Alfred Nobel He was born in 1833 in Sweden He died in 1896 in Italy victim of a heart attack. It was a chemist and inventor.

He was famous for having invented dynamite in 1867 He worked with his father and brother in the manufacturing of explosives using nitroglycerin. This substance is very sensitive. In 1864 an explosion occurred, killing his brother and five operators. Alfred thereafter focused on finding ways to create a safer explosive: the dynamite

In his will, signed in 1895 in the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel allocated his fortune to the establishment of a foundation with the purpose to reward the most prominent professionals of the following areas: He felt guilty for the evil and the destruction that his inventions could have caused to the humanity in the fields of battle. Literature Physiology or Medicine Physics Chemistry Peace.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas He was born in 1878 in Argentina He died in 1959 in Argentina. He was a politician, diplomat and jurist. He graduated as a lawyer

He was professor of legal and history at the Legal Department of the La Plata University He taught sociology at the Philosophy Department At the Legal Department of the Buenos Aires University letters finance political economy Legal. In 1936 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay.

Bernardo Alberto Houssay He was born in 1887 in Argentina He died in 1971 in Argentina He was a scientist, pharmacist, physician and physiologist.

He was a prodigy he attended primary school in two years, was bachelor of the National College of Buenos Aires at 13, graduated as a pharmacist at 17, and physician at 23 two years after he began teaching at the University of Buenos Aires In 1919 he founded the Institute of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. In 1947 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the role of the frontal pituitary lobe hormone in the metabolism of sugar in human blood.

Luis Federico Leloir He was born in 1906 in France He died in 1987 in Argentina He was physician and biologist. He joined the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) for his doctorate. In 1970 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in biochemistry to discover sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel He was born in 1931 in Argentina. He was a sculptor, architect and pacifist. He studied at Fine Arts at the University National in La Plata. Later, he became professor of architecture.

At the same time he continued working on sculptures For 25 years he taught in primary and secondary schools as well as in the university. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 for his work defending human rights based exclusively on non-violent means through the Service for Peace and Justice Organization since 1974.

He was born in 1927 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina and died in 2002 in England. César Milstein He was a biologist. He moved to the Federal Capital to study at the University of Buenos Aires

He graduated in Chemistry at age 25, and in 1956 finished his physician doctorate in chemistry and received a special prize from the Biochemical Society Argentina. He received a scholarship from Cambridge University where he earned his second doctorate in He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984 for the development of hybridoma technology for monoclonal antibody production.