Muhammad Afzal Hussain Qadri
Muhammad Afzal Hussain Qadri, Pakistani entomologist and philosopher (Badayun, India 07 February 1912 – 06 December 1974) Introduced a number of new concepts in insect morphology 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 Indian birds. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 4(6):86, 1936 The life-history and growth of the cockroach (Blatta orientalis Linn.). Bull. Ent. Res. 29:263-75, 1938 On the development of genitalia and their ducts of orthopteroid insects. Trans. R. Ent. Soc. London 90(6):121-75, 1940 With A. Aziz. Biology, life-history and internal anatomy of Pyrilia perpusilla Walker. Aligarh Mus. Univ. Publ. (Zool. Ser.) 2:1-30, 1950 On the anatomy of the mouth parts of aquatic bugs. Proc. Zool. Soc. Bengal 4:117-36, 1951 The male genitalia of Ectognatha (Thysanura) 1952 Some branchiopods (Anostraca and Conchostraca) of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent with descriptions of new species (1956) Mechanism of feeding in Hemiptera (1959) With S.N.H. Naqvi & S.H. Ashrafi. Quantitative determination of acid and alkaline phosphatase in different parts of the alimentary canal of desert locust Schistocerca gregaria Forskal. Pakistan J. Sci. Ind. Res. 10:204-7, 1967 On the digestive system and skeleton-muscular mechanism of the head capsule in the mango-hoppers Idiocrus niueosparsus (Leth.) and I. clypealis (Leth.) (Homoptera, Jassidae). Proc. Zool. Soc. Deng. 2(1):43-5, 1969 With Z. Khanum. Fresh records of some birds in West Pakistan. Pakistan J. Zool. 4:219-21, 1972 On the morphology and postembryonic development of the male genitalia and their ducts in Hemiptera (Insecta) HONORS Qadria Mahmood 1967 (Hemiptera) Qadriana Bilqees 1971 (Trematoda)
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 of the Patterson and Fourier functions for the solution of problems involving small atomic shifts from positions of super-symmetry. Acta Crystal. 16:307, 1963 Possible existence of jumps in activation energy of flow in some molten metals. J. Phys. Chem. 67:955, 1963 With M.T. Qureshi. The anomalous behavior of solutions of simple aromatic compounds in straight-chain hydrocharbons and mineral oils (I.). Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Res. 5(4):222-8, 1962 With Z. Rahman. The influence of long chain phenolic additives on the viscosity of mineral oils. Part V. Phenomena occurring in the proximity of the miscibility limit in mixtures of allyl catechol and mineral oil. Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Res. 3(1):23-30, 1962 The polymorphism and hydration characteristics of hewettite and metahewettite. Canad. Mineral. 6(5):647-62, 1961 With A.K.M. Ahsanullah. Investigation of periodic discontinuities in the mutual potential energy of molecules of water and some polyhydric alcohols. Brit. J. Appl. Physics 12(2), 1961 With A.K.M. Ahsanullah. Studies in the properties of heat insulating building materials. Part II. The thermal conductivity of binary mixtures with particular reference to cellular concrete. Pakist. J. Sci. Ind. Research 2:1-6, 1959 Studies in the relationship between viscosity and molecular structure. Part I. Temperature dependence of viscosity of certain typical mineral oils. Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Research 1:116, 1958 With M.H. Barnes. The structures of the minerals of the descloizite and adelite groups. I – Descloizite and conichalcite (Pt.1). Am. Mineral. 39:416-35, 1954 An analysis of the efficiency of convergence of different methods of structure determination. I. The methods of least squares and steepest descents: centrosymmetric case. Acta Crystal. 6:577-88, 1953 With V. Vand. Weighting of the least-squares and steepest descents methods in the initial stages of the crystal structure determination. Acta Crystal. 6:541-9, 1953 With M.H. Barnes. The structure of pucherite, BiVO4. Am. Mineral. 38:489-500, 1953 An extension of the inequalities method of sign determination by means of negative-density transforms. Acta Crystal. 6:103, 1953 A discussion of the Cox and Shaw factor for oblique incidence and the film-to-film factor in multiple-film exposures. Acta Crystal. 6:668, 1953 With M.H. Barnes. Unit cell and space group data for certain vanadium minerals. Am. Mineral. 37:5-6, 407-22, 1952 With I.G. Edmunds. The structure of the eta phase in the silver-zinc system. Acta Crystal. 1:417-27, 1951 Optimal conditions for convergence of steepest descents as applied to structure determination. Acta Crystal. 2:404-9, 1949 With M.M. Husain. Studies in the electrical insulation properties of natural and synthetic materials. Part II – Analysis of the high and low voltage measurements on humidified wood and “jutoid”. Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Research Studies in the influence of long-chain phenolic additives in the viscosity of mineral oils. Part I. Mixture of mineral oil with Bhilawanol and its derivatives. Pak. J. Sci. Ind. Research With P. J. Hendra. On the 7r bonding in some transition-metal hexacarbonyls.
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 & Steemans 2001 Eupoikilofusa striatospinata 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Focusphaera elongata 1986 Gorgonisphaeridium amazonensis 1986 Hayella gauliformis 1971 with Troelsen Jandiatubaites cubus 1986 Leiofusa bisubulata 1984 with Brito Limaites flagellata 1986 Micrhystridium celsum 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Micrhystridium toigae 2002 Microrhabdulus primitivus 1971 with Troelsen Multiplicisphaeridium apparatum 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Navifusa monoafilata 1999 Oppilatala biscula 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Petrobrasiella venata 1971 with Troelsen Petrovina connata 1997 with Loboziak, Melo & Streel Polyedrina magnifica 1986 Protoleiosphaeridium britoi 1986 Pseudolunulidia laevigata 1985 with Brito Pseudolunulidia micropunctata 1985 with Brito Pseudomaranhites densus 1996 Pteroverricatus granomarginata 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001 Pyloferites pentagonalis 1999 Tasmanites bilabiatus 1999 Thymospora criciumensis 1995 with Marques Toigo & Cazzulo-Klepzig Tinacula simplex 1999 Trilobus expansus 1999 Umbellasphariedium anomalum 1999 Villosacapsula herinacea 2001 with Le Herissé, Melo, Grahn & Steemans 2001
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
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 in Trypanosoma cruzi With J.J. Cazzulo & A.J. Parodi. The biosynthesis of mannose-containing glycoconjugates in the trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata. J. Protozool. 29(2):329, 1982 With A.J. Parodi. Protein glycosylation in Trypanosoma cruzi. I. Characterization of dolichol-bound monosaccharides and oligosaccharides synthesized “in vivo”. J. Biol. Chem. 257(13):7637-40, 1982 With A.J. Parodi. Novel mannose carrier in the trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata behaving as a short α-saturated polypreyl phosphate. Biochem. J. 212(1):123-8, 1983 Described in detail the transition from larval to pharate adult stages With A. Rabossi & P. Wappner. Larva to pharate adult transformation in the medfly Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae). Can. Entomol. 124(6):1139–47, 1992 With A. Rabossi. Medfly eye pigments as markers of differentiation. Anales Asoc. Quim. Argentina 81:325, 1993 Performed the first analysis in vivo of synthesis and deposition of a glycoprotein With G.L. Boccaccio. Synthesis and deposition of PCG-100, the main pupal cuticle glycoprotein of the medfly Ceratitis capitata. Arch Insect Biochem. Physiol. 27(3):217-34, 1994 Proposed an alternative model explaining the mechanism of water loss during sclerotization With P. Wappner. Water loss during cuticle sclerotization in the medfly Ceratitis capitata is independent of catecholamines. J. Insect Physiol. 42(17):705-9, 1996 Demonstrated the onset of glycogen synthesis in insects With D.S. Tolmasky & A. Rabossi. Synthesis and mobilization of glycogen during metamorphosis of the medfly Ceratitis capitata. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 392(1):38-47, 2001 Discovered that enzyme NBAD-S plays a role in the immune system of insects and in the turnover of dopamine With J. Schachter & M.M. Perez. The role of N-β-alanyldopamine synthase in the innate immune response of two insects. J. Insect Physiol. 53(11):1188-97, 2007 With M.M. Perez, J. Schachter & J. Berni. The enzyme NBAD synthase plays diverse roles during the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol. 56(1):8-13, 2010 With L.M.Pujol-Lereis & A. Rabossi. Lipid profiles as indicators of functional senescence in the medfly. Exper. Geront. 47(6):465-72, 2012 First to demonstrate that after irradiation a fraction of tumor cells present large lipid bodies which mainly contain high concentration of triglycerides With G.A. Pizzurro, F.P. Madorsky Rowdo, I.M. Pujol-Lereis, A.M. Copati, M.P. Roberti, J.L, Teillaud, E.M. Levy, M.M. Barrio & J. Mordoh. High lipid content of irradiated human melanoma cells does not affect cytokine-maturated dendritic cell function. Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 62(1):3-15, 2013 First to identify extracellular brownish spots in insects With M.M. Perez, P.A. Bochichio & A. Rabossi Extracellular activity of NBAD-synthase is responsible for colouration of brown spots in Ceratitis capitata wings. J. Insect Physiol. 107:224-32, 2018 LINKS https://www.oei.es/historico/divulgacioncientifica/?Reconocen-a-un-experto-internacional-en-el-estudio-de-los-insectos-plaga (Spanish)
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 to determine rock resistance coefficient in engineering METHODS/BIBLIOGRAPHY Algorithm for eigenvalue problems. J. Dalian Univ. Technol. 39(2):180-2, 1999 With M. Luan. Simplified procedure for estimating shaking-induced pore-water pressure dissipation of layered saturated sands. J. Dalian Univ. Technol. 35(2):216-21, 1995 An order-reduction method for extraction of eigenvalue of dynamic systems. Computer & Structures 54(6):1099-1103, 1995 With J. Tang. Parallel algorithm for structural limit analysis and shakedown analysis. J. Comp. Mechanics 14(2), 1977 With H.W. Zhang. On the dynamic analysis of interaction between structure and soil foundation: an improved non-reflecting boundary method PATENTS With C.W. Wu. Mini stainless steel draft-filter-felt. China Patent 90200802 (1990) LINKS http://www.tsaf.ac.cn/english/awarders/year/1997/1411.html