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Coordinates: 34°54′46.69″S 57°57′04.88″W / 34.9129694°S 57.9513556°W
Universidad Nacional de La Plata | |
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| Motto | Pro Scientia et Patria |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1897 |
| Chancellor | Fernando Alfredo Tauber |
Administrative staff | 10,400 |
| Students | 91,135 |
| Location | , , |
| Campus | -- |
| Website | http://www.unlp.edu.ar/ |
The National University of La Plata (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the national universities in the Argentine city of La Plata. The university was founded in 1905 by Dr. Joaquín Víctor González.[1]
Academic units[change | change source]
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- Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism [2]
- Faculty of Arts [3]
- Faculty of Agrarian and Forest Sciences [4]
- Faculty of Astronomic and Geophysic Sciences[5]
- Faculty of Economic Sciences [6]
- Faculty of Exact Sciences [7]
- Faculty of Law and Social Sciences [8]
- Faculty of Medic Sciences [9]
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum [10]
- Faculty of Veterinary Sciences [11]
- Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences [12]
- Faculty of Informatics [13]
- Faculty of Engineering [14]
- Faculty of Dentistry [15]
- Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication [16]
- Faculty of Social Work [17]
- Fine Arts High School "Professor Francisco Américo de Santo" [18]
Famous students and professors[change | change source]
- Raúl Alfonsín (Law degree in 1950) President of Argentina (1983–1989)
- Florentino Ameghino (Professor of geology)
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Nobel Peace laureate)
- Juan José Arévalo (Philosophy PhD in 1934)
- Mario Bunge (Physics-Mathematics PhD in 1952)
- René Favaloro (Medicine degree in 1949) Inventor of the coronary artery by-pass
- Julio Palmaz (Medicine degree in 1971) Inventor of the balloon-expandable stent
- 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 in 1976) President of Argentina (2003–2007)
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Law degree in 1979) President of Argentina (2007-until now)
- Florentina Gómez Miranda (Law degree in 1945) Argentine Deputy from 1983 to 1991
- Horacio Pagani (Industrial design) CEO of the automotive company, Pagani Automobili S.p.A.
Notes and References[change | change source]
- ↑ Universidad Nacional de La Plata - History, Retrieved 2014-01-20 (in Spanish)
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Bibliography[change | change source]
- History of the University of La Plata (Historia de la Universidad de La Plata), Julio Castiñeira, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
- National University of La Plata on the Centennial of its Nationalization (La Universidad Nacional de La Plata en el centenario de su nacionalización), Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Other websites[change | change source]
- (in Spanish) Official website
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