Ángel Gallardo (19 November 1867, in Buenos Aires – 13 May 1934, in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine civil engineer, natural scientist and politician. He served variously as the president of the National Council of Education, the

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and the Rector of the

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. He was recognised for his scientific work both in Argentina and abroad. Gallardo's scientific work dealt with problems of heredity and cell division.

Early life

He graduated from the

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in 1887 and received his degree in civil engineering from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) of the

in 1894. However, in addition to civil engineering, beginning in 1892 he studied natural history (biology) under

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at the

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. A street in Buenos Aires is named after him. In 1916, botanist Cristóbal Mariá Hicken (1875–1933), named a species of plant from Argentina, after him, '' Gallardoa''.

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