Venezuela and wrote an influential code of ethics for the practice of medicine. 20th century Humanities Abraham Abreu (born 1939) pianist and harpsichordist. Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958) writer. José Balza (born 1939) novelist, critic. Rafael Cadenas (born 1930) poet. Manuel Caballero (1931–2010) (also alumnus) historian, journalist. Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) writer, musicologist, journalist. Isaac Chocrón (1930–2011) economist and theater writer. Director of the School of Arts. Nicolas Curiel (born 1931) writer and director of theater. Gustavo Herrera (1890–1953) lawyer and diplomat. Gaston Diehl (1912–1999) French art historian, recipient of the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 1950. Juan David García Bacca (1901–1992) Spanish born philosopher; translator of the complete works of Plato. Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912–1994) German born artist. Joaquín Gabaldón Márquez (1906–1984) lawyer and diplomat. Ezra Heymann (born 1928) Romanian born philosopher. Martha Hildebrandt (born 1925) Peruvian linguist. Chibly Abouhamad Hobaica (1929–2005) lawyer, professor and writer Eugenio Imaz (1900–1951) Spanish born philosopher. Pedro Itriago Chacín (1875–1936), lawyer, historian. Margarita López Maya, historian, humanist. Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla (1925–2015) (also alumnus) philosopher, rector of the Universidad Simón Bolívar. Juan Nuño (1927–1995) (also alumnus) Spanish born philosopher. Luis Enrique Oberto (1928–2022) (also alumnus) Venezuelan banker and politician. Manuel García Pelayo (1909–1991) Spanish born political Scientist, elected president of the Constitutional Tribunal of Spain in 1980. Manuel Pérez Vila (1922–1991) Spanish born historian. Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna (1905–1971) classical musician. Federico Riu (1925–1985) (also alumnus) Spanish born philosopher. Angel Rosenblat (1902–1984) Polish born philologist. Levy Rossell (born 1945) writer and director of theater. Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965) writer, cultural critic. José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890–1930) (also alumnus) poet, writer. Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta (1929–2011) writer, essayist and literary critic. Guillermo Sucre (1933–2021) (also alumnus) literary critic. Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001) (also alumnus) writer and historian, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award (1990) and Rómulo Gallegos Prize for Best Novel (1991). Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900–1975) architect, one of the great Modernists. Guillermo Tell Villegas Pulido (also alumnus), politician, writer and historian. Pedro León Zapata (1929–2015) artist and humorist. Sciences Arístides Bastidas (1924–1992) journalist and scientist winner of the Kalinga Prize, was one of the pioneers of what is termed as "science journalism" in Venezuela. German Carnevali Fernandez-Concha (born 1955) botanist. Luis Eduardo Chataing (1906–1971) (also alumnus) mathematician. Julian Chela-Flores (born 1942) astrobiologist and physicist. Paul Dedecker (1927–2007) Belgian mathematician. Jacinto Convit (1913–2014) (also alumnus) nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for