Oliverius 1945 Pseudogyndesoides 1944 Rezendesius 1945 Schubartesia 1944 Ubatubesia 1944 Victoriaincola 1946 With Helia Soares Acanthopachylopsis 1949 Ceratoleptes 1979 Chavensicola 1946 Gertia 1946 Goodnightiella 1945 Hutamaia 1977 Iguassuoides 1954 Itatiaincola 1948 Maromba 1954 Metalyogoniosoma 1946 Paraprosontes 1947 Paraproweyhia 1947 Thrasychiroides 1947 With Camargo Chirabicirculigera 1948 Sickius 1948 Wulfilopsis 1955 Species Over than 150 (80 with his wife and 70 with Camargo) Coleoptera Genera Schoenfeldtiopsis 1977 with Scivittaro Ubaniopsis 1970 Species At least 33 (15 with Scivittaro, 9 with Dias, 5 with Meyer, 2 with Peracchi & 2 alone)  HONORS Abiliella Peracchi 1964 (Coleoptera) Lanesoares Roewer
- [Bawa Kartar Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/bawa-kartar-singh/): Bawa Kartar Singh, Indian stereo chemist (Vairoval, Amritsar District 17 April 1886 – Chandigarh 16 June 1960) Authored over 150 papers Gained international recognition for his studies on stereochemistry of camphor compounds Developed a biochemical method to distinguish between a racemic mixture and a racemic compound Developed with P. Prasad a new method for the preparation of tertiary amines
- [Basil Schonland](https://neglectedscience.com/basil-schonland/): Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, South African physicist (Grahamstown, Cape Colony 01 February 1896 – Winchester, Hampshire 24 November 1972) ACHIEVEMENTS Considered as world’s greatest authority on lightning Studied electric fields under thunderclouds Elucidated the complex nature of the lightning flash and the time-sequence of its component strokes Unravelled the complex sequence of events in the flash and correlated with the measurements of electric field changes at ground level First showed that a flash consist of several strokes and measured the time interval between them With D.J. Malan & H. Collens established a pattern of flash sequences of strokes now universally accepted
- [Baij Nath Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/baij-nath-singh/): Baij Nath Singh, Indian protozoologist and microbiologist (Varanasi 31 July 1914 – Lucknow 29 December 1985) Showed that some aerobic free-living amoebae could cause fatal human meningoencephalitis Demonstrated that avirulent strains of Entamoeba histolytica could be made virulent by feeding them with cholesterol in culture Made significant contributions to the phenomenon of cystations showing the role that amino acids and cAMP play in process DESCRIBED PROTOZOA TAXA Families Nathellidae 1953 Schizopyrenidae 1952 Genera Bawdenium 1982 with Misra & Sharma Carteria 1982 with Misra & Sharma Cutleria 1982 with Misra & Sharma Didascalus 1952 Greeffia 1979 with Hanumaiah Nathella 1953 Platyamoeba 1979 with Hanumaiah Russellia 1979 with Hanumaiah Sahnium 1982 with Misra &
- [Augusto Cesar Scala](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-cesar-scala/): Augusto Cesar Scala, Italian-born Argentine plant histologist and micrographist (Lavagna, Genoa 11 April 1880 – Buenos Aires 21 July 1933) ACHIEVEMENTS/CONTRIBUTIONS  Proposed method of micrographical assay for maté analysis (Scala method) Micrographical Assay of Maté. An illustrated description of the structure found in powered mate leaves and of the common adulterants. Anales Asoc. Quím. Argentina 9:192-5, 1921.  A differential staining with boric carmine and green iodine (Scala double staining)  La tecnica de doble coloracción diferencial en histología vegetal. Rev. Museo La Plata. Second Series. 15(2):221-225, 1908.  A new injection mass albumine-based Una nueva masa de inyección a base de albumina. Anales
- [Augusto Barbosa da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-barbosa-da-silva/): Augusto Barbosa da Silva, Brazilian mining engineer (Nova Lima, Minas Gerais State 15 Sep 1860 – Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais State 16 Jun 1939) ACHIEVEMENTS  Regarded as one of the world pioneers in electrometallurgy  Held many patents related to iron and steel production employing electricity  Patented a process for production of pig iron, iron and its alloys jointly with a eletrical furnace that make it in 1902 (with Joseph Gerspacher) Designed and built the first electric furnace in the world for production of iron and steel (1905) Patented and constructed an innovative electrical furnace for ferromanganese production (1908) that attracted international
- [Ather Siddiqi](https://neglectedscience.com/ather-siddiqi/): Ather Husain Siddiqi, Indian helminthologist (1924 – Authored many papers about biochemistry and morphology of nematodes DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Genera Allobacciger 1970 with Hafeezullah Allomegasolena 1960 with Cable Annulospira 1969 with Jairajpuri Bilecithaster 1960 with Cable Farooqifilaria 1970 with Jairajpuri Francofilaria 1970 with Jairajpuri Francolinema 1970 with Jairajpuri Infundibulostomum 1960 with Cable Neoapocreadium 1960 with Cable Neodioecocestus 1960 Neogeolinea 1960 with Cable Neohelicometra 1960 with Cable Neomegasolena 1960 with Cable Neometadena 1970 with Hafeezullah Neoparantorchis 1971 with Hafeezullah Nordia 1964 with Jairajpuri Odoncotyle 1971 with Hafeezullah Pinguitrema 1960 with Cable Pseudobarisomum 1960 with Cable Species About 90 HONORS Athernema Ahmad & Jairajpuri 1978 (Nematoda)
- [Ashok Kumar Sarbhoy](https://neglectedscience.com/ashok-kumar-sarbhoy/): Ashok Kumar Sarbhoy, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (15 June 1939 – 16 August 2006) DESCRIBED PLANT DISEASES With D.K. Agarwal. Two new diseases of ornamental plants: Fusarium rot of gladiolus and Mammalaria species. Curr. Sci (1983) With J.S. Grewal. A new steam rot of arhar caused by Phytophthora. Indian Phytopathol. (1970) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Hemicarpenteles 1968 with Elphick Morrisiella 1985 with Saikia Sclerotiella 1974 with A. Sarbhoy  Species At least 75 HONORS Sarbhoyomyces Saikia 1981 (Fungi)
- [Ary Apparecido Salibe](https://neglectedscience.com/ary-apparecido-salibe/): Ary Apparecido Salibe, Brazilian plant pathologist and horticulturist (Limeira, São Paulo State 01 September 1934 – Limeira, São Paulo State 19 November 2013) Authored over 400 works Regarded as world authority on citrus diseases Described leaf curling of citrus or crespeira Leaf curl a transmissible virus disease of citrus. Plant Disease Reporter 43:1081-3, 1959 Crespeira: uma nova doença de virus dos citros. Cien. Cult. 19:302, 1967   Proposed double graft for identifying infection by exocortis and xiloporosis virus Contribuição ao estudo da doença exocorte dos citros. Doctoral thesis (1961) A quick field test for xiloporosis virus (1963) HONORS Invited Professor of Citriculture,
- [Arun Kumar & Archana Sharma](https://neglectedscience.com/arun-kumar-archana-sharma/): Arun Kumar Sharma, Indian plant cytogeneticist (Kolkata, West Bengal State 31 December 1924 – Kolkata, West Bengal State 06 July 2017) Developed new research techniques for the study of chromosome structure of plants such as orcein banding technique for repeated DNA sequences and multiple DNA analysis Chromosome banding and repeated DNA. J. Ind. Bot. Soc. 54:1-8, 1975 With his wife Archana Mookerjea developed novel methods of pre-treatment and staining cells to visualize chromosomes structure used throughout the world Both authored the textbook Chromosome techniques – theory and practice (1965), a standard reference book worldwide used Enunciated a new concept of speciation in
- [Arthur Otto Schwab](https://neglectedscience.com/arthur-otto-schwab/): Arthur Otto Schwab, Brazilian pharmacist, chemist and biochemist (Curitiba 1906 – ?) His thesis Tensão superficial e a elasticidade pulmonar (1938) international repercussion ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered correlations between surface tension and pulmonary alveolus Tensão superficial e a elasticidade pulmonar. Thesis (1938) Developed a simple method for determination of the globulin-albumin ratio in spinal fluid Método simples para determinação do quociente proteico no liquor. Arqu. Biol. Tecnol. 1:33-8, 1946 Proposed a formula to obtain a limitation of the number of repetitions in physico-chemical  measurements Regra pratica para a limitação das repetições nas medidas físico-químicas. Arqu. Biol. Technol. 2:33-40, 1947  
- [Aristoteles Godofredo d Araujo e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/aristoteles-godofredo-d-araujo-e-silva/): Aristóteles Godofredo d’Araújo e Silva, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (c.1910? – 1965) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.R. Gonçalves, D.M. Galvão, A.J.L. Gonçalves, J. Gomes, M.N. Silva & L. Simone. Quarto catálogo de insetos que vivem nas plantas do Brasil, seus parasitas e predadores (1968) Uma lista de longicórneos do Ceará (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Bolm. Soc. Cear. Agron. 8:33-6, 1967 Considerações sobre o combate químico associado ao biológico. Revista FIR 7(2):50-1, 1964 Observações sobre isópteros. Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de J. 52:193-208, 1962 Seis novas brocas da laranjeira. II. Falsas brocas das plantas. Bol. Fitossan. 6(3-4):119-24, 1956 Seis novas brocas da laranjeira. I. Broca das
- [Aquiles Silveira Guido](https://neglectedscience.com/aquiles-silveira-guido/): Abelardo Aquiles Silveira Guido, Uruguayan agricultural entomologist (1914 – 2004) Recognized as a world expert on biological control of agricultural pests SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.G. Fowler. Megacephala fulgida: a phonotactically orienting predator of Scapteriscus mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Cicindela (1989) With E.F. Legner. Establishment of Goniozus emigratus and G. legneri (Hym:Bethylidae) on navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Lepidoptera:Phycitidae) in California and biological control potential. Entomophaga 28(2):97-105, 1983 With E.F. Legner, G. Gordh & M.E. Badgley. New wasp may help control navel orangeworm. California Agriculture 36(5):4-5, 1982 With R. Charudattan, D.E. McKinney & H.A. Cordo. Uredo eichhorniae a potential biocontrol agent for waterhyacinth (1978) With D.H. Habeck. Natural enemies of strangler, Morrenia odorata and two closely related species, M. brachystephana and Araujia
- [Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/anibal-cipriano-da-silveira-santos/): Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos, Brazilian neuro-psychiatrist (São Roque, São Paulo State 17 March 1902 – São Paulo 16 August 1979) Authored 53 papers ESTABLISHED A classification of mental processes in 24 clinical tables The dependence relationships between frontal lobe areas and posterior cortical zones The identity between neurophysiologic and psychical stimuli  LINKS http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0004-282X1979000400014&script=sci_arttext (in Portuguese)
- [Antonio Sesso](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-sesso/): Antonio Sesso, Brazilian morphologist and microscopist (São Paulo 08 August 1930 – ACHIEVEMENTS Performed the first observation about structural genesis of membranous compartments originated from endoplasmic reticulum With S.R.R. B. Azimovas, M.A. Ferreira & W.T. Correa. Freeze-fracture and thin section study of the rough ER-Golgi interface in the pancreatic acinar cell. Resemblance betwwen the intermembranal architecture of the outermost Golgi cisterna and the post-rough ER vesicular and tubular elements. Biol. Cell. 81(2):165-76, 1994 With others showed that rupture of the outer mitochondrial membrane seen in apoptotic cells results of the loss of the selective permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane (2004-12)
- [Angel Spotorno](https://neglectedscience.com/angel-spotorno/): Angel Enrique Spotorno Oyarzún, Chilean mammalogist and geneticist (1943 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Mammalia Loxodontomys pikumche 1998 with Cofre, Manríquez, Vilina, Marquet & Walker Eligmodontina dunaris 2013 with Zuleta, Walker, Manríquez, Valladares & Marín Lagidium ahuacaense 2009 with Ledesma, Wener & Albuja Reptilia Liolaemus molinai 2002 with Valladares, Etheridge, Schulte & Manríquez Siphonaptera Agastopsylla nylota euneomys 1984 with Lewis HONORS Subgenus Angelomys Teta, Cañon, Patterson & Pardiñas 2016 (Mammalia)
- [Andrés Straffon Osorno](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-straffon-osorno/): Andrés Ernesto Straffon Osorno, Mexican pediatrician (10 January 1925 – Ciudad de Mexico 23 August 2012) Authored the first monograph about preputium (1982) Showed that the prepuce is a sphincter-similar plexiform smooth muscle (Straffon-Vargas dartos) Elaborated neostigmine test for pathognomonic diagnosis of congenital pyloric stenosis (1959) Developed a new technique for synechotomy Patented a synechotomy forceps and 4 distinct kinds of tongue depressors
- [Andrés Stoppani](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-stoppani/): Andrés Oscar Manuel Stoppani Bahia, Argentine biochemist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1915 – Buenos Aires 18 March 2003) Authored about 400 papers ACHIEVEMENTS   Demonstrated the existence of a physiological control on melanotrophic hormone secretion in Amphibia Estudios fisiologicos y farmacologicos sobre los melanoforos de los batracios. Doctoral Thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1942) Reported the essential role of thiol groups  on catalytic activity of certain enzymes   With R. Vallejos, C. Brignone, J. Brignone & A. Boveris described the regulatory actions of insulin and steroidal hormones on mitochondria functions  With E. Ramos & J. Boiso clarified the transport of amino acids in
- [Alvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-alberto-da-mota-e-silva/): Alvaro Alberto da Mota e Silva, Brazilian scientist and admiral (Rio de Janeiro 22 April 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 31 January 1976) INVENTED Rupturite (1917) A new rupturite (1920) Super rupturite (1923) Alexandrinite Process for giving fitness and hydraulicity to explosives (1923) Toxic polyvalent dyes (1923) Antivegetative polyvalent dyes (1925) Obtained the production of contralite and acordite monopolized until then by Germans Um processo expedito para a determinação da força das pólvoras sem fumaça (1941)  His father Alvaro Alberto da Silva, Brazilian physician and scientist  (Rio de Janeiro 1861 – Rio de Janeiro 13 September 1908) Discovered guanidine picrate, cresilate
- [Aloysio Sehnem](https://neglectedscience.com/aloysio-sehnem/): Aloysio Sehnem, Brazilian botanist and father (Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul State 1912 – São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul 19 March 1981) From German descent DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Pteridophyta Adiantopsis minutula 1972 Adiantopsis oculta 1959 Adiantopsis perfasciculata 1961 Alsophila acantha 1978 Alsophila campestrium 1978 Alsophila cipoensis 1978 Alsophila kleinii 1978 Alsophila reitzii 1978 Alsophila serrae 1978 Anemia costata 1974 Anemia hatschbachii 1974 Anemia pinnata 1974 Anemia rigida 1974 Anemia schaefferi 1974 Anemia cipoensis 1974 Asplenium araucarieti 1963 Asplenium spannagelii 1963 Blechnum simile 1968 Doryopteris angustata 1972 Doryopteris excisa 1961 Doryopteris intermedia 1961 Doryopteris procera 1961 Doryopteris rivalis 1961 Doryopteris scalaris 1961 Dryopteris abyssi 1979 Dryopteris oligophylloides 1979 Dryopteris oreocharis 1979 Dryopteris pleiophylla 1979 Dryopteris podotricha 1979 Dryopteris sinuata 1979 Elaphoglossum gertii 1979 Hymenophyllum delicatulum 1956 Bryophyta Hookeriopsis bartramii 1969 Hookeriopsis heterophylla 1978
- [Alfredo Sordelli](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-sordelli/): Alfredo Sordelli Anette, Argentine microbiologist (Buenos Aires 28 January 1891 – 15 December 1967) From Lombardian father ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated that agar and other carbohydrates can be antigens and stimulate precipitins Demonstrated existence of a specific lipoid that fixates antibodies on heterogenetic antigen His preparation and titration methods of bacterial toxins were adopted worldwide  Established titration methods of anti-diphtheria, anti-dysentery, anti-gangrene, anti-ophidic and other sera   Elaborated and perfected economic and rapid immunization for obtaining sera of high efficiency   Developed a technique for obtaining anti-diphtheria serum was later adopted by J. Bordet  and perfected by Ramon   With A. Manzullo developed a method for
- [Alfonso Splendore](https://neglectedscience.com/alfonso-splendore/): Alfonso Splendore, Italian-born Brazilian physician (Fagnano Castelo, Cosenza province 25 April 1871 –São Paulo 30 April 1953) ACHIEVEMENTS First reported case of animal infection by sporotrichosis With A. Lutz. Sobre uma micose observada em homens e ratos. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 21:433-50, 1907  Described pathogeny, pathology and symptomatology of sporotrichosis and discovered the possibility of growing Sporotrichium schenckii in vitro (1907) With A. Lutz. Sopra una micosi osservata in uomini e topi: contribuzioni alla conoscenza delle cosi delle sporotricosi. Rev. Med. São Paulo (1907); Annali d’Igieni Sperimentali 4, 1907; Centralblatt fur Bakteriol., Parasitik. Infectionskr. XLV, 1907 & XLVI Bd. 1908 Contribuzione allo studio delle
- [Alexander Frank Skutch](https://neglectedscience.com/alexander-frank-skutch/): Alexander Frank Skutch, US-born Costa Rican ornithologist and philosopher (Baltimore, Maryland 20 May 1904 – San Isidro del General 12 May 2004) Son in law of naturalist Charles H. Lankester Recognized as the world’s foremost expert on Neotropical birds of Central America Authored over 200 papers and 40 books ACHIEVEMENTS  Studied life habits for about 300 bird species Presented the diversity of reproductive rates among species Demonstrated that the procreation of tropical birds is slower than that of the same families in the Northern Hemisphere Explained the differences in size between litters of Neotropical and northern birds  Discovered cooperative brooding (1935) Defined associations
- [Albino Morimasa Sakakibara](https://neglectedscience.com/albino-morimasa-sakakibara/): Albino Morimasa Sakakibara, Brazilian entomologist (São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State 29 May 1941 –  From Japanese ancestry DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA/HOMOPTERA TAXA Genera Acanthodeois 1979 Aurimastris 2007 with Evangelista Bordoniana 1999 Carachata 1989 with Carvalho Cleusiana 1989 with Cavichioli Cornutalis 1998 Creonus 1996 Deoisella 2002 with Costa Eucyphonia 1968 Fermeria 2000 Fennahia 1979 Folicarina 1992 Germariana 1998 Hanstruempelia 2004 Lycoderides 1972 Micropepla 1979 Nasuconia 2007 Neotynelia 2000 with Creão Duarte  Notogonia 1996 Paracentronodus 1971 Paraphetea 2000 with Creão Duarte Peltosticta 1976 Proxolonia 1969 Pseuderechtia 2012 Ramedia 1989 with Creão Duarte Sinopia 1977 Tapinolobus 1969 Species About 260 species of treehoppers, spittlebugs and cicadellids HONORS Sakakibarella Creão Duarte 1997 (Hemiptera) Albiniana Cavichioli 1996 (Homoptera) Albinapis Urban & Graf 2000 (Hymenoptera) Sakakibarana Gonçalves, Takiya & Mejdalani 2017 (Hemiptera) Sakakidikra Catalano & Dietrich 2017 (Hemiptera) LINKS
- [Alberto Santos Dumont](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-santos-dumont/): Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviator and inventor (Palmira, today Santos Dumont, Minas Gerais State 20 July 1873 – Guarujá, São Paulo State 23 July 1932) Of French descent IMPROVEMENTS/INVENTIONS More than 20 inventions related to ballons, dirigibles, monoplanes and biplanes Many inventions in field of mechanics   Discovered and comproved balloons dirigibility and their motion in the air without requiring winds force (1898) Performed the first mechanical flight in the world (with 14-bis) and developed the first flight simulator (1906) Introduced main landing gear unit in airplanes Stablished stabilizer function to mooring cable and developed flight stabilizers Produced propellers, aluminium compounds and other
- [Saenz Renauld brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/saenz-renauld-brothers/): Germán Federico Saenz Renauld, Costa Rican hematologist (23 December 1935 – Presented a topographical classification of abnormal hemoglobins Clasificación topografica de las hemoglobinas anormales. Rev. Biol. Trop. 24(1):57-68, 1976 HEMATOLOGY / GENETICS With W.E. Rodríguez Romero, M. Castillo, M.A. Chaves, L.H. Gui, J.B. Wilson, E. Baysal, N. Smetanina, J.Y. Leonova & T.H.J. Huisman. Hb Costa Rica or α2β277(EF1) His→Arg: the first example of a somatic cell mutation in a globin gene. Human Genetics 97(6):829-33, 1996 With M.H. Wiehe Chaves, A. Berrantes, J. Elizondo, A.G. Montero & A. Yoshida. A glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase variant GD(-) Santamaria found in Costa Rica. Acta Hematologica
- [Rushdi Said](https://neglectedscience.com/rushdi-said/): Rushdi al Farag Said, Egyptian geologist and paleontologist (Cairo 12 May 1920 – Virginia, USA 08 February 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Kefiella 1982 with Donze (Fossil Ostracoda) Paleogaudryina 1958 with Barakat (Fossil Foraminifera) Species  About 100 new fossil species HONORS Saidomys James & Slaughter 1974 (Fossil Mammalia) Rushdisaidina Bassiouni & Luger 1990 (Fossil Ostracoda) 
- [Rudolf George Strey](https://neglectedscience.com/rudolf-george-strey/): Rudolf George Strey, German-born South African botanist (Templin, Uckermack District, Brandemburg 28 April 1907 – Margate Retirement Village, Kwa Zulu Natal 30 June 1988) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Subgenus Protocussonia 1973 Species Cussonia arenicola 1973 Cussonia gamtoosensis 1975 Cussonia nicholsonii 1973 Cussonia sphaerocephala 1973 Cussonia zuluensis 1973 Eugenia erythrophylla 1972 Raphia australis 1969 with Obermeyer HONORS  Streyella Janse 1958 (Lepidoptera)
- [Rubens & Lélia Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/rubens-lelia-santos/): Rubens da Silva Santos, Brazilian paleontologist (Rio de Janeiro 28 April 1918 – Rio de Janeiro 28 September 1996) Authored about 70 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA  Pisces Suborder Ararapichthyioidei 1985 Families Ararapichthyidae 1985 Rhizochlatridae 1960 with Travassos Vinctiferidae 1990 Genera Anisopleurodontis 1994 Araripelepidotes 1990 Araripichthys 1985 Codoichthys 1994 Itaparica 1986 Itapyrodus 1990 Laeliichthys 1985 Neomicrodon 1986 with Figueiredo Neoproscinetes 1987 with Figueiredo Palaeomyliobatis 1960 with Travassos Paraelops 1971 Procharax 1956 with Travassos Rhizolatrus 1960 with Travassos  Santaniichthys 1991 Scutatuspinosus 1985 with Silva Correa Tremembichthys 1993 with Secioso Species Valid Species Anisopleurodontis pricei 1994 Araripichthys castilhoi 1985 Astyanax unicus 1955 with Travassos Caboellimma cruzae 1990 Chiromystus woodwardi 1949 Cladocyclus woodwardi 1950 Cladodus pirauariensis 1967 Clupavus brasiliensis 1985 Codoichthys carnavali
- [Rosa Bernstein Scorzelli](https://neglectedscience.com/rosa-bernstein-scorzelli/): Rosa Bernstein Scorzelli, Brazilian geochemist and meteoricist (1940 – CONTRIBUTIONS Named tektoids With J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, J. Barrat, P. Rochette, M.L. Balestrieri et al. A 650 km2 Miocene strewnfield of splash-form impact glasses in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 569:117049-59, 2021 First observation of low moment Fe-Ni phases (αLS-phase or antitaenite) and first to report two minerals with same crystal structure and same composition but differing only in electronic structure and associated properties With D.G. Rancourt, K.Lagarec, A. Densmore, R.A. Dunlap, J.I. Goldstein & R.J. Reisner. Experimental proof of the distinct electronic of a new meteoritic Fe-Ni alloy phase.
- [Rodolpho Albino Dias da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolpho-albino-dias-da-silva/): Rodolpho Albino Dias da Silva, Brazilian pharmacist (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro 05 August 1889 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1931) Performed studies about plant chemistry aiming its medicinal uses Described anatomically and microscopically one hundred plants of Brazilian flora First to study microscopic preparations of Brazilian plant drugs First to proposed figures of histological sections in a Pharmacopea (1927) but it wasn’t realized Authored alone the first Brazilian pharmacopeia titled Farmacopéia dos Estados Unidos do Brasil (1908-20). This work earned him international renown Authored formulations of a number of medicines for Laboratórios Granado Showed that sapucainha (Carpotroche brasiliensis) oil as
- [Roberto Sampaolesi](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-sampaolesi/): Roberto Sampaolesi Bouzón, Argentine ophthalmologist (Caleufu, La Pampa Province 08 September 1925 – Buenos Aires 08 November 2015) Described new signs such as Sampaolesi wave line or sign 2 New signs which are specific for the so-called syndrome of “capsular exfoliation of the crystalline”. Ann. Ocul. 192:839-48, 1959 New gonioscopic sign in congentital glaucoma of late onset. Arch. Oftalmol. Bs. Aires 37:161-5, 1962 & Bibli. Ophthalmol 74:106-23, 1968 With J.M. Muñoz. Simple method for the determination of protein in aqueous humor. Doc. Ophthalmol. Proc. Ser. 11:106-12, 1957 Showed diurnal intraocular pressure curve as best method to evaluate intraocular pressure (1961) Proposed that trabeculotomy
- [Roberto Salmerón](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-salmeron/): Roberto Aureliano Salmerón, Brazilian/French nuclear physicist (São Paulo 16 June 1922 – Paris 17 June 2020) From Spanish and Italian ancestry Published nearly 150 works With A. Zichichi et al discovered neutral tau meson reported in Nuovo Cimento 4:1433, 1956 With others obtained the first K meson associated production reported in Nuovo Cimento 5:1388, 1957.   OTHERS First Non-European Member of Permanent Staff of CERN Founder, Ecole d’Eté de Physique de Particules de Gif sur Yvette, CERN (1969)
- [Rita Schiapelli](https://neglectedscience.com/rita-schiapelli/): Rita Delia Esther Schiapelli, Argentine arachnologist (1906 – 1976) DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA TAXA (with Pikelin) Genera Amaloxenops 1958 Bolostromoides 1945 Melloleitaoina 1960 Paracleocnemis 1942 Pycnothelopsis 1942 Simonida 1958 Xenoplectus 1958 Species About 165 
- [Rigoberto Soler](https://neglectedscience.com/rigoberto-soler/): Rigoberto Soler Gisbert, Spanish-born Brazilian automobile designer (near Valencia, Spain 1926 – São Paulo 15 November 2004) DESIGNED Cars Capeta 1963 Brasinca Uirapuru (1965) FEI XI (1968) FEI X2 Hovercraft FEI X3 Lavinia (1971) FEI X9, a protoype of Formula one driving car (1974) Lafer LL (1976) DKW Others Delta transport system TAL (Transporte Automático Leve) TALAV (Trem Aerodinâmico de Alta Velocidade) 1972 VA (Veículo Aerodeslizante) Uiraquitan, a model of urban bus (1972) 
- [Ricardo Sureda](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-sureda/): Ricardo José Sureda Leston, Argentine geologist, mineralogist and petrologist (Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province 1946 – DESCRIBED NEW MINERALS Catalanoite (2002) with Ruiz  Brodtkorbite (2002) with Paar, Roberts, Criddle & Amann Jagueite (2004) with Paar, Topa, Makovicky, Brodtkorb, Nickel & Putz Coiraite (2008) with Paar, Moelo, Mozgova, Brodtkorb et al. HONORS  Suredaite Paar, Milletich, Topa, Criddle, Brodtkorb, Amthauer & Tippelt 2000 (Mineral) 
- [Riaz Ali Shah](https://neglectedscience.com/riaz-ali-shah/): Syed Riaz Ali Shah, Pakistani analytical chemist (Lahore 20 October 1924 – 27 January 2018) Developed a method to inactivate all the toxic principles present in rice brain in a single operation SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.H. Kahn, M.A. Chaudhry & M.A. Qaiser. Utilization of RHA for the production of cement-like materials in rural areas (1979) With M.A. Naz, A.A. Naqvi & M. Safdar. A study of swat kaolinite. Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Research 7:183, 1964 With M. Talvani & S.M. Hassan. Manghopir spring water(1964) With S.T. Hasan, M. Sabir, M. Aslam & H. Imam. Lightweight and cellular clay bricks as insulating
- [Ram Kumar Saksena](https://neglectedscience.com/ram-kumar-saksena/): Ram Kumar Saksena, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Orai, Uttar Pradesh State 16 August 1897 – 01 September 1970) Authored over 60 scientific works DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES Phoma lucknowensis 1966 with Nand & Sarbhoy   Phoma terrestre 1966 with Nand & Sarbhoy Sporotrichum dehradunense 1965 with Sarbhoy HONORS Saksenaea S.B. Saksena 1953 (Fungi)
- [Rajendra Varma Sitholey](https://neglectedscience.com/rajendra-varma-sitholey/): Rajendra Varma Sitholey, Indian palaeobotanist (1913 – 20 December 1979) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genus Indotheca 1943 Species Cladophlebis zeylanica 1944 Conites sessilis 1963 Conites sripermaturensis 1963 Indotheca sakesarensis 1943 Otozamites oblongus 1950 with Sahni   Otozamites pecten 1984 with Sahni Otozamites sakesanensis 1950 with Sahni   Phlebopteris hirsuta 1982 with Sahni Phlebopteris indica 1982 with Sahni Protopteris nammalensis 1949 Sphenopteris wadiai 1944 Strobilites sahnii 1940 Weltrichia santalensis 1953 with Bose Others Triletes sahnii 1943 HONORS Sitholeya Vishnu-Mittre 1959 (Fossil Plantae)
- [Puran Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/puran-singh/): Puran Singh, Indian plant chemist (Abbotabad District, Punjab 17 February 1881 – Dehradun 31 March 1931) Determined the oil yielding qualities of many oilseeds Analyzed, extracted and isolated essential oils from many forest tree and plants Devised improved methods of extraction, distillation and purification of turpentine oil from various sources like pine trees Developed a new condenser for distillation of camphor oil Devised a chemical test for estimation of tannins using nickel hydroxide Devised a technique for manufacturing charcoal briquettes from Indian woods Patented a novel technique for cleaning and discolouring crystalline from raw sugar LINKS   http://vidyardhi.org/Resources/books/scientistsbal.pdf
- [Pulin Bihari Sarkar](https://neglectedscience.com/pulin-bihari-sarkar/): Pulin Bihari Sarkar, Indian chemical technologist (Nowla, Dhaka District, Bangladesh 01 March 1906 – 23 March 1983) Gained international reputation for his work on jute and its by products CONTRIBUTIONS Formic acid as a solvent for lignin. Sci. Cult. 2:411, 1937 With H. Chatterjee. Sodium chlorite as a reagent for the estimation of cellulose. Sci. Cult. 10:340, 1945 With H. Chatterjee. A new method for the estimation of cellulose. Proc. Natl. Inst. Sci. India 12:23, 1946 With H. Chatterjee. The improvement of jute bags for the storage of sugar. I.C.J.C. Tech. Res. Mem. Nº 11 (1946) With S.S. Paul. Linseed fibre
- [Pulin Behari Sarkar](https://neglectedscience.com/pulin-behari-sarkar/): Pulin Behari Sarkar, Indian inorganic chemist (Kolkata 22 November 1896 – Kolkata 13 July 1971) In the lab of French Georges Urbain prepared about 40 new compounds of gadolinium (1927-8) First to use titanium tetraflouride to fluorinate organic compounds With P.C. Ray. Fluorination of organic compounds: monofluoracetone. Nature 132:749, 1933 Established the structural difference between formate ion and formic acid With B.C. Ray. Constitution of formic acid and formates. Nature 137 (1936) Concluded that isoelectronic isoesters with identical ionic volumes should exhibit close relationship in physical and chemical properties and that the exact constitution of ions is of minor importance in
- [Prem Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/prem-singh/): Prem Singh, Indian palaeobotanist (fl.1950-3) With K.R. Surange described plant species Walkomiella indica (1951) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE SPECIES Biharisporites spinosus 1953  Triletes endosporitiferus Triletes rotundus Triletes surangei 1953 HONORS Singhisporites Potonié 1956 (Fossil Sporae)
- [Philip Arthur Silverstone](https://neglectedscience.com/philip-arthur-silverstone/): Philip Arthur Silverstone Sopkin, US-born Colombian herpetologist and botanist (Chicago 09 October 1939 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Amphibia Species Adelphobates quinquevittatus 1975 Allobates ranoides 1971 Allobates zaparo 1976 Ameerega bassleri 1975 Ameerega ingeri 1975 Ameerega parvula 1975 Ameerega petersi 1976 Ameerega picta 1975 Ameerega pulchripecta 1976 Ameerega smaragdina 1976 Ameerega trivittata 1976 Andinobates altobueyensis 1975 Andinobates fulguritus 1975 Colostethus fraterdanieli 1971 Colostethus imbricolus 1975 Dendrobates tinctorius 1975 Epipedobates anthonyi 1976 Hyloxalus abditaurantius 1975 Hyloxalus lehmanni 1971 Hyloxalus ramosi 1971 Phyllobates vittatus 1975 Plantae Species Browneopsis sanintiae 2010 Dicranopygium callithrix 2004 Epidendrum torraense 2001 with Hagsater Peperomia rivulamans 2011 HONORS  Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo et al. 2006 (Amphibia)
- [Peter Seeligmann](https://neglectedscience.com/peter-seeligmann/): Peter Seeligmann, Argentine plant chemist (Helsinki 10 November 1923 – San Miguel de Tucumán 1999) From German parents Authored about 70 works First reported the presence of myricetin glucosides in Asteraceae With L.R.A. Israilev & M.A.del Pero Martínez. Myricetin in Tagetes: chemosystematic significance. Phytochemistry 30:40378, 1991 Authored the most significant work in the field of chemotaxonomy and peanut until then A C-glycoside in four species of Arachis. Lilloa 33:61-8, 1970 Described the plant species Flourensia macroligulata 1960 With P. Legname & B. Mateu Amengual. Bases morfologicas quimicas que permitem justificar el reconocimiento de variedades de Acacia aroma Gill ap. H et A. (Leguminosae). Lilloa 35(2):112, 1979 Un metodo
- [Pedro Scalabrini](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-scalabrini/): Pedro Scalabrini, Italian-born Argentine paleontologist and fossil collector (Como, Lombardy 21 August 1849 – Buenos Aires 24 April 1916) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Drytomomys typicus 1889 Testudo paranensis 1884 Xenosuchuis paranensis 1887 HONORS Scalabrinitherium Ameghino 1883 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-nicolas-stipanicic/): Pedro Nicolas Stipanicic Villa, Argentine paleobotanist and stratigrapher (Buenos Aires 06 June 1921 – Buenos Aires 02 December 2008) Authored about 70 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES Plants Dictyophyllum barrealensis with Menendez Dictyophyllum castellanosi with Menendez Dictyophyllum tenuifollium 1949 with Menendez Hausmannia feltisiana with Menendez Saportaea intermedia with Bonetti Animals Notobatrachus degiustoi 1955 with Reig Xenocephalites herreroduclouxi 1966 HONORS  Stipanicicia Reig 1956 (Fossil Mammalia)
- [Pedrito Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/pedrito-silva/): Pedrito Silva, Brazilian agricultural entomologist (Salvador 1917 – Salvador December 1990) Recognized as a world expert on cacao entomology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cacau e lagartão ou vassoura de bruxa. Bol. Tecn. CEPLAC 146, 1987 Combate aos insetos do cacau armazenado na Bahia. Cacau Atualidades 11(3):8-12, 1974  Informações e parecer sobre a cigarrinha dos pastos. A Granja 219:34, 1966 Tripes do cacaueiro: causador da “queima” da folha e da “ferrugem” do fruto. CEPLAC (1964) Tingídeos da Bahia. Bol. Inst. Biol. Bahia 3(1):10-77, 1960 Um novo ácaro nocivo ao tomateiro na Bahia (1954) The Coccids of Cacao in Bahia, Brazil. Bull. Entomol. Research 41(1):119-20,
- [Paulo Seabra](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-seabra/): Paulo Seabra, Brazilian pharmacist (Resende, Rio de Janeiro State 03 January 1899 – Rio de Janeiro 02 June 1968)  ACHIEVEMENTS Modified Loele staining process (Loele-Seabra method) for detecting acid-fast bacilli Oxidase and Lipase of the Leukocyte. Annals of New York acad. Sci. 59:1022-51, 1955. Developed lipase index of tuberculosis Sugestão de um cadastro lipásico para a profilaxia da tuberculose. Bol. Campanha Nac. Contra Tuberc. Junho, 1952. Lipasekataster. Zeit. Hyg. 140:573-7, 1955. Created Seabra lipasic reagent Established oxidase index, a numerical expression of the leukocytic oxidase Indice de Oxidase. Resultado de 334 determinações. Bol. Acad. Nac. Medicina 3(9):, 1939. Worked out a
- [Paulo Sawaya](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-sawaya/): Paulo Sawaya, Brazilian comparative physiologist and marine zoologist (Carmo do Rio Claro, Minas Gerais State  11 September 1903 – São Paulo 29 October 1995) Son of Lebanese immigrants Authored over 300 publications Described muscle anomalies With O.M. de Sousa. Duas anomalias musculares: M. condroepitocleano e m. acessório da cavidade orbitária. Rev. Med. 39:37-48, 1926 DESCRIBED ANIMAL TAXA Thyone naideae 1955 with Ancona Lopez (Echinodermata) Siphonops annulatus marmoratus & Siphonops paulensis maculatus 1937 (Amphibia)  Balanoglossus eufrosinoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus nonatoi 1953 with Forneris Balanoglossus catharinensis 1953 with Forneris  Pleurobranchus gigas 1972 with Grempel (Mollusca) Researches about comparative physiology, biochemistry and morphology Performed studies with pharmacological approach in animal
- [Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme](https://neglectedscience.com/pandurang-vasudeo-sukhatme/): Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, Indian biostatistician (Satara District, Maharashtra State 27 July 1911 – Pune, Maharashtra State 28 January 1997) Authored over 200 papers Showed that any U-statistic with a bounded kernel from a distribution whose density function is continuous at the median is bivariate normal (1957) Proposed formulae for the estimation of required sample size (1970) With Sheldon Margen formulated Sukhatme-Margen hypothesis “at low levels of calorie intake, energy is used with greater metabolic efficiency and efficiency is decreased as the intake increases over the applicable range” DEVELOPED Statistical models for assessing the dimensions of hunger and future food supplies in
- [P.P. Satsangi](https://neglectedscience.com/p-p-satsangi/): P.P. Satsangi, Indian paleontologist (fl.1961-2000) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genus Babiacetus 1984 with Trivedy (Mammalia) Species Babiacetus indicus 1984 with Trivedy (Mammalia) Ceratodus nageshwarai 1970 with Shah (Pisces) Ebalia spinosa 1997 with Tiwari & Barman (Crustacea) Geoemyda pilgrimi 1963 with Prasad (Reptilia) Lystrosaurus rajurkari 1963 with Tripathi  (Reptilia) Neptunus sijuensis 1980 with Parida (Crustacea) Palaeocarpilius bispinosus 1989 with Changkakoti (Crustacea) Thrinaxodon bengalensis 1987 (Mammalia) OTHERS CONTRIBUTIONS A new mammal-like reptile from the Lower Triassic of India. Rec. Geol. Survey Ind. (1973) Some new plant fossils from the Panchet Formation of Raniganj Formation Coalfield. Ind. Miner. 27(3):76-8, 1973 HONORS (Fossil) Satsangia Srivastava & Maheshwari 1973 (Plantae) Satsangisaccites Bharadwaj & Srivastava 1969 (Sporae)
- [P.C. Suratman](https://neglectedscience.com/p-c-suratman/): P.C. Suratman, Indonesian physicist and engineer Eponym of Suratman number or Laplace number With P. Van der Leeden & l.D. Nio. The velocity of free falling droplets. Appl. Sci. Res. Sect. A 5(5):338-48, 1955  
- [Otto Schubart](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-schubart/): Otto Rudolf Julius Schubart, German-born Brazilian zoologist (Berlin 17 February 1900 – Campinas, São Paulo State 08 November 1962) World authority on Diplopoda DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Diplopoda Genera 38 Species About 200 Myriapoda Genera 63 Crustacea (with Szidat 1960) Genus Philostomella Species Philostomella cigarra Riggia brasiliensis Riggia nana Telothia silurii Pisces Valid Species Cetopsorhamdia iheringi 1959 with Gomes Chasmocranus brachynemus 1958 with Gomes Hypostomus fluviatilis 1964 Hypostomus nigromaculatus 1964 Phenacorhamdia tenebrosa 1964 HONORS Schubartia Verhoeff 1927 (Myriapoda) Schubartesia Soares 1944 (Arachnida) Schubartina Lawrence 1937 (Diplopoda) Brasiloschubartia Jeekel 1963 (Diplopoda) Subgenus Schubartella Viets 1937(Acari)
- [Oswaldo Sala](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-sala/): Oswaldo Sala, Brazilian spectroscopist (Bauru, São Paulo State 29 June 1926 – With H. Stammreich et al. authored classical works in the field of Raman spectroscopy With H. Stammreich, R. Forneris & A.G. Ayrosa developed the technique of the excitation of Raman spectra with helium lamps in Technique and results of excitation of Raman spectra in the red and near infrared region. Spectrochim. Acta 8:41-45, 1956 With H. Stammreich introduced large contribution to Raman scattering studies of metals (1958-61) With H. Stammreich & R. Forneris presented reported studies of metallocarbonyls, cyano complexes, halogen complexes and interhalogen compounds With H. Stammreich &
- [Oscar Sala](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-sala/): Oscar Sala, Italian-born Brazilian nuclear physicist (Milano 26 March 1922 – São Paulo 02 January 2010) ACHIEVEMENTS With Gleb Wataghin performed the first measurement of absorption coefficient from cosmic radiations that generates penetrating showers (1942), showed particles production in nucleon-proton collisions (1944) and discovered the measure of section from proton-proton interaction total shock in high energies (1945) INSTRUMENTATION Developed a new kind of differential voltimeter for high voltages With T. Polga & R.A. Douglas. A differential generating voltmeter. Rev. Sci. Instr. 41;16, 1970 Developed rapid circuits of electronic coincidence   With Paulo T. Bittencourt  improved the technique of using electronic oscilloscopes in
- [Norman Sapeika](https://neglectedscience.com/norman-sapeika/): Norman Sapeika, Jewish South African pharmacologist (Oudtshoorn, Cape Province 17 January 1909 – ?) From Lithuanian father and Polish mother  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Actions and uses of drugs (book) With E.R. Kaplan. Effect of the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate on induction of hepatic microsomal P450. Res. Comm. Chem. Path. Pharmacol. 10:767-8, 1975 With J.H. Holmes & H. Zwarenstein. Effects of anti-obesity drugs on lipase activity in vitro. Res. Commun. Chem. Path. Pharmacol. 10:735, 1975 Drugs in obesity. S. Afr. Med. J. 48:2027-30, 1974 The toxicity of foods of natural origin. Trans R. Soc. S. Afr. 41:1-17, 1974 With E.L. Stephens. Clitocybe africana. S. Afr. J. Med.
- [Nora Sabattini](https://neglectedscience.com/nora-sabattini/): Nora Maria Sabattini, Argentine paleontologist (Tapalque, Buenos Aires Province 30 January 1941 –  La Plata 01 April 2021) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Mollusca Genera Amosiceras 2006 with Riccardi & Pagani Asketochiton 2000 with Hoare Austroneilsonia 1975 Barrealispira 1987 with Taboada Spirilira 2007 with Pinilla & Hlebszevitsch Sueroceras 1974 with Riccardi Totoralia 2011 with Tortello Species Amosiceras reticulatum 2006 with Riccardi & Pagani Asketochiton chubutensis 2000 with Hoare Austroneilsonia argentina 1975 Barrealispira mesigosi 1987 with Taboada Barrealispira tupensis 1990 with Ottone & Azcuy Borestus lunatus 2007 with Pinilla & Hlebszevitsch Callitomaria repuelensis 1969 with Noirat Calstevenus sueroi 1979 Cinclidonema sueroi 1997 Cladochonus amosi 1967 with Noirat Cladochonus harringtoni 1980 Dentalium (Laevidentalium) chubutensis 1979 Dinocycloceras argentinum 1984 with Riccardi   Euphemites chubutensis 1992 Glaphyrites taboadai 2006 with Riccardi & Pagani Hyolithes
- [Nicolau & Delir Serra Freire](https://neglectedscience.com/nicolau-delir-serra-freire/): Nicolau Maués da Serra Freire, Brazilian veterinary parasitologist (Belém 13 December 1947 – Rio de Janeiro 24 June 2015) Authored 357 papers, 5 books and 23 book chapters CONTRIBUTIONS With P.O. Scherer, E. Pile & G.V. Schaffer. Modificação da técnica de punção-biópsia hepática para pequenos ruminantes. Rev. Bras. Cien. Veter. 7(1):55-7, 2000 With K.M. Famadas & R.M. Lanfredi. Slit cuticular structure observed by scanning electron microscopy: presence on the walking legs of Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius, 1787) (Acari:Ixodidae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 92(1):53-5, 1997 With M. Tendler, C.A. Brito, M.M. Vilar, M.S. Almeida, A.C.B. Delbem, J.F. Silva, W. Savino, R.C. Garratt, N. Katz &
- [Newton Dias dos Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/newton-dias-dos-santos/): Newton Dias dos Santos, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 14 September 1916 –Rio de Janeiro 03 March 1989) Authored 124 papers about Odonata DESCRIBED ODONATA TAXA Genera Inpabasis 1961 Minagrion 1965 Roppaneura 1966 Ypirangathemis 1945 Species Acanthagrion egleri 1961 Aceratobasis mourei 1970 Aeschnosoma marizae 1981 Brechmorhoga travassosi 1946 Chalcopteryx seabrai 1960 with Machado Elasmothemis alcebiadesi 1945  Elasmothemis schubarti 1945 Epipleoneura haroldoi 1964 Epipleoneura manauensis 1965 Epipleoneura williamsoni 1957 Erythrodiplax gomesi 1946 Erythrodiplax luteofrons 1956 Fluminagrion taxaensis 1965 Forcepsioneura itatiaiae 1970 Inpabasis hubelli 1961 Inpabasis machadoi 1961 Leptagrion aculeatum 1965 Leptagrion acutum 1961 Leptagrion bocainense 1979 Leptagrion capixabae 1965  Leptagrion dardanoi 1968 Leptagrion garbei 1961 Leptagrion siqueirai 1968 Leptagrion vriesianum 1978 Leptobasis costalimai 1957 Leptobasis tuberculata 1961 Macrothemis hosanai 1967 Mesoleptobasis acuminata 1961 Mesoleptobasis cantralli 1961 Metaleptobasis selysii 1956 Metaleptobasis sooretamae 1957 Micrathyria almeidai 1945 Micrathyria borgmeieri 1947 Micrathyria
- [Nayef Emile Saade](https://neglectedscience.com/nayef-emile-saade/): Nayef Emile Saadé, Lebanese neuroscientist (Jaddayel-Jbeil 22 May 1944 – Authored over 150 papers Introduced various neuroanatomical tracing methods for identifying central pathways and molecular techniques for the possible mediators involved in the interaction between the neural, endocrine and immune systems With M. Bitar, S.J. Jabbur & N.R. Banna showed that both presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibitory mechanism existed within the dorsal column nuclei (1981) With S.F. Atweh & S.J. Jabbur first suggested that diazepam (Valium) acted on GABA receptors in the central nervous system producing presynaptic inhibition at axo-axonic synapsis With C.J. Jose, K. Rifai, N.H. Hawwa, C.A. Massaad, A.R. Jurjus
- [Nadim Farid Safatle](https://neglectedscience.com/nadim-farid-safatle/): Nadim Farid Safatle, Brazilian gastric surgeon (Catalão, Goiás State 08 July 1935 – Developed anti-peristaltic duodenal-jejunal pouch or Safatle pouch and Safatle reconstruction technique following gastrectomy using a Roux en Y modified technique Bolsa duodenojejunal antiperistaltica na reconstrução do trânsito digestivo após gastrectomia subtotal, total e na síndrome pós-gastrectomia. Tecnica. Arq. Gastroenterol. 21(2):59-67, 1984 With J. Costa Filho, D. Ciasca Jr. & A.M.V. Safatle. Colecistectomia por minilaparotomia mediana. Nova metodização. Arq. Gastroenterol. 28(4):119-23, 1991   
- [Nadia Awni Sakati](https://neglectedscience.com/nadia-awni-sakati/): Nadia Awni Sakati, Syrian pediatrician (Damascus 1938 – DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES Sanjad-Sakati syndrome With S. Sanjad, Y.K. Abu-Osba, P. Kaddora & P.D.G. Milner. A new syndrome of congenital hypoparathyroidism, seizure, growth failure and dysmorphic features. Arch. Diseases Childhood. 66:193-6, 1991  Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome With N.J. Woodhouse. A syndrome of hypogonadism, alopecia, diabetes mellitus, mental retardation, deafness and ECG abnormalities. J.Med. Genet. 20:216-9, 1983 Sakati-Nyhan-Tisdale syndrome With W.L. Nyhan & W.K. Tisdale. A new case with acrocephalopolysyndactyly, cardiac disease, and distinctive defects of the ear, skin and lower limbs. J. Pediatrics. 79:104-9, 1971
- [Mário Schenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-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
- [Mustafa Shameel](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Mayandy Sivadasan](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Martin Schmal](https://neglectedscience.com/martin-schmal/): Martin Schmal, German-born Jewish Brazilian chemical engineer (Grünberg, Giessen District, Hesse State 07 July 1937 – Authored 204 papers (until 2013) DEVELOPED Catalysts that filtrates pollutant gas and particled material from diesel engines An oxidation catalyst that employs molybdenum and silica A new method for preparing catalysts With D. Aranda. Process of methane coupling (1997) With B.M.S. Evandro & C.A.P. Marta. A new catalyst for production of polialcohols (1996) With L.C.D.M. Schmal & A. Gaspar. Synthesis catalyst chromium-based (1996) With H. Borges. New catalysts for hydrogenation (1996) With H.B.M. Schmal. New catalyst for hydrodenitrogenation (1996) With T.M.S. Vitor. A bifunctional catalysts
- [Mario Sousa Sanchez](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-sousa-sanchez/): Mario Sousa Sanchez, Mexican botanist (Ciudad de Mexico 19 February 1940 – Ciudad de Mexico 17 January 2017) Authored over 130 publications DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Guinetia 2000 with Rico Heteroflorum 2005 Subgenus Ruddia 2007 with Linares Section Standleyi 2009 Species About 150 HONORS Mariosousa Seigler & Ebinger 2006 (Fabaceae) 
- [Mario Sanchez Roig](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-sanchez-roig/): Mario Ildefonso Sanchez Roig, Cuban zoologist and paleontologist (La Habana 23 January 1890 – La Habana 13 June 1962) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Echinodermata Genera Aguayoaster 1952 Cubanaster 1952 Fernandezaster 1952 Gonzalezaster 1952 Hernandezaster 1949 Herrerasia 1951 Herreraster 1951 Lajanaster 1924 with Lambert Lambertona 1953 Megapatagus 1953 Moronaster 1952 Neopatagus 1953 Palmeraster 1949 Pseudoasterostoma 1952 Pseudorthopsis 1949 Rojasaster 1952  Rojasia 1951 Sandiegoaster 1952 Zanolettia 1951 Zanolettiaster 1953 Species About 280 Mollusca Genus (Fossil) Cubaochetoceras 1951 Species Cerion acuticostatum 1948 Cerion chaparra 1953 with Aguayo Cerion columbinus 1951 Cerion coutini 1951 Cerion feltoni 1951 Cerion grilloensis 1951 Cerion miramarae 1951 Cerion palmeri 1948 Cerion pastelliloens 1951 Cerion prestoni 1951 Cerion pretiosus 1951  Cerion pseudocyclostomum 1953 with Aguayo Cerion saetiae 1948 Cerion sainthilarius 1951 Cerion tanamensis 1951 Chondrothyrella paredonis 1951 Chondrothyrium mortiarum 1951 Chondrothyrium tejedori 1951 Macroceramus giganteus Macroceramus jaumei Macroceramus yateresense Opisthocoelium dubium 1949 Opisthosiphon
- [Maria Siqueira](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-siqueira/): Maria Siqueira Pinheiro, Brazilian immunologist (São Paulo 07 July 1927 – São Paulo 28 March 2015) Authored over 70 works  Described the biological role of antibodies on glomerulonephritis With H.C. Passos, O.C. Martínez & O.G. Bier. Studies on the nephrotoxic activity of guinea-pig gamma 1 and gamma2 antibodies. Immun. 26(2):407-16, 1974 Found that antigen-antibody complexes can act even at the site of passive cutaneous anaphylaxis reactions evoked by unrelated antigen-antibody systems With O. G. Bier. Hemorrhagic reactions at sites of passive cutaneous anaphylaxis in guinea pig after intravenous inoculation of unrelated immune complex. Proceed. Soc. Exper. Biol. Med. 107(4):779-84, 1961   With O.
- [Marco Antonio Serna](https://neglectedscience.com/marco-antonio-serna/): Marco Antonio Serna Díaz, Colombian herpetologist and ornithologist (San Vicente Ferrer, Antioquia 11 July 1936 – Ayapel, Córdoba Dept. 31 December 1991) DESCRIBED VALID SPECIES Amphibia (with Rivero) Atelopus galactogaster 1993 Atelopus sanjosei 1989 Colostethus brachistriatus 1986 Colostethus dysprosium 2000 Colostethus furviventris 1991 Colostethus yaguara 1991 Hyloxalus betancuri 1991 Hyloxalus borjai 2000 Hyloxalus breviquartus 1986 Hyloxalus excisus 2000 Pristimantis dorsopictus 1988 Pristimantis johannesdei 1988 Pristimantis phragmipleuron 1988 Pseudopaludicola ceratophyes 1985 Rheobates pseudopalmatus 2000 Silverstoneia erasmios 2000 Reptilia  Lepidoblepharis williamsi 1986 with Ayala  
- [Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos](https://neglectedscience.com/marcelo-damy-de-souza-santos/): Marcelo Damy de Souza Santos, Brazilian physicist (Campinas, São Paulo State 14 July 1914 –São Paulo 29 November 2009) Authored more than 80 works Discovered penetrating showers in cosmic rays with Wataghin and Pompéia With G. Wataghin & P.A Pompéia.  Simultaneous penetrating particles in the cosmic radiation I. Physical Review 57:61, 1940. With G. Wataghin & P.A. Pompéia. Simultaneous penetrating particles in the cosmic radiation. II. Physical review 57:339, 1940.  With G. Wataghin, M. Schenberg & G. Occhialini first observed the phenomenon of mesons production in groups simultaneously emitted in an one nuclear process (1941) DEVICES/METHODS With G. Wataghin. Sopra um
- [Manuel Soriano](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-soriano/): Manuel Saturnino Soriano Escobedo, Mexican surgeon (Ciudad de Mexico 1837 – Ciudad de Mexico February 1927) Proposed a series of maneuvers INVENTED Double scarifier for child gingiva (1865) Trocar for surgical canalization Triangle knife for ingrown toenail An abdominal suture needle
- [Manuel Sandoval Vallarta](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-sandoval-vallarta/): Manuel Sandoval Vallarta, Mexican physicist (Ciudad de Mexico 11 February 1899 – Ciudad de Mexico 18 April 1977) Regarded as world authority on cosmic rays   Authored about 70 works Determinated coincidence conditions for classical and ondulatory mechanics results (1927) With N. Rosen introduced past and future asymmetry in a field theory   Obtained evidence that cosmic radiation presented electrical charge and determined its sign With G. Lemaitre demonstrated that if particles flow distribution of cosmic radiation is isotropic magnetic field outside, the intensity of cosmic radiation that reaches a point on Earth surface is the same in all permitted directions for each given
- [Mandakolathor Subrahmanya Srinivasan](https://neglectedscience.com/mandakolathor-subrahmanya-srinivasan/): Mandakolathor Subrahmanya Srinivasan, Indian micropaleontologist and biostratigrapher (Attilmalaipattu, Tamil Nadu 09 October 1938 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA  Valid Genera Neuropleurostomella 1992 with Rai Vellaena 1966 Virguloides 1966 Wadella 1966 Species Alabamina archipelagoensis 1981 with Rajshekhar Biloculinella elongata 1973 with Sharma Bolivinita delicata 1973 with Sharma Bolivinita neocompressa 1973 with Sharma Ceratolamarckina clarki 1966 Cibicides bengalensis 1972 with Sharma  Cibicides helferi 1981 with Rajshekhar Cibicides hochstetteri 1980 with Singh Cibicides pronovozelandicus 1966 Clavatorella nicobarensis 1974 with Kennett Discorbis rajnathi 1966 Ehrenbergina schwageri 1980 with Singh Elphidium hornibrooki 1966 Favocassidulina indica 1990 with Gupta Flabellammina pliocenica 1981 with Rajshekhar Fursenkoina indica 1980 with Singh Glabratella finlayi 1966 Globoquadrina indica 1972 with Sharma Globorotalia banneri 1972 with Sharma Globorotalia nicobarica 1969 Globorotalia spiroapertura 1972 Globorotalia challengeri 1981 with Kennett
- [Mahmoud Salah](https://neglectedscience.com/mahmoud-salah/): Mahmoud Salah el-Din, Egyptian physician and surgeon (06 June 1902 – 1978) Developed Salah sternal puncture needle (1937) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With M. Khalil, M. Nazmi, F.M. Peter & M.H. Betash. Die behandlung der schistosomiasis mit intramuskularen “fuadin injectionen”. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 55:1125-6, 1929  With M. Khalil. The microscopical diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 23:519, 1930 Sternal puncture: preliminary note. J. Egyp. Med. Assoc. 17:8-16, 1931 The nature of pulmonary lesions in malaria. Arch. Schiffs. u. Tropenhyg. 36:260, 1932 The parasitic entity of Aegyptianella pullorum (Carpano, 1928). Arch. Schiffs. u. Tropenhyg. 36:400-7, 1932 Demonstration of the hemopoietic principle. Trans.
- [Magdalena Smith-Meyer](https://neglectedscience.com/magdalena-smith-meyer/): Magdalena Kathrina Petronella Smith-Meyer, South African acarologist (Leeudoringstad, North West Province 09 October 1931 – Pretoria 21 October 2004) Authored An articial rearing medium for acarid mites. J. Ent. Soc. S.Afr. 29:199, 1967  Developed several techniques for the collection of mites DESCRIBED ACARI GENERA Adenocolus 1997 with Ueckermann Aequsomatus 1995 with Ueckermann Africus 1995 with Ueckermann Afrolinotus 1997 with Ueckermann Afromerus 1990 Afronobia 1974 Afronychus 1979 Anoplopalpus 1997 with Ueckermann Brevinychus 1974 Bryocopsis 1974 Capedulia 1979 Coleacarus 1979 Costarectus 1995 with Ueckermann Dolichonobia 1974 Duplanychus 1974  Edella 1974 Evertella 1987 Krugeria 1979 Marainobia 1974 Myxonychus 1960 with Ryke Namadia 1987 with Ueckermann Naudea 1965 with Rodrigues Neilstigmaeus 1995 with Gerson Neserella 1989 with Ueckermann Paranandia 1987 with Ueckermann Parapetrobia 1959 with Ryke Peltanobia 1974 Peltasellus 1984 with Ueckermann Pilonychiopus 1969
- [Maankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan](https://neglectedscience.com/maankombu-sambasivan-swaminathan/): Maankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, Indian agronomist and plant geneticist (Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu State 07 August 1925 – Chennai, Tamil Nadu State 28 September 2023)  Recognized as a world leader on resources conservation and agriculture  Authored 254 papers Presented a new concept of the species relationship within the tuber-bearing Solanum in his PhD thesis, University of Cambridge (1952) Found genetic relationships between a number of wheat and rice strains Elucidated the role of infection in heredity Standardized techniques for overcoming interspecific incompatibility barriers Showed the potato as an autotetraploid With N.E. Borlaug developed rice and wheat varieties Played a role in the development of
- [M.V. Arunachala Sastry](https://neglectedscience.com/m-v-arunachala-sastry/): Munikoti Venkatesaiah Arunachala Sastry, Indian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Bangalore 23 November 1922 – 31 October 2005) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Foraminifera Species Ammodiscus uttaturensis 1960 with Sastri Anomalina indica 1960 with Sastri Halophragmoides glaessnerai 1966 with Sastri Lenticulina raoi 1966 with Sastri Praeglobotruncana blanfordiana 1972 with Mamgain Praeglobotruncana kallakkudiensis 1972 with Mamgain Rectogumbelina nagappai 1966 with Sastri Vaginulina delicatula 1966 with Sastri Valvulineria ramaraoi 1966 with Sastri Ostracoda (with Mamgain 1972) Aysegulina indica Brachycythere indiana Brachycythere pallakaveriensis Brachycythere punctata Brachycythere sillakkudiensis Bythocypris dentifera Bythocypris naraiyurensis Cythereis indiana Cythereis kattuppirangiyamensis Cythereis reticulata Cytherella kallarensis Cytherelloidea naraiyurensis Cytherelloidea sillakkudiensis Cytherelloidea tricarinata Haplocytheridea nallampattuensis Loxoconcha indiana Loxoconcha sillakkudiensis Macrocypris elongata Paracyprideis chokkanathapuramensis Veenia reticulata Cnidaria
- [Luis Sodiro](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-sodiro/): Aloysius (Luis) Sodiro, Italian-born Equatorian Jesuit and botanist (Vicenza 29 May 1836 – Quito 15 May 1909) Described the section Polytrichia (1894), 743 plant species and 93 varieties HONORS Subg. Sodiroa Luer 1978 (Orchidaceae)
- [Luis Santaló](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-santalo/): Lluis Antoni Santaló Sors, Spanish-born Argentine geometer (Girona, Catalunya 09 October 1911 – Buenos Aires 22 November 2001) Regarded internationally as founder of modern integral geometry and one of greatest geometers of the 20th century Authored over 150 papers Authored 25 books between them Vectores y Tensores (1961) and Integral Geometry and Geometric Probabilities (1976) Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematicians (1950) ACHIEVEMENTS With Chern regarded as founder of hyperbolic integral geometry  Introduced kinetic density for sets of geodesies on two-dimensional surfaces Introduced affine unimodular invariant (1958) Obtained integral formulas for a two-dimensional Riemannian space of negative constant curvature  Laid the mathematical
- [Luis Sanchez Bulnes](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-sanchez-bulnes/): Luis Sanchez Bulnes, Mexican ophthalmologist (1908 – ?) With A. Dalma. Surgical treatment of retinal detachment. New developments in the technique of radial scleral resections. Am.J. Ophthalmol. 61(5Pt2):1038-44, 1966 Developed the technique of radial scleral resections (1960) With S. Diez Gutierrez & A. Flores Hintz. The present status of surgery for retinal detachment. A new operative technique. Am. J. Ophthalm. 50:441-51, 1960 With R. Figueroa. Resection sclerale lamellaire radiculaire. Ar. As. P. Ev. Ceg. Mexico 2(1):271-88, 1957 Tecnica para la correción del ectropión senil. Arch. Ceguera Mexico 2:125-35, 1944 A new technique in the treatment of glaucoma (anterior combined cyclodyalisis). Anales
- [Luis Arturo Soto](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-arturo-soto/): Luis Arturo Soto Gonzalez, Mexican marine ecologist (Ciudad de Mexico 12 September 1946 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D.L. Salcedo & J.B. Paduan. Trophic structure of the macrofauna associated to deep-vents of the southern Gulf of California: Pescadero Basin and Pescadero Transform Fault. PLoS One 14(11), 2019 With G. Lanza Espino. C:N:P molar ratios, sources and 14C dating of surficial sediments from the NW slope of Cuba. PLoS One (2015) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of fauna associated with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems of Guaymas Basin., Gulf of California. Deep Sea Res. Part II. Topical Studies on Oceanography 56(19):1675-82, 2009   With L.
- [Lothar Szidat](https://neglectedscience.com/lothar-szidat/): Lothar Karl Wilhelm Szidat, German-born Argentine helminthologist and parasitologist (Ilowo, Poland 31 December 1892 – Buenos Aires 22 July 1973) Demonstrated the existence of furocercariae in the life cycle of strigeoid digeneans Enunciated the Szidat rule “The level of organization of the permanent parasites generally allows conclusions to be drawn about the phylogenetic antiquity of their hosts” DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Acanthostomoides 1956 Apatemon 1928 Austrocalicotyle 1972 Austrocreadium 1956 Austrodiplostomum 1951 with Nani Austromicrophallus 1964 Bothrioscolex 1937 Brachyurus 1938 Bursotrema 1960 Cardiocephalus 1928 Cotylurus 1928 Cyathocotyloides 1936 Dicranocercaria 1932 Duboisia 1936 Elytrophalloides 1955 Eucradium 1954 Holostephanus 1936 Kossackia 1936 Linstowiella 1933 Megacoelium 1954 Neobilharzia 1942 Ophiosoma 1928 Palaeocryptogonimus 1954 Palaeorchis 1943 Paracalicotyle 1970 Paracyathocotyle 1936 Paralichthyotrema 1960 Parastrigea 1928 Parasymphylodora 1943 Pittacium 1939 Plehniella 1951 Postmonorcheides 1950 Procaudotestis 1954 Proneochasmus 1954 Pseudhemistomum 1936 Pseudobenedenoides 1969 Saccocoelioides 1954 Trigonostoma 1966 Species About 100
- [Lope de Saavedra Barba](https://neglectedscience.com/lope-de-saavedra-barba/): Lope de Saavedra Barba, Spanish / Peruvian metallurgist (Siruela, Badajoz 15?? – Huancavelica, Peru c. 1645) Created the dragons or griffins furnace known as busconil furnace (1633) Developed a new method for obtaining mercury by distillation (1635)
- [Leandro do Sacramento](https://neglectedscience.com/leandro-do-sacramento/): Leandro do Santíssimo Sacramento, Brazilian botanist and friar (Recife 1778 – Rio de Janeiro 01 July 1829) Nee Leandro Ferreira da Silva SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Theses ex Philosophia Naturali Conimbricio (1806) Memoria sobre as nitreiras naturais ou artificiais deste país (1808) Memória econômica sobre a plantação, cultura e preparação do chá Aguas minerais do Araxá (1817) Compendio de Botânica Memória sobre as Balanophoráceas Instruções para os viajantes e empregados nas colônias sobre a maneira de colher, conservar e remeter objetos de história natural (1819) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Funifera 1843 (Thymeleaceae) Species Archimedea pyramidalis 1837 Funifera utilis 1843 Stifftia parviflora 1819 HONORS Leandria Rangel 1915 (Fungi) Leandra Raddi 1820
- [Lauro Sollero](https://neglectedscience.com/lauro-sollero/): Lauro Sollero, Brazilian pharmacologist (Ubá, Minas Gerais State 23 January 1916 – Rio de Janeiro 06 September 1982) With D. Bovet & C. Chagas Filho described the in vivo curarisation of the electric organ of the Electrophorus electricus (1953) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D. Bovet, F. Bovet-Nitti & G.B. Marini-Bettolo. Recherches sur les derives de la 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro-2-naphtylamine presentant les proprietés sympatholytiques et oxytociques des alcaloides de l’ergot. Experientia 7:232-4, 1951 With D. Bovet & M. Marotta. Studies on sympatholythics of ergotamine series: pharmacological action of tetrahydro-beta-naphthyl-diethylamine. Rend. Ist. Sup. Sanit. 15(10):905-24, 1952   With C. Chagas Filho, H.M. Ferreira & H.C. Parreira. On
- [Kurt Schrottky](https://neglectedscience.com/kurt-schrottky/): Kurt (Carlos) Schrottky, German-born entomologist in Paraguay and Argentina (Petrokov, today Poland 21 October 1874 – Monte Carlo, Misiones Province 1937) Authored 86 publications Proposed at all 593 new names in Hymenoptera, Diptera and Lepidoptera DESCRIBED INSECTA TAXA Hymenoptera Genera Aethriopsis 1910 Bertonia 1910 Brethesia 1909 Ctenocorynura 1914 Cyphomelissa 1902 Desmotetrapedia 1909 Halictomorpha 1911 Heteroperreyia 1915 Megaloptella 1915 Meliphila 1902 Micraugochlora 1909 Neochelynia 1920 Neocorynura 1910 Neosprynchotus 1915 Odontochlora 1909 Odyneropsis 1902 Oxynedys 1902 Parafriesea 1906 Paraperreyia 1915 Paraugochlora 1910 Paraugochloropsis 1906 Pseudabia 1910 Pseudagapostemon 1909 Pseudaugochloropsis 1906 Pseudomphale 1909 Rhinocorynura 1909 Stenocolletes 1909 Stenogorytes 1911 Tetrachlora 1909 Venturia 1902 Species 246 valid HONORS Subgenus Schrottkyapis Mitchell 1980 (Hymenoptera)
- [Kunwar Suresh Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/kunwar-suresh-singh/): Kunwar Suresh Singh, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh State 15 August 1924 – Developed a new method for studying cercariae (1955) DESCRIBED HELMINTHOLOGICAL TAXA  Valid Genera Ivritaenia 1962 Neoliga 1952 Srivastavanema 1962 Srivastavatrema 1962 Some Species Anoncotaenia indica 1964 Biuterina dicruri 1964 Brachylaima indica 1962 Bulhoesia thapari 1955 with Singh Catatropis rauschi 1956 Choanotaenia picusi 1964 Choanotaenia tandani 1964 Diplostomulum elongatum 1957 Echinocotyle minutissus 1952 Echinostoma microspina 1954 Echinostoma thapari 1953 Gangesia lucknowia 1948 Gryllocola gryllotalpae 1955 Gryllocola indicus 1955 Gryllophila khehariae 1958 with Singh Hymenolepis bahli 1954 Hymenolepis crecca 1952 Hymenolepis makundi 1952 Hymenolepis vogeae 1956 Ivritaenia mukteswirensis 1962 Leucochloridium indicum 1962 Leidynemella periplaneticolae 1958 with Singh Longistriata indica 1969 Longistrata longispicularis 1962 Lytocestus fossilis 1975 Mayhewia yamagutii 1967 Notocotylus solitaria 1954 Oochroristica tandoni 1957 Ophriocotyloides dasi 1964 with Tandon Ophryocotyle
- [Kuldip Singh Soodan](https://neglectedscience.com/kuldip-singh-soodan/): Kuldip Singh Soodan, Indian geologist and palaeontologist (fl.1965) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Echinodermata Clarkina 1975 Feddenella 1975 Fletcherina 1975 Fleutiauxia 1975 Hannaina 1975 Hamptonina 1980 with Whatley Harrisina 1980 with Whatley  Hodsonina 1980 with Whatley Jagdipina 1986 Lawsonina 1988 with Whatley Sastriella 1975  Swabiaina 1991 Yorkshirella 1990 with Whatley Species 87 Foraminifera Genus Inordinatosphaera 1967 with Mohan Species 2 HONORS Soodanella Huddleston 1982 (Fossil Echinodermata) 
- [Krishnakumar Narayandas Shah](https://neglectedscience.com/krishnakumar-narayandas-shah/): Krishnakumar Narayandas Shah, Indian pediatrician (29 October 1934 – Described Shah-Waardenburg Syndrome  With S.J. Dalal, M.P. Desai, P.N. Sheth et al. White forelock, pigmentary disorder of irides and long sediment Hirschsprung disease: possible variant of Waardenburg syndrome. J. Pediatrics 99:432-5, 1981 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  The diagnostic and clinical significance of cafe au lait macules. Pediatr. Clin. N. Am. 57:1131-53, 2010 With A.C. Yan. Acquired zinc deficiency acrodermatitis associated with nephrotic syndrome. Pediatr. Dermatol. 25:56-9, 2008  With P.I. Honig & A.C. Yan. “Urticaria multiforme”: a case series and review of acute annular urticarial hypersensitivity syndromes in children. Pediatrics 119:117-783, 2007  With R.G. Fried.
- [Krishna Rajaram Surange](https://neglectedscience.com/krishna-rajaram-surange/): Krishna Rajaram Surange, Indian palaeobotanist (Ujjain 07 February 1920 – 06 January 2010) DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE GENERA Barakaroxylon 1971 with Maithy Cyclanthodendron 1944 with Sahni Denkania 1973 with Chandra    Glossotheca 1970 with Maheshwari Indocarpus 1974 with Chandra Indoxylon 1963 with Maithy Jambadostrobus 1977 with Chandra Kendosporites 1974 with Chandra Kendostrobus 1974 with Chandra Partha 1973 with Chandra Plumsteadiostrobus 1977 with Chandra Stellotheca 1962 with Prakash Stereocarpus 1958  Venustostrobus 1977 with Chandra HONORS (Fossil) Surangea Chitaley & Sheikh 1972 (Plantae) Rusangea Lacey, Van Dijk & Gordon-Gray 1975 (Plantae) Surangephyllum Chandra & Singh 1986 (Plantae) Surangeaspora Chandra, Kar & Lacey 1977 (Sporae) Surangeaesporites Bharadwaj & Tiwari 1970 (Sporae) Surangepushpam Lanjewar, Puranik & Sakundarwar 2015 (Plantae)  
- [Khushnood Ahmed Siddiqi](https://neglectedscience.com/khushnood-ahmed-siddiqi/): Khushnood Ahmed Siddiqi, Pakistani plant geneticist (Indore 15 June 1937 – Tando Jam 18 March 2009) Authored over 200 publications DEVELOPED WHEAT VARIETIES Jauhar-78m (1979) Sindh-81 Sarsabz (1986) Soghat-90 Kiran-95 LINKS http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/41(3)/PJB41(3)0985.pdf
- [Karam Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/karam-singh/): Karam (Lamba) Singh, Indian agricultural entomologist (fl.1928-50) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Valid Genus Aleuroclava 1931 Species Acaudaleyrodes rachipora 1931 Aleurocanthus rugosa 1931 Aleuroclava burmanicus 1938 Aleuroclava complex 1931 Aleuroclava hexacantha 1940 Aleuroclava indicus 1931 Aleuroclava murrayae 1931 Aleuroclava nitidus 1932 Aleuroclava parvus 1938  Aleuroclava psidii 1931 Aleurolobus bidentatus 1940 Aleuromarginatus indicus 1940 Aleuromigda deghai 1931 Aleuroplatus pectenserratus 1945 Aleuroplatus sinepecten 1945 Aleuroplatus spina 1931 Aleurotrachelus tuberculata 1933 Aleurotulus arundinacea 1931 Aleurotulus maculata 1931 Asialeyrodes dorsidemarcata 1932 Bemisia achyranthes 1931 Bemisia gossypiperda 1929 with Misra Bemisia grossa 1931 Crenidorsum caerulescens 1931 Crenidorsum multipapillus 1932 Dialeurodus cephalidistinctus 1932 Dialeurodus glomerata 1931 Dialeurodus hexpuncta 1932 Dialeurodus minuta 1933 Dialeurodus oweni 1932 Dialeurodus papulae 1932 Dialeurodus rangooni 1932 Dialeurodus rotunda 1931 Dialeurolonga maculata 1931 Dialeuronomada ixorae 1931 Kanakarajiella vulgaris 1931 Lipaleyrodes breyniae 1933 Minutaleyrodes minuta 1933 Pealius kalawi 1933 Pealius misrae 1931 Pealius spina 1931 Russellaleyrodes cumiugum 1932 Setaleyrodes
- [Julio Sotelo Morales](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-sotelo-morales/): Julio Everardo Sotelo Morales, Mexican neurologist (Ciudad de Mexico 20 October 1950 – Authored over 400 papers and 80 book chapters with about 12,900 (Research Gate) and 9,200 (Scopus) citations CONTRIBUTIONS With A. Martínez Palomo, G. Ordoñez & B. Pineda. Varicella-zoster virus in cerebrospinal fluid at relapses of multiple sclerosis. Ann. Neurol. 63(3):303-11, 2008 With T. Corona, R. Lugo & R. Medina. Single-day praziquantel therapy for neurocysticercosis. N. Engl. J. Med. 334:125, 1996 With M.A. Rubalcava & S. Gómez Llata. A new shunt for hydrocephalus that relies on CSF production rather on ventricular pressure: initial clinical experiences. Surg. Neurol. 43(4):324-32, 1995
- [Julio María Sosa](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-maria-sosa/): Julio Maria Sosa Soumastre, Uruguayan histologist and neurologist (Mercedes 01 July 1906 – 1976) Internationally respected as an authority on Golgi apparatus  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El aparato de Golgi en la corteza cerebelosa en la avitaminosis experimental y en algunos estados fisiologicos. An. Inst. Neurol. 1:327-42, 1929 L’appareil de Golgi dans la corne d’Ammon. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 844-7, 1931 Las variaciones fisiologicas del aparato de Golgi en las celulas de Purkinje del cerebrelo (1931) With J. A. Menegazzi. L’appareil de Golgi des neurones de Helix aspersa. Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 9:157-64, 1939 With W. Andrew. Heterotopic neurons of the sensory type in
- [Julio Magalhães Schwenck](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-magalhaes-schwenck/): Julio Magalhães Schwenck (or Schwenk), Brazilian physician and parasitologist (fl.1926-1935) DESCRIBED NEMATODA GENERA (1927) Blatticola  Leidynema Oniscicola Severianoia HONORS (Nematoda) Schwenckiana Kloss 1966 Schwenkiella Basir 1956
- [Julio Cezar Ribeiro de Souza](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-cezar-ribeiro-de-souza/): Julio Cezar Ribeiro de Souza, Brazilian aeronautical engineer (Vila de São José do Acará, Pará State 13 June 1843 – Belém 14 June 1887) Discovered important principles in aeronautics Patented the fusiform or asymmetrical form of balloons for aerial navigation (1880) and a perfected system of balloons (patented in Brazil, French, Great Britain, United States, Germany, Russia, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Italy and others countries) in 1881   Invented the dirigible (1881), before Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs (1884)   Exposed his theories to experts in France becoming Associate member of Societé Française de Navigation Aerienne (1881) Built Santa Maria de Belém, the greatest
- [Juan Francisco Steegers](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-francisco-steegers/): Juan Francisco Cecilio Ignacio Steegers y Perera, Cuban photographer (La Habana 19 February 1856 – Guanabacoa 22 March 1921) Created Steegers dactylo-photographic system of fingerprint identification (1907) and conceived procedure and instrumental for it  Modified the Henry dactyloscopic formula 
- [Juan A. Sanchez](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-a-sanchez/): Juan Antonio Sanchez, Argentine chemist and pharmacist (Buenos Aires 15 June 1875 – Buenos Aires 31 October 1953) Gained international recognition for his works on functional analysis of medicines DEVELOPED METHODS, REACTIONS AND REAGENTS Trois reactions colorées d’identification de la plasmoquine et de ses sels. Ann. Pharm. Franç 6(11-2):495-501, 1949 Determinación colorimetrica de la coramina. Rev. Univ. Nac. Cordoba 3, 1944 Nueva reacción cromática funcional de la glicerina, de los glicerolfosfatos y sus derivados. Rev. Col. Farm. Nac. 10(3):155, 1943 Nuevo metodo colorimétrico para la valoración de las sulfanilamidas en los liquidos biologicos. Rev. Asoc. Bioq. Arg. 8:5, 1942 Nuevo metodo de
- [João Evangelista da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-evangelista-da-silva/): João Evangelista da Silva, Brazilian medical entomologist  (fl.1956-97) DESCRIBED TAXA Diptera Genus Barrettomyia 1965 with Martins Species Brumptomyia ortizi  1971 with Falcão & Martins Evandromyia termitophila 1964 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia abunaensis 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia acanthopharynx 1962 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia appendiculata 1961 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia bacula 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia borgmeieri  1972 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia calcarata 1964 with Martins Lutzomyia caligata 1965 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia callipyga 1965 with Martins Lutzomyia capixaba 1987 with Falcão, Martins & Dias 1987 Lutzomyia cipoensis 1964 with Falcão & Martins Lutzomyia cuzquena 1975 with Llanos & Martins Lutzomyia diacantha 1965 with Martins Lutzomyia dispar 1963 with Martins
- [José María Sobral](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-sobral/): José María Sobral Iturrioz, Argentine geologist, polar explorer and geographer (Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province 14 April 1880 – Buenos Aires 14 April 1961) Authored 29 publications SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On the contact features of the Nordingra region. Bull. Geol. Inst. 9:118-28, 1910 Contribution to the geology of the Nordingra region (1913) On a granite of Hemson. Physis 2(10):122-7, 1916 Sobre el piroxeno y la olivina de la diabasa de Ulfö. Physis 4 (17):290-1, 1918 Estudio petrografico de algunas rocas argentinas. An. Sección Geol. Mineral. Minist. Agric. 2, 1918 Some physiographic notes on the Sierra de Famatina. Geogr. Annaler 3:311-26, 1921 Problemas hidrograficos
- [José Francisco da Silva Lima](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-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
- [Jose Vicente Scorza](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Jose Luis Sersic](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-andre-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](https://neglectedscience.com/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)
- [Johannes Smuts](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Joaquim Candido da Costa Sena](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Joao Semir](https://neglectedscience.com/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
- [Joao Evangelista Steiner](https://neglectedscience.com/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,
- [Jitendra Kumar Sen](https://neglectedscience.com/jitendra-kumar-sen/): Jitendra Kumar Sen, Indian palaeobotanist (Howrah, West Bengal 02 December 1921 – Calcutta 12 December 1966)  HONORS (Fossil) Senia Khan 1969 (Plantae)  Senotheca Banerjee 1969 (Plantae) Seniasporites Sah & Kar 1969 (Sporae) Senipites Srivastava 1969 (Sporae) Senispora Bandyopadhyay 1972 (Sporae)
- [Jinzhang Sheng](https://neglectedscience.com/jinzhang-sheng/): Jinzhang Sheng, Chinese micropaleontologist and biostratigrapher (Jingiang, Jiangsu Province 15 May 1921 – 07 January 2007) Recognized over the world for his work in foraminiferal studies DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Foraminifera Genera Chenia 1963 Nanlingella 1981 with Rui Protoweddekindella Robustoschwagerinoides 1984 with Wang & Zhang Taitzehoella 1951 Wutuella 1963 Species At least 152 Radiolaria (with Wang) Genus Longtanella 1985 Species Cubaxonium antiquorum 1982 Hegleria mammilla 1985 Longtanella zhengpanshanensis 1985 Pseudoalbaillella bella 1985 Pseudoalbaillella longtanensis 1985 Pseudoalbaillella nanjingensis 1985 Spongotripus xintianensis 1982 Stauroplegma lepidum 1982 Stauroplegma pulcherrimum 1982 Stauroplegma robustospina 1982 HONORS (Fossil Foraminifera) Shengella Yang 1985 Jinzhangia Ueno 2001 HONOURS Joseph A. Cushman Award (1996)  
- [Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter](https://neglectedscience.com/jayme-luiz-szwarcfiter/): Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, Jewish Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist (Rio de Janeiro 05 July 1942 – With D.E. Knuth proposed a structured program to generate all topological sorting arrangements known as Knuth-Szwarcfiter sorting algorithm (1974) With A. Itai & C. Papadimitriou proved the problem of determining whether or not an instance (G,s, t) of a Hamilton path problem has a solution is NP-complete (1982) Showed that the general problem of optimizing the cost of a tree, given the keys, the probabilities and the page limit is NP-hard (1984) Developed polynomial algorithm for recognizing, finding isomorphism between and finding minimum equivalent directed graphs
- [Jaroslav Soukup](https://neglectedscience.com/jaroslav-soukup/): Jaroslav Soukup, Czech-born Peruvian Salesian priest and entomologist (Pribram 10 March 1902 – Lima 14 November 1989) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA  Diptera (with A. Vimmer 1940) Valid Genera Chaetopalpus Gimnojurinella Metopiopsis Neocyrtophoeba Parabothria Pseudoophirion Sarcophila Plantae Tropaeolum vargasianum 1946 HONORS Sokkupia Mello-Leitão 1949 (Arachnida)
- [James Leonard Brierley Smith](https://neglectedscience.com/james-leonard-brierley-smith/): James Leonard Brierley Smith, South African ichthyologist (Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape Province 26 October 1897 – Grahamstown 07 January 1968) He is most known for describing the first living coelacanth (1939) Described supraorbitary canal or Smith parafrontal canal and temporal canal or Smith supratemporal canal both in Latimeria chalumnae (1939) DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA Valid Genera Anisochromis 1954 Apogonichthyoides 1949 Argyrozona 1938 Aspasmodes 1957 Austrobatrachus 1949 Barchatus 1952 Batrichthys 1934 Bolbometopon 1956 Bryaninops 1959 Cabillus 1959 Calumia 1958 Cancelloxus 1961 Cetoscarus 1956 Chalinops 1963 Chatrabus 1949 Cheimerius 1938 Chelonodontops 1958 Chlidichthys 1953 Cirrhitops 1951 Clarkichthys 1958 Coryogalops 1958 Croilia 1955 Ctenogobiops 1959 Cymatoceps 1938 Dermatopsoides 1948 Eckloniaichthys 1943 Feia 1959 Fucomimus 1946 Glyptoparus 1959 Halimuraena 1952 Hipposcarus 1956 Hirculops 1959 Hypogaleus 1957  Jaydia 1961 Laiphognathus 1955 Latimeria 1939 Lissonanchus 1966 Luposicya 1959 Muraenoclinus 1946 Nemanthias 1954 Neoscorpis 1931 Oplomops 1959 Palutrus 1959 Paroncheilus 1964 Pavoclinus 1946 Pereulixia 1959 Petrus 1938 Porcostoma 1938 Powellichthys 1966
- [Jae Hyung Shim](https://neglectedscience.com/jae-hyung-shim/): Jae Hyung Shim, South Korean marine ecologist (05 February 1938 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With B.K. Khim, H. Yoon, Y.C. Kang & Y.H. Jang. Lithogenic and biogenic particle deposition in an Antarctic coastal environment (Marian Cove,  King George Island): seasonal patterns from a sediment trap study. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 73(1):111-22, 2007 With H.J. Jeong, J.S. Kim, Y.D. Yoo, S.T. Kim et al. Feeding by the heterotrophic Oxyrrhis marina on the red-tide Raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo: a potential biological method to control red-tide using mass-cultured grazers. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 50(4):274-82, 2003  With H.J. Jeong, C.W.Lee, J.S.Kim & S.M. Koh. Growth and grazing rates of the marine planktonic ciliate Strombidinopsis on
- [Italo Sherlock](https://neglectedscience.com/italo-sherlock/): Ítalo Rodrigues de Araújo Sherlock, Brazilian medical entomologist and parasitologist (Sobral, Ceará State 05 April 1936 – 19 March 2009)  Authored 166 papers and 10 book chapters First showed photographically the Phlebotominae infection by Leishmania chagasi Developed a method for Phlebotominae capture With S.B. Pessoa. Métodos práticos para a captura de flebótomos. Rev. Bras. Biol. 24:331-40, 1964 With H. Bermudez, J.P. Dedet, A. L. Falcão, D. Feliciangeli, E.F. Rangel, C. Ferro de Carrasquilla, E.A.B. Galato, E.L. Gomez, E. Perez, A. Morales Alarcón, M. Torrez, R. Vignes & M. Wolff. Proposition of a standard description for Phlebotominae sand flies Parasitologia 33(1):127-35, 1991 DESCRIBED
- [Imre Simon](https://neglectedscience.com/imre-simon/): Imre Simon, Hungarian-born Jewish Brazilian computer scientist (Budapest 14 August 1943 – São Paulo 13 August 2009) Authored 20 papers and 7 books Introduced the algebraic structure known as tropical semiring to computer science Laid the basis of multiplicities theory of tropical semiring Introduced formal study in theoretical computer science Characterized algebraically the class of piecewise testable elegants or Simon theorem (1972-5) Proved a decomposition theorem in terms of the classical wreath product operation (1972) Introduced factorization forests (1990) Defined nondeterministic complexity of a finite automation (1990) Improved Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm that became Simon algorithm (1994) With J. Brzozowski solved the problem
- [Kartar Singh Thind](https://neglectedscience.com/kartar-singh-thind/): Kartar Singh Thind, Indian mycologist (Tehsil, Sultanpur Lodhi, Kapurthala, Punjab 30 October 1917 – Chandigarh 03 December 1991) Authored over 190 research papers and two monographs DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA  Genera Cavimalum 1977 with Doi & Dargan Duosporium 1961 with Rawla Lutypha 1977 with Khurana & Berthier Maasoglossum 1984 with Sharma Unguiculariella 1990 with Sharma Species About 120 HONORS (Fungi) Thindia Korf & Waraitch 1971 Thindiomyces Arendholz & Sharma 1983
- [Julio Oscar Trelles](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-oscar-trelles/): Julio Oscar Trelles Montes, Peruvian neuro-psychiatrist, diplomat and politician (Andahuaylas, Apurimac Department 23 August 1904 – Lima 02 October 1990) He was prime-minister of Peru (1963) Proposed the term peripheral lymphomatosis With J. Lhermitte. La neurolymphomatose peripherique chez l’homme. Rev. Neurol. 2:85, 1933  Eponym of Lhermitte-Trelles syndrome SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With G. Levy. L’hallucinose pedonculaire (etude anatomique d’un cas). Rev. Neur. 1:382-8, 1932 With A. Roquier. Hemiplégie de type dit hysterique ou pithiatique, manifestation initiale d’un gliome du corps calleux. Rev. Neurol. 1:448-59, 1932  With J. Lhermitte. La degeneration hypertrophique des cellules de l’olive bulbaire chez le vieillard. Rev. Neurol. 1:618-23, 1932 With G.
- [Juan Tremoleras](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-tremoleras/): Juan Tremoleras Albistur, Uruguayan entomologist (Montevideo 20 December 1870 – Montevideo 26 February 1934) DESCRIBED SPECIES  Acanthoderes congener 1910 Achryson undulatum 1910 Aerenea quadriplagiata 1910 Amphionycha petronae 1910 Ancylocera cardinalis 1910 Callichroma corvinum 1910 Callichroma sericeum 1910 Compsocerus barbicornis 1910 Dorcacerus barbatus 1910 Ega montevidensis 1917 Emphytoecia versicolor 1910 Erosida gratiosa 1910 Eurymerus eburioides 1910 Hammatochaerus batus 1910 Hylotrupes bajulus 1910 Hypsioma albisparsa 1910 Lachnophorus montoroi 1931 Mallodon spinibarbis 1910 Mysteria cylindripennis 1910 Obadius affinis 1931 Oncoderes guttulata 1910 Orion patagonus 1910 Oxymerus lateriscriptus 1910 Oxymerus obliquatus 1910 Oxymerus rivulosus 1910 Sphaeron spinigerum 1910 Torneutes pallidipennis 1910 Trachyderes morio 1910 Trachyderes striatus 1910 Trachyderes sulcatus 1910 Trachyderes variegatus 1910 Trichophorus albomaculatus 1910 Tropidosoma spencei 1910
- [Juan Tirao](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-tirao/): Juan Alfredo Tirao Dumont, Argentine mathematician (Cordoba 03 February 1942 – Introduced the notion of a pre-sequence of matrix orthogonal polynomials to mean a sequence {F_n} of matrix orthogonal functions (2015) With B. Cox & V. Futorny showed that the family of Jacobi polynomials are orthogonal (2013) With P.M. Román obtained an inversion formula for the spherical transform by using the Fourier inversion formula in a locally compact group (2012) With F.A. Grunbaum introduced D(w) algebra of differential operators associated to a weight matrix (2011) Determinated the image of the Lepowsky homomorphism for the classic groups of rank one and the image of
- [Juan Macon Thome](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-macon-thome/): Juan Macon Thome, US-born Argentine astronomer (Palmyra, Pennsylvania 22 August 1843 – Cordoba 27 September 1908) Authored the first four volumes of Cordoba Durchmusterung (CoD), a catalogue of 613,953 stars with international acclaim Discovered a comet (1887) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba (1877) El gran cometa austral. Rev. Observ 2:35, HONORS Lalande Medal, Academie Française des Sciences (1901)
- [João Vicente Torres Homem](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-vicente-torres-homem/): João Vicente Torres Homem, barão de Torres Homem, Brazilian physician (Rio de Janeiro 23 November 1837 – Rio de Janeiro 04 November 1887) ACHIEVEMENTS Described unknown forms of facial palsies Conceived many therapeutic formulas against various kinds of diseases  Discovered the brain center of many clinical manifestations Some of his works were published in Europe despite the fact they were in Portuguese language His work about fevers has been reviewed in Archives de Médecine Navale of France and cited in Kelsch’s Traite des Maladies Pathogeniques (1894) Estudo clinico sobre as febres do Rio de Janeiro (1877) Etude comparative des caracteres cliniques
- [José Willibaldo Thomé](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-willibaldo-thome/): José Willibaldo Becker-Delwing Thomé, Brazilian malacologist (Estrela, Rio Grande do Sul State 09 October 1930 – Porto Alegre 29 May 2016) From German descent With R.S. Silva & S.R. Gomes reported the first record of albinism in Gastropoda Veronicellidae (2000) DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Colosius 1975 Diplosolenodes 1975 Forcartulus 1975 Microveronicella 1975 Montivaginula 1976 Potamojanuarius 1975 Retidiscus 1995 with Fonseca Simrothula 1975 Zilchulus 1975 Subgenus Glabogyra 1993 with Fonseca Species Angustipes missionis 1981 Latipes lisei 1999 with Gomes Leidyula goodfriendi 1993 Littorina davisi 1985 with Silva Novovaginula rosaneae 1999 with Gomes Phyllocaulis boraceiensis 1972 Phyllocaulis renschi 1965 Radiodiscus bolachaensis 1995 with Fonseca Radiodiscus cuprinus 2000 with Fonseca Radiodiscus protamensis 2004 with Miquel & Ramírez Radiodiscus sanchicoensis 2007 with Miquel & Ramírez Radiodiscus
- [José Francisco Torrealba](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-francisco-torrealba/): José Francisco Torrealba Gonzalez, Venezuelan parasitologist (Santa María de Ipire, Guarico State 16 June 1896 – Caracas 24 July 1973) Authored about 150 publications First in the world applied xenodiagnosis method for demonstrate Chagas disease (1934) Despistaje de la Enfermedad del Chagas por el método xenodiagnostico Conceived a new fast method for diagnosing Chagas disease in its chronic stage With J.V. Scorza, A. Alvarez, I. Ramos, C. Dagert & V. Díaz. Nuevo método rápido para El diagnostico de La enfermedad de Chagas en su fase cronica. Arch. Venez. Med. Trop. Parasit. Med. 3:121-35, 1959 DESCRIBED PARASITIC SPECIES Protozoa Klossiella tejerai 1957 with
- [Jose Jeronimo Triana](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-jeronimo-triana/): José Jerônimo Triana Silva, Colombian botanist, physician and explorer (Bogotá 22 May 1828 –Bogotá 31 October 1890) Developed many therapeutic products such as Triana cough syrup, Triana patches or Andean plaster (bandages to treat corns), powder toothpastes, Colombian powder and a quine-based medicinal wine   Popularized the industrial use of a plant pigment known as Triana green for staining Contributed to discovery of new alkaloids such as cinchonamine DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE GENERA Achatocarpus 1858 Brachyotum 1867 Burmeistera 1857 with Karsten Calycophysum 1855 with Karsten Cephalotomandra 1855 with Karsten Clusiella 1860 Comatoglossum 1855 with Karsten Cuervea 1872 Dendrostylis 1854 with Karsten Diplarpea 1867 Gloeospermum 1862 with Planchon Havetiopsis 1860 with Planchon Llerasia 1858 Monolena 1867 Oedematopus 1860 with
- [Jose Ignacio Torralbas](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ignacio-torralbas/): José Ignacio Torralbas y Manresa, Cuban physician and naturalist (Matanzas 23 January 1842 – La Habana 06 December 1903) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Informe sobre el nombre cientifico y vulgar de un arbol cubano (Bijaguará). Anal. Acad. Cien. Med. Fís. Natur. La Habana 43:217-20, 1906-7 Informes sobre la pesca de esponjas en Caibarién. Anal. Acad. Cien. Med. Fís. Natur. La Habana 43:210-5, 1906-7 With J. Gundlach. Contribución al estudio de los crustaceos de Cuba. Notas compiladas y completadas por el Dr. J.I. Torralbas. Anal. Acad. Cien. Med. Fís. Natur. La Habana 37(36), 1900 With M. Gómez de la Maza. Flórula fanerogâmica del jardín botânico
- [Joe Hin Tjio](https://neglectedscience.com/joe-hin-tjio/): Joe Hin Tjio, US / Indonesian cytogeneticist (Java Island 02 November 1919 – Gaithersburg, Maryland 27 November 2001) Son of Chinese immigrants ACHIEVEMENTS First to recognize the correct number of human chromosomes (46) With A. Levan. The chromosome number of man. Hereditas 42:1-6, 1956   With C.E.Ford & P.E. Jacobs elucidated chromosomal basis of certain genetic abnormalities and sex determination in man  (1959) Discovered chromosome abnormalities in leukemias and developed a method for aspirating bone marrow cells With J. Whang. Direct chromosome preparation of bone marrow cells. Stain Techn. 37:17-20, 1962 Developed Tjio-Whang acetic orcein squash procedure (1960)
- [Jiazhen Tan](https://neglectedscience.com/jiazhen-tan/): Jiazhen Tan / Chia-chen Tan, Chinese geneticist (Ningbo, Zhejiang Province 15 September 1909 – Shanghai 01 November 2008) Authored over 100 articles Produced many influential works (known as Chinese Morgan) With T. Dobzhansky & A.H. Sturtevant used the overlapping inversions to infer the phylogeny of the different chromosome types (1930s) Pioneer in studying the genetic basis of sexual isolation With H. Dobzhansky. Studies on hybrid sterility. III. A comparison of the chromosome structure in two related species, Drosophila pseudoobscura and Drosophila miranda. Zeits. In-dukt. Abstammung. Verebrungsl. 72:88-113, 1936 Proved how gene evolved through repetition and differentiation by investigating the nature of the race-differential chromosomes
- [Jayme Tiomno](https://neglectedscience.com/jayme-tiomno/): Jayme Tiomno, Jewish Brazilian theoretical physicist (Rio de Janeiro 16 April 1920 – Rio de Janeiro 12 January 2011) From Bessarabian father and Ukrainian mother  Brother of chemist Feiga Rebeca Tiomno Rosenthal ACHIEVEMENTS Suggested the parity disintegration with E. Frota Pessoa (1945) With Costa Ribeiro formulated equations about thermodielectric effect (1945) With J.A. Wheeler proposed Puppi-Tiomno-Wheeler triangle for explaining ½ spin to secondary meson (1947) Rev. Modern physics 21:144 and 153, 1949. With J.A. Wheeler proposed that electron and muon neutrinos were distinct independent from Nordheim, Pontecorvo e Puppi studies Rev. Mod. Phys, 21:153-65, 1949 With C.N. Yang first to equate
- [Isaias Tagle Villarroel](https://neglectedscience.com/isaias-tagle-villarroel/): Isaías Tagle Villarroel, Chilean veterinary parasitologist (San Bernardo 25 August 1908 – Santiago 07 December 1976) Authored over 80 works Preparación de antigeno polisacarido de membrana de quiste hidatidico para el diagnostico de la hidatidosis . Bol. Inform. Parasit. Chilenas 6(3):36-7, 1951 Nuevo tratamiento de la sarna ovina. Agrario 429-30 (16):49-52, 1951 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Presencia accidental de Rhipicephalus sanguineus en un perro de Santiago de Chile. Agric. Tecnica 36(3):137, 1976 Ixodoidea en Chile. Bol. Chil. Parasit. 26(1-2):46-9, 1971 Parasitos de los animales domesticos en Chile. Bol. Chil. Parasit. 21:118-23, 1966 Importancia del genero Toxocara en la producción del síndrome “larva migrans visceral”. Bol. Chil. Parasit.
- [Henrique Eisi Toma](https://neglectedscience.com/henrique-eisi-toma/): Henrique Eisi Toma, Brazilian nanochemist (Rio Claro, São Paulo State 05 February 1949 – Authored 430 papers and 15 books with about 9,000 citations (h=45) in according to ISI DISCOVERIES/CONCEPTS SANTOS, JONNATAN JULIVAL ; IVANOV, EVANDRO ; DOS SANTOS, DIEGO PEREIRA ; Toma, Henrique Eisi ; CORIO, PAOLA . Unprecedented Detection of Plasmon Coupling between Silver Nanowires Based on Hyperspectral Darkfield and SERS Imaging and Supported by DDA Theoretical Calculations. ChemPhysChem (Print) , 17,  2015. ZAMARION, V. M. ; TIMM, R. ; ARAKI, K. ; TOMA, H. E. . A New Concept on SERS Chemosensors Based on Gold Nanoparticles (2008) FURTADO,
- [Haroldo Toro](https://neglectedscience.com/haroldo-toro/): Haroldo Enrique Toro Gutierrez, Chilean entomologist (Chillán 16 July 1934 – Valparaíso 06 February 2002) DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA (Apidae) TAXA (incomplete) Genera & Subgenera (23) Acanthocausus 1976 with Fritz Anoediscelus 1979 with Moldenke Austropanurgus 1980 Chilimalopsis 1976 Chilimelissa 1979 with Moldenke Chilioediscelis 1979 with Moldenke Hemicolletes 1977 with Cabezas Heteroediscelis 1979 with Moldenke Leptotanthus 1983 with Ruz Melaliphantus 1983 with Ruz Mourecolletes 1977 with Cabezas Neoliphanthus 1983 with Ruz Paranychium 1980 with Herrera Peniella 1972 with Ruz Pseudoliphanthus 1983 with Ruz Stenoediscelis 1979 with Moldenke Tiguipa 1976 with Fritz Tricholipanthus 1983 with Ruz Xanthocolletes 1979 with Cabezas Xenochilicola 1979 with Moldenke Xenolipanthus 1983 with Ruz Species 156 HONORS Genus Toromelissa Roig Alsina 1998 (Hymenoptera) Subgenus Torocolletes Michener 1989 (Hymenoptera) Subgenus Toroediscelis Packer 2007 (Hymenoptera) Subgenus Torourodera Moldenke 1981 (Coleoptera)
- [Gursaran Parshad Talwar](https://neglectedscience.com/gursaran-parshad-talwar/): Gursaran Parshad Talwar, Indian biochemist and immunologist (Hissar, Haryana State 02 October 1926 – ACHIEVEMENTS With V. Saini, S. Raghuvanshi et al. established Mycobacterium indicus prainii as a distinct species (2009) With S.A. Dar, M.K. Rai, K.V. Reddy, D. Mitra et al. A novel polyherbal microbicide with inhibitory effect on bacterial, fungal and viral genital pathogens. Intern. J. Antimicrob. Agents 32:180-5, 2008 First clinical trials about the gonadotropin inhibition in patients with advanced prostate cancer and post-menopausal women Vaccines for control of fertility and hormone-dependent cancers. Imm. Cell Biology 75:184-9, 1997 With C. Gual, J. Garza Flores, M. Menjivar, A. Gutierrez Najar &
- [Guangchi Tu](https://neglectedscience.com/guangchi-tu/): Guangchi Tu or Kuang Zhi Tu, Chinese geochemist (Beijing 14 February 1920 – Beijing 31 July 2007) Proposed the term REE iron formation to specify a special type of Precambrian iron formation rich in REE With H.L. Li & S.S. Yin. Zincobotryogen and zincocopiapite. Two new varieties of sulfate minerals. Int. Geol. Rev. 10(8):917, 1968  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.Q. Zhang, Z.H. Zhao & Z.G. Wang. Characteristics and evolution of granitoids of South Xizang. Geochimica 10(1):1-7, 1981 With Y.Q. Zhang & Z.G. Wang. Geochemistry of granite in southern of Tibet. Science Technology Press 1-190, 1982 Petrogenesis and mineralization of granitoids (1992) With
- [Gobind Singh Thapar](https://neglectedscience.com/gobind-singh-thapar/): Gobind Singh Thapar, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Rawalpindi, Pakistan 15 November 1893 – 1984) Established a new classification of Acanthocephala Discovered the parasites of hump sore and Nazar granuloma of cattle DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Acanthogyrus 1927 (Acanthocephala) Alaeuris 1925 (Nematoda) Caballeroia 1960 (Digenea) Cotylogonoporum 1934 with Dayal (Trematoda) Echinopharynx 1925 (Nematoda) Exorchocoelium 1956 (Trematoda) Farzandia 1930 (Acanthocephala) Gomtia 1930 (Trematoda) Olveria 1946 with Sinha (Trematoda) Paradactylogyrus 1948 (Trematoda) Psilorchis 1935 with Lal (Trematoda) Rhynchotrema 1933 (Trematoda) Tremarhynchus 1933 (Trematoda) Veversia 1925 (Nematoda) Species Acanthogyrus acanthogyrus 1927 Alaeuris alaeuris 1925 Alaeuris iguanae 1925 Aprocta cylindrica 1925 Astiotrema indica 1933 Caballeroia indica 1960 Cercaria bukrailensis 1969 Cercaria ghailae 1969 Cercaria tuticorina 1964 Diplostomum indicum 1967 Diplostomum nurius 1968 Exorchocoelium indicum 1958 Gomtia piscicola 1930 Helicometra gurnardus 1934 with Dayal Indoplanorbis exustus 1969 Kiluluma
- [George Thottapilly](https://neglectedscience.com/george-thottapilly/): George Thottapilly, Indian / Nigerian plant geneticist and virologist (India 22 April 1941 – Nigeria 23 April 2012) DESCRIBED NEW PLANT VIRUSES With W.P. Qiu, J.S. Batten, J.N. Hughes & K-B. G. Scholthof. A new virus of maize in Nigeria: mild maize mottle virus. Plant Disease 83:302, 1999 With J.M. W. Van Lent, H.W. Rossel & O.P. Sehgal. Rottboellia yellow mottle virus, a new sobemovirus affecting Rottboellia cochinchinensis (itch grass) in Nigeria. Ann. Appl. Biol. 120:405-15, 1992 Untersuchungen über die beziehungen zwischen dem Erbsen Blattrollvirus und seinen vektoren sowie über ein neues pilz-und blattusüber tragbaresvirus der Erbse. Giessen (1968) 
- [George Thorncroft](https://neglectedscience.com/george-thorncroft/): George Thorncroft, English-born South African botanist and merchant (Tunbridge Wells, Kent 22 May 1857 – Barberton, Transvaal 18 July 1934) Collected seeds of wild flowers and botanical specimens Corresponded with people and institutions all over the world Founding Member of Botanical Gardens at Durban SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Gerbera jamesonii Bolus – The Barberton Daisy. South African J. Science 30:237, 1933 Tree Euphorbias. Gardener’s Chronicle (1932) HONORS Thorncroftia N.E. Brown 1912 (Lamiaceae)
- [Gavino Trono](https://neglectedscience.com/gavino-trono/): Gavino Cajulao Trono Jr., Philippine phycologist (Negros Ocidental 11 November 1931 – DESCRIBED VALID ALGAE SPECIES Avrainvillea hollenbergi 1972 Boodleopsis carolinensis 1972 Ceramium koronense 1972 Chlorodesmis dotyi 1972 Derbesia padinae 1972 Gracilaria manilaensis 1994 with Yamamoto Gracilaria sullivanii 1994 with Yamamoto Microdictyon mokilensis 1972 Sargassum abbottiae 1994 Sargassum balingasayense 1994 Sargassum bataanense 1994 Sargassum currimaoense 1994 Sargassum dotyi 1994 Sargassum ohnoi 1994 Sargassum samarense 1994 Sargassum sullivanii 1994 Sargassum umezaki 1994 Sargassum velasquezii 1994 Sargassum yoshidae 1994 Sphacelaria carolinensis 1972 Spirulina vaginata 1961 Spyridia velasquezii 1972 HONORS Tronoella Santiañez & Kogame 2017 (Phaeophyceae)
- [Feifan Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/feifan-tang/): Feifan Tang, Chinese microbiologist (Liling County, Hunan Province 23 July 1897 – Beijing 30 September 1958) Demonstrated the histological nature of trachoma (1955) Demonstrated clinical manifestations and the morphological pictures of trachoma in monkeys (1955) With H.L. Chang, Y.T. Huang & K.C. Wong first to isolate and cultivate Chlamydia trachomatis the etiological agent of trachoma (1956) First observation of latent infection of herpes simplex Developed a series of different pore size acetate collodion membranes for determining the size of phages and viruses   HONORS (Bacteria) Tangfeifania Liu, Li, Rooney, Du & Chen 2014  Feifantangia Zheng, Chen, Jiang & Yang 2015 
- [Fanglan Tai](https://neglectedscience.com/fanglan-tai/): Fanglan Tai, Chinese mycologist and plant pathologist (1893 – 1973) Authored over 50 scientific papers Described about 80 new fungal species SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The phalloids of Nanjing (1982) Sylloge Fungorum Sinicorum (1979) A new species of Coleopuccinia with remarks on the genus. Act. Agr. 1:97-103, 1948 Uredinales of Western China. Farlow 3:95-139, 1947 Studies in the Geoglossaceae of Yunnan. Lloydia 7(2):146-62, 1944 With C.C. Cheo. Notes on Chinese Fungi. VIII. Bull. Chin. Bot. Soc. 3:53-74, 1937 A list of fungi hitherto known from China. Science Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua Univ. Series B 2:137-65 & 191-639, 1936-7 Sex-reaction linkage in Neurospora. Mycologia 28:24-30, 1936 Notes
- [Fang-Teh Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/fang-teh-tang/): Fang-Teh Tang or Fang-de Tang, Chinese entomologist (1927 – 2004) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Asiacornococcus 1995 with Hao Circodiaspis 1986 Heteroheliococcus 1997 with Wu Kuwaniella 1984 Neokaweckia 1995 with Hao Paracerostegia 1991 Pauroaspis 1995 Semichionaspis 1986 Shansiaspis 1981 Sinoquernaspis 1982 with Takagi Stipaeoccus 1992 Takagia 1984 Tibetococcus 1992 HONORS Tangicoccus Kozar & Walter 1985 (Hemiptera)
- [Ernesto Tolmasquim](https://neglectedscience.com/ernesto-tolmasquim/): Ernesto Tolmasquim, Jewish Brazilian chemist (Rio de Janeiro 1928 – 16 June 1971) He was brother in law of Tiomno family Authored over 30 works With A.M.N. Correa & S.T. Tolmasquim. New starches. Properties of five varieties of Cowpea starch. Cereal Chem. 48(2):132-9, 1971 With A.M.N. Correa & S.T. Tolmasquim. Studies on new starches. II. A study of the properties of four varieties of Mucuna bean (Stizolobium). Starke 22(9), 1970 With A.M.N. Correa & T. Nakamura. Estudos de amidos: novas fontes e novos derivados. Rev. Quim. Ind. 47 (1967) With F.R. T. Rosenthal. Uma variante no método cromatográfico de separação da amilose e amilopectina em coluna
- [Enrique Tejera](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-tejera/): Enrique Guillermo Tejera Guevara, Venezuelan epidemiologist and microbiologist (Valencia, Carabobo State 05 November 1899 – Caracas 28 November 1990) Isolated about 40 thousands of varieties of Actinomycetes Discovered Streptomyces venezuelae from which was isolated chloranphenicol (1947) DESCRIBED PARASITIC SPECIES Blastocrithidia lituri 1919 Blastocrithidia nalipi 1919 Crithidia striati 1919 Leptomonas blaberae 1926 Trypanosoma rangeli (1919) HONORS Tejeraia Díaz Ungria 1964 (Nematoda)   Bernhardt Nocht Medal (1928)
- [Elysiario Tavora Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/elysiario-tavora-filho/): Elysiario Távora Filho, Brazilian mining engineer and crystallographer (Sena Madureira, Acre State 18 May 1911 – Rio de Janeiro 06 January 2001) Authored papers on mineralogy, petrography, radiocrystallography and mathematics A suggestion for the calculation of the crystalline composition of naturally or artificially formed aggregates from phase identification: test and complete chemical analysis. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 44:67, 1972 First to point out the relevance of Cayley squares A new chart for setting the Buerger precession câmera Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 23:113-8, (1951) Alignment chart for the Braggs equation. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22(4):441-3, 1950   Solução vetorial para uma conversão de
- [Eduardo Terra Arocena](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-terra-arocena/): Eduardo Terra Arocena, Uruguayan geologist (Montevideo 09 December 1890 – Montevideo 29 July 1966) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With N. Serra, J.H. Caorsi & R. Bonfiglio. Mapa geologico de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (1946) With R. Mendez Alzola. Contribuciones a la geologia del Uruguay. Physis 14:115-42, 1939 With M. Quinteros & D. Rey Vercesi. La erosión de los suelos. Rev. Asoc. Ing. Agr. 11(3):16-27, 1939  Nota sobre el piso de Itararé y los sedimentos marinos del Rincón de Alonso. Bol. Inst. Geol. Perf. Urug. 8, 1926 HONORS Terraia Cox 1934 (Fossil Mollusca)
- [Edison Dias Teixeira](https://neglectedscience.com/edison-dias-teixeira/): Edison Dias Teixeira, Brazilian / US  surgeon (Rio de Janeiro 1933 – Developed distal splenorenal shunt independently from W.D. Warren With H. Yu & J.J. Bergan. Nova técnica na cirurgia da hipertensão porta. Estudo experimental. Rev. Bras. Cir. 53:443-6, 1967  With G. Monteiro, M. de Cenzo, A. Teixeira & J.J. Bergan. Transplantation of the isolated pancreas: report on the first human case. Bull. Soc. Int. Chir. 29(6):337-44, 1970   
- [Domingo Taboada](https://neglectedscience.com/domingo-taboada/): Domingo Taboada Roldán, Mexican amateur astronomer (Santa Rita, Tlahuapán State 04 August 1892 – Puebla 24 April 1979) Internationally respected as one of best observers of variable stars in the world Performed over 44,000 observations of variable stars (since 1945) Performed observations about behavior of nova stars in the Sagitarius and Scorpion constellations (1954) Recognized as a solar observer by Harvard College Observatory (1950) Collaborated to Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on the observation of artificial satellites (1957-64)
- [Cyro Takano](https://neglectedscience.com/cyro-takano/): Cyro Takano, Brazilian metallurgist (17 August 1940 – Gained international recognition on self-reduction of residues DEVELOPED PROCESSES/TECHNIQUES Atomization Processes of metallic powders With L.M. V. Cardona, C.Y. Narita & M.B. Mourão. Characterisation of coal/charcoal composite biocoke as a sustainable alternative for ironmaking. Can Metall Quart 56-2: 190-8, 2017. With G. F. L. E. Silva; M.B. Mourão, J.D.T. Capocchi & R.C. NascimentoJr., Construção e aplicação de um modelo de reciclagem de resíduos sólidos siderúrgicos usando-se o processo de hierarquizaçção e programação linear. In: 59 Congresso Anual da ABM, 2004, São paulo. Congresso Anual da ABM, 59 v. 1. p. 2466-2475 (2004). A model for
- [Constantino Tsallis](https://neglectedscience.com/constantino-tsallis/): Constantino Tsallis, Greek-born Brazilian physicist (Athens 05 November 1943 – ACHIEVEMENTS  Regarded as one of the world’s most remarkable authorities on statistical physics  (over 10, 000 citations) Created the non-extensive statistical mechanics and formulated q-entropy, a new definition of entropy (1988) Established the notion that entropic extensivity requires the use of the nonadditive entropy for some classes of systems Identified a set of numbers for a system described by nonextensive statistical mechanics the q-triplet (2004) With Levy enunciated the concept of thermal transmissivity, a transmissivity variable which extends for thermal magnetic systems (1981) With M.C.S. Vieira discovered the gap road to chaos,
- [Clovis Teixeira](https://neglectedscience.com/clovis-teixeira/): Clovis Teixeira, Brazilian oceanographer (Sertãozinho, São Paulo 16 April 1932 – São Paulo 29 December 2010) Authored about 100 papers and 2 books Described the diatom genus Melchersiela in 1959 With H. Moreira Filho developed a method for sediment diatoms cleaning (1963) With J.G. Tundisi made suggestions for the use of C14 method in inshore waters and developed research methods for size fractionation of phytoplankton (1968) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Preliminary studies of primary production in the Ubatuba region (1973) Introdução aos métodos para medir a produção primária do fitoplâncton marinho. Bol. Inst. Oceanogr. 22:59-92, 1973  With J.G. Tundisi. Plankton studies in a mangrove environment. VII.
- [Clara Torok](https://neglectedscience.com/clara-torok/): Clara Torok (née Klara Nussbaum), Romanian-born Brazilian chemist (07 January 1902 – Rio de Janeiro April 1968) With S. Fraenkel. Ueber neue basische cholinderivative. Biochem Ztschr. 182:424-33, 1927 With P. Kubelka & I. Ciornai develop a method for extraction of potassium salts from brine wastewater With H. Zocher. Beitraege sur Kenntnis der Taktosole. Ein neues taktosol: Aluminiumhydroxid. Kolloid Z. 173:1-7, 1960 PATENTS With I. Ciornai a process (1948) OTHERS With H. Zocher. Crystals of higher order and their relation to other superphases. Acta Crystall. 22(6):751-5, 1967 With H. Zocher. About space-time asymmetry in the realm of classical general and crystal physics.
- [Chong Hai Tay](https://neglectedscience.com/chong-hai-tay/): Chong Hai Tay, Singaporean physician (1932- Authored over 120 articles Described Tay syndrome or IBIDS syndrome Ichtyosiform erythrodermia, hair shaft abnormalities, mental and growth retardation. A new recessive disorder. Arch. Dermat. 104:4-13, 1971 Discovered a new eosinophilic arthritis in Rheumatology 38(12):1188-94, 1999
- [Chiao Tsai](https://neglectedscience.com/chiao-tsai/): Chiao (Qiao) Tsai (Cai),  Chinese physiologist (Jieyang, Guangdong Province 10 November 1897 – 29 July 1990) Authored over 100 papers Discovered ventral tegmental area of Tsai, the central region in the visual sense and eyeball motional function The optic tracts and centers of the opossum Didelphis virginiana. Journ. Comp. Neurol. 39(2):173-216, 1925 The descending tracts of the thalamus and midbrain of the opossum Didelphis virginiana. J. Comp. Neurol. 392:217-48, 1925 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A comparative study of retention curves for motor habits. Comp. Psych. Monog. 2(11):29-121, 1924 The relative strength of the sex and hunger motives in the albino rat. J. Comp. Psych. 5:407, 1925
- [Cheng Kui Tseng](https://neglectedscience.com/cheng-kui-tseng/): Cheng Kui Tseng, Chinese phycologist and mariculture expert (Xiamen, Fujian Province 18 June 1909 – 20 January 2005) Regarded as an authority on industrial and feeding properties of marine algae Coined the term phycocolloid (1945) Developed culture system for marine algae on scientific foundations  With Chaoyuan Wu produced a book on brown algae Laminaria japonica being the first even written work on cultivation of a single species of marine algae (1962) DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Valid Genera Parenchymorpha 1984 with Hua (Cyanophyta) Sinocladia 2005 with Li (Rhodophyta)   Sinosiphonia 1983 with Zheng (Rhodophyta) Species At least 117 HONORS  Tsengia Fan & Fan 1962 (Rhodophyta) Tsengiella Zhang & Xia 1987 (Rhodophyta)
- [Chen Lu Tsou](https://neglectedscience.com/chen-lu-tsou/): Chen Lu Tsou or Chenglu Zou, Chinese biochemist (Qingdao, Shandong Province 17 May 1923 – Beijing 23 November 2006) ACHIEVEMENTS Concluded that enzyme succinate dehydrogenase is an electron carrier First purified enzyme succinate dehydrogenase Established the quantitative relationship between the modification of the side chain functional groups, the inactivation of the proteins and the kinetics of enzyme modification reactions Proposed an equation for calculation of essential groups in proteins (Zou equation) Conceived Tsou Chen Lu plot and Tsou Chen Lu statistical method Relation between modification of functional groups of proteins and their biological activity. I. A graphical method for the determination
- [Charles Henry Tyler Townsend](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-henry-tyler-townsend/): Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, US-born Brazilian entomologist (Oberlin, Ohio State 05 December 1863 – Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo State 17 March 1944) Authored about 650 papers Applied Entomology First to identify the insect vector of Peruvian warts and Oroya fever (Lutzomyia verracarum) La titira es la transmisora de la verruga. La Cronica Medica 29:640-3, 1913 A Phlebotomus the practically certain carrier of verruga. Science 38:194-5, 1913 The history, etiology and transmission of verruga peruana, with an outline of the asexual cycle of its causative organism (1917) Found an effective biological control for the cotton square-weevel (1912) Cyanogas, calcium cyanide for the control of Atta sexdens L.
- [Charles Chia Chu Tao](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-chia-chu-tao/): Charles Chia Chu Tao, Taiwanese entomologist (1911-1999) DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA GENERA Aulacophoroides 1976 Chaetogeica 1958 with Remaudiere Chuansicallis 1964 Chuaspis 1982 with Wong Chucallis 1964 Ericolophium 1963 Kaochiaoja 1963 Maacoccus 1983 with Wong & Chang Microunguis 1966 Myzosiphum 1964 Neoacyrthosiphon 1963 Neorhopalomyzus 1963 Neosaissetia 1983 with Wong & Chang Omeimegoura 1963 Paracardicoccus 1978 Paraphorodon 1938 with Tseng Paraxanthogramma 1971 with Chiu Podoparalecanium 1983 with Wong & Chang Saccharipulvinaria 1983 with Wong & Chang Sinocallis 1938 with Tseng Sinocolopha 1970 Sinonipponaphis 1966 Sinosiphoniella 1963 Sumoia 1963 Taiwanomyzus 1963 Taiwansaissetia 1983 with Wong & Chang Tuberoaphis 1938 with Tseng HONORS Taoia Quednau 1973 (Hemiptera)
- [Catarina Satie Takahashi](https://neglectedscience.com/catarina-satie-takahashi/): Catarina Satie Takahashi, Brazilian geneticist (Bauru, São Paulo State 20 April 1942 – From Japanese ancestry Showed that low doses of radiation are able to induce chromosome breaks enhancing the rate of chromosomal translocations Cytogenetical studies of the effects of high natural levels in Tityus bahiensis (Scorpiones, Butidae) from Morro do Ferro, Brazil. Radiation Research 67:371-81, 1976 With S. Ichikawa observed that scattering radiations display mutagenic action more efficient than direct radiations (1977) With Cristiano Profeta patented an electric trough for electrophoresis in slides (2013)
- [Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-bastos-magarinos-torres-2/): Carlos Bastos Magarinos Torres, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 24 November 1891 – Rio de Janeiro  26 January 1984) Authored over 162 works ACHIEVEMENTS Described histopathological alterations in cardiac striated muscle lesions in Chagas disease known as Magarinos Torres lesions Estudo do miocardio na moléstia de Chagas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 9:114-39, 1917  Introduced the concept of allergy in Chagas disease pathogeny (1929) With A.P. de Azevedo described multinuclear giant cells filled with leishmanioid bodies in Chagas disease (1939) Reported the second case of toxoplasmosis in the world and the first to be described of the generalized form of the infection Described
- [Camille Torrend](https://neglectedscience.com/camille-torrend/): Camille Torrend, French-born Brazilian father and mycologist (St Privat d’Allier, Haute Loire 21 June 1875 – Salvador 24 June 1961) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Botryochora 1914 Menezesia 1913 Sclerodermatopsis 1923 Vermiculariopsis 1912 Species 105 HONORS Torrendiella Boudier & Torrend 1911 (Fungi)
- [Bhim Shanker Trivedi](https://neglectedscience.com/bhim-shanker-trivedi/):  Bhim Shanker Trivedi, Indian botanist and paleobotanist (03 May 1923 – 18 February 2013) DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Plantae Aesculoxylon 1982 with Srivastava Aglaioxylon 1982 with Srivastava Bauhinium 1986 with Panjwani Cannaites 1971 with Verma Dysoxydendron 1978 with Misra Echinocarpoxylon 1979 with Srivastava Flacourtioxylon 1986 with Srivastava Glycerioxylon 1982 with Bajpai Heliconiaites 1972 with Verma Hibiscoxylon 1971 with Ambwani Hygrorhizos 1985 with Srivastava & Bajpai Jussiaeoidiorhizos 1975 with Chandra & Agarwal Leptospermatoxylon 1973 with Verma Nymphaeocaulon 1971 with Ambwani Oleoxylon 1981 with Srivastava Pangioxylon 1982 with Srivastava Pentacmeoxylon 1979 with Ahuja Sabalocaulon 1981 with Verma Schreberoxylon 1982 with Srivastava Vaterioxylon 1977 with Misra Voyrioseminites 1972 with Chaturvedi Ximenioxylon 1982 with Srivastava Zizyphoxylon 1982 with Srivastava Others Aascodesmisites 1973 with Chaturvedi & Verma Aspergillites 1969 with Verma Lattisosporites 1970
- [Benoy Krishna Tikader](https://neglectedscience.com/benoy-krishna-tikader/): Benoy Krishna Tikader, Indian arachnologist (Joydhi, Khulna 01 July 1928 – Calcutta 12 August 1994) Authored over 350 scientific papers Described the valid genus Vachonius 1983 (with Bastawade) and at least 515 new arachnid species HONORS Tikaderia Lehtinen 1967 (Arachnida)
- [Benito Tan](https://neglectedscience.com/benito-tan/): Benito Ching Tan, Philippine bryologist (Manila 30 August 1946 – Los Angeles, California State 23 December 2016) Recognized as world’s foremost expert on tropical bryophytes  Authored over 300 scientific papers on bryophytes DESCRIBED BRYOPHYTA TAXA Genera Meiotheciella 1998 with Schofield & Ramsay Orthodontopsis 1992 with Ignatov Papillidiopsis 1989 with Buck Pilosimitra 2005 with Dauphin Pseudocryptogonium 2015 with Li, Wang & Ignatov Radulina 1989 with Buck Yakushimabryum 2011 with Akiyama, Chang & Yamaguchi Section Platyovatophyllum 1990 Species Anomobryum erectum 1989 with Koponen Barbula chenia 1995 with Redfearn Barbula zennoskeana 1994 Brachythecium propinnatum 1996 with Redfearn & Ho Bryum ochianum 1995 with Redfearn Calymperes dixoconstrictum 1988 with Mohamed Calymperes robinsoni 1983 with Reese Calyptothecium distichophyllum 1984 with Noguchi Calyptothecium
- [Belindo Adolfo Torres](https://neglectedscience.com/belindo-adolfo-torres/): Belindo Adolfo Torres, Argentine entomologist (Pergamino, Buenos Aires Province 03 April 1917 – La Plata 04 November 1965) Regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha DESCRIBED HOMOPTERA TAXA Genera Acuticephala 1958 Acyroneura 1958 Alarcta 1958 Calliopsida 1958 Elachysoma 1958 Elassoneura 1962 Prasinosoma 1963 Psephenotettix 1958 Tettigotoma 1942 Species Acuticephala alipuncta 1958 Acyroneura singularis 1958 Alarcta albicerata 1949 Alarcta bahiensis 1942 Alarcta blanchardi 1948 Alarcta macrogina 1949 Alarcta minuta 1949 Alarcta quadrimaculata 1958 Alarcta terrosa 1958 Carineta scripta 1948 Carineta crassicauda 1948 Carineta limpida 1948 Carineta liturata 1948 Carineta maculosa 1948 Carineta propinqua 1948 Chonosia atrodorsalis 1945 Chonosia trigonoscelis 1945 Derotettix proseni 1945 Elachysoma quadrivittata 1964 Elassoneura carychrous 1964 Empoasca cristata 1955 Empoasca punena 1959 Guaranisaria bicolor 1958 Guaranisaria llanoi 1964 Pachypsaltria haematodes 1959 Pachypsaltria peristicta 1959 Prasinosoma fuenbuenai 1963 Protalebrella schachovskoyi 1955 Psephenotettix grandis 1958
- [Augusto Etienne Teisseire](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-etienne-teisseire/): Augusto Etienne Teisseire, French-born Uruguayan naturalist and archaeologist (Gémenos, Bouches du Rhone 14 May 1882 – Montevideo 15 January 1950) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Au sujet de quelques objets façonnés par les premiers habitants de la rive uruguayenne du río de La Plata. Actas XXV Intern. Congr. Americanists (1932) Sobre malacologia de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (región de Colonia). Arch. Soc. Biol. Montevideo 1:223-8, 1930 Nueva faz del ingenio charrúa. Moluscos fósiles utilizados por índios. 1st Congr. Nat. Hist. Montevideo (1928) Contribución al studio de la geología y de la paleontología de la Republica O. del Uruguay (Región de Colonia) 1928 Expedición
- [Au-chin Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/au-chin-tang/): Au-chin Tang, Chinese theoretical chemist (Yixing, Jiangsu Province 18 November 1915 – 15 July 2008) Authored over 300 papers and 8 books ACHIEVEMENTS Obtained the molecular weight distribution function of addition polymers Proposed a new method for computing the potential function of molecular internal rotation (1950s) Introduced the coupling coefficients from the three-dimensional rotation group to the point group and developed irreducible tensor method from the continuous groups to the point groups (1960s) Established 3 foundational graph theorems in Hückel approximation on the characteristic polynomials (1970s) Proposed the topology conjugate relations of boron and carbon clusters and clarified the characteristics of
- [Arturo Luis Terán](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-luis-teran/): Arturo Luis Terán, Argentine agricultural entomologist DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Coleoptera Subgenus Serratibruchus 1977 with Kingsolver Species Eubaptus planifrons 1964 Megacerus acerbus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus alabani 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus albomaculatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus araguato 2002  with Johnson Megacerus codonophagus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus columbinus 1993 with Kingsolver Megacerus curupaonis 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus deceptor 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus elongates 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus euryglossus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus ferruginosus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus ferrugineosignatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus gilvovittatus 1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus insulatus  1977 with Kingsolver Megacerus pubescens 1993 with Kingsolver Megacerus similibus 2002 with Johnson Megacerus tessarespilus 1977 with Kingsolver Pseudopachymerina grata 1990 Stator exturbatus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator furcatus 1989 with Johnson & Kingsolver Stator harmonicus 1989 with Johnson
- [Arnold Theiler](https://neglectedscience.com/arnold-theiler/): Arnold Theiler, Swiss-born South African veterinarian (Frick, Canton Aargau 26 March 1867 – London 24 July 1936) Father of Nobel Prize winner virologist Max Theiler (1899-1972) Authored over 250 papers and booklets Proposed heartwater was caused by a rickettsial organism Demonstred ticks as vectors of horse piroplasmosis (1906) Cleared up the aetiology of cattle redwater and biliary fever of horses Established the vectors (ticks) of many cattle diseases First to realise that there was a plurality of strains in the horse sickness virus and produced the first crude vaccine against it Developed the first effective vaccine for rinderpest (1896) Proposed the
- [Armando Dias Tavares](https://neglectedscience.com/armando-dias-tavares/): Armando Dias Tavares, Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 27 February 1917 – Rio de Janeiro 26 February 1988) Gave an electronic interpretation for thermodielectric effect suggesting a quantum theory  such as semiconductor conductivity theory Developed a method for experimental study of thermodielectric effect New method for the determination of space charge in dielectrics. J. Chem. Phys. 59(4):2154-5, 1973 A theorem on a real function of a real variable. Rev. Cient. 1(1):91-11, 47, 1951 Imagined a spherical kind of Geiger counter  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Costa Ribeiro effect and allied phenomena. J. Molec. Liquids 39:171-94, 1988 Experimental proof of the existence of the
- [Antonio Tossolini](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-tossolini/): Antonio Olivo Tossolini, Argentine mechanic and carpenter (1900 – Bell Ville, Cordoba Province 22 June 1959) From Italian parentage With Juan Valbonesi (Italian-born commercial employee died 1970) and former soccer player Luis Romano Polo Tonello (Unión Cordoba 01 February 1901 – Unión Cordoba 25 July 1957) patented Superball, the first leather lace-free soccer ball with perfect roundness that revolutionized the sport Argentine patent 35.779 (1931) Valbonesi patented it in United Kingdom (Improvements in inflatable balls for use in ball games such as football GB number 19,285 (1931) and Italy Invented Topoval, the first hand inflator of the world (1948) Improvements in/or
- [Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira](https://neglectedscience.com/alcides-ribeiro-teixeira/): Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira, Brazilian mycologist (Torrinha, São Paulo State 06 April 1918 – São Paulo 13 June 2003) Developed techniques for sampling and mounting of hyphae (1956 and 1962) Método para estudo das hifas do carpóforo de fungos poliporáceos Publ. Inst. Bot. Est. S. Paulo 22 (1956) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera Albatrellopsis 1994 Coltriciopsis 1989 Hornodermoporus 1993 Species Lentinus campinensis 1946 Lenzites cubamyces 1992 Peloronectria bambusina 1955 Phellinus bresadolianus 1992 Phellinus piptadeniae 1950 Phellinus rickii 1950 Physoderma hydrocotylidis 1943 with Viegas Polyporus lucienqueletii 1986 Pseudolpidiopsis achylae 1943 with Viegas Stereum beigehymenium 1945 Syncephalis ubatubensis 1943 with Viegas HONORS Teixeiranthus King & Robinson 1980 (Asteraceae)
- [Alberto Carlos Taquini](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-carlos-taquini/): Alberto Carlos Taquini Castiglioni, Argentine medical researcher (Buenos Aires 06 December 1905 – 04 March 1998) Authored 350 scientific papers mainly on cardiology and arterial hypertension With L.F. Leloir, J.C. Fasciolo, J.M. Muñoz and E. Braun Menendez discovered angiotensin and described enzymatic nature of rennin-angiotensin system and its relationship to arterial hypertension With J.M. Muñoz, J.C. Fasciolo & L.F. Leloir. Hypertensin: the substance causing renal hypertension. Nature 144:980, 1939 Proposed universal thoracic heartbeat (Arrillaga-Davobe sign) as a diagnostic way of retro cardiac aorta aneurisms  With F. C. Arrillaga. Battement thoracique universal: nouvel element de diagnostic pour les anévrismes de l’aorte retrocardiaque
- [Adolphe Tonduz](https://neglectedscience.com/adolphe-tonduz/): Jean François Adolphe Tonduz, Swiss-born Costa Rican botanist and plant pathologist (Pulley, Vaud Canton, Lavraux-Oron District 18 September 1862 – Ciudad de Guatemala 19 December 1921) Authored about 90 works Described the plant species Myroxylon sonsonatense (1908) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El pudrimiento del tallo del banano. Bol. Inst. Fis. Geogr. Costa Rica 11:309-10, 1901 El blanco o mofo de las raices del cafeto. Bol. Inst. Fis. Geogr. Costa Rica (1900) La fumagina del cafeto. Anal. Inst. Fis-Geogr. Nac. 6 (1897) Herborisations au Costa Rica. Bull. Herb. Boissier 4:163-77, 1896 Exploraciones botánicas em Talamanca. Anales Inst. Fis-Geogr. Nac. (1895) Expediciones botánicas efectuadas en la parte meridional de Costa
- [Yvonne Sanguinetti](https://neglectedscience.com/yvonne-sanguinetti/): Yvonne Therezinha Sanguinetti, Brazilian paleontologist (193? DESCRIBED FOSSIL OSTRACODA TAXA Genera Bisulcocypris 1958 with Pinto Brasilicythere 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Species Ambostracon crucicostatum 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Argenticythere levipunctata 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Argenticytherella variabilis 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Australicythere bensoni 1979 Bensonia midipunctata 1979 Bensonia minipunctata 1979 Bensonia tripunctata 1979 Bisulcocypris albertensis 1962 with Pinto Bisulcocypris castellonensis 1987 with Pinto Bisulcocypris lubimovae 1987 with Pinto Bisulcocypris pricei 1987 with Pinto Bisulcocypris truncata 1987 with Pinto Bisulcocypris uninodosa 1987 with Pinto Bradleya pelotensis 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Bradleya rheingantzi 1979  Brasilicythere reticulispinosa 1992 with Ornellas & Coimbra Callistocythere fossulata 1995 with Coimbra & Bittencourt Calcagno Callistocythere laminata 1995 with Coimbra & Bittencourt Calcagno Callistocythere multicellulosa 1995 with
- [Yellapragada Subba Row](https://neglectedscience.com/yellapragada-subba-row/): Yellapragada Subbarao (Subba Row), Indian pharmacist and biochemist in United States (Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh State 12 January 1895 – Pearl River, New York State 08 August 1948) Authored over 100 papers CONTRIBUTIONS Developed Fiske-Subba Row calorimetric method to estimate phosphorus in tissues and body fluids (1924) With C. Fiske, P. Eggleton & G.P. Eggleton discovered phosphagen in muscle (1927) With Fiske discovered that phosphocreatine and ATP were sources of muscle power (1927-9) With Fiske isolated ATP and phosphocreatine independently from Lohmann (1929) With Szent-Gyorgy isolated pyridoxine Isolated and synthesized folic acid (1945) Developed a method to synthesize folic acid Found that
- [Wilson Sasso](https://neglectedscience.com/wilson-sasso/): Wilson da Silva Sasso, Brazilian morphologist (São Paulo 07 July 1925 – 2015) Performed the first chromosomic study of Turner’s syndrome With L. Decourt, E. Chiorboli, M.C. Lima & J.M. Fernandes. Sobre o sexo genético na síndrome de Turner. Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. 1(2):203-6, 1954 With N.F. Romani found a glycoproteolipid complex in human dental cuticle  Papers in Nature and Lancet With N.M. de Castro. Sex chromatin (chromoleme) in the Purkinje nerve cells of some mammals. Nature 184:293, 1959 With N.M. de Castro, U.S. Trench & J. Kerbauy. Sex diagnosis by the nuclear structure of the cells of human urinary sediment.
- [William Jose da Silva](https://neglectedscience.com/william-jose-da-silva/): William José da Silva, Brazilian plant breeder (14 December 1937 – Developed new maize cultivars With C.J. Rossetto, L.E.C. de Miranda & V. Nagai. Milho IAC Azteca Centenário With H. Hirato, D.M. Medina & R.S. Longo. Características anatômicas e morfológicas do novo cultivar de milho Erecta Cien. Cult. 28:657-68, 1976   With J.P.F. Teixeira, P. Arruda & M.B. Lovato. Nutrimaiz, a tropical sweet maize cultivar of high nutritional value. Maydica 23:129-36, 1978 With M.C.M. S.T. Machado & F.G.R. Reyes. Acúmulo de matéria seca e composição dos carboidratos de uma nova cultivar de milho, com endosperma triplo mutante “sugary opaque 2-waxy”. Pesq. Agropec.
- [Wilhelm Heinrich Schaffner](https://neglectedscience.com/wilhelm-heinrich-schaffner/): Josef Wilhelm Heinrich Schaffner, German-born Mexican pharmacist and botanist (Darmstadt 22 October 1830 – San Luis Potosi 24 March 1882) DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Calamintha potosina 1897 Cuscuta globifera 1921 Cuscuta macrocephala 1921 Cuscuta polyanthemos 1921 Cuscuta potosina 1883 Heuchera mexicana 1905 Polytaenium feei 1857 Pteridium feei 1857 Sticherus palmatus 1872 HONORS Schaffneria Fée 1857 (Pteridophyta) Schaffnerella Nash 1912 (Poaceae) 
- [Vivianne Solis Weiss](https://neglectedscience.com/vivianne-solis-weiss/): Vivianne Solis-Weiss or Vivianne Solis Wolfowitz de Weiss, Jewish Mexican marine zoologist and ecologist (Ciudad de Mexico 25 July 1949 – DESCRIBED NEW ANNELIDA TAXA Genera Grassleia 1993 Imajimanereis 2000 with Leon Gonzalez Lycastilla 1991 with Espinasa Meredithia 2000 with Hernandez Alcantara Pararicia 1989 with Fauchald Pettibonella 1989 with Fauchald Species Aglaophamus foliosa 2009 with Perez & Hernandez Alcantara Aglaophomus longicirrata 2009 with Perez & Hernandez Alcantara Amphisamytha fauchaldi 1994 with Hernandez Alcantara Aricidea hirsuta 2013 with Arriaga Hernandez & Hernandez Alcantara Cenogenus eliae 2006 with Hernandez Alcantara & Perez Mendoza Decamastus okuilin 2019 with Hernandez Alcantara & Garcia Eunereis eugeniae 2000 with Leon Gonzalez Grassleia hydrothermalis 1993 Hermunduria bennei 1983 Hirsutonuphis paxtonae 2013 with Hernandez Alcantara & Estrella-Ruiz Imajimanereis
- [Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar](https://neglectedscience.com/vithal-nagesh-shirodkar/): Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar, Indian obstetrician and gynecologist (Shiroda, Goa 27 April 1899 –Mumbai 07 March 1971) Described cervical cerclage operation known as Shirodkar stitch (1955) Invented 2 operations for genital prolapsed Developed a technique of placing a vaginal hood over the cervix Designed special instruments for the repair of the incompetent cervix  such as a retractor, a fasciotome, a speculum and Shirodkar needles
- [Virendra Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/virendra-singh/): Virendra Singh, Indian physicist (Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh State 08 June 1938 – ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered fixed poles in current algebra amplitudes Obtained new string theories obeying different boundary conditions Formulated a new concept for signal locality Proposed a position-momentum symmetric version of description of quantum mechanics Obtained a new phase space Bell’s inequalities Derived (N+1) marginal theorem for 2N dimensional phase space EPONYMY Singh lemma Gupta-Singh coupling constant sum rule Bég-Singh SU(6) mass formula Singh-Pais theorem on low energy Compton scattering Singh-Roy bounds on high energy scattering amplitude and charge exchange cross sections  
- [Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai](https://neglectedscience.com/vikram-ambalal-sarabhai/): Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, Indian physicist (Ahmedabad, Gujarat State 12 August 1919 – Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala State 30 December 1971) Authored 86 papers Established a complete relationship between spectral changes in interplanetary space, magnetosphere and cosmic rays Proposed a mechanism for explaining recurrent effects and large Forbush decreases of cosmic ray intensity Interpreted that considerable part of the changes in horizontal component of the geomagnetic field is due to the changes in the current system at the magnetopause and in the magneto-tail Discovered that variations in the strength of cosmic rays were related to variations in solar activity Demonstrated the significance of the
- [Vidya Bhaskar Shukla](https://neglectedscience.com/vidya-bhaskar-shukla/): Vidya Bhaskar Shukla, Indian palaeobotanist ((Nagpur, Maharashtra State 05 January 1910 –  DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genus Plantae Gymnovulites 1948 Sahnianthus 1944 Sahnipushpam 1950 Species  Dadoxylon deccani 1938 Dadoxylon resinosum 1944 Genus Algae Spirogyrites 1950 (Algae) HONORS (Fossil) Shuklania Dwivedi 1959 (Fungi) Shuklanites Singhai 1964 (Plantae)
- [Vicente Candido Figueira de Sabóia](https://neglectedscience.com/vicente-candido-figueira-de-saboia/): Vicente Candido Figueira de Sabóia, visconde de Sabóia, Brazilian surgeon and physician (Sobral, Ceará State 13 April 1836 – Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State 18 March 1909) Son in law of José Martins da Cruz Jobim  Authored about 35 scientific works His name was famous in European surgical centers Described tropical pyomyositis before Scriba Myosite suppurada dos músculos rectos do abdomem. Rev. Curso Pract. Theor. Fac. Med. Rio de Janeiro 3:49-52, 1866 Authored Traité theorique et pratique de La Science et de L’Art des accouchement (1873), adopted in medical colleges of Montpellier, Liege and Louvain for many years SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Da glucosuria, suas
- [Vavilala Vasudeva Sastri](https://neglectedscience.com/vavilala-vasudeva-sastri/): Vavilala Vasudeva Sastri, Indian stratigrapher and paleontologist (24 August 1926 – 12 October 1997) DESCRIBED  FOSSIL TAXA Foraminifera (with Sahni) Genera Birbalina 1957 Hukawngia 1954 Irrawaddia 1954 Kutaungia 1954 Kyatsokia 1954 Mesania 1954 Yanbonia 1954 Species Ammobaculites kingi 1983 with Govindah Ammodiscus uttaturensis 1960 with Sastry Anomalina indica 1960 with Sastry Asterigerina indica 1950 with Jacob Birbalina pulchra 19057 with Sahni Cibicides praecursorius 1950 with Jacob Dicarinella indica 1950 with Jacob Discorbis indicus 1963 Gaudryina rajahmundrica 1963 Halophragmoides footei 1962 with Murthy Halophragmoides glaessnerai 1966 with Sastry Halophragmoides indicus 1962 with Murthy Hormosina indica 1983 with Govindan Hukawngia problematica 1954 with Sahni Irrawaddia tibetica 1954 with Sahni Irrawaddia trigonalis 1954 with Sahni  Kutaungia cretacea 1954 with Sahni Kyatsokia multilocularis 1954 with Sahni Kyatsokia tibetica 1954 with Sahni
- [Varavudh Suteethorn](https://neglectedscience.com/varavudh-suteethorn/): Varavudh Suteethorn, Thai geologist and paleontologist (Nakohn Pathom Province 10 October 1948 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Mammalia Atopotherium 1996 with Ducrocq, Chaimanee & Jaeger Dermotherium 1992 with Ducrocq, Tong, Jaeger & Jongkanjanasoontorn Isanemys 2006 with Tong & Buffetaut  Khoratpithecus 2004 with Chaimanee, Jintasakul, Vidthayanon, Marandat & Jaeger Ratchaburimys 1996 with Chaimanee, Triamwichanon & Jaeger Progenitohuys 1997 with Ducrocq, Chaimanee & Jaeger Siamochoerus 1998 with Ducrocq, Chaimanee & Jaeger Siamoperadectes 1992 with Ducrocq, Buffetaut, Tong, Jaeger & Jongkanjanasoontorn Siamopithecus 1997 with Chaimanee, Jaeger & Ducrocq Siamotherium 1988 with Buffetaut, Helmcke-Ingvat, Jaeger & Jongkanjanasoontorn Siamotragulus 1990 with Thomas, Ginsburg & Hintong Wailekia 1995 with Ducrocq, Jaeger & Chaimanee Reptilia Basilochelys 2009 with Tong, Claude, Naksri, Buffetaut, Khansubha, Wongko
- [Valdon Redvers Smith](https://neglectedscience.com/valdon-redvers-smith/): Valdon Redvers Smith, South African plant ecologist (Johannesburg 11 December 1948 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R. Ochyra, J. Vana & B. Cykowska-Marzencka. Seven liverwort species new or confirmed from Subantartic Prince Edward Island. Herzogia 27(2):397-407, 2014 The terrestrial biological research at the Prince Edward Islands. S.Afr. J. Antarct. Res. 21:118-23, 1991 With D.D. French. Patterns of variation in the climates, soils, and vegetation of some subantarctic and Antarctic islands. S.Afr.J. Bot. 54:35-46, 1988 Production and nutrient dynamics of plant communities on a Subantarctic island. I. Standing crop and primary products of mire-grasslands. Pol. Biol. 7:57-75, 1987 The environment and biota of Marion
- [Urbano Ernesto Stumpf](https://neglectedscience.com/urbano-ernesto-stumpf/): Urbano Ernesto Stumpf, Brazilian automobile engineer (Não me Toque, Rio Grande do Sul State 15 January 1916 – 17 May 1998) From German descent Recognized as world’s foremost expert on the practical combustion of alcohol and its blends Demonstrated that main technical advantage of alcohol engines was their high overall performance (38%) Established that in the alcohol gasoline mixture, for a percentage above 20% alcohol modifications to engine would be required to avoid high fuel consumption (1965-70) PATENTS (incomplete list) A specific carburetor for alcohol use PI8106855-7 (1981) Carburetor in plastic body without channels or threads A blow energy generated turbocharger
- [Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan](https://neglectedscience.com/toppur-seethapathy-sadasivan/): Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Madras 22 May 1913 – Chennai 18 August 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS  Developed concepts such as competitive saprophytic ability and rhizosphere effect Elucidated the rhizosphere effect in which root exudates promotes the growing and survival of specific pathogens First demonstrated the fungal toxin fusaric acid in vivo leading to name it vivotoxin First to demonstrate fusaric acid in wilting cotton plants First demonstrated that the toxins of the blast fungus induced “green islands” in rice leaf tissues Put forward definitive evidence of ionic imbalance in wilted plants in the form of excessive excretion and enhanced
- [Tomas Suero](https://neglectedscience.com/tomas-suero/): Tomás Suero, Argentine geologist (La Plata 10 October 1915 – La Plata 21 August 1963) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Compilación geológica de las Sierras Australes de la prov. de Bs. Aires. Lab. Ens. Mat. Invest. Tecnologicas (LEMIT) 1963 Paleogeografia del Paleozoico Superior en la Patagonia (Rep. Argentina). Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. 16(1-2), 1961 With P.C. Roque, C. de Ferrariis, A. Mingramm, E.O. Rolleri & L.B. Simonato. Cuencas sedimentarias de la Argentina. Bol. Inf. Petrol. 320, 1960 Datos geológicos sobre el Paleozoico Superior de la zona de Nueva Lubecka y alrededores (Chubut Extraandino). Rev. Mus. La Plata (NS) Geol. 5(30), 1958 Geologia de la Sierra
- [Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri](https://neglectedscience.com/tiruvenkata-rajendra-seshadri/): Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri, Indian phytochemist (Kulitalai, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu 03 February 1900 – 27 September 1975) ACHIEVEMENTS   Published more than 1000 papers Discovered many chemicals from plants Elucidated structures of many compounds such as gossytrin and related pigments, pedicinin, pedicellic acid and related compounds, pedaliine, mangiferine, dalbergine, latifoline, ferreirine and homoferreirine, pongamol, karanjine, auranetine, prudomestine, nepritine, cupressulflavone, thelephoric acid, virensic acid, tingenone, enhydrin, santaline, carajurin, alpha terthienyl methanol and others Obtained total synthesis of gossypetine, quectagenine, khelline, pterocarpine, rotenoids, cyanomaclurine, pedaletine, darmanacanthal and related anthraquinones Between methods developed the technique of O-methylation of phenols using dimethylsulphate, selective demethylation, C-methylation, C-prenylation, the
- [Thawatchai Santisuk](https://neglectedscience.com/thawatchai-santisuk/): Thawatchai Santisuk, Thai botanist and plant chemist (1944 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Dolichandrone columnaris 1985 (Bignoniaceae) Acer chiangdaoense 1992 (Aceraceae)  Wrightia sirikitiae 2001 with Middleton (Apocynaceae) CHEMISTRY Isolated at least 52 new bioactive compounds from plants With Monroe E. Wall & Mansukh C. Wani described calycopterones, a new class of biflavonoids (1994) HONORS Santisukia Brummitt 1992 (Bignoniaceae) Thawatchaia Kato, Koi & Kita 2004 (Podostemaceae)
- [Teresa Maria Sanchez](https://neglectedscience.com/teresa-maria-sanchez/): Teresa Maria Sanchez, Argentine paleontologist (Pehuajó, Buenos Aires Province 25 January 1945 – 2011)  Married to paleontologist Juan Luis Benedetto DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA GENERA Australonucula 1989 Catamarcaia 1993 with Babin Cienagomya 2005 Concavoleda 1999 Costaledopsis 1990 Cuyopsis 1999 Devonodeceptrix 1995 Emiliania 1999 (in honor to her father Emiliano Sanchez) Eoredonia 2008 Famatinadonta 2001 Hemiconcavodonta 1999 Intihuarella 2003 Konduria 2007 Lipanella 2005 Lossella 2006 Natasia 1995 Notonychia 2001 Poladonta 2003 Pseudoleda 1995 Pseudoredonia 2007 Pteripecten 1984 Pucamya 2007 Suria 1997 Talacastella 1986 Trigonoconcha 1999 Ucumaris 2003 Ucumaropsis 2005 Villicumia 1999 Zaplaella 2003 Others (Fossil) Genus Archaeopycnodon 1980 with Benedetto (Pisces) Species Archaeopycnodon riveroi 1980 with Benedetto (Pisces) Coelodus tonconensis 1972 with Benedetto (Pisces) Archaeophiomusium andinum 1983 (Echinodermata)
- [Terence Macleane Salter](https://neglectedscience.com/terence-macleane-salter/): Terence Macleane Salter, English-born South African amateur botanist and botanical collector (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England 05 February 1883 – Cape Town 30 March 1969) Described 136 new plant species HONORS Saltera Bullock 1958 (Penaeaceae)
- [Teodoro Stuckert](https://neglectedscience.com/teodoro-stuckert/): Theodor Johann Vincenz Stuckert, Swiss-born Argentine botanist and pharmacist (Basel 04 September 1852 – Cordoba 11 June 1932) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Atriplex cordobensis 1908 with Gandoger Lantana grisebachii Larrea sanjuanina 1925 Lycium argentino-elongatum 1929 Malvastrum casabambense 1932 Mionandra prostata 1928 Prosopis vinalillo Stylosanthes rupestris 1929 HONORS Stuckertiella Beauverd 1913 (Asteraceae)
- [Tem Smitinand](https://neglectedscience.com/tem-smitinand/): Tem Smitinand, Thai forest botanist (Nakorn Sawan 27 June 1920 – Bangkok 18 March 1995) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Bulbophyllum tricorne 1965 with Seidenfaden   Cleisostoma linearilobatum 1972 with Seidenfaden Cycas simplicinna 1995 Gaultheria sleumeri 1988 with Hô Nervilia cumberlegei 1965 with Seidenfaden Shorea rogersiana 1974 with Raizada Sunipia thailandica 1965 with Seidenfaden Trias intermedia 1965 with Seidenfaden Uncifera thailandica 1965 with Seidenfaden Vaccinium jevidalianum 1988 with Hô Vaccinium vietnamense 1988 with Hô HONORS Smitinandia Holttum 1969 (Orchidaceae)
- [Tatiana Sendulsky](https://neglectedscience.com/tatiana-sendulsky/): Tatiana Borisovna Sendulsky, Russian-born Brazilian agrostologist (Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China 15 July 1922 – São Paulo 06 October 2004) Daughter of phycologist Boris V. Skvortzov World authority on Merostachys genus First to report ballistochory in Poaceae (1993) DESCRIBED POACEAE SPECIES Apochloa cipoensis 1980 with Renvoize Merostachys abadiana 1995 Merostachys annulifera 1997 Merostachys argentea 1997 Merostachys bifurcata 1997 Merostachys brevigluma 2001 Merostachys burmanii 1992 Merostachys calderoniana  1997 Merostachys caucaiana 1995 Merostachys filgueirasii 1995 Merostachys fimbriata 1997 Merostachys kleinii 1995 Merostachys lanata 1997 Merostachys leptophylla 1997 Merostachys magellanica 1995 Merostachys magnispicula 1995 Merostachys medullosa 1997 Merostachys pilifera 1995 Merostachys procerrima 1997 Merostachys ramosissima 1997 Merostachys rondoniensis  1997 Merostachys scandens 1995 Merostachys skvortzovii 1995 Ocellochloa soderstromii 1988 with Zuloaga Otachyrium aquaticum 1984 with Soderstrom Otachyrium grandiflorum 1984 with Soderstrom Otachyrium piligerum 1984 with
- [Suresh Narayan Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/suresh-narayan-singh/): Suresh Narayan Singh, Indian micropalaeontologist and stratigrapher (10 April 1927 – Lucknow 17 September 1980) DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA GENERA (with Kalia) Alfredina 1972 Alveoclavulina 1977 Bronnimannina 1969 Indicola 1970 Jawaharia 1968 Narayania 1982 Praeindicola 1970 Saraswati 1972 Shastrina 1970 HONORS Singhamina Garg & Singh 1986 (Fossil Foraminifera) 
- [Stanley Charles Seagrief](https://neglectedscience.com/stanley-charles-seagrief/): Stanley Charles Seagrief, South African botanist and phycologist (Salisbury, Rhodesia 21 February 1927 – 1995) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A catalogue of South African green, brown and red marine algae. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa 47:1-72, 1984 The seaweeds of the Tsitsikama Coastal National Park (1967) Establishment of Podocarpus latifolius in Blackwood plantation at the Hogsback. S. Afr. J. Science 6(1):433-7, 1965 The Lukanga Swamps of Northern Rhodesia. J. South Afr. Bot. 10:251-2, 1962 With H. Godwin. Pollen diagrams from Southern England. Elstead, Surrey. New Phytol. 59:84-91, 1960 With H. Godwin. Pollen diagrams from Southern England. Cranes Moor, Hampshire. New Phytol. 59:73, 1960 With R.B. Drummond. Some
- [Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur](https://neglectedscience.com/srinivas-kishanrao-saidapur/): Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur, Indian comparative endocrinologist (Karnataka 07 March 1947 – Elucidated the diverse patterns of reproductive processes and their control mechanisms in tropical anurans Proposed gametogenesis protocols for producing frogs of predetermined sex Developed new ways for the captive breeding of reptiles 
- [Som Kishen Shah](https://neglectedscience.com/som-kishen-shah/): Som Kishen Shah, Indian geologist and paleontologist (Srinagar 11 May 1937 – DESCRIBED TRILOBITE TAXA Genera Amurticephalus 1991 with Parcha & Raina Kupwaria 1983 with Sudan Spitella 1991 with Parcha & Raina Trilagnostus 1995 with Parcha & Raina Species Amurticephalus elongatus 1991 with Parcha & Raina Anomocarpus globosa 1995 with Sudan, Parcha & Raina Anomocarpus kupwarensis 1995 with Sudan, Parcha & Raina Blountia subangulata 1991 with Parcha & Raina Bolaspidella costatus 1982 with Sudan Bolaspidella himalayensis 1982 with Sudan Bolaspidella magamensis 1982 with Sudan Conocoryphe reedi 1973 Damesella shergoldi 1987 with Sudan Haniwa transversa 1991 with Parcha & Raina Holocephalina wadiai 1973 Holocephalina wakhalooi 1973 Hundwarella convexa 1988 with Sudan, Parcha & Raina Hundwarella kingi 1988 with Sudan, Parcha
- [Sisinthy Shivaji](https://neglectedscience.com/sisinthy-shivaji/): Sisinthy Shivaji, Indian microbiologist and biochemist (17 June 1950 – ACHIEVEMENTS Demonstrated differential phosphorylation of membrane proteins and lipopolysaccharides are involved in adaptation to low temperature Established that differential synthesis of polar and non-polar carotenoids is crucial for low temperature survival Discovered a new fatty acid desaturase gene essential for the survival of life forms at low temperature Established that genes aspartate aminotransferase and tRNA modification GTPase are required for survival of life forms at low temperature Several bacterial isolates from the cryosphere produces cold active proteases and lipases with aplications in biotechnology industries His research on the biodiversity of psychrophilic bacteria has
- [Shyam Sunder Simha](https://neglectedscience.com/shyam-sunder-simha/): Shyam Sunder Simha, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (fl.1954-88) DESCRIBED HELMINTH TAXA Genera Cheloneotrema 1976 with Chattopadhyaya Echeneidocoelium 1964 with Pershad Haplocaecum 1958 Hepatohaemotrema 1958 Neocaballerotrema 1977 with Chattopadhyaya Satyanarayanotrema 1980 with Chattopadhyaya Shobanatrema 1980 with Chattopadhyaya Singhiatrema 1954 Squaroacetabulum 1970 with Chattopadhyaya Species Acanthostomum asymmetricum 1958 Allopharynx leiperi 1965 Amphiorchis indicum 1980 Anaporrhutum narayani 1971 with Rao & Rao Astiotrema cirricurvatus 1971 with Chattopadhyaya Atrophocaecum indicum 1958 Cercaria asiatica 1964 Cercaria osmaniae 1964 Cheloneotrema testicaudata 1976 with Chattopadhyaya Echeneidocoelium indicum 1964 with Pershad Echinostoma varanum 1964 with Deshpande Eretmochelys squamosa 1970 with Chattopadhyaya Haplorchis solus 1964 Hepatohaemotrema hepaticum 1958 Mehraorchis chamaeleonis 1958 Neocaballerotrema caballeroi 1977 with Chattopadhyaya Ommatobrephus megacetabulus 1958 Orientocreadium aspinosum 1958 Paradistomum intestinalis 1958 Paradistomum lanceolatum 1958 Paradistomum spatulatus 1958 Prosthodendrium ovatum 1958 Rhytidoides indicus 1969 with Chattopadhyaya Satyanarayanotrema satyanarayani 1980 with Chattopadhyaya Shobanatrema shobanae 1980 with Chattopadhyaya
- [Shyam Chandra Srivastava](https://neglectedscience.com/shyam-chandra-srivastava/): Shyam Chandra Srivastava, Indian palaeobotanist (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh State 17 March 1945 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Plantae Bosea 1975 Chakrea 1976 Glottolepis 1970 with Bose Gopadia 1976 Lelestrobus 1984 Marhwaseaphyllum 1984 Nidia 1973 with Bose Nidistrobus 1973 with Bose Rewaphyllum 1984 Satsangia 1973 with Maheshwari Sidhiphyllites 1984 Sporae/ Pollen Arasporites 1984 with Saxena Brevitriletes 1969 with Bharadwaj Callumispora 1969 Kamthisaccites 1986 with Jha Nidipollenites 1969 with Bharadwaj Praecolpatites 1969 with Bharadwaj Pseudoreticulatispora 1969 with Bharadwaj Satsangisaccites 1969 with Bharadwaj Weylandites 1969 with Bharadwaj HONORS Srivastavaesporites Bharadwaj & Tiwari 1970 (Fossil Sporae/Pollen)
- [Shuzhi Shin](https://neglectedscience.com/shuzhi-shin/): Shuzhi Shin or Shu Szi Sin, Chinese biologist and agricultural scientist (Linli, Hunan Province 1884 – 1977) Collected reptiles and amphibians in the region of Guangxi (Kwangsi) Discovered the type species of the genus Shinisaurus Ahl 1930 of reptiles that honors his name 
- [Shiv Dayal Saksena](https://neglectedscience.com/shiv-dayal-saksena/): Shiv Dayal Saksena, Indian palaeobotanist and palynologist (Sanjari Village, Durg District, Madhya Pradesh 16 April 1909 – October 1995) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Plantae Genera Capsulites 1958 Gondwanoxylon 1963 Species Capsulites gondwanensis 1958 Gondwanoxylon ghiarii 1963 Gondwanoxylon kathotiai 1963 Phyllotheca striata 1950 Phyllotheca sahnii 1952 Samaropsis johillensis 1955 Samaropsis ganjrensis 1955 Pollen & Sporae (1969) Species Alisporites grandis Beharisporites rewaii Calamospora majus Calamospora ovalis Cuneatisporites royalensis Densosporites splendens Leiotriletes conspicuous Lunatisporites pityoformis Lycospora minuta Plicatipollenites ganjrensis Stellapollenites gondwanensis Striatites ganjraensis Triquitrites valvaetus Virkkipollenites zonatus HONORS (Fossil) Saksenaphyllites Sh. Chandra 1995 (Bryophyta) Saksenasporites Tripathi 1999 (Pollen & Sporae)
- [Sergio Schajovskoy](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-schajovskoy/): Sergio S. Schajovskoy, Russian-born Argentine forester and amateur entomologist (Moscow 24 November 1902 – San Martín de los Andes, Patagonia 18 February 1974) Collected plants and lichenes too DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA GENERA (with Orfila) Catrielia 1960 Coironalia 1961 Dagostinia 1963 Franciscoia 1963 Huechulafquenia 1964 Johnlaneia 1964 Lacaria 1960 Laninia 1958 Martindoelloia 1963 Pucaraia 1960 Sarobeia 1962 HONORS Schajovskoya Flint 1979 (Trichoptera)
- [Sergio Marques de Souza](https://neglectedscience.com/sergio-marques-de-souza/): Sergio Valle Marques de Souza, Brazilian civil engineer (Rio de Janeiro 11 August 1918 – 07 August 2002) Devised apparatuses for design and building of great works Designed the world’s biggest span with prestressed straight girder of its day in Estreito bridge over Tocantins River (1960) Developed a new mounting system employed in Amizade Bridge, Foz do Iguaçu and presented an innovative solution for metallic shuttering in the same building  Built Ponte da Amizade – the world’s largest in situ cast reinforced concrete arch (290 mts) 1962 Vice-president, IASBE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering) 1979-1987
- [Sebastião de Almeida Prado Sampaio](https://neglectedscience.com/sebastiao-de-almeida-prado-sampaio/): Sebastião de Almeida Prado Sampaio, Brazilian dermatologist (Casa Branca, São Paulo State 07 July 1919 – São Paulo 18 October 2008) Authored 125 works With C.S. Lacaz, F.P. Almeida & J.C. Fernandes presented the first report about cat to man transmission of sporotrichosis (1955)  With C.S. Lacaz introduced amphotericin B treatment for paracoccidioidomycosis (1958) With R.M. Castro, N.L. Dillon & J.E. Martins showed the effectiveness of amphotericin B for treating mucosal forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (1971) With L. C. Cucé performed the first studies about use of new imidazole antifungal compounds in the treatment of surface and deep mycoses Standardized the treatment
- [Scaglia family](https://neglectedscience.com/scaglia-family/): Lorenzo Scaglia, Italian-born Argentine collector (Alfianello, Lombardia, Brescia Province 1877 – Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province 14 July 1954) Collected a relevant amount of fossil objects as well as archaeological pieces that comprise the foundation of Mar del Plata Museum of Natural History His son, Galileo Juan Scaglia, Argentine paleontologist (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province 1915 – Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province 06 June 1989) Discovered new fossil species of reptiles, mammalian and birds such as genera Pisanosaurus 1957 and Saurosuchus 1962 Authored Resultado de las excursiones efectuadas ultimadas por el Museo de Mar del Plata. Rev. Mus. Munic. Nat. Trab. 1(1):6-7,
- [Sawai Jai Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/sawai-jai-singh/): Sawai Jai Singh II, Indian monarch and astronomer (1686 – 1743) Ruler of Rajput State of Amber (1669-1743) Designed and made some astronomical instruments Samrat Yantra, a gnomon for charting motion of the Sun’s shadow Ram Yantra, for obtaining the altitude and azimuth of planets Raj Yantra, a kind of astrolabe Jai Prakash Yantra, for mapping the position of heavenly bodies Digamsa Yantra, for azimuth measurement Nari Valaya Yantra, a cylindrical dial to measure day time and for the equinoxes Dakshinovvitti Yantra, a mural quadrant Shasthiamsa Yantra, a form of meridian circle Misra Yantra, aided to give the comparative time at
- [Satya Sadhan Sarkar](https://neglectedscience.com/satya-sadhan-sarkar/): Satya Sadhan Sarkar, Indian geologist and paleontologist (Howrah, West Bengal State 01 November 1920- DESCRIBED AMMONITE GENERA Balearites 1954 Binelliceras 1977 Dissimilites 1954 Emericiceras 1954 Escragnolleites 1954 Jaubertites 1954 Paraspinoceras 1955 Moutoniceras 1954 Protacrioceras 1955 Spathicriceras 1954 Described at least 34 new species HONORS Sarkariceras Vermelen 2006 (Ammonita)
- [Satya Narayan Singh](https://neglectedscience.com/satya-narayan-singh/): Satya Narayan Singh, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (Hyderabad 31 August 1911- Hyderabad 08 April 1982) DESCRIBED NEMATODA GENERA Buckleynema 1954 with Ali Leipernema 1976 Shorttia 1977 Velanocephalus 1958 HONORS Satyanarayanotrema Simha & Chattopadhyaya 1980 (Trematoda) Satyanarayana Khan 1984 (Cestoda) Singhiatrema Simha 1954 (Trematoda)
- [Santos Soriano](https://neglectedscience.com/santos-soriano/): J. Santos Soriano, Italian-born Argentine microbiologist (Potenza, Basilicata 10 October 1899 – Buenos Aires 17 July 1983) NEW BACTERIA With N. Walker. Isolation of ammonia-oxidizing autotrophic bacteria. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 31(4):493-7, 1968 With A. Soriano. Nueva bacteria anaeróbia productora de una alteración en sardinas envasadas. Rev. Asoc. Argent. Dietol. 6:36-41, 1948 Described the genus Flexibacter and the order Flexibacteriales in Un nuevo orden de bacterias: Flexibacteriales. Cien. Invest. 1:92-3, 1945 A new anaerobic bacillus which ret flax. Rev. Invest. Bact. Dept. Nac. Hig. 5:741, 1930 DEVELOPED METHODS Simplified methods for soil microbiological analysis. Rev. Biol du Sol (1968) Metodo para la determinación cuantitativa
- [Salimuzzaman Siddiqui](https://neglectedscience.com/salimuzzaman-siddiqui/): Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani organic chemist (Subeha, Barabanki District 19 October 1897 – Karachi 14 April 1994) Authored over 400 scientific papers Isolated alkaloids as ajmaline, ajmalinine, ajmalicine, isoajmaline, neoajmaline, serpentine and serpentinine from Rauwolfia serpentina many of these used worldwide in the treatment of mental disorder and cardiovascular ailments  Discovered and isolated a number of antibacterial compounds from various parts of the neem (Azadirachta indica) and other plants Extracted nimbin, nimbinin and nimbidin from neem oil displaying medicinal properties (1942) Isolated 6 new crystalline bases from Holarrhena anti-dysenterica   Reported harmine, harmidine, harmol, harmidol, tetrahydroharmine and amino-tetrahydroharmin from Peganum harmala Isolated the catechol derivative bhilawanol (1931)
- [Sahni family](https://neglectedscience.com/sahni-family/): Mulk Raj Sahni, Indian geologist and paleontologist (Bhera, Shahpur District, West Punjab 01 March 1899 – Lucknow 13 January 1983) Brother of palaeobotanist Birbal Sahni DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Brachiopoda Ambikella 1956 with Srivastava Carneithyris 1925 Chatwinothyris 1925 Concinnithyris 1929 Ellipsothyris 1925 Gibbithyris 1925 Kestonithyris 1925 Magnithyris 1925 Moraviaturia 1960 Neoliothyrina 1925 Ornatothyris 1929 Ornitothyris 1925 Piarothyris 1925 Pulchrithyris 1925 Rectithyris 1929 Vindhyanella 1936 Foraminifera Birbalina 1955 Hukawngia 1954 with Sastri Irrawaddia 1954 with Sastri Kutaungia 1954 with Sastri Kyatsokia 1954 with Sastri Mesania 1954 with Sastri Yanbonia 1954 with Sastri Others Indobrachyops 1958 with Huene (Amphibia) Krishnania 1954 with Srivastava (Acritarcha) Tihkia 1955 (Mollusca) HONORS (Fossil) Sahnithyris Radulovic & Ramamoorthy 1995 (Brachiopoda) Mulkrajanops Sahni & Kumar 1985 (Mammalia) His son, Ashok Sahni, vertebrate paleontologist and stratigrapher (Calcutta 19 August
- [Chandra Prakash Varma](https://neglectedscience.com/chandra-prakash-varma/): Chandra Prakash Varma, Indian paleontologist (fl.1950-81) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Pollen & Sporae (with Rawat 1963) Genera Foveodiporites Granodiporites Psilodiporites Punctodiporites Retidiporites Striadiporites Species Acanthotriletes halei 1969 Anapiculatisporites mcgregorii 1969 Cyclogranulatisporites mcallisteri 1969 Foveodiporites anklesvarensis 1963 with Rawat Granodiporites erdtmanii 1963 with Rawat Granodiporites piercei 1963 with Rawat Granodiporites sahnii 1963 with Rawat Pediastrum delicatites 1965 with Srivastava Perotriletes graysonii 1969 Psilodiporites bharadwaji 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites cooksinae 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites elongatus 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites gunniae 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites inaequalis 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites hammenii 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites krempii 1963 with Rawat Psilodiporites sahnii 1963 with Rawat Punctatisporites delicatus 1969 Punctatisporites greineri 1969 Punctodiporites harrisii 1963 with Rawat Retidiporites bengalensis 1963 with Rawat Stenozonotriletes arguei 1969 Striadiporites reticulatus 1963 with Rawat Algae Genera
- [Cesar Vargas Calderón](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-vargas-calderon/): Julio Cesar Vargas Calderón, Peruvian botanist and explorer (Cusco 26 April 1903 – 30 November 2002) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Amaryllis condemaita 1984 Clinanthus imasumac 1969 Bomarea ferreyrae 1955 Bomarea longistyla 1965 Bomarea tacnaensis 1965 Eccremocarpus huianacapac 1948 Eustephia darwinii 1960 Eustephia kawidei 1975 Eustephia longibracteata 1955 Gentiana reflexifolia 1944 with Killip Hippeastrum amaru 1960 Hippeastrum bukasovii 1975 Hippeastrum cuzcoensis 1975 Hippeastrum hugoi 1984 Hippeastrum intiflorum 1960 Hippeastrum leonardii 1984 Hippeastrum macbridei 1970 Hippeastrum machupijchensis 1976 Hippeastrum variegata 1975 Ismene hawkesii 1975 Ismene morrisonii 1943 Lupinus ccorilazensis 1948 Mastigostyla herrerae 1945 Nolana johnstonii 1955 Nolana urubambae 1955 Rubus bozae 1944 Rubus chloropetalus 1944 Rubus glaucophyllus 1944 Solanum buesii 1943 Solanum lignicaule 1943 Solanum pillahuatense 1956 Stenomesson weberbaueri 1974 Trichlora sandwithi 1969 Urceolina cuzcoensis 1974 Urceolina robledoana 1960 HONORS  Vargasiella C. Schweinfurth 1952 (Orchidaceae)
- [Carmen Velasquez](https://neglectedscience.com/carmen-velasquez/): Carmen Camacho Velasquez, Philippine fish parasitologist (Bayambang, Pangasinan Province 07 August 1913 – 16 October 1994) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Helminths Trematoda Genera Allometabenedeniella 1982 Pseudallacanthochasmus 1961 Species Acanthoparyphium paracharadrii 1964 Acanthotrema tanayensis 1973 Alcicornis cirrudiscoides 1959 Allometabenedeniella plataxi 1982 Bucephalus confusus 1959 Bucephalus fragilis 1959 Bucephalus leognathi 1959 Bucephalus paraheterotentaculatus 1959 Capsala philippina 1982 Clinostomum philippinensis 1960 Cloacitrema philippinum 1969 Didymozoon bravohollisae 1970 Encotyllabe caballeroi 1977 Erilepturus neopacificus 1962 Euryakaina manilensis 1961 Euparyphium paramurinum 1964 Hurleytrema malabonense 1961 Lecithocladium apolecti 1962 Menziesia malaboni 1982 Neobenedenia manilae 1982 Prosorhynchoides philippinorum 1959 Prosorhynchus longus 1959 Prosorhynchus luzonicus 1959 Prosorhynchus mcintoshi 1959 Prosorhynchus paracrucibulus 1959 Pseudallacanthochasmus grandispinus 1961 Rhipidocotyle eggletoni 1959 Rhipidocotyle laruei 1959 Spirocamallanus philippinensis 1980 Nematoda Species Capillaria philippinensis 1968 with Chitwood & Salazar (human parasite) Other two species Copepoda Species Ergasilus philippinensis 1951 HONORS Velasquezotrema Eduardo & Javellana
- [Carlos Villarroel](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-villarroel/): Carlos Mario Villarroel Arispe, Bolivian-born Colombian geologist and paleontologist (fl.1968) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Mammalia Brievabradys 2000 Etayoa 1987 Hondalagus 1998 with Marshall Huilabradys 1998 Huilatherium 1985 with Guerrero Díaz Kiotomops 1991 with Sakai, Setoguchi, Cadena & Shigehara Microtypotherium 1974 Plesiotypotherium 1974 Praectenomys 1975 Sallacyon 1982 with Marshall Others Colombianaspis 2015 with Morzadec, Mergl, Janvier & Rachebouef  (Trilobita) Florestacanthus 2003 with Burrow & Janvier (Pisces) Species Mammalia Borhyaenidium altiplanicus 1983 with Marshall Boreostemma acostae 1983 Brievabradys laventensis 2000 Chapalmatherium saavedrai 1984 with Hoffstetter & Rodrigo Etayoa bacatensis 1987 Hondalagus altiplanensis 1998 with Marshall Huilabradys magdaleniensis 1998 Huilatherium pluriplicatum 1985 with Guerrero Díaz Kiotomops lopezi 1991 with Sakai, Setoguchi, Cadena & Shigehara Microtragulus bolivianus 1974 with Hoffstetter Microtypotherium choquecotense 1974 Neoglyptatelus sincelejanus 2005 with Clavijo Plesiotypotherium achirense 1974 Praectenomys rhombidens 1975 Praectenomys vagus 1975 Sallacyon hoffstetteri 1982
- [Carlos Rafael Vazquez Yanes](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-rafael-vazquez-yanes/): Carlos Rafael Vazquez Yanes, Venezuelan-born Mexican plant ecologist and physiologist (Maracaibo 23 August 1945 – Mexico 11 November 1999) Authored over 70 papers, 26 book chapters and 2 books Authored classic papers on ecophysiology of tropical forests seeds Authored the first works on plants and atmosphere relationship in tropical lands Discovered the first arboreal plant with CAM photosynthetic metabolism Designed instrumentation for measuring environmental parameters
- [Carlos Manuel Varsavsky](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-manuel-varsavsky/): Carlos Manuel Varsavsky, Jewish Argentine astrophysicist (Buenos Aires 28 April 1933 – 01 March 1983) Predicted the abundance of molecular hydrogen in interstellar clouds (confirmed later) His doctoral thesis about atomic transitions in astrophysics was a standard work for decades The Calculation of absolute line strengths in atomic spectra. Doctoral Thesis, Harvard University (1958)   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The origin of tektites. Nature 181:173, 1958 Dynamical limits on a lunar origin for tektites. Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta 14:291, 1958 Radial velocities and three-color light-curves of some RR Lyrae variables. Astrophys. Journal 131:623, 1960 The gravitational contraction times of stars in very young clusters. Astrophys. Journal 132(2):354-60,
- [Carlos Enrique Valerio](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-enrique-valerio/): Carlos Enrique Valerio Gutierrez, Costa Rican arachnologist (Tilarán, Guanacaste 13 January 1944 – DESCRIBED ARACHNIDA SPECIES 1980 Aphonopelma burica Aphonopelma crinifurum Aphonopelma sclerothrix Aphonopelma xanthochromuns Brachypelma albopilosum Brachypelma angustum Brachypelma fossorum Lasiodora brevibulba Lasiodora carinata Lasiodora icecu Lasiodora puriscal Lasiodora rubitarsa Sericopelma dota Sericopelma ferruginum Sericopelma generata Sericopelma immensum Sericopelma melanotarsum Sericopelma silvícola Sericopelma upala Stichoplastoris Asterix Stichoplastoris denticulatus Stichoplastoris elusinus Stichoplastoris obelix Other Years Anisaspoides argus 1984 Anisaspoides maculatum 1984 Cyclosternum viridimonte 1982 Drymusa dinora 1971 Hebestatis lanthanus 1988 Metriopelma coloratum 1982 Metriopelma drymusetes 1982 Psalistops venadensis 1986 Scytodes diminuta 1981 Scytodes gertschi 1981 Scytodes uligocetes 1981 Stichoplastoris stylipus 1982 Trichopelma laselva 1986 Valeriophonus nara 1981 HONORS Valeriophonus Viquez & Armas 2005 (Arachnida)
- [Benito Viñes](https://neglectedscience.com/benito-vines/): Carlos Benito José Viñes Martorell, Spanish-born Cuban meteorologist (Poboleda, Tarragona, Spain 19 September 1837 – La Habana 23 July 1893) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as world’s foremost authority on tropical cyclones Authored 14 papers and 2 books Enunciated 8 laws about cyclones being 2 laws of tropical cyclonic circulation and 6 laws of hurricane movement between them:   . Cyclonic rotation in Northern Hemisphere is in counterclockwise . Relates the latitude in which cyclone recurves in according to date of season . The normal direction of tracks in distinct dates and latitudes . About translational velocities of cyclones Investigaciones relativas a la Circulación y Traslacion Ciclonica
- [Benedicto de Campos Vidal](https://neglectedscience.com/benedicto-de-campos-vidal/): Benedicto de Campos Vidal, Brazilian biophysicist and microscopist (São Paulo 07 July 1930 – Authored 208 scientific papers (until 2012)  Gained international recognition on morphology and image analysis Performed important works on collagen and molecular order of biopolymers Performed pioneering and original observations on orientation of proteoglycans and other structures employing optical anisotropy measurements Performed important works about anisotropic properties in cornea and tendons Systematized and applied form birefringency to biomedicine Described a kind of polymeric liquid crystal in collagen First observed optical non-linear and photonic properties in biological structures (2003) Proposed  collagen bundles can be regarded as nanostructures DEVELOPED A
- [Bangalore Srinivasarao Venkatachala](https://neglectedscience.com/bangalore-srinivasarao-venkatachala/): Bangalore Srinivasarao Venkatachala, Indian palynologist and stratigrapher (Bangalore 02 January 1933 – Dehradun 15 June 2007) Authored about 100 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL GENERA Sporae/Pollen Aggerispora 1963 Altitriletes 1968 with Kar Asperitricolporites 1972 with Rawat Asterisporites 1971 with Rawat Auriculiretisporites 1973 with Rawat Bhujiasporites 1969 with Kar & Raza Boshisporites 1973 with Bharadwaj & Tiwari Bullaspora 1963 Candidispora 1963 Caperetriporites 1972 with Rawat Cauveripollis 1973 with Rawat Clavisporis 1962 with Bharadwaj Coneopollis 1973 with Rawat Corbulispora 1962 with Bharadwaj Corisaccites 1966 with Kar Costatipollenites 1973 with Rawat Couperipollis 1969 with Kar Cryptopolyporites 1969 with Kar Cyclofoveolatispora 1968 with Kar Cymbospora 1963 Didecitriletes 1964 with Kar Divarisaccus 1966 with Kar Fossulatisporites 1971 with Bharadwaj & Tiwari Frangospora 1968 with Kar Gliscopollis 1966 Granuloperculatipollis 1964 with Goczan Impardecispora 1969 with Kar
- [Antonio Vivacqua Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-vivacqua-filho/): Antonio Vivacqua Filho, Brazilian inventor (Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Espirito Santo State 1915-?) INVENTIONS (more than 60)  Artificial milk and creams Meat shredding technique Technique of breaking and mechanical separation of coconuts Process for brandy’s deodorization and electronic aging Process for protecting seals, checks and documents against falsification An improved process for partial production of animal fats A Synthetic carbide An original process for obtaining soluble coffee An process of hydrogenising under pressure oleaginous seeds and fruits   A portable device for detecting suffocant gases Synthetic tissue for employ as substitute for human skin Electronic device for immunization of cereal plants Perfected a distillation process for
- [Anna Verster](https://neglectedscience.com/anna-verster/): Anna Johanna Maria Verster, South African veterinarian parasitologist and helminthologist (Bethulie, Free State Province 20 November 1930 – Pretoria 01 September 1994) Gained international recognition for her studies on hookworms that affects man and animals Authored A Taxonomic revision of genus Taenia Linnaeus, 1758 s.str. Onderstepoort J. Vet. Res. 36:358, 1969 regarded as a classic DESCRIBED CESTODA TAXA     Species Taenia pseudolaticollis 1969 Subspecies Echinococcus granulosus africanus 1965 Echinococcus granulosus newzealandensis 1965 Echinococcus granulosus ortleppi 1965 Taenia ovis krabbei 1969 HONORS Versternema Bain, Chabaud & Burger 1952 (Nematoda)
- [Alvaro Velasco Chiriboga](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-velasco-chiriboga/): Alvaro Velasco Chiriboga, Ecuadorian-born Colombian obstetrician (Quito 1929 – Developed Velasco or Colombian spatulae for fetal extraction Espatulas para la extracción fetal. Nuevo instrumento obstétrico. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 26:17, 1975    SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.A. Salazar Galindo, C.J. Pacheco Consuegra & A. Guzmán Niño. Determinación de lós valores de densidad óptica a 650 nm en el liquido amniotico del embarazo normal entre lãs semanas 27 a 43 como índice de madurez pulmonar fetal. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 32(3):177-85, 1981   With M. A. Perdomo. Efecto de los senosidos a y b sobre el peristaltismo intestinal durante El puerperio. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol.
- [Alejandro Villalobos Figueroa](https://neglectedscience.com/alejandro-villalobos-figueroa/): Alejandro Villalobos Figueroa, Mexican carcinologist (Pochutla, Oaxaca State 31 March 1918 – Veracruz State 23 October 1982) His Doctoral thesis, Los cambarinos de la fauna mexicana (Crustacea Decapoda) (1955) was the first monograph about the Cambaridae family in the world being translated into English by Horton Hobbs Jr. in 1983 DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA Genus Archaeatya 1960 Species Ankylocythere barbouri 1974 with Hobbs Jr. Archaeatya chacei 1960 Atya ortmannioides 1956 Bogidiella tabascensis 1961 Cambarellus alvarezi 1951 Cambarellus lermensis 1943 Cambarellus patzcuarensis 1943 Cambarellus prolixus 1981 with Hobbs Jr. Cambarelus zampoalensis 1943 Macrobrachium acanthochirus 1966 Palaemon lindsayi 1974 with Hobbs Jr. Paracambarus ortmanni 1949 Paracambarus tlapacoyanensis 1947 Procambarus acanthophorus 1949 Procambarus caballeroi 1944 Procambarus erichsoni 1950 Procambarus gonopodocristatus 1958 Procambarus hoffmanni 1944 Procambarus hortonhobbsi 1950
- [Albino Fernandes Vital](https://neglectedscience.com/albino-fernandes-vital/): Albino Fernandes Vital, Brazilian mycologist (c. 1920 – 05 August 1993) DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA  Asterostromina 1957 with Batista Bacillopeltis 1957 Bisbyopeltis 1957 with Batista Catinopeltis 1957 with Costa Mesophelliops 1957 with Batista Myxothyriopsis 1956 with Batista Peltostromellina 1959 with Batista Peltostromopsis 1959 with Batista Peroschaeta 1957 with Batista Petrakiopeltis 1958 with Batista & Ciferri Polycyclinopsis 1958 with Batista & Lima Polystomellina 1958 with Batista Protostegiomyces 1955 with Batista Schizothyropsis 1960 with Batista Scutopycnis 1957 with Batista Stellopeltis 1959 with Batista Stromatopycnis 1956
- [Adalberto Antonio Varela Freire](https://neglectedscience.com/adalberto-antonio-varela-freire/): Adalberto Antonio Varela-Freire, Brazilian entomologist (Seridó, Rio Grande do Norte State 01 April 1949 – Natal 21 January 2012) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With A.C.J. Camara, H.M.S. Valadares, A.M. Macedo, D.A. D’Avila & C.R. Machado. Genetic analyses of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from naturally infected triatomines and humans in northeastern Brazil. Acta Trop. 115:205-11, 2010 With H.T.A. Andrade, M.A. Batista & J.F. Medeiros. Calliphoridae (Diptera) from human cadavers in Rio Grande do Norte State, northeastern Brazil. Neotrop. Entomol. 34(5):855-6, 2005 With J.A. Duarte Jr & C.S. Motta. Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) da Estação Ecológica do Seridó, Serra Negra do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. Entomol. Vetores 68(3):341-7,
- [Trifón Ugarte](https://neglectedscience.com/trifon-ugarte/): Trifón Ugarte Aguilera, Bolivian-born Argentine analytical chemist and toxicologist (Chuquisaca 18 October 1886 – Buenos Aires 11 March 1950) Nouvelle methode d’evaluation rapide du sucre réducteur dans les sirops, le sang, le liquid céphalo-rachidien, le lait et l’urine (1932) Nouvelle methode de dosage de la caféine, dans le maté, le café, le thé, la noix de kola et le guaraná. J. Pharm. Chimie 24:387-9, 1921 A new rapid and practical method of dosage of morphine in opium and some of its preparations   Nuevo metodo de analisis inmediato sobre un centímetro cubico de leche. J. Pharm. Chimie 14:22-33, 1931 Los nuevos métodos de
- [Tehemton Erach Udwadia](https://neglectedscience.com/tehemton-erach-udwadia/): Tehemton Erach Udwadia, Indian surgeon (Mumbai 15 July 1934 – Mumbai 07 January 2023) First applied non-invasive ventilation in the weaning technique METHODS/TECHNIQUES A technique of retraction of supermassive spleens using a Nathanson retractor With A. Bhandarkar, A. Katara & G. Mittal. Use of Nathanson retractor during laparoscopic appendicectomy for supermassive spleens. Surg. Laparosc. Endosc. Percutan. Tech. 21(5):232-4, 2011 Described a simple method of creating vacuum between a rigid shell and the abdominal wall to create adequate operative space for minimal access surgery With B.K. Kathrani, W. Bernie, U.S. Gadgil & V.M. Chariar. Vacuum-assisted abdominal wall lift for minimal-access surgery: a
- [Saul Umansky](https://neglectedscience.com/saul-umansky/): Saul Umansky, Argentine phlebologist (1920 –  With M.E. Umansky developed chromatic micropuncture (1990) Eponym of Umansky sign (1955) INSTRUMENTS A phlebo curette (1969) later modified by Italian Corços (1984) A disecting illumino graph phlebo extractor (1955) Umansky hollow phlebo extractor New instruments in the treatment of varicose veins and dilated vessels from South America (197
- [Namio Uesugui](https://neglectedscience.com/namio-uesugui/): Namio Uesugui, Brazilian palynologist and stratigrapher (05 November 1938 – From Japanese descent DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera (with Regali & Santos 1974) Alaticolpites Bahiaporites Echitricolpites Psilaperiporites Psilastephanoporites Scabraperiporites Sergipea Tricornites Species Alaticolpites limai Apectodinium caiobense Aquilapollenites magnus Areoligera espiritosantensis Bahiaporites reticularis Cicatricosisporites cristatus Cingulatisporites verrucatus Clavatricolpites daemoni Clavatriletes disparilis Cleitosphaeridium bahiaense Cricotriporites almadaensis Crotonipollis microclavatus Echitricolpites communis Echitricolpites solaris Echitricolporites minutus Echitriletes muelleri Ephedripites pentacostatus Ephedripites subtilis Equisetosporites undulatus Fenestrites gemmatus Foveotriletes ornatus Fusiformisporites polyhedricus Gnetaceaepollenites crassipolii Gnetaceaepollenites undulatus Hystrichosphaeridium sergipensis Impletosphaeridium (Operculodinium) bahiaense (Dinoflagellata) Inaperturopollenites crisopolensis Inaperturopollenites curvimuratus Inaperturopollenites simplex Nodosisporites baculatus Psilamonocolpites minutus Psilaperiporites minimus Psilaperiporites robustus Psilastephanocolporites fissilis Psilastephanocolporites
- [Manuel Uribe Troncoso](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-uribe-troncoso/): Manuel Uribe Troncoso, Mexican / US ophthalmologist (Toluca 17 June 1876 – New York 21 January 1959) Considered as world authority on eye physiology and diseases Authored over 170 papers Authored important studies about iridocorneal angle First to study aqueous humor circulation in living animals and the influence of its chemical constitution Described the basal layer of iris processes  METHODS Suggested new techniques for treatment of glaucoma Described cyclodyalisis with implantation of magnesium Cyclodyalisis with insertion of a metal implant in the treatment of glaucoma: A preliminary report. Arch. Ophth. 23:270-300, 1940 New methods of examination of the angle of the
- [Manuel Urbina](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-urbina/): Manuel Urbina y Altamirano, Mexican physician and botanist (Ciudad de Mexico 07 September 1843 – Ciudad de Mexico 19 July 1906) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Notas acerca de los amoles de Hernandez. Naturaleza 3:118-30, 1910 Granos de polen de oyametl. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 3(3):293-7, 1906 Raices comestibles entre los antiguos mexicanos. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 3(2):117-90, 1906 Notas acerca de los ayotli de Hernandez o calabazas indigenas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:353-90, 1903 Los zapotes de Hernandez. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:209-34, 1903 Los amates de Hernandez o higueras mexicanas. Anales Museo Nac. Mexico 7:93-114, 1903 Notas acerca de los tzauhtli u orquídeas mexicanas. Anales Museo Nac.
- [Lorenzo Uribe](https://neglectedscience.com/lorenzo-uribe/): Antonio Lorenzo Uribe y Uribe, Colombian botanist (Medellín 20 January 1900 – Bogotá 08 December 1980) Son of naturalista José Joaquín Uribe Authored about 40 papers Collected Lepidopteran and Coleopteran species DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Adelobotrys linearifolia 1966 Aristolochia antennifera 1955 Aristolochia claveriana 1955 Blakea allotricha 1971 Blakea fissicalyx 1980 Blakea longipes 1980 Blakea mitrata 1971 Blakea squamigera 1975 Blakea valenzuelae 1957 Centronia dichromantha 1965 Clidemia anoriensis 1977 Draba litamo 1948 Drymonia variegata 1952 Ernestia adenotricha 1962 Huilaea macrocarpa 1966 Huilaea minor Huilaea mutisiana 1969 Inga capsellata 1943 Inga coragypsea 1943 Inga dolichantha 1942 Inga ellsworthiana 1947 Inga guamito 1943 Inga interfluminensis 1943 Inga medellinensis 1945 Inga microgyna 1945 Inga ouraphylla 1947 Inga pilosa 1941 Inga psittacorum 1945 Inga samanensis 1952 Inga urabensis 1947 Meriania antioquensis 1969 Meriania hernandoi 1969 Meriania peltata 1962
- [Leopoldo Uichanco](https://neglectedscience.com/leopoldo-uichanco/): Leopoldo Bancain Uichanco, Philippine entomologist (Calamba, Laguna 23 April 1894 – 23 February 1972) Achieved international renown for his work on aphids and migratory locusts DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genus Haplaphalaria 1921 Species Anomoterga kleinhofiae 1921 Asphondylia grewiae 1919 Ectenus spinosus 1950 Itonida paederiae 1919 Leptynoptera sulfurea 1921 Haplaphalaria dahli 1921 Paurocephala maculipennis 1921 Pauropsylla deflexa 1919 Pauropsylla montana 1919 Trioza pallida 1919 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Probable relation to altitude of the mound-building habit of Macrotermes (Macrotermes ailvus (Hagen)). Philip. Jour Sci. 90(2):215-8, 1961 A method of mounting epiphytic orchids (1949) Insect defoliators on Cinchona in Mindanao. Philipp. J. Forestry 3(1):45-50, 1940 A progress report on the ecology of probable outbreak centers of the migratory locust in the Philippines. Bull. Nat.
- [Julio Vicente Uriburu](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-vicente-uriburu/): Julio Vicente Juan Uriburu Medici, Argentine surgeon and breast expert (Buenos Aires 17 November 1911 – Buenos Aires 09 February 2008) BREAST Developed a classification for mammarian dysplasias Described the focusing juvenile proliferative dysplasia  With A.M. Mosto & M.A. Gómez. Displasia proliferative juvenile focalizada. Prensa Med. Arg. 62:172-6, 1975 Enunciated criteria for surgery of breast cancer Operability indications and selection of technic in breast cancer. Prensa Med. Argent. 57(29):1430-4, 1970 Authored La Mama: Estructura, Patologia, Diagnostico y Tratamiento translated into English language as The Breast (1977)  SURGERY With D. E. Zavaleta. Procedure for the treatnment of eventrations. Prensa Med. Argent. 38(35):2187-91,
- [Julio Urbina](https://neglectedscience.com/julio-urbina/): Julio Alberto Urbina Romero, Venezuelan parasitologist and biochemist (c. 1947 – Authored over 150 papers Found a number of new drugs with potent in vitro and in vivo effects on Trypanosoma cruzi and other prasites such as novel azasterols, quinuclidine based inhibitors, new triazole derivatives and new-metal clotrimazole complexes Established that amiodarone has effect on trypanosomiasis Developed the utilization of ergosterol synthesis inhibitors against Trypanosoma cruzi With N.M. Rodríguez, B.N. Bailey, M.B. Martin, E. Oldfield & R. Docampo. Radical cure of experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis by the bisphosphonate pamidronate. J. Infect. Dis. 186(1):138-40, 2002 Obtained the first reports of parasitological cure of Chagas disease in
- [José Ugalde Pérez](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ugalde-perez/): José Ugalde Perez, Mexican physician (1883 – 1959) Patented a drawing board US2424630A (1944) Proposed a new concept about structure and features of the matter in Teoria omniologica: nuevo concepto sobre la estructura y caracteristicas de la materia (1945)   Developed a formulation and an ionization machine for provoking artificial rains (1956)
- [Ignacio Uriburu](https://neglectedscience.com/ignacio-uriburu/): Ignacio Juan Francisco Uriburu Bellouard, Argentine hand surgeon (Buenos Aires 08 September 1940 – Buenos Aires 17 October 2008) From French descent Described a new variant of the compression syndrome of the deep motor branch at the piso-hamate hiatus and named piso-hamate hiatus syndrome With F.J. Morchio & J.C. Marin. Compression of syndrome of the deep motor branch of the ulnar nerve (piso-hamate hiatus syndrome). J. Bone Joint Surg. 58A:145-7, 1976 DESCRIBED TECHNIQUES With A.E. Olazabal & M. Ciaffi. Trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis: surgical technique and results of “stabilized resection-arthroplasty”. J. Hand Surg. 17A:598-604, 1992 With F.J. Morchio, J. Marín & A. Olazabal. Arthrosis
- [Hipolito Unanue](https://neglectedscience.com/hipolito-unanue/): José Hipólito Unanue Pavón, Peruvian physician, politician, geographer and naturalist (Arica 13 August 1755 – Cañete 15 July 1833) Anticipated many concepts of anthropogeography and was praised by famous scientists like Humboldt, Nordenflicht, Haenke, Ruiz and Pavón between others Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima y sus influencias en los seres organizados en especial al hombre (1806) Presented the first medical and chemical study of coca leaves Sobre el cultivo, comercio y virtudes de la famosa planta del Perú nombrada coca (1794) Member of scientific societies like that of Philadelphia, New York, Madrid and Bayern Acting president of Peru (01 April
- [Helga Urban](https://neglectedscience.com/helga-urban/): Helga Carla Urban, Brazilian amateur entomologist (died 24 August 1976) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY De gêneros diversos com larvas e casulos muito semelhantes (1968) With L. Travassos Filho. Bionomia de Dinia aegrus (Cramer, 1779) (Lepidoptera, Ctenuchidae) 1967 Bionomia de Mantodea. Insecta em laboratório. II. Acanthops falcataria Goeze, 1778. Acanthopidae. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 11:1-8, 1964   With L. Travassos Filho. Sobre a criação de pequenos Mantodea com insetos da ordem Collembola. Rev. Bras. Entom. 1:159-61, 1954 HONORS Helgaia Rocha e Silva Albuquerque & Gurney 1963 (Blattodea) Urbanonema Travassos & Kloss 1958 (Nematoda) 
- [Guillermo Uribe Cualla](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-uribe-cualla/): Guillermo Uribe Cualla, Colombian coroner and forensic psychiatrist (Bogotá 08 June 1895 – 1977) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El narco-analisis en Terapéutica, Medicina legal y Psiquiatría  El abuso del alcohol como fator de delincuencia en Colombia Muerte súbita en los niños por lesiones del timo. Su patogenia e importância médico-legal Sobre los traumatismos cráneo-encefálicos y su aspecto médico-legal Responsabilidad médica y sus proyecciones médico-legales Estudios de la personalidad de delincuente, el rol del juez en la lucha contra la criminalidad y su preparación criminológica La hipocondria en Medicina Legal Algunos problemas graves de eugenesia. Inmigración y feminismo moderno Los delitos sexuales ante la Medicina Legal
- [Filemon Uriarte](https://neglectedscience.com/filemon-uriarte/): Filemon Abuel Uriarte Jr., Philippine chemical engineer (Quezón 15 October 1945 – DEVELOPED A number of appropriate pollution control technologies adapted to local conditions such as the use of waste pickling liquor in the treatment of industrial wastes, recycle and re-use of waste waters in sugar mills and refineries Local technology for the fabrication of high-speed floating mechanical surface aerators and other pollution and sluipment The utilization of waste carbidge sludge in the treatment of industrial wastes; The use of wastewaters from synthetic detergent plants in the treatment of oil waste and research on the use of locally available and naturally
- [Felix Ugarte](https://neglectedscience.com/felix-ugarte/): Felix Raul Enrique Ugarte, Argentine geologist (Gualeguaychú, Entre Rios Province 21 February 1927 – Brazil 29 January 1982) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Teoría de las pressiones litostaticas en el estudio sinergético de un yacimiento fisurado de hidrocarburos (Aguada, san Roque, Província de Neuquén). VI Congr. Geol. Argent. (1974) Los cuerpos intrusivos del Yacimiento Santa Cruz en relacción com el entrapamiento del petróleo (1968) Algunas consideraciones sobre la Formación del Río Corintos, Esquel, Chubut. An. Univ. Patag. San Juan Bosco 1(1):69-75, 1966 La cuenca compuesta carbonífero-jurásica de la Patagonia meridional. An. Univ. Patag. San Juan Bosco 1(1):37-68, 1966 El suprapaleozoico del Río Genoa (Chubut) e
- [Ezequiel Uricoechea](https://neglectedscience.com/ezequiel-uricoechea/): Ezequiel Uricoechea Rodríguez, Colombian physician, naturalist, linguist and ethnologist (Bogotá 10 April 1834 – Beirut 28 July 1880) Recognized as an exceptional student graduated as surgeon at 18 in Yale University despite the fact that this diploma was given only to students over 20  Studied mathematics, chemistry and linguistics in Germany Uber das Iridium und seine Verbindungen. Dissertation, University of Gottingen (1854) Analyse der Meteoreisen von Toluca und vom Kap der gutten Hofnung. Ann. Chimie und Pharm. Giessen XCL:249-53, 1854 Discovered otobit or otobil, a plant compound Uber das Fett der Myristica otoba und einen darin enthaltenen neuen korpen (das Otobit). Ann. Chimie
- [Emilio Ureta Rojas](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-ureta-rojas/): Emilio Ureta Rojas, Chilean entomologist (Vicuña 29 April 1907 – Santiago 04 November 1959) Authored about 50 works DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Chionanema 1955 Hypsochila 1955 Stachyocera 1959 Species About 90  HONORS Uretacris Liebermann 1943 (Orthoptera)
- [Danuncia Urban](https://neglectedscience.com/danuncia-urban/): Danuncia Urban, Brazilian entomologist (Curitiba 13 May 1933 – From a family of Polish immigrants DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Genera Actenosigynes 1999 with Graf & Moure Albinaspis 2000 with Graf Ananthidium 1992 Baptonedys 1999 with Moure & Graf Carloticola 1990 with Moure Ceblurgus 1993 with Moure Chrisanthidium 1997 Ctenanthidium 1993 Dicranthidium 1976 with Moure Grafanthidium 1995 Hamatothrix 1989 Hypanthidioides 1975 with Moure Ketianthidium 1999 Larocanthidium 1997 Loyolanthidium 2001 Melostelis 2011 Michanthidium 1995 Mielkeanthidium 1996 Mirnapis 1998  Moureanthidium 1995 Moureisca 1973 with Graf & DeSantis Rhynostelis 1995 with Moure Santiago 1989 Tylanthidium 1995 Species 319 (until 2014)
- [Cesar Uribe Piedrahita](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-uribe-piedrahita/): Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, Colombian parasitologist and novelist (Medellín 19 November 1896 – Bogotá 17 December 1951) Discovered that bites of Rhodnius sp. transmit trypanosomiasis too (1926) With H. Groot & S. Renjifo, discovered Trypanosoma ariarii, causative agent of trypanosomiasis of Ariari River Valley (1951) With K. Mezey performed the first pharmacodynamical study about poison niaara (1945) With Kalman Mezey, Pataki & Huertas Lozano isolated cardioactive glycoside niaarine and described its properties and effects (1948-9) Described new species as Cercaria reptans (1925), Cercaria usaquenensis (1944), Alaria arisaemoides 1927 and Crithidia orthea 1926 HONOURS Order of Nile River by King Fouad of Egypt  LINKS http://www.accefyn.org.co/revista/Vol_21/80/295-311.pdf (Spanish)
- [Cengiz Uluçay](https://neglectedscience.com/cengiz-ulucay/): Cengiz Uluçay, Turkish mathematician (Istanbul 15 February 1915 – 1989) Restricted sheaf theory. J. Fac. Scien. K.T.U. 3(7):59-68, 1980 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS A criterion for restricted ideal sheaves and on regular covering spaces. Comm. Fac. Scien. de l’Univ. D’Ankara Ser A 33:15-20, 1984 On an extremalization method in the theory of analytic functions. Comm. Fac. Scien. de l’Univ. D’Ankara 23:85-93, 1974 A general formulation of an extremalization problem. Comm. Fac. Scien. de l’Univ. D’Ankara 19 A:11-22, 1971 Bloch functions and the definition of a new constant (1954) On a general principle in the theory of analytic functions 
- [Alfredo Ulloa Aguirre](https://neglectedscience.com/alfredo-ulloa-aguirre/): Alfredo Antonio Ulloa-Aguirre, Mexican reproductive endocrinologist (Ciudad de Mexico 1949 – Authored over 180 papers, 42 book chapters with 7,800 citations (h-index 52) Recognized internationally as expert on G-protein coupled proteins and a leader in the field of gonadotrophin heterogeneity Developed laboratory methods to characterize the biochemical and biological features of follicle-stimulating glycoforms Described hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism by hypothalamic dysfunction in Steinert disease (1975) With G. Perez Palacios e M. Medina proposed new concepts on action mechanisms of sex steroidal hormones With J.P. Mendez, A. Cravioto, E. Grotjan, P. Damián-Matsumura & R. Espinoza described and characterized biologically the human chorionic gonadotropin isotypes
- [Alberto Urrets Zavalia](https://neglectedscience.com/alberto-urrets-zavalia/): Alberto Urrets Zavalía Maldonado, Argentine ophthalmologist (Cordoba 30 September 1920 – Cordoba 31 July 2010) Authored about 200 presentations and publications CONTRIBUTIONS Individualized the cyclovertical component in strabismus First to propose the dehydration of the vitreous body in glaucoma patients before ocular surgery Described the V-Z procedure for the correction of senile ectropion First noticed the element of vertical incomitance in a case of horizontal strabismus known later as AV pattern (1948) Authored Décollement de la rétine (1968), a standard work in this field for many years Developed a fixation pick and scleral depressor for retinal detachment surgery (Urrets Zavalía depressor and fixation pick) and the
- [Zhisong Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/zhisong-tang/): Zhisong Tang, Chinese computer scientist (Changsha, Hunan Province 07 August 1925 – Beijing 21 July 2008) Proved many structural properties of computer control transfer (1960s) Proposed independently an alternative cycle for computer programming set (1965) Designed XYZ/E system the first executable temporal logic language and the first to use language control mechanism into state transitions out of the logic system in the world (1978) Developed XYZ/E based CASE tools which can support software development process 
- [Zafarullah Khan Tariq](https://neglectedscience.com/zafarullah-khan-tariq/): Zafarullah Khan Tariq, Pakistani applied entomologist SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F. Ahmad & H. Huque. Control of sugarcane Pyrilla and whitefly by aerial application of emulsifiable concentrates at ultra-low volume. Pest Articles New Summaries 16(1):165-71, 1970 With N. Ahmad. High altitude malaria prevalence in Gilgit agency, West Pakistan. Pakistan J. Sci. 19(5-6):199-204, 1967 A preliminary report of the mosquitoes in the Gilgit agency area. Pak. J. Science 19(1-2):47-56, 1967 With R.R. Khokhar. A redescription of Aedes (Diceromyia periskeletus) (Giles, 1902) (Diptera:Culicidae). Pakistan J. Sci. 18:117-23, 1966 With M. Aslamkhan & C. Salman. Studies on the bionomics of mosquitoes of West Pakistan. Ann.
- [Yodhathai Thebtaranonth](https://neglectedscience.com/yodhathai-thebtaranonth/): Yodhathai Thebtaranonth, Thai organic chemist (Bangkok 15 September 1943 – Gave the first example of a triple conjugated addition process With C. Thanupran & C. Thebtaranonth. Stereospecific triple Michael addition. Tetrahedron Lett. 27(20):2295-8, 1986 (first example of a triple conjugated addition process) With S. Sawadjoon, P. Kittakoop, K. Kirtikara, V. Vichai & M. Tanticharoen. Atropisomeric myristinins: selective COX2 inhibitors and antifungal agents from Myristica cinnanomea. J. Org. Chem 67(16):547-05, 2002 (first reported naturally occurring atropisomeric flavans) With M. Isaka, J. Punya, Y. Lertwerawat & M. Tanticharoen. Antimalarial activity of macrocyclic trichothecenes isolated from the fungus Myrothecium verrucaria. J. Nat. Products 62(2):329-31, 1999 (first
- [Ying Tsiang](https://neglectedscience.com/ying-tsiang/): Ying Tsiang or Ying Jiang, Chinese botanist (1898 – 1982) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Antiostelma 1992 with Li Chieniodendron 1964 with Li Chunechites 1937 Dischidanthus 1936 Dolichopetalum 1973 Huthamnus 1939 Merrillanthus 1941 with Chun Parepigynum 1973 with Li Pentastelma 1974 with Li Sinopimelodendron 1973 Species About 240 Others At least 5 tribes, 5 sections and 7 varieties HONORS Tsiangia Li, But & Hsue 1986 (Rubiaceae)
- [Ying Jun Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/ying-jun-tang/): Ying Jun Tang or Ying Chun Tang, Chinese stratigrapher, paleontologist and anthropologist (fl.1963-2000) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MAMMALIAN TAXA Genera Heothema 1978 Huananothema 1978 Sinostylops 1976 with Yan Wanotherium 1976 with Yan Zeuctherium 1976 with Yan Species Antilospira yuxianensis 1980 Chilotherium yunnanensis 1974 with Liu, You & Pan Dicoryphochoerus binxianensis 1985 with Liu  Dissacus magushanensis 1976 with Yan Eudinoceras crassum 1977 with Tong Heothema angusticalxia 1978 Heothema bellia 1978 Heothema chengbiensis 1978 Heothema media 1978 Huananothema imparilica 1978 Indricotherium qujingensis 1978 Lynx variabilis 1980 Mimomys hanzhongicus 1987 with Zong Palaeotragus progressus 1983 with Ji Sinomastodon hanjiangensis 1987 with Zong Sinostylops progressus 1976 with Yan Sinostylops promissus 1976 with Yan Stegodon primitium 1973 with Liu & You Stegolophodon banguoensis 1974 Stegolophodon xixiangensis 1987 with Zong  Wanotherium xuanchengensis 1976 with Yan
- [Xiaowei Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/xiaowei-tang/): Xiaowei Tang, Chinese physicist (Wuxi, Jiangsu Province October 1931 – Codiscovered the gluon particle Developed total absorption Cerenkov counter and the sampling electromagnetic calorimeter  Introduced the concept of molecular fluctuation in living cells (1997) 
- [William Wardlaw Thompson](https://neglectedscience.com/william-wardlaw-thompson/): William Wardlaw Thompson, South African ichthyologist (? – 1917) DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA (with Gilchrist) Genus Clinoides 1908 Valid Species Acanthopagrus estuarius 1908 Ambassis natalensis 1908 Anchichoerops natalensis 1909 Blennophis striatus 1908 Chalaroderma ocellata 1908 Chrysoblephus anglicus 1908 Chrysoblephus puniceus 1908 Clinoporus biporosus 1908 Clinus arborescens 1908 Clinus brevicristatus 1908 Clinus ornatus 1908 Clinus robustus 1908 Clinus taurus 1908 Clinus venustris 1908 Coryphaenoides ariommus 1916 Cremnochorites capensis 1908 Enteromius annectens 1917 Fucomimus mus 1908 Gymnura natalensis 1911 Halieutaea fitzsimonsi 1916 Labeo rubromaculatus 1913 Labeo seeberi 1911 Labeobarbus kimberleyensis 1913 Labeobarbus nelspruitensis 1911 Lepidamia natalensis 1908 Lepidotrigla faurei 1914 Neoscorpis litophilus 1908 Nezumia pudens 1916 Omobranchus woodi 1908  Opsaridium peringueyi 1913  Pachymetopon aeneum 1908 Pavoclinus graminis 1908 Pavoclinus laurentii 1908 Pavoclinus mentalis 1908 Pavoclinus pavo 1908 Pomacanthus rhomboides 1908 Pomadasys striatus 1908 Porcostoma dentata 1908  Smithichthys fucorum 1908 Sphyraena africana 1909 Thryssa vitrirostris 1908 Trigla natalensis 1914
- [William Tyson](https://neglectedscience.com/william-tyson/): William Tyson, Jamaican-born South African botanist and plant collector (Port Royal, Jamaica March 1851- Grahamstown 13 April 1920) Collected numerous new species of plants and algae HONORS Afrotysonia Rauschert 1982 (Boraginaceae)
- [Washington Tafuri](https://neglectedscience.com/washington-tafuri/): Washington Luiz Tafuri, Brazilian histopathologist (Desterro do Melo, Minas Gerais State 04 December 1926 – Desterro do Melo, Minas Gerais State 30 March 2013) Authored over 200 scientific works and 12 book chapters With H. Menezes, E.O. da Rocha e Silva, J. Ferreira Fernandes & J.Romeu Cançado developed a preventive vaccine for Chagas disease (1972)   IDENTIFIED NEW STRUCTURES Elemental neurosecretory granules of intraganglionar nerve fibers from Auerbach myenteric plexus With H. Hager. Elektronenoptischer Nachweis sog neurosekretorischer Elementar-granula in warklosen Nervenfasern des Plexus myentericus (Auerbach) des Meerschwein chens. Naturwissenschaften 45:332-3, 1959 With J.R. Cunha Melo & L. Freire-Maia. Ultrastructure and possible function
- [Victorio Trippi](https://neglectedscience.com/victorio-trippi/): Victorio Segundo Trippi, Argentine plant physiologist (Tucumán 28 July 1929 – Cordoba 24 March 2023) Pioneer on fundamental concepts about the oxygen pressure regulation paper on growth and development and about the functions of reactive species of oxygen that were studied worldwide Introduced the study of sugars as modulators of growth, development and inducers of senescence Papers with more than 100 citations With H.R.Lascano, G.E. Antonicelli, C.M. Luna. M.N. Melchiorre, L.D. Gómez, R.W. Pacca & L.M. Casano. Antioxidant system response of different wheat cultivars under drought: field and in vitro studies. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 28;1095-1102, 2001 With L. Casano, L.
- [V.K. Ting](https://neglectedscience.com/v-k-ting/): Wen Jiang Ting or V. K. Ting, Chinese geologist and stratigrapher (Taixing, Jiangsu Province 20 March 1887 – Changsha, Hunan Province 05 January 1936) Named Wutongshan quartzite SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Geology of the Yantze Delta With F. Solger and H. B. Wang. Report on the Geology and mining industry along the Zhengding-taiyuan Railway. Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce Republic of China 1(1): 14–17; no. 2 (1914): 15–19, 1914 Report on the Geology of the Yangtze Valley below Wuhu (1919) With J. C. Zhang. Report on the coal fields of Yu-hsien, Yang-yuan, and Kuang-ling of Shansi-Hebei Provinces. Geological Society of
- [Travassos brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/travassos-brothers/): Lauro Pereira Travassos Filho, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 07 February 1918 – São Paulo 29 May 1989) Son of Lauro Travassos Authored 76 papers Developed techniques for maintaining and growing arthropods in laboratory Técnicas gerais seguidas no estudo da ordem Mantodea Burmeister, 1838. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 4(5): 113-56, 1945  Developed techniques for maintaining anatomical pieces Líquido para preservação das estruturas internas de lepidópteros e demais insetos que habitualmente se montam em alfinetes. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 7(7):439-44, 1950  Proposed employing Armadillidium vulgare (Crustacea) in preparation of vertebrate cranes With C. Pereira. O emprego de “tatuzinhos”, Oniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) na preparação de
- [Torre family](https://neglectedscience.com/torre-family/): Carlos de la Torre y Huerta, Cuban malacologist and paleontologist (Matanzas 15 May 1858 – La Habana 19 February 1950) Internationally known as one of great names in all the time malacology Enunciated concepts about comparative osteology of fishes DESCRIBED TAXA Mollusca Genera/Subgenera (with Bartsch) Aguayotudora 1941 Annularodella 1941 Annularodisca 1941 Bermudezia 1941 Bermudezsiphona 1941 Chondropomisca 1938 Chondropomodes 1938 Chondrothyrella 1938 Cubadamsiella 1941 Cubitasiphona 1941 Cyclocubana 1942 Cylindrosiphona 1941 Dallsiphona 1941 Eutudorex 1941 Fossularia 1941 Foveothyra 1938 Guajaibona 1941 Gundlachtudora 1941 Gutierrezium 1938 Hendersonida 1938 Hendersonina 1938 Hendersonoma 1938 Incidostoma 1942 Juannularia 1941 Limadora 1941 Limadorex 1941 Liracyclotus 1942 Lugarenia 1941 Mirisiphon 1941 Opisthocoelex 1941 Opisthocoelium 1941 Opisthocoelops 1941 Plicathyra 1938 Plicathyrella 1938 Scobinapoma 1938 Solutapex 1941 Subannularia 1941 Tudorina 1941 Turripoma 1938 Turrithyra 1938 Turrithyretes 1938 Wrightudora 1941 Xenopomoides 1941 Alone Oligomita 1950 Species About 280 Subspecies About 150 Fossil Mammalia (with Matthew 1915) Genera
- [Toranzos family](https://neglectedscience.com/toranzos-family/): Fausto Alfredo Toranzos Cardoso, Argentine mathematician (La Plata 1938 – Enunciated Toranzos theorem The dimension of the kernel of a starshaped set. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 14:832, 1967 Introduced the notion of visibility cell The points of local non-convexity of star shaped sets. Pacific J. 101:209-13, 1982  With Forte Cunto introduced the idea of a point of maximal visibility Enunciated a theorem for real vector spaces His father, Fausto Ismael Toranzos Juarez, statistician (Catamarca 17 June 1908 – Buenos Aires 06 November 1986) Described a class of bell-shaped frequency distributions An asymmetric bell-shaped frequency curve. Annals Math. Statis. 23:467-9, 1952 A
- [Tong Dzuy Thanh](https://neglectedscience.com/tong-dzuy-thanh/): Tong Dzuy Thanh, Vietnamese geologist and stratigrapher DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Brachiopoda (with Rachebouef 2000) Genera Bacbonetes Cyrtochonetes Orthochonetes Tulynetes Species Bacbonetes janvieri 2000 with Rachebouef Chlupacina nariensis 2000 with Rachebouef Chonetes xiawunaensis 1978 Chonetinella intercalata 1978 Cnidaria Genera Cuctienophyllum 1988 Echyropora 1965 Paraheliolites 1966 Species Caliapora crassimuralis Caliapora deformis Caliapora dubatolovi Caliapora halangensis Caliapora yanetae Chaetetipora muonglaiensis 1967 Chaetetipora pessiformis Chaetetipora sokolovi with Dubatolov Chaetetipora vietnamica with Dubatolov Cladopora spinosa Coenites quydatensis Crassialveolites admirabilis Donetzites dovjcovi 1965 with Dubatolov Echyropora dubatolovi with Ta-Fuong Echyropora grandiporosa 1965 Favosites concavotabulatus Favosites hirtus Fossopora yenlacensis 1967 Gephuropora vietnamica with Dubatolov Litophyllum inflatiformis Pachycanalicula rariformis Paraheliolites minutus 1966 Parastriatopora champungensis Podolites obuti Squameofavosites baolacensis Squameofavosites enormis Squameofavosites grossisquamatus Squameofavosites vanchieni Stelliporella
- [Timo-Iaria brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/timo-iaria-brothers/): César Timo-Iaria, Brazilian neurophysiologist (São Paulo 25 July 1924 – São Paulo 27 June 2005) ACHIEVEMENTS   Authored over 80 papers Described the triggering mechanism of hunger is due to hepatic metabolism fired by cytoglucopenia sensible glucoreceptors    Described the region in central nervous system where the sleep is generated   Discovered that nuclei of dorsolateral region of tegmentum pontis play a role on genesis of desynchronized sleep (1963) Developed the idea that behaviors consisted of vegetative and motor components   Described in detail states and the phases of sleep in mice First described REM sleep in Rodents (1970) Discovered a region in medial edge of
- [Tchung Lin Tchang](https://neglectedscience.com/tchung-lin-tchang/): Tchung Lin Tchang or Zhaolin Zhang, Chinese ichthyologist (1897 – 1963) DESCRIBED FISH TAXA Genus Paralepipedocephalus 1935 Species Acheilognathus omeiensis 1934 with Shih  Ancherythroculter wangi 1932 Cyprinus pellegrini 1933 Cyprinus yunnanensis 1933 Garra poilanei 1933 with Petit Glossogobius szechuanensis 1939 Gymnocypris chui 1964 with Yueh & Hwang Hemibagrus hainanensis 1935 Liobagrus kingi 1935 Megalobrama pellegrini 1930 Paralepipedocephalus yui 1935 Percocypris pingi 1930 Percocypris regani 1935 Poropuntius chonglingchungi 1938 Poropuntius huangchuchieni 1962 Procypris rabaudi 1930 Pseudobagrus kaifenensis 1934 Pseudoxostoma yunnanense 1935 Schizothorax prenanti 1930 Triplophysa cuneicephala 1931 with Shaw Xenocypris fangi 1930 Xenophysogobio boulengeri 1929 HONORS (Fossil Pisces) Changolepis Wang 1984 Tchunglinius Wang & Wu 2015 
- [Tchang Si](https://neglectedscience.com/tchang-si/): Tchang Si or Changi Hsi or Zhang Xi, Chinese malacologist (Hubei 1897 – 1967) Authored Un nouveau cas de condensation embryogénique chez un Nudibranche (Doridopsis limbata Cuvier). C.R. Hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci. Paris 192:302-4, 1931 DESCRIBED MOLLUSCA TAXA Valid Genus Pleurophyllidiopsis 1934 Species Anemia angula 1965 with Li & Liu Episiphon kiaochowwanense 1950 with Tsi Linguella babai 1934 Margarya bicostata 1949 with Tsi Margarya yangtsunghaiensis 1949 with Tsi  Martesia pygmaea 1960 with Tsi & Li Penitella acutithyra 1960 with Tsi & Li Penitella dolichothyra 1960 with Tsi & Li Philine kinglipini 1934 Philinopsis minor 1934 Platydoris album 1965 with Lin Pleurobranchella album 1965 with Lin Pleurophyllidiopsis amoyensis 1934 Solen canaliculatus 1964 with Hwang Subspecies Acuticosta trisulcata triangula 1965
- [Taoheng Ting](https://neglectedscience.com/taoheng-ting/): Taoheng Ting or Daoheng Ding, Chinese geologist and paleontologist (1899 – 1955) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Hemithalamocyathus 1937 (Archaeocyatha) Protaeropoma 1937 (Cnidaria) Stillicidocyathus 1937 (Archaeocyatha) Species Coscinocyathus beltanensis 1937 (Archaeocyatha) Protaeropoma wedekindi 1937 (Cnidaria) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Uber die Gattung Stauria unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Kreuszausbildung. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 20(1):49-56, 1940 Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Goniophyllum. Central. F. Miner. Geol. Palaont. (1937)   Revision der Archaeocyathinen. Neues Jahrb. F. Miner. Geol. Palaont. Beilage-Baende 78 Abt B 327-79, 1937  Zur Kenntnis der Gattungen Bornhardtina Schulz und Stringocephalus Defrance. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 15(3):343, 1936 Bayan Obo Fe ore deposits in Suiyuan. Geol. Report Geol. Survey China (1933) On the iron ore deposit of Beiyin Obo,
- [Tagle brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/tagle-brothers/): Ezequiel Celso Tagle Aristegui, Argentine zootechnist (Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province 12 January 1908 – Buenos Aires 03 April 1984) Authored over 150 works between them the book Bovinotecnia (1946) with Daniel Inchausti SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Evolution of the Aberdeen Angus breed from the compact type to the New type (1974) With M.B. Helman, A. Saettone & E.M.P. de Tellechea. Estudio fisico-quimico y de palatabilidad de reses de novillos hibridos Hereford y Shorthorn X Cebu (1955) With M.B. Helman. Valor nutritivo de lós alimentos crudas y cocidas. Ver. Fac. Agr. Vet. 3 (1951) With M.B. Helman. Considerations on the age of sheep.. Animal Breed
- [Tadachi Tamaki](https://neglectedscience.com/tadachi-tamaki/): Tadachi Tamaki, Brazilian dentist (Promissão, São Paulo State 10 October 1923 – São Paulo 12 August 2014) From Japanese parents Authored 72 works METHODS & TECHNIQUES Conceived vestibularized mounting technique in total prosthesis Método para determinação da dimensão vertical em prótese total. Anais Fac. Farm. Odontol. Univ. São Paulo (1956) A method for fabricating a full cast crown Curva de compensação: contribuição ao seu estudo. Thesis, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade de São Paulo (1960) With R.F. Tarelho. Mensuração dos trespasses horizontal e vertical em dentes anteriores em modelos. Proposição de uma técnica (1986) With N. Tamaki Solz, S.T. Tamaki & M.C.
- [Shu-chun Teng](https://neglectedscience.com/shu-chun-teng/): Shu-chun Teng or Shuqun Deng, Chinese mycologist and forest pathologist (12 December 1902 – 10 May 1970) Authored An easy method for picking single spores DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Kweilingia 1940 Neofracchiaea 1938 Species About 100 HONORS Tengiomyces Réblová 1999 (Fungi)
- [Sham Trimbak Tilak](https://neglectedscience.com/sham-trimbak-tilak/): Sham Trimbak Tilak, Indian aerobiologist and mycologist (1931 – Developed Tilak air sampler with R.L. Kulkarni (1970) and Tilak continuous volumetric spore trap Described about 180 new fungal species HONORS (Fungi) Tilakidium Vaidya, Naik & Rathod 1986 Tilakiella Srinivasulu 1973 Tilakopsis V.G. Rao 1994 
- [Samuel Taleisnik](https://neglectedscience.com/samuel-taleisnik/): Samuel Taleisnik, Jewish Argentine neuroendocrinologist (Moisés Ville, Santa Fe Province 02 November 1919 – Authored about 120 papers and 10 book chapters With Samuel McCann first demonstrated the presence of hormones in brain (1960) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Morello, L. Caligaris & B. Haymal. Inhibition of proestus LH surge and ovulation in rats evoked by stimulation of the medial raphe nucleus involves a GABA-mediated mechanism. Neuroendocrin. 50:81-7, 1989 With H. Morello. The inhibition of proestus LH surge and ovulation in rats bearing lesions of the dorsal raphe nucleus is mediated by the locus coerulus. Brain Res. 440:227-31, 1988 With C.H. Sawyer. Activation
- [Samia Ali Temtamy](https://neglectedscience.com/samia-ali-temtamy/): Samia Ali Temtamy, Egyptian geneticist (Damanhour, Beheira 02 December 1935 – Described Temtamy syndrome With M. Abdel Salam, E.H.A. Aboul-Ezz, H.A. Hussein, S.M. Helmy & B.A. Shalash. New autosomal recessive multiple congenital abnormalities/mental retardation syndrome with craniofacial dysmorphism absent corpus callosum, iris colobomas and connective tissue dysplasia. Clin. Dysmorph. 5:231-40, 1996 Described Temtamy preaxial brachydactyly With N.A. Meguid, S.I. Ismail & M.I. Ramzy. A new multiple congenital anomaly, mental retardation syndrome with preaxial brachydactyly, hyperphalangism, deafness and orodental anomalies. Clin. Dysmorph. 7:249-55, 1998 Described Proteus syndrome With J.G. Rogers. Macrodactyly, hemihypertrophy and connective tissue nevi. Report of a new syndrome and
- [Rodolfo Talice](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-talice/): Rodolfo Vicente Talice Ruiz, Uruguayan parasitologist, medical mycologist and ethologist (Montevideo 02 May 1899 – Montevideo 02 June 1999) From Italian father and Spanish mother Authored 203 papers on parasitology, 40 on biology and ethology, 400 on science popularization and 30 books With M. Langeron. Nouvelles methodes d’étude et essaide classification des champignons levuriformes. Ann Parasitol. Hum. Comparée 10:1-80, 1932 With J. Gurri. Sur la morphologie du Cysticercus racemosus. Existence d’un revétément cilié sur sa paroi. Ann. Parasit. Hum. Comp. 24:412-3, 1949 DESCRIBED OR NAMED VALID TAXA Mammalia Subtribe Monodelphina 1960 with Machado & De Mosera Fungi Species Aspergillus montevidensis 1931 with Mackinnon
- [Richard William Timm](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-william-timm/): Richard William Timm, US-born Bengali zoologist and educator (Michigan 02 March 1923 – From German ancestry DESCRIBED NEMATODA TAXA Families Homungellidae 1966 Isolaimiidae 1969 Genera Adleronema 1967 Adungella 1967 Amphimonhystrella 1961 Antarcticonema 1978 Bradylaimoides 1961 Burmanema 1967 Calolaimus 1964 Cheilorhabditis 1959 Diceloides 1967 Filiponema 1966 with Maggenti Gatesnema 1971 Halicephalobus 1956 Homungella 1966 Iponema 1966 with Maggenti Lyranema 1961 Macramphida 1966 Macramphis 1961 Megalamphis 1961 Megalolaimus 1961 Megodontolaimus 1969 Metachromadoroides 1961 Metasabatiera 1961 Miranema 1967 Monhysteroides 1961 Odontorhabditis 1959 Oncholaimelloides 1967 Pandurinema 1957 Panduripharynx 1961 Parachromadora 1954 Pararaeolaimus 1961 Paraseinura 1964 Parodontophora 1963 Plutellonema 1966 with Maggenti Prodontorhabditis 1961 Progreeffiella 1970 Prolinhomoeus 1961 Prototricoma 1970 Protricoma 1970 Pseudolelloides 1957 Pseudometachromadora 1954 Pseudontorhabditis 1961 Pterygorhabditis 1957 Scottnema 1971 Siconema 1966 Siconemella 1966 Siconemoides 1967 Sphaerotheristus 1968 Spirotheristus 1961 Striatodora 1961 Sucamphida 1966 Terschellingoides 1967 Tonoscolecinema 1967 Trichomadorita 1961 Usarpnema 1978 Species Over 250 HONORS (Nematoda) Timmia Hopper 1961   Desmotimmia Freudenhammer 1975 Timmungella Ivanova, Kozodoi & Spiridonov 1987
- [Richard William Ethelbert Tucker](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-william-ethelbert-tucker/): Richard William Ethelbert Tucker, South African-born Caribbean arachnologist and agricultural entomologist (1892 – after 1956) Working in Barbados since 1928 DESCRIBED ACARI GENERA Allothele 1920 Aneplasa 1923 Epikurtomma 1923 Segregara 1917 Trephopoda 1923 Trichothyse 1923 Upognampa 1923 Species About 170 HONORS Tuckerella Womersley 1940 (Acari)
- [Raul Tovar](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-tovar/): Raul Tovar Sanchez, Colombian mathematician (Naranjal, Timaná District, Huila 07 February 1941 – Santa Fé de Bogotá 06 April 1999) With P. Nowosad showed validity of Carleman’s inequalities in reflexive Orlicz spaces Proved certain properties of integral operators completely of finite double norm acting on Orlicz spaces Eponym of Tovar-Nowosad inequality 
- [Raul Esteban Trucco](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-esteban-trucco/): Raul Esteban Trucco, Argentine biochemist (Buenos Aires 02 September 1915 – ?) With R. Caputto, J. Tang & S. Wolf isolated and crystallized the gastricsin (1958) With L. F. Leloir, A. Paladini, R. Caputto & C. Cardini isolated glucose 1,6 diphosphate, uridine diphosphate glucose and other sugar nucleotides With C.E. Cardini. A new phosphoric esther of glucose and its function as a coenzyme. Cien. Invest. 4(10):433-5, 1948 With C.E. Cardini, A. Paladini, R. Caputto & L.F. Leloir. Una nueva reacción de transfosforilación enzimatica (1949) With R. Caputto. A new galactose-containing compound from mammary glands. Nature 169 (4312):1061-2, 1952 With R. Caputto.
- [Ram Shanker Tiwari](https://neglectedscience.com/ram-shanker-tiwari/): Ram Shanker Tiwari, Indian palynologist (Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh 09 January 1936 – Authored 150 original research papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Sporae/Pollen Genera Barakarites 1964 with Bharadwaj Bokarosporites 1970 with Bharadwaj Boshisporites 1973 with Bharadwaj & Venkatachala Brazilea 1967 Brijrajisporites 1968 Densostriapollis 1981 with Rana Dentatispora 1964 Direticuloidispora 1964 Disectispora 1967 with Navale Dubrajisporites 1987 with Tripathi Fossulatisporites 1971 with Bharadwaj Godavarisporites 1971 with Moiz Gondisphaeridium 1971 with Moiz Goubinispora 1981 with Rana Gulatriletes 1970 with Bharadwaj Hennellysporites 1968 Ibisporites 1968 Imparitriletes 1981 with Singh Indotriradites 1964 Jhariatriletes 1970 Kingiacolpites 1971 with Moiz Korbapollenites 1964 Lobatisporites 1971 with Moiz Manumisporites 1970 with Bharadwaj Novitasporites 1981 with Rana Parasaccites 1964 with Bharadwaj Primuspollenites 1964 Radiatispinospora 1973 with Bharadwaj & Venkatachala Rajmahalispora 1984 with Tripathi & Kumar Ringosporites 1981 with Rana Rugulasphaeridium 1971 with Bharadwaj &
- [Ram Narayan Tandon](https://neglectedscience.com/ram-narayan-tandon/): Ram Narayan Tandon, Indian mycologist and plant pathologist (Sikohabad, Uttar Pradesh 27 November 1903 – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 18 December 1999) Authored over 250 papers CONTRIBUTIONS Assessed the role of different plant pathogens responsible for spoilage in fruits Found that even different ascospores of the same ascus differ in fertility Examined the role of synthetic transient oligosaccharides in carbohydrate metabolism of fungi Found that the pathogens not only modified greatly the organic acid contents of their respective hosts but also brought about drastic changes in carbohydrates of host tissues Developed strategies for the management of a large number of economically important
- [Raj Tilak](https://neglectedscience.com/raj-tilak/): Raj Tilak, Indian zoologist (10 April 1935 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES Barilius dimorphicus 1990 with Husain Gagata sexualis 1970 Glyptothorax alaknandi 1969 Glyptothorax garhwali 1969 Nemacheilus chindwinica 1990 with Husain Nemacheilus kaimurensis 1998 with Husain Pangio goaensis 1972 Pseudolaguvia kapuri 1975 with Husain Psilorhynchus nudithoracicus 1980 with Husain Schistura doonensis 1977 with Husain Triplophysa drassensis 1990 
- [Rafael Andres Toro](https://neglectedscience.com/rafael-andres-toro/): Rafael Andrés Toro, Puerto Rican mycologist and plant pathologist (San Germán 29 November 1897 – 1981) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera  Placoasterina 1930 Punctillina 1934 Kerniomyces 1939 Mirandia 1934 Ticomyces 1952 Species 95 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (Plant pathology) A study of the tropical American “black mildews”. Thesis, George Washington University (1951) Nueva sombra para los cafetales. Rev. Agric. Puerto Rico 32(4):489-92, 1940 Plant disease notes from the Central Andes. II. Phytopathology 19:969-74, 1929 Algunos insectos de la papa em Cundinamarca. Rev. Ind. 6(62):39-40, 1929 Un nuevo parasito del café en Cundinamarca. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(13):437-8, 1929 Una epifitotia del café en Cúcuta. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(5-6):171-3, 1929 La
- [Purnesh Kumar Talwar](https://neglectedscience.com/purnesh-kumar-talwar/): Purnesh Kumar Talwar, Indian ichthyologist (14 November 1934 – DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Dayella 1971 with Whitehead Daysciaena 1971 Garo 1981 with Yazdani Lipocheilus 1977 with Anderson & Johnson Species Ariosoma gnanadossi 1977 with Mukherjee Atrobucca alcocki 1980 Atrobucca trewavasae 1975 with Sathiarajan Cephaloscyllium silasi 1974 Garo khajuriai 1977 with Yazdani & Kundu Gaterin rayi 1972 with Menon Glyptothorax indicus 1991 Gobiopteris smithi 1972 with Menon Johnius gangeticus 1991 Odontanthias perulimai 1976 Oligolepis dasi 1982 with Chatterjee & Dev Roy Owstonia whiteheadi 1973 Zebrias annandalei 1967 with Chakrapany
- [Puicheung Tam](https://neglectedscience.com/puicheung-tam/): Puicheung Tam / Peixiang Tan, Chinese botanist (1919 – 1991) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Rhododendron Rhododendron apricum 1982 Rhododendron chaoanense 1978 with Wu Rhododendron crassimedium 1982 Rhododendron cretaceum 1983 Rhododendron fangchengense 1982 Rhododendron florulentum 1982 Rhododendron huguangense 1982 Rhododendron hunanense 1982 Rhododendron hypoblematosum 1982 Rhododendron jingangshanicum 1982 Rhododendron litchiifolium 1978 with Wu Rhododendron longifalcatum 1982 Rhododendron loniceriflorum 1982 Rhododendron meridionale 1983 Rhododendron mitriforme 1982 Rhododendron nanpingense 1982 Rhododendron pinetorum 1982 Rhododendron polyraphidoideum 1982 Rhododendron rhuyuenense 1983 Rhododendron rupivalleculatum 1982 Rhododendron spadiceum 1982 Rhododendron subcerinum 1982 Rhododendron subenerve 1983 Rhododendron subestipitatum 1982 Rhododendron subflumineum 1982 Rhododendron taipaoense 1982 Rhododendron tenuilaminare 1983 Rhododendron tianlinense 1983 Rhododendron tingwuense 1978 Rhododendron unciferum 1982 Rhododendron viscigemmatum 1983 Rhododendron yangmingshanense 1982 Rhododendron ziyuanense 1982 Other Thesium brevibracteatum 1981 Thesium orgadophilum 1981
- [Pui Chi Tsoong](https://neglectedscience.com/pui-chi-tsoong/): Pui Chi Tsoong or BuQiu Zhong, Chinese botanist (1900 – 1981) Described the genus Mimulicalyx 1979 (Scrophulariaceae) and 124 new plant species
- [Phillip Valentine Tobias](https://neglectedscience.com/phillip-valentine-tobias/): Phillip Valentine Tobias, South-African physical anthropologist (Durban 14 October 1925 – Johannesburg 07 June 2012) Authored over 600 papers and 33 books With J.R. Napier & L.S.B. Leakey described Homo habilis (1965) Described Paranthropus boisei (1967) HONORS Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee for three times Balzan Prize for Physical Anthropology (1987) Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1997)  
- [Peisong Tang](https://neglectedscience.com/peisong-tang/): Peisong Tang, Chinese plant physiologist (Xishui, Hubei Province 12 November 1903 – 06 September 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored about 200 scientific papers First Chinese biologist who published in famous magazines Nature and Science Proved the existence of cytochrome oxidase in plants (1932) First experimentally proved the existence of carbonic anhydrase in plants First to prove the existence of inducible enzymes in plants With H.Y. Wu. Adaptive formation of nitrate reductase in rice seedlings. Nature 179:1355-6, 1957  Proposed that there exist various interconnected respiratory metabolic pathways and electron transfers at the same plant or proposed the concept of multiple pathways in respiratory metabolism Firstly
- [Patrick Henry Brabazon Talbot](https://neglectedscience.com/patrick-henry-brabazon-talbot/): Patrick Henry Brabazon Talbot, South African / Australian mycologist (Pietermaritzburg 18 April 1919 – Adelaide 1979) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Muciturbo 1989  Oncobasidium 1971 with Keane Phialomyces 1964 with Misra Waitea 1962 with Warcup Species Acia conferta 1951 Aecidium hellotropiola 1948 Asterostromella rumpiana 1948   Calyptella capensis 1961 with Cooke Ceratobasidium angustisporum 1980 with Warcup Ceratobasidium globisporum 1980 with Warcup Ceratobasidium papillatum 1980 with Warcup Ceratobasidium sphaerosum 1971 with Warcup Coniophora fodinarum 1951 Coniophora incrustata 1958 Coniophora papillosa 1948 Corticium botryohypochnoideum 1962 with Warcup Corticium gloeosporum 1948 Corticium luteocystidiatum 1948 Corticium moniliforme 1958 Corticium tumulosum 1948 Cristella bispora 1962 with Warcup Cristella gloeospora 1965 with Warcup Cyphella applanata 1956 Dendrothele duthieae 1956 Grammothele pseudomappa 1951 Grandinia bicolor 1948 Helicoma interveniens 1956 Helicosporium ramosum 1956 Heterochaete byliana 1958 Heterochaete grandispora 1958 Hymenochaete
- [Pang-hwa Tsai](https://neglectedscience.com/pang-hwa-tsai/): Pang-hwa Tsai / Banghua Cai, Chinese entomologist (Liyang, Jiangsu Province 06 October 1902 – Beijing 08 August 1983) With C.Y. Tong. A new method of surveying the damage by rice borers (1937) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA (more than 150 species) Isoptera Genera Frontotermes 1977 with Hwang Lobitermes 1963 with Chen Planifrontotermes 1977 with Hwang Species Ahmaditermes sinensis 1979 with Huang Ahmaditermes sinuosus 1963 with Chen Ahmaditermes deltocephalus 1963 with Chen Bulbitermes fulvus 1963 with Chen Coptotermes hainanensis 1985 with Li Coptotermes monosetosus 1985 with Li Coptotermes varicapitatus 1985 with Li Cryptotermes declivis 1963 with Chen Glyptotermes chinpingensis 1963 with Chen Indotermes isodentatus 1963 with Chen Indotermes menggarensis 1984 with Zhu Lobitermes nigrifrons 1963 with Chen Microtermes dimorphus 1963 with
- [Oscar Tovar](https://neglectedscience.com/oscar-tovar/): Oscar Dario Tovar Serpa, Peruvian botanist (Conaica, Huancavelica 25 October 1923 –Lima 27 October 2009) DESCRIBED VALID POACEAE SPECIES Aristida chiclayense 1984 Calamagrostis ampliflora 1960 Calamagrostis cuzcoensis 1985 Calamagrostis macbridei 1960  Calamagrostis pungens 1960 Calamagrostis rauhii 1960 Chuquiraga weberbaueri 1952 Dasyphyllum weberbaueri 1953 Dissanthelum amplivaginatum 1985 Dissanthelum breve 1965 with Swallen Dissanthelum brevifolium 1965 with Swallen Dissanthelum giganteum 1985 Dissanthelum laxifolium 1965 with Swallen Dissanthelum longifolium 1965 Dissanthelum longiligulatum 1965 with Swallen Dissanthelum pygmaeum 1965 Dissanthelum rauhii 1965 Dissanthelum semitectum 1965 with Swallen Eragrostis ancashensis 2000 with Peterson & Refulio Festuca densiflora 1972 Festuca divergens 1972 Festuca glabrata 1972 Festuca lanatifolia 1972 Festuca longigluma 1972 Festuca longivaginata 1972 Festuca pubigluma 1972 Festuca rigidifolia 1972 Festuca tenuiculmis 1972 Nassella ayacuchensis 1988 Nassella huallancaensis 1988 Nassella soukupii 1988 Nassella wurdackii 1981 Poa aequigluma 1965 Poa anae 1985
- [Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde](https://neglectedscience.com/nanasaheb-ramji-tawde/): Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, Indian spectroscopist (Taluq Malvan, Maharastra 15 January 1898 – 25 December 1984) DISCOVERIES/IMPROVEMENTS Discovered the electronic structure of many molecules New Green band system of N, and conditions of excitation. Nature 157:136, 1946 With H.A. Umvala. Direct method of measuring relative spectral intensities: its technique and use in line and band spectra. J. Univ. Bombay 16:79-96, 1948 Improved the accuracy of sessile drop method With K.G. Parvatikar. Performance of sessile drops in surface tension  measurements. Indian J. Physics. 25(10):473-80, 1951 With K.G. Parvatikar. A table for the calculation of surface tension from measurements of sessile drops. With A.P.
- [Morakot Tanticharoen](https://neglectedscience.com/morakot-tanticharoen/): Morakot Tanticharoen, Thai microbiologist and biotechnologist (fl.1977) DEVELOPED BIOSENSORS With W. Surareungchai, S. Worasing, P. Sritongkun & K. Kirtikara. Dual electrode signal-subtracted biosensor for simultaneous flow injection determination of sucrose and glucose (1999) With P. Sritongkham, T. Suwannakum, N. Taraujaunit & K. Kirtikara. Piezoelectric crystal biosensor for the determination of organophosphorus pesticide (1994) With Kanokjaruwijit, C. Hruanun, W. Surareungchai, T. Suwannakum, P. Sritongkam & K. Kirtikara. A prototype of multi-enzymatic sensors for sucrose determination (1994) With W. Surareungchai, P. Srikamta & K. Kanokjaruwijit. An activated carbon electrode biosensor for sucrose (1992) DISCOVERED NEW CHEMICALS With P. Pittayakhajonwut, A. Dramae, S. Madla, N.
- [Michael Tistl](https://neglectedscience.com/michael-tistl/): Michael Tistl, German-born Colombian geologist (Unterkirchberg 16 August 1955 – La Paz, Bolivia 17 August 2013) Rediscovered Salado de Consotá, a site with great historical and archaeological value Recorded photographically the soils of Pereira-Armenia variant SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Primäres und sekundäres Gold in den N-bolivianischen Anden. – GDMB: Edelmetalle, Exploration und Gewinnung, Schr. Rh. GDMB  52:83-98, 1985 With H.J. Schneider. The Variscan thermometamorphism and its relations to gold-quartz mineralizations in the NE Cordillera Real, Bolivia. Zbl. Geol. Paläontol. 1(9/10): 1579-89, 1985 With U.F. Hein. Characteristics of fluid inclusions in the porphyry copper deposit of La Granja/Peru.  Chem. Geol. 61 (1987):183-192, 1985 Die
- [Melih Tokay](https://neglectedscience.com/melih-tokay/): Melih N. Tokay, Turkish geologist (Thessalonike 01 January 1920 – Ankara 16 July 1986) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY On some Variscan events in the Amasra district of the Zonguldak coalfield (Northern Anatolia). IGCP5 Newsl. 3:140-51, 1981  Geological observations on the North Anatolian Fault Zone between Gerede and Ilgaz. Proceed. North Anatol Fault earthquakes Symp. MTA Publ. p.12-29, 1973 The geology of the Amasra region with special reference to some Carboniferous gravitational gliding phenomena (1962)  Geologie de la region de Bartin (Zonguldak). Bull. Miner. Res. Explor. Inst. Turk 46-7:46-63, 1954 Contribution à l’etude géologique de la région comprise entre Eregli, Alapi, Kiziltepe et Alacaagzi. Bull. Min.
- [Mario Trejo](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-trejo/): Mario Trejo Hernandez, Mexican micropaleontologist (fl.1958-83) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Protozoa Genera Barnesiella 1983 Bonetiella 1983 Burocratus 1983 Calpionellopsella 1975 Calcistheca 1983 Conusphaera 1969 Deflandronella 1975 Gildaella 1983 (in honor to his wife Gilda Loyo V.) Microconus 1983 Nannoconoides 1983 Navarrella 1983 Parachitinoidella 1972 Praecalcisphaerula 1983 Pseudopithonella 1983 Risserella 1983 Stomiosporella 1983 Species Barnesella carrilloi 1983 Barnesella delatorrei 1983 Bishopella alata 1983 Bishopella diazi 1983 Bishopella ornelaseae 1983 Bonetiella peregrinaensis 1983 Bonetocardiella poncedeleoni 1983 Burocratus perniciosus 1983 Calcistheca cuadrangulata 1983 Calpionellites caravacaensis 1975 with Allemann Calpionellites coronata 1975 with Allemann Calpionellopsella maldonadoi 1975 Conusphaera mexicana 1969 Deflandrella tenuis 1972 Deflandronella veracruziana 1972 Gildaella amabilis 1983 Microconus aequilateratus 1983 Microconus simplex 1983 Nannoconoides bautistae 1983 Nannoconus boneti 1974 Nannoconus bronnimanni 1959 Navarrella castroi 1983 Parachitinoidella cuvillieri 1972 Pithonella velardei 1983 Praecalcisphaerula prinulla 1983 Pseudopithonella olivalis 1983 Risserella cordobaensis 1983 Risserella rablingae 1983 Stomiosphaera herrerai 1983 Stomiosporella floresae 1983 Porifera
- [Mario Egidio Teruggi](https://neglectedscience.com/mario-egidio-teruggi/): Mario Egidio Teruggi Gout, Argentine petrologist and sedimentologist (Dolores, Buenos Aires Province 18 February 1919 – La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 22 August 2002) From Italian father Authored over 120 articles and 5 books SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With M.A. Leguizamón & V.A. Ramos. Metamorfitas de bajo grado con afinidades oceânicas em el basamento de Tandil: sus implicaciones geotécnicas. Rev. Asoc. Geol. Arg. (1988) Los basaltos tholeiticos de Misiones. Notas Fac. Cien. Nat. Museo La Plata 28(70):259-70, 1978 With J.O. Kilmurray & L. Dalla Salda. Los dominios tectònicos de la región de Tandil. An. Soc. Cient. Arg. CXCV (MI):81-94, 1973 With R.R. Andreis.
- [Maria Amelia Torres](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-amelia-torres/):  Maria Amelia Torres, Argentine botanist (Tandil, Buenos Aires Province 27 January 1934 – La Plata 28 December 2011) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Nicoraea 1997 Subgenus Mucronella 1997 Species Melica eremophila 1970 Melica glabrescens 1980 Melica parodiana 1968 Nassella burkartii 1993 Nassella cabrerae 1997 Nassella catamarcensis 1997 Nassella fabrisii 1997 Nassella famatinensis 1997 Nassella glabripoda 1997 Nassella meyeri 1997 Nassella novari 1997 Nassella parva 1997 Nassella punensis 1997 Nassella ragonesei 1997 Nassella yaviensis 1997 Nicoraea brevis 1997 Stipa scabrifolia 1997 Stipa ventanicola 1968 with Cabrera HONORS Amelichloa Arriaga & Barkworth 2006 (Poaceae)
- [Marcos Tubangui](https://neglectedscience.com/marcos-tubangui/): Marcos Angeles Tubangui, Philippine helminthologist and parasitologist (Pampanga, Luzon Island 25 April 1893 – Manila 26 October 1949) With A.M. Pasco elucidated the complete life cycle of Echinostoma ilocanum (1933) Discovered the molluscan and crustacean intermediary hosts of Paragonimus sp. in the Philippines Discovered the molluscan intermediary host of Schistosoma japonicum in the Philippines (1932) DESCRIBED HELMINTHS TAXA Families                             Alariidae 1922 Diplosentidae 1937 with Masilungan Genera Diplosentis 1937 with Masilungan Euparadistomum 1931 Glyptelmins 1928 Heterophyopais 1938 with Africa Orientocreadium 1931 Postorchigenes 1928 Species About 95 HONORS Tubangorchis Skrjabin 1944 (Trematoda) Tubanguiella Yamaguti 1959 (Cestoda) Tubanguia Srivastava 1935 (Trematoda)
- [Manuel Tamayo Moller](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-tamayo-moller/): Manuel O. Tamayo Moeller, Peruvian microbiologist and parasitologist (Arequipa 27 January 1878 – Lima 20 June 1909) From German descent First described Anopheles peruvianus First to use laboratory animals to study Peruvian warts Described a non-ulcerated infiltrant  form of leishmaniasis Eponym of Tamayo yellow (dye)
- [Mandayam Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar](https://neglectedscience.com/mandayam-jeersannidhi-thirumalachar/): Mandayani Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar, Indian mycologist and biochemist (Malleswaram, Bangalore 22 September 1914 – Walnut Creek, California 21 April 1999) Son of mycologist and plant pathologist Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan Authored over 460 papers Identified more than one hundred antibiotics and in the development of at least 50 of them to a commercial level such as Hamycin (1961), Dermostatin (1966) and Aureofungin (1966), all of them antifungal, Antiamoebin (anti-protozoal/anti-helminthic), Antiprotozoin (antiprotozoal/antifungal), Tetraenenin, MYC-4 and Necrocitin (anti-tumour activity) DEVELOPED New derivatives of established antibiotics with better performance and lesser toxicity Jaimycin process for antibiotics production Chemotherapeutants for the control of a wide range of fungal, bacterial
- [Luiz Roberto Tommasi](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-roberto-tommasi/): Luiz Roberto Tommasi, Brazilian oceanographer (São Paulo 30 April 1931 – São Paulo 05 May 2023) With K. Silberschmidt obtained the transmission of a Malvaceae plants vírus to a Solanaceae plant (1957) DESCRIBED VALID MARINE TAXA Echinodermata Genus Nudamphiura 1965 Species Amphilepis nuda 1976 Amphilepis teodorae 1974 with Abreu Amphioplus (Amphioplus) brasiliensis 1970 Amphioplus fapespae 1969 Amphioplus lucyae 1971 Amphioplus mathildae 1974 with Abreu Amphiura deichmanni 1965 Amphiura iraciae 1976 with Oliveira Amphiura rosae 1976 with Oliveira Anthophiura dilatata 1976 Astropyga nuptialis 1958 Gymnophiura concava 1976 Nudamphiura carvalhoi 1965 Ophiacantha brasiliensis 1974 with Abreu Ophiacantha savagica 1976 Ophioderma besnardi 1970 Ophioderma divae 1971 Ophioleptoplax brasiliana 1974 with Abreu Ophiomastus bulufonica 1976 Ophiomastus satelitae 1974 with Abreu Ophiomastus tuberculata 1976 Ophiomusium anaelisae 1974 with Abreu
- [Luiz Rachid Trabulsi](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-rachid-trabulsi/): Luiz Rachid Trabulsi, Brazilian microbiologist (Vargem Grande, Maranhão State 18 August 1927 – São Paulo 05 June 2005) Internationally recognized as expert on Enterobacteriae ACHIEVEMENTS  Methods/Discoveries Developed Trabulsi-Ewing Sodium Acetate Agar With W.H. Ewing. Sodium acetate medium for the differentiation of Shigella and Escherichia cultures. Pub. Health Lab. 20:137-40, 1962 Developed other culture media With M.R.F. Toledo & C.F. Fontes. Uma modificação do meio de Rugai e Araújo para a realização simultânea dos testes de produção de gás a partir de glicose, H2S, uréase e triptofano desaminase. Rev. Microbiol. 13:309-15, 1982 With M.R.F. Toledo & C.F. Fontes. Um meio para a
- [Leandro Maués Tocantins](https://neglectedscience.com/leandro-maues-tocantins/): Leandro Maués Tocantins, Brazilian haematologist in United States (Belém 08 January 1901 –Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvannia 22 March 1963) Enunciated the hypothesis of inhibitor excess as cause of haemostatic malformation in haemophilia Demonstrated that blood and many fluids may be injected into general circulation under large  quantities via bone marrow EPONYMY Tocantins technique or method for administering fluids via bone marrow (1936) Tocantins technique for platelet counting Tocantins method for clot retraction time Jones-Tocantins test for capillary resistance With Harold W. Jones. A simple test for capillary resistance: the “flicking” test. Amer. J. Med. Sci. 185:535, 1933
- [Lauro Travassos](https://neglectedscience.com/lauro-travassos/): Lauro Travassos, Brazilian helminthologist and entomologist (Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State 02 July 1890 – Rio de Janeiro 20 March 1970) Recognized as one of the world’s foremost helminthologists in his day  Authored over 537 scientific works being 436 papers (314 helminthology & 122 entomology) Introduced innovations in research methodology of helminthology and entomology Developed a liquid for keeping inner structures of Lepidoptera and other pin mounted arthropods (1950) Eponym of Travassos fixative solution for helminths First to report of a case of feline dirofilariasis independently of Riley (1922) Notas helminthologicas. Brazil Medico 35(2-6):67, 1921 DESCRIBED (may be incomplete) Trematoda Genera 91
- [Lauro Akira Takata](https://neglectedscience.com/lauro-akira-takata/): Lauro Akira Takata, Brazilian mining engineer (? – Araxá, Minas Gerais State 24 July 2014) From Japanese descent Held many patents on barite concentrating processes, ultrathin apatite and processes for fertilizers production PATENTS (incomplete list) With S.E. de Rezende, J.S. Martins & E. Matiolo. Process for obtaining apatite concentrates by froth flotation. USPTO 20130200182  With S.E. de Rezende, J.S. Martins & E. Matiolo. Process for obtaining apatite concentrates by flotation (Bunge/Fosfertil process) USPTO20120087850 With N.T. Shimabukuro. Processo para obtenção de concentrados de apatita PI0504210-0 (2005) With R. Ribeiro, R.M. Silva, R.G. Resende & C.A. Cruz. PI BR 8606,088 (1986) With R.
- [Krishna Kant Tiwari](https://neglectedscience.com/krishna-kant-tiwari/): Krishna Kant Tiwari, Indian carcinologist (01 October 1922 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Crustacea Genera Nichollsia 1950 with Chopra Sewellestheria 1966 Species Alpheopsis vietnamensis 1964 Alpheus serenei 1963 Branchinella biswasi 1958   Caenestheria misrai 1959 Caenestheria roonwali 1959 Caridina chauhani 1949 with Chopra Caridina natarajani 1969 with Pillai Caridina prashadi 1971 with Pillai Cloridopsis bengalensis 1952 with Biswas Eocyzicus pellucidus 1962 Idusa malayi 1953 Leptestheria biswasi 1965 Leptestheria jaisaimerensis 1959 Macrobrachium andamanicum 1952 Macrobrachium assamense 1958 Macrobrachium banjarae 1958 Macrobrachium cacharense 1952 Macrobrachium canarae 1955 Macrobrachium hendersodayanum 1952 Macrobrachium hirsutimanus 1952 Macrobrachium kempi 1949 Macrobrachium kistnense 1952 Macrobrachium manipurense 1952 Macrobrachium peguensis 1952 Macrobrachium platyrostris 1952 Macrobrachium rogersi 1952 Macrobrachium siwalikense 1952 Macrobrachium villosimanus 1949 Nichollsia kashiense 1950 with Chopra Nichollsia menoni 1955 Sewellestheria sambharensis 1966 Squilla costata 1952 with Biswas Fossil Genus Kapurdia 1969 (Pisces) Species Kapurdia
- [Kentaro Takaoka](https://neglectedscience.com/kentaro-takaoka/): Kentaro Takaoka, Brazilian anesthesiologist and bioengineer (São Paulo 20 August 1919 – São Paulo 29 July 2010) From Japanese descent DEVELOPED/INVENTED Takaoka respirator or micro-resuscitator (1952) patented in 1963 (number 66881) that was employed in many systems of pulmonary ventilation  Aspiration flasks for collecting blood A device for tracheal intubation with mirror (with Alberto Caputo) Others medical and anesthetic gears  Vaporizador universal de Takaoka. Rev. Bras. Anestesiol. 15(1):18-24, 1965 (Takaoka universal vaporizer) Novo filtro com circulação para anestesia pediátrica. Rev. Bras. Anestesiol. 16(1):127-9, 1966 With R.P. Russo. Novo dispositivo misturador de ar-O2. Rev. Bras. Anestesiol. 18(1):110-4, 1968 PATENTS  (about 60 medical devices among
- [Kenan Tükel](https://neglectedscience.com/kenan-tukel/): Kenan Tükel, Turkish neuropsychiatrist  (1915-1993) Described Gökay-Tükel syndrome more commonly known as Westphal-Leyden ataxia With F. K. Gökay. Kardeste Ailevi Kortiko-striyato-serebellar sendrom vakalari. Turk Tip. Cemiyeti Mecmuasi Yil 13:7, 1947 Co-authored one of the most cited articles in epilepsy in the world With H. Jasper The electro-encephalogram in parasagittal lesions. Electroencephal. Clin. Neurophys.J. 4(4):481-94, 1952
- [Carlos Walther](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-walther/): Carlos Walther, German-born Uruguayan geologist (Wolfenbuttel, Lower Saxony 18 February 1878 – Uruguay 24 April 1948) Authored 65 works on geology, mineralogy, petrology, paleontology and crystallography DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES    Holoconularia fimbriata 1903 (Fossil Gastropoda) Praecardium angulatum 1907 (Fossil Bivalvia) HONORS Waltheria Gaucher & Sprechmann 1999 (Microfossil)
- [Blanka Wladislaw](https://neglectedscience.com/blanka-wladislaw/): Blanka Wladislaw, Polish-born Jewish Brazilian organic chemist (Warsaw, Poland 03 June 1917- São Paulo 21 January 2012) Nee Blanka Wertheim Emeritus Member, Chemical Society of London (2001) NEW REACTIONS, METHODS, ETC. With L. Marzorati, M.A. Bueno, C.D. Vitta & G. Barazzone. New methodology for the preparation of N-tosyl aziridine-2-carboxylates. Tetrahedron Letters, 48: 6509-6513, 2007. With C.D. Vitta, N.F. Claro Jr & L. Marzorati. New decarboxylative sulfenylation of some phenylsulfonyl arylacetic acids. Phosphorus Sulfur And Silicon, 161: 1-7, 2000. With C.D. Vitta & L. Marzorati  Reactivities of carbonyl-activated angular and vinyl chlorine substituents in chloroanyl-cyclopentadiene adduct toward nucleophiles. Synthesis of new 1,4-benzoquinones containing na unusual
- [Bernardo Leo Wajchenberg](https://neglectedscience.com/bernardo-leo-wajchenberg/): Bernardo Leo Wajchenberg, Jewish Brazilian diabetologist and endocrinologist (São Paulo 06 April 1926 – São Paulo 21 August 2017) From Polish father and Ukrainian mother Authored over 200 books and 2 books Showed the presence of brain embolism in patients with chronic Chagas disease  With I. Nussenzveig, A. Spina-França, R. Macruz, J. Timoner & L.G. Serra Azul. Acidentes vasculares cerebrais embólicos na cardiopatia chagásica crônica. Arq. Neuropsiqu. 11:386-402, 1953  With R.B. Radominski, P.G. Strassman & A. Halpern. Ultrasound as a new method of evaluation of body fat distribution. Intern. J. Obesity 19(2):22, 1995 IMPORTANT PAPERS Beta-cell failure in diabetes and preservation by
- [Baoling Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/baoling-wu/): Baoling Wu, Chinese marine biologist (Beijing 01 March 1925 – Qingdao 05 February 1998) World authority on Polychaeta biology DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Polychaeta Genera (9; incomplete) Cossurella 1977 with Chen Halosydnopsis 1959 with Uschakov Heterophysa 1991 with Shen Neopolyodontes 1993 with Shen Paraleonnates 1962 with Chlebovitsch Sinonereis 1979 with Sun Species Austrophyllum oculatum 1987 with Wang Autolytus robustisetus 1978 with Sun Cabira pilargiformis 1962 with Uschakov Cossura aciculata 1977 with Chen Eteone delta 1963 with Chen Euchone quadrisegmentata 1993 with Zhao & Westheide Euniphysa tridontesa 1990 with Shen Eusamythella multidentata 1987 with Wu & Qian Exogone fungopapillata 1992 with Zhao Gattyana pohaiensis 1959 with Uschakov Glycinde gurjanovae 1962 with Uschakov Grubianella brevicirrata 1982 with Wu & Qian Harmothoe asiatica 1962
- [August Weberbauer](https://neglectedscience.com/august-weberbauer/): August Weberbauer, German-born Peruvian botanist and plant geographer (Breslau 26 November 1871 – Lima 16 January 1948) Authored the classical work Die Pflanzenwelt der Peruanischen Anden in ihren Grundzugen Dargestellt (1911) improved and translated into Spanish language as El mundo vegetal de los Andes Peruanos (1945) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Pleuranthodes 1896 (Rhamnaceae) Species Phrygilanthus lehmannianus 1911 Pleuranthodes hillebrandtii 1896 Pleuranthodes orbiculare 1896 Rhamnus maytenoides 1895 HONORS Weberbauera Gilg & Muschler 1909 (Brassicaceae) Weberbauerella Ullrich 1906 (Fabaceae)  Weberbauerocereus Backeberg 1942 (Cactaceae)
- [Anselm Windhausen](https://neglectedscience.com/anselm-windhausen/): Anselm Windhausen, German-born Argentine geologist and stratigrapher (Lingen, Emsland, Lower Saxony 20 April 1882 – Buenos Aires 02 April 1932) Enunciated the concept of Jaguel layers The problem of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in South America and the stratigraphic position of the San Jorge-Formation in Paragonia, American Journal of Science, volume XLV, No. 265, January 1918. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Die Einhornhöhle bei Scharzfeld a. Harz, Der Harz, 14 Jg., H. 3, 5 p. 75-88, Magdeburg, 1907. Die geologischen Verhältnisse bei den Ausgrabungen in der Eninhornhöhle. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 39 Jg., H. 4 u. 5, 5., 540-543, Berlin, 1907. Die geologischen Verhältnisse der Bergzüge westlich und
- [Anita Wajntal](https://neglectedscience.com/anita-wajntal/): Anita Wajntal, Brazilian geneticist (14 July 1937 – DESCRIBED SYNDROMES AND OTHERS CONTRIBUTIONS With D. Moretti-Ferreira, C.P. Koiffmann, M. Listik & N. Setian. Macrossomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities (MOMO syndrome) in two unrelated patients: delineation of a newly recognized overgrowth syndrome. Am, J. Med. Genet. 46:555-8, 1993 With D. Moretti-Ferreira, C.R. Mingroni-Netto, R.C.M. Pavanello, B.B. Mendonça & A.J. Diament. A criança macrossômica II: provável síndrome nova. Cien. Cult. 40:835, 1988 With I.J. Cavalli, I.J. Sbalqueiro & N. Freire-Maia. A 15/17 translocation in a patient with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome. Human Heredity 32(3):149-51, 1982 (first report of this kind of translocation in this
- [Andres Weber](https://neglectedscience.com/andres-weber/): Andrés George Weber y de Torres, Cuban odontologist (Guanabacoa, La Habana 31 December 1870 – La Habana 12 November 1950) From German father Authored over 300 scientific works between them Bibliographiae Stomatologicae (1922) and Bibliographia odontologica. Rev. Dent. Habana 10:321-32, 1917 His Bibliographia dentalis (1909) obtained gold medal in international congress of field at Berlin Had the most complete classification of world’s odontological bibliography and some 20,000 items in dentistry Founder, Federation Dentale Internationale (1900) Received posthumously International Miller Prize, Federeation Dentale International (1952)
- [Alvaro Wille Trejos](https://neglectedscience.com/alvaro-wille-trejos/): Alvaro Wille Trejos, Costa Rican entomologist (San Jose 17 May 1928 – San Jose 11 June 2006) From German ancestry  A technique for collecting stingless bees under jungle conditions. Insectes Sociaux 9(3):291-3, 1962 With C.D. Michener, E.A. Cross, H.V. Daly & C.W. Rettenmeyer. Additional techniques for studying the behaviour of wild bees. Insectes Sociaux 2:237-46, 1955 Coauthored a monumental work on the nest architecture of stingless bees With C.D. Michener. The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev.Biol. Trop. 21(Suppl1):1-278, 1973 DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA TAXA Species Fossil Proplebeia silacea 1959 Trigonia (Liotrigonia) dominicana 1964 with Chandler
- [Alpheus Fuller Williams](https://neglectedscience.com/alpheus-fuller-williams/): Alpheus Fuller Williams, US-born South African mining engineer (Oakland, Alameda County, California 21 June 1874 – Cape Town 06 January 1953) With J. Parry & F.E. Wright described mineral species bultfonteinite (1932) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The Genesis of the diamond. A geological, mineralogical, crystallographical, petrographical and chemical study of kimberlite and its associated, cognate and accidental inclusions (1932) Diamond-bearing alluvial gravels of the union of South Africa. Brit. Empire Mining Metal. Congr. Handbook (1930) HONORS Afwillite Parry & Wright 1925 (Mineral)
- [Ahmed Hassan Wahba](https://neglectedscience.com/ahmed-hassan-wahba/): Ahmed Hassan Wahba, Egyptian bacteriologist (Berlin, Germany 15 December 1922 – ?) Metallic sheen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nature 204:502, 1964 Developed a new type of cholera vaccine Developed and modified methods Vibriocine production in the cholera and El Tor vibrios. Bull. World Health Organ. 33(5):661-4, 1965 Wih J. H. Darrell. Pyocine-typing of hospital strains of Pseudomonas pyocyanea. J. Clin. Path. 17:236-42, 1964 The production and inactivation of pyocines. J. Hyg. 61(4):431-41, 1963 With O.M. Lidwell. A simple apparatus for colicine typing. Appl. Bacteriol. 26:246, 1963 With V. Takla. A new chemical flocculation test for cholera vibrio identification. Bull. World Health Organ. 26(2):306-8, 1962
- [Abraham Willink](https://neglectedscience.com/abraham-willink/): Abraham Willink, Dutch-born Argentine entomologist (Drachten, Friesland Province 13 January 1920 – San Miguel de Tucumán 08 February 1998) DESCRIBED HYMNENOPTERA TAXA Genera Araucodynerus 1968 Carlobembix 1958 Cuyodynerus 1968 Incodynerus 1968 Species About 75 HONORS Willinkia Bondar 1949 (Coleoptera) Willinkiella Menke 1968 (Hymenoptera) Willinkapis Moure 1953 (Hymenoptera)   
- [Zeferino Vaz](https://neglectedscience.com/zeferino-vaz/): Zeferino Vaz, Brazilian helminthologist (São Paulo 27 May 1908 – São Paulo 09 February 1981) Authored about 70 works With C. Pereira developed a simple and rapid process for in toto-mounting of nematodes in balsam (1934) and a technique for staining parasites DESCRIBED HELMINTH GENERA Trematoda Parahemiurus 1930 with Pereira Travassosina 1932 Trematichthys 1932 Witenbergia 1932 Nematoda Ackertia 1934 Hempelia 1936 Paraleiurus 1929 with Pereira HONORS Zefevazia Martínez 1954 (Coleoptera)
- [Y. Narsing Rao Varma](https://neglectedscience.com/y-narsing-rao-varma/): Y. Narsing Rao Varma, Indian palynologist (1947 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL POLLEN / SPORAE SPECIES Callialasporites crassimarginatus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Cicatricosisporites gangapurensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Cicatricosisporites verrumuratus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Contignisporites crenatus 1984 with Ramanujam Cucurbitariaceites keralaensis 1985 with Patil Dicellaesporites inaequalis 1985 Distalanulisporites verrucatus 1984 with Ramanujam Foveosporites sahii 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Impardecispora adilabadensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Ischyosporites pusillus 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Matonisporites sahnii 1984 with Ramanujam Neoraistrickia rallapetensis 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Platysaccus bharadwaji 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Trilites orikkaiense 1984 with Ramanujam Undulatisporites venkatachalai 1983 with Ramanujam & Rajeshwar-Rao Varmasporites tonakkalensis 1985 with Patil HONORS Varmasporites Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000 (Fossil pollen
- [Wolfgang Volkheimer](https://neglectedscience.com/wolfgang-volkheimer/): Wolfgang Volkheimer, German-born Argentine micropaleontologist (Kempten, Bavaria 29 December 1928 – Mendoza 23 March 2018) Authored over 110 publications DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Genera Huitrinipollenites 1975 with Salas Hyalosphaera 1976 with Salas Paleospongilla 1972 with Ott Species Ancyrochitina parisi 1986 with Melendi & Salas Ancyrochitina parkerae 1986 with Melendi & Salas Apiculatisporites charahuillaensis 1972 Aratrisporites compositum 1991 with Zavattieri Araucariacites pergranulatus 1968 Baculatisporites bagualensis 1968 Baculatisporites tenuis 1968 Campenia austroamericana 1974 Cingulochitina striata 1986 with Melendi & Salas Cirratriradites minor 1968 Concavisporites laticrassus 1972 Classopollis intrareticulatus 1972 Criboperidinium reticulatum 1985 with Quattrocchio Cycadopites granulatus 1968 Cycadopites punctatus 1968 Cycadaceaelagella nana 1968 Cyclusphaera psilata 1976 with Sepulveda Ephedripites menendezii 1972 Equisetosporites caichiguensis 1975 with Quattrocchio Gemmatriletes covuncoensis 1981 with Moroni   Gleicheniidites argentinus 1972 Huitrinipollenites transitorius 1975 with Salas Hymenophyllumsporites grandis 1968 Hystrichosphaerina
- [Willem Jacobus Van der Linde](https://neglectedscience.com/willem-jacobus-van-der-linde/): Willem Jacobus Van der Linde, South-African plant nematologist (1903 – 1978) Developed many techniques for soil extraction of nematodes SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.G. Clemitson & M.E. Crous. Host-parasite relationship of South African root-knot eelworm (Meloidogyne spp.). Sci Bull. Dep. Agric. Techn. Serv. U.S. Africa 385, 16, 1959 The Meloidogyne problem in South Africa. Nematologica 1:177-83, 1956 With S.J. Du Plessis. Inspection of seed potatoes for Government Certification. Farm. S. Africa 29:263-6, 1954 With V. Angelopulo. Root-knot nematodes. Farm. S. Africa 26(302):162-8, 1951 With A.J. Smith & L.J. Neetling. Control of eelworm (with special reference to D-D). Farm. S. Africa 26:263-89, 1948 Eelworm or root gallworm. Farm. S.
- [Volkmar Vareschi](https://neglectedscience.com/volkmar-vareschi/): Volkmar Vareschi, Austrian-born Venezuelan botanist and plant ecologist (Innsbruck, Tirol 25 May 1906 – Caracas 06 March 1991) Authored over 100 scientific works Internationally known as one of the founders of  modern plant ecological physiology and performed pioneering contributions such as water balance in trees and hemi parasite plants First to use lichens as bio indicators in tropical lands DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Elaphoglossum aristeguietae 1966 Elaphoglossum foldatsii 1966 Elaphoglossum latebricolum 1966 Elaphoglossum melancholicum 1966 Elaphoglossum pannieri 1966 Elaphoglossum wurdackii 1966 Elaphoglossum zettleri 1966 Eriosorus lasseri 1966 Grammitis gameriana 1966 Hymenophyllopsis steyermarkii 1966 Hymenophyllopsis universitatis 1966 Lycopodium mirum 1958 Pterozonium steyermarkii 1966 Thelypteris aristeguietae 1966 FUNGI Grimmia meridensis Ramalina dictyota 1956 with Dodge
- [Villela family](https://neglectedscience.com/villela-family/): Eurico de Azevedo Villela, Brazilian physician (Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro State 10 September 1883 – Rio de Janeiro 08 March 1962) Described Chagasic cardiopathy With C. Chagas. Forma cardíaca de trypanosomiase americana. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 14(1):5-61, 1922  Developed anti scorpion serum (1906) A simple device for the application of DDT larvicide. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 40(3):353-4, 1946 His son, Eudoro Libanio Villela, biomedical researcher (Vargem Grande do Sul, São Paulo State 02 August 1907 – São Paulo 18 April 2001) He is most known as banker Described histopathologically the fatal cases of yellow fever in which are found
- [Viegas brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/viegas-brothers/): Ahmés Pinto Viegas, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 30 January 1905 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 25 March 1986) DESCRIBED PLANT PATHOGENIC FUNGI (incomplete) Phyllosticta guajavae, (Phyllosticta leaf spot of guava tree) Phyllosticta manihotae (Phyllosticta spot of manihot)   Rubber tree leaf spot (1955)  Cercospora urenae with Chupp (cercospora leaf spot of Sida cordifolia) Cylindrocladium candelabrum  (Cylindrocladium spot on Eucalyptus)  Tomentella bambusina 1939 (bamboo drying disease) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Valid Genera Bilboque 1960 Brasiliomyces 1944 Crauatamyces 1944 Dermatodothella 1944 Dictyostomiopelta 1944 Felisbertia 1944 Kiehlia 1944 Kretzschmariella 1944 Muricopeltis 1944 Porotenus 1960 Queirozia 1944 with Cardoso Telioclipeum 1962 Urupe 1944 Fungi About 250 HONORS (Fungi) Viegasia Batista 1951 Viegasella Inacio & Cannon 2003 His brother, Glauco Pinto Viegas, plant geneticist and breeder (Piracicaba, São
- [Victorio Valeri](https://neglectedscience.com/victorio-valeri/): Victorio Valeri, Brazilian cytologist and histologist (29 July 1923 – 04 January 2009) Coined the term megetism for indicating excess or defficiency of nuclear volume in relation to normal tissue Estudo da relação entre volume nuclear e quantidade de DNA em células normais e patológicas (carcinoma in situ, carcinoma invasivo e cervicite crônica) do colo uterino. Thesis, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (1962) With A.R. Cruz, H.J.S. Brandão & L. Lison. Relationship between cell nuclear volume and desoxyribonucleic acid of cells of normal epithelium, of carcinoma in situ and of invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Acta Cytol. 11(6):488-96, 1967 Proposed
- [Vertiz family](https://neglectedscience.com/vertiz-family/): Ricardo Jacinto Francisco Javier Antonio Alonso Ligorio Vertiz Berruecos, Mexican ophthalmologist (Ciudad de Mexico 16 August 1848 – Ciudad de Mexico 12 November 1888) Developed a procedure for improvement of stumps from ocular enucleation (1887) Developed a method of cataract extraction Proposed a special and indirect conversion procedure for oblique deliveries His ability for cataract surgery was recognized in France His uncle, Francisco Xavier Pedro de Jesus Vertiz Delgado, Mexican surgeon (Ciudad de Mexico September 1817 – Ciudad de Mexico August 1849) Invented metallic retractors for amputations
- [Valentinuzzi family](https://neglectedscience.com/valentinuzzi-family/): Maximo Valentinuzzi, Argentine biophysicist (Río Cuarto 07 August 1907 – Buenos Aires 10 December 1985) From Italian parents  Authored about 50 papers Introduced a novel explanation of visual perceptions triggered by strong magnetic fields Proposed the theory of magnetophosphenes in American Journal of Medical Electronics 1(3):112-21, 1962 Authored Magnetobiology and components of magnetochemistry (1961), which laid the foundations of modern magnetobiology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY/OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS  The organs of equilibrium and orientation as a control system (1979) With O. Pompeiano. A mathematical model for the mechanism of rapid eyes movement induced by an anticholinesterase in the decerebrate rat. Arch. Ital. Biologie 114:103-54, 1976  With M.E. Valentinuzzi. Information
- [Vaccarezza family](https://neglectedscience.com/vaccarezza-family/): Oscar Andrés Vaccarezza Chiesa, Argentine physician (Alberti, Buenos Aires Province 26 October 1905 – Buenos Aires 16 January 1982) Developed a modification of Finocchietto paradoxal incision Created thoracocavernostomy (1953) Procedimiento quirurgico em el tratamiento de los quistos hidáticos del pulmón. Arch. Int. Hidatid. (Surgical procedure for treatment of pulmonary hydatid)  Aparato electrico para la aspiracíon continua de cavidades (Electric device for continuous aspiration of cavities) Toracoplastia anterior por via interpectoral (modificación a la técnica de Graf-Schmidt-Abelberger). Anales Cat. Pat. Clin. Tuberc. 1:111-23, 1939 His cousin, Raul Francisco Ladislao Vaccarezza Rilla, Argentine surgeon (27 June 1893 – 27 May 1981) Sobre un signo
- [Thomas Van der Hammen](https://neglectedscience.com/thomas-van-der-hammen/): Thomas Van der Hammen, Dutch-born Colombian palynologist, paleoclimatologist and archaeologist (Schiedam 27 September 1924 – Chia, Cundinamarca Department 10 March 2010) Authored over 400 publications Developed Van der Hammen classical nomenclature system in palinology Principios para la nomenclatura palinologica sistemática. Bol. Geol. 2(2), 1954 First to discover Preceramic cultures in a stratigraphic sequence (1967-8) With G. Correal & J. Lerman. Artefactos liticos de abrigos rocosos en El Abra, Colombia. Informe preliminar. Rev. Col. Antrop. 24:12-46, 1966-9 With W.R. Hurt & G. Correal Urrego. Preceramic sequences in the El Abra rock shelters, Colombia. Science 175(2046):1106-8, 1972 Described at least 65 new fossil genera of
- [Telemaco Hippolyto de Macedo Van Langendonck](https://neglectedscience.com/telemaco-hippolyto-de-macedo-van-langendonck/): Telêmaco Hippolyto de Macedo Van Langendonck, Brazilian structural engineer (Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul State 02 April 1909 – 09 February 1994) From Belgian and Portuguese descent Son in law of physician Adolpho C. Lindenberg First to determine the deck contribution on arch bridges resistance (1942) Showed the influence of elastic and slow deformations on determining the resistance to buckling (1945) First to take account loading in reduced area on concrete Proposed employing orthogonal functions for solving torsion problems creating many algorithms for calculating the moments of inertia to the torsion and moments of resistance to the torsion Funções ortogonais na
- [S C Verma](https://neglectedscience.com/s-c-verma/): S.C. Verma, Indian helminthologist and parasitologist (fl.1917-55) Genera Acanthosentis 1929 with Datta Episthochasmus 1935 Pseudoechinochasmus 1936 Dissurus 1936 Procrassiphiala 1936 Ridgeworthia 1936 Species Acanthobothrium semnovesiculum 1928 Acanthobothrium semivesiculum 1928 Acanthogyrus antespinus 1929 with Datta Alaria robusta 1936 Allodiplostomum hindustani 1936 Apharyngostrigea egrettii 1936 Apharyngostrigea ramai 1936 Bucephalopsis garuai 1936 Bucephalus aoria 1936 Bucephalus tridenticularia 1936 Bucephalus jagannathai 1936 Bucephalopsis magnum 1936 Chaunocephalus similiferox 1936 Cotylurus streptocorpus 1936 Cyathocotyle calvusi 1936 Dissurus farrukhabadi 1936 Echinochasmus bagulai 1935 Echinochasmus caninus 1935 Echinochasmus ruficapensis 1935 Echinoparyphium gizzarda 1936 Echinoparyphium splendens 1936 Echinostoma bhattacharyai 1936 Echinostoma crecci 1936 Echinostoma longicirrus 1936 Echinostoma minimus 1936 Echinostoma novum 1936 Echinostoma pentalobum 1936 Episthmium caninum 1935 Gangesia agraensis 1928 Hypoderaeum longitestis 1936 Hypodaerum magnocirrusa 1936 Hypodaerum mainpuria 1936 Microparyphium montei 1936 Neodiplostomum cuckooai 1936 Neodiplostomum globiferum 1936 Ophiosoma macrocephalum 1936 Opisthorchis pedicellata 1927 Paryphostomum novum Patagifer wesleyi 1936 Posthodiplostomum grayi 1936 Procrassiphiala triticum 1936 Prosorhynchoides
- [Rustom Jal Vakil](https://neglectedscience.com/rustom-jal-vakil/): Rustom Jal Vakil, Indian cardiologist (Mumbai 17 July 1911 – Mumbai 20 November 1974) Authored 380 publications between papers and case reports First reported the therapeutical application of Rauwolfia serpentina in cases of human hypertension (1940) Suggested useful drug combinations for the management of severe forms of hypertension (1954) Defined new clinical signs of diagnostic value in ventricular aneurysms (1955) Authored probably the first case of fusion beat in conjunction with repetitive paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia associated with normal sinus rhythm (1957) Suggested the use of anticoagulant therapy as a routine measure for pre infarction syndrome (1962) Described transitory pulsation in coronary thrombosis (1956)
- [Roberto Vasquez](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-vasquez/): Roberto Vasquez Chavez, Bolivian botanist (Cochabamba 07 December 1941 – Santa Cruz de la Sierra August 2015) Described about 230 new plant species being most of them orchids SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With R. Lara Rico. Notas acerca del gênero Hippeastrum (Amaryllidaceae) en Bolivia. Fontqueria 56(35), 2015 With D. R. Riera. Aves de Santa Cruz. Vol I (2013) With P.L. Ibisch & W. Rauh. Illustrated catalogue of the Bromeliaceae of Bolivia (2000) With P.L. Ibisch. Orquídeas de Bolívia I & II (2000) With C.H. Dodson. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum. III & IV. Orchids of Bolivia    With G. Coimbra. Frutas silvestres comestibles de Santa Cruz (1996) HONORS
- [Ricardo Veronesi](https://neglectedscience.com/ricardo-veronesi/): Ricardo Veronesi, Brazilian infectologist and virologist (São Paulo 24 October 1919 – São Paulo 08 May 2004) Obtained international recognition for his studies on tetanus Vice-president, International Federation for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Collaborating Author in Infectious Disease and Medical Parasitology (from A.L. Braude), Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (from B. Goldsmith & D. Heyneman), Current Diagnosis (from Conn & Conn), Temas de Infectologia (Cecchini & Ayala) and Tratado de Pediatria (from J. Meneghello) Developed Veronesi-Correa method for microscopic seroagglutination With A. Correa & D. Alterio. Single-dose immunization against tetanus. Promising results in human trials. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. 12:46-54, 1970 A
- [Reinaldo Vanossi Dupont](https://neglectedscience.com/reinaldo-vanossi-dupont/): Reinaldo Vanossi Dupont, Argentine analytical chemist (Esperanza, Santa Fe 16 January 1897 – Buenos Aires 22 October 1974) Son of Italian father and French mother  ACHIEVEMENTS Vanossi’s reaction – a microchemical reaction for detecting mercury   First in the world to use liquid-liquid extractions   Developed a formula for computing salinity in function of electric resistivity in mineral waters  Designed simple methodologies for identifying and isolating compounds from complex mixtures  Dispositivo para la técnica con electrodo gotero de mercúrio (polarografia de Heyrovsky). Anales Soc. Cien. Arg. (1939) (an improved arrangement for polarograph)  With D.J. Bengolea. Voltimetro a valvula “doble triodo” GC:8-G, para medir
- [Raul Vaz Ferreira](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-vaz-ferreira/): Raul Vaz Ferreira Raimondi, Uruguayan vertebrate zoologist (Montevideo 16 March 1918 – 27 October 2006) Gained international renown as expert on vertebrate ethology and ecology Authored 274 works DESCRIBED TAXA PISCES Genus Campellolebias 1974 with Sierra de Soriano Species Campellolebias brucei 1974 with Sierra de Soriano Austrolebias cheradophilus 1965 with Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete, Austrolebias luteoflammulatus 1965 with Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete Austrolebias viarius 1965 with Sierra de Soriano & Scaglia de Paulete Reptilia Species Homonota uruguayensis 1961 with Sierra de Soriano
- [Raimundo & Gloria Villegas](https://neglectedscience.com/raimundo-gloria-villegas/): Raimundo Antonio Corneli Villegas Polanco, Venezuelan biophysicist (Caracas 14 September 1931 – Caracas 21 October 2014) Authored over 80 scientific papers Developed new techniques to ease the production of easily accessible food for the poorest His wife, Gloria Teresa Mercader Guedez de Villegas, microscopist (La Guaira 12 November 1928 –  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY RAIMUNDO With J. Villegas, C. Sevcik & F.V. Barnola. Grayanotoxin, veratrine, and tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium pathways in the Schwann cell membrane of squid nerve fibers. J. Gen. Physiol. 67:369, 1976 With F.V. Barnola. Sodium flux through the sodium channels of axon membrane fragments isolated from lobster nerve. J. Gen. Physiol. 67:81, 1976 With
- [Raghunath Sahai Vasudeva](https://neglectedscience.com/raghunath-sahai-vasudeva/): Raghunath Sahai Vasudeva, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Sahiwal, Sargodha 06 February 1905 – Delhi 04 February 1987) Authored over 200 scientific papers Established the true cause of root-rot cotton and evolved simple and novel measures for its control With J. Sam Raj. A leaf curl disease of tomato. Phytopath. 38:364-9, 1948 With T.B. Lai. A mosaic disease of bottle gourd. Indian J. Agric. Sci. 13:182-91, 1943 HONORS   Vasudevella Chona, Munjal & Bajaj 1957 (Fungi)
- [Prahlad Chunilal Vaidya](https://neglectedscience.com/prahlad-chunilal-vaidya/): Prahlad Chunilal Vaidya, Indian physicist (Shahapur, Junagarh District, Gujarat State 23 March 1918 – Ahmedabad, Gujarat State 08 April 2010) Developed Vaidya metric or solution for a radiating star (1942) A generalized Kerr-Schild solution of Einstein’s equation (1973) With L.K. Patel presented a method of obtaining solutions of Einstein field equations (1999) INFLUENTIAL PAPERS The external field of a radiating star in general relativity. Curr. Science 12:183, 1943 The gravitational field of a radiating star. Proceed. Indian Acad. Sci. A 33:264, 1951 “Newtonian” time of general relativity. Nature 171 (4345):260, 1953 EPONYMY Vaidya blackhole Vaidya-Tikeker space-time metric (1982) Vaidya spacetime (1951)
- [Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-antonio-valdes-sosa/): Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa, Cuban neuroscientist (Chicago 12 March 1950 – Developed a computational theory and methodology for both EEG/MEG and MRI with contributions to multichannel EEG/MEG (1969-89) Developed the distributed electrophysiological source imaging CONTRIBUTIONS With J.J. Riera, K. Tanabe & R. Kawashima. A theoretical formulation of the electrophysiological inverse problem on the sphere. Phys. Med. Biol. 51(7):1737-58, 2006 With A. Galka & R. Biscay. Spatiotemporal Kalman filtering: a new approach for solving high-dimensional inverse problems (2003) With E. Martínez Montes, N.J. Trujillo-Barreto & L. Melie Garcia. Variable resolution electromagnetic tomography: a new type of inverse solution based on Bayesian formalism. Neuroimage
- [Paulo Emilio Vanzolini](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-emilio-vanzolini/): Paulo Emilio Vanzolini, Brazilian herpetologist (São Paulo 25 April 1924 – São Paulo 28 April 2013) DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA Family   Rhineuridae 1951 Genera Cercolophia 1992 Garthia 1965 with Donoso Barros Jepsibaena 1951 (Fossil) Loveridgea 1951 Species Amerotyphlops brongersmianus 1972 Amphisbaena amazonica 1951 Amphisbaena anaemariae 1997 Amphisbaena arenaria 1991 Amphisbaena bassleri 1951 Amphisbaena bedai 1991 Amphisbaena crisae 1997 Amphisbaena frontalis 1991 Amphisbaena hastata 1991   Amphisbaena hogei 1950 Amphisbaena ignatiana 1991 Amphisbaena kraoh 1971 Amphisbaena lumbricalis 1996 Amphisbaena miringoera 1971 Amphisbaena sanctaritae 1994 Amphisbaena talisiae 1995 Amphisbaena tragorrhectes 1971 Amphisbaena wiedi 1951 Anolis braziliensis 1970 with Williams Bachia scolecoides 1961 Cercolophia bahiana 1964 Coleodactylus septentrionalis 1980 Colobodactylus dalcyanus 1977 with Ramos Epictia borapeliotes 1966 Gymnodactylus guttulatus 1982 Gymnophthalmus leucomystax 1991 with Carvalho Hemidactylus agrius 1978 Lepidoblepharis heyeorum 1978 Liotyphlops schubarti 1948 Ogmophis pauperrimus 1952 (Fossil) Panopa carvalhoi 1948 with
- [Paulo Augusto Silva Veloso](https://neglectedscience.com/paulo-augusto-silva-veloso/): Paulo Augusto Silva Veloso, Brazilian computer scientist and logician (Porto Alegre 18 April 1944 – With S.R. M. Veloso, P. Viana, R. Freitas, M. Benevides & C. Delgado introduced modal logical systems for the precise treatment of assertions involving some versions of vague notions (2010) With A.E.M. Carlini, M.A. Casanova & A.L. Furtado introduced a formalism to specify interactive storytelling genres in the context of digital entertainment (2010) With R. Freitas, S.R.M. Veloso & P. Viana gave a formal presentation of a logical system for graph relational calculus and proved that graph relational language has the same expressive power as a
- [Paul Andries Van der Byl](https://neglectedscience.com/paul-andries-van-der-byl/): Paul Andries Van der Byl (Bijl), South African mycologist and plant pathologist (Natvellei, Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province 25 May 1888 – Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province 25 July 1939) Authored some 60 publications Described at least 64 new fungal species specially plant parasitic fungi  On a fungus, Ovulariopsis papayae n.sp. – which causes powdery mildew on the leaves of the pawpaw plant (Carica papaya Linn.). Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 9:187-9, 1921 A fungus, Gibellula haygarthis, spec. nov., on a spider of the family Lycosidae. Trans. Royal Soc. South Africa 10:149-50, 1922 HONORS Vanderbylia Reid 1973 (Fungi)
- [Pablo Valenzuela Valdés](https://neglectedscience.com/pablo-valenzuela-valdes/): Pablo de Tarso Rafael Antonio Valenzuela Valdés, Chilean biomedical researcher and manager (Santiago de Chile 13 June 1941 – With biochemist William Rutter & Edward Penhoet the biotechnology company Chiron Corporation in United States (1981) Co-discovered the hepatitis C virus Sequenced the hepatitis B, AIDS, delta hepatitis and salmon’s infectious pancreatic necrosis viruses Sequenced totally Piscirickettsia salmonis genome DEVELOPED The world’s first recombinant vaccine (against hepatitis B virus) in 1981 Blood banking tests The first blood test for hepatitis C virus New technologies for expression of recombinant viral antigens A number of viral antigens used in vaccines and blood diagnostic tests A new
- [Oswaldo Vital Brazil](https://neglectedscience.com/oswaldo-vital-brazil/): Oswaldo Vital Brazil, Brazilian pharmacologist and toxinologist (São Paulo 02 March 1912 –Campinas, São Paulo State 26 October 2008) Son of physician Vital Brazil Gained international recognition on action mechanisms of venoms and toxins from snakes, spiders and scorpions First application in man of anti Ctenus serum Imunização por via intradérmica e por via sub-cutânea pelo soro antictenus. Método de dosagem e primeira aplicação no homem. Anais Paul. Med. Cir. 60(5):555-63, 1950 Obtained, purified and clarified the chemical structure of beeberine (1946-7) Isolated chondrocurare from Chondrodendrum platyphyllum (1942) used as muscle relaxant  Demonstrated pharmacological basis of venom actions from snakes Micrurus sp. and Crotalus sp. Discovered that
- [Orlando Eugenio Villamayor](https://neglectedscience.com/orlando-eugenio-villamayor/): Orlando Eugenio Villamayor, Argentine mathematician (Buenos Aires 22 June 1923 – Paris, France 22 February 1998) Formulated algebraic theory of quadratic forms and Clifford algebras for projective modules of finite type (with Artibano Micali) Introduced the concept of V-rings With K.R. Mount introduced the concept of Jacobian extension of ideals (1974) Authored Nuevo planteo de la ecuación dinâmica de los gases (1949) EPONYMY Karoubi-Villamayor K algebraic functors Karoubi-Villamayor K groups Hattori-Villamayor-Zelinsky sequences Villamayor algebras Villamayor theorem (1954) Villamayor lemma Villamayor-Zelinsky map
- [Nelson Vaz](https://neglectedscience.com/nelson-vaz/): Nelson Monteiro Vaz, Brazilian immunologist and science philosopher (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State 28 September 1936 – Regarded as a world pioneer in tolerance induction With Chang & B.B. Levine proposed the molecular structure of antigen-antibody complexes involved in mast cells degranuation (1970) Advanced the study of oral tolerance for his original contributions to mucosae immunology (1970s) With Bernard Levine devised a method of inducing prolonged intense IgE responses in mice (1970s) Characterized the MHC-related autosomic dominant genes involved in recognition of immunogenicity First to show the MHC involvement in the reactivity to heterologous proteins With B.B. Levine. Immune responsiveness of
- [Nelly Vittet](https://neglectedscience.com/nelly-vittet/): Nelly Elsa Vittet, Argentine botanist (died 1995) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA (with A.L. Cabrera) Austroeupatorium rosmarinaceum 1963 Campuloclinium hickenii 1954 Eupatorium polystachium var. subcordatum 1963 Stevia carapariensis 1954 HONORS Vittetia King & Robinson 1974 (Asteraceae)
- [Mysore Ananthamurthy Viswamitra](https://neglectedscience.com/mysore-ananthamurthy-viswamitra/): Mysore Ananthamurthy Viswamitra, Indian crystallographer and structural biologist (Shimoga, Karnakata 14 November 1932 – Bangalore 10 April 2001) Discovered sequence dependent fine structure in DNA segments in single crystals First to determine the structure of many mononucleotides With O. Kennard solved the first oligonucleotide dp(AT)2 structure, giving the first view of a DNA duplex in atomic detail Solved the structures of two important xylanases from thermophilic organisms Designed low temperature equipment for structure analysis of substances  
- [Miguel Angel Virasoro](https://neglectedscience.com/miguel-angel-virasoro/): Miguel Angel Virasoro Regnasco, Argentine theoretical physicist (Buenos Aires 09 May 1940 – Buenos Aires 23 July 2021) ACHIEVEMENTS With R. Baviera. A method that reveals the multi-level ultrametric tree hidden in p-spin glass like systems. J. Statis. Mech. Theory Exper. (2015) With M. Campellone & G. Parisi introduced a method to calculate the finite volume corrections to the mean Field results for the free energy when replica symmetry is broken at one step in J. Statis. Phys (2009) With S. Franz showed that the relaxation of “thermo-remnant magnetization” follows a generalized version of the Onsager regression postulate of induced fluctuations
- [Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan](https://neglectedscience.com/marthanda-varma-sankaran-valiathan/): Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan, Indian cardiac surgeon (Mavelikara, Kerala State 24 May 1934 – Authored over 100 scientific papers, several book chapters and 3 books Established the geochemical cause of endomyocardial fibrosis, i.e., cerium replaces magnesium in cardiac muscle due to deficiency of this element in poor children With Vincent Gott discovered the thrombo-resistant property of surfaces coated sequentially with graphite, benzalkonium chloride and heparin (GBH) DEVELOPED Interventions to reduce the severity of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis The first biomaterial to be made with wall-bonded heparin for clinical applications A series of disposable devices such as hydrocephalus shunt, blood bag, oxygenator, cardiotomy
- [Martha Vannucci](https://neglectedscience.com/martha-vannucci/): Martha Ana Maria Vannucci, Italian-born Brazilian marine biologist (Firenze 10 May 1921 – São Paulo 15 January 2021) From Italian, English and French descent  Regarded as one of world’s foremost expert on mangroves ecology Authored over 100 works She was honorary advisor da International Society of Mangrove Ecosystems and senior expert in marine sciences of UNESCO (1969-89) DESCRIBED VALID NEW SPECIES Cnidaria Calycella gabriellae 1951 Halopteris billardi 1951 Laodicea minuscula 1957 Octophialucium haeckeli 1966 with Soares Moreira Orthopyxis billardi 1954 Stauridiosarsia reesi 1956 Vallentinia gabriellae 1948 Cestoda Otobothrium dinoi 1944 Nybelinia lingualis paucispinosa 1944 HONORS Vannuccia Marcus 1948 (Turbellaria) 
- [Maria Aparecida Vulcano](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-aparecida-vulcano/): Maria Aparecida Vulcano d’Andretta, Brazilian entomologist and paleoentomologist (Bragança Paulista, São Paulo State 12 December 1921 – Presidente Prudente, São Paulo State 08 September 2018) In some works appeared as Maria Aparecida Vulcano d’Andretta DESCRIBED INSECTA TAXA Genera Living Coleoptera Antillacanthon 1966 with Pereira Bdelyropsis 1960 with Pereira & Martínez Bolbaffer 1969 with Pereira & Martínez Bolbocaffer 1969 with Pereira & Martínez Bolboceroides 1969 with Pereira & Martínez Brasilucanus 1961with Pereira Chapincanthon 1966 with Pereira Microbolbus 1969 with Pereira & Martínez Mimobolbus 1969 with Pereira & Martínez Ottokelleria 1957 with Martínez Paraegidium 1966 with Pereira & Martínez Paulosawaya 1955 with Martínez Pseudepilissus 1964 with Pereira Pseudoleuretra 1955 with Martínez Diptera Hershkovitzia 1957 with Guimarães Lutzsimulium 1947 with D’Andretta Messiasia 1951 Paramydas 1948
- [Manuel Velasco Suarez](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-velasco-suarez/): Manuel María Velasco Suarez, Mexican neurosurgeon (San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas State 28 December 1914 – Ciudad de Mexico 02 December 2001) Authored over 400 works and 6 books With F. Escobedo Ríos described a syndrome in Neurological deficits after severe head trauma (1969) Injected local atropine and later L-dopa through stereotactic surgery being maybe the first in situ implantation of neurotransmitters into the basal ganglia (1970) Improved pallidotomy in the treatment of some dyskinesies (1959) Improved surgical techniques for treatment of intracranial tumors and encephalic vascular malformations Developed and/or improved surgical and clinical treatment for brain cysticercosis   Designed an encephalotome
- [Manuel Mateus Ventura](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-mateus-ventura/): Manuel Mateus Ventura, Brazilian plant biophysicist and biochemist (Fortaleza 17 June 1921 – Brasilia 31 December 2018) His studies about the action of metabolic inhibitors in stomatic movement and effect of antibiotics on vascular plant growth attracted international attention First to report that metabolism inhibitors could affect opening and closure of stomata (1952) With I. H. Lima. Ação do dietilestilbestrol sobre a respiração de tecidos vegetais. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 31(2):197-202, 1959 With I. H. Lima. Effect of antibiotics on respiration of plant tissues. Phyton – International Journal Of Experimental Botany 7(1):1-5, 1955. Ação do ácido beta-indolil-acético sobre o
- [Manuel Maria Villada](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-maria-villada/): Manuel María Felipe Neri de la Sangre de Cristo de Villada Peimbert, Mexican naturalist (Ciudad de Mexico 26 May 1841 – Ciudad de Mexico 22 March 1924) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Cantharis nietii (Coleoptera) Lystra cerifera 1881 (Hemiptera) Diadophis punctatus dugesii 1875 (Reptilia) Breweria mexicana var. floribunda 1892 (Plantae) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogo de plantas venenosas indígenas, según el orden natural de las familias a las que pertenecen. La Naturaleza 5(1), 1914    Los xumiles. La Naturaleza 5(1), 1914 Dos especies fósiles del litoral del Golfo. La Naturaleza 5(1), 1914 El pámpano. La Naturaleza 5(1), 1914 Breve reseña de una excursión escolar a la Barra de Nautla (1912) Apuntes recogidos en un viaje
- [Manuel Jose Viana](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-jose-viana/): Manuel José Viana, Argentine entomologist (1916 – Buenos Aires 11 February 1997) Authored 52 works DESCRIBED GENERA Coleoptera Alvarenganiella 1971 with Martínez Ceralocyna 1971 Ceratocassis 1964 Fabrasia 1965 with Martínez Homalorhamphus 1957 with Haedo Rossi Lallancyca 1971 Lissonomimus 1992 with Martínez Micholaemus 1971 Monrosicassis 1964 Nanocthispa 1947 with Monrós Neorrhipidus 1958 Neostena 1947 with Monrós Parabaliosus 1947 with Monrós Paranota 1949 with Monrós Rierguscha 1970 Schöenherriella 1952 Sternostenoides 1947 with Monrós Uhmannispa 1947 with Monrós Hymenoptera Ameghinoa 1957 with Haedo Rossi HONORS Vianatilla Casal 1962 (Hymenoptera) Vianania Orfila 1954 (Lepidoptera) Vianaeta Bechyné 1949 (Coleoptera) Vianasia Mateu 1955 (Coleoptera)
- [Luis Vargas Fernandez](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-vargas-fernandez/): Luis Vargas Fernandez, Chilean physiologist and diabetologist (10 June 1912- 29 September 2011) Authored 190 papers and 4 books Demonstrated that subcutaneous implants of zinc-insulin protamine presented a better glycemic control  Developed a method for measuring stimulating hormone of melanocytes With Randle and Taylor described human serum transferrin a plasmatic antagonist of insulin and mediating agent of growth hormone (1960)   With C.H. Faermann P. and P.A. Karplus patented the utilization of human serum transferrin for control of insulin levels US5849293 (1998)
- [Luis Vargas](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-vargas/): Daniel Luis Vargas García, Mexican medical entomologist (Ciudad de Mexico 03 January 1908 – Ciudad de Mexico 1994) Authored 262 works between them Simulidos del Nuevo Mundo (1945) with international repercussion With G. Román y Carrillo & L. Vargas. New technics for studying the susceptibility of arthropods to persistent inseticides. I. Tests with four Mexican anopheline species raised in the laboratory, based on the definitive knock-down of the specimens. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 19:19-65, 1959 Instrument for facilitating the calculation of larvicides applied to streams. Rev. Inst. Salubr. Enferm. Trop. 20:41-3, 1960 DESCRIBED TAXA Diptera Genera/Subgenera Anilomyia 1960    Beltranmyia 1953 Callotia 1972 with Kremer Diphaomyia 1960
- [Luis Sanchez Varona](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-sanchez-varona/): Luis Sanchez Varona y Calvo, Cuban vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist (La Habana 03 September 1923 – La Habana 15 July 1989) DESCRIBED VERTEBRATE TAXA Mammalia Living (Valid) Genus Mesocapromys 1970 Species Capromys gundlachianus 1983 Mesocapromys angelcabrerai 1979 Mesocapromys auritus 1970 Mesocapromys sanfelipensis 1970 with Garrido Mysateles garridoi 1970 Mysateles meridionalis 1986 Subspecies Capromys pilorides doceleguas 1980 Fossil Genus Cubanocyon 1974 with Arredondo Species Capromys antiquus 1979 with Arredondo Capromys arredondoi 1984 Capromys barbouri 1979 with Arredondo Capromys beatrizae 1979 with Arredondo Capromys delicatus 1979 with Arredondo Capromys gracilis 1979 with Arredondo Capromys jaumei 1979 with Arredondo Capromys kraglievichi 1979 with Arredondo Capromys latus 1979 with Arredondo Capromys minimus 1979 with Arredondo Capromys pappus 1984 Capromys robustus 1979 with Arredondo Capromys silvai 1979 with
- [Leonila Vazquez Garcia](https://neglectedscience.com/leonila-vazquez-garcia/): Leonila Vazquez García, Mexican entomologist (Jimenez, Chihuahua State 17 January 1911 – Ciudad de Mexico 30 January 1995) Authored 52 papers DESCRIBED VALID LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Species Anteos atromarginatus 1952 Astala hoffmanni 1941 Oiketicus zihuatanejensis 1951 Rhescynthis septentrionalis 1965 Synopsia eximia 1939 with Hoffmann Subspecies Antheraea polyphemus tuxtlasensis 1994 with Balcazar Aphrissa statira candens 1949 Aphrissa statira concolor 1949 Aphrissa statira impunctata 1949 Aphrissa statira subtermaculata 1949 Battus philenor insularis 1957 Citheronia splendes queretana 1944 Heraclides erostratus erostratinus 1947 Mimoides ilus occiduus 1957 Papilio pharnaces dissimilis 1957 Papilio pharnaces paucimaculata 1947 Phoebis intermedia subfasciata 1949 Phoebis neocypris rubrofasciata 1952 Pieriballia viardi intermedia 1954 Strymon istapa clarionica 1958 Thecla collumela socorroica 1958 Zerene caesonia albida 1949 HONOURS Genus Vazquezitocoris Brailovsky 1990 (Hemiptera) Honorary Member, International Union for Conservation of
- [Krishnaswami Venkataraman](https://neglectedscience.com/krishnaswami-venkataraman/): Krishnaswami Venkataraman, Indian organic chemist (Chennai  07 June 1901 – New Delhi 12 May 1981) Authored 271 papers Authored a classical treatise on chemistry of dyes and dye intermediates named The Chemistry of Synthetic Dyes in five volumes (1-2 in 1952 and 3-5 in 1971-8) translated into 14 foreign languages  Discovered Baker-Venkataraman transformation or rearrangement A synthesis of flavones at room temperature. Curr. Sci. (1933) Isolated flavonoids from plant sources and elucidated their structures Demonstrated the presence of nitrogen in some lac pigments Isolated and characterized a number of natural pigments belonging to anthraquinonoid group (e.g. laccaic acids A and B) Isolated artocarpanone
- [Karl Ludwig Von Bezing](https://neglectedscience.com/karl-ludwig-von-bezing/): Karl Ludwig Von Bezing, Austrian-born South African amateur mineralogist (Klagenfurt 1945 – Discovered the mineral species such as poldervaartite, guidottiite and nchwaningite described by other researchers With Giester, Lengauer, Pristacz, Rieck & Topa codescribed the mineral cairncrossite (2016) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D.A. Banks, J. Gutzmer, V. Luders & N.J. Beukes. The composition of seawater in the Paleoproterozoic. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall. 112:153-4, 2003 With J. Gutzmer, D.A. Banks, V. Luders, J. Hoefs & N.J. Beukes. Ancient sub-seafloor alteration of basaltic andesites of the Ongeluk Formation, South Africa: implications for the chemistry of Paleoproterozoic seawater. Chem. Geol. 201:37-53, 2003 With J. Gutzmer. Amethyst/Eisenkiesel-Quarze
- [Juan Vucetich](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-vucetich/): Juan Vucetich, Croatian-born Argentine criminologist (Hvar, Croatia 20 July 1858 – Dolores, Buenos Aires 25 January 1925) His original name was Ivan Vucetic Developed Galtonian method or icnofalangometria, today known as dactiloscopy (1891) Invented dactilonome (1899) and other elements to obtaining fingerprints Performed the first criminal fingerprint identification (1892) His nephew, Danilo Carlos Vucetich, chemist and pharmacist (1860 – 1966) Sobre un metodo de investigación de alcohol en quimica legal. Rev. Fac. Cien. Quim La Plata 10:37, 1935 8-hydroxyquinoline for the determination of magnesium. Rev. Fac. Cien. Quim La Plata 9:81-91, 1934 HONORS Vucetichia Borrello 1966 (Ichnofossil)
- [Juan Carlos Vignaux](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-vignaux/): Juan Carlos Vignaux, Argentine mathematician (Santiago del Estero 1893 – Buenos Aires 26 June 1984) Vignaux’s theorem Sur le produit de series sommable par la methode de Borel. Bull. Sci. Math. (2) 57:211-9, 1933 Vignaux’s method of asymptotic Laplace transforms Sugli integrali di Laplace asintotici. Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, Rend. Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. 29:396-402, 1939 Extensión del metodo de sumación de M. Borel a las series de funcciones de variable compleja dual e hiperbolica (1936) Nuevo metodo de sumación de integrales y su aplicación a la integral de Laplace (1933) Sobre la generalización del metodo de Le Roy (1933) Sobre una
- [João Paulo Botelho Vieira](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-paulo-botelho-vieira/): João Paulo Botelho Vieira, Brazilian physician (São Carlos, São Paulo State 23 July 1896  – São Paulo 22 June 1962) Performed important studies on pemphigus foliaceus Described evolutive phases of fogo selvagem (wild fire), a variety of endemic pemphigus foliaceus First to report elephantiasis of the ears due to lymphangitis   Demonstrated the frequence of papillomatosis in pemphigus or wild fire Eponym of Vieira sign a yellowish and canalization of the nail seen in fogo selvagem   SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Considerações sobre o pênfigo foliáceo no Brasil (1948) Patologia das impressões digitais (1942) Novas contribuições ao estudo do penfigo foliáceo (fogo selvagem) no Estado de
- [João Manuel Varela](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-manuel-varela/): João Manuel Varela, Cape Verdean scientist and poet (Mindelo, São Vicente Island 07 June 1937 – Mindelo, São Vicente Island 07 August 2007) Described Varela syndrome Atrophie systématisée de la formation réticulaire. Syndrome de dyshoméostasie du névraxe. Revue Neurologique (Paris), 16:437-440, 1967  Described seaweed Chondriella isecmarius  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A telencefalização e a morfologia do sistema talâmico de projecção difusa. Thesis, Lisboa, 1964, Atrophies de la formation réticulaire du névraxe. Psychiatria Clinica 2:41-61 & 109-123, 1969. (Abridged versin in English: Psychiatric Digest, Illinois, 31:53, 1970) With DeWulf et al. Études cytométriques du thalamus humain normal. Giornal di Psichiatria e di Neuropatologia, Ferrara, 97:361-373,
- [João de Vasconcelos Sobrinho](https://neglectedscience.com/joao-de-vasconcelos-sobrinho/): João de Vasconcelos Sobrinho, Brazilian ecologist (Moreno, Pernambuco State 28 April 1908 – Recife 04 May 1989) Obtained worldwide fame as expert on desertification phenomenon  Considered as one of the founders of desertology Proposed the concept of desertification nuclei (1971) Proposed a methodology for identifying desertification processes (1978) Much of terms coined by him are employed in ecological terminology such as desertification nuclei and canopy permeability 
- [José Verocay](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-verocay/): José Juan Verocay, Czech / Uruguayan anatomical pathologist (Paysandu 16 June 1876 – Teplitz, Bohemia 25 December 1927) From Austrian father and Italian mother Discovered cellular structure of neurofibromatosis and distinguished them from neurofibromas coining the term neurinoma or Verocay bodies or nodules. Today they are called schwannomas Developed a new procedure for staining connective tissue  Ueber ein neues verfahren zur färbung des Bindegewebes. Verh. Ges. Natura u. Aerste 80 Vers Koln 11(2):52-5, 1908 Detailed the origin and histological benign nature of vestibulocochlear nerve tumors (1910) BIBLIOGRAPHY Aktinomykose der beckenorgan eines 14 jährigenmädchens. Verh. Deutsch. Path. Ges. Jena 9:129-42, 1905 Multiplicitas cordis (heptacardia) bei
- [Jose Vizioli](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-vizioli/): José Vizioli, Brazilian plant pathologist and mycologist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 29 March 1896 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 12 September 1957) Son of Italian immigrants DESCRIBED DISEASES Myriogenospora aciculispora in Um novo pirenomiceto parasita da cana (1926) Um mal biológico do algodoeiro. Rev. Soc. Rural 14:34-6, 1934 DESCRIBED SPECIES  Eutrypella linearis, Microthia coccolobai & Pterosporidium rhizosphorae Some Pyrenomycetes of Bermuda. Mycologia 15:107-19, 1923 METHODS A new process for multiplying sugarcane seedlings A importação de mudas de cana e um novo processo para a sua rápida multiplicação. Bol. Agricultura da Secret. Agric. Ind. Comm. S. Paulo (1928) Proposed a steam engine O alcool industrial e a
- [Jose Valls](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-valls/): José Valls Ruiz, Argentine orthopedist (Buenos Aires 20 June 1896 – Buenos Aires 01 May 1977) From Spanish parents Authored about 130 works New conceptions on the etiology and treatment os sciatica: vertebral arthritis as the cause of neurodocytic sciatica. Rev. Oto-Neuro-Oftalm. Cir. Neurol. (1927) With C.E. Ottolenghi first to advocate biopsy of regional lymph nodes for conformation of the diagnosis of bone and joint tuberculosis (1931) Developed a guiding compass for osteosynthesis of fractures of the neck of femur with Smith-Petersen nails and Valls-Lagomarsino nails With E.H. Lagomarsino. Technique personelle et nouvelle instrumentation pour l’osteosynthese du col femoral à ciel ouvert.
- [Jose Vallega](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-vallega/): José Vallega, Italian/Argentine plant pathologist (Genoa 29 May 1909 – Rome 10 April 1978) Authored over 200 scientific papers Studied physiological races of the rusts of cereals and flax With G. Garcia Rada, W.Q. Loegering & E.C. Stakman. An usually virulent race of wheat stem rust, Nº 189. Phytopathology 32:720-6, 1942 DEVELOPED NEW VARIETIES Santa Fe (oat) Dos nuevas selecciones de trigo de origen hibrido inmunes a Puccinia glumarum. Rev. Fac. Agron. 22(1):139-45, 1937 With G. Zitelli. New selections of durum wheat bred in Italy for resistance to the principal races of stem and leaf rusts. With G. Zitelli. New high yielding Italian
- [Jose Ribeiro do Valle](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-ribeiro-do-valle/): José Ribeiro do Valle, Brazilian pharmacologist (Guaxupé, Minas Gerais State 15 August 1908 – São Paulo 19 December 2000) Demonstrated the presence of yellow bodies of ovary in non-venomous ovoviviparous snakes and reported original observations about endocrine glands in these vertebrates With P.R. Souza. Observações sobre o sistema endócrino dos ofídios. Rev. Bras. Biol. 2:81-8, 1942 Demonstrated the presence of androgens in testicles and estrogen in ovaries of Crotalidae With Luiz A. Ribeiro do Valle. Gonadal hormones in snakes. Science 97(2522):400, 1943 First observed the triple effect, an early indication of reactive vasoconstrictor in peripheral vascular beds following 9-THC injection With
- [Jose Mariano da Conceicao Velloso](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-mariano-da-conceicao-velloso/): José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, Brazilian / Portuguese Franciscan friar, publisher and naturalist (Tiradentes, Minas Gerais State 15 August 1742 – Rio de Janeiro 13 July 1811) His real name was José Vellozo Xavier (some sources give October 14, 1742 as his birth date) Collected animal, plant and mineral specimens in the Province of Rio de Janeiro (1783-90) Authored Florae Fluminensis (1790, but published posthumously only in 1825-7) in which described many genera and species of Brazilian flora DESCRIBED VALID TAXA (1825-7) Genera Ravenia Leretia Chresta Schwartzia Cleobula Lamanonia  Hilleria Dulacia  Joannesia Subgenus Trigonocarpus Incertae sedis Ivonia Species At least 163 SOME
- [Jose Maria Velasco](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-velasco/): José Maria Tranquilino Francisco de Jesus de Velasco Gomez, Mexican landscape painter, scientific illustrator and naturalist (Temascalcingo, Mexico State 06 July 1840 – Ciudad de Mexico 26 August 1912) AUTHORED Research about anatomy and metamorphosis of axolotl in which described Siredon tigrina (named Ambystoma velasci later) Descripción, metamorphosis y costumbres de una especie nueva del género Siredon, encontrada em el lago de Santa Isabel, cerca de la Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, Valle de Mexico. La Naturaleza 4:209-33, 1879 Anotaciones y observaciones al trabajo del sr. August Weismann sobre la transformación del ajolotle mexicano em Amblystoma. La Naturaleza 5:58-84, 1880 With I. Velasco. Estudios sobre una nueva espécie de falsa
- [Jose Maria Vargas](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-maria-vargas/): José Maria de Las Dolores Vargas Ponce, Venezuelan statesman, physician, naturalist and chemist (La Guaira 10 March 1786 – New York 13 July 1854) He was owner of a mineral collection, a herbarium, a chemical laboratory and the best private library of his country With José da Cruz Limardo obtained alkaloids from Cinchona species Collected more than 800 plant specimens from Venezuela and Caribbean islands that sent to herbaria of De Candolle family (Geneve), Smithsonian Institution and New York Botanical Garden SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Medicine Memoria sobre el mal de Lazaro (with J.J. Hernandez) Memoria sobre los aneurismas (1828) Memoria sobre los nervios cervicales
- [Jose Antonio Valdes Anciano](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-antonio-valdes-anciano/): José Antonio Felix de la Caridad Valdés y Anciano, Cuban neurologist (Matanzas 31 March 1867 – La Habana 10 March 1923) First reported a generalized hereditary emphysema Enfisema generalizado de caracter familiar (1896) Reported the youngest patient with acromegaly Acromegalia en un negro de 14 años. Presse Medicale (1897) First in the world to use antidiphteric serum  for treating other diseases beyond diphtheria  Un caso de bronquitis seudo-membranosa, estafilocóccica, sin bacilos de Loeffler, tratado com êxito por el suero de Roux (1897) First reported the coexistence of pseudohypertrophic myopathy and Friedrich disease in the same patient Enfermedad de Friedrich y miopatia pseudohipertrofica coexistentes
- [Johannes Petrus Van der Walt](https://neglectedscience.com/johannes-petrus-van-der-walt/): Johannes Petrus Van der Walt, South African mycologist (1925 – 13 November 2011) With K. Hopsu-Havu introduced the Diazonium Blue B test for yeast species characterization (1976) DESCRIBED VALID YEAST TAXA Genera Ambrosiozyma 1972 Cyniclomyces 1971 with Scott Dekkera 1964 Entelexis 1973 with Johannsen Hyphopichia 1976 with Von Arx Kluyveromyces 1956 Lodderomyces 1966 Myxozyma 1981 with Von Arx & Weijman Wickerhamiella 1973 Yarrowia 1981 with Von Arx Species 88 HONORS Vanderwaltozyma Kurtzman 2003 (yeast) LINKS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539321
- [Joel Valencia Parparcén](https://neglectedscience.com/joel-valencia-parparcen/): Joel Valencia Parparcén, Venezuelan gastroenterologist (Porlamar, Margarita Island, Nueva Esparta State 23 November 1913 – Madrid, Spain 27 December 1985) Descent from Jewish Dutch of Curazao Authored over 400 scientific and educational works He was president of World Organization of Gastroenterology (1978) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  With E. Candia, R. Ferro & B. Bruni-Celli. Lipoma submucoso de cólon. G.E.N. 11:93-8, 1956  With L. Carbonell, B. Bruni-Celli & V. Madureri. La gastritis y su diagnostic mediante la biopsies cega. Rev. Sinopsis Latinoam. Gastroenterol. 3(1):9, 1960 With S. Beker, L. Carbonell, N.B. Bosch & R.P. Moncada. Estudios funcionales y histopatologicos en el syndrome de malabsorción intestinal.
- [Joaquim Vellozo de Miranda](https://neglectedscience.com/joaquim-vellozo-de-miranda/): Joaquim Vellozo de Miranda, Brazilian Jesuit and naturalist (Mariana, Minas Gerais State 1733 – Minas Gerais State 1815) Performed studies on botany and mining Collected plants and other natural specimens in Minas Gerais State SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Theses ex universia philosophia (1778) Brasiliensium plantarum fasciculus Demonstrat. Descriptio animalium quorundan brasiliensium et plantarum quorundam brasiliensium descriptio botanica HONORS Vellozia Vandelli 1788 (Velloziaceae)
- [Jagannathan Vijaya](https://neglectedscience.com/jagannathan-vijaya/): Jagannathan Vijaya, Indian herpetologist (29 October 1959 – Kerala State April 1987) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Status of the forest cane turtle (Geoemyda sylvatica). Hamadryad 13(2):10, 1988 With E.O. Moll & B. Groombridge. Redescription of the cane turtle with notes on its natural history and classification. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Cent. Suppl. 83:112-6, 1987 With E.O. Moll. Distribution records for some Indian turtles. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83(1):57-62, 1986 Nest of Varanus bengalensis. Hamadryad 6(3):81, 10, 1985 Cane turtle (Geoemyda sylvatica) study project in Kerala. Hamadryad 9:4, 1984 Rediscovery of the Forest Cane Turtle, Heosemys (Geoemyda) sylvatica (Reptilia, Testudinata, Emydidae) from Chalakudy Forests in
- [Ivany Valio](https://neglectedscience.com/ivany-valio/): Ivany Ferraz Marques Valio, Brazilian plant physiologist (Piraju, São Paulo State 27 February 1938 – Campinas, São Paulo 10 April 2019) Identified and isolated the lunalaric acid, natural growth inhibitor in algae and bryophytes With W.W. Schwabe & R.S. Burden. New natural growth inhibitor in the liverwort Lunularia crucata (L) Dum. Nature 223:1176-8, 1969 With T.O. Inemani & E.G. Magalhães. Detection and identification of a germination inhibitor in Myroxylon peruiferum L.f. seeds (1984) First report to focus on the role of diaspore banks of bryophytes in tropical rain forests With A.S. Maciel Silva & H. Rydin. Diaspore bank of bryophytes in tropical rain forests: the
- [Inez Clare Verdoorn](https://neglectedscience.com/inez-clare-verdoorn/): Inez Clare Verdoorn, South African botanist (Pretoria 15 June 1896 – 02 April 1989) Authored over 200 botanical publications Described 121 new plant species   Honored in genus Inezia E. Phillips 1932 (Asteraceae)
- [Ida de Vattimo-Gil](https://neglectedscience.com/ida-de-vattimo-gil/): Ida de Vattimo-Gil, Brazilian botanist (Rio de Janeiro 06 January 1928 – 06 December 1993) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Lauraceae Species Aiouea macedoana 1967 Aniba heringeri 1962 Cinnamomum caratingae 1984 Cinnamomum duartianum 1967 Cinammomum hatschbachii 1962 Cryptocarya jacarepaguensis 1966 Endlicheria balsamea 1978 Endlicheria goeldiana 1967 Jacaranda duckei 1984 Ocotea albescens 1988 Ocotea barbellata 1977 Ocotea basicordatifolia 1959 Ocotea baturitensis 1962 Ocotea bicolor 1950 Ocotea cantareirae 1959 Ocotea douradensis 1988 Ocotea duartei 1962 Ocotea duckei 1982 Ocotea duplocolorata 1988 Ocotea hoehnei 1959 Ocotea itatiaiae 1956 Ocotea kostermansiana 1966 Ocotea limae 1962 Ocotea loefgrenii 1962 Ocotea maranguapensis 1962 Ocotea matogrossensis 1964 Ocotea nunesiana 1957 Ocotea paulensis 1959 Ocotea pulchra 1956 Ocotea silvae 1988 Ocotea silvestris 1959 Ocotea sinaiana 1957 Ocotea sulcata 1956 Ocotea wilhelminae 1988 Persea jariensis 1988 Rafflesiaceae Species Pilostyles stawiarskii 1950 
- [Gilson Gomes Vieira](https://neglectedscience.com/gilson-gomes-vieira/): Gilson Gomes Vieira, Brazilian astronomer (1940 – Discovered new asteroids With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, J.F. Caldeira & H. Debehogne. Posições astrométricas de asteroides identificados em fevereiro e março de 1981 no observatório europeu Austral, La Silla, Chile. Anu. Inst. Geocienc. 4:1-19, 1980 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, J.F. Caldeira & H. Debehogne. Descoberta de elementos orbitais dos asteroides 1979 HB, 1979 P e 1979 YP. Bol. Soc. Astron. Bras. 4(2):8, 1981    With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, J.F. Caldeira & H. Debehogne. 363 precise positions of asteroids. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 8:19-27, 1983 (5) With L.E. Machado, E.R. Netto, J.F.
- [Gilberto Guimarães Villela](https://neglectedscience.com/gilberto-guimaraes-villela/): Gilberto Guimarães Villela, Brazilian biochemist and microbiologist (Lavras, Minas Gerais State 12 July 1904 – Rio de Janeiro 17 July 1977) Discovered the activation of liver xanthine oxidase with carbon tetrachloride With A.M. Calcagnotto. Studies on the toxicity and absorption of a new chelate of aluminium and calcium. Rev. Bras. Pesq. Med. Biol. 6(3-4):165-9, 1973 Proposed a new interpretation of oedema formation in hookworm anemia in Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 6:55, 1929 DEVELOPED NEW TECHNIQUES/METHODS With M. Bacila. A rapid and sensitive method for the determination of xanthine oxidase activity using the oxygen electrode. Nature 184 (Suppl. 18):1394-5, 1959 A colorimetric
- [Gerardo Varela](https://neglectedscience.com/gerardo-varela/): Gerardo Ignacio Varela Mariscal, Mexican bacteriologist (Oaxaca 03 October 1898 – Ciudad de Mexico 1977) Prepared a vaccine against typhus (1933) Discovered that colibacilli with Salmonella antigens were associated with diarrheal episodes in children leading to the identification of E. coli enteropathogens (first colibacillus known) With A. Aguirre & J. Carrillo. Escherichia-coli gomezi, nueva especie aislada de un caso mortal de diarrhea. Bol. Med. Hosp. Infantil 54:623-6, 1946 With A. Arroyo Borstein. First demonstration of the natural existence of Salmonella in donkeys. Rev. Invest. Salud Publica 26(3):201-4, 1966 Demonstrated that trench fever is transmitted by the body louse and caused by the bacterium Rickettsia quintana With C. Molina Pasquel & J.W. Vinson.
- [Gerardo Vaca Guzmán](https://neglectedscience.com/gerardo-vaca-guzman/): Gerardo Vaca Guzmán Moyano, Bolivian chemist and physician (Chuquisaca, Sucre 03 October 1849 – Tarija 17 August 1915) Invented a new procedure for extraction of silver from minerals Invented a procedure for treatment of argentiferous minerals with high content of lead and zinc employing precipitation (patented in USA) Other inventions about the use of argentiferous minerals involved the metallurgical techniques of silver Performed chemical and therapeutical analysis of Bolivian medicinal plants Descripción del procedimiento de extracción de la sacarida contenida en la semila del molle (Description of extraction procedure of saccharide from Schinus molle seed) Developed a special diastase for production of maize chicha (a
- [Geraldo Vicentini](https://neglectedscience.com/geraldo-vicentini/): Geraldo Vicentini, Brazilian chemist (São Paulo 04 April 1928 – São Paulo 08 February 2003) Gained international recognition on Coordination chemistry of lanthanides Published 286 papers (186 in indexed reviews), 358 communications in meetings and circa 1,300 citations METHODS With A.K. Kontturi, K. Kontturi, J. Mattos, L.B. Zinner, F. Lehrich, C.J. Nielsen, D.L. Powell & M. Traetteberg. Determination of effective charge numbers for a polydisperse polyelectrolyte. An improvement which shortens the measuring time. Acta Chem. Scandinavica (1988) With H. Rheinbolt. Eine allgemeine methode zur Darstellung organischer Telluride. I. Mitteilungen: Symmetrische und unsymmetrische Diaryl-Telluride. Chem. Ber. 89(3):624-31, 1956 COMPOUNDS With J.D. Ayala, G.
- [Georges Van Son](https://neglectedscience.com/georges-van-son/): Georges Van Son, Russian-born South-African entomologist and horticulturalist (Narishkino, Orel 19 September 1898 – Pretoria 29 May 1967) From Dutch father and Russian mother DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA Genera Cassionympha 1955 Coenyropsis 1958 Dingana 1955 Durbaniella 1959 Durbaniopsis 1959 Mashuna 1955 Metanola 1933 Neita 1955 Nolidia 1933 Paralethe 1955 Paranola 1933 Stigionympha 1955 Vandamia 1933 Yphimomorpha 1955 Species About 150  HONORS Vanstaronia Kammerer 2006 (Coleoptera) Vansonium Koch 1950 (Coleoptera) Vansoniacris Dirsh 1958 (Orthoptera)
- [Gelso Vazzoler](https://neglectedscience.com/gelso-vazzoler/): Gelso Vazzoler, Brazilian oceanographer (São Paulo 25 August 1929 – São Paulo 20 May 1987) Gained international recognition for his works on fisheries biology and nektonic ecology SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With P.T.C. Chaves. Aspectos biológicos de peixes amazônicos. III. Anatomia microscópica do esôfago, estômago e cecos pilóricos de Semaprochilodus insignis (Characiformes: Prochilodontidae). Acta Amazonica 14(3-4):343-53, 1984 With E.C. Kawakami. Método gráfico e estimativa de índice alimentar aplicado no estudo de alimentação de peixes. Bol. Inst. Oceanogr. 29(2):205-7, 1980 Distribuição da fauna de peixes demersais e ecologia dos Sciaenidae da plataforma continental brasileira entre as latitudes 29°21’S (Torres) e 34°44’S (Chuí). Bol. Inst. Oceanogr. 24(2):85-169,
- [Gaspar Vianna](https://neglectedscience.com/gaspar-vianna/): Gaspar de Oliveira Vianna, Brazilian anatomical pathologist (Belém 11 May 1885 – Rio de Janeiro 14 July 1914) Authored 23 scientific works ACHIEVEMENTS First anatomopathological study on Chagas disease Described rhizonema or axoneme in Leishmania flagelli (1911) Described lesions of nervous system in Chagas disease (1911) Contribuição para o estudo da anatomia pathologica da moléstia de “Carlos Chagas” (Esquisotripanoze humana ou tireoidite parasitária). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 3(2):276-94, 1911  Showed the existence of leishmaniform bodies in myocardium fibers in human and animals Discovered intracellular multiplication of Trypanosoma cruzi via leishmanias independently from Max Hartmann Discovered non-flagellate and leishmanioids tissue forms of Trypanosoma cruzi, found in muscle
- [Gamaniel Velarde](https://neglectedscience.com/gamaniel-velarde/): Gamaniel Velarde Guarda, Peruvian agricultural entomologist (1931-2014?) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY El cultivo de papa en Ica. Bol. Asoc. Agric. Ica 17 (1973) With F. Robles & L. Valencia. Condición de la planta del algodón en la evolución del pulgón de la melaza. Bol. Asoc. Agric. Ica 14 (1969) With L. Valencia. Nuevas plagas en el cultivo del mango. Rev. Per. Entom. 11(1):108-9, 1968 With F.R. Bazán de Segura. Control de la chupadera fungosa del algodonero en el Valle de Ica. La Vida Agrícola 38(453):461-4, 1961 With N. Cardenas de la Cruz. Algunos aspectos de la biologia del picudo del algodonero en el valle de
- [Francisco Jose Velez](https://neglectedscience.com/francisco-jose-velez/): Francisco José Velez, Cuban physician (?-?) Discovered Velez index or nuclear inversion used to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis and even cancer (1920s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Diagnostico precoz de la tuberculosis. Rev. Med. Cir. La Habana 27:466, 1922 Relaciones entre la tuberculosis y el cancer. Cron. Med. La Habana (1925) La inversión nuclear de tipo anfibolo. La Clinica 5:33, 1928 El sintoma de la inversión nuclear en la tuberculosis. Resultados clinicos y experimentales. Vida Nueva 24:8-23, 1929 La precocidad de la inversión nuclear en la tuberculosis. Rev. Hig. Tuberc. Diagnostico y pronostico de la tuberculosis fundado en la investigación de la formula leucocitaria. Libro
- [Filiberto Vazquez Davila](https://neglectedscience.com/filiberto-vazquez-davila/): Filiberto Vazquez Davila, Mexican chemist (Guadalajara, Jalisco State 22 August 1943 – Invented election indelible ink (1994) Developed the fabrication of cis dichlorine diaminoplatino II (CDDP) employed against some types of cancer Obtained polyesters poliols from abietic acid derived of pitch pine resin from which formulated adhesives, paints and inks specifically resins for offset inks, binding for books, natural pigments for cosmetic use, biodegradable pigments and paints and photo developers
- [Fernando Valenzuela Ravest](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-valenzuela-ravest/): Mario Fernando Valenzuela Ravest, Chilean rheumatologist (Santiago 1920 – Santiago 29 November 2003) Authored over 80 papers Recognized as a world authority on crystal-induced arthropathies SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Arteritis de celulas gigantes y polimialgia reumatica. Bol. Hosp. S.J. Dios 35(4):227-33, 1988 Rheumatic diseases and the histocompatibility complex. Rev. Med. Chil. 109 (8):809-12, 1981   Seronegative polyarthritis and the HLA B27 histocompatibility antigen. Rev. Med. Chil. 106 (11):910-4, 1978 With H. Aris & S. Jacobelli. Transient osteoporosis of the hip. J. Rheumatol. 4:59-64, 1977 With A.J. Reginato, V. Martínez et al. Polyarticular and familial chondrocalcinosis. Arthritis Rheum. 13:197, 1970 With J. Bravo & A.J. Reginato.
- [Felipe Valle](https://neglectedscience.com/felipe-valle/): Felipe Valle, Mexican astronomer (? – Tacubaya 11 September 1910) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (over 40 works) Tablas para encontrar el día de la semana que corresponde a una fecha cualquiera del presente siglo. Anu. Obs. Astron. Nac. Tacubaya para el año de 1882 p.230-3, 1881 Observación total de la Luna que se verifico el 22 de julio de 1888. Anu. Obs. Astron. Nac. Tacubaya para el año de 1889 p.280-5, 1888 Resultados de algunas observaciones de asteroides ejecutadas recentemente. Anu. Obs. Astron. Nac. Tacubaya para el año de 1890 p.225-56, 1889 Nuevas observaciones de luz zodiacal. Bol. Obs. Astron. Nac. Tacubaya 1:59-61, 1890
- [Federico Villarreal](https://neglectedscience.com/federico-villarreal/): Federico Villarreal, Peruvian mathematician and astronomer (Túcume, Lambayeque 31 August 1850 – Barranco, Lima 03 June 1923) Authored over 600 works and scientific notes   Developed method to raise any polynomial to any power or Villarreal polynomial (1873) Enunciated 3 theorems about divisibility criteria being two of them (in Aportes a la teoria de los numeros 1897) 1) the ratio between two numbers represented by same digits in two distinct systems of basis enumeration is divisible by basis difference   2) a number is divisible by a certain divisor if it is the sum of its digits when one write in enumeration system in which the basis is
- [Eloy Valenzuela](https://neglectedscience.com/eloy-valenzuela/): Juan Eloy de Valenzuela y Mantilla, Colombian botanist (San Juan de Girón, Santander Department 25 June 1756 – Bucaramanga 01 November 1834) It is said that he discovered and/or described some plant species such as one Hidrolea sp., one Grewia sp., one Curatella sp. and two Malva spp.  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Flora de Bucaramanga Noticia sobre la caña solera Noticia de una espécie de grama util para potreros o pastos artificiales Noticia de una mina de azufre y otros fósiles Descripción de una turma silvestre, tan útil como las que se cultivan, pero enteramente desconocida de las gentes, y tal vez ignorada de los botánicos  HONORS Valenzuelia S. Mutis 1810 (Simaroubaceae)
- [Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas Van Hoepen](https://neglectedscience.com/egbert-cornelis-nicolaas-van-hoepen/): Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas Van Hoepen, Dutch-born South African paleontologist and archaeologist (Vlissingen 10 November 1884 – Edemale, near Johannesburg 02 May 1966) Collector of prehistoric stone artefacts Collected thousands of invertebrate fossil specimens from the Cretaceous strata of Zululand DESCRIBED NEW FOSSIL GENERA Mollusca (Cephalopoda) Acanthotrigonia 1929 Amcleceras 1942 Andersonites 1965 Arestoceras 1946 Askoloboceras 1944 Basseoceras 1968 Cainoceras 1946 Cechenoceras 1941 Collignonella 1957 Deiradoceras 1931 Diplasioceras 1946 Drepanoceras 1931 Eedenoceras 1968 Ensorites 1969 Erioliceras 1955 Euspectroceras 1946 Falsebayites 1965 Fluminites 1965 Fraudatoroceras 1965 Hluhluweoceras 1965 Iotrigonia 1929 Komeceras 1944 Lethargoceras 1946 Letheceras 1946 Linotrigonia 1929 Lophoceras 1931 Matsumotoceras 1968 Megatrigonia 1929 Mimeloceras 1946 Morrisites 1969 Omocyrtoceras 1955 Ophryoceras 1942 Pelecodiscus 1921 Petinodiscus 1944 Pisotrigonia 1929 Pterotrigonia 1929 Ptilotrigonia 1929 Rhytidoceras 1931 Ricnoceras 1942 Rinetrigonia 1929 Rutitrigonia 1929 Tegragonoceras 1955 Terascoceras 1944 Tetagmenoceras 1946 Zuluiceras 1965 Zuluites 1965 Zuluscaphites 1955 Reptilia Dromicosaurus 1920 Eucnemesaurus 1920 Gigantoscelus 1916 Jonkeria 1932 Kolpochoerus 1932 with Van Hoepen Pedeticosaurus 1915 Platycraniellus 1917
- [David Eduard Van Dijk](https://neglectedscience.com/david-eduard-van-dijk/): David Eduard Van Dijk, South African herpetologist and paleontologist (Heidelberg District, Transvaal 14 September 1925 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Living Amphibia Genus Hadromophryne 2008 Fossil Insecta Genera Afroedischia 1999 with Geertsema Afroperla 2004 with Geertsema Afrostenovicia 1999 with Geertsema Permoxenopterum 2011 with Gorochov Stenotegmocicada 1999 with Geertsema Species Afroedischia oosthuizeni 1999 with Geertsema Afroperla permiana 2004 with Geertsema Afrostenovicia reidae 1999 with Geertsema Callietheira granthami 1999 with Geertsema Epimastax hesterae 2011 with Rasnitsyn Karoohymen minutus 1999 with Geertsema Permocicada thompsoni 1999 with Geertsema Permoxenopterum laticostum 2011 with Gorochov Prochoristella balgowanensis 1999 with Geertsema Prochoristella bulwerensis 1999 with Geertsema Stenotegmocicada triclades 1999 with Geertsema Fossil Plants (with Lacey & Gordon-Gray 1975) Genera Buthelezia Mooia Rigbya Rusangea Species Belemnopteris elongata Buthelezia mooiensis
- [Daniel Moreira Vital](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-moreira-vital/): Daniel Moreira Vital, Brazilian cryptogamic botanist (América Dourada, Bahia State 02 October 1924 – DESCRIBED MUSCI TAXA Genus Paranapiacabaea 1992 with Buck Subgenus Campylopidulum 1984 Species Jonesiobryum cerradense 1991  Jonesiobryum termitarum 1991 Paranapiacabaea paulista 1992 with Buck HONORS Danielia Skvortzov 1967 (Ochrophyta) Vitalianthus Schuster & Giancotti 1993 (Hepaticae)
- [Daniel Alberto Valencio](https://neglectedscience.com/daniel-alberto-valencio/): Daniel Alberto Valencio, Argentine geophysicist (Buenos Aires 16 June 1928 – Buenos Aires 25 May 1987) Authored 147 papers and 3 books Internationally well known for his research contributions in palaeomagnetism and geotectonics Obtained the South American polar wandering curve With K.M. Creer & B.J.J. Embleton. Comparison between the upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic palaeomagnetic poles for South America, Africa and Australia. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 7(3):288-92, 1969 Papers in Nature With J.F.A. Vilas. Age of the separation of South America and Africa. Nature 223 (1353), 1969 With J.F.A. Vilas. Palaeomagnetism of some middle Jurassic lavas from South East Argentina. Nature 255
- [Dang Vu Khuc](https://neglectedscience.com/dang-vu-khuc/): Dang Vu Khuc (Khuk), Vietnamese paleontologist (Gia Lam District, Hanoi 04 December 1931 – Hanoi 21 November 2012) DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCA TAXA Genera Dalaticeras 2002 with Meister & Huyen Glyptophiceras 1984 Langvophorus 1977 Mesoneilo 1977 Napengocosta 1991 Songdaella 1977 Tongdzuyites 2000 with Meister, Huyen & Doyle Vietnamicardium 1977 Species 79 HONORS Vukhuclepis Janvier, Thanh, Phuong & Truong 1997 (Fossil Pisces)
- [Chelakara Sivarama Vaidyanathan](https://neglectedscience.com/chelakara-sivarama-vaidyanathan/): Chelakara Sivarama Vaidyanathan, Indian biochemist (Palghat, Kerala State 14 November 1931 – Bangalore 01 September 1999) Discovered new reaction pathways involving metabolism of phenolic and chloroaromatic compounds in plants, fungi and bacteria First to study isolated enzyme systems involved in the aromatic ring fission in higher plants First report of the metabolism of the fungicide Dexon by a soil bacterium With N.G.K. Karanth, S.G. Bhat & V.N. Vasantharajan. Conversion of Dexon (p-Dimethylaminobenzenediazo Sodium Sulfonate) to N,N-dimethyl-p-Phenylenediamine by Pseudomonas fragi Bk9. Appl. Microb. (1974) METHODS With N.U. Khan & A.V. Kamath. Study of interfering substances in a simple, new spectrophotometric assay for phenylalanine ammonia-lyase. Biochem. Intern.
- [Huey Lang Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/huey-lang-yang/): Huey Lang Yang, Taiwanese bioscientist (Tainan 18 April 1944 – Developed diagnostic kits for important diseases prevalent in the Asian population, such as human hepatitis C virus and Epstein-Barr virus for nasopharyngeal cancer Invented a novel oral vaccine delivery system for fish Developed several fish vaccine products Extended to the establishment of sustainable virus free indoor production system for grouper fingerlings With I-Min Chen developed a novel method to extract pollution-free docosahexaenoic acid from an indigenous micro-algal species  Developed EcVig, a novel grouper immune-gene associated with antiviral activity against nervous necrosis virus infection PATENTS With J.C.C. Yu & J.H.Y. Lin. Oral
- [H.F. Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/h-f-yang/): H.F. Yang, Chinese environmental microbiologist (fl. early 1960s) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F. Zeng, K. Cui, J.M. Fui & G.Y. Sheng. Biodegradability of di(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate by Pseudomonas fluorescens FS1. Water Air & Soil Polution 140:297-305, 2002  Interaction of microorganisms with heavy metals. Environ. Sci. 18:35-9, 1996 New achievements in biotechniques for the purification of waste water. Chin. Environ. Sci. 4:40-4, 1985 With S.H. Xie, H.I. Xian, S.F. Jia & H.Y. Zhang. A new kind of mixed bacterial culture degrading sodium thiocyanate and acrylonitrile. Acta Microbiol. Sin. 24(3), 1984 HONORS Yangia Dai, Wang, Yang, Jiao & Liu 2006 (Bacteria)
- [Fuli Yuan](https://neglectedscience.com/fuli-yuan/): Fuli Yuan, Chinese geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist (Xushui County, Hebei Province 31 December 1893 –Beijing 22 May 1987) ARCHAEOLOGY Performed important archaeological discoveries in China and Mongolia With J.G. Andersson discovered the Yangshao culture (1921) PALEONTOLOGY Discovered some species of fossil reptiles With T.P. Koh described a new genus and species of fossil fishes (Sinosemionotus urumchii 1936) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H.J. Du. Cenozoic biostratigraphy of China (1984) Geology of eastern Dzungaria, Sinkiang. Acta Geol. Sinica 36(2):113-32, 1956 The great unconformity between the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in Sinkiang. Sci. Rep. Nat. Tsing Hua Univ. Ser. C 1(1):9-16, 1936 The discovery of theromorph reptiles in
- [Fujia Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/fujia-yang/): Fujia (Fu-chia) Yang, Chinese nuclear physicist (Shanghai, Zhejiang Province June 1936 – Confirmed some of the single particle motions in nuclei in a wok widely cited (1964) Developed a more unified formula for the decay of complex energy levels Derived a generalized formula for measuring half-life time of nuclei Discovered the narrowest double state using gamma-ray resonance absorption First to use double foils to do research on polarization change Proposed the use of single-crystal golden foils to investigate the effect of channeling on polarization LINKS http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/cong/?q=node/723
- [Fu-qing Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/fu-qing-yang/): Fu-qing Yang, Chinese female computer scientist (Wuxi, Jiangsu Province 06 November 1932 – Authored over 150 papers and 8 books CONTRIBUTIONS With G. Huang & H. Mei proposed a new approach to recovering software architecture from component based systems at runtime and changing the runtime systems via manipulating the recovered software architecture (2006) With J.F. Zhao, B.Xie & L. Zhang. A web services composition method supporting domain feature. Chin. J. Computers 4:731-8, 2005 With G. Huang, Q.X. Wang & H. Mei presented the design and implementation of a reflective component operating platform called PKUAS (2003) With Q.X. Wang, Y.H. Luo &
- [Evren Yazgan](https://neglectedscience.com/evren-yazgan/): Evren Yazgan, Turkish geologist (1943 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Cassiterite (tin) mineralization related with Erciyes volcanic activities and the mode of formation of the hematite-cassiterite-yazganite-tridymite paragenesis and its implications for Bronze Alloys (2013) With R. Chessex. Geology and tectonic evolution of the Southeastern Taurides in the region of Malatya. Bull. Turk. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 3:1-42, 1991 With R. Mason. Orbicular gabbro from near Baskil, southeastern Turkey. Mineral Mag. 52:161-73, 1988 With M. Shinozuka, Y. Saka, T. Mariko & K. Okabe. Kizildag ophiolites in the Hatay Area, Southeastern Turkey. J. Geol. Soc. Japan 104(12):27-8, 1984 With A. Michard, H. Whitechurch, L.E. Ricou & R.
- [Emilio Yunis](https://neglectedscience.com/emilio-yunis/): Emilio José Yunis Turbay, Colombian geneticist (Sincelejo, Sucre Department 1937 – Bogotá 23 March 2018) From Lebanese parents Described Yunis-Varón syndrome (with radiologist Humberto Varón Acosta 1920-?) With H. Varón. Cleidocranial dysostosis, severe micrognathism, bilateral absence of thumbs and first metatarsal bone, and distal aphalangia: a new genetic syndrome. Am. J. Dis. Child 134:649-53, 1980 Established two 7q trisomy syndromes: 7q22→7q31 and 7q22,q31→7qter With E. Ramírez & J.G. Uribe. Full trisomy 7 and Potter syndrome. Hum. Genet. 54(1):13-8, 1980 Another syndrome With R. Zuñiga & E. Ramírez. Retinoblastoma, gross internal malformations, and deletion 13q14 leads to q31. Hum. Genet. 56(3):283-6, 1981
- [Dusheng Ye](https://neglectedscience.com/dusheng-ye/): Dusheng (Duzheng) Ye or Tu-Cheng Yeh, Chinese meteorologist (Anqing, Anhui Province 21 February 1916 – Beijing 16 October 2013) Proposed the spatial scale effect in geostrophic adjustement and between pressure and winfield in the mesoscale notion Published one of the world’s first research papers on the dynamics of the general circulation Introduced the group velocity into the evolution of atmospheric disturbance  Proposed the theory of long-wave energy dispersion (1949) Put forward the mechanism of the formation and maintenance of the atmospheric circulation in the mean state (1950) First to stress the importance of Qinghai (Tibetan Plateau) as a heat source in
- [Daoxian Yuan](https://neglectedscience.com/daoxian-yuan/): Daoxian Yuan, Chinese hydrogeologist and karst expert (Zhuji, Zhejiang Province 24 August 1933 – Proposed the asymmetry of water-bearing medium in the karst underground water (1960s-70s) Established the movement mechanism of underground water in gas zones Created mathematical models of adjustment and storage functions Proposed karst dynamics SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With H. Cheng, R.L. Edwards, C.A. Dykoski, M.J. Kelly et al. Timing, duration and transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon. Science 304 (5670):575-8, 2004 On the karst ecosystem. Acta Geol. Sinica 75(3):336-8, 2001 The carbon cycle in the karst. J. Geomorphol. 108:91-102, 1997
- [Chen Ning Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/chen-ning-yang/): Chen Ning Yang, US / Chinese physicist (Hefei, Anhui Province 01 October 1922 – ACHIEVEMENTS With M. Rosenbluth laid the foundations for classifying 4 kinds of weak interactions (1949) With J. Tiomno first to equate the universality of weak interaction (1950) Proved the Lee-Yang theorem (1952) Suggested that critical exponents are universal (1952) Introduced the concept of complex fugacity and proved the unit circle theorem (1952)  Proposed Yang-Mills equations that describe fundamental interactions for elementary particles and fields (1954) With Lee created the G parity concept (1955), predicted the violation of parity conservation (1956) and proposed the existence of W particle,
- [Arnaldo Romulo Yodice](https://neglectedscience.com/arnaldo-romulo-yodice/): Arnaldo Romulo Yodice, Argentine chest surgeon and tango composer (22 August 1897 – 21 November 1994) Developed a manoeuvre for finding the region of peritoneal irritation in diffuse abdominal pain Yodice-Sanmartino sign or Yodice abdomino-rectal palpation La palpación abdomino-rectal (1933) New sign to differentiate abdominal muscular rigidity in cases of acute abdominal conditions from that of other causes. Am. J. Surg. 57:457, 1942 TECHNIQUES Hernia inguinal recidivada: un nuevo metodo de inguinoplastia. Sem. Med. (1969) Recurrent inguinal hérnia: a new procedure of hernioplasty. Amer. J. Surgery 110(6):1003-5, 1965 A propósito de “conducto arterioso”. Tecnica de su ligadura. Bol. Soc. Arg. Cir.
- [Abdel Fattah Youssef](https://neglectedscience.com/abdel-fattah-youssef/): Abdel Fattah Youssef, Egyptian gynecologist Described Youssef syndrome or post-cesarean vesico-uterine fistulae Menouria following lower segment cesarean section: a syndrome. Am.J. Obst. Gynecol. 73:759-67, 1957 A new technique for correlation of retroversion-flexion of the uterus by the vaginal route. J. Obst. Gynaecol. Br. Emp. 67:485-9, 1960 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY    Atlas of gynaecological diagnosis (1984) With M.M. Fayad & M.A. Shafeek. Bilharziasis of the cervix uteri. J. Obst. Gynaec. Brit. Comm. 77(9):847-51, 1970 With M.S. Foda, M.A. Shafeek & K.A. Kassem. Hysterography in diagnosis of abnormalities of the uterus. Br.J. Radiol. 35:115-21, 1962 With M.M. Fayad & M.A. Shafeek. The diagnosis of genital
- [Zhizhan Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/zhizhan-xu/): Zhizhan Xu, Chinese physicist (Changzhou, Jiangsu Province 16 December 1938 – Authored over 350 scientific papers Realized neutron emission by laser irradiation of targets (1973) and pellet compression by laser (1977) Developed the computer simulation code (1976) Established the six-beam high power laser system (1976) Found a new inversion region in x-ray laser physics (1981) First to obtain eight new wavelengths of X-ray laser at low laser pumping power With S.S. Chen & X.B. Guangxue developed a miniaturized tunable-pulse width ultra-short pulse high power Nd:glass power being the first time such system developed worldwide (1991) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS A new acceleration scheme
- [Zhihong Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/zhihong-xu/): Zhihong Xu, Chinese botanist (Wuxi, Jiangsu Province 14 October 1942 – Authored over 240 papers, reviews and monographs With N. Sunderland discovered that the growth of androgen could be stimulated by the density effect and components in anther culture (1981-2) Introduced a new technique to increase the success rate for protoplast culture by isolating it from young roots (1981-2) Verified that protoplasm could promote growth of the male pit in anther through cultivation of anther Identified the regulatory role of auxin polar transport in embryo development and bilateral symmetry, as well as the relationship between auxin and auxin binding protein (ABP)
- [Yuanzhu Xiong](https://neglectedscience.com/yuanzhu-xiong/): Yuanzhu Xiong, Chinese zootechnician (Zhushan, Hubei Province July 1930 – Wuhan, Hubei Province 30 January 2017) Published over 100 research papers His team identified genes and molecular singnalling pathways for beneficial commercial traits, including lean meat and anti-stress factors Invented and developed a set of advanced breeding methods and techniques for synchronized breeding of breed and line Proposed a technology and a method of breeding and selection for specialized lines (1980) Established a molecular biotechnology testing method using PCR-RFLP for accurate and rapid typing of porcine ryanodine receptor 1 (RYR1) gene DEVELOPED Lean Hubei white swine Duroc X Hubei white swine (1970s)
- [Yonghua Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/yonghua-xu/): Yonghua Xu, Chinese mathematician (Yinxian, Zhejiang Province 01 January 1932 – 2019) Introduced the concepts of O-ideal and O-homomorphic mapping On the O-structure of rings (1977) Put forward the concept of non-associative and non-distributive rings Non-associative and non-distributive rings. I. Scientia Sinica 22 (2):135-48, 1979 Non-associative and non-distributive rings. II. Acta Math. Sinica 21:300-11, 1978 Non-associative and non-distributive rings. III. Acta Math. Sinica 22(1):1-13, 1979 Derived a theorem concerning the structure of non-associative and non-distribuive rings under the minimal condition Non-associative and non-distributive rings satisfying the minimal condition for right ideals (1979) Established the finite structure theorem between complete rings of
- [Xiande Xie](https://neglectedscience.com/xiande-xie/): Xiande Xie or Hsien-deh Hsieh, Chinese mineralogist and geochemist (Dantu District 14 October 1934 – With M. Chen, J. Shu, H.K. Mao & R.J. Hemley. Natural occurrence and synthesis of two new postspinel polymorphs of chromite. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100:14651-4, 2003 DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES Zhanghuifenite 2021 with Yang, Kobsch, Gu & Downs Poirierite 2021 with Tomioka, Bindi, Okuchi, Miyahara, Itiaka, Li, Kawatsu, Purevjav, Tani & Kodama Liudongshengite 2021 with Yang, Gibbs, Schwenck, Gu, Downs & Evans Elgoresyite 2021 with Bindi, Sinmyo, Bykova, Ovsyannikov, McCammon, Kupenko, Ismailova & Dubrovinsky Wangdaodeite 2019 with Gu, Yang, Chen & Li Meieranite 2019 with
- [Wang Xuan](https://neglectedscience.com/wang-xuan/): Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist (Wuxi, Jiangsu Province 05 February 1937 –Beijing 13 February 2006) Invented a computerized laser photocomposition system for Chinese character photosetting (1979) Invented a Chinese language laser typesetting system for color printing (1992) Developed the high resolution glyph compression and restoration method for Chinese characters (patented in Europe EP0095536, 1987) First to use controlling information to describe the features of width and turning shapes with strokes of Chinese character (patented in Europe) Developed a management system for gathering and editing news HONORS Gold Medal, Geneva International Invention Exhibition (1986) UNESCO Science Prize Asteroid Wangxuan 4913
- [Suisheng Xia](https://neglectedscience.com/suisheng-xia/): Suisheng Xia, Chinese transplant surgeon (Yuyao, Zhejiang Province 19 April 1924 – Wuhan 16 April 2019) DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES With L.X. Xiu. Spleen transplantation. I. Vascularized heterotopic autotransplantation of hemispleen in dog. J. Tongju Med. Univ. (2008) With Z. Chen. The technique of heterotopic heart-lung transplantation in the rat. Acta Acad. Medic. Wuhan (2008) With Z. Chen. Improved orthotopic liver transplantation in rats. Chim. J. Org. Transplant. Acta Acad. Medic. Wuhan 5(2):50-3, 1984 With Z. Chen. A new technique of orthotopic liver transplantation in the rat. Acta Acad. Medic. Wuhan 3:143-6, 1983 With Z. Chen. Modified technique of heterotopic heart allotransplantation in
- [Sishen Xie](https://neglectedscience.com/sishen-xie/): Sishen Xie, Chinese nanoscientist (Qingdao, Shangdong Province 18 February 1942 – Authored 250 papers with about 3,500 citations Have reported a series of original research work aiming the fabrication, fundamental properties and applications of carbon nanotubes First to achieve control growth or the diameter and orientation of carbon nanotubes Discovered high Tc superconductors at nitrogen temperature (1989) Synthesized a variety of high Tc superconducting oxides Developed the technique of making pure carbon nanometer tube with chemical vapor. Science (1996) Developed technique for manufacturing of super long directional nanometer carbon tubes. Nature (1998) Fabricated strong and highly conducting single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) films,
- [Shepu Xue](https://neglectedscience.com/shepu-xue/): Shepu Xue, Chinese cytologist (Xinhui, Guangdong Province 26 September 1917 – 10 March 2017) Provided a theoretical basis for cell differentiation rules and its control Created the cytosome hybrid model of reticulocyte and myeloma cell First to discover that EDDF (erythrocyte differentiation denucleation factor) existed in mammalian red blood corpuscles Found for the first time that the erythrocyte cytoplasm of mammalian contains adjustable genetic expression in erythrocyte that induces terminal differentiation and reverse malignant division of cancer, thus revealing the secret of natural denucleation of erythrocyte in the mammals and the dual-phase phenomenon of denucleation Cloned the full length gene sequence
- [Ruren Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/ruren-xu/): Ruren Xu, Chinese inorganic chemist (Shangyu, Zhejiang Province 16 March 1932 – Internationally recognized expert in zeolites and related micro/nanoporous materials Published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers and 10 books With J.M. Thomas designed and prepared a range of novel single-site solid catalysts that opened up new routes for the production of important chemicals and pharmaceuticals First to synthesize 6 series of new microporous crystals Developed a hydrothermal synthetic route for high purity homogenous inorganic substances Developed a series of molecular sieve liquid phase directing agents Opened up a synthetic route for chain-like, layer-like and framework-like inorganic compounds with special structure
- [Rigan Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/rigan-xu/): Rigan Xu, Chinese reproductive biologist (Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 24 August 1940 – Authored over 20 papers and books With Japanese researchers succeeded the cultivation of the first in vitro fertilization goat in the world (1984) Proposed a series of comprehensive techniques that facilitated the large-scale production of test-tube calves and lamb embryos Chinese patents With Z.G. Wang & D.J. Liu. Nucleotide sequence of coding region of cDNA gene coding phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1 (PDK1) of cashmere goats. CN101993882 (2009) With Z.G. Wang & D.J. Liu. Goat FAK gene cDNA code area nucleotide sequence CN101565711 (2008) 
- [Qinglai Xiong](https://neglectedscience.com/qinglai-xiong/): Qinglai Xiong, Chinese mathematician (Maitse County, Yunnan Province 20 October 1893 – Beijing 03 February 1969) Defined infinite function or Xiong infinite function On infinite entire functions and meromorphic functions (1934) Sur les fonctions entieres et les functions meromorphes d’ordre infini. J. Math. 14:233-308, 1935 Theorem of uniqueness relating to the theory of meromorphic functions. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 241:691, 1955 A fundamental inequality on theory of meromorphic functions and its applications. Acta Math. Sin. 8:430-55, 1958 EPONYMY Xiong’s infinity Xiong’s infinite level QL Xiong theorem Inequality of QL Xiong Proximate order of Hiong
- [Peisu Xia](https://neglectedscience.com/peisu-xia/): Peisu Xia, Chinese female computer engineer (Chongqing, Sichuan Province 28 July 1923 – Solved the issue of signal transmission in large scale high-speed computers (1960s) Enunciated independently the maximum time difference pipeline principle (1968) Designed and developed multiple parallel computers of different types PATENTS Held patents on inverse image topology in high speed interconnected network A chip for arithmetic and logic unit based on maximum time difference pipeline operating principle (1980s) With Y.X. Wang. Arithmetic/logic unit for large-scale integrated circuits. CN88108339 (1989) With C.D. Han. Interconnection network technology for large scale parallel processing computer system. CN97116994 (1999) Extending method for interconnect network of
- [Kechang Xie](https://neglectedscience.com/kechang-xie/): Kechang Xie, Chinese chemical engineer (Taiyuan, Shanxi Province 05 October 1946 – Authored at least 420 papers and 5 books Made great contribution to the understanding of relations between coal structure and reactivity Developed a de-sulfurization agents and their applications in coal gasification PATENTS (at least 25) With Y. Tian, Y.Y. Qiao, J.H. Zhang & B. Tian a patent for oil shale or oil sand  downstream circulating bed millisecond pyrolysis refining device (2017) With J.P. Zhang, Y.Q. Zhao, Y.F. Zhang, Y. Liang, L.X. Zhao, J. Zhou, Z.M. Liu & W.G. Du. CN103468273A (2013)  With L.P. Chang, Z.Y. Zhang, X.R. Ren, X.F. Lu
- [Huaishu Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/huaishu-xu/): Huaishu Xu, Chinese marine microbiologist (Hebei Province 07 July 1936 – Qingdao 14 June 2001) Found and reported a new form of special survival of bacteria viable but nonculturable stable With N. Roberts, F.L. Singleton, R.W. Atwell, D.J. Grimes & R.R, Colwell. Survival and viability of nonculturable Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae in the estuarine and marine environment. Microb. Ecology 8:313-23, 1982 Developed a method With N.C. Roberts, L.B. Adams, P.A. West, R.J. Seibeling, A. Huq, M.I. Huq, R. Rahman & R.R. Colwell. An indirect fluorescent antibody staining procedure for detection of Vibrio cholerae serovar OI cells in aquatic environmental samples. J. Microb. Methods 2:221-31, 1984 SOME
- [Houze Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/houze-xu/): Houze Xu, Chinese geodesist and geophysicist (Shexian, Anhui Province 04 May 1934 – Developed the high approximating high abnormity and unified approximating theory of plumb line deviation and truncation error estimation with limited conditions Worked out a scheme of double pole plate system for the computation of astrogravimetric leveling Gave the definition of latitudinal density and density flattening of the level ellipsoid and derived integral formulae of latitudinal density for pole gravity and equator gravity With X.G. Hao & D.J. Liu. Earth’s density flattening and hypothesis of latitudinal normal density. Science in China Ser. D Earth Sci. 44(8):673-9, 2001 Proposed a
- [Guanhua Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/guanhua-xu/): Guanhua Xu, Chinese geoscientist (Beijing 16 December 1941 – Internationally recognized as a leader on remote sensing and geographical informatics Developed techniques for digital image processing with multi-wave band and classification Developed methodology of remote sensing integrated surveys and their mapping Formulated the first technological regulation for a remote sensing integrated survey and mapping system for regenerative success Headed the group that developed an integrated system for natural disaster monitoring, damage evaluation and crop assessments by using satellite and airborne remote sensing (1990s) HONOURS    Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Maryland 
- [Guangxian Xu](https://neglectedscience.com/guangxian-xu/): Guangxian Xu, Chinese chemist (Shaoxing, Zhejiang 07 November 1920 – 28 April 2015) Developed methods to separate and extract rare earths Developed mathematical models for rare earth element separation processes Developed series or cascade extraction process for rare earths Proposed a formula that related the order of filling of atomic orbital levels with the grouping of elements in periods in the periodic table Established the quantum chemistry calculation method for rare earth elements Established a new theory of counter current extraction (1970s) Found that the rare earth separation process with counter current extraction obeys a role of constant mixed extraction ratios
- [Efrain Hernandez Xolocotzi](https://neglectedscience.com/efrain-hernandez-xolocotzi/): Efraín Ildefonso Hernandez Xolocotzi y Guzmán, Mexican ethnobotanist and botanical explorer (San Bernabé Amaxac de Guerrero, Tlaxcala State 23 January 1913 – Chapingo 21 February 1992) Authored over 200 papers and 6 books World authority on economic botany and ethnobotany mainly about collection of genetic resources for culture Authored with G. Alanis Estudio morfologico de cinco nuevas razas de maiz de la Sierra Madre Ocidental de Mexico. Agrociencias 5:3-30, 1970 HONOURS Genus Xolocotzia Miranda 1965 (Verbenaceae) Distinguished Economic Botanist, American Society for Economic Botany (1984) Frank N. Meyer Medal, Crop Science Society (1981)
- [Dingchang Xian](https://neglectedscience.com/dingchang-xian/): Dingchang Xian, Chinese nuclear physicist (Guangzhou, Guandong Province 15 August 1935 – With Junyan Chen et al. first to use synchrotron radiation for a non-destructive study of fossil internal structure (2006) With X.D. Su, Y. Liang, L. Li et al. presented a large scale, high efficiency and low-cost platform for structural genomics studies (2006) With C. Shi, Y. Jing, H.L. Lu & D.S. Li designed an in-vacuum multipole wiggler (2001) With L.Y. Zhang presented a special case of non-detrapping variable parameter wiggler of free electron lasers (1991) With X.H. He developed a cumulant variation method in lattice gauge field theory (1985)
- [Zunong Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/zunong-wang/): Zunong Wang, Chinese microbiologist and molecular biologist (Nanjing, Jiangsu September 1916 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.J. Qin & D. Gao. Screening of catabolite repression: resistant mutants of cellulase  producing Penicillium spp. Acta Mycologica Sinica 3(4):238-43, 1984 With P.J. Gao & Y.Qu. Glucosidases from Trichoderma viride A 10 – Separation, purification and some of its properties. Chin. J. Biochem. Biol. Mol. 8(6): 735-40, 1992  With M.S.Jin & W.M. Yan. Build-up of conjugative transfer system for Thiobacillus thiooxidans. Chin. J. Biotechnol. 8:1-3, 1992      With W.F.Liu & D. Gao. Expression of the extracellular domain of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope protein and its fusion with β-galactosidase in
- [Zhexian Wan](https://neglectedscience.com/zhexian-wan/): Zhexian Wan, Chinese mathematician (Shandong 07 November 1927 – Authored over 130 articles and 18 books With L.P. Huang proved the fundamental theorem of 2×2 Hermitian matrices over any division ring of generalized quaternions of characteristic not two (2001) Proved the fundamental theorems of the geometry of symmetric matrices over any field of characteristic two and not two (1994-6) With Z. Dai, X. Feng & M. Liu obtained algorithms for synthesizing the nonlinear feedforward sequence of an m-sequence (1993) Constructed an authentication code without arbitration from the subspace of the classical geometry (1992) With Z.D. Dai established a relationship between the
- [Zhen Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/zhen-wang/): Zhen Wang, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1978-84) DESCRIBED FOSSIL ALGAE TAXA Genera Gemmichara 1984 Neochara 1978 with Lin Paracuneatochara 1984 Pseudolatochara 1978 Pseudomoellerina 1984 Turbochara 1978 Species 70 HONORS Wangichara Liu & Wu 1985 (Fossil Algae)
- [Zhan Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/zhan-wang/): Zhan Wang, Chinese botanist and forester (Donggou County, Liaotung Province 04 May 1911 – 30 January 2000) Proposed harvest and regeneration approaches accepted in modern forestry practices for ecosystem management DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Species Philadelphus tsianschanensis 1958 with Li Populus gansuensis 1982 with Yang Populus haoana 1979 with Cheng Populus hsinganica 1958 with Skvortsov Populus kangdingensis 1979 with Tung Populus mainlingensis 1979 with Tung Populus ningshanica 1979 with Cheng Populus pseudoglauca 1974 with Fu Populus pseudomaximowiczii 1979 with Tung Populus pseudotomentosa 1979 with Tung Populus qamdoensis 1979 with Tung Populus shanxiensis 1982 with Tung Populus trinervis 1979 with Tung Populus wuana 1979 with Tung Populus xiangchengensis 1979 with Tung Populus yatungensis with Fu Populus yuana 1979 with Tung Salix bangongensis 1979
- [Yuan Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/yuan-wang/): Yuan Wang, Chinese mathematician (Lanhsi, Chekiang Province 29 April 1930 – Proved that every large even integer is the sum of a prime and of a product of at most 4 primes Proved that every sufficiently large even integer can be represent as the sum of a product of no more than three primes and a product of no more than four primes (1950s) Proved that there are infinitely many primes p such that p+2 is a product of at most 4 primes (1956) Established that every large even integer is a sum of a product of at most 2 primes and product
- [Ying Lai Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/ying-lai-wang/): Ying-Lai Wang, Chinese biochemist (Jinmen County, Fujian Province 13 November 1907 – 05 May 2001) Authored 60 papers Found the toxicity of excessive vitamin A and the defect of tissue as a result of vitamin E deficiency Developed methods for micro-determination of 4 water soluble vitamins First demonstrated the existence of hemoglobin in nodular bacteria of legume First in the world purified the membrane protein succinic dehydrogenase Headed the group that performed the total synthesis of bovine insulin (1965) and yeast alanine t-RNA (1981)
- [Yanzhi Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/yanzhi-wu/): Yanzhi Wu, Chinese geologist and mineralogist (1931 – 2014) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Characteristics of ore-controllin structures and prospective analysis of Hatu-Saertuohai Gold Belt in Western Jinggar, Xinjianfg. Chin. J. Nonferr. Metals 22(3):854-62, 2012 With R.G. Xi & P.X. Xiao. The Geological significances, composition and age of the monzonitic granite in Kendekeke iron mine. Northwestern Mine 43(4):195-202, 2010 With X. Yu & Y. Di. The existence of the early Jurassic magmatism in northern Guangdong evidence from the SHRIMP zircon U-Pb chronology of the Xiayan complex. Science in China D. Earth Sci. 39(6):681-93, 2009 With G.W. Chen, B. Xia et al. The metallogenic mechanism
- [Wen-tsun Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/wen-tsun-wu/): Wen-tsun Wu, Chinese mathematician (Shanghai 12 May 1919 – Beijing 07 May 2017) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered Wu classes and Wu formulas (1950) Introduced the notion of imbedding classes Introduced immersion and isotopic classes Discovered Adem-Wu relations (1952) independently Discovered a general constructive method of with non-homotopic topological invariants of polyhedra (1953) Gave a criterion for the planarity of linear graphs in the form of solvability of some system of linear equations on mod 2 coefficients Gave methods of actually imbedding an imbeddable graphs in the plane Discovered a simple computational method of defining generalized Chern classes and Chern numbers of an algebraic
- [Wen Tsai Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/wen-tsai-wang/): Wentsai Wang / Wencai Wang, Chinese botanist and plant geographer (Laizhou, Shandon Province 05 June 1923 or 1926 –   DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Tribes Asteropyreae, Calathodea & Kingdonieae 1982 with C.Y. Chang Genera  Allocheilos 1983 Allostigma 1984 Anemoclema 1964 Buxiphyllum 1981 with Gao Chienia 1964 Chiritopsis 1981 Dayaoshania 1983 Deinocheilos 1986 Deinostigma 1992 with Li Deltocheilos 1981 Dichocarpum 1964 with Hsiao Didymostigma 1984 Dolicholoma 1983 with Fang Glochidocaryum 1957 Gyrocheilos 1981 Gyrogyne 1981 Hemiboeopsis 1984 Lagarosolen 1984 Metabriggsia 1983 Metaeritrichium 1980 Metanemone 1980 Metapetrocosmea 1981 Metapilea 2016 Omphalotrigonotis 1984 Paraisometrum 1998  Pseudochirita 1983 Schistolobos 1983 Thamnocharis 1981 Species Over 550  HONORS Wentsaiboea Fang & Qin 2004 (Gesneriaceae)
- [Wen Cheng Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/wen-cheng-wu/): Wen Cheng Wu or Wen-zhen Wu, Chinese botanist and horticultor (1898-1942) With C.Y. Wu described the genus Psammosilene and the species Psammosilene tunicoides 1945 HONORS Wenchengia Wu & Chow 1945 (Lamiaceae)
- [Wasicky family](https://neglectedscience.com/wasicky-family/): Richard Balthasar Wasicky, Austrian-born Jewish Brazilian pharmacognosist (Teschen 06 February 1884 – São Paulo 09 August 1970) Recognized the potentiality of fluorescence microscopy for pharmacological studies (1913) Introduced new methods for the plant extract standardisation With Marianne Joachimowitz developed an accurate method for estimating beberine (1917) Built an apparatus for continuous extraction of microquantities of solids Described microchemical methods for the identification of potassium nitrate (1919) With Roberto Wasicky elaborated a method for determining the hemolytic activity of saponin (1961) With H. Stammreich & A. Giuliani described a new apparatus for the electrical recording of locomotion movements in laboratory animals in
- [Wang Shih Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/wang-shih-wu/): Wang Shih Wu or Wangshi Wu, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1957-92) DESCRIBED FOSSIL CNIDARIA GENERA Anfractophyllum 1982 with Zhou Antheria 1974 with Zhou Axopinnophyllum 1986 with Zhao Batangophyllum 1979 with Zhang Cardiaphyllum 1982 with Zhou Ceriphyllum 1981 with Zhao Characophyllum 1989 with Zhao Complanophyllum 1981 with Zhao Dematophyllum 1981 with Jiang Diphyphylloides 1989 with Zhao Diversiphyllum 1983 with Kong Dizonophyllum 1989 with Zhao Empachyphyllum 1989 with Zhao Falconophyllum 1979 Foliophyllum 1979 Liuzhaiphyllum 1987 Longlinophyllia 1985 with Lin Mictolithostrotion 1989 with Zhao Monothecalis 1983 with Zhao Monsteraphyllum 1983 with Kong Neokueichowpora 1982 with Zhao Nephelophyllum 1974 with Zhao Nothophyllum 1987 Paraduplophyllum 1982 with Zhou Paragangamophyllum 1989 with Zhao Paraipiciphyllum 1963 Paralytrophyllum 1989 with Zhao Parazaphriphyllum 1989 with Zhao Prolytrophyllum 1989 with Zhao Pseudocarniaphyllum 1962 Qiubeiphyllum 1983 with Kong Ramiphyllum 1979 with Zhang Sarcinophyllum 1986 with Zhao Stilbophyllum 1983
- [Trevor Lloyd Wadley](https://neglectedscience.com/trevor-lloyd-wadley/): Trevor Lloyd Wadley, South African electrical engineer (Durban 02 September 1920 – Warner Beach, Natal Province 21 May 1981) INVENTED Wadley loop receiver or circuit (1940s) A sound for measuring ionosphere with a novel heterodyne method Tellurometer, used in land surveying (1954) Panoramic adapter PATENTS Distance measuring system. US3241139A (1964) Determining relative position by means of transit time of waves. US2907999A (1955) & US3229285A (1960) Device including a rotating magnet positioned relative to another magnet for indicating the presence of magnetizable elements. US3541438A (1967)
- [Thosaporn Wongratana](https://neglectedscience.com/thosaporn-wongratana/): Thosaporn Wongratana, Thai ichthyologist (fl.1967) DESCRIBED VALID PISCES SPECIES Anodontostoma thailandiae 1983 Clupeichthys aesarnensis 1983 Encrasicholina oligobranchus 1983 Eptatretus indrambaryai 1984 Escualosa elongata 1983 Etrumeus whiteheadi 1983 Gonialosa whiteheadi 1983 Herklotsichthys collettei 1987 Herklotsichthys gotoi 1983 Herklotsichthys lossei 1983 Ilisha obfuscata 1983 Ilisha striatula 1983 Myersina crocata 1975 Nematalosa flyensis 1983 Pellona dayi 1983 Ratabulus melanopterus 1987 with Knapp Sardinella richardsoni 1983 Setipinna paxtoni 1987 Setipinna wheeleri 1983 Sillago intermedia 1977 Soleichthys siammakuti 1975 Spratelloides lewisi 1983 Stolephorus advenus 1987 Stolephorus brachycephalus 1983 Stolephorus dubiosus 1983 Stolephorus multibranchus 1987 Stolephorus nelsoni 1987 Stolephorus ronquillo 1983 Thryssa dayi 1983 Thryssa kannmalensoides 1983 Thryssa marasriae 1987 Thryssa polybranchialis 1983 Thryssa stenosoma 1983 Thryssa whiteheadi 1983
- [Shou Guan Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/shou-guan-wang/): Shou Guan Wang, Chinese astronomer (Fuzhou, Fujian Province 15 January 1923 – Beijing 28 January 2021) With Z.H. Zhu, Z.L. Zou & Y.Z. Zhang proposed a special pulsar 50 m radio telescope for the detection of cosmic gravitational waves (2002) With X.Q. Cui & D.Q. Su proposed a new configuration for a 10 m optical/infrared telescope for high-resolution work (2001) With D.Q. Su proposed the configuration of Large Sky Area Multi-object Fiber Spectroscope-Telescope (LAMOST), the telescope with the largest aperture in the world and most powerful instruments for multi-object fiber spectroscopic observation (1994) Proposed realizing super-large scale spectral sky survey which has
- [Shigueo Watanabe](https://neglectedscience.com/shigueo-watanabe/): Shigueo Watanabe, Brazilian physicist (Araçatuba, São Paulo State 04 April 1924 – From Japanese ancestry First to study deuteron scattering by nuclei and proposed Watanabe potential High-energy scattering of deuterons by complex nuclei. Nuclear Phys. 8:484, 1958 Discovered general conductivity rules in silicate glasses With M.L.F. Nascimento proposed universal curves of ionic conductivities in binary alkali germinate, tellurite, borate and silicate glasses (2005-6) With N.F. Cano & J.C.R. Mittani. Use of Epb-Pb 3+ center  of the amazonite for dating. Appl. Radia. Isotopes 62:251-4, 2005 With C. Sunta, W.E. F. Ayta & J.F.D. Chubaci. Test for quasi-equilibrium in thermally stimulated luminescence and conductivity. Rad.
- [San-Yin Wong](https://neglectedscience.com/san-yin-wong/): San-yin Wong or Hsin-yen Huang, Hong Kong biochemist (1894-?) Developed Wong test Colorimetric determination of iron and hemoglobin in blood. J. Biol Chem 77:409, 1928 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY The use of persulfate in the estimation of nitrogen by the Arnold-Gunning modification of Kjeldahl’s method. J. Biol. Chem. 55(3):427-30, 1923  Color tests for simple sugars. Chin. J. Physiol. 1-2:255, 1928 The reduction of alkaline ferricyanide by adrenaline and uric acid (1929)  
- [Ronald Woodman](https://neglectedscience.com/ronald-woodman/): Ronald Francisco Woodman Pollitt, Peruvian engineer and physicist (Piura 22 April 1934 – From English descent First to explain how the ion-ion collisions affect the gyroresonance Developed new techniques to exploit the use of radars for the study of related atmospheric and ionospheric phenomena such as clear atmospheric turbulence and ionospheric irregularities Observed new phenomena With J. Chau. Equatorial quasiperiodic echoes from field-aligned irregularities observed over Jicamarca. Geophys. Rev. Letters 28(2), 2001 Showed and confirmed the potential of VHF radars to observe the electrically neutral atmosphere (1974), a seminal work that led to the active research using VHF radar With A. Guillén. Radio
- [Rodolfo Wagenknecht](https://neglectedscience.com/rodolfo-wagenknecht/): Rodolfo Wagenknecht Huss, Chilean entomologist and botanist (Valdivia 26 August 1899 – La Serena 26 May 1985) From German descent SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Observaciones biologicas sobre la Centris rodophtalma. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 43:133-7, 1940 La Hirmoneura orellanae. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 43:145-7, 1940 Una plaza, formada con plantas silvestres chilenas. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 44:423, 1940 Nueva area de distribución para un elatérido chileno. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 45:185, 1943 Consideraciones zoogeográficas de los Midásideos chilenos. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 46-7:131-3, 1944 Nueva distribución de una mariposa chilena. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 48:76-7, 1945 Diversas cactáceas parasitadas por Phrygilanthus aphyllus. Rev. Univ. 35(1):187-8, 1950 Algunas
- [Roberto Wernicke](https://neglectedscience.com/roberto-wernicke/): Roberto Enrique Martin Wernicke, Argentine pathologist (Buenos Aires 23 May 1854 – Buenos Aires 14 October 1922) Son of German immigrants Described a new systemic mycosis caused by Coccidioides posadasii (Posadas-Wernicke disease) Described the genus Coccidium and species Coccidium seeberi 1903 (Protozoa) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Die Parasiten der Hausthiere in Buenos Aires. Dtsch fur Tiermedizin 12:301-7, 1886 Parasitos de la oveja. Cestoideos. Ann. S.R.A. 22:530-3, 555-7, 577-80, 1886 La lombriz del pulmón de la oveja. An. Inst. Agr. Vet. Prov. Buenos Aires 512, 1886-8 La lengua negra (1889) Enfermedades de los animales domesticos. Anal. Inst. Agron. Veter. 4(27):531-2, 1889 El Echinorhynchus gigas. Rev. Soc. Med. Arg. 1(1), 1892 Pentastomas. Rev.
- [Richard Wichmann](https://neglectedscience.com/richard-wichmann/): Richard (Ricardo) Wichmann, German-born Argentine geologist and stratigrapher (Hamburgo 10 November 1881 – 15 August 1930) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Contribución al conocimiento geologico de los Territorios del Neuquen y del Rio Negro. Bol. Direc. Gen. Minas Geol. 39 (1934) La isla Penguin y sus depósitos de guano (Territorio Nacional de Santa Cruz). Publ. Misc. 100. Direc. Minas Geol. Min. Agric. Nac. (1933) With L. Catalano. Informes sobre depósitos de guano en dos islas de La costa Atlantica (1933) Datos geologicos sobre la región de Salagasta, Provincia de Mendoza. Publ. Direc. Gen. Minas Geol. Hidrol. 37 (1928) Contribución a la geologia de los departamentos Chical-Co’y Puelen
- [Reinhard Weber](https://neglectedscience.com/reinhard-weber/): Reinhard Weber, German-born Mexican paleobotanist (Munster 02 June 1938 – Ciudad de Mexico 13 August 2009) Authored 31 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL PLANTAE TAXA Genera Asinisetum 2008 Dictyotrichia 2008 Dorfiella 1976 Kobalostrobus 1981 with Serlin & Delevoryas Laurozamites 1995 with Zamudio Varela Lonesomia 1997 Sonoraphyllum 1995 Species Aachenia knoblochi 1975 Asinisetum dissimile 2008 Asinisetum formosum 2008 Asterotheca santaclarae 1985 Bennettistemon sonorense 2010 Cycadolepis auroleporis 2008 Cynepteris sonorensis 1985 Dictyotrichia john-strongii 2008 Dictyotrichia major 2008 Dorfiella auriculata 1976 Equisetites aequecaliginosus 2005 Kobalostrobus olmosensis 1981 with Serlin & Delevoryas Laurozamites pinna 1995 with Zamudio Varela Laurozamites tarahumara 1995 with Zamudio Varela Laurozamites yaquii 1995 with Zamudio Varela Lonesomia mexicana 1997 Macropterygium mexicanum 1996 Macropterygium truncatum Mertensides crusgalli 1985 Phlebopteris crenulata 2008 Phlebopteris otongensis 2008 Salvinia coahuilensis 1973 Scoresbya pinnata 1995 Sonoraphyllum mirabile 1995 Williamsonia
- [Ray Jui Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/ray-jui-wu/): Ray Jui Wu, US/Chinese plant geneticist (Beijing 14 August 1928 – Ithaca 10 February 2008) Son of biochemist Hsien Wu ACHIEVEMENTS Developed the first method for determining the nucleotide sequence of DNA (1970-3) Introduced the method of using synthetic oligonucleotide linkers and adaptors to increase the efficiency of manipulating and cloning blunt-ended DNA (1976) With colleagues he was the first to transfer successfully useful genes from a dicotyledoneous plant (potato) to a monocotyledoneous plant (rice) in 1990s
- [Raul Wernicke](https://neglectedscience.com/raul-wernicke/): Raul Ernesto Alberto Wernicke Rolda, Argentine physical chemist (Rosario 28 September 1888 – Magallanes Strait 22 September 1949) From German ancestry ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 75 scientific works Gained international recognition for his studies on oligodynamical activity of copper and silver and electrodyalisis method application to chemical, biochemical and biological problems With Moisés Ginstein first crystallized the human serum albumin independent from Adair & Taylor (1935) Crystallization of seroalbumin. Nature 136: 30, 1935. Created a method for measuring minute tensions With A. Sordelli. Um metodo de medida de pequeñas tensiones. Anal. Asoc. Quim. Arg. 1:8, 1913. With A. Sordelli & V. Deulofeu characterized Forssman antigen
- [Raafat Kamel Wasef](https://neglectedscience.com/raafat-kamel-wasef/): Raafat Kamel Wasef, Egyptian physicist (Cairo 10 June 1926 – Authored 140 papers Introduced internal friction as a tool for study of lattice defects in solids Enunciated the concept of dissociated vacancy Authored The elastic and anelastic behaviour of glass. Proc. Math. Phys. Soc. Egypt (1951)
- [Prawase Wasi](https://neglectedscience.com/prawase-wasi/): Prawase Wasi, Thai haematologist (Kanchanaburi 05 August 1931 – Authored over 100 articles Identified the genetic mechanism of alpha thalassemia or Hemoglobin H disease With S. Na-Nakorn & A. Suingdumrong. Haemoglobin H disease in Thailand: a genetical study.  Nature 204:907, 1964 HONORS Wasi  alpha-thalassemia 1 Wasi alpha-thalassemia 2 
- [Otto Wucherer](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-wucherer/): Otto Eduard Heinrich Wucherer, Brazilian physician and naturalist (Porto, Portugal 07 July 1820 – Salvador 07 May 1873) From German father and Flemish mother  ACHIEVEMENTS Observed embryos of microfilariae in urine later named Wuchereria bancrofti (1866) Described anatomical pathology of ainhum or Silva Lima disease  Authored Sobre o modo de conhecer as cobras venenosas in Gazeta Medica da Bahia 17:193-6, 1867, translated and published in Europe  Set up morphological rules to identifying poisonous snakes Described typical symptoms of snake bite poisoning  Predicted the serum therapy for snake bites Described 2 new valid snake species: Atractus guentheri &  Xenopholis scalaris (1861)  HONORS Wuchereria Silva Araújo 1877 (Nematoda)
- [Noshir Hormusjee Wadia](https://neglectedscience.com/noshir-hormusjee-wadia/): Noshir Hormusjee Wadia, Indian neurologist (Surat, Gujarat State 10 January 1925 – Mumbai 10 April 2016) Authored over 130 papers Documented the degeneration of neurons in the parapontine reticular formation With S. Geiner, A.K. Horn, H. Sakai & J.A. Buttner-Ennever. The neuroanatomical basis of slow saccades in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (Wadia subtype). Prog. Brain Res. 171:575-81, 2008 DESCRIBED NEW SYNDROMES Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 or Wadia syndrome (1971) With R.K. Swami. A variety of olivopontocerebellar atrophy distinguished by slow eye movements and peripheral neuropathy. Adv. Neurology 41:49-77, 1984 With R.K. Swamy. A new form of heredo-familial spinocerebellar degeneration with slow
- [Norma Luiza Wurdig](https://neglectedscience.com/norma-luiza-wurdig/): Norma Luiza Würdig, Brazilian paleontologist and hydrobiologist (c.1950 – DESCRIBED FOSSIL PISCES SPECIES (1975) Orodus milleri Xenacanthus pricei Xenacanthus santosi LIVING OSTRACODA (with Pinto) Genus Diaphanocypris 1990 Species Cypretta vivacis 1993 Keysercypris circinata 1993 Limnocythere cidreirensis 1994 Typhlocypris (Typhlocypris) pumilis 1999 HONORS Wurdigneria Richter 2005 (Fossil Pisces)
- [Maria das Graças Lapa Wanderley](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-das-gracas-lapa-wanderley/): Maria das Graças Lapa Wanderley, Brazilian botanist (1947 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES Alcantarea martinellii 2009 with Versieux Alcantarea patriae 2007 with Versieux Alcantarea tortuosa 2007 with Versieux Alcantarea trepida 2007 with Versieux Alcantarea turgida 2007 with Versieux Calathea communis 2002 with Vieira Canistrum ambiguum 1989 with Leme Canistrum flavipetalum 2008 Cryptanthus micrus 2010 with Louzada & Versieux Ditassa dardanoi 2004 with Konno Dyckia tubifilamentosa 2014 with G.M. Sousa Encholirium reflexum 2001 with Forzza Hohenbergia isepponae 2017 with Gonçalves Oliveira Nidularium longiscapum 2000 with Moreira Nidularium meeanum 1992 with Leme & Mollo Karawata prasinata 2015 with G.M. Sousa Orthophytum argenteum 2011 with Louzada Orthophytum ophiuroides 2008 with Louzada Quesnelia violacea 2006 with Proença Sincoraea mucugense 2006 with Conceição Sincoraea ulei 2010 with Louzada
- [Luiz Reynaldo de Figueiredo Walter](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-reynaldo-de-figueiredo-walter/): Luiz Reynaldo de Figueiredo Walter, Brazilian pediatric dentist (1934 – Londrina, Paraná State 26 July 2016) One of founders of Bebê Clinica (1984), whose service model was adopted in United States and other South American countries First report of ulcerative lesions on the tongue caused by other primary teeth instead of incisors With C.C. Dezan, K. Weber-Gasparoni, J.P.M. Sangiorgio, B. Nogari & K.B.P. Fernandes. Sublingual traumatic ulcerative lesions caused by the eruption of first primary mandibular molars: a case report. Int. J. Morphol. 29(4), 2011 Ameloplastia – uma técnica alternativa para remoção de manchas da estrutura adamantina (2001) With A. Ferelle
- [Lawrence Herbert Wells](https://neglectedscience.com/lawrence-herbert-wells/): Lawrence Herbert Wells, English-born South African anatomist, anthropologist and archaeologist (Handsworth, West Midlands, Birmingham 22 April 1908 – Durban 23 April 1980) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Suppression of spinous process of eleventh thoracic vertebra (1969) Antelopes in the Pleistocene of Southern Africa. Zool. Afr. 1:115-20, 1965 A large extinct antelope skull from the “Younger Gravels” at Sydney on Vaal. S. Afr. J. Sci. 60:88-91, 1964 The end of an old song: the age of the Galley Hill skeleton. S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 18:183-4, 1963 Pleistocene faunas and the distribution of mammals in Southern Africa. Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. 2:37-40, 1962 A reconsiderations of
- [Kurt Wolfgang Wolffhugel](https://neglectedscience.com/kurt-wolfgang-wolffhugel/): Kurt Wolfgang Wolffhugel, German veterinarian and parasitologist in South America (Mörlheim bei Landau 02 February 1869 – Puerto Varas, Los Lagos Region, Chile 09 December 1951) Worked in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay DESCRIBED PARASITE HELMINTHS Genera Cloacotaenia 1938 (Cestoda) Fimbriariella 1936 (Cestoda) Gastrotaenia 1938 (Cestoda) Gurltia 1933 (Nematoda) Profimbriaria 1936 (Cestoda) Species Gastrotaenia cygni 1938 Gurltia paralysans 1934 Hymenolepis tetraonis 1899 Ophiotaenia noci 1948 Stilesia hepatica 1903 HONORS Wolffhugelia Mañé Garzón & Dei-Cas 1974 (Acanthocephala) 
- [Kingfu Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/kingfu-wang/): Kingfu Wang, Chinese ichthyologist DESCRIBED PISCES SPECIES Abbotina obtsuirostris 1931 with Wu Acrossocheilus wenchowensis 1935 Carcharhinus latistomus 1932 Chirolophis wui 1935 with S.C. Wang Gobiobotia abbreviata 1931 Gymnogobius nigrimembranis 1931 with Wu Hemiculturella wui 1935 Liparis chefuensis 1933 with Wu Microphysogobio tafangensis 1935 Pholis fangi 1935 with S.C. Wang Pomacentrus pingi 1941 Saurida microlepis 1931 with Wu 
- [Jorge Wright](https://neglectedscience.com/jorge-wright/): Jorge Eduardo Wright, Argentine mycologist (Buenos Aires 20 April 1922 – 04 November 2005) Authored 115 papers and 5 books With E. Albertó. Aniline-agar: a simple medium useful in characterizing white-rot higher in culture. Mycotaxon 62:375-88, 1997 DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI TAXA Genera Agaricostilbum 1970 Discoxylaria 1964 with Lindquist Gastropila 1973 with Homrich Loweporus 1976 Megasporoporia 1982 with Ryvarden & Rajchenberg Smithiogaster 1975 Species Abstoma laevisporum 1990 with Suarez Abstoma verrucisporum 1990 with Suarez Agaricostilbum palmicola 1970 Agaricus pseudoargentinus 1994 with Albertó Amyloporia multipileata 1991 with Loguercio Leite Antrodia stratosa 1972 with Deschamps Bovista fuegiana 1994 with Suarez Bovista singeri 1994 with Suarez Bovista sublaevispora 1994 with Suarez Calvatia friabile 1992 with Moreno, Altés & Ochoa Cephalotrichum asperulus 1972
- [John Rhys Williams](https://neglectedscience.com/john-rhys-williams/): John Rhys Williams, English-born Mauritian entomologist and helminthologist (19 March 1925 – Curepipe 29 September 2017) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Insecta Hemiptera, Homoptera Genera Aethocauda 1976 Aethomyctus 1981 Alticeps 1977 Cernea 1977 Cocottea 1977 Cuneoceps 1981 Cyrtomycta 1981 Deltometopus 1977 Idiomyctus 1981 Pseudoclardea 1981 Thectoceps 1977 Trypanor 1980 with Fennah Species Achaemenes synavei 1975 Aethocauda decora 1976 Aethocauda fusca 1976 Aethocauda rubella 1976 Aethocauda serrapicis 1976 Aethomyctus viridis 1981 Alticeps vigilis 1977 Aselgeoides paludaris 1975 Brixia broussei 1975 Brixia decepta 1983 Brixia denticulata 1975 Brixia discolor 1975 Brixia flavida 1975 Brixia fuscata 1983 Brixia fuscomarginata 1975 Brixia lalouettei 1975 Brixia mauritiensis 1975 Brixia nigripennis 1975 Brixia pilosa 1975 Brixia sundara 1975 Brixia uvidensis 1975 Brixia variolata 1975 Brixia vaughani 1975 Brixia venulosa 1975 Brixia virgulata 1975 Cernea insularis 1977 Cocottea lineata 1977 Cocottea seclusa 1977 Cocottea verecunda 1977 Cyrtomycta perisema 1981 Diprora lineata 1976 Diproroda
- [John Medley Wood](https://neglectedscience.com/john-medley-wood/): John Medley Wood, English-born South African botanist (Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England 01 December 1827 – Durban 21 August 1915) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Genus Siphonochilus 1911 with Franks Species With Evans Alepidea natalensis 1899 Athrixia arachnoidea Berkheya latifolia 1897 Berkheya macrocephala 1907 Berkheya montana 1897 Buchenroedera sparsiflora 1897 Chaenostoma neglectum  1897 Chlorophyton haygarthii 1899 Crotalaria dura 1897 Eumorphia sericea 1897 Felicia drakensbergensis 1899 Helichrysum infaustum 1897 Heteromma simplicifolium 1897 Hibiscus saxatilis 1897 Hypericum natalensis 1897 Inulanthera montana 1900 Kniphofia multiflora 1897 Nesaea rivularis 1902 Ornithogalum capillaris 1897 Rhynchosia ovata 1897 Selago monticula 1897 Senecio seminiveus 1901 Senecio tugelensis 1901 Stachys rivularis 1897 Wahlenbergia depressa 1897 With Franks Chrysophyllum viridifolium 1911 Alone Berkheya macrocephala 1907 Berkheya maritima 1899 Castanospermum cunninghamii 1903 Chilocarpus viridis 1906 Cyrtanthus epiphyticus 1913 Helichrysum argentissimum 1907 Lotononis wylei 1904 Phacelurus franksae 1908
- [Johannes Willemse](https://neglectedscience.com/johannes-willemse/): Johannes Willemse, South African petrologist and mining geologist (Harrismith, Free State Province 07 December 1909 – Pretoria 27 November 1967) Expert on layered mafic intrusions SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E.A. Viljoen. The fate of argillaceous material in a gabbroic magma of the Bushveld complex. Publ. Spec. Geol. Soc. S. Africa 1:336-66, 1970 With C. Frick. Stroomroof en die invloed van verskuiwings op die geomorfologie in die opvanggebied van die Steel poortrivier in O Transvaal. Verh. Geol. Ver. S. Afr. 73:159-71, 1970 The vanadiferous magnetic iron ore of the Bushveld Igneous Complex. Econ. Geol. Monogr. 4:187-208, 1969 The geology of the Bushveld igneous complex, the
- [Jieping Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/jieping-wu/): Jieping Wu, Chinese urologist (Changzhou, Jiangsu Province 1917 – Beijing 02 March 2011) Authored 150 papers and 21 books Identified adrenal medullar hyperplasia as an independent disease Devised a number of innovative surgical techniques including the use of a special urethral catheter for prostate hyperplasia surgery known as Wu catheter Introduced improvements to vasoligation technique
- [Huisheng Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/huisheng-wu/): Huisheng Wu, Chinese helminthologist (fl.1956-94) DESCRIBED NEMATODA SPECIES (possibly incomplete) Brentisentis yangtzensis 1989 Freitascapillaria phoxina 1994 with Yu Neoechinorhynchus saurogobi 1989 Phoascaris fulvidraco 1993 with Yu & Wang Phoascaris longispiculum 1991 with Wang Rhabdochona brevichona 1994 with Yu & Wang Rhabdochona onychostomi 1994 with Yu & Wang Romanomermis wuchangensis 1985 Sinoichthyonema ctenopharyngodon 1973 HONORS Wuinema Yu & Wang 1992 (Nematoda)
- [Hsien Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/hsien-wu/): Hsien (Xian) Wu, US/Chinese biochemist (Fuzhou, Fujian, Qing 24 November 1893 – Boston 08 August 1959) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored 163 publications First to propose that protein denaturation was a purely conformational change involving folding and unfolding of peptide chains Studies on Denaturation of Proteins. XII. A theory of denaturation. Chinese Journal of Physiology 5(4):321-44, 1931.  First to use labeled antigens for determining proteins in the presence of antibodies Determined the quantitative relation of antibody-antigen combination Proposed the theory of protein variation Developed important methods with Otto Folin With O. Folin. A revised colorimetric method for the determination of uric acid in urine. Jour.
- [Hsien Wen Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/hsien-wen-wu/): Hsien-Wen Wu or Xianwen Wu, Chinese zoologist (Ru’ian County, Zhejiang Province 15 March 1900 – 03 April 1985) Performed studies on ichthyology, helminthology, carcinology and comparative anatomy DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Pisces Valid Genera Folifer 1977 Parasinilabeo 1939 Parator 1963 with Yang, Yue & Huang Placocheilus 1977 Sinibrama 1939 Sinocrossocheilus 1977 Valid Species Abbottina obtusirostris 1931 with Wang Acentrogobius microps 1963 with Chu Acheilognathus argenteus 1939 Acheilognathus meridianus 1939 Acheilognathus polylepis 1964 Acrossocheilus beijiangensis 1977 with Lin Acrossocheilus longipinnis 1939 Altigena yunnanensis 1977 with Lin Atrilinea roulei 1931 Cynoglossus roulei 1932 Cyprinus chilia 1963 with Yang, Yue & Huang Cyprinus megalophthalmus 1963 Discherodontus parvus 1977 with Lin Discogobio longibarbatus 1977 Engyprosopon filipennis 1935 with Tang Folifer hainanensis 1977 Garra qiaojiensis 1977 with Yao Garra yiliangensis 1977
- [Houyong Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/houyong-wu/): Houyong Wu, Chinese medical entomologist DESCRIBED VALID SIPHONAPTERA TAXA Genera Calceopsylla 1965 with Liu & Wang Genoneopsylla 1966 with Wu & Liu Liuopsylla 1985 with Zhang & Liu Tanglha 1977 with Liu & Wu Subgenus Neochinopsylla 1965 with Wang & Liu Species Calceopsylla aduncata 1965 with Liu & Wang Callopsylla beishanensis 1986 with Wu & Ni Callopsylla changduensis 1966 with Liu & Wu Callopsylla forfica 1981 with Chen & Liu Callopsylla xui 1996 with Guo & Liu Callopsylla zhangi 1996 with Guo & Liu Ceratophyllus breviprojectus 1966 with Liu & Wu Ceratophyllus chutsaensis 1962 with Liu Chaetopsylla media 1979 with Wu & Tsai Ctenophthalmus gansuensis 1983 with Zhang & Wang Ctenophthalmus proboscis 1986 with Xie & Hu
- [Hongji Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/hongji-wu/): Hongji Wu, Chinese paleontologist (fl.1974-96) DESCRIBED TRILOBITA GENERA Chuangjianoproetus 1977 Coronocephalina 1979 Hypaproetus 1977 Jinnania 1980 with Lin Leiaspis 1980 with Lin Leioscutellum 1977 Lophodesella 1980 with Lin Monanocephalus 1980 with Lin Oidalaproetus 1977 Parachittidilla 1980 with Lin Parainouyia 1980 with Lin Parakailia 1979 Plebiellus 1980 with Lin Proasaphisan 1980 with Lin Ptyctolorenzella 1980 with Lin Shanxiella 1980 with Lin Squarrosoella 1980 with Lin Yaojiayuella 1980 with Lin HONORS Wuoaspis Ozdikmen 2009 (Trilobita)
- [Hengsheng Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/hengsheng-wang/): Hengsheng Wang, Chinese geologist (Dingxian, Hebei Province 04 August 1901 – 21 September 2003) Described the gravitational mechanism of liquid magma in the mineralization With Yaomin Huang. The magmatic gravitational liquid differentiation and its significance bearing on the mineralization of stratified igneous rocks (1980) Enunciated the chromite mineralization law With Wenji Bai, Bingxi Wang & Yaochu Chai. Chromite deposits in China and their origin (1983) With W.J. Bai & C.Y. Wan. A petro-chemical classification of basic and ultrabasic rocks (1978) A method for the calculation of chemical analysis of basic and ultrabasic rocks. Acta Geol. Sinica 1 (1975)
- [Hendrik Weyenbergh](https://neglectedscience.com/hendrik-weyenbergh/): Hendrik Weyenbergh, Dutch-born Argentine zoologist (Haarlem 06 December 1842 – Bloemendaal 27 July 1885) DESCRIBED INVERTEBRATE GENERA Arachnida Hasseltides 1869 Diptera Asilicus 1899 Didymophleps 1883 Doringia 1875 Empidia 1869 Hieronymus 1886 Lynchia 1881 Tipularia 1869 Coleoptera Carabicina 1869 Saperdides 1874 Dermaptera Forficularia 1869 Hirudina Cyclobdella 1879 Hybobdella 1879 Hymenoptera Hagenia 1869 Pseudosyrex 1873 Lepidoptera Mamillo 1874 Vogleria 1875 Mollusca Durban 1875 Orthoptera Blattaria 1874 Propygolampis 1874 Siphonaptera Malacopsylla 1881 VALID VERTEBRATE SPECIES/SUBSPECIES Amphibia  Melanophryscus stelzneri 1875  Melanophryscus stelzneri stelzneri 1875  Reptilia Oxyrhopus rhombifer bachmanni 1876 (Reptilia) Pisces (1877) Catathyridium lorentzii Hypostomus paranensis Jenynsia obscura Trichomycterus corduvensis Trichomycterus tenius Xiphophorus minor HONORS Weyenberghiana Mello-Leitão 1941 (Arachnida)
- [Hanlin Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/hanlin-wu/): Hanlin Wu, Chinese ichthyologist DESCRIBED VALID PISCES TAXA Genera Atrobucca 1963 with Chu Megalonibea 1963 with Chu & Lo Neodontobutis 2002 with Chen & Kottelat Polyspondylogobius 1994 with Kimura Pseudorhinogobius 1988 with Zhong Species Acanthogobius luridus 1985 with Ni Callechelys maculatus 1981 with Chu & Jin Evynnis mononematos 2012 with Guan & Tang Gobiodon multilineatus 1979 Gobiodon oculolineatus 1979 Gymnogobius transversifasciatus 1990 with Zhou Gymnogobius zhoushanensis 2007 with Zhao & Zhong Megalonibea fusca 1963 with Chu & Lo Neenchelys parvipectoralis 1981 with Chu & Jin Nibea miichthioides 1963 with Chu & Lo Nibea semifasciata 1963 with Chu & Lo Odontobutis sinensis 2002 with Chen & Chong Odontobutis yaluensis 1993 with Wu & Xie Okamejei mengae 2007 with Jeong & Nakabo
- [Guillermo Whittembury](https://neglectedscience.com/guillermo-whittembury/): Guillermo Whittembury Mendiola, Peruvian-born Venezuelan renal physiologist and biophysicist  (Trujillo, La Libertad Department 17 November 1929 – Puno 20 November 2016)  ACHIEVEMENTS With M. Echevarría, R. Ramírez Lorca, C.S. Hernandez et al. identified a new water channel in the Malpighian tubules of the insect Rhodnius prolixus (2001) Discovered a new mechanism for regulation of cellular volume in the proximal renal tubules with co-transport of Na+K+2Cl With F. Proverbio observed two modes of Na extrusion in cells of guinea pig kidney (1970) With J. Fishman proposed a second Na pump in kidney (1969) Collaborated to a standardized nomenclature for structures of the kidney (1987) Proposed a
- [Ging-hsi Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/ging-hsi-wang/): Ging-hsi Wang or Ching-hsi Wang, Chinese neurophysiologist (Tsinan, Shantung 07 July 1897 – 1968) Discovered a circumscribed area on the gyrus compositus posterior of cat which could induce constriction of both pupils (1931), described several years later by Barris With Bartley presented evidence to show that the latent period of the cortical potential varies according to that of the retinal potential (1934) With Bartley and independently from Kornmuller and Fischer first to describe the action potentials in the superior colliculus produced by light stimulation of the retina (1934-7) 
- [Ganchang Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/ganchang-wang/): Ganchang Wang, Chinese nuclear physicist (Changshu, Jiangsu Province 28 May 1907 – Beijing 10 December 1998) First proposed to use a cloud chamber to study high-energy rays (1930) First proposed the use of beta-capture to detect the neutrino (1941) Designed a magnetic cloud chamber (1952) Discovered and recorded new types of particles from cosmic rays (1950s) Discovered anti-sigma minus hyperon (1959) Put forward new concepts for the restriction of nuclear fusion through laser inertia Presented the concept of laser fusion independently (1964) HONORS Asteroid 14558 Wangganchang
- [Fabio Leoni Werneck](https://neglectedscience.com/fabio-leoni-werneck/): Fabio Leoni Werneck, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 13 August 1894 – Rio de Janeiro 12 January 1961) World authority on Mallophaga and Anoplura Authored over 70 papers and 2 books DESCRIBED PHTHIRAPTERA TAXA Valid Genera Acondylocephalus 1941 Condylocephalus 1941 Monothoracius 1934 Neodasyonyx 1941 Neofelicola 1948 Paraboopia 1940 with Thompson Parafelicola 1948  Valid Species 111 (34 of them being Anoplura) HONORS Werneckia Ferris 1951 (Anoplura) Werneckiella Eichler 1940 (Phthiraptera) Werneckodectes Conci 1946 (Phthiraptera)
- [Fa tsuan Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/fa-tsuan-wang/): Fa-tsuan Wang or Fazan Wang, Chinese botanist (1899 – 1985) With Tsin Tang / Jin Tang, botanist (1897- 1984) described many plant taxa (4 genera and about 140 species) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Monocelastrus 1951 with Tang Porolabium 1940 with Tang Smithorchis 1936 with Tang Tsaiorchis 1936 with Tang Sections Metatupistra 1978 with Liang Peliosanthoides 1978 with Dai Species About 185   
- [Elsayed Elsayed Wagih](https://neglectedscience.com/elsayed-elsayed-wagih/): Elsayed Elsayed Wagih, Egyptian biotechnologist and virologist (Alexandria 21 November 1946 – Discovered new viruses With H.A. Melonk & J.L. Sherwood. Isolation and partial characterization of peanut top paralysis virus (PTAV), a destructive virus causing a new disease in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L).J. Phytopathol. 141:302-13, 1994 With H.A. Melonk & J.L. Sherwood. Peanut chlorotic ringspot virus (PCRV), a newly discovered virus infecting peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) . J. Phytopathol. 140:133-44, 1994 Developed new techniques With J. Fletcher. Zymoblot, a new microtechnique used to detect enzyme activity in spiroplasmas and bacteria. Can. J. Microbiol. 39:543-7, 1993 With H. A. Melonk & J.L. Sherwood. Mirror
- [Edwin O'Neill Willis](https://neglectedscience.com/edwin-oneill-willis/): Edwin O’Neill Willis, US-born Brazilian ornithologist (Russelville, Alabama State 18 January 1935 – Rio Claro, São Paulo State 11 April 2015) Developed new method for catching birds using nets With A. Assumpção. Dois métodos novos de armação de redes para captura de aves. Atual. Ornitol. 60:6-7, 1994 DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Aves Genus Skutchia 1968 Species Phylloscartes kronei 1992 with Oniki Others Species Ricinus ruficapillus 2004 with Oniki & Mey (Phthiraptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Tanagers, finches and weaver as ant followers. Gerfaut 76:307-16, 1986 Myrmeciza and related antbirds (Aves, Formicariidae) as army ant followers. Rev. Bras. Zool. 2(7):433-42, 1985 Behavior and systematic status of gray-headed tanagers (Trichothraupis
- [Eduardo Faustino Wilde](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-faustino-wilde/): Eduardo Faustino Wilde García, Argentine physician, writer and political personality (Tupiza, Bolivia 15 June 1844 – Madrid, Spain 05 September 1913) From English and French descent Proposed phrenicotomy as treatment for tuberculosis (Wilde operation) about 40 years before German physician Sturtz popularized it at Europe in 1911  Honored in genus Wildeichnus Casamiquela 1964 (Ichnofossil) His relative, Felix Celso Reyes Gainza, Argentine geologist and geophysicist (Tupiza, Bolivia 07 January 1924 – 28 December 1972)  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Algunas consideraciones sobre la posible edad geologica del cambio de pendiente regional de las Sierras Subandinas del noroeste argentino y sudeste de Bolivia. Rev. Inst. Geol. Mineria Univ.
- [Dianzuo Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/dianzuo-wang/): Dianzuo Wang, Chinese mineral engineer and metallurgist (Jinxian, Liaoning Province 23 April 1934 – Authored about 300 papers and 9 books PATENTS With C. Sun & Y. Zhang. Phenol reduction leaching method of manganese oxide ore. CN94117545 (1996) With C. Sun & Y. Zhang. Ascorbic acid leaching method of manganese oxide ore. CN94117546 (1996) With C. Sun & Y. Zhang. Arylamine reduction leaching method of ocean manganese nodules. CN94117547 (1996) With C. Sun & Y. Zhang. Polyhydroxy aromatic acids reduction leaching method of manganese oxide ore. CN94117548 (1996) With G. Qiu. Branch carrier flotation and agitating tank with perforated baffle. Cn86105760
- [Dezhao Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/dezhao-wang/): Dezhao Wang or Te-Tchao Ouang, Chinese acoustic physicist (Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province 20 December 1905 – Beijing 28 December 1998) Recognized as world expert on shallow-water acoustics Performed discoveries on the equilibrium between big and small ions of suspended particles in gases; the numbers of big small ions and the mobility of small ions gave rise to Langevin-Ouang-Bricard theory (1934-40) Authored important papers on the mode filtering of sound fields With Tianfu Gao authored important studies on effects of internal wave on the underwater sound propagation (1982) Improved sonar Invented high sensibility electrometers DEVELOPED An acoustic system capable of dispersing the
- [Demin Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/demin-wang/): Demin Wang, Chinese petroleum expert (Tangshan, Hebei Province 09 February 1937 – From Swiss mother PATENTS (about 40) incomplete list With Y. Wang, R.J. Zhu, L. Ren, R. Zhong & H.Y. Wang. Crown-shaped separation device for separating oil and water in well. 20140000872 (2014) With Y. Wang, J. Wan, S.M. Zhang, R.J. Zhu & L. Li. Corrugated settling cup and a multi-cup uniform flux gas anchor. US08453726 (2013) & US20110209866-A1 (2011) With C. Liu, X.M. Song & S. Yuan. Betaine surfactants and preparation methods and uses thereof. W020121222667 (2011) With Y. Wang, R.J. Zhu, R. Zhong & H.Y. Wang. A downhole
- [Dazhong Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/dazhong-wang/): Dazhong Wang, Chinese physicist (Changli, Hebei Province 1935 – Authored 70 papers and one book Created a new concept of module-type high temperature gas-cooled reactors (patented in United States, Japan and Germany) in 1970s Developed the world’s first 5M shell-type nuclear heat supply reactor Responsible for the first integrated vessel type heating reactor being put into operation successfully in the world  Held 9 Chinese and foreign patents 
- [Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia](https://neglectedscience.com/darashaw-nosherwan-wadia/): Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, Indian geologist and stratigrapher (Surat, Gujrat State 25 October 1883 – 15 June 1969) World renowned for his researches on Himalayan geology Co-described fossil Amphibian species Lysipterygium risinense 1928 with Swinton SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Natural occurrences of uranium and thorium in India Three superimposed peneplains of Ceylon Desiccation of Central Asia. Everyday Sci. 2:273-5, 1954 The support of Himalayas Structure of the Himalayas and of the North Indian Foreland (1938) Cretaceous Volcanic Series in the Great Himalayan Range of Kashmir. Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind LXXXII (2), 1937   Tectonic relations of the Himalayas with the North Indian Foreland (1937) Cambrian-Trias sequence of
- [Daheng Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/daheng-wang/): Daheng Wang, Chinese optical physicist (Tokyo 26 February 1915 – Beijing 21 July 2011) DEVELOPED New types of rare-earth optical glasses A V-prism precision refractive index measuring instrument Optical equipment for military use An optical theodolite Photograph camera for nuclear radiations HONORS 17693 Wangdaheng (Asteroid)
- [Cyril Wyndham](https://neglectedscience.com/cyril-wyndham/): Cyril Henry Wyndham, South African physiologist (Maraisburg 07 May 1916 – Johannesburg 02 February 1987) Respected as leading international expert on human thermal physiology Authored over 250 papers SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY   Heatstroke and hyperthermia in marathon runners. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 301:128-38, 1977 With D. Mitchell. Acclimatization in a hot humid environment body fluid adjustements. J. Appl. Physiol. 40:786-96, 1976 The physiological and psychological effects of the heat (1974) The physiology of exercise under heat stress. Ann Rev. Physiol. 35:193-220, 1973 With L. Guttman & J. Silver. Thermoregulation in spinal man. J. Physiol. 220:335-52, 1972 With J.W. Snellen & D. Mitchell. Heat
- [Chung Yik Wang](https://neglectedscience.com/chung-yik-wang/): Chung Yik Wang, Chinese pathologist (Hong Kong 1888 – Malaysia 1930) METHODS A simple method of collecting blood for the Wassermann test. J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 22:85, 1918 A modified Wassermann test. J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 23(1):15-29, 1920 A precipitation test for syphilis. Lancet 199:274-6, 1922 A new culture medium. Lancet 212:446-7, 1928 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.P. M’Gowan. The occurrence of pleomorphism and mutation among members of the hemorrhagic septicemia group of organisms. J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 20(1):21-40, 1915 Isolation of tubercle bacilli from sputum and determination of their type. J. Pathol. Bacteriol. 21:14, 1916 An experimental study of latent tuberculosis. Lancet 188 (4853):
- [Chien-shiung Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/chien-shiung-wu/): Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-born US nuclear physicist (Luihe, Jiangsu Province 31 May 1912 – New York City 16 February 1997) ACHIEVEMENTS Recognized as an authority in beta decay  Established parity violation and the symmetry of charge conjugation independent from others authors With E. Ambler, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson & R.W. Hayward. Experimental test of parity conservation in beta decay. Phys.Rev. 105:1413, 1957.  With Y.K. Lee & L.W. Mo confirmed experimentally the conservation of the vector current in nuclear beta decay (1963) Observed polarized electromagnetic radiation is released on electron-positron annihilation and proved that electron and positron displays positive parity   HONORS First woman
- [Cheng Yih Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/cheng-yih-wu/): Cheng Yih Wu or Zhengyi Wu, Chinese botanist and plant geographer (Jiujiang, Jiangxi  Province 13 June 1916 – 20 June 2013) Authored more than 140 papers and edited 20 monographs DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Archakebia 1995 with Chen & Qin Calcareoboea 1982 Cardioteucris 1962 Circaeocarpus 1957 Heterolamium 1965 Houpoea 2008 with Xia Pleiosorbus 2000 with Zhou Psammosilene 1945 with Wu Pseudocerastium 1998 with Guo & Zhang Saniculiphyllum 1992 with Ku Sinadoxa 1981 with Wu & Huang Skapanthus 1975 with Li Tetradoxa 1981 Thoreliella 1957 Wenchengia 1965 with Chow Yunnanopilia 2000 with Li Species About 800 Other Taxonomic categories 4 tribes, one subgenus, 25 sections, 3 subsections, 100 series, 10 subspecies, 243 varieties and 17 forms HONORS Baijiania Lu & Li
- [Chenfu Francis Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/chenfu-francis-wu/): Chenfu Francis Wu, Chinese entomologist (1896 – 1972) DESCRIBED VALID PLECOPTERA TAXA Genera Claassenia 1934 Styloperla 1935 Species About 140 Described new species in Homoptera too HONORS Wuiessa Hsiao 1964 (Hemiptera) Neowuia Li & Muranyi 2017 (Plecoptera)
- [Charles Wambebe](https://neglectedscience.com/charles-wambebe/): Charles Obadiah Nimma Wambebe, Nigerian pharmacologist (Emi-Tsado, Benu State 08 August 1946 – Authored over 150 papers CONTRIBUTIONS Developed drugs from local plants for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, peptic ulcer, tropical skin infection and diabetes Developed a technique of HPLC for simultaneous determination of monoamines With D. Naur & G. Osuide. Simultaneous determination of monoamines and their principal metabolites in brain tissue of the young chick by reversed-phase ion-pair high performance liquid chromatography. J. Pharmacol. Biomed. Anal. 7(7):899-905, 1989 PAPERS IN TOP JOURNALS With K. Bryc, A. Auton, M.R. Nelson, J.R. Oksenberg, S.L. Hauser et al. Genome-wide patterns of
- [Carlos Werckle](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-werckle/): Karl (Carlos) Wercklé, French-born Costa Rican botanist and plant geographer (Wiebersweiler, Moselle Department, Lorraine 18 July 1860 – San Jose de Costa Rica 24 November 1924) DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE SPECIES Catopsis juncifolia 1904 Catopsis wangerini 1916 Guzmania condensata 1904 Guzmania glomerata 1916 Guzmania patula 1916 Guzmania polycephala 1916 Guzmania spectabilis 1916 Josemania singularis 1905 Nyctocereus kalbreyerianus 1907 Racinaea venusta 1905 Rhipsalis frondosa 1909 Tillandsia cauliflora 1905 Tillandsia singularis 1905 Vriesea acuminata 1904 Vriesea bracteosa 1916 Vriesea brunei 1904 Vriesea camptoclada 1916 Vriesea capitata 1904 Vriesea castaneo-bulbosa 1903 Vriesea comata 1904 Vriesea graminifolia 1904 Vriesea latissima 1904 Vriesea macrochlamys 1904 Vriesea pedicellata 1903 Vriesea picta 1904 Vriesea singuliflora 1904 Vriesea stenophylla 1904 Vriesea virida 1904 Vriesea vittata 1904 Werauhia macrantha 1904 Werauhia rugosa 1904 HONORS Wercklea Pittier & Standley 1916 (Malvaceae)
- [Antonio Arteaga](https://neglectedscience.com/antonio-arteaga/): Antonio Alberto Arteaga Llona, Chilean nutrologist (Santiago 02 May 1930 – Santiago 30 November 2018) Authored about 130 works Gained international recognition for his studies about cardiovascular diseases with Pedro Rosso, Nicolás Velasco, Alberto Maiz e Jaime Rozowski With N. Velasco, A. Maiz, E. Galindo & M. Bull. Elementos traza en nutrición parenteral. Evaluación de una solución para uso intravenosa. Rev. Med. Chile 112:1002-8, 1984 With E. Wittig de Penna, V. Araya, M. Craddock & E. Carrasco. Formulation, preparation and evaluation of shortening, laminated and cut biscuits for diabetic patients. Arch. Latinoam. Nutr. 37(3):532-46, 1987  Papers in top journals With B.
- [Noemi Cattoi](https://neglectedscience.com/noemi-cattoi/): Noemi Violeta Cattoi, Argentine vertebrate paleontologist (Buenos Aires 23 December 1911 – 29 January 1965) Osteografia y osteometria comparada de los generos Typotheriodon y Typotherium. Publ. Fac. Cien. Exac Fis. Natur. Univ. Buenos Aires 17:1-125, 1943 DESCRIBED FOSSIL Genera Bravardia 1941 (Mammalia) Chubutherium 1962 (Mammalia) Notoemys 1961 with Freiberg (Reptilia) Species Bravardia pampaea 1941 (Mammalia) Chubutherium ferreloi 1962 (Mammalia) Cyanoliseus ensenadensis 1957 (Aves) Notoemys laticentralis 1961 with Freiberg (Reptilia) Podocnemis argentiniensis 1958 with Freiberg (Reptilia) Tapirus platensis 1957 (Mammalia) HONORS Cattoiemys De La Fuente, Maniel, Bogado, Ruiz & Galli 2025 (Fossil Reptilia)
- [Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman](https://neglectedscience.com/ansie-dippenaar-schoeman/): Anna Sophia (Ansie) Dippenaar-Schoeman, South African arachnologist (Roodepoort, Gauteng Province 13 October 1948 – Recognized as international leader on the family Thomisidae Proved the importance of spiders in biological control of agrosystems (1974) A simple technique to study feeding behaviour of spiders on mites. Bull. Brit. Arachn. Soc. 4:349, 1979 President, International Society of Arachnology (2004-7) the first woman to be   DESCRIBED Valid Genera Cheiramona 1999 with Lotz Griswoldia 1997 with Jocqué Tyrotama 2005 with Foord Species 96 HONORS (Arachnida) Ansiea Lehtinen 2004 Ansienulina Wesolowska 2015 Ansistaria Sherwood 2022 Dippenaaria Wunderlich 1995
- [Fernando Omar Zuloaga](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-omar-zuloaga/): Fernando Omar Zuloaga, Argentine botanist (La Plata 09 August 1951 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genera Adenochloa 2014 Agnesia 1993 with Judziewicz Alshehbazia 2015 with Salariato Altoparadisum 2001 with Filgueiras, Davidse & Morrone Ancashia 2023 with Al Shehbaz, Salariato & Cano Apochloa 2008 with Morrone Batochloa 2023 with Salariato Borealandea 2023 with Al Shehbaz, Salariato & Cano Canastra 2001 with Morrone, Davidse & Filgueiras Cnidochloa 2020 Cyphonanthus 2007 with Morrone Drakkaria 2024 with Silva Gerritea 1993 with Morrone & Killeen Hopia 2007 with Morrone Janochloa 2023 with Delfini Keratochlaena 2009 with Morrone Mayariochloa 2012 with Salariato & Morrone Morronea 2014 with Scataglini
- [Junfeng Zhang](https://neglectedscience.com/junfeng-zhang/): Junfeng Zhang, Chinese paleoentomologist (November 1945 – 02 October 2022) DESCRIBED FOSSIL ARTHROPODA GENERA Hymenoptera Alloserphus 2001 with H.C. Zhang Beipiaoserphus 2000 with H.C. Zhang Calobaissodes 1992 Ceratoxyela 2000 with H.C. Zhang Emprionopsis 1994 with Sun & Zhang Epicharopimpla 1994 with Sun & Zhang Eubaissodes 1992 Eurymyrmex 1994 with Sun & Zhang Harmorhynchium 1994 with Sun & Zhang Heteroxyela 2000 with H.C. Zhang Isoxyela 2000 with H.C. Zhang Laiyanghelorus 1992 Lepitocampus 1994 with Sun & Zhang Lethoxyela 2000 with H.C. Zhang Liaoropronia & Liaoserphus 2001 with H.C. Zhang Liaoxyela 2000 with H.C. Zhang Ocnoserphus 2001 with H.C. Zhang Otlia 1992 Phthonocampus
- [Jiaxiang Zhang](https://neglectedscience.com/jiaxiang-zhang/): Jiaxiang Zhang or Chia-Hsiang Chang, Chinese astronomer (Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 30 October 1932 – 29 December 2019) Authored one of the first studies about artificial satellite orbits in the world (with theories later proven to be accurate) With Yuzhe Zhang. An investigation on the orbital motion of an artificial satellite. Acta astron. Sinica (1957) Developed a numerical model of solar system dynamics Discovered the asteroid 5384 Changjiangcun (1957) His group discovered more than 150 new minor planets and 4 new comets (since 1960s) HONORS 4760 Jia-xiang (Asteroid)
- [Qingcun Zeng](https://neglectedscience.com/qingcun-zeng/): Qingcun Zeng, Chinese atmospheric scientist (Yangjiang County, Guangdong Province 04 May 1935 – Considered as one of the founders of modern numerical weather forecast Formulated systematic theories of atmospheric evolution processes and wave ensemble dynamics Initiated the computational geophysical fluid dynamics Developed semi-implicit difference scheme and “take-off” method of standard stratification widely used for numerical weather prediction and climatic simulations (1961) Made the real weather forecasts by using the primitive equations (1961) Exposed a hydrostatic extraction approach (1963) Proposed the time-scale separability and interaction between the process of geostrophic adjustment and quasi-geostrophic evolution (1963) His theory of numerical weather prediction is
- [Zunyi Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/zunyi-yang/): Zunyi Yang, Chinese paleontologist and stratigrapher (Jieyang County, Guangdong Province 07 October 1908 – 17 September 2009) DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA Crustacea Family Xinjiangiopsidae 1986 with Hong Subfamily Weichangiopsinae 1980 with Hong Genera Brachygastriops 1980 with Hong Weichangiopsis 1980 with Hong Species 7 Mollusca Genera Carinonychia 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Leiodysonodonta 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Nodonychia 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Oxytomoidea 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Phestioidea 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Pseudonuculana 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Rutonia 1982 with Nie & Wu Trochaliella 1988 with Qian Wuxuanites 1986 with Pojeta & Zhang Species 52 Brachiopoda Genera Aequspiriferina
- [We I Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/we-i-yang/): We I Yang, Chinese entomologist (1897 – 1972) A new method for the clasification of urostylid insects. Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. (Zool.) 8:35-48, 1938 DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA / HETEROPTERA TAXA Genera Chinacoris 1935 Dardjilingia 1936 Eustenimorpha 1935 Gonopsimorpha 1934 Kiangsia 1934 Lakhonia 1936 Neogynenica 1935 Pielicoris 1938 Tahitocoris 1935 Urochelellus 1937 Species At least 60 HONORS (Hemiptera) Yangicoris Cai 1995 Yangiella Hsiao 1964
- [Chung Tu Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/chung-tu-yang/): Chung Tu Yang, Taiwanese entomologist (1931 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Hemiptera Diodelphax 1989 Ecapelopterum 1994 with Chan Ecdelphax 1989 Epyhemisphaerius 1994 with Chan Eudeferunda 1989 with Chen & Wilson Euhemisphaerius 1994 with Chan Eunycheuma 1989 Eusarima 1994 Eustenopsylla 1984 Eusudasina 1994 Ferganodelphax 1989 Formodanga 1993 with Wu Formodelphax 1989 Formolevu 1994 with Wu Gelastyrella 1994 Homotrioza 1984 Lanshu 1989 with Yang & Wilson Metanigrus 1986 with Tsaur & Wilson Nenasa 1994 with Chan Neoconon 1989 Neodicranotropis 1989 Neokodaiana 1994 Neometopina 1989 Neophacopteron 1984 Neoproutista 1993 with Wu Neopurohita 1986 with Yang Neosarima 1994 Neoterthrona 1989 Neunkanodes 1989 Onidodelphax 1989 Paraconon 1989
- [Yibing Xie](https://neglectedscience.com/yibing-xie/): Yibing Xie or Yi-Ping Hsieh, Chinese meteorologist (03 April 1917 – 25 August 1995) Found that the structure of East Asian front and jet stream was significantly different from that of North America in the Western Hemisphere and that the Asian “tropical front” and associated subtropical jet stream are stronger than those of North America and identified the existence of high-altitude subtropical jet stream in East Asia and their interaction with polar-frontal jet With Y.Q. Chen. Temperature field and flow field over the western Pacific and northern parts of the East Asian continent in winter. Acta Meteorol. Sinica 22:52-3, 1951 Put
- [Mengchao Wu](https://neglectedscience.com/mengchao-wu/): Mengchao Wu, Chinese chest surgeon (Minqing County, Fuzhou Province 31 August 1922 – Shanghai 22 May 2021) Achievements Proposed the five lobe and four segment of liver theory (1960) Developed a operation of intermittent interruption of the porta hepatis at room temperature (1963) that evolved to a technique of normothermic total hepatic vascular occlusion for hepatectomy (1980s) Obtained the first successful lobectomy of the middle liver in the world (1963) Removed the largest hepatic cavernous hemangioma in the world of its day (1975) Conducted the world’s first laparoscopic resection of liver tumors (1990s) Proposed ideas as repeat hepatectomy for postoperative recurrent
- [Juan Vazquez Lombera](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-vazquez-lombera/): Juan Policarpo Vazquez Lombera, Mexican mechanical engineer, industrial designer and entrepneur (Progreso de Obregón, Hidalgo State 23 February 1940 – 24 June 2019) Contributions Designed and built over 4,000 machines with technology and design of his own Developed innovatives machines mainly for food industry such as processors, transporters, sorters, bleachers, balers, autoclaves, pasteurizers, washing machines and depletion tunnels (1965-90) Developed a prototype of an Allis Chalmers tractor displaying clock gears and wheel rim ashtrays (1959) winning a manual arts contest of Ford Company Developed Equipo de secado para papel abrasivo. Thesis (1964) A hydrotechnical process for pack mango Patents Apparatus for
- [Benigno Varela Fuentes](https://neglectedscience.com/benigno-varela-fuentes/): Benigno Varela Fuentes, Spanish-born Uruguayan hepatologist (La Coruña, Spain 07 November 1893 – 22 April 1965) Achievements Expert on liver pathology and biochemistry His book Acidosis y Alcalosis en la Clinica, (1937) gained worldwide fame Observed the presence of a special form of bilirrubin in sera of cancer patients (1933) Demonstrated with colleagues the value of indirect hyperbilirrubinemia as a index of hepatocytic failure (Varela Fuentes symptom) Obtained the ether-extracted bilirubine With C. Viana. De la nature de la bilirubine ethero-extractible de quelque serum icteriques. C.R. Soc. Biol. 114:789, 1933 With C. Viana Giuria. Sobre una nueva forma de bilirrubina indirecta
- [Wouter Van Hoven](https://neglectedscience.com/wouter-van-hoven/): Wouter Van Hoven, South African zoologist and ecologist (1947 – SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With D. Furstenberg. Condensed tannin as anti-defoliate agent against browsing by giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) in the Kruger National Park. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 107:425-31, 1994 With A.G. Schmidt & G.K. Theron. The phytosociology and structure of vegetation near Villa Nova, North-Western Transvaal, South Africa 59:500-10, 1993 Mortalities in kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) populations related to chemical defence of trees. Rev. Zool. Africa 105:141-5, 1991 Tree’s secret warning system against browsers. Custos 13:11, 1984 With E.A. Boomker. The influence of inoculum source on in vitro digestability determination. S. Afr. J. Anim.
- [René San Martín](https://neglectedscience.com/rene-san-martin/): René Arturo San Martín y Saenz, Cuban mineralogist and petrographer (La Habana 1888 – 12 August 1956) Contributions He would have set up one of the best laboratories of mineralogical optics in the world Confirmed that polarization colors aren’t pure Modified Van Valkeburgh-Crwaford method for identification of elements to the point of converting it into a new method (1944) Modified the mineralogical assay by fusion employing ammonium phosphates Developed deflagration test in a closed tube to identify mineral elements Methods Un nuevo procedimiento rapido para el reconocimiento del elemento electro-positivo de alguns sulfuros, arseniuros y sulfosales naturales. Mem. Soc. Cub. Hist.
- [Carmen Pujals](https://neglectedscience.com/carmen-pujals/): Carmen Pujals, Argentine phycologist (Buenos Aires 13 January 1916 – Adrogué, Buenos Aires Province 24 October 2003) From Catalonian parentage DESCRIBED ALGAE TAXA Genera Camontagnea 1981 Medeiothamnion 1970 Species Aphanocladia robusta 1967 Compsogonon argentinensis 1967 Gastroclonium trichodes 1967 Thorea bachmannii Pujals ex Sheath, Vis & Cole HONORS Pujalsia Boraso 2017 (Rhodophyta)
- [Roque Orlando](https://neglectedscience.com/roque-orlando/): Roque Orlando Calcagno, Argentine neuropathologist (Campana, Buenos Aires Province 10 August 1899 – 1967) Authored over 80 works First to show the alternating degeneration of the external geniculate bodies in man La degeneración alternada del geniculado externo Discovered the pathogeny of Argyll-Robertson sign due to demyelization of iris nervous fibers or first to demonstrate the myelinic network of human iris and its demyelization in progressive general paralysis With B. Moyano. Patogenia del signo de Argyll-Robertson (1935) Introduced a new semiological method for exploring endoventricular structures La ventriculoscopia. Un nuevo metodo de semiologia cerebral y de investigación experimental. La Semana Medica 38
- [Gustavo Augusto Melo](https://neglectedscience.com/gustavo-augusto-melo/): Gustavo Augusto Schmidt de Melo, Brazilian carcinologist (Santos, São Paulo State 14 December 1933 – DESCRIBED VALID CRUSTACEA TAXA Genus Speloeophoroides 1998 with Abrantes Torres Species Amphithrax besnardi 1990 with Manning & Albuquerque Antillimunida chacei 1992 with Melo Filho Babamunida coltroi 2006 Catapagurus cunhai 2012 with Nucci Clythrocerus bidentatus 1999 with Campos Jr Cyclodorippe longifrons 1999 with Campos Jr. Deliocerus coelhoi 1998 with Campos Jr. Goreopagurus lemaitrei 2007 with Nucci Grimothea atlantica 1994 with Melo Filho Iridonida heblingi 1991 with Melo Filho Iridonida petronioi 1994 with Melo Filho Latreillia williamsi 1990 Neopilumnoplax lipkeholthuisi 2010 with Tavares Pagurus heblingi 2003 with Nucci
- [Enrique Hong](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-hong/): Enrique Hong Chong, Mexican pharmacologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 11 June 1938 – From Chinese ancestry Contributions Stimulation of central serotonin receptors as a novel mechanism of antihypertensive activity (1983) With P. Nava Felix. Nature of the central serotonin receptors mediating hypotension. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. 1(4):461-6, 1979 Described and characterized new drugs Described zolertine, an antihypertensive agent with a special profile of an adrenergic blocking action (1965) With R. Rodríguez, H. Vidrio & E.G. Pardo. Pharmacology of a group of phenylpiperazine tetrazole derivatives with adrenergic blocking actions. J. Pharmacol. Exper. Therapy 148(1):54-65, 1965 With H. Vidrio, R. Rodríguez, J.L. Magaña, R. Vargas
- [Maria del Socorro Gonzalez](https://neglectedscience.com/maria-del-socorro-gonzalez/): Maria del Socorro Gonzalez Elizondo, Mexican botanist and ecologist (Bustamante, Nuevo León 17 August 1953 – DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Megacorax 2002 with Wagner Species Agave pintilla 2011 with M. Gonzalez & Resendiz Arbutus concolor 2012 with M. Gonzalez & Sorensen Arbutus madrensis 1992 Aristolochia albopilosa 2016 with M. Gonzalez & Barrie Astragalus spellenbergi 2016 with Estrada & Villarreal Carex angustilepis 2021 with Reznicek Carex angustipica 2001 with Reznicek Carex cabralii 2021 with Reznicek Carex complexa 2021 with Reznicek Carex congestiflora 1999 with Reznicek Carex dentata 2021 with Reznicek Carex durangensis 1995 with Reznicek Carex evadens 1997 with Reznicek Carex gypsophila
- [Frances Gilchrist](https://neglectedscience.com/frances-gilchrist/): Frances M. C. Gilchrist, South African veterinary microbiologist (fl.1946-2001) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With W. Van Hoven. First record of ciliated protozoan endocomensals in the gut of the bushpig. S. Afr. J. Wildl. Res. 21(1):28-9, 1991 With R.I. Mackie & S. Heath. An in vivo study of ruminal micro-organisms influencing lactate turnover and its contribution to volatile fatty acid production (1984) With R.L. Mackie, J.J. Therion & M. Ndhlovu. Processing ruminal digest to release bacteria attached to feed particles. S. Afr. Tydsslzr. Veck. 13:52-4, 1983 With R.L.Mackie. Stepwise adaptation of sheep fed ad libitum to a high concentrate diet and its effect on
- [Carlos Gallardo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-gallardo/): Carlos Sebastián Gallardo Silva, Chilean marine ecologist (Valdivia 22 June 1943 – Described the molluscan species Crepidula philippiana 1977 Some bibliography With C. Manque & M. Filun. Comparative resistance to starvation among eraly juveniles of some marine muricoidean snails. Nautilus 118(3):121-6, 2004 With K. Benkendorff & C.B. Westley. Observations on the production of purple pigments. Observations on the production of purple pigments in the egg capsules, hypobranchial and reproductive glands from seven species of Muricidae (Gastropoda:Mollusca). Invert. Reprod. Dev. 46(2-3):93-102, 2004 With P.E. Penchaszadeh. Hatching mode and lattitude in marine gastropods: revisting Thorson’s paradigm in the southern hemisphere. Marine Biol. 138(3):547-52,
- [Lidia Ferraro](https://neglectedscience.com/lidia-ferraro/): Lidia Itati Ferraro, Argentine lichenologist (18 February 1951 – DESCRIBED LICHENES TAXA Genus Bryogomphus 2005 with Lucking, Buck & Serusiaux Species Arthonia crystallifera 1997 with Lucking Aspidothelium submuriforme 2014 with Aptroot & Caceres Asterothyrium bisporum 2007 with Lucking Asterothyrium rostratum 2007 with Lucking Asterothyrium segmentatum 2007 with Lucking Asterothyrium subargenteum 2007 with Lucking Astrothelium spectabile 2016 with Aptroot Bryogomphus caribaeus 2005 with Lucking, Buck & Serusiaux Byssoloma catarinense 2008 with Lucking Canomaculina cristobalii with Elix Canomaculina laciniella 2000 with Elix Coccocarpia tomentosa 2010 with Aptroot Coenogonium albomarginatum 2013 with Michlig Coenogonium brasiliense 2013 with Michlig Coenogonium flammeum 2011 with Michlig &
- [Chien Lieu Chen](https://neglectedscience.com/chien-lieu-chen/): Chien Lieu Chen or Chih-leu Chen or Qi liu Chen, Chinese protozoologist (fl.1949-98) DESCRIBED PROTOZOA TAXA Genera (with Hsieh) Laterocauda 1984 Neomyxobolus 1960 Spirosutoria 1984 Tetraspina 1988 Species Apiosoma minutum 1961 Balantidium ctenopharyngodoni 1955 Dermocystidium sinensis 1993 with Xiao Eimeria aristichthysi 1964 with Lee Eimeria chenchingensis 1984 Eimeria coreia 1991 with Su Eimeria culteri 1964 with Lee Eimeria erythroculteri 1984 Eimeria haichengensis 1962 Eimeria hemibarba 1987 with Su Eimeria hemiculteri 1964 with Hsieh Eimeria huanggangensis 1987 with Su Eimeria huizhouensis 1987 with Su Eimeria intestinalis 1956 Eimeria kwangtungensis 1960 Eimeria liaoningensis 1984 Eimeria macropoda 1991 with Su Eimeria mylopharyngodoni 1956 Eimeria
- [Juan Celada Salmón](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-celada-salmon/): Juan Celada Salmón, Mexican metallurgical engineer (Hermosillo, Sonora State 14 February 1916 – Monterrey 08 December 2017) Contributions Led the team that developed a system for the direct reduction of iron ore to produce sponge iron (HYL iron ore direct production process) 1952 A method for arc balancing an electric furnace AISE Yearbook (1983) PATENTS (398 in Mexico and abroad; incomplete list) With Garza Garcia. Graphite electrode with internal cooling for electric furnaces US4,853,942 (1987) With J.F. Price Falcón, R. Viramontes Brown & P.W. Mackay. Metodo mejorado para reducir minerales de oxido de hierro a hierro esponja. MX154126 (1987) Improvements to
- [Carlos Casas Campillo](https://neglectedscience.com/carlos-casas-campillo/): Carlos Casas Campillo, Mexican microbiologist and chemist (Cordoba, Veracruz State 12 October 1916 – Ciudad de Mexico 06 October 1994) Contributions With A. Sanchez Marroquín. Aislamiento, incidencia y caracterización del bacteriofago de Rhizobium meliloti. An. Esc. Nac. Cien. Biol. Mexico 3:1943-4 El antagonismo microbiano en relación con las bacterias de los nodulos de las plantas leguminosas Ciencia 9:193-9, 1949 Rhizobacidin, an antibiotic with particular activity against the nodule bacteria of legumes. Ciencia 11:21-8, 1951 With H.J. Ringold, O. Mancera, C. Djerassi, A. Bowers, E. Batres, H. Martínez, E. Necoechea, J. Edwards, M. Velasco & R.J. Dorfman. A new class of potent
- [Luiz Felippe Gonzaga de Campos](https://neglectedscience.com/luiz-felippe-gonzaga-de-campos/): Luiz Felippe Gonzaga de Campos, Brazilian mining engineer (São Luiz 21 June 1856 – Rio de Janeiro 09 July 1925) Contributions Authored a work about iron-nickel from Santa Catarina State reproduced in many foreign journals Nota sobre a localidade do ferro nativo de Santa Catharina Rev. Observ. Rio de Janeiro 3 (1888) Some bibliography A fisiografia da zona ferrífera de Minas Gerais. Miner. Metal. 38(7):65-8, 1945 Jazidas ferríferas de Serra da Piedade, Minas Geraes. Min. Met. 41(7), 1943 Geologia da zona ferrífera do centro de Minas Gerais. Mineração Metalurgia 40(2):187-93, 1943 Carvão de Santa Catarina (1940) Notas sobre algumas localidades da
- [José de Jesus Caballero](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-de-jesus-caballero/): José de Jesus Caballero Mellado, Mexican soil microbiologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 18 March 1953 – Cuernavaca, Morelos State 16 October 2010) Achievements First to report nitrogen-fixing capacity of Acetobacter peroxydans (2005) With Z.R. Suarez Moreno & V. Venturi. The new group of non-pathogenic plant-associated nitrogen-fixing Burkholderia ssp. shares a conserved quorum-sensing system, which is tightly regulated by the RsaL repressor. Microbiology 154:2048-59, 2008 With V.J. Marín Cevada, R. Bustillos Cristales, J. Muñoz Rojas, M.A. Mascarua Esparza et al. Tatumella ptyseos, an unrevealed causative agent of pink disease in pineapple. J. Phytopathol. 158:93-9, 2010 DESCRIBED NEW BACTERIA SPECIES Gluconacetobacter johannae & Gluconacetobacter
- [Briquet family](https://neglectedscience.com/briquet-family/): Raul Carlos Briquet, Brazilian obstetrician (Limeira, São Paulo State 08 February 1887 – São Paulo 05 September 1953) From French ancestry Contributions First to employ sulphonamide in puerperal infections Infecção puerperal anaeróbica produzida especialmente pelo Clostridium welchii. Anais Fac. Med. Univ. São Paulo 12(3):427-42, 1936 Tratamento moderno da infecção puerperal (1940) First to study the Abderhalden test Diagnostico da gravidez pela dialyse-reacção de Abderhalden (1914) Some bibliography O problema de choque. Obst. Ginec. Latino-Am. 10(1-2), 1952 Sobre um caso de coréia gravídica tratada pelo ACTH. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 7:308, 1952 Novos conceitos sobre o problema do choque. Rev. Gyn. et d’Obst.
- [Augusto Brandão Filho](https://neglectedscience.com/augusto-brandao-filho/): Augusto Brandão Filho, Brazilian surgeon (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro State 18 May 1881 – Rio de Janeiro 18 September 1957) Achievements First report about pseudotumoral form of schistosomiasis Tumor abdominal determinado por bilharziose hepato-biliar. Clin. Cir. 1:130-5, 1922 Techniques With Paula Santos modified Sluder technique for tonsil removal Nouveau procédé de nephropéxie (1914) A new method of approaching the crossed ligaments and semilunar meniscus. Braz. Med. 34:247, 1920 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Hérnia perineal posterior Thesis (1903) Sondas de demora ureteraes. Rev. Med. 1911 A propôs d’un point de téchnique dans le cathéterisme de uréteres Rev. Med (1913) Nephropexia (1914) Raquianalgesia geral. Thesis
- [Bounaga family](https://neglectedscience.com/bounaga-family/): Djilali Bounaga, Algerian botanist and mycologist (1931 – Sahara February 1980) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With N. Sabaou & N. Bounaga. Actions antibiotique, mycolytique et parasitaire de deux actinomycetes envers Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. albedinis et autres formae speciales. Can. J. Microbiol. 29:194-9, 1983 With A. Ali-Hamoud & N. Djellali. Contribution à l’etude microbiologique des sols alfatiers. 1- densité de la microflore totale et activité biologique. Effet du paillage. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord 3:15, 1983 With N. Sabaou & M. Bennaceur. Le palmier dattier et la fusariose. VIII. Action parasitaire d’un actinomycete envers Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. albedinis. Ann. Microbiol. Inst. Pasteur
- [Miriam Becker](https://neglectedscience.com/miriam-becker/): Miriam Becker, Brazilian entomologist (Porto Alegre 1937 – DESCRIBED HEMIPTERA TAXA Genera Adevoplitus 1997 with Grazia Atarsocoris 1967 Paralcippus 1986 with Grazia Praedinocoris 1985 with Grazia Species Abascanthus grandis 1977 Abascanthus pubescens 1977 Ablaptus bolivianus 1989 with Grazia Ablaptus lopesi 1989 with Grazia Ablaptus similimus 1989 with Grazia Adevoplitus costaricensis 1997 with Grazia Adevoplitus venezuelanus 1997 with Grazia Agaclitus australis 1992 with Grazia Atarsocoris brachiariae 1996 Atarsocoris macroptera 1967 Cataulax froeschneri 2000 with Grazia & Campos Cataulax radians 2000 with Grazia & Campos Cataulax subtiliterconspersus 2000 with Grazia & Campos Dinocoris (Dinocoris) fabricii 1985 with Grazia Dinocoris (Dinocoris) nigroantennatus 1985 with
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- [Zuoyan Zhu](https://neglectedscience.com/zuoyan-zhu/): Zuoyan Zhu, Chinese geneticist (Li County, Hunan Province 30 September 1941 – Authored over 100 papers being 3 of them which have been regarded classic works in the field of transgenic fish With Dizhou Tong obtained the first ever cloned vertebrate from a egg whose cytoplasm and nucleus are from different genera (1973) Produced the first batch of transgenic fish in the world (1984) First claim on successful transfer of hGH into goldfish eggs (1985) Discovered transgene mosaicism and developed a strategy to clone homogeneous transgenic fish 
- [Zucchi brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/zucchi-brothers/): Ronaldo Zucchi, Brazilian entomologist (23 July 1938 – Gained international recognition on morphology and ethology of bees species ACHIEVEMENTS With S. Jarau, C.M. Schultz, M. Hrncir, W. Francke, F.G. Barth & M. Ayasse. Hexyl decanoate, the first trail pheromone compound identified in a stingless bee, Trigona recursa. J. Chem Ecol. 32(5):1555-64, 2006 With M.J. Ferreira-Caliman & F.S. Nascimento. First record of chemical signals from the queen during the oviposition process in stingless bees. Insectes Sociaux (2012) With C.D. Faustino, E.V. Silva Matos & S. Mateus. First record of emergency queen rearing in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, apidae, Meliponini). Insects sociaux 49(2):111-3, 2012 With
- [Zubieta Brothers](https://neglectedscience.com/zubieta-brothers/): Gonzalo Zubieta Russi, Mexican mathematician and logician (Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche State 26 May 1924 – 09 April 2021) His thesis Sobre el calculo funcional de primer orden (1950) received comments by R. Feys in journal of Symbolic Logic Introduced the notion of relative correspondence Clases aritméticas definidas sin igualdad. Bol. Soc. Mat. Mex. 2:45-53, 1957 Proposed a version of standard analysis employing ultra-products and ultra-powers Developed a logical method of analysis Taller de Logica Matematica (Analisis Logico) 1993 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Differential notation for set functions. Anales Inst. Mat. (1961) Integrales de medida positiva (1976) monography Clear definitions and free mathematical
- [Yuzhe Zhang](https://neglectedscience.com/yuzhe-zhang/): Yuzhe Zhang, Chinese astronomer (Minhou, Fujian Province 16 February 1902 – Nankin 21 July 1986) Determinated rotation periods of minor planets Discovered about 1000 asteroids with his assistants such as 3789 Zhongguo (1928), 2051 Chang Discovered three comets: 60 P/Tsuchinshan, 62 P/Tsuchinshan and C/1977V1 Discovered one lunar crater Authored one of the first studies about artificial satellite orbits in the world (with theories later proven to be accurate) With Jiaxang Zhang. An investigation on the orbital motion of an artificial satellite. Acta astron. Sinica (1957) HONOURS 2051 Chang Zhangyuzhe moon crater
- [Wenying Zhuang](https://neglectedscience.com/wenying-zhuang/): Wenying Zhuang, Chinese mycologist (Beijing 27 July 1948 – DESCRIBED SOME CAUSATIVE AGENTS OF PLANT DISEASES Botrytis sinoviticola 2014 (gray mold disease of table grapes) Botrytis sinoallii 2010 (grey mould of Allium) Botrytis fabiopsis 2010 (chocolate spot of broad bean) DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA Genera (11; incomplete) Calycellinopsis 1990 Chaetopsinectria 2010 with Luo Deltosperma 1988 Eoaleurina 1986 with Korf Kimbropezia 1991 with Korf Pfistera 1991 with Korf Rhizoscyphus 2004 with Korf Volutellonectria 2012 with Luo Xeromedulla 1987 with Korf Species About 180 Subspecies 18 HONORS Wenyingia Wang & Pfister 2001 (Fungi) Wenyingzhuangia Liu, Liu, Liu, Zhou, Qi & Liu 2014 (Bacteria)
- [Sibte Hasan Zaidi](https://neglectedscience.com/sibte-hasan-zaidi/): Sibte Hasan Zaidi, Indian pathologist and toxicologist (Jarwal Village, Uttar Pradesh State 15 April 1918 – New York 05 April 2008) Established the pathogenesis and etiology of progressive massive fibrosis of the coal workers Showed the role of small amounts of free silica in the pathogenesis of pneumoconiosis Demonstrated the requirement of a mucus barrier in the prevention of peptic ulcer disease (1957) With S. Nityanand developed rodent models of atherosclerotic heart disease and experimental myocardial infarction (1963) LINKS http://insaindia.org/BM/BM36_0908.pdf
- [Rodrigo Zeledón Araya](https://neglectedscience.com/rodrigo-zeledon-araya/): Rodrigo Zeledón Araya, Costa Rican parasitologist, medical entomologist and microbiologist  (Puntarenas 15 February 1930 – Authored over 240 papers, 4 monographs, 9 books and 15 book chapters First to obtain in vitro culture of Dermatobia hominis larvae With R. Brenes elucidated the complete life cycle of trematode species Paragonimus mexicanus   Discovered and described the phenomenon of nymphs of Triatoma dimidiata hide itselves in the dust of houses  Described a sensitive skin test for chronic Chagas disease in With C. Ponce. A skin test for the diagnosis of Chagas disease. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 68:414-5, 1974 Developed a culture medium for distinguishing Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli First to demonstrate that
- [Peishan Zhang](https://neglectedscience.com/peishan-zhang/): Peishan Zhang or Pei-Shan Chang, Chinese geologist, mineralogist and geochemist (Tengxian County, Shandong Province June 1925 – With Z.M. Yang & K.J. Tao. New varieties of Na-Ca-Ba-RE Fluorocarbonate series minerals. J. Rare Earths 12(4):289-93, 1994 DESCRIBED MINERAL SPECIES Bafertisite 1959 with Semenov Huanghoite -(Ce) 1961 with Semenov Zhonghuacerite -(Ce) 1981 with Tao & Li Aeschynite -(Nd) 1982 with Tao Cebaite -(Nd) 1986 with Tao Parisite -(Nd) 1986 with Tao A Nd-Nb-Ti silicate 1986 with Tao Fergusonite -(Nd) 1987 with Tao Fluorokinoshitalite & Fluorotetraferriphlogopite 2011 with Miyawaki, Shimazaki, Shigeoka, Yokoyama, Matsubara, Yurimoto & Yang HONORS Zhangpeishanite Shimazaki, Miyawaki, Yokoyama, Matsubara & Yang
- [Pedro Elías Zadunaisky](https://neglectedscience.com/pedro-elias-zadunaisky/): Pedro Elías Zadunaisky, Argentine astronomer and mathematician (Rosario 10 December 1917 – Buenos Aires 07 October 2009) Authored over 40 publications such as A Guide to Celestial Mechanics Authored A determination of the orbit of Phoebe, ninth satellite of Saturn. Astron. J. (1954), with gained international repercussion Computed the Halley comet with accuracy The motion of Halley’s comet during the return of 1910. Astron. J. (1966) METHODS Developed Zadunaisky iterated defect correction A method for estimation of errors propagated in the numerical solution of a system of ordinary differential equations. The theory of orbits in the Solar System and in Stellar Systems. Proc.
- [Otto Zoellner](https://neglectedscience.com/otto-zoellner/): Otto Zoellner, German-born Chilean botanist (Hanau, Hesse State 21 November 1909 – Quilpué 01 December 2007) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Chrysocoryne 1973 Species Bowlesia macrophysa 1973 Culcitium albifolium 1970 Ephedra trifurcata 1975 Leucocoryne conferta 1972 Porophyllum tarapacanum 1979 Varieties Leucocoryne coquimbensis var. alba 1972 Prosopis reptans var. chilensis 2001 with Olivares HONORS Zoellneralium Crosa 1975 (Amaryllidaceae)
- [Nicim Zagury](https://neglectedscience.com/nicim-zagury/): Nicim Zagury, Jewish Brazilian physicist (Rio de Janeiro 09 March 1934 – Gained international recognition for his work on quantum optics Predicted the existence of ressonance in mesons and the K’ meson existence (1960) With A.L.L. Videira & J. Tiomno. Possible existence of a new (K’) meson. Physical Review Letters 6:120, 1960 With P.L. Ferreira presented new models of quarks restriction (1977) With S. Haroche & L. Davidovich proposed the counting method of non-quantum breakdown photons (1992) With L. Davidovich & Aharonov introduced the notion of quantum walks Quantum random walks. Phys. Rev. A 48(2):1687-90, 1993 First proposed an experimental solution
- [Mohammed Zaka ur Rab](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-zaka-ur-rab/): Mohammed Zaka ur Rab, Indian entomologist (28 December 1936 – DESCRIBED NEW SPECIES Aciura kashmirica 1977 (Diptera) Craspedoxantha indica 1961 (Diptera) Dacus (Callantra) munroi 1961 (Diptera) Zakaella alami 1963 (Hymenoptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Morphology Morphology of the male terminalia of Aedes aegypti Linnaeus, the yellow fever mosquito (Diptera: culicidae). Beitr. Ent. 30(1):9-14, 1980 Morphology of the male terminalia of Sphaerophoria indiana Big. (Diptera, Syrphidae). Zool. Jb. Anat. 101:397-403, 1979 Morphology of the male genitalia of Hippobosca maculata L. (Diptera: Hippoboscidae). Zool. Anz. 203:182-8, 1979 Morphology of the male terminalia of Basilia (Paracyclopodia) burmensis (Theodor) (Diptera: Nycteribiidae). Zool. Anz. 203:177-81, 1979 Morphology of the male terminalia of Scatophaga stercoraria L. (Diptera, Scatophagidae). J. Entomol. Res. 3:25-31, 1979
- [Mohammed Abdul Zaher](https://neglectedscience.com/mohammed-abdul-zaher/): Mohammed Abdul Zaher, Bengali geologist (c.1932 – Dhaka 27 August 2017) Proposed the existence of a new mineral in his thesis which later was called zaherite SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Peat deposit of Kola Moza, Khulna, East Pakistan. Inter. Geol. Report 2, Geol. Survey of Pakistan, Quetta, 1963 With W. Ahmed. Paharpur Gondwana coalfield and subsurface geology of Rajhashi division, East Pakistan. Geol. Survey of Bangladesh, 1965 A study of the clays of the Salt Range and Kala-Chitta Hills, West Pakistan. Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 148 pp. 1969 Jamalganj coal – its quantity, quality and minability. Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh, 1980 
- [Mohamed Abdel-aziz Zaher](https://neglectedscience.com/mohamed-abdel-aziz-zaher/): Mohamed Abdel Aziz Zaher, Egyptian acarologist (fl.1958) Authored about 130 papers DESCRIBED ACARI TAXA Genera Septobia 1982 with Gomaa & El Enany Hemitarsocheylus 1975 with Soliman Species Aceria imperata 1978 with Abou Awad Aceria melongenus 1978 with Abou Awad Aceria olivi 1978 with Abou Awad Aculops malus 1979 with Abou Awad Aegyptobia salixi 1969 with Yousef Amblyseiella denmarki 1986 with El Brollosy Amblyseius cynodactylus 1969 with Shehata Amblyseius numae 1969 with Shehata Aponychus solimani 1982 with Gomaa & El Enany Arctoseius bilinear 1986 Bdella lattakia 1976 with Soliman Biscirus simplexus 1976 with Soliman Bryobia meyerus 1982 with Gomaa & El Enany Cenopalpus fewstrii 1969 with Yousef Cenopalpus tamarixi 1984 Cheyletus acarophagus 1967 with Soliman Chiapacheylus desertorum 1969 with Soliman Chiapacheylus macrocorneus 1969
- [Mauricio Oscar Zamponi](https://neglectedscience.com/mauricio-oscar-zamponi/): Mauricio Oscar Zamponi, Argentine marine zoologist  Sagartia troglodytes (Price, 1847) (Cnidaria: Sagartiidae) from the south-western Atlantic Ocean and the first evidence of spermatophores in sea anemones. Acta Adriatica 40(1):77-86, 1999 Developed some methods Metodologia para la cuantificación de algunas estructuras taxonômicas em Actiniaria (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) 1996 Una metodologia para estudos cuantitativos de los cnidocistos (Actiniaria, Actiniidae) 1994 DESCRIBED NEW CNIDARIA TAXA Genera Austroneophellia 1978 Corynactis 1976 Heptarradiata 1988 with Genzano Lignopsis 2000 with Perez Neoparacondylactis 1974 Octorradiata 1988 with Genzano Paraisometridium 1978 Pentarradiata 1988 com Genzano Ramirezia 1979 Tetraotoporpa 1991 Species Anemonia chubutensis 1992 with Acuña Aulactinia marplatensis 1977 Austroneophellia luciae 1978 Corynactis sanmatiensis 1976 Euphysa monotentaculata 1983 Halipteris heptazooidea 1992 Heptarradiata rioplatensis 1988 with Genzano Irenium alabiatum 1999 with Gasca &
- [Manuel Zuñiga Idiaquez](https://neglectedscience.com/manuel-zuniga-idiaquez/): Manuel Zuñiga Idiaquez, Honduran poet, musician and pedagogue (Danlí 1884 – San Salvador 1959) INVENTIONS A device for disinfection and sterilization of clothes  Harmonioflauto, an instrument that mimics a set of harmonic flutes 
- [Luis Zambrano Molina](https://neglectedscience.com/luis-zambrano-molina/): Luis Zambrano Molina, Venezuelan inventor (Rivas Davila, Merida State 01 May 1901 – Tovar, Merida State 15 August 1990) INVENTIONS (about 50) 600 amp generator used to solder 3/8 rods (1938) A large lathe with 13 different thread sizes A strawberry peeler   A foundry with its own furnace (1948) 20 electric heat generating turbines 5 coffee driers A machine used to dry sewage for fertilizers A dual effect turbine with 4 outputs and zero axial effect 3 forklift ropeways with turbines and a carrying capacity of half a ton over a half a mile A garlic sorting, cleaning and sifting machine  A bicycle-powered
- [Lucrecia Covelo de Zolessi](https://neglectedscience.com/lucrecia-covelo-de-zolessi/): Lucrecia Covelo de Zolessi, Uruguayan arachnologist and entomologist (La Paz, Canelones Department 12 January 1920 – Montevideo 09 March 2000) Gained international recognition for his movie about sexual behavior of arachnid species Bothriurus bonariensis DESCRIBED Brachymyrmex melensis 1978 with Gonzalez & Petrone de Abenante (Hymenoptera) Cephalocoema (Orienscopia) albrechti 1968 (Orthoptera) Scotussa liebermanni 1968 with Mesa (Orthoptera) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La partenogénesis en el escorpión amarillo Tityus bolivianus uruguayensis (Borelli, 1900) (Scorpionida: Buthidae). Actas Jornal. Zool. Uruguay (1985) With B. Goni & H.T. Imai. Karyotypes of thirteen ant species from Uruguay (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Caryologia 36:363-71, 1983 With Y. Petrone de Abenante. Estado actual de los estudios bioecológicos y morfológicos
- [Leonardo Zeevaert Wiechers](https://neglectedscience.com/leonardo-zeevaert-wiechers/): Leonardo Enrique Zeevaert Wiechers, Mexican structural engineer (Veracruz 27 November 1914 – Ciudad de Mexico 16 February 2010) From German descent Recognized as a world leader of geotechnical engineering Authored 159 papers Developed the concept of intergranular viscosity First to apply the concept of controlled flexibility in the design of structures Introduced the concept of elastic stability in design of high-rise steel Improved the concept of  compensated foundation and developed the concept of compensated friction pile foundations Discovered the phenomenon of negative friction in piles Developed and named Seismo-Geodynamic Theory Ecuación completa de consolidación para depositos de arcilla que exhiben fuerte compresión
- [Lelio Zeno](https://neglectedscience.com/lelio-zeno/): Lelio Olchese Zeno, Argentine plastic surgeon and traumatologist (Torino 16 March 1890 – Rosario 21 October 1968) Son of Piamontese immigrants Worked in the USSR in the first half of 1930s being recognized as father of traumatology in Russia With Emilio Pizarro Crespo wrote Medicina Psicosomatica (1945), in which enunciated the concept of eubiatry or integral medicine Enunciated the idea of fracture callus as a cicatricial disease and the concept of “autogenous welding” First to use skin-free graft of the pinna for nasal correction Injerto libre de piel acolchada em las pequenãs rinoplastias. Anales de Cirurgia 7:295-9, 1941 DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES Mayo-Zeno technique
- [Juan Jose Zunino](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-jose-zunino/): Juan José Zunino, Argentine geologist and engineer (died Buenos Aires 07 February 1991) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La astenosfera o zona de baja velocidad sismica en el manto superior y sus posibles implicâncias en geotectônica. An. Acad. Cien. Ex. Fis. Nat. 26:149-71, 1974 Evaluation of oil exploration methods. World Oil (Oil Weekly) 126(6):13-20,1947 Tectónica de estructuras fuertemente comprimidas. Bol. Inf. Petrol. Bs. Aires 22(245):17-35, 1945 El plano por medio de la fotografia utilizando el estereocomparador. Bol. Inf. Petrol. Bs Aires 12(127):41-54, 1935 HONORS Zuninaspis Harrington & Leanza 1957 (Trilobita) 
- [Juan Carlos Zanotti Cavazzoni](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-carlos-zanotti-cavazzoni/): Juan Carlos Zanotti Cavazzoni, Paraguayan industrial chemist (died 18 August 2013) From Italian ancestry Authored more than 100 scientific works Developed a new technique for detection of cancer using ultraviolet light With V.E. Zanotti Cavazzoni, A. Miquel & J. Malvetti. Nueva tecnica de detección del câncer en orina observada con luz ultravioleta. Rev. Soc. Med. Mil. Bogotá (1979) Held over 16 patents on biostimulators SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With V. Cabrera, A. Miquel & J. Malvetti. Enteropatias a colepatogenos tratadas con autovacunas (1998) Cultivo de leguminosas en distintos tipos de suelos con tierras raras y/o ascorbato de titânio. Rev. DIPRI-UNA (1998) Las micorrizas
- [José Zaclis](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-zaclis/): José Zaclis, Romanian-born Brazilian neuroradiologist (Telenesti, Moldavia 15 February 1917 – São Paulo 20 October 1983) Developed many surgical techniques Modification on the technique of peripheral neurectomy for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. Arq. Neuropsiq. 7(1):29-30, 1949 As neurectomias periféricas no tratamento das neuralgias do trigêmeo. Arq. Neuropsiqu. 9:228-75, 1951 Authored the thesis Pan-angiografia cerebral por hipertensão pulmonary (1958) translated into many languages in which described the technique of cerebral pan-angiography by means of injection of contrast medium into a single artery while simultaneously producing transient intrathoracic hypertension A new method of cerebral angiography. Arch. Neuropsiqu. S. Paulo 17:1-22, 1959 Developed a modified Valsalva
- [Jose Francisco Zikan](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-francisco-zikan/): José Francisco Zikán, Czech-born Brazilian entomologist (Tepliz-Schoenau, Bohemia 19 March 1881 – São Paulo 23 May 1949) Authored 61 papers Elucidated the complete life cycle of a number of Brazilian species of insects DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Lepidoptera Genera Stichelia 1949 Neomelese 1968 Paramelese 1968 Species At least 95 Coleoptera O gênero Parandra Latr., 1804, com a descrição de 14 espécies novas (Col; Cerambycidae). Rev. Soc. Ent. Arg. 14:22-50, 1948 Hymenoptera Described 90 new species of genus Mischocyttarus, beyond other species in this group  HONORS Zikania Borgmeier 1925 (Diptera) Zikaniola Carvalho 1946 (Hemiptera) Zikanita Lane 1943 (Coleoptera) Zikanapis Moure 1945 & Zikaniella Moure 1941 (Hymenoptera) Lepidozikania Travassos 1949 (Lepidoptera) Zikanella Hering 1932 (Lepidoptera) Zikanyrops Hopp 1928 (Lepidoptera) Subg. Zikandra Santos
- [Jose Castulo Zeledon](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-castulo-zeledon/): José Castulo de Jesús Zeledón Porras, Costa Rican ornithologist (Las Anonas, San Jose Province 24 March 1846 – Torino, Italy 16 July 1923) Relative of former presidents of Costa Rica Collected several thousand specimens, among which were a considerable number of new species (40 avian species and subspecies) First to obtain the breeding of resplendent quetzal in captivity  Described the subspecies Aramides albiventris plumbeicollis 1888 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Catalogue of the Birds of Costa Rica. Proceed. U.S. Nat. Museum 8:104-118, 1885 Catalogo de las aves de Costa Rica. Anales Museo Nac. Costa Rica 1:103-35, 1887 HONORS Genus Zeledonia Ridgway 1889 (Aves) Corresponding Member, American Ornithologists Union
- [Hongzhao Zhang](https://neglectedscience.com/hongzhao-zhang/): Hongzhao Zhang or Hung Cao Chang, Chinese geologist and stratigrapher (Wu County, Zhejiang Province 11 March 1877 – Nanjing 06 September 1951) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Compilation of Chinese thermal springs (1956) Records of ancient mining sites (1954) The Triassic palaeogeography and stratigraphy of Yunnan (1947) With Y.C. Sun. New graptolite faunas from Lientan, Kwangtung. Contr. Geol. Inst. Nat. Univ. Peking 29:9-17, 1947 On some new occurrences of the marine Triassic of Kueichou. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 22(1-2), 1942 Fossil fishes of Choukoutien (1936) With P. Teilhard de Chardin, C.C. Young & W.C. Pei. On the Cenozoic formations of Kwangsi and Kwangtung. Bull.
- [Hans Zocher](https://neglectedscience.com/hans-zocher/): Ernst Werner Hans Zocher, German/Brazilian physical chemist (Bad Liebenstein, Thüringen 27 April 1893 – Rio de Janeiro 16 October 1969) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored over 80 works First to recognize a lyotropic nematic phase known as Zocher phase (1925) Observed that colloidal particles sometimes aggregate in bundles which named tactoids (1925) Presented equations for an orthotropic linear viscoelastic material With Oseen introduced the macroscopic thermodynamical description of the liquid crystals With Jacobsohn described a new type of sol called tactosol (1929) Discovered inorganic lyotropic liquid crystals (1920s) First to observe cholesteric-nematic phase transition effect (1929) With Clara Torok first introduced tactoid shape characterization
- [Gregorio Zara](https://neglectedscience.com/gregorio-zara/): Gregorio Ynciong Zara, Philippine engineer and inventor (Lipa, Batangas 12 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) Discovered kinetic electrical resistance or Zara effect INVENTIONS  (about 30 devices and equipments; incomplete) An  earth magnetic and induction compass (1929) Two-way television telephone or videophone (1955) An airplane engine that employed industrial alcohol as fuel (1952) A semi-automatic propeller-cutting machine (1952) A sun stove A solar battery (1960s) Drinking glass vapor chamber to visualize radioactive elements (1962) Thermo solar energy machine (1961) A wooden microscope with a collapsible stage New designs for a house solar water heater (SolarSorber) A functional robot Wooden aircraft propellers
- [Gabriella Zuccari](https://neglectedscience.com/gabriella-zuccari/): Gabriella P. Zuccari, Italian / Brazilian zoologist (died São Paulo 1947) Authored Condições de divisão e regeneração em Naididae. Bol. Fac. Fil. Cien. Letr. Univ. São Paulo 12:5-41, 1947 Honored in genus Zuccaria Marcus 1948 (Turbellaria)
- [Flemming Zeemann](https://neglectedscience.com/flemming-zeemann/): Flemming Axel Oscar Gordon Zeemann, Danish-born Brazilian chemical technologist (24 September 1899 – 03 October 1994) ACHIEVEMENTS Discovered a new mineral species (ibitiarite) that may be a variety of pyrocylite (1974-5) With Y.S. Visconti & B.N.F. Nicot. Study of a new raw material, montmorillionized feldspar from Barra do Piraí, and its ceramic use. Ceramica 6(24):23-4, 1960 Método de precisão para dosagem de titânio (1945) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Influência do grau de moagem das pastas de porcelana e grés no tempo e temperatura da queima (1967) With Y.S. Visconti, E. Goulart de Andrade & B.N.F. Nicot. Um estudo das caulinitas e haloisitas pela
- [Fernando Zarraga](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-zarraga/): Fernando Zarraga Guerrero, Mexican surgeon (Durango 16 February 1861 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 May 1929) METHODS   Lower colo-axillary cut, an embryotomy procedure (1895) A kind of perineorrhaphy (1896) A procedure of artificial pelvic accommodation in occipito-posterior positions (1901) A Parotidectomy in 8 times (1908; published in 1911) INSTRUMENTS A mirror for vaginal tamponade (1899) A new type of obstetric forceps (1901) An internal pelvimeter (1895)
- [Fernando Claudio Zawislak](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-claudio-zawislak/): Fernando Cláudio Zawislak, Brazilian physicist (Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul State 05 February 1935 – From Polish descent  Authored over 160 papers The group that leaded gained international recognition for studies on angular correlations and ionic implantation SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With F.P. Luce, P.F.P. Fichtner & L.F. Schelp. Abnormal grain growth behavior in nanostructurated Al thin films in SiO2/Si substrates. Proceed. Sympos. Materials Research Soc. 1150:133, 2009 With G. Feldmann & P.F.P. Fichtner. Nucleation and growth of Cu-Al precipitates in He implanted and amrealed aluminium. Nuclear Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. 175-77 B:432-6, 2001 With C.E. Foerster, C.M. Lepienski & F.C. Serbena.
- [Fernando Antonio de Zayas](https://neglectedscience.com/fernando-antonio-de-zayas/): Fernando Antonio de Zayas Muñoz, Cuban entomologist (La Habana 29 April 1912 – La Habana 09 February 1983) It is said that described 354 new insect species being 236 Coleoptera Entomofauna cubana. Orden Coleoptera. Descripción de nuevas especies (1988) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Cupeyalia 1975 Lethes 1975 Maisi 1988 Trinoplon 1975 Species 236
- [Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini](https://neglectedscience.com/euryclides-de-jesus-zerbini/): Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, Brazilian cardiologist (Guaratinguetá, São Paulo State 07 May 1912 – São Paulo 23 October 1993) Son of Italian immigrants Authored more than 450 scientific and technical publications World famous for his studies on correction of Fallot tetralogy and mitral lesions   Performed first human cardiac transplant in terminally ill patient and under normothermia (1968) Performed first cardiac transplant in Chagas disease patient (1985) TECHNIQUES Proposed a surgical treatment for Fallot tetralogy Developed revascularization technique of right coronary for acute infarction of myocardium With R. Macruz & L.V. Decourt. Cirurgia de revascularização no enfarte agudo do miocárdio. Arq. Bras.
- [Ermi Zhao](https://neglectedscience.com/ermi-zhao/): Ermi Zhao, Chinese herpetologist (Chengdu, Sichuan Province 1930 – Chengdu, Sichuan Province 24 December 2016) DESCRIBED VALID TAXA Amphibia Genera Liua 1983 with Hu Liuixalus 2008 com Li, Chen, Bain & Zhang Species Amolops liangshanensis 1984 with Wu Ingerana reticulata 1984 with Li Kurixalus hainanus 2005 with Wang & Shi Oreolalax multipunctatus 1993 with Wu, Inger & Shaffer Pelophylax tenggerensis 1988 with Macey & Papenfuss Rana zhengi 1999 Rhacophorus hongchibaensis 2012 with Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Wang & Zhang Rhacophorus wui 2012 with Li, Liu, Chen, Wu, Murphy, Wang & Zhang Reptilia Species Achalinus meiguensis 1966 with Hu Calotes medogensis 1984 with Li Cuora zhoui 1990 with Zhou & Ye Cyrtopodion medogense 1987 with Li Gloydius
- [Enrique Zarate](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-zarate/): Enrique Zarate, Argentine obstetrician and gynecologist (Santa Fe November 1870 – 25 January 1962) Modified Frank symphysiotomy technique Created Zarate subcutaneous partial symphysiotomy Estudio experimental y anatomico de mi tecnica de sinfisiotomia subcutanea. Bol. Soc. Obst. Ginecol. Bs. Aires 225, 1924 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY  Xecrobiosis placentaria. Contribucion al estudio de los llamados polipos placentarios. La Semana Medica (1917) Distocie uterine – Necesité d’uniformiser as nomenclature. Gyn. Obst. p.1, 1922 With P. Nubiola. Tratado de Obstetricia (1951) With D.A. Rojas & V. Widakovich. Extra-uterine pregnancy at term. With D.E.U. Esquivel. Dos casos de cesarea post-mortem con fetos vivos. La Semana Medica
- [Enrique V. Zappi](https://neglectedscience.com/enrique-v-zappi/): Enrique Vicente Zappi Perelli, Argentine organic chemist (Buenos Aires 03 August 1890 – Buenos Aires 1979) ACHIEVEMENTS With Jorge Magnin proposed Dragendorff procedure for extraction of alkaloids from animal matter in Annal. Soc. Quim. Arg. 1:327-61, 1913 Procedimiento general para la preparación del acido cloroplatinico y de los cloruros de oro y de paladio. Anal.Asoc.Quim.Arg 3-4:, 1915. First prepared heterocyclic compounds with arsenic as heteroatom (1915) independently of German chemists Grütner & Wernik  Uber eine neue heterogene kette mit Arsen im Kern: das methylarsepedin (Cyclopentaniethylenmethylarsin). Bull.Soc.Chim. (4) 19:290-300, 1916    With Juan L. Landaburu. Sur de nouveaux sels de la As-dimethylarsépédine. Bull.Soc.Chim.
- [Elias Ayres Guidetti Zagatto](https://neglectedscience.com/elias-ayres-guidetti-zagatto/): Elias Ayres Guidetti Zagatto, Brazilian analytical chemist (Piracicaba, São Paulo State 25 September 1948 – Authored many innovations to flow injection analysis (FIA) with about 12,000 citations (in according to Google Academics) His paper, with M.F. Giné & B.F. Reis. Simultaneous determination of nitrate and nitrite by flow injection analysis. Anal. Chim. Acta 114:191-7, 1980 held about 3,500 citations INNOVATIONS INTO FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS (FIA) With E. Hansen & J. Ruzicka proposed the utilization of potentiometric detection in FIA systems (1977) With F.J. Krug, H. Bergamin Filho & S.S. Jorgensen introduced turbidimetry (1977) With H. Bergamin Filho, B.F. Reis & J.X.
- [Eduardo Hector Zarantonello](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-hector-zarantonello/): Eduardo Hector Zarantonello Lanari, Argentine mathematician (Buenos Aires 04 June 1918 – Mendoza 13 January 2010) Son of Italian immigrants With G. Birkhoff wrote Jets, Wakes and Cavities (1957), a classical book on advanced topics of theoretical hydrodynamics INTRODUCED A constructive theorem for the equations of flows with free boundaries (1950) Monotone operators (1960) independent from Kachurovsky (1960) & Minty (1962) Monotone maps (1960) independent from Vainberg & Kachurovsky Generalized projection operator Concept of numerical range of non-linear Hilbert space operators (1964) EPONYMY Zarantonello inequality Zarantonello theorem (1960) Zarantonello numerical range Zarantonello condition
- [Eduardo Alfredo Zancolli](https://neglectedscience.com/eduardo-alfredo-zancolli/): Eduardo Alfredo Zancolli Pomares, Argentine surgeon (Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province 23 May 1924 – Recognized throughout the world as being the highest authority in hand surgery Authored Atlas of surgical anatomy of the hand (1991) & Structural and dynamic basis of hand surgery Presented the complete transfer of great pectoral muscle with its extended tendon as a new criterion for arthropathy of rotator cuff (2010) With H.J. Mitre introduced the term bipolar transfer TECHNIQUES/METHODS Presented the posterior interosseous free flap for hand reconstruction or reverse pedicle posterior interosseous arterial flap (1985) With C. Angrigiani. Colgajo anterior de antebrazo “en isla” (Pedículo
- [Dmytro Zajciw](https://neglectedscience.com/dmytro-zajciw/): Dmytro Zajciw, Ukrainian-born Brazilian entomologist (Velyka Mykhailivka 17 February 1897 – Rio de Janeiro December 1976) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA GENERA Adesmoides 1967 Allodemus 1962 Allopeplus 1961 Catoptronotum 1959 Chariergodes 1963 Chevrolatella 1969 Chlorotherion 1962 Cosmisomopsis 1960 Cyrtinacantha 1970 Dihammaphoroides 1967 Dioridium 1961 Erythrochiton 1957 Eurymeropsis 1960 Hephaestioides 1961 Hesperophanoschema 1970 Hesperophymatus 1959 Lathusia 1959 Liostola 1962 Methioeme 1963 Micropelta 1961 Mielkea 1965 Mimochariergus 1960 Moureana 1967 Necydaliella 1960 Neozodes 1958 Olexendrella 1959 (in honor to his wife Olexandra) Oxyommata 1970 Paracalydon 1961 Paramphionte 1964 Paratessaropa 1957 Pseudobeta 1972 Pseudoeriphus 1961 Pseudogrammopsis 1960 Pseudomallocera 1961 Purpuricenopsis 1968 Rhomboidederes 1963 Seabraia 1958 Seabriella 1960 Tricheurymerus 1961 Tumiditarsus 1961
- [Diego Estanislao Zavaleta](https://neglectedscience.com/diego-estanislao-zavaleta/): Diego Estanislao Zavaleta Linares, Argentine surgeon (Salta 08 May 1904 – Buenos Aires 09 November 1989) Developed techniques for repair using skin grafts and ventral hernia repair With E. Marino introduced omental flaps in breast augmentation (1963) With J.V. Uriburu developed a procedure to repair hernias using free full-thickness grafts (1950) CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Breast biopsy. Surgical approach and technic for reaching the mammary nodules. Prensa Med. Arg. 55(8):386-8, 1968 With S.G. Perera & A.R. Suarez. Left pancreatectomy: method and technic. Prensa Med. Arg. 53(38):2041-5, 1966    With R.F. Bun, J.A. Solian & E. Bresan. Costal relaxing incisions in the treatment of massive supraumbilical eventrations. Prensa Med.
- [Cesar Zanolli](https://neglectedscience.com/cesar-zanolli/): Cesar Zanolli, Italian-born Argentine veterinarian (Belluno Province 28 May 1882 – Buenos Aires 28 October 1959) Authored over 30 papers DEVELOPED Nasal pterygoplexia for facial nerve palsy in horses   A new procedure to conserve anatomical preparations at room temperature A vaginotome for cows   A laryngeal separator A ventricular extractor   LINKS http://www.anav.org.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=248:zanolli-cesar-dr-mv-&catid=43:de-numero-fallecidos&Itemid=69 (in Spanish)
- [Arturo Zarate](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-zarate/): Arturo Zarate Treviño, Mexican gynecologist and endocrinologist (Ciudad de Mexico 25 December 1936 – Authored 400 publications with 10 books  SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With E.S. Canales & C. Cano. Management of hyperthyroidism during pregnancy (1982) With A. Ayala, E.S. Canales, S. Karchmer & D. Alarcon. Premature ovarian failure and hypothyroidism associated with Sicca syndrome. Obstet. Gynecol. 53:98-101, 1979 With E.S. Canales & M. Alger. The effect of pregnancy and lactation on pituitary prolactin secreting tumors. Acta Endocrinol. 92:407-12, 1979 With A.J. Kastin, A.V. Schally, A. Arimura, D. Gonzalez, G.A. Medeiros & D.S. Schalch. Analysis of clinical studies with natural and synthetic luteinizing hormone
- [Arturo Zabala](https://neglectedscience.com/arturo-zabala/): Arturo Zabala López, Argentine surgeon (Jujuy 04 November 1874 – Buenos Aires 23 June 1936) Developed abdominal colo-hysterectomy Zabala technique or bronchoscopic intubation with endotracheal tube Zabala-Bengolea operation
- [Aldo Zaragoza](https://neglectedscience.com/aldo-zaragoza/): Aldo Zaragoza, Argentine astronomer and engineer (1924 – 1979) METHODS  With R. A. Carestia & M. Gallego. Procedimiento para la reducción en declinación de series FK4. Resultados obtenidos. Bol. Asoc. Argent. Astron. 23:384, 1981   With R. A. Carestia & M. Gallego. Procedures for the reduction in declination of the Kustner series. Results obtained with the meridian circle of San Juan, Argentina (1979) SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY With J.A, López & R.A. Carestía. First San Juan meridian circle catalogue FK4. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. 25:131, 1980 With R.A. Carestía & M. Gallego. Procedimiento para reducción en declinación de series Kustner. Resultados obtenidos com el circulo
- [Zuxiang Yu](https://neglectedscience.com/zuxiang-yu/): Zuxiang Yu or Tsu-Hsiang Yu, Chinese mineralogist (1930 – The discovery of eight new minerals of platinum group elements and two new valence states of trivalent platinum and trivalent iridium in the Yanshan mountains (1998) Some new minerals from platinum bearing rocks in Yanshan and Tibet regions (1986) DESCRIBED NEW MINERAL SPECIES Anduoite 1979 with Xuexi Zhou (H.T. Chou) B-iridisite 1984 Changchengite 1995 Chengdeite 1995 Damiaoite 1997 Daomanite 1974 with Ding & Zhou Gaotaiite 1993 Gupeiite 1984 Lisiguangite 2007 with Cheng & Ma Malanite 1996 Mayingite 1995 Platinoshuangfengite 1998 (variety) Ruarsite 1979 with Xuexi Zhou (H.T. Chou) Shuangfengite 1994 Xifengite 1984
- [Zhongjian Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/zhongjian-yang/): Zhongjian Yang or Chung Chien Young, Chinese paleontologist (Huaxian, Shaanxi Province 01 June 1897 – Beijing 15 January 1979) Authored about 600 papers DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA TAXA Genera Reptilia Bienotherium 1940 Changisaurus 1959 Changlosaurus 1961 Changpeipus 1960 Chaohusaurus 1972 with Dong Chengyuchelys 1953 with Chow Chialingosaurus 1959 Chilingosaurus 1961 Chinchenia 1965 Chingkankosaurus 1958 Dsungaripteris 1964 Edentosuchus 1973 Eoalligator 1964 Eotomiostoma 1964 Fenhosuchus 1964 Fukangolepis 1978 Hanosaurus 1972 Honania 1979 Hsisosuchus 1953 with Chow Hupehsuchus 1972 Hwanghocynodon 1979 Keichousaurus 1958 Kwangsisaurus 1959 Laiyangapus 1960 Lianghusuchus 1949 Lufengosaurus 1941 Lukousaurus 1948 Mamenchisaurus 1972 with Zhao Microchampsa 1954 Neoprocolophon 1957 Noripterus 1973 Omeisaurus 1939 Ordosiodon 1961 Pachysuchus 1951 Prolacertoides 1973 Sanchiaosaurus 1965 Shansisuchus 1964 Shantungosuchus 1961 Shanwangia 1977 Shihtienfenia 1963 with Yeh Shingyisaurus 1965 Sinaspideretes 1953 with Chow Sinocoelurus 1942 Sinognathus 1959 Sinokannemeyeria 1937 Sinosaurus 1948 Sunosuchus 1949 Szechuanosaurus 1942 Taihangshania 1979 Tibetosaurus 1978 with Liu & Zhang Tienfuchelys 1953 with Chow Tienosuchus 1949 Traversodontoides 1974 Tsintaosaurus 1958
- [Zhongjia Yu](https://neglectedscience.com/zhongjia-yu/): Zhongjia Yu, Chinese orthopedist (1929 – Shanghai 27 April 2020) Successfully made the world’s first reconstruction of a new perceptual and flexible handwith self-toes transfer to the amputated forearm stump known as China hand (1978) Created the reconstruction of whole hand missing or all fingers missing Developed free tissue transplantation with cross bridge vascular anastomosis Developed free tissue combined transplantation to reconstruct the missing (1987) Developed and improved procedures of toe-to-hand transplantation OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY With C.Y. Fan, X.D. Liu, P.H. Cai, P.Z. Jiang & B.F. Zeng. Modification of hand reconstruction with unilateral foot donation. Chin. Med. J. 120 (13):1206-8,
- [Zhida Yan](https://neglectedscience.com/zhida-yan/): Zhida Yan, Chinese mathematician (Nantong, Jiangsu Province 08 November 1917 – Tianjin 30 April 1999) With D. Wu simplified and developed the classical principle of meshing gears Initiated the idea of relative differentiation   With D. Zhang. A method of classification of real irreducible representations of semi-simple Lie algebras. Science Chin. 25(1):14-24, 1982 Eponym of Yan canonical forms and Yan diagrams SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Multi-soliton solutions of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Chin. Phys. Lett. 4(4), 1987 The spectrum of rank one compact symmetric spaces (1980) Sulla formula principle cinemática de lo spazio ad n dimensioni. Boll. Um. Math. Ital. 2:434, 1970 A classification of
- [Zeng Yi](https://neglectedscience.com/zeng-yi/): Zeng Yi, Chinese virologist (Wujingfu, Jiexi County, Guandong Province 08 March 1929 – Beijing 13 July 2020) Isolated the first HIV-1 strain Established a rapid HIV diagnosis method (1987) First in the world to show direct evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus could induce nasopharynx cancer (1997) Established a series of serum diagnosis methods for nasopharynx cancer Developed an immunoenzyme test for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) screening PATENTS With F. Xia, S.Q. Yu, Y. Ling, Z. Li, K. Wei & X.H.Yu. Sequential and repeated application of four or more HIV vector gene vaccines EP2740488A4 (2014) With Z.L. Lin, Z. Yue & Z. Xin.
- [Yongyuth Yuthavong](https://neglectedscience.com/yongyuth-yuthavong/): Yongyuth Yuthavong, Thai biochemist (Lopburi 04 May 1944 – Solved the structure of dihydrofolate reductase-thimidylate synthase of Plasmodium falciparum  With J. Yuvaniyama, P. Chitnumsub, S. Kamchonwongpaisan, J. Vacichtanankul, W. Sirawaraporn, P. Taylor & M. Walkinshaw. Insights into antifolate resistance from malarial DHFR-TS structures. Nature Structural Biology 10(5):357-65, 2003 NEW CHEMICALS With S. Kamchowongpaisan, C. Nilanonta, B. Tarnchompuo, C. Thebtaranonth, Y. Thebtaranonth, P. Kongsaere & J. Clardy. An antimalarial peroxide from Annomum krervanh Pierre, Tetrahedron Lett. 36(11):1821-4, 1995 With C. Thebtaranonth, Y. Thebtaranonth & S. Wanauppathamkul. Antimalarial sesquiterpenes from tubers of Cyperus rotundus: structure of 10,12-peroxycalamine, a sesquiterpene endoperoxide. Phytochemistry 40(1):125-81, 1995 Discovered an anti-malarial oral
- [Xunchu Yan](https://neglectedscience.com/xunchu-yan/): Xunchu Yan, Chinese microbiologist (1912 – 1994) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Valid Genus Aclinoalloteichus 1984 with Liu & Zhang Species Aclinoalloteichus cyanogriseus 1984 with Liu & Zhang Actinopolyspora thermovinacea 1983 with Lu Micromonospora brunnescens Micromonospora citrea Micromonospora echinofusca Micromonospora fulvoviolacea Micromonospora thermoauberginospora 1983 with Lu Nocardia fusca 1983 with Liu & Ruan Nocardia thermoflava 1983 with Lu Nocardia thermoviolacea 1983 with Lu Nocardioides thermolilacinus 1983 with Lu Streptomyces flavoverrucosus 1966 with Y.X. Deng Streptomyces thermoatroviridis 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermocastaneus 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermocoerulescens 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermocyaneomaculatus 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermocyaneoviolaceus 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermolilacinus 1983 with Lu Streptomyces thermoluteus 1983 with Lu With Z.H. Liu & J.S. Ruan. A new species of the genus Kitasatospora. Acta Microb.
- [Xiongli Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/xiongli-yang/): Xiongli Yang, Chinese neurophysiologist (Shanghai 14 October 1941 – Pioneered the study of neural mechanisms underlying information processing in the vertebrate retina Characterized the glutamate and GABA receptors in retinal neurons Discovered light receptor signals received on horizontal cells First to report that cooperators electric coupling between sight poles and sight cones were reinforced because of background light First to discover that sight cone signal was prohibited in secret
- [Victor Yohai](https://neglectedscience.com/victor-yohai/): Victor Jaime Yohai, Turkish-born Jewish Argentine statistician (22 February 1939 – Considered a world leader on robust statistics With J.D. Gonzalez & R. Fraiman & R.H. Zamar. Robust model based clustering (2021) (proposed a new class of robust and Fisher-consistent estimators for mixture models) With J. Molina, M. Sued & M. Valdora. Robust doubly protected estimators for quantiles with missing data (2017) With J. Molina, M. Sued & M. Valdora. A robust approach for location estimation in a missing data setting (2015) With C. Agostinelli & R. Fraiman. Robust estimation for multivariate data under the independent contamination model (2012) (introduced composite
- [Shyam Lal Yadava](https://neglectedscience.com/shyam-lal-yadava/): Shyam Lal Yadava, Indian mathematician (Ghanshyampur, Uttar Pradesh 05 July 1953 – 07 June 2007) Regarded as international expert on partial differential equations Obtained relevant results for semi-linear elliptic equations satisfying critical growth conditions on the non linearity with various types of boundary conditions Obtained relevant connection between the concentration points of minimal energy solutions and the critical points of the mean curvature of the boundary of the domain 
- [Nobuko Yoshida](https://neglectedscience.com/nobuko-yoshida/): Nobuko Yoshida, Brazilian parasitologist (c.1948 From Japanese ancestry Described Herpetomonas mariadeanei 1978 with Freymuller & Wallace With R.S. Nussenzweig, P. Potocnjak, V. Nussenzweig & M. Aikawa. Hybridoma produces protective antibodies against the sporozoite stage of malaria parasite. Science 207(1):71-3, 1980 CONTRIBUTIONS A macromolecule-free partially defined medium for Trypanosoma cruzi. J. Protozool. 22:128-30, 1975 With E.P. Camargo, D.M.Mattei & Z. Caulada, Staphylococcal adherence to trypanosomes exposed to immune sera as a method for diagnosis of Chagas disease. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 77:825-8, 1983 With M.C. Fernandes, M. Cortez, K. Yoneyama, A. Straus & R.A. Mortara. Novel strategy in Trypanosoma cruzi cell invasion: implication of cholesterol
- [Longping Yuan](https://neglectedscience.com/longping-yuan/): Longping Yuan, Chinese agronomist and plant breeder (Beijing 07 September 1930 – Changsha 22 May 2021) Obtained the Nan-you nº2, the world’s first high yield hybrid rice strain (1973) Developed numerous new strains of “super hybrid rice” that produced almost 10 tons per hectare Discovered how to achieve heterosis in rice (a self-fertilizing plant), developing the first male sterile line rice Proposed super-high yielding breeding of hybrid rice by a combination of ideotype and heterosis breeding With Xiangyuan An developed an universal dominant male-sterility system in multiple plant species by using a maize male sterility gene (ZnMs7), a promising technology for
- [Le Yang](https://neglectedscience.com/le-yang/): Le Yang or Lo Yang, Chinese mathematician (Nantong, Jiangsu Province 10 November 1939 – Beijing 22 October 2023) Introduced the concept of deficient functions and proved its countability With Guanghou Zhang introduced the concept of defects and singularity directions in distribution theory Obtained the precise estimate of total deficiency for any meromorphic function with its derivative With G. Zhang first established the numbers of deficient values and Borel directions of entire and meromorphic functions (1970s) Established new criteria for normality Established relationship between normal families and fixed points as well as that between normal families and different polynomials Established the necessary and
- [Kuan Mu Yao](https://neglectedscience.com/kuan-mu-yao/): Kuan Mu Yao, Taiwanese sanitary engineer (Zhuji, Zhejiang Province 25 September 1923 – 2009) Influence of suspended particle size on the transport aspect of water filtration. Master Dissertation (1968) Defined basic formulae for high rate settlers Theoretical study of high-rate sedimentation. J. Water Poll. Control. Feder. 42(2):218-28, 1970 Design of high rate settlers. J. Environ. Engin. Div. ASCE 99(2):621-37, 1970 Presented a conceptual model for water and waste water filtration processes and the first water filtration model that successfully predicts the initial collection efficiency (Yao-Habibian filtration model) With M.T. Habibian & C.R. O’Melia. Water and waste water filtration. Concepts and applications.
- [Kazim Yahsiman](https://neglectedscience.com/kazim-yahsiman/): Kazim Yahsiman, Turkish geologist and paleontologist (fl.1951-72) DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPORAE & POLLEN Genera Anatolisporites 1959 Crassiletipollenites 1961 Species Anatolisporites amasriensis 1959 Anatolisporites subamasriensis 1959 Baculatisporites megabaculus 1972 Bentzisporites cingulatus 1959 Bentzisporites imberbis 1960 Bentzisporites tenuiletes 1959 Biharisporites blattus 1961 Biharisporites perfectus 1961 Calamocystes rarus 1964 Calamospora bifurcata 1972 Calamospora dilaverensis 1972 Calamospora diversa 1972 Calamospora juniora 1972 Colisporites ibrahimi 1972 Crassiletipollenites heteroornatus 1961 Cystosporites carinatus 1960 Cystosporites intestinus 1972 Cystosporites reticulogranulatus 1960 Cystosporites reticuloornatus 1960 Cystosporites semitranslucens 1959 Cystosporites striatus 1959 Granulatisporites michiganensis 1972 Granulatisporites zonguldakensis 1972 Ibrahimipollenites kryptoreticuliformis 1960 Ibrahimipollenites macroreticulatus 1961 Foveolatipollenites ergonuli 1961 Foveolatisporites dijkstrai 1959 Laevigatisporites inconformitus 1959 Laevigatisporites junior 1959 Laevigatisporites levis 1959 Laevigatisporites sensilis 1960 Laevigatisporites tricallosus 1959 Lagenicula kandiliensis 1972 Lagenicula pilata 1972 Lagenicula rarispicula 1972 Lagenoisporites globuliformis 1964 Schopfipollenites ibrahimi 1960 Schopfipollenites manifestus 1960 Schopfipollenites pamiri 1960 Sporites spiculatus 1959 Triangulatisporites globuliferus 1961 Trileites calculus 1964 Trilesporites
- [Juan Yianatos](https://neglectedscience.com/juan-yianatos/): Juan Yianatos Bernardino, Chilean chemical engineer (07 August 1950 – With L. Vinnett, I. Cornejo & C. Acuña. A method to detect abnormal gas dispersion collisions in flotation machines. Minerals 12(2):125, 2022 With P. Vallejos, R. Grau & A. Yañez. Evaluation of flotation circuits design using a novel approach. Minerals Engineer. 158 (2020) With P. Vallejos, R. Grau & A. Yañez. New approach for flotation process modelling and simulation. Minerals Engineer. 156 (2020) With L. Panire & L. Vinnett. A new method for flotation rate characterization using top of froth grades and the froth discharge velocity. Miner. Engineering 92:242-7, 2016 With I.
- [Jose Tadashi Yorinori](https://neglectedscience.com/jose-tadashi-yorinori/): José Tadashi Yorinori, Brazilian plant pathologist (Londrina, Paraná State 12 September 1943 – Londrina, Paraná State 13 June 2016) Considered a world authority on soybean diseases Proposed fallowing for soybean (period of 60 to 90 days that you cannot sow or keep plants alive in the field) With L.H. Klingelfuss. Novas raças de Cercospora sojina em soja. Fitopatolo. Bras. 24(4):509-12, 1999 Proposed a scale for level of infection in Oidio da soja (1997) DEVELOPED METHODS With C.A. A. Arias & J.F.F. Toledo. An improved procedure for testing theoretical segregation in qualitative genetic studies of soybeans. Rev. Bras. Genet. 17(3):291-7, 1994 Método do palito
- [Jing Zhu Yue](https://neglectedscience.com/jing-zhu-yue/): Jing Zhu Yue, Chinese mycologist (1935 – DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Family Thyridiaceae 1987 with Eriksson Genera (with Eriksson) Mixtura 1990 Sinodidymella 1985 Sinosphaeria 1987 Species Fellomyces fuzhouensis 1982 Saccharomyces sinensis 1977 Sinosphaeria bambusicola 1987 with Eriksson HONORS Yuea Eriksson 2003 (Fungi)
- [Jia-an Yan](https://neglectedscience.com/jia-an-yan/): Jia-an Yan, Chinese statistician (Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 06 December 1941 – Authored over 90 research papers and 9 books Proved a definition of stochastic integrals with respect to semimartingales Extended the Gross and Minlos theorems in infinite dimensional analysis CONTRIBUTIONS / BIBLIOGRAPHY With Y.S. Song. Risk measures with comonotonic subadditivity or convexity and respecting stochastic orders. Insur. Mathem. Econ. 45(3):459-65, 2009 With W. Liu & W.G. Wang. A limit theorem for partial sums of random variables and its applications. Statis. Probab. Lett. 62(1):79-86, 2003 With Q.H. Tang. A sharp inequality for the tail probabilities of sums of i.i. d. r.v.s. with
- [Jhillu Singh Yadav](https://neglectedscience.com/jhillu-singh-yadav/): Jhillu Singh Yadav, Indian organic chemist (Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh State 04 August 1950 – Authored over 1,100 research papers (with more than 20,000 citations and h-index 60) Designed synthesis of complex molecules with synthons Showed the possibility of preparing many tetrahydropyran/dihydropyran containing complex macrolides in a concise and convergent manner First to report contiguous chiral centers in a highly diastereoselective manner as a protocol for short and convergent synthesis of a variety of complex biologically active natural products with multiple chiral centers Held over 150 patents in India and abroad DEVELOPED New chiral centers in complex molecules Several new. eco-friendly

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