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 (1901)
Cesar
Augusto da Costa Avila, Brazilian orthopedist and surgeon (Lages,
Santa Catarina State 26 June 1906 – Porto Alegre 19 February
1974)
Developed
some surgical techniques and improved others
Eponym
of Cesar Avila zone for infantile appendicitis
Amadeo Amidei Barbiellini, Italian-born Brazilian agronomist (Ancona 11 July 1877 - Santos, São Paulo State 11 September 1955)
Gathered a rich entomological collection with a number of new species for science among them Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera and Odonata
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
As moscas das fructas. Entomol. Bras. 1 (1908)
Cultivai as amoreiras: o melhor conselho para favorecer a sericicultura no Brasil. A Lavoura. Bol. Soc. Nac. Agric. A 12(7), 1908
O pretenso damno e uma verdadeira utilidade das abelhas (fim). Entomol. Bras. 2(6-8):167, 1909
Um terrível inimigo das amoreiras. Entomol. Bras. 2:234-7, 1909
A maior mosca do mundo. Chácaras e Quintaes 51:62-3, 1935
Uma nova coleo-broca das nossas florestas. Chácaras e Quintaes 43: 245-7, 1935
Duas palavras sobre os dípteros asilídeos. Chácaras e Quintaes 51:335-6, 1935
Como combater o gafanhoto sul-americano. Combate biológico na Argentina. Outros meios de combate. Chácaras e Quintaes 61(5):657-60, 1940
No mundo dos insetos. Moscas gigantes brocando arvores. Chácaras e Quintaes 90(5):617, 1954
Caterpillar of Lilliaceae.Chácaras e Quintaes 90:731-3, 1954
Combate a praga do eucalipto no sul. Chácaras e Quintaes 91:191-2, 1955
HONORS
Barbiellinia Bezzi 1922 (Diptera)
Roberto Ruhman Daher, Brazilian
gastroenterologist (Ipameri, Goiás State 1936 – Goiânia 13 May 2007)
From
Lebanese descent
He was
acting mayor of Goiania city (1977)
Known
internationally for his work on hepatic parasitic infectious diseases
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Digestive
manifestations in yellow fever. Dig. Dis. Sci. 131:3825, 1986
With W.M.P. Vasconcelos & V.M. Cardoso. Fígado e
blastomicose sul-americana. J. Bras. Med. 25:83, 1973
With J. Doles. Valor da determinação da atividade enzimática
do soro sanguíneo no diagnóstico das enfermidades hepáticas. Rev. Goi. Med.
18:139, 1972
With W. Barbosa & A.R. Oliveira. Forma
linfático-abdominal da blastomicose sul-americana. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. S. Paulo 10(1):16-27,
1968
Osmar da Silva Fontenele, Brazilian
fisheries biologist (Fortaleza 18 April 1915 - 1993)
Simplificação do processo de
incubação artificial de ovos livres de peixe (Improvement of artificial
incubation of fish free eggs) 1978
Um caracter secundario
extragenital nos tucunarés (Actinopterygii, Cichlidae). Rev. Bras. Biol. 8(2):185-8, 1948
Domingos José Nogueira Jaguaribe Filho, Brazilian physician
(Fortaleza 02 November 1847 – Santos, São Paulo State 14 November 1926)
He was
Correspondent professor at Ecole de Psychologie de Paris
Invented
Velo-aereo, a dirigible aerostat consisting of two balloons with wings (1897)
Hebe Helena
Labarthe Martelli, Uruguayan-born Brazilian biochemist and microbiologist (31
May 1919 – 201?)
First in
the world to study the production of vitamin A by yeasts
Isolated a
new strain of bacteria that readily decomposes sulfonic compounds (1967)
Oxidation
of sulphonic compounds by aquatic bacteria isolated from rivers of the Amazon
region. Nature 216 (5121):1238-9, 1967
With S.M.
Souza. Biochemistry of sulfonic compounds. III. Formation of a two carbon
compounds during the oxidation of sulfo-acetate by a Pseudomonas strain. Biochim. Biophys.
Acta 208:110-5, 1969
Luiza
Cardoso May, Brazilian mycologist and plant pathologist (1917 -
With
C.S. Hodges. A
root disease of pine, araucária and eucalyptus in Brazil caused by a
new species of Cylindrocladium.
Phytopathology 62(8):898-901, 1972 (C.
clavatum)
With
C.S. Hodges & M.S. Reis. Duas
enfermidades em plantações de essências
florestais exóticas no Brasil. Brasil Florestal 4(15):5-12, 1973
(eucalyptus
canker caused by Diaporthe
cubensis)
Armando
Tocchetto, Brazilian plant pathologist (Guaporé, Rio Grande do Sul
State 09 July 1907 – Porto Alegre 18 March 1981)
Described
the
causative agent of grapevine fusariosis Fusarium
oxysporum var.
herbemontis
in
Rev. Agr. 209:82-9, 1954
Germain Vert, French-born Brazilian plant pathologist (died Piracicaba, São Paulo 04 March 1908)
Authored influential work Le pollen, origine et transformation. Comp. Rend. hebd. Sean. Acad. Sci. 143 (24):977-9, 1906
Authored the first report of Eutinobothrus brasiliensis as cotton plant plague in Bol. Agric. S. Paulo (1905)