History of science and technology in Argentina

Specific organizations were also created for research in agricultural technology (INTA), industrial (INTI), nuclear (CNEA), defense (CITIDEF) and space (CNIE, now CONAE ).

[4] Argentina has a long tradition of biomedical research and has earned three Nobel Prizes: Bernardo Houssay (1947, the first in Latin America), Luis Federico Leloir (1970), and César Milstein (1984).

The government of Carlos Menem (1989–1999) produced new changes in the Argentine scientific system with the creation of the ANPCyT (1997), which absorbed the function of providing subsidies and credits that CONICET had previously covered.

During this period, vacancies in the scientific system were almost nil, generating a new brain drain, which continued during the De la Rúa government (1999–2001) when the economic crisis came into play.

During Alberto Fernández's first year (2019–), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation was re-created, although it continues to suffer from significant budget deficits.

Bernardo Houssay was the first Latin American to obtain a scientific Nobel , when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947 for his work on the influence of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland on the distribution of glucose in the body, which is important for development of diabetes . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Luis Leloir (left) celebrating with his teammates the day he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1970 for his discovery of nucleotide saccharides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates
The National Atomic Energy Commission . Established in 1950, it was the first in the world outside the United States or USSR . It had created a research reactor in 1957.