Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary", which served as a reference for the 2004 film "The Motorcycle Diaries", in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film. Granado
Alberto Tognoli to non-singular real algebraic manifolds (known as the Theorem of Nash and Tognoli). He received in 1974 the Caccioppoli Prize and in 1988 the Gold Medal in Mathematics of the Accademia dei XL. Alberto Tognoli died in Rapallo (Ge) Italy on 03 March 2008. A funny anecdote: Once, at the end of a seminar, which had concluded in half the time available to him, a distinguished colleague, referring to the object of the conference whose author had not been mentioned, commented: "Very nice, Who did it? " Alberto, pointing himself with his thumb, answered naturally: "Me" Selected publications Alberto Tognoli