Mario Garavaglia (born 1937) is an Argentine physicist.

Biography

He was born in Junín ( Buenos Aires Province,

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) in 1937. In 1999 the

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awarded him the ''Galileo Galilei Award'' by unanimous vote for his work on lasers and their applications in industry, medicine and biology and for promoting optics in

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. In 2004 he received the Houssay Career Award.

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* 1937 births Living people 20th-century Argentine physicists People from Junín, Buenos Aires {{physicist-stub