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Bernardo Houssay

1887 – 1971

First Latin American science laureate; pituitary role in glucose metabolism.

Argentina·MedicineNobel

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986

Invented the labyrinth-library imagination that prefigured hypertext.

Argentina·Literature · Philosophy

Raúl Prebisch

1901 – 1986

Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.

Argentina·Political Economy · Economics

César Milstein

1927 – 2002

Monoclonal antibodies — now a $200bn class of medicines.

Argentina·Medicine · ChemistryNobel