Famous Students and Professors
- Raúl Alfonsín (Law degree in 1950) President of Argentina (1983–1989)
- Florentino Ameghino (professor of geology)
- Juan José Arévalo (Philosophy PhD in 1934)
- Mario Bunge (Physics-Mathematics PhD in 1952)
- René Favaloro (Medicine degree in 1949, inventor of heart by-pass)
- Emilio Pettoruti
- Raúl A. Ringuelet (professor of Zoology)
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas (law teacher, rector, Nobel Peace laureate)
- Ernesto Sábato (Physics PhD in 1937, writer)
- Néstor Kirchner (Law degree) President of Argentina (2003–2007)
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Law degree) President of Argentina (2007-until now)
- Florentina Gómez Miranda Argentine Deputy from 1983 to 1991
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, students and/or professors:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)