Science and technology in Argentina

The National Atomic Energy Commission. Established in 1950, it was the world's first outside either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. and had created a research reactor by 1957.

The Leloir Institute of biotechnology. Founded by Nobel Laureate Dr. Luis Leloir, it is among the most prestigious in its field in Latin America, and the world.^[1]

The most important aspects of science and technology in Argentina are concerned with medicine, nuclear physics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, space and rocket technology and several fields related to the country's main economic activities. According to the World Bank, Argentina exports in high-technology are products with high R&D intensity, such as in aerospace, computers, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and electrical machinery.^[2] Benefiting from Latin America's highest literacy rates since shortly after President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento made primary education universally available in the 1860s and 1870s, Argentine researchers and professionals at home and abroad continue to enjoy a high standing in their fields. Argentine Bernardo Houssay was the first Latin American awarded with a Nobel Prize^[3] in sciences. Educated in a National University, Houssay went on to establish Argentina's National Research Council, a centerpiece in Argentine scientific and technological development, fifty years on.^[4] Many other Argentines have contributed to scientific development around the world, though sometimes having to emigrate to do so. Probably for that, the Argentine education is referred as the Latin American docta^[5] (in Spanish: La docta Latinoamericana), which originates from the Latin docta (learned). Argentina was ranked 73rd in the Global Innovation Index in 2023.^[6]

^ "Fundación Instituto Leloir - Fundación Instituto Leloir". Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
^ Data. "High-technology exports (current US$) | Data | Table". Data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
^ Sulek, K (1968), "Nobel prize for Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerta Theresa Cori in 1947 for discovery of the course of catalytic metabolism of glycogen. Prize for Alberto Bernardo Houssay for discovery on the role of the hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism.", Wiad. Lek., vol. 21, no. 17 (published Sep 1, 1968), pp. 1609–10, PMID 4882480
^ "[Bernardo A. Houssay]". Archived from the original on March 10, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
^ Latino, Rosa María (March 2010). "Familia Infancia y Genero" (PDF). La Travesía de la Libertad Ante el Bicentenario, X Seminario Argentino-Chileno, IV Congreso Interoceanico de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Simposio. 10. Mendoza, Argentina: 9. ISBN 978-987-9441-40-4.
^ WIPO (2022). Global Innovation Index 2023, 15th Edition. World Intellectual Property Organization. doi:10.34667/tind.46596. ISBN 9789280534320. Retrieved 2023-10-29. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[1] "Fundación Instituto Leloir - Fundación Instituto Leloir". Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2009.

[2] Data. "High-technology exports (current US$) | Data | Table". Data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2016-02-22.

[3] Sulek, K (1968), "Nobel prize for Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerta Theresa Cori in 1947 for discovery of the course of catalytic metabolism of glycogen. Prize for Alberto Bernardo Houssay for discovery on the role of the hypophysis in carbohydrate metabolism.", Wiad. Lek., vol. 21, no. 17 (published Sep 1, 1968), pp. 1609–10, PMID 4882480

[4] "[Bernardo A. Houssay]". Archived from the original on March 10, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2009.

[5] Latino, Rosa María (March 2010). "Familia Infancia y Genero" (PDF). La Travesía de la Libertad Ante el Bicentenario, X Seminario Argentino-Chileno, IV Congreso Interoceanico de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Simposio. 10. Mendoza, Argentina: 9. ISBN 978-987-9441-40-4.

[6] WIPO (2022). Global Innovation Index 2023, 15th Edition. World Intellectual Property Organization. doi:10.34667/tind.46596. ISBN 9789280534320. Retrieved 2023-10-29. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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