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

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Field	Citation
1936		Carlos Saavedra Lamas	1 November 1878 Buenos Aires, Argentina	5 May 1959 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Peace	"for his role as father of the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933, which he also used as a means to mediate peace between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935."[1]
1947		Bernardo Alberto Houssay Laffont	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 Aguirre	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 Vapniarsky	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

Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation	Nominator(s)
Chemistry
	Luis Federico Leloir	6 September 1906 Paris, France	2 December 1987 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[6]	36 nominators
Physiology or Medicine
	Ángel Honorio 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 Alberto Houssay Laffont	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 Balugera	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 Acevedo	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 Aguirre	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 Severo Zeballos	27 July 1854 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina	4 October 1923 Liverpool, United Kingdom	1912, 1920, 1922, 1923		7 nominators
	Luis María Drago	6 May 1859 Mercedes, Argentina	9 June 1921 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1914	"for having initiated the Drago Doctrine that opposed forcible collection of debts in any South American republic through military intervention."[16]	Ernesto Bosch (1863–1951)
	Carlos Melo			1926		Alejandro Mereira (?)
	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	1 November 1878 Buenos Aires, Argentina	5 May 1959 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1935, 1936	"for having drafted Antiwar Pact of 1934 as a means to secure an armistice in the Gran Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, condemning all forms of aggressive war, and any territorial change not effected by peaceful means was not to be recognized."[17]	11 nominators
	Juan Domingo Perón Sosa	8 October 1895 Lobos, Argentina	1 July 1974 Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	[18]	Edmond Michelet (1899–1970) Virgilio Filippo (?)
	María Eva Duarte de Perón	7 May 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina	26 July 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	[19]	Virgilio Filippo (?)

References

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