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Science, Medicine and Argentine Inventions

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  1. Who was the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize in science, awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
  2. Which Argentine scientist won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering sugar nucleotides?
  3. Which Argentine-British scientist won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing monoclonal antibodies?
  4. Who received the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Latin American Nobel laureate?
  5. Which human rights activist and sculptor won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for non-violent resistance against military dictatorship?
  6. Which world-renowned cardiac surgeon developed the standardized coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in 1967?
  7. Which Argentine physician developed the first safe indirect blood transfusion using sodium citrate in November 1914?
  8. Who invented the modern ballpoint pen, known in Argentina as the 'birome' in his honor?
  9. Which Croatian-born Argentine police official developed the world's first practical fingerprint classification system in 1891?
  10. What is INVAP, based in San Carlos de Bariloche, renowned for designing and manufacturing?
  11. Which state agency founded in 1950 spearheaded Argentina's peaceful nuclear development program?
  12. What was the Pulqui II, developed at the Military Aircraft Factory (FMA) in Córdoba in the late 1940s?
  13. Which physician dedicated his life to researching American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) in rural Argentina?
  14. Which Argentine physician and radiologist invented the expandable balloon-expandable coronary stent in the 1980s?
  15. What is CONICET, created by decree in 1958 under the leadership of Bernardo Houssay?
  16. Which Argentine physician founded the modern science of nutrition in Latin America and formulated the 'Four Laws of Nutrition'?
  17. Which team of Argentine physiologists at Houssay's institute discovered 'angiotensin' (originally hypertensin) in 1939?
  18. Which Argentine veterinary surgeon and researcher developed a worldwide vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease (aftosa)?
  19. Which institution in Bariloche, founded in 1955, is the premier institute for nuclear physics and engineering education in Argentina?
  20. Which Argentine scientist was a key pioneer of paleontology in South America, excavating thousands of fossil mammals in Patagonia?
  21. What was the 'Huemul Project' (Proyecto Huemul) directed by Austrian physicist Ronald Richter in 1951 on Huemul Island?
  22. Which state agency founded in 1956 conducts agricultural research and extension services across all agro-ecological zones of Argentina?
  23. What agricultural technology, widely adopted in Argentina since the 1990s, plants seeds without prior plowing?
  24. Which satellite constellation developed by CONAE and INVAP uses L-band synthetic aperture radar to monitor soil moisture?
  25. Which Argentine technological unicorn company, founded by Emiliano Kargieman in 2010, builds Earth-observation micro-satellite constellations?

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