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Peruvian-Chilean researcher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ligia Gargallo is a Chilean chemist and university professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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She works at the University of Tarapacá (Arica) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in Santiago. She received a bachelor's degree in chemical pharmaceutical at the University of Chile in 1959, degrees in chemistry from Paris Dauphine University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a doctorate in chemical sciences at the University of Liège in Belgium in 1972, and a doctorate in chemistry from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[1] Her areas of investigation are focused in Polymers and Macromolecules. Her work has aided drug designers.[2] She is the winner of the Prize L'Oréal-UNESCO to Women in Science 2007 and Chile's National Prize for Natural Sciences in 2014 because of the "pioneering work in the development of the chemistry of polymers and macromolecules".
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