Ivan Izquierdo

Ivan Antonio Izquierdo (16 September 1937[1] – 9 February 2021) was an Argentine-Brazilian scientist.

Ivan Antonio Izquierdo
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Born16 September 1937
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died9 February 2021(2021-02-09) (aged 83)
CitizenshipArgentinian
Brazilian
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
Known forStudy of memory in mammals
AwardsOrdem Nacional do Mérito Científico
Order of Rio Branco
Doctor honoris causa, University of Buenos Aires
Scientific career
FieldsNeurology
Neurobiology
InstitutionsUniversidad Nacional de Córdoba
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Izquierdo taught at National University of Cordoba (UNC), in Argentina. For more than 20 years, he worked in the "Center of Memory" of the Biochemistry Department of the Health Basic Sciences Institute (ICBS) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

He died of pneumonia on 9 February 2021 at the age of 83.[2]

References

  1. Squire, Larry R. (9 September 2011). The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography: Volume 7. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-539613-3. Retrieved 9 February 2021 – via Google Books.
  2. "Em razão de pneumonia, morre Iván Izquierdo, especialista em memória e reconhecido pesquisador latino-americano". GZH. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.