List of Venezuelan Nobel laureates

Up to date, there has only been one Venezuelan citizen awarded a Nobel Prize – the immunologist Baruj Benacerraf, who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, alongside French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell.

Laureates[edit]

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Field	Citation
1980		Baruj Benacerraf	29 October 1920 Caracas, Venezuela	2 August 2011 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" (awarded together with French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell)

Nominations[edit]

Venezuelans started receiving nominations in 1908. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,^[1] including the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Image	Nominee^[5]	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation
Literature
	Julio Calcaño [es]	4 December 1840 Caracas, Venezuela	18 August 1918 Caracas, Venezuela	1908
	Rufino Blanco Fombona	17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela	16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935	^[6]
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	19 September 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	^[7]
	Rómulo Gallegos	2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela	5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela	1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967	^[8]
	Wilhelm Lehmann	4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela	17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Germany	1960	^[9]
	Robert Ganzo	22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela	6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France	1970
Peace
	Carlos Medina Chirinos	Venezuela	Venezuela	1926	^[10]

References[edit]

^ Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archived 2022-06-10 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org
^ "Foro Penal Venezolano, nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". La Patilla. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ "Foro Penal Venezolano nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz - El Carabobeño". El Carabobeño (in European Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ "Foro Penal fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". VPItv (in Spanish). 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
^ The (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.
^ "Nomination Archive - Rufino Blanco-Fombona". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ "Nomination Archive - Clotilde de Arvelo". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ "Nomination Archive - Romulo Gallegos". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ "Nomination Archive - Wilhelm Lehmann". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ "Nomination Archive – Carlos Median Chirinos". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

[1] Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archived 2022-06-10 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org

[2] "Foro Penal Venezolano, nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". La Patilla. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[3] "Foro Penal Venezolano nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz - El Carabobeño". El Carabobeño (in European Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[4] "Foro Penal fue nominado al Premio Nobel de la Paz". VPItv (in Spanish). 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2023-10-04.

[5] The (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.

[6] "Nomination Archive - Rufino Blanco-Fombona". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

[7] "Nomination Archive - Clotilde de Arvelo". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

[8] "Nomination Archive - Romulo Gallegos". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

[9] "Nomination Archive - Wilhelm Lehmann". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

[10] "Nomination Archive – Carlos Median Chirinos". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

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