Early Life
Caldeyro-Barcia's father, Joaquin, was a physician. His mother, Elvira, came from a family with a medical background.
While attending the English School in Montevideo, Caldeyro-Barcia was given the nickname "Bobby" by the headmistress, Ivy Thomas. His family and close friends called him "Bobby" throughout his life.
Caldeyro-Barcia enjoyed sports; at the age of 15, he started to court his neighbor and hoeseback-riding partner, Ofelia Stajano. They became engaged in 1945, and were married in 1946.
At age 17, Caldeyro-Barcia started studies under the Faculty of Medicine at the University of the Republic in Uruguay. He specialized in obstetrical physiology under the influence of outstanding researchers like Corneille Heymans (winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1938) and Bernardo Houssay (co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1947). He qualified in medicine nine years later.
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