List of scientists from South America
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This is a list of scientists from South America.
Argentina
change- Ivan Izquierdo, Argentine-Brazilian neuroscientist. A pioneer of neurobiology of learning and memory
- Andres Carrasco - molecular biologist. studied the effects of glyphosate used on transgenic crops.
- Bernardo Houssay - doctor, Nobel prize (Physiology and Medicine) with two others on how hormones use sugar[1]
- Ivan Izquierdo - neuroscientist, studied memory in mammals
- Erico Spinadel - industrial engineer, worked with wind and nuclear power
Bolivia
change- Luis Arce, economist, president of Bolivia
- Mario Baudoin, biologist
- Roberto Iván Aguilar Gómez. - economist, former Minister of Education;
Brazil
change- Warwick Estevam Kerr - geneticist and entomologist. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States[2] the Third World Academy of Sciences and the National Order of Scientific Merit
- Israel Klabin - mathematician and civil engineer. second mayor of Rio de Janeiro
- Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes - geologist, f the mineral menezesite is named for him.
- Fritz Müller - German born evolutionary biologist, known for Müllerian mimicry
- Luiz Pinguelli Rosa - nuclear physicist , researcher and educator
Chile
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- Hugo Gunckel Lüer - botanist and pharmacologist
- Adriana Hoffmann - botanist and environmentalist
- Cinna Lomnitz - geophysicist
- Humberto Maturana - biologist and cybernetician
- Jurgen Rottmann - ornithologist
Colombia
change- Iván Duque Márquez - economist, president
- Sergio Fajardo - mathematician, former governor of Antioquia
- Roberto Junguito - economist
Ecuador
change- Gary Esparza - economist, former president of the National Congress
- María Elsa Viteri - economist, former Minister of Finance
Guyana
change- Opendra Narayan - veterinarian, known for engineering a type of HIV that could cause AIDS-like disease in monkeys.[3]
Paraguay
change- Fernando Lugo (born 1951), sociologist; president of Paraguay
Peru
change- Hernando de Soto Polar - economist, chief of Institute for Liberty and Democracy;
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - economist, former President
Surinam
change- Jules Sedney (d. 2020), economist, prime minister
Uruguay
change- Enrique V. Iglesias - Uruguayan-Spanish economist, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank
Venezuela
change- José Antonio Abreu - economist, won the Latin Grammy Trustees Award, d. 2018
- Teodoro Petkoff - economist, former Minister of Planning, d. 2018
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changeReferences
change- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
- ↑ "National Academy of Sciences". nas.nasonline.org.
- ↑ Buch, Shilpa; Rouse, Barry T.; Gendelman, Howard E.; Zink, M. Christine; Clements, Janice E. (March 2008). "Opendra "Bill" Narayan (1936–2007): A Personal Tribute to a Friend, Teacher, and Colleague". Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. 3 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s11481-008-9101-y. ISSN 1557-1890. S2CID 44419203.