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List of Venezuelan Nobel laureates

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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.

Laureates

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Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Citation
1980 Baruj Benacerraf 29 October 1920

Caracas, Venezuela

2 August 2011

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.

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)

Nominations

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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 [es] 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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archived 2022-06-10 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
  2. ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano, nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". La Patilla. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Foro Penal Venezolano nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz - El Carabobeño". El Carabobeño (in European Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Foro Penal fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". VPItv (in Spanish). 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  5. ^ The (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.
  6. ^ "Nomination Archive - Rufino Blanco-Fombona". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Nomination Archive - Clotilde de Arvelo". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Nomination Archive - Romulo Gallegos". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Nomination Archive - Wilhelm Lehmann". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Nomination Archive – Carlos Median Chirinos". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.