Ramón Rogelio Latorre de la Cruz (born October 29, 1941) is a Chilean biochemist, The winner of Chile's
National Prize for Natural Sciences in 2002,
he has been recognized for his investigations in the field of the ionic channels of cellular membranes.
Biography
He studied secondary in the Chilean School Jose Victorino Lastarria. In 1965 he received a biochemist at the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy. In 1969 he received a doctorate in Sciences with a Doctorate in Biology at the
University of Chile, being one of the first students of that degree. He later received a scholarship from the
National Institute of Health de
EE.UU.,and finished work in his laboratory of biophysics of this institution until the year 1972. Returned to Chile and held the position in the Faculty of Sciences of assistant professor. After
1973 Chilean coup d'état
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006.
In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...
, Returned to the EE.UU. and served in the Department of Physiology at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
as a visiting scientist. Two years later he worked in the Department of Physiological and Pharmacological Sciences of the
University of Chicago as an assistant professor and in 1977 he began to perform his teaching task at the School of Medicine of the
University of Harvard.
Returning to his country (Chile), in 1983 he worked in the Faculty of Sciences of the
University of Chile as professor of Cellular Physiology. The following year he founded with the physicist
Claudio Teitelboim
Claudio Bunster Weitzman (; born April 15, 1947) is a Chilean theoretical physicist. Until 2005 his name was Claudio Teitelboim Weitzman.
Biography
Claudio Bunster attended at Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, a prestigious publi ...
the
Center for Scientific Studies of Santiago, Who later moved to
Valdivia.
References
External links
Ramón Latorre de la Cruz, Universidad de ChileLa porfía de Latorre, Revista Qué PasaRamón Latorre Mentes Brillantes, Canal 13 cable
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1941 births
Living people
Chilean chemists
Chilean scientists
20th-century biochemists
University of Chile alumni
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
21st-century biochemists