Rodolfo R. Llinás PhD (b. Bogotá, Colombia in 1934) is a neuroscientist. He is presently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. He attended the Gimnasio Moderno school and received his MD from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá in 1959 and his PhD in 1965 from the Australian National University working under Sir John Eccles. Llinás has published over 500 scientific articles.

He has studied the electrophysiology of single neurons in the cerebellum, the thalamus, the cerebral cortex, the entorhinal cortex, the hippocampus, the vestibular system, the inferior olive and the spinal cord. He has studied synaptic transmitter release in the squid giant synapse. He has studied human brain function using magnetoencephalography (MEG) on the basis of which he introduced the concept of Thalamocortical dysrhythmia.

Llinás has written that the brain evolved because organisms needed to move around without running into other organisms or objects.

Marta Traba Taín (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 January 1952 - Madrid, 27 November 1983) was an art critic and writer well known for her important contributions in the study of Latin American art.

Her parents were Greek immigrants, Francisco Traba and Marta Taín. Traba studied Phylosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. During her time there she worked in a magazine called "Ver y Estimar", edited by the art critic Jorge Romero Brest.

From 1949 to 1950 Traba studied Art History in La Sorbona of Paris and then in the National University of Colombia, in Bogotá, where she took the Art History course and also founded the Modern Art Museum of Bogotá. whilst teaching at the Universidad de los Andes. In 1968, during the government of Carlos Lleras Restrepo, the military seized the National University of Colombia and sent her into exile. As an exile, she lived in Montevideo, Caracas, San Juan de Puerto Rico, Washington, Barcelona and Paris, with her second husband, the Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama.