Sara Rietti

She was Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Science and Technology during the government of President Raúl Alfonsín.

She took her last course at the National Atomic Energy Commission in 1953, a fact that by chance allowed her to be the first nuclear chemist in Argentina.

Because they have to always remain cold, she had to constantly monitor her compounds, including on weekends when she went to her laboratory with her children.

As a result of the nationwide repression, numerous laboratories and libraries were destroyed and many scientists and academics were exiled or fled the country.

Although she preferred philosophy, history or political science, she ultimately followed her father's advice because she had a cousin who had already graduated as a chemist.