Based on article 110 of the Constitution of 1999, the Venezuelan government has established policies to promote the development of science and technology in the country. He worked with NASA for the Apollo Project and taught in many universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago and the University of Stockholm. Download includes the following worksheets. In 2001 Dr. Lechin has been nominated for the Nobel Prize of Medicine based on the new treatment of bronchial asthma and myasthenia gravis developed and published by his research group. He was one of the earliest scientists to observe microorganism using microscopy in relation to diseases. pp. Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent. Entdecke Inventions & Discoveries 1960. Its main contribution to education and the productive world is to maintain a line of research in social sciences, from 1969 to the present, aimed at decoding change in organizations as social cells, resulting in their theory of learning organizational change (19901994) and then the Work Education System (SET) (19962005) that would put theory into action, thus proposing a systemic option to approach organizational change. He was president of Gran Colombia (1819-30) and dictator of Peru (1823-26). Vice-rector academic (2010) and rector (since 2011) of the Metropolitan University, Caracas. Venezuela, country located at the northern end of South America. Professional Photographer with many years of experience on photography. Los Angeles is the birthplace of one of the sweetest things invented in California, the Orange Julius! Some publications include: G. Carnevali, G.A. A. G., Vienna, Austria, and Poland. Other major projects include the development of the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute, which works in collaboration with policymakers, regulatory agencies and industry, plus multidisciplinary centres in sustainable energy and global engineering. Their three papers together have received over 6200 citations. The exact formula is a closely guarded secret, with only one person knowing the whole recipe, passed hereditarily. Jos Francisco Torrealba (Santa Mara de Ipire, June 16, 1896 Caracas, July 24, 1973). Learn more about five of the most interesting green inventions: 1. During this time many animal species collected in the valleys of Aragua and around the Lake Valencia (Venezuela). The asteroid, 3327 Campins, was named after him. [104][105][106][107], Evelyn Miralles (born in Caracas, 1967) is a pioneer of virtual reality at NASA. It is thus that Hermano Gins, creator of the La Salle Foundation of Natural Sciences, together with committed young students of the College La Salle, created in 1940 the Society of Natural Sciences La Salle, from which the Foundation La Salle was born in 1957. In 2007 she was named emeritus researcher for the Researcher Promotion System and in 2009 she was named emeritus professor of the Simn Bolvar University. Visiting professor at the University of Oxford (1982). Graduated as chemist at Simon Bolivar University. Although the Gatling Gun was invented by Richard Jordan Gatling while he was living in Indianapolis, Richard spent most of his life in Hertford County North Carolina. Orange Julius. Werner Jaff (Frankfurt, October 27, 1914 Caracas, May 3, 2009) was a chemist and university professor. Dedicated to outreach, she co-developed Engineering Your Future, the Society of Women Engineers workshop for female and minority high school students, and Moving 4th into Engineering, an outreach program targeted toward fourth graders. I called a Remavenca technician to prepare a sample and we got what we wanted." The death tally caused by the disease also increased, from 2,000 in 2001 to over 4,100 in 2003. Graduated from the University of Zulia as a civil engineer studied at Caltech, earning his PhD at Colorado State University in 1967. PAPER - invented about 100 BC in China, paper has been indispensible in allowing us to write down and share our ideas. Ignacio Layrisse (born in Caracas, 1952). Venezuela has had a National Professional Baseball League since 1945 and today baseball is the nation's most popular sport. He returned to Venezuela that year. The waterfall drops from the edge of the . Freddy Cachazo is a Venezuelan-born theoretical physicist. In 2003, she received the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Education Award and, in 2005, she was named one of America's most important Hispanics in technology and business. 5. This decision would be a decisive step in the later development of the food business the precooked maize flour Harina P.A.N. Polar Foundation, Dictionary of History of Venezuela, 2nd Edition, Caracas: Fundacin Polar, 1997. [72] Snchez is also working on the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search and NOA experiments designed to study neutrino oscillations sent from Fermilab detectors in northern Minnesota,[71] and she is a spokesperson of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) at Fermilab. His passion for surgical innovation, advancing the field and worldwide teaching coincides with, and further strengthens, the philosophy at the USC Institute of Urology. Even though the theory is not based on any machine model it yields concrete results like the compression theorem, the gap theorem, the honesty theorem and the Blum speedup theorem. As a graduate student he was named a representative to the Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Venezuelan (Venezuela) Interesting Facts. [5] By 1853, he was convinced that malaria and yellow fever were spread by mosquitos. Gabriel A. Rincon-Mora (born in Caracas in 1972) is a Venezuelan-American electrical engineer, scientist, professor, inventor, and author[43] who was elevated to the grade of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011[44] and to the grade of Fellow by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2009 for his contributions to energy-harvesting and power-conditioning integrated circuits (ICs). In 1877, his ashes were brought to Caracas and buried in the National Pantheon on April 27 of that same year. [75], Luis Herrera Cometta (born December 20, 1946) is a Venezuelan relativity physicist, whose research focuses on the study of anisotropy,[76] the extended thermodynamics, exact and semi numeric solutions, axial symmetric solutions, alternative approaches to detect gravitational radiation using gyroscopes and recently about the relevance of super energy and super Poynting in General Relativity. With the help of his friend M. Adele de Rosseville, he presented his theory in a formal presentation before the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. [71] The experiment is designed to help scientists understand how the universe formed and why neutrinos change form, especially when they pass through rock. An invention is a new thing that someone has made. He is Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, a U-M Brehm Investigator in the Brehm Center for Diabetes Research, and Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. Thanks to a study that for a long time made on the spores, shells of turtles and other natural domes, proposes the construction of an airship based on the way of moving of these beings. She became the Raymond J. Niklaus Grnwald (born in Caracas in 1965). The Jesuits Joseph Gumilla and Filippo Salvatore Gilii were the first to theorize about linguistic relations and propose possible language families for the Orinoco river basin. His unique skills and large personal experience in minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery are well known. The establishment of clinical teaching in the. He even identified the particular group of mosquitos that transmit yellow fever as the "domestic species" of "striped-legged mosquito", which can be recognised as Aedes aegypti, the actual vector. Throughout his life he maintained a permanent correspondence with scientists from around the world on problems inherent to his specialty and has been considered as one of the most outstanding mathematicians of his time. He studied there but did not complete studies because the family economic pressure forced him to perform various jobs until 1945, when started in print journalism. President, International Leprosy Association", "Renowned Venezuelan expert on leprosy Jacinto Convit dies", Martn Frechilla, J.J., Texera, Y. He was famous for his many inventions, including: The electric light bulb. He earned his title as a Medical Science Doctor in 1938. He has published 17 scientific articles in prestigious international journals in the field of Mathematics and two monographs on proofs of primality and number theory. This institute earned him immense affection from his disciples and respect in all spheres of national society. It was invented by Australian scientist Dr David Warren, who lost his own father to an aircraft tragedy in 1934 when the Miss . In his investigative activity on immunohematology and nutritional anemia he made important scientific findings at the national and international levels, such as the Diego blood factor and the use of precooked maize flour enriched with iron, vitamin A and -carotenes that favor the absorption of iron, as a vehicle to decrease the rates of Anemia of the population. Carlos del Pozo y Sucre (1743, Calabozo 1814, Camagun) is probably the first outstanding inventor that Venezuela had. Vacuum cleaners. He studied at the Monastery of Lucca in Italy for ten months in 1908. Rincn-Mora grew up in Maracay, and migrated to the United States when he was 11 years old. Gabaldn wrote more than 200 papers published in national and international medical journals. [54] In 1961 he was the first recipient of the Council of Scientific and Humanistic Development of the Central University of Venezuela to study postgraduate studies at King's College in London, where he obtained his doctorate in mathematics in 1963. Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, France, August 25, 1808 Demerara, British Guiana, September 3, 1871) was a Venezuelan-French physician who made important contributions to the study of the causes of infectious diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, and leprosy. Schneegans, S.; Straza, T. and J. Lewis (eds). [12] Between 1959 and 1964 President Rmulo Betancourt appointed him Minister of Health and Welfare and Gabaldn. Dr. Part of the editors at Lankesteriana and the Botanical Institute of Venezuela. [2] The plant genera Pittiera (now considered a synonym of Polyclathra), Pittierella (now considered a synonym of Cryptocentrum) and Pittierothamnus (now considered a synonym of Amphidasya) are named after him. More recently, her research group has been focused on developing numerical algorithms for sub-micron and nano-scale heat transport in semiconductors (molecular dynamics, lattice-Boltzmann method and phonon Boltzmann transport). Dr. Roche was also a pioneer in the area of public understanding of science and a pioneer in the production of TV programs and documentary films on many science subjects. Rene Sotelo (Caracas 1961) is one of the most experienced laparoscopic/robotic surgeons in the world. Some of his other work includes a protocol for flipping a coin over a telephone, median of medians (a linear time selection algorithm), the Blum Blum Shub pseudorandom number generator, the Blum-Goldwasser cryptosystem, and more recently captchas. In 2005 was chief executive officer of Monclova Pirineos Gas, S.A responsible for the technical activities from the planning phase to construction for the company that was awarded the PEMEX multi services contract of the Pirineo Block. [24] The Alfredo Jahn Cave in Miranda is named for him; it is the sixth largest in the country.[25]. In 1838 he developed a theory that all infectious diseases were due to parasitic infection with "animalcules" (microorganisms). Dr. Hernndez treated the poor for free and even bought them medicines with his own money. Garrett Morgan was an African-American inventor who invented an improved traffic signal, the zig-zag stitching pattern for sewing machines, among others. Natural Gas. He became the most important scientist in the country during the second half of the 19th century and was a key figure in the creation of the Museum of Natural Science and the National Library of Venezuela, where he also served as its director. In 1875 the plant was moved from Ciudad Bolivar to Port of Spain, Trinidad, where it remains. Gustavo Adolfo Romero (born in Caracas in 1955). He was immediately appointed by the Paris Museum of Natural History as a "Travelling Naturalist" to work in Orinoco basin, Venezuela. Among his mathematical publications are: 'Topology of Metric Spaces' (Limusa-Wiley, Mexico); 'Differential Calculation in Normalized Spaces' (Equinox, USB); 'Measures and Integrals' (CFMN Academy); 'A second course of integration / The integral of Henstock-Kurzweil' (Equinox, USB); 'Linear Algebra' (Equinox ACFIMAN); 'Bodies and Theory of Galois' (Equinox ACFIMAN). Back in Venezuela was elected deputy is witness of exception of the installation of the Congress of Angostura the February 15, 1819. Once he finished his studies at Harvard, Phelps returned to Venezuela in 1897, to marry Alicia Elvira Tucker and settle in Maturn. [ Via] 9. CREDIT CARDS (1950) The first credit card was given by the Diner's Club in 1950. In the year 1931, famous German physicist Ernst Ruska with a German electrical engineer Max Knoll designed the first-ever electron microscope. Thousands of parents and educators are turning to the kids' learning app that makes real learning truly fun. In these explorations Carlos Villanueva, Alfredo Jahn and Bonifacio Marcano also participated. Fancisco J. Duarte (Maracaibo 1883 Caracas 1972) Engineer and mathematician. No wonder, this famous toy makes it to many movies. He has been a member of the US National Committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis since 2004. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Zurich under the supervision of the Nobel Prize winner Paul Karrer. Biographies of famous latin or hispanic inventors from the latin world: Narciso Monturiol, Ellen Ochoa, Baruj Benacerraf, Carlos Finlay, Bernardo Houssay, Luis Federico Leloir, Milstein, Severo Ochoa de Albornoz, Santiago Ram Cajal and Miguel Servet. Smalley/flickr. Marcel Roche (Caracas, August 15, 1920 Miami, May 3, 2003) was a physician, researcher and scientific leader. At IHSA realized technical activities from planning phase to execution of Geology, Reservoir, Drilling, Infrastructure, Operational and Maintenance and Health, Security and Environment. He completed studies at the Central University of Venezuela, gained the title of Odontologist in 1917. Scientists had been racing to create artifcial light for years, yet it was the Ohio-born inventor who cinched the win by creating an incandescent bulb with a carbon filament that could . Finally, that same year, the first commercial scale cargo was exported to the Chubuelectric power plant in Japan. Latinos en tecnologa 2016", https://www.latiendavenezolana.com/blogs/tienda/7-cientificos-venezolanos-que-estan-triunfando-en-el-mundo, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Science_and_technology_in_Venezuela&oldid=1136164922. [64][65] Between 1933 and 1934 he completed his academic training at hospitals of New York City, Paris and Vienna. Cristina Amon (born in Caracas, 1959). He is currently in the process of canonization. Notable Venezuelan scientists include nineteenth century physician Jos Mara Vargas, the chemist Vicente Marcano and the botanist and geographer Alfredo Jahn (18671940). Animal life includes dolphins, Orinoco, crocodiles, giant anteaters, jaguars, and capybaras. His research centered on three-dimensional integrated circuit technologies and on environmentally benign microelectronics fabrication. Since 2003 he was a visiting research scholar at the University of Oklahoma, in the Sarkeys Energy Center, and worked mainly with the Energy Institute of the Americas. Recently (2011) he won a Honorific Mention for his essay on the meaning of general covariance and the relevance of observers in general relativity.[78]. Hernndez traveled to Paris, France, where he studied other fields of medicine such as: bacteriology, pathology, microbiology, histology, and physiology. Pittier arrived in Venezuela in 1917, where he classified more than 30,000 plants and devoted many years to studying the flora and fauna in the country. From then until he went into exile he devoted himself to medicine. Rodrguez C. Manuel. He studied in the University of Alcal de Henares and later in France, finishing his studies in 1828. In 1998 he was the first Latin American elected as president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). His prematural death was considered a great loss to natural history, and especially to botany. In Germany visit the Institute of Tropical Diseases Hamburg in 1928. Graduate in Education (1978) and Doctor in Social Sciences (1996) at the Central University of Venezuela. His investigation lines interest is interfacial electrochemistry, including kinetics of electrochemical reactions, phase formation, conducting polymers, energy conversion and environmental sanitation. The Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) founded on February 9, 1959, by government decree, has its origins in the Venezuelan Institute of Neurology and Brain Research (IVNIC) which Dr. Humberto Fernandez Moran founded in 1955. The foundation of the National Academy of Medicine (1904), which was permanent secretary. He received numerous acknowledgments: "Vargas" Prize, "Brault" Prize awarded by the Academy of Medicine of Paris, Order of the Liberator Degree Commander, Applause of the Creole Petroleum Corporation, honorary professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Los Andes, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medicine, Member of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, illustrious son of Santa Maria de Ipire, Andrs Bello Order (post mortem) in the Honor Band Class. You can see these words in the first ad posted after mass production: "Thanks to PENICILLIN .He will come home". [33] Angostura bitter won a medal at the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien. Mayly Snchez (born in Caracas, 1972) Venezuelan-born particle physicist who researches at Iowa State University. Francisco Mago Leccia (Tumeremo, Bolvar State, Venezuela, May 21, 1931 Puerto La Cruz, Anzotegui State, Venezuela on February 27, 2004). Vera Liddell, a former employee at an Illinois school district, is accused of taking 11,000 cases of chicken wings, which . After more than 80 years of investigating the first miracle that Hernndez did, on 30 April 2021, was beatified in Caracas, Venezuela. He has earned several prestigious awards including a Fulbright and the Don Quijote Award. Henri Franois Pittier (August 13, 1857, Bex, Switzerland January 27, 1950, Caracas, Venezuela) was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist. His academic research focuses on the evolution, genomics, and ecology of plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora and management of the diseases they cause. From 1911 to 1924 he worked as researcher at Wooster Experimental Agricultural Station in Ohio, United States. He was awarded with the Robert E. Horton Medal (1998), the Stockholm Water Prize (2002) and the William Bowie Medal (2009). He received many honours and degrees from Belgium, Germany, France, the United States, India and Brazil. Member of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America (since 2003). Los Roques. In Venezuela, Dr. Roche started several pioneering works as an assistant professor of the Central University of Venezuela on goitre, hookworm infections and nutritional deficiencies and anaemias, especially among the poor and aboriginal people. A patent is a legal document. In 2014, Cachazo was awarded the New Horizons Prize[81] for uncovering numerous structures underlying scattering amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity.[82]. [11] He also discovered new species of malarial parasites and devoted himself to studying the mosquito Anopheles nuneztovari, action that catalyzed the recognition of educational needs and preparing managerial staff of the Ministry of Health, through the creation of the school that bears his name in Maracay, a deep and additional contribution. As a result of these deep convictions, he founded the Social Ecological Movement for the XXI Century at the end of the sixties, with strong environmental principles. Ignacio Rodrguez-Iturbe (Maracaibo, Zulia State, 1942) is a Venezuelan hydrologist. During 17 years (till 1985) he pursued an academic career at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). Miralles has been supporting Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. Bolvar called for the abolition of slavery in 1816, later acknowledging that the people in . Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Text taken from Latin America, in: UNESCO Science Report: the Race Against Time for Smarter Development., Gabriela Dutrnit, Carlos Aguirre-Bastos, Martn Puchet and Mnica Salazar, UNESCO. People living with HIV/AIDS in Venezuela jumped dramatically from about 62,000 in 2004 to over 110,000 in 2010. Since 2004 no wonder, this famous toy makes it to many movies chicken wings, was. 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