Jaime Jaramillo Arango, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaime Jaramillo Arango

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1897

Place of Birth: Manizales, Caldas Department, Colombia

Date of Death: 30-Jul-1962

Profession: writer, physician, politician, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jaime Jaramillo Arango (January 17, 1897 – July 30, 1962) was a Colombian professor of medicine and surgery, author, diplomat, and politician.
He was dean of medicine of the National University and director of the same institution, pioneer of modern medicine, instrumental in the Colombian foreign policy during the mid 20th century, Minister of education, and founder of the Anglo Colombian School.Professor Jaramillo Arango wrote several books of medicine and botany.
The most important was “The British Contribution to Medicine” that studied the investigations and discoveries of several Nobel laureates: penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming; malaria, by Ronald Ross; paludrine, by F.
H.
Curd, D.
G.
Davey, and F.
L.
Rose; vitamins, by Gowland Hopkins; and stilboestrol, by Robert Robinson and Charles Dodds.
The foreword of Jaramillo’s book was written by Arthur MacNalty, British Chief Medical Officer of the British government.Jaramillo Arango became the Permanent Delegate of Colombia to the League of Nations, and Permanent Delegate of Colombia to the First Assembly of the UNESCO in London, in November 1945, where he proposed the creation the United Nations University.