List of scientists from South America
This is a list of scientists from South America.
Argentina
Main page: List of scientists from Argentina
- 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
- Luis Arce, economist, president of Bolivia
- Mario Baudoin, biologist
- Roberto Iván Aguilar Gómez. - economist, former Minister of Education;
Brazil
Main page: List of Brazilian scientists
- 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
- Iván Duque Márquez - economist, president
- Sergio Fajardo - mathematician, former governor of Antioquia
- Roberto Junguito - economist
Ecuador
- Gary Esparza - economist, former president of the National Congress
- María Elsa Viteri - economist, former Minister of Finance
Guyana
- Opendra Narayan - veterinarian, known for engineering a type of HIV that could cause AIDS-like disease in monkeys.[3]
Paraguay
- Fernando Lugo (born 1951), sociologist; president of Paraguay
Peru
- Hernando de Soto Polar - economist, chief of Institute for Liberty and Democracy;
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - economist, former President
Surinam
- Jules Sedney (d. 2020), economist, prime minister
Uruguay
- Enrique V. Iglesias - Uruguayan-Spanish economist, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank
Venezuela
- 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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