Spaniards Who Won Nobel Piece Prizes

Santiago Ramón

work in the development of neurology and cell theory.

Bernando Houssay

discoveries about the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of sugar in the blood (glucose)

Severo Ochoa

discovering the enzyme capable of synthesizing RNA, an intermediary between proteins and DNA

Baruj Benacerraf

work in research on the human immune system

César Milstein

research work on monoclonal antibodies

Luis Federico Leloir

discovery of sugar nucleotides, and the role they play in the manufacture of carbohydrates

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Herníquez

discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon gases

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

work in favor of peace, mainly to end the war between Paraguay and Bolivia

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

commitment to the defense of democracy and human rights by non-violent means against the Latin American military dictatorships

Alfonso García Robles

promoted the idea of ​​banning nuclear weapons and for Mexico not to be involved in any conflict of this type

Oscar Arias Sánchez

the Nobel Prize for his participation in peace processes in the armed conflicts in Central America during the 1980s

Rigoberta Menchú

human rights activist during the civil war in Guatemala

José Echegaray

engineer, mathematician, playwright, writer. He wrote 67 plays

Jacinto Benavente

playwright, director, screenwriter and director. He tackled almost all theatrical genres

Gabriela Mistral

poet, diplomat, feminist and pedagogue. He was the first person from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Juan Ramón Jiménez

poet, noted mainly for the lyrical narration Platero y yo

Miguel Angel Asturias

writer, journalist and diplomat, important precursor of the Latin American boom

Pablo Neruda

poet, political activist, senator and candidate for the presidency of Chile. Considered one of the best and most influential artists of the 20th century

Vicente Aleixandre

important poet of the Generation of '27

Gabriel García Márquez

novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. His novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered one of the most representative works of Latin American magical realism.

Camilo José Cela

novelist, journalist, essayist and editor of literary magazines. He received the Nobel Prize for his novel La colmena, published in Argentina because it was censored in Spain

Octavio Paz

poet, writer, essayist and diplomat. He is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century

Mario Vargas Llosa

one of the most important contemporary novelists and essayists