The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Argentina
This page contains a list of the greatest Argentinean Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 2 of which were born in Argentina. This makes Argentina the birth place of the 35th most number of Biologists behind Luxembourg, and Pakistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Argentinean Biologists of all time. This list of famous Argentinean Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. César Milstein (1927 - 2002)
With an HPI of 59.98, César Milstein is the most famous Argentinean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.
César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.
2. William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922)
With an HPI of 49.74, William Henry Hudson is the 2nd most famous Argentinean Biologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Born in the Argentinian pampas where he roamed free in his youth, he observed bird life and collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. The Patagonian birds Knipolegus hudsoni and Asthenes hudsoni are named after him. He would later write about life in Patagonia that drew special admiration for his style. His most popular work Green Mansions (1904), a romance set in the Venezuelan forest inspired a Hollywood movie and several other works.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Argentinean biologists born between 1841 and 1927. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Argentinean biologists include César Milstein, and William Henry Hudson.
