The University of Buenos Aires is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was established in 1821. It has educated 17 Argentine presidents, produced four of the country's five Nobel Prize laureates, and is responsible for approximately 40% of the country's research output.
The Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, commonly and informally known as Exactas, is the natural science school of the University of Buenos Aires, the largest university in Argentina.
La Noche de los Bastones Largos was the violent dislodging of students and teachers from five academic faculties of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), by the Federal Argentine Police, on July 29, 1966. The academic faculties had been occupied by the students, professors, and graduates who opposed the political intervention by the military government of General Juan Carlos Onganía to unilaterally revoke the academic freedom established in the 1918 university reform.
Miguel Ángel Virasoro was an Argentine mathematician and theoretical physicist. Virasoro worked in Argentina, Israel, the United States, and France, but he spent most of his professional career in Italy at La Sapienza University of Rome. He shared a name with his father, the philosopher Miguel Ángel Virasoro. He was known for his foundational work in string theory, the study of spin glasses, and his research in other areas of mathematical and statistical physics. The Virasoro–Shapiro amplitude, the Virasoro algebra, the super Virasoro algebra, the Virasoro vertex operator algebra, the Virasoro group, the Virasoro conjecture, the Virasoro conformal block, and the Virasoro minimal model are all named after him.
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov was an Argentine theoretical physicist, specializing in the theory of condensed matter physics.
Juan Pablo Paz is an Argentinian physicist who works in the field of quantum computing. A research scientist currently working at the University of Buenos Aires, he has also worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
El Hornero, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of Aves Argentinas-Asociación Ornitológica del Plata the dean of the ornithological institutions in Argentina.
Ángel Gallardo was an Argentine civil engineer, natural scientist and politician. He served variously as the president of the National Council of Education, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Rector of the University of Buenos Aires. He was recognised for his scientific work both in Argentina and abroad.
Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher.
Profª. Dra. Visitación Teresa Dora Conforti de Marconi is an Argentine biologist, algologist, botanist, taxonomist and ecologist. She is a professor in the Department of Biodiversity and Experimental Biology in the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires. She is noted for her numerous taxonomic studies of Euglenophyta, including in polluted rivers in Argentina. Camaleão Lake in Brazil in 1994 and the Caura River in Venezuela in the late 1990s.
Karen Astrid Hallberg is an Argentine scientist and professor of physics at the Balseiro Institute. and at the Bariloche Atomic Centre. Se was awarded the 2019 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science Laureate.
Inés Angela Camilloni is an Argentine climatologist, specializing in climate change in South America. She is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and an independent researcher at the Center for Research on the Sea and Atmosphere. She is also the academic secretary of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the UBA. Camilloni is a resident in the Solar Geoengineering Research Program of Harvard University and director of the Master's in Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the UBA.
Olimpia Iris Lombardi is an Argentine philosopher of science whose research involves ontology in chemistry and in quantum mechanics, including the use of ontological pluralism to argue for treating chemistry as autonomous from, rather than subsidiary to, physics.
Cristina Hemilse Mandrini is an Argentinian solar physicist. She is currently a researcher at the Argentinian National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
The Faculty of Medical Sciences, formerly and commonly known as the Faculty of Medicine, is the medical school of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. Established in 1822 as one of the UBA's earliest divisions, FMED is presently the largest medical school in Argentina, with over 24,000 enrolled students as of 2011.
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism is a faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. Established in 1901 as the School of Architecture, it has since expanded to impart courses on graphic design and urbanism.
Estela Beatriz Cols was an Argentine pedagogue, researcher, and educator at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of La Plata. She held a Ph.D. in education from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. In 2007, Cols, Alicia Rosalía Wigdorovitz de Camilloni, Laura Basabe, and Silvina Feeney received the first prize of the XVIII International Conference on Education for the best theoretical work in education, as co-authors of El Saber Didáctico.
Estrella A. Mazzoli de Mathov was an Argentinian physicist who was instrumental to cosmic ray research in Buenos Aires in 1949.
Emma Victoria Pérez Ferreira was an Argentine physicist who contributed immensely to the advancement of science in Argentina. She was the first female president of the country's National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA).
Isidoro Orlanski is an Argentine-American atmospheric physicist, meteorologist, and ocean scientist. He is known for his contributions to the dynamics of weather systems and ocean currents, especially his work on mesoscale meteorology. Orlanski is currently an emeritus professor at Princeton University.
