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.
Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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) |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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] |
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.
Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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) |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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] |