his research on the cure of Leprosy. Francisco José Duarte (1883–1972) mathematician. Humberto Fernández Morán (1924–1999) contributed to the development of the electron microscope and was the first researcher to introduce the concept of cryoultramicrotomy. Celso Fortoul Padrón (also alumnus) civil engineer and calculist of pre-tensate infraestructures. Arnoldo Gabaldon (1909–1990) physician, started the fight over tropical diseases as Malaria. Luis Alfredo Herrera Cometta, relativistic physicist. Professor Emeritus. Andras Kalnay, physicist. Werner Jaffé (1914–2009) founder of the National Institute of Nutrition. Studied under Nobel prize winner Paul Karrer. Tobías Lasser (1911–2006) (also alumnus) botanist, founder of the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the modern School of Sciences and the Department of Biology. Fuad Lechín (born 1928) physician, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2001 for the development of new treatments of bronchial asthma and myasthenia. Antonio Machado-Allison (b. 1945) ichthyologist. Francisco Mago Leccia (1931–2004) ichthyologist. Rafael Martínez Escarbassiere (born 1929) biologist Ettore Mazzarri (1919–2009) chemist specialist of Maracay Agronomy faculty Angel Palacio Gros (1903–1965) Spanish mathematician. August Pi i Sunyer (1879–1961) Physiologist Spanish born. Winner of the Kalinga Prize 1956. Carles Pi i Sunyer (1888–1971) Spanish born industrial engineer and literate Janis Rácenis (1915–1980) Latvia born entomologist. Ivón Mercedes Ramírez Morillo (born 1965) botanist. Gustavo Adolfo Romero-Gonzales (born 1955) botanist. Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk (born 1921) chemist. Gustavo Rivas Mijares, sanitarist engineer. Marcel Roche (1920–2003) physician, winner of the Kalinga Prize, governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1958–1960) and founding member Third World Academy of Sciences. José Royo Gómez (1895–1961) Spanish geologist. Carlos Toro Manrique (1868–1937) (also alumnus) engineer, mathematician. Elías Toro (1871–1918) physician, anthropologist. Andre Zavrosky (1904–1995) Russian mathematician. Rectors See also Education in Venezuela List of universities in Venezuela List of colonial universities in Latin America References Printed references ÁVILA BELLO, JOSÉ. y CONVIT, JACINTO. 1992: "El Instituto de Biomedicina. Evolución reciente". En: Ruiz Calderón, Humberto et al. "La ciencia en Venezuela pasado, presente y futuro". Cuadernos Lagoven. Lagoven, S.A. Caracas Venezuela pp: 92–101. BARROETA LARA, JULIO. 1995: ""Nuestra y trascendente Universidad Central de Venezuela"". Universidad Central de Venezuela, Dirección de Cultura. Caracas – Venezuela. CADENAS, JOSÉ MARÍA. 1994; "Relaciones universidad empresa: una aproximación a su situación en Venezuela". EN: "Agenda Académica". Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas Venezuela. CUENCA, HUMBERTO. 1967: ""La universidad colonial"". Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas – Venezuela. HENRIQUEZ UREÑA, PEDRO. 1955: ""Historia de la cultura en la América Hispánica"". Colección Tierra Firme. Fondo de Cultura