100 Notable alumni of
National University of La Plata
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The National University of La Plata is 539th in the world, 13th in Latin America, and 2nd in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National University of La Plata sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with Título de abogado
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and later as vice president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023 under President Alberto Fernández, as well as the first lady of Argentina during the tenure of her husband, Néstor Kirchner, from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina (after Isabel Perón) and the first elected female president of Argentina. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a Peronist and a progressive, with her political approach called Kirchnerism.
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Néstor Kirchner
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- 1969-1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as the first ever (and still only) First Gentleman of Argentina during the first tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. By the time he died in October 2010, he was First Gentlemen from 2007, President of the Justicialist Party and National Deputy from 2009, and Secretary General of UNASUR from May 2010. Ideologically, he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive, with his political approach called Kirchnerism.
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René Favaloro
- Occupations
- cardiac surgeon
- Biography
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René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.
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Raúl Alfonsín
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than seven years of military dictatorship, and is considered the "father of modern democracy in Argentina". Ideologically, he identified as a radical and a social democrat, serving as the leader of the Radical Civic Union from 1983 to 1991, 1993 to 1995, 1999 to 2001, with his political approach being known as "Alfonsinism".
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Horacio Pagani
- Occupations
- engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Horacio Pagani is an Argentine-Italian businessman and engineer in the automotive industry. He is the founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian specialty auto-maker.
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Ernesto Sabato
- Occupations
- writerpoetpainterphysicistessayist
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Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".
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Mario Bunge
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- university teachersociologistwriterphysicistphilosopher
- Biography
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Mario Augusto Bunge was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles.
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Juan José Arévalo
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Juan José Arévalo Bermejo was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945. He was elected following a popular uprising against the United States-backed dictator Jorge Ubico that began the Guatemalan Revolution. He remained in office until 1951, surviving 25 coup attempts. He did not contest the election of 1951, instead choosing to hand over power to Jacobo Árbenz. As president, he enacted several social reform policies, including an increase in the minimum wage and a series of literacy programs. He also oversaw the drafting of a new constitution in 1945. He is the father of the current President of Guatemala Bernardo Arévalo.
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
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- writerpainteruniversity teacherarchitectsculptor
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. He also received, among other distinctions, the Pacem in Terris Award.
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Florentino Ameghino
- Occupations
- naturalistuniversity teacherornithologistarchaeologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.
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Miguel Ángel Pichetto
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Pichetto is an Argentine lawyer and conservative Peronist politician. He is Auditor General of the Nation. He was National Senator for Río Negro Province for eighteen years and was the vice-presidential candidate of Juntos por el Cambio in the 2019 general election.
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Mariana Enriquez
- Occupations
- journalistwriterteacher
- Biography
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Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror genre, and have been published in international magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review and The New Yorker.
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Ricardo Piglia
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- journalistliterary criticwriterscreenwriter
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Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Ricardo López Murphy
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist, academic and politician. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Economy during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa. His time at the helm of the economy portfolio lasted only 15 days, as he was forced to leave office after announcing an unpopular austerity plan. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.
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Silvina Batakis
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician, and the country’s former Minister of Economy. Previously, she served as Secretary of Provinces in the Ministry of the Interior and as economy minister of Buenos Aires Province under Governor Daniel Scioli from 2011 to 2015.
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Héctor Magnetto
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoncertified public accountanteconomistmerchant
- Biography
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Héctor Horacio Magnetto is an Argentine executive CEO of the Clarín Group, the country's largest media company.
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Florencio Randazzo
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Aníbal Florencio Randazzo in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was Minister of the Interior and Transport during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from 2007 to 2015. An ally of Kirchner's during most of his political career, Randazzo fell out with her and ran against her for a seat in the Senate in 2017.
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Federico Sturzenegger
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianbanker
- Biography
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Federico Sturzenegger is an Argentine economist who was President of the Central Bank between 2015 and 2018. Sturzenegger has a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Emilio Pettoruti
- Occupations
- painterillustrator
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Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development. Pettoruti's career was thriving during the 1920s when "Argentina witnessed a decade of dynamic artistic activity; it was an era of euphoria, a time when the definition of modernity was developed." While Pettoruti was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Abstraction, he did not claim to paint in any of those styles in particular. Exhibiting all over Europe and Argentina, Emilio Pettoruti is remembered as one of the most influential artists in Argentina in the 20th century for his unique style and vision.
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Carlos López Puccio
- Occupations
- film directorconductor
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is an Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers.
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William John Cookezkere
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John William Cooke was an Argentine lawyer and politician. An early follower of President Juan Perón, Cooke went on to form part and lead the revolutionary leftist wing of the Peronist movement. Following the 1955 coup d'état, an exiled Perón appointed Cooke as his proxy in Argentina.
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Ricardo Balbín
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973.
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Néstor García Canclini
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- sociologistanthropologist
- Biography
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Néstor García Canclini is an Argentinian academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity."
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Martín Perez Disalvo
- Occupations
- gamerYouTubersingerpresenterInternet celebrity
- Biography
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Martín Pérez Disalvo, better known as Coscu, is an Argentine Twitch streamer, gamer, internet celebrity and singer.
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César Mascetti
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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César Alberto Mascetti was an Argentine journalist and television news host. He worked for Channel 13 starting in 1971 and presented the network's Telenoche program until his retirement in 2003.
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Francisco Salamone
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Francisco Salamone was an Argentine architect born in Italy who, between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine pampas within the Buenos Aires Province. These buildings were some of the first examples of modern architecture in rural Argentina.
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Federico Storani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Federico Storani is an Argentine politician, who served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa between December 1999 and March 2001. A member of Radical Civic Union, he served several times as National Deputy representing the Buenos Aires Province.
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Gabriela Cerruti
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Gabriela Carla Cerruti is an Argentine journalist, writer, and politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2017 to 2021, as part of the Front for Victory bloc, and later as part of the Frente de Todos bloc. She served as the official spokesperson for Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina.
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Marcelo Piñeyro
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Marcelo Piñeyro is an Argentine award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
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Elpidio González
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elpidio González was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. He was Vice President from 1922 to 1928 in the Marcelo T. de Alvear administration.
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Jorge Remes Lenicov
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Remes Lenicov is an Argentine peronist economist and politician who served as Minister of Economy and Production from January 3 till April 27, 2002 under Acting President Eduardo Duhalde.
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Tomás Romero Pereira
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Tomás Romero Pereira was a Paraguayan architect and politician who served as President of Paraguay from May to August of 1954. He was installed as president by Alfredo Stroessner after the coup of 4 May against President Federico Chaves. Romero Pereira quickly held elections, which fraudulently elected Stroessner president.
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Julio Alak
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Julio César Alak is an Argentine politician. Since 10 December 2023, intendente (mayor) of La Plata, the capital city of Buenos Aires Province. He previously held the post from 1997 to 2007.
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Patricia Walsh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patricia Walsh is an Argentine political activist, daughter of Rodolfo Walsh.
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Roberto Noble
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Roberto Noble was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded Clarín, long Argentina's leading news daily and the most or second-most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Hernán Lorenzino
- Occupations
- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Hernán Gaspar Lorenzino is an Argentine lawyer and public policy maker. He was appointed Minister of Economy of Argentina by President Cristina Kirchner in 2011.
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Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa was a Venezuelan scientific researcher and agricultural engineer. He served the government of Rómulo Betancourt, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Venezuelan history at the age of 28. His appointment was problematic due to his young age and required a constitutional amendment. Betancourt had insisted on the appointment and vastly expanded the portfolio of the Secretary of Agriculture to include all immigration matters.
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Carlos Kunkel
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Kunkel is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was part of the Montoneros organization, and was a national deputy from 2005 to 2017 for the Front for Victory - PJ. He was head of the Peronist Youth in the city of La Plata in the 1970s.
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Juan Carlos Pugliese
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- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Pugliese was an Argentine politician. He served as minister of interior and minister of economy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín.
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José Antonio Balseiro
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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José Antonio Balseiro was an Argentine physicist.
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Miguel Lunghi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Lunghi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, paediatrician and mayor of Tandil, where he was born.
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Adriana Calvo
- Years
- 1947-2010 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherhuman rights activistdocenttrade unionist
- Biography
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Adriana Lelia Calvo was an Argentine physicist, university professor, and researcher. After being kidnapped by the military government during the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, she became a human rights activist, and was the first witness to testify at the Trial of the Juntas in 1985.
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Martín Almada
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- writerlawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Martín Almada is a lawyer, writer and educationalist from Paraguay. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was a prisoner of the Alfredo Stroessner regime. He is notable for uncovering the Archives of Terror.
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Pablo Tonelli
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Pablo Gabriel Tonelli is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital. A member of Republican Proposal, Tonelli was first elected in 2011, and has been re-elected in 2015 and 2019. Tonelli has also been one of the Chamber's representatives in the Council of Magistracy since 2016.
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Carlos Rafael Fernández
- Occupations
- politicianaccountant
- Biography
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Carlos Rafael Fernández is an Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the Minister of the Economy of the country.
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Damian Salas
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Damian Salas is an Argentine professional poker player from Chascomús. He won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2020, becoming the first person from Argentina to win the world championship of poker and the second person from South America to win the championship, after 2001 champion Carlos Mortensen. He made the Main Event final table in 2017, where he finished in 7th place earning $1,425,000.
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María Laura Leguizamón
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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María Laura Leguizamón is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She was a National Senator for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2017 and for the City of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007. She also served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and in the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
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Pablo Bruera
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Pablo Oscar Bruera is an Argentine politician, who was the mayor of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, from 2007 to 2015. On December 9, 2007, Bruera replaced incumbent Julio Alak. His run as mayor ended in 2015 when he was replaced by Julio Garro.
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Martín Tetaz
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Martín Alberto Tetaz is an Argentine economist and politician, and a National Deputy since 2021.
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Cristian Alarcón Casanova
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Cristian Alarcón Casanova is a Chilean writer and journalist. He was born in La Union and studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Since the early 1990s, he has devoted himself to investigative journalism. His work has been published in newspapers such as Clarín, Página 12, Crítica de Argentina and in the magazines TXT, Rolling Stone and Gatopardo. In 2012 he founded the Revista Anfibia magazine and the Cosecha Roja website, and he has since taken further his experimentation with non-fiction narrative.
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Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú
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- university teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú was an Argentine politician who is best remembered for his spell as Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship in the 1940s.
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Nicolás García Mayor
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Nicolás García Mayor is an Argentine entrepreneur and industrial designer focused in humanitarian development. He is the CEO of Cmax System INC and other Corp's and NGO's. He worked and lived in Europe conducting various architectural and innovation design projects. Since 2000 he has been working as an Industrial Humanitarian Designer, identifying, designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in countries in South America and abroad, including China, Austria, Spain, France, United Arab Emirates.
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Florentina Gómez Miranda
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Florentina Gómez Miranda was an Argentine teacher and lawyer. Born in Olavarría in the province of Buenos Aires, she attended the National University of La Plata, from which she graduated in 1945. From then on, she was active in the struggle for women's rights. Among the laws she promoted, the divorce law was the most important. From 1983 to 1991, Miranda was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Unión Cívica Radical. After her death, Miranda lay in state in the “Salón de los pasos perdidos” in the National Congress building.
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H. A. Murena
- Occupations
- writertranslator
- Biography
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Héctor Alberto Álvarez, better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He wrote over twenty books on various topics, and was an important disseminator of German thought into the Spanish-speaking world. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche (1958), translated into English as The Laws of the Night. In addition to his books, Murena was a contributor to the Argentinian literary review Sur, and to Argentinian newspaper La Nación.
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Arturo Sampay
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- politicianphilosopherlawyer
- Biography
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Arturo Enrique Sampay, was an Argentine lawyer, constitutionalist and professor. He is considered the "father" of the Argentine Constitution of 1949.
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Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca is an Argentine Judge of the Supreme Court of city of Buenos Aires and a Judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal in New York City. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 16, 1948.
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Rubén Marín
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- In 1961 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Rubén Hugo Marín was an Argentine politician who was a Senator for La Pampa Province. He was also a governor of the province on two occasions. Marín, a lawyer by profession, was a member of the Justicialist Party.
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Genaro Carrió
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- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Genaro Rubén Carrió was an Argentinian jurist and translator. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Argentina between 1983 and 1985 designated by president Raúl Alfonsín.
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Héctor Icazuriaga
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Héctor Icazuriaga is the former Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina who served from 2004 until 2014.
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Silvia Pessah
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Silvia Ester Pessah Eljay is a Peruvian surgeon. She served as the country's Minister of Health from 2 April 2018 to 5 January 2019, in the government of Martín Vizcarra.
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Patricio Lorente
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Patricio Lorente is an Argentine scholar and General Secretary of the National University of La Plata.
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Hernando Cevallos
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Hernando Ismael Cevallos Flores is a Peruvian doctor and former Minister of Health of Peru.
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Leopoldo Bravo
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat. A Senator and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province, where he came to be regarded as a caudillo (kingmaker).
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Marcelo Fuentes
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Marcelo Jorge Fuentes is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a National Senator for the Neuquén Province for the Frente de Todos. In 2019, Fuentes, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Argentine Senate.
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Martha Mercader
- Occupations
- politicianwriteressayist
- Biography
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Martha Evelina Mercader was an Argentine politician and writer, known for novels, short stories, essays and children's books.
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Carlos Casamiquela
- Occupations
- agronomistagricultural engineercivil servant
- Biography
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Carlos Horacio Casamiquela was an Argentine agricultural engineer and public official. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture of Argentina in November 2013, replacing Norberto Yauhar.
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Facundo Suárez
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.
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Julio Godio
- Occupations
- historianassociation football playersociologist
- Biography
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Julio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.
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Claudia Alicia Bernazza
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claudia Alicia Bernazza is an Argentine teacher, social activist and politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province on two occasions: from 2007 to 2009, when she filled in the vacancy left by Graciela Rosso, and later from 2020 to 2021, filling the vacancy left by Daniel Scioli, who was appointed Ambassador in Brazil.
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María Angélica Barreda
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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María Angélica Barreda became in 1910 the first woman admitted to practice law in Argentina. She graduated from the National University of La Plata, receiving her degree on 28 December 1909.
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Noemí Zaritzky
- Occupations
- researcherchemistchemical engineer
- Biography
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Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher.
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Virpi Niemelä
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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Virpi Sinikka Niemelä was a leading Finnish Argentine astronomer. She was the second Argentine to be elected for Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Pedro Guillermo Ángel Guastavino
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pedro Guillermo Angel Guastavino is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Between 2007 and 2019, he sat in the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province in the block of the majority Front for Victory.
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Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
- Occupations
- archaeologistbiologistpaleontologistanthropologistzoologist
- Biography
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Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini is an Argentine paleontologist and zoologist. She is known for discovering the fossils of the dinosaur Gasparinisaura, which was named after her.
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María Teresa Dova
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- In 1988 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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María Teresa Dova is an Argentine physicist. She is a senior researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina and professor in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the National University of La Plata.
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Cecilia Lueza
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- Biography
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Cecilia Lueza is an Argentine-American painter and sculptor.
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Alfredo Martínez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alfredo Anselmo "Fredi" Martínez is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Santa Cruz Province from 2005 to 2017.
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Jorge Sahade
- Occupations
- astrophysicistuniversity teacherastronomer
- Biography
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Jorge Sahade was an Argentine astronomer with more than 200 publications in journals and conferences. He was the first Latin American to achieve the presidency of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) between 1985 and 1988, and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. He held this position between 1991 and 1994.
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Germán López
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Germán Osvaldo López was an Argentine politician who served as minister of defense of Raúl Alfonsín.
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Gloria Dubner
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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Gloria Dubner is an Argentinian astrophysicist and Director of the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio in Buenos Aires and a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council. She is known for her research on supernovas.
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Leticia Cugliandolo
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the Sorbonne University.
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Teófilo Tabanera
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Teófilo Tabanera was an Argentine engineer and air force officer and an instrumental figure in space exploration.
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José Luis Sérsic
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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José Luis Sérsic was an Argentine astronomer who studied the morphology of galaxies. He is most widely known for the mathematical model of galaxy brightness, the Sersic profile, which bears his name. José Luis Sérsic first published his law in 1963.
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Gustavo Esteban Romero
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Studied in 1984-1991
- Occupations
- university teacherastrophysicist
- Biography
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Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata in Argentina. In addition to his academic role, he serves as a Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Romero also holds the position of Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy. Additionally, Romero has previously served as President of the Argentine Astronomical Society and is currently the leader of the GARRA research group and a Helmholtz International Fellow.
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro
- Occupations
- philosophertranslator
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro was an Argentine philosopher.
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Oreste Piro
- Occupations
- biophysicistuniversity teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Oreste Piro is a dynamical systems theorist and biophysicist. He is at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca.
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Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet
- Occupations
- arachnologistlimnologistecologist
- Biography
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Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet Ph.D. was an Argentine zoologist.
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Adela Ringuelet
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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Adela Emilia Ringuelet was an Argentine astrophysicist and astronomer at the Félix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina.
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Oscar R. Gómez
- Occupations
- psychoanalystwriter
- Biography
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Oscar R. Gómez is an Argentine writer, psychoanalyst and academic researcher who became renown as an integrator of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism with Western formal sciences and who constituted the first religious organization in Argentina engaged in the Tantric Worship practice in children and adults.
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Ernesto Ueltschi
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Ernesto Arturo Ueltschi was an Argentine politician, lawyer, and teacher. Ueltschi served as the Governor of Mendoza from May 1, 1958, until October 12, 1961. His political career spanned from 1940 until 1995, when he tendered his resignation from the Integration and Development Movement (MID).
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Emma de Cartosio
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Emma de Cartosio was an Argentine writer, poet, storyteller, essayist and teacher. The Emma de Cartosio poetry contest was established in Entre Ríos Province in 2015.
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Mario Zaritzky
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Mario Zaritzky is MD, scientist and inventor and currently lives and works as an associate professor of Radiology at Jackson Memorial Center. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Radiology Department of Radiology, University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zaritzky coordinated the Argentine Network of Science in Midwestern, United States, from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Programme of Argentina.
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Jorge Sarghini
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Emilio Sarghini is an Argentine economist and politician. Historically a member of the Justicialist Party, Sarghini has served in a number of political posts throughout his career, most notably as a member and president of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, as Minister of Economy of Buenos Aires Province during the successive administrations of Eduardo Duhalde and Carlos Ruckauf, and briefly as Secretary of Communications during Duhalde's interim presidency in 2002.
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Arturo Vera
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arturo Vera is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician. He was a member of the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province from 2007 to 2013.
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Carlos Lousto
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Argentina - Occupations
- researcherastrophysicistmathematician
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Carlos O. Lousto is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology, known for his work on black hole collisions.
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Hector Borda Leaño
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- writerpoliticianacademicpoetanthropologist
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Héctor Borda Leaño was a Bolivian politician, anthropologist and poet. He was born into an intellectual family as son of a farmacologist from Potosí and a lady of landowner gentry from Sucre. His father and two uncles fought in the Chaco war, and much of his childhood was marked by difficulties. Borda joined the Falange Socialista Boliviana (FSB), as a teenager in the early 1940s. Eventually he was elected for this party to the national congress 1966-1969. In the early 1970s he broke out from the FSB together with Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz and Walter Vasquez Michel. After the military coup led by Hugo Banzer in 1971 Borda was forced into exile, first to Argentina and again in 1977 to Sweden. He returned to Bolivia in 1982 as elected senator for the newly formed Partido Socialista (PS-1).
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Nidia Morrell
- Occupations
- astronomer
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Nidia Irene Morrell is an Argentine astronomer who is a permanent staff member at the Las Campanas Observatory in La Serena, Chile. She was a member of the Massive Stars research group led by Virpi Niemelä and the Hubble Heritage Project. Professionally, she is known for her numerous contributions related to the astrophysics of massive stars. She participates in the systematic search for variations of brightness in stellar objects, including the observation of a candidate for the Thorne–Żytkow object. She was also a member of the team that discovered the supernova ASASSN-15lh.
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Ofelia Olivero
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in cytogenetics
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- biologistmedical researcher
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Ofelia Ana Olivero is an Argentine-American biologist specialized in HIV/AIDS and biomedical research. She pioneered the discovery of nucleoside analogs induced centrosomal amplification and aneuploidy while working as a senior staff scientist at the National Cancer Institute. In 2016, she became chief of the NCI diversity intramural workforce branch.
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Julio José Gustavo Sardagna
- Years
- 1932-2009 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonneurologist
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Julio José Gustavo Sardagna was an Argentine neurologist and neurosurgeon.
