List of Argentine Nobel laureates

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

## Laureates

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

## Nominees

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Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation | Nominator(s)

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Chemistry
| Luis Federico Leloir | 6 September 1906
Paris, France  | 2 December 1987
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970  | [6] | 36 nominators
Physiology or Medicine
| Ángel Roffo | 30 December 1882
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 23 July 1947
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1927, 1937, 1940  | "for his clinical and experimental studies on cancer."[7] |

* Leonidas Avendaño Ureta (1860–1946)
* Guillermo Bosch Arana (1889–1939)
* Eduardo Bello Porras (1870–1947)

| Bernardo Houssay | 10 April 1887
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 21 September 1971
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948  | "for the discovery of the physiological role of the anterior hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes, work on heart sounds, and the relation of the kidney to hypertension."[8] | 46 nominators
Literature
| Manuel Gálvez | 18 July 1882
Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina  | 14 November 1962
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1951, 1952  | [9] |
| Carlos María Ocantos Ziegler  | 1860
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1949
Madrid, Spain  | 1933, 1943  | [10] |

* Carlos María Cortezo Prieto (1850–1933)
* Salvador Bermúdez de Castro (1863–1945)

| Enrique Rodríguez Larreta | 4 March 1875
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 6 July 1961
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1950  | [11] |
| María Raquel Adler | ca. 1900
Argentine Sea | 28 July 1974
Bernal, Argentina  | 1959, 1965  | [12] |

* Consejo del Escritor
* Catholic University of Cuyo

| Jorge Luis Borges | 24 August 1899
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 14 June 1986
Geneva, Switzerland  | 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971  | [13] | 26 nominators
| Victoria Ocampo | 7 April 1890
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 27 January 1979
Béccar, Argentina  | 1970  | [14] | Miguel Alfredo Olivera (1922–2008)
Peace
| Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa | ca. 1860
Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina  | 25 June 1940
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1910, 1911  | "for her efforts to end the conflict between Argentina and Chile."[15] |

* 7 members of the Argentine parliament
* Carlos Rodríguez Larreta (1868–1926)

| Estanislao Zeballos | 27 July 1854
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina  | 4 October 1923
Liverpool, United Kingdom  | 1912, 1920, 1922, 1923  |  | 7 nominators
| Luis María Drago | 6 May 1859
Mercedes, Argentina  | 9 June 1921
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1914  | "for having initiated the Drago Doctrine that opposed forcible collection of debts in any South American republic through military intervention."[16] | Ernesto Bosch (1863–1951)
| Carlos Francisco Melo  |  |  | 1926  |  | Alejandro Mereira (?)
| Carlos Saavedra Lamas | 1 November 1878
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 5 May 1959
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1935, 1936  | "for having drafted Antiwar Pact of 1934 as a means to secure an armistice in the Gran Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, condemning all forms of aggressive war, and any territorial change not effected by peaceful means was not to be recognized."[17] | 11 nominators
| Juan Perón | 8 October 1895
Lobos, Argentina  | 1 July 1974
Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1949  | [18] |

* Edmond Michelet (1899–1970)
* Virgilio Filippo (?)

| Eva Perón | 7 May 1919
Los Toldos, Argentina  | 26 July 1952
Buenos Aires, Argentina  | 1949  | [19] | Virgilio Filippo (?)

## References

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

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