1977 Simon Bolivar Award Recipient
Lecture Title: Science and the Americas
Dr. Fernández-Morán, born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, was a research scientist known for inventing the scalpel. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1944. He founded the Venezuelan Institute for Neurological and Brain Studies, worked with NASA on the Apollo Project, and taught at many universities, such as MIT, the University of Chicago, and the University of Stockholm. He was awarded the Simon Bolivar Award in 1977.
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