José Babini

[1][2] Babini worked for a construction company, where the owners recognized his mathematical talent and made it possible for him to pursue academic study.

Instead of working as a civil engineer, Babini taught mathematics at the Faculty for Industrial Chemistry of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Rosario.

From 1955 to 1966 he was the dean of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the National University in Buenos Aires.

He also presided over Argentina's newly founded university publishing house EUDEBA (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires).

[4] Babini was a member of the editorial board of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences and was a co-founder of the journal Quipu: Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología (based in Mexico City).