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Argentina: the essential lives
4 figures from Argentina, from the earliest recorded to the present day.
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Bernardo Houssay
1887 – 1971First Latin American science laureate; pituitary role in glucose metabolism.
Argentina·MedicineNobel
Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986Invented the labyrinth-library imagination that prefigured hypertext.
Argentina·Literature · Philosophy
Raúl Prebisch
1901 – 1986Centre-periphery theory drove Latin American development strategy for decades.
Argentina·Political Economy · Economics
César Milstein
1927 – 2002Monoclonal antibodies — now a $200bn class of medicines.
Argentina·Medicine · ChemistryNobel