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)
Described a new radiological sign for diagnosing aorta coarctation
With R. Pereira. Un nuevo signo radiológico indirecto en el diagnostico de la coarctación de la aorta por la arteriografia retrograda superior (1946)
With Pereira Valdés introduced new technical terms
With R. Pereira & A.V. Pausa. On a special automatic device for angiocardiography. Bol. Soc. Cuban. Pediatr. 10:209, 1938
Introduced biplanar projections
HONORS
Medicine & Physiology Nobel Prize nominee (1956, 1959 & 1960)
His brother, Israel Castellanos Gonzalez, coroner, anthropologist, criminologist, psychiatrist and folklorist (La Habana 24 November 1891- Miami 09 January 1977)
Authored over 1,000 works
Created and named clinical dactiloscopy (1923)
Invented ganometer for measuring hand flexion
Improved anthropological/anthropometric devices
Un nuevo goniômetro planar (1915)
Coined the term podoscopy
Sobre una nueva variedad de foseta occipital. Vida Nueva 7(9):200-3, 1915
Conceived the paraffin gauntlet (1937)
With R. Plasencia Maydagán. The paraffin gauntlet: new technique for the dermo-nitrate test. J. Crim. L. Criminol. Pol. Sci. Sec. 32(4):465-7, 1941
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Estigmas atavicos em dermopapiloscopia (1955)
La identificación dactiloscopica de los cadaveres (1935)
El pelo de las razas de Cuba (1929)
Los estigmas somaticos de la degeneración. Su apreciación en las razas de color (1927)
Fundamentos para una química criminológica (1916)
Sobre las diversas formas de la sutura naso-frontal (1915)
Anomalias dentarias en el loco, en el criminal y en el normal. Gac. Med. Sur 32:289-92, 1914
Las bocas simiescas (1914)
La mandibula del criminal (1914)
Anomalia atávica en el occipital de un criminal cubano. Vida Nueva 6(9):225, 1914
Estudio antropologico del maxilar
HONORS
Lombroso Medal