Argentines have won five Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Argentina:
| 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 | 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) |
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| 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] | |||
| María Eva Duarte de Perón | 7 May 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina | 26 July 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1949 | [19] | Virgilio Filippo (?) |