List of Venezuelan Nobel laureates
Up to date, there has only been one Venezuelan citizen awarded a Nobel Prize – the immunologist Baruj Benacerraf, who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, alongside French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell.
Laureates[edit]
Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
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1980 | Baruj Benacerraf | 29 October 1920 Caracas, Venezuela | 2 August 2011 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" (awarded together with French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell) |
Nominations[edit]
Venezuelans started receiving nominations in 1908. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[1] including the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019.[2][3][4]
Image | Nominee[5] | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation |
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Literature | |||||
Julio Calcaño | 4 December 1840 Caracas, Venezuela | 18 August 1918 Caracas, Venezuela | 1908 | ||
Rufino Blanco Fombona | 17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela | 16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935 | [6] | |
Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | 19 September 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela | 1959 Caracas, Venezuela | 1930 | [7] | |
Rómulo Gallegos | 2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela | 5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela | 1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967 | [8] | |
Wilhelm Lehmann | 4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela | 17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Germany | 1960 | [9] | |
Robert Ganzo | 22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela | 6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | 1970 | ||
Peace | |||||
Carlos Medina Chirinos | Venezuela | Venezuela | 1926 | [10] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archived 2022-06-10 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
- ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano, nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". La Patilla. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz - El Carabobeño". El Carabobeño (in European Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Foro Penal fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". VPItv (in Spanish). 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ The (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Rufino Blanco-Fombona". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Clotilde de Arvelo". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Romulo Gallegos". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive - Wilhelm Lehmann". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Nomination Archive – Carlos Median Chirinos". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.