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List of Argentine Nobel laureates

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Argentines have won five Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Argentina:

Laureates

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Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Citation
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1 November 1878
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		5 May 1959
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		Peace "for his role as father of the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933, which he also used as a means to mediate peace between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935."[1]
1947 Bernardo Houssay 10 April 1887
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		21 September 1971
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar."[2] (awarded together with American biochemists Carl Ferdinand Cori and German biologist Gerty Theresa Cori née Radnitz)
1970 Luis Federico Leloir 6 September 1906
Paris, France 		2 December 1987
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		Chemistry "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates."[3]
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 26 November 1931
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		Peace "for being a source of inspiration to repressed people, especially in Latin America."[4]
1984 César Milstein 8 October 1927
Bahía Blanca, Argentina 		24 March 2002
Cambridge, United Kingdom 		Medicine "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"[5] (awarded together with Danish immunologist Niels K. Jerne and German biologist Georges J. F. Köhler)

Nominees

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Image Laureate Born Died Years Nominated Citation Nominator(s)
Chemistry
Luis Federico Leloir 6 September 1906
Paris, France 		2 December 1987
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 [6] 36 nominators
Physiology or Medicine
Ángel Roffo 30 December 1882
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		23 July 1947
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1927, 1937, 1940 "for his clinical and experimental studies on cancer.[7]
  • Leonidas Avendaño Ureta (1860–1946)
  • Guillermo Bosch Arana (1889–1939)
  • Eduardo Bello Porras (1870–1947)
Bernardo Houssay 10 April 1887
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		21 September 1971
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948 "for the discovery of the physiological role of the anterior hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes, work on heart sounds, and the relation of the kidney to hypertension."[8] 46 nominators
Literature
Manuel Gálvez 18 July 1882
Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina 		14 November 1962
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952 [9]
Carlos María Ocantos Ziegler 1860
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1949
Madrid, Spain 		1933, 1943 [10]
Enrique Rodríguez Larreta 4 March 1875
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		6 July 1961
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1942, 1943, 1944, 1950 [11]
María Raquel Adler ca. 1900
Argentine Sea 		28 July 1974
Bernal, Argentina 		1959, 1965 [12]
  • Consejo del Escritor
  • Catholic University of Cuyo
Jorge Luis Borges 24 August 1899
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		14 June 1986
Geneva, Switzerland 		1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 [13] 26 nominators
Victoria Ocampo 7 April 1890
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		27 January 1979
Béccar, Argentina 		1970 [14] Miguel Alfredo Olivera (1922–2008)
Peace
Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa ca. 1860
Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina 		25 June 1940
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1910, 1911 "for her efforts to end the conflict between Argentina and Chile."[15]
  • 7 members of the Argentine parliament
  • Carlos Rodríguez Larreta (1868–1926)
Estanislao Zeballos 27 July 1854
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina 		4 October 1923
Liverpool, United Kingdom 		1912, 1920, 1922, 1923 7 nominators
Luis María Drago 6 May 1859
Mercedes, Argentina 		9 June 1921
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1914 "for having initiated the Drago Doctrine that opposed forcible collection of debts in any South American republic through military intervention."[16] Ernesto Bosch (1863–1951)
Carlos Melo 1926 Alejandro Mereira (?)
Carlos Saavedra Lamas 1 November 1878
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		5 May 1959
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1935, 1936 "for having drafted Antiwar Pact of 1934 as a means to secure an armistice in the Gran Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, condemning all forms of aggressive war, and any territorial change not effected by peaceful means was not to be recognized."[17] 11 nominators
Juan Perón 8 October 1895
Lobos, Argentina 		1 July 1974
Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1949 [18]
Eva Perón 7 May 1919
Los Toldos, Argentina 		26 July 1952
Buenos Aires, Argentina 		1949 [19] Virgilio Filippo (?)

References

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  1. ^ "Carlos Saavedra Lamas". The Nobel Peace Prize. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Bernardo Houssay - Biographical - NobelPrize.org". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Luis Leloir - Biographical - NobelPrize.org". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Adolfo Pérez Esquivel - Biographical - NobelPrize.org". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  5. ^ "César Milstein - Biographical - NobelPrize.org". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  6. ^ Nomination archive – Luis Federico Leloir Archived 2022-06-25 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  7. ^ Nomination archive – Angel H Roffo Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  8. ^ Nomination archive – Bernardo Alberto Houssay Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  9. ^ Nomination archive – Manuel Galvez Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  10. ^ Nomination archive – Carlos María Ocantos Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  11. ^ Nomination archive – Enrique Larreta Archived 2016-10-26 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  12. ^ Nomination archive – Maria Raquel Adler Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  13. ^ Nomination archive – Jorge Luis Borges Archived 2023-01-29 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  14. ^ Nomination archive – Victoria Ocampo Archived 2022-09-26 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  15. ^ Nomination archive – Angela de Oliveira Cezar de Costa Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  16. ^ Nomination archive – Luis Marìa Drago Archived 2022-07-30 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  17. ^ Nomination archive – Carlos Saavedra Lamas Archived 2022-04-05 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  18. ^ Nomination archive – Juan Domingo Perón Archived 2022-05-21 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  19. ^ Nomination archive – María Eva Duarte (Evita) Perón Archived 2022-08-12 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
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