100 Notable alumni of
National University of La Plata
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The National University of La Plata is 544th 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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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. Since 2024, she has been the president of the Justicialist Party, the main opposition party to the government of Javier Milei.
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Néstor Kirchner
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- 1969-1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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 first gentleman of Argentina during the early tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first (and only) person to serve in this role. Ideologically, he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive, with his political approach called Kirchnerism.
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Horacio Pagani
- Occupations
- entrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Horacio Pagani is an Argentine-Italian businessman and automobile engineer in the automotive industry. He is the founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian specialty automaker.
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Raúl Alfonsín
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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 the 7-years National Reorganization Process. 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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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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Ernesto Sabato
- Occupations
- essayistwriternovelistteacherphysicist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- translatorsociologistuniversity teacherphysicistcritic
- 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
- writerpoliticiandiplomat
- 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
- Occupations
- university teacherpainterwritersculptorarchitect
- Biography
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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
- zoologistpaleontologistanthropologistarchaeologistornithologist
- 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
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Ricardo Piglia
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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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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Federico Sturzenegger
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- 1984-1987 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- politicianbankereconomist
- Biography
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Federico Sturzenegger is an Argentine economist who is the current head of the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation under Javier Milei's presidency. He previously served as President of the Central Bank between 2015 and 2018. Sturzenegger has a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ricardo López Murphy
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- 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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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerdiplomatjurist
- Biography
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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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Héctor Magnetto
- Occupations
- merchanteconomistcertified public accountantbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- 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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Silvina Batakis
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician. She currently works as the Minister of Habitat and Urban Development of Buenos Aires Province. She was the President of the Banco de la Nación Argentina from 2022 to 2023, she also served as the Minister of Economy for a brief period in 2022. 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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Florencio Randazzo
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- 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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Emilio Pettoruti
- Occupations
- illustratorpainter
- Biography
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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 directorhumoristconductor
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is an Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, singer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers.
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Coscu
- Occupations
- Internet celebritypresentersingerYouTubergamer
- 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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William John Cookezkere
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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
- Occupations
- anthropologistsociologist
- 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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Jesús Reyes Heroles
- Occupations
- politicianministerlawyer
- Biography
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Jesús Reyes Heroles was a Mexican politician, jurist, historian and academic affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The party acknowledges him as one of its leading ideologues.
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Francisco Salamone
- Occupations
- engineerarchitect
- 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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Manuel Adorni
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistcolumnistuniversity teacherconferencier
- Biography
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Manuel Adorni is an Argentine economist, certified public accountant, educator, and politician, currently serving as the spokesperson for the Presidency of Argentina since December 10, 2023.
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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
- writerjournalistpolitician
- 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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Mariana Enriquez
- Occupations
- short story writerwriternovelistjournalist
- 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 and gothic genres 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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Marcelo Piñeyro
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- 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
- politicianeconomist
- 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
- architectpolitician
- 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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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
- journalistpolitician
- 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
- politicianeconomistlawyer
- 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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Enrique Gaviola
- Occupations
- physicistastronomer
- Biography
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Ramón Enrique Gaviola was an Argentine astrophysicist. Student of Richard Gans at the Universidad de La Plata went in 1922 to Germany where he continued his studies in physics. He studied with Max Planck, Max Born and Albert Einstein, graduating from the University of Berlin in 1926.
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Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Martín Almada
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with doctorate in educational sciences
- Occupations
- writerhuman rights activistlawyer
- Biography
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Martín Almada was a Paraguayan lawyer, writer and educationalist. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was imprisoned by the Alfredo Stroessner regime from 1974 to 1977. He was notable for uncovering the Archives of Terror in 1992, which documented repression by Stroessner's regime and proved the existence of Operation Condor.
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Martín Tetaz
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Martín Alberto Tetaz is an Argentine economist and politician, and a National Deputy since 2021.
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Juan Carlos Pugliese
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistlawyer
- 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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Adriana Calvo
- Years
- 1947-2010 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- human rights activistuniversity teacherphysicisttrade unionistdocent
- 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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José Antonio Balseiro
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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José Antonio Balseiro was an Argentine physicist.
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Damian Salas
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- 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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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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Carlos Rafael Fernández
- Occupations
- accountantpolitician
- 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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Pablo Tonelli
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Pablo Bruera
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Cristian Alarcón Casanova
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- 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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María Laura Leguizamón
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacher
- 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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Gerardo Caetano
- Occupations
- political scientistassociation football playeruniversity teacherwriterhistorian
- Biography
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Gerardo Caetano Hargain is a Uruguayan historian, professor, political scientist, and former association football player.
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Rubén Marín
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- In 1961 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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
- translatorpoetwriter
- Biography
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Héctor Alberto Álvarez Murena, 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
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianlawyer
- 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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Genaro Carrió
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- 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
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- 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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Leopoldo Bravo
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatlawyer
- 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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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
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Hernando Ismael Cevallos Flores is a Peruvian doctor and former Minister of Health of Peru.
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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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Martha Mercader
- Occupations
- politicianwriterprose writeressayist
- 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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Marcelo Fuentes
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Carlos Casamiquela
- Occupations
- agricultural engineeragronomistcivil 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
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.
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Rimas Álvarez Kairelis
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Rimas Álvarez Kairelis is an Argentine rugby union rugby player. He currently plays for Perpignan in the Top 14 in France. He has represented Argentina, and was part of the Argentine squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup and 2007 Rugby World Cup. His usual position is at lock.
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Leonardo Salgado
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- 1981-1987 graduated with licentiate
- 1996-2000 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- researcherpaleontologistinvestigator
- Biography
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Leonardo Salgado is an Argentine palaeontologist with a special interest in dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period and other investigations of the palaeobiology of fossil bearing geological formations. Salgado is the leading or coauthor of several taxa, notably the large carnivorous species, Giganotosaurus carolinii, discovered in Patagonia.
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Julio Godio
- Occupations
- sociologistassociation football playerhistorian
- Biography
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Julio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.
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Ana Teresa Diego
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Studied astronomy
- Occupations
- studentastronomer
- Biography
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Ana Teresa Diego was an Argentine student of astronomy forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship of Argentina during the Dirty War on 30 September 1976. The asteroid 11441 Anadiego now bears her name.
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Glenn Postolski
- Occupations
- university teacherdocent
- Biography
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Glenn Alvin Postolski was an American-born Argentine researcher and academic who specialised in mass media policies and communication rights. Postolski served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires from 2014 to 2018.
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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
- chemical engineerchemistresearcher
- Biography
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Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher.
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Virpi Niemelä
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- 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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Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
- Occupations
- biologistarchaeologistzoologistanthropologistpaleontologist
- 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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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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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco was an Argentine astronomer. He lived most of his life in San Juan, Argentina. He was a well-known discoverer of minor planets credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 19 numbered minor planets.
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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
- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
- 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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Gloria Dubner
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- 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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Cecilia Lueza
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Cecilia Lueza is an Argentine-American painter and sculptor.
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Leticia Cugliandolo
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- 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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Gustavo Esteban Romero
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Studied in 1984-1991
- Occupations
- astrophysicistuniversity teacher
- 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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Margrete Heiberg Bose
- Occupations
- physicistchemist
- Biography
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Margrete Elisabeth Heiberg Bose was an Argentine physicist of Danish origin, the first woman to receive a chemistry degree in Denmark, possibly the first female physicist to work in Latin America and one of the first in the Americas.
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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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Magdalena Mouján
- Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- computer scientistscience fiction writermathematician
- Biography
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Magdalena Araceli Mouján Otaño was an Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, a pioneer of Argentine computer science, operations research, and nuclear physics, and an award-winning science fiction author.
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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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Miguel Ángel Virasoro
- Occupations
- translatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro was an Argentine philosopher.
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Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet
- Occupations
- arachnologistecologistlimnologist
- Biography
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Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet Ph.D. was an Argentine zoologist.
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Oreste Piro
- Occupations
- biophysicistuniversity teacher
- 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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Adela Ringuelet
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- 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
- writerpsychoanalyst
- 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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Hector Borda Leaño
- Occupations
- poetacademicpoliticianwriteranthropologist
- Biography
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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).
