Lateinamerikas Nobelpreise für Wissenschaft, nach Ländern
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Lateinamerikas Nobelpreise für Wissenschaft, nach Ländern
Von neutral24
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# Argentina
Bernardo Houssay – Physiology or Medicine, 1947
Argentine physiologist who discovered the role of the anterior pituitary gland in regulating blood sugar metabolism, helping clarify how the pituitary interacts with insulin. **He was the first Latin American scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in a scientific category.**
Luis Federico Leloir – Chemistry, 1970
Argentine biochemist who discovered sugar nucleotides and demonstrated their crucial role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates. His work helped explain fundamental biochemical processes involved in how organisms build sugars and other carbohydrates.
César Milstein – Physiology or Medicine, 1984
Argentine immunologist who, together with Georges Köhler, developed the hybridoma technique for producing monoclonal antibodies. This became enormously important for biomedical research, diagnosis and medical treatments.
# Mexico
Mario J. Molina – Chemistry, 1995
Mexican chemist who demonstrated, together with Paul Crutzen and Sherwood Rowland, how CFCs damage the Earth’s ozone layer. Their work provided the scientific basis for international efforts to protect the ozone layer.
# Venezuela
Baruj Benacerraf – Physiology or Medicine, 1980
Venezuelan-born immunologist who discovered how genetically determined structures on cell surfaces regulate immune responses. His work was fundamental to understanding why individuals can respond differently to foreign substances and tissues.
[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/)
Brazil having none is a real shame.
Argentina is also the cradle of the latin American boom current of literature, and had celebrated writers like Ernesto Sabato, Julio Cortazar and the legendary Jorge Luis Borges… And yet doesn’t have a single Nobel prize in literature.
I know the Nobel for Medicine is mostly about breakthrough discoveries in biochemical research, but I just want to give a shout-out to René Favaloro, arguably the greatest Argentine to ever live
They got lots of smart Germans afterall
Maldacena is coming strong too
There’s one that we lost because the would-be winner was a tone deaf moron…
The blind Jorge Luis Borges
They told him that if he took a prize from Pinochet it would be detrimental to this… he went anyway.
Self loathing Argentina lol
Todat the scientist of the country were striking because the actual goberment is closing and cutting all science and research projects.
What an actual trash the current administration
Venezuela presente aunque siempre nos subestimen, asi nos gusta
Is this a ramification of maps black in reddit now? 🙄
Don’t mind me, just setting a reminder to check on the schizoid argentina hating redditors…
Otra coronación de gloria
bueno, otra coronacion de gloria mas
I have to be honest… I thought this map was kind of a calculated insult to Latin America… Just 5 for the entire region? Although, to be fair, that ties the Middle East/North Africa (excluding Israel, which has 4 of its own).
But that just so few compared to even relatively small European countries like Hungary (14), Sweden (22), Austria (14), Denmark (10), and Swotzerland (21).
Let’s hope our Latin American friends can get themselves going on Nobel-Prize worthy research; humanity could use the help!
Argentina even with three Nobel prices can’t get their shit together.
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Otra coronación de gloria 🗣️
Too bad Milei is dismantling state investment in science because scientists are socialist that live from the state
y cuando se volvieron brutos?
jarvis who won the nobel peace prize 2025