Eladio Dieste

Eladio Dieste

Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was born in Artigas Department, Uruguay. He was an engineer that not only helped design many incredible buildings for Uruguay but also relied on local materals and he revolutionized the use of bricks and ceramics in building design. He received his Engineering Degree in 1943 from the […]

Luis Walter Alvarez, PhD

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Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was a physicist, inventor and professor born in San Francisco. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of a particle’s resonance states. He completed his entire education at the University of Chicago, earning his BS (1932), MS (1934), and […]

Martin Cárdenas Hermosa, PhD

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Martín Cárdenas Hermosa (November 12, 1899 – February 14, 1973) was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Martín Cárdenas Hermosa went on to be the most important Botanist in the history of Bolivia and he received the Mary Soper Pope [Medal] Memorial Award in botany. He received his BS (1918) in Biological Sciences from the Instituto Normal […]

Juan Taveras, MD

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Juan Manuel Taveras Rodrígues (September 27, 1919 – March 28, 2002) was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He would become known as the father of neuroradiology as he revolutionized the practice through developing new techniques, equipment, and new training methods. He received an MD (1943) from both the University of Santo Domingo and (1949) […]

Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner

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Dr. Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner was born December 3, 1944 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and was instrumental in understanding the function and metabolism of nitric oxide, as well as its connection to vascular and inflammatory biology. He obtained his MD (1970) University of El Salvador and his PhD (1974) in Pharmacology from the University of London. […]

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, MD

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Dr. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1 1852 – October 17, 1934) was born in Petilla de Aragón, Spain. He spent most of  his childhood causing trouble, leading to frequently changing schools and even an arrest at the age of 11. His greatest love was art and medicine, as his father would take him to […]

Andrés Barbero, MD

Dr. Andres Barbero (July 28, 1877 – February 14, 1951) was born in 1877 in Asunción, Paraguay.  He became one of the first Paraguayan citizens to earn a medical degree and dedicated himself to many philanthropic ventures across Paraguay. Born into a very wealthy family, he completed Pharmacy in 1898 and Medicine in 1903 at […]

José Carlos Millás

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José Carlos Millás (January 22, 1889 – November 28, 1965) was a Cuban meteorologist that was called one of the “fathers of tropical meteorology”. Born in Havana, he obtained a BS in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Havana and pursued postgraduate work at the University of Chicago in Celestial Mechanics. However, the […]

Pablo DT Valenzuela, PhD

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Dr. Pablo Valenzuela was born in 1941, Santiago, Chile, and has made significant impact in blood saftety and disease treatment. He obtained his BS (1967) in Biochemistry from the University of Chile,  PhD (1970) in Chemistry at Northwestern University, Postdoctoral training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and was a Professor in Biochemistry […]

Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, MD

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Dr. Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia (September 26, 1921 – November 2, 1996) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Dr. Caldeyro-Barcia was the father of Perinatology and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. He obtained his MD (1947) from the University of the Republic in Uruguay specializing in obstetrical physiology. He and his professor developed the Montevideo Units, which […]