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7 unusual facts about University of Buenos Aires


Antonio Zinny

He studied law in Spain and in 1842 moved to Buenos Aires, where he completed his studies and received his doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Buenos Aires.

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña

After a brief post at the University of Cuyo in the northern province of Mendoza, Sánchez-Albornoz was offered a position at the University of Buenos Aires where he created a center for Iberian medieval studies and founded a historical journal, the Cuadernos de historia de España.

José María Ramos Mejía

He kept working at the University of Buenos Aires, and headed the newly created professorship of nerve pathology in 1887.

LaNet-vi

The software was developed by José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin (University of Buenos Aires), Alain Barrat (CNRS), Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University), Luca Dall'Asta (Politecnico di Torino) and Mariano Beiró (University of Buenos Aires).

National Technological University

Hosting over 75,000 students, its student body is comparable to Argentina's third-largest university (the National University of La Plata) and exceeded significantly only by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) (over 300,000 students).

Oswald Menghin

1948 was the year in which he went over to Argentina, where he became University Professor in Buenos Aires, and from 1957 also at the University of La Plata.

Richard Gans

After leaving La Plata in 1951 he taught theoretical and advanced physics at the University of Buenos Aires.


Adelphi Charter

Carlos Correa - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics University of Buenos Aires;and South Centre Switzerland

Alicia Candiani

She studied at National University of Córdoba, Argentina (M.F.A. 1976, Architect 1978): University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art Criticism 1989-91) and Iowa State University, United States (Digital Imaging Techniques, 1991–92).

Antonio Cafiero

He joined Catholic Action in 1938, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, becoming President of the Students' Association.

Antonio Krapovickas

Krapovickas received a degree in 1948 in agronomic engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and began teaching in 1949 as Professor of Genetics and Systems Botany at the University of Córdoba.

Bernardino Rivadavia

He founded the University of Buenos Aires, as well as the Theater, Geology, and Medicine Academies and the continent's first museum of natural science.

Centre of Mathematics and Design

Centre of Mathematics & Design (MAyDI), the research Centre of Mathematics & Design MAyDI was created at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995, under the direction of Dr. Vera W. de Spinadel.

Eduardo Sguiglia

He is Master in social sciences and he was a professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

José Néstor Lencinas

Born in San Carlos, Mendoza, Lencinas enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires; while in law school, his adviser, Dr. Carlos Tejedor, recommended he transfer to the University of Córdoba.

Nelda Ramos

She is a teacher of Visual arts with guidance in ceramics graduated at EMBA School of Fine Arts in Quilmes (Buenos Aires Province) and at IUNA (University of Buenos Aires).

Nicolás Urquiza

He studied Industrial Design at the University of Buenos Aires for two years before finding his vocation at the private art school of Sara García Uriburu under the guidance of Carlos Bisolino.

Otto Krause

He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Exact Sciences in 1874, though he enlisted in the Argentine Navy as an engineer's assistant later that year.

Raimundo Lida

In 1943 he gained his doctorate at the University of Buenos Aires with a dissertation on aesthetics and language in Santillana.


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Alcira Argumedo

She returned to Argentina following elections in 1983, and in 1987, resumed her post in the University of Buenos Aires faculty and joined the National Research Council.

Call You Free

They were conducted by Claudio Rosemffet from the University of Belgrano (Argentina), Pablo Cuello from de University of Buenos Aires and Fernando Speranza from de University of El Salvador, with the main purpose to connect the companies of the Mercosur (Southern Common Market), a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) among Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, founded in 1991.