César Milstein

He was born October 8, 1927, in the bosom of a jewish family, in the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina) where he remained until 1945, when it moved to the Federal Capital to study at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She graduated with a Degree in Chemical Sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, 25 years of age,1 and four years later, in 1956, he received his phd in Chemistry and a special prize by the Biochemical Society, Argentina;2 he obtained his first doctorate as a chemist, for his thesis on enzymes.Was awarded a scholarship by the University of Cambridge where he obtained his second doctorate in 1960, working under the direction of the biochemist-molecular-Frederick Sanger.

Milstein returned to Argentina in 1961 to take charge of the Division of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Microbiology, but he was only a year in office to return to England after the military coup of 1962.