Asian American and Pacific Islander Scientist Highlights
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Tetsuya Theodore Fujita
“[They] said: ‘You’re dead wrong.’ But I still pursued my concept.“ Dr. Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita was born in Sonemura, Japan on Oct. 23, 1920. As a teenager, Fujita became fascinated with storms,…
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Fei-Fei Li
“I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is: Who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the…
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Chien-Shiung Wu
“…it is shameful that there are so few women in science… In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy…
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Ellison Onizuka
“Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine” •Ellison Onizuka was born in Hawaii in 1946 to Japanese American parents. He grew up…
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Flossie Wong-Staal
“It adds to the joy of discovery to know that your work may make a difference in people’s lives” Flossie Wong-Staal was a Chinese-born American virologist and microbiologist. She was born in…
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Isabella A. Abbott
“I call the endemic plants the first Hawaiians. Gingers and heliconias will grow elsewhere. The endemic plants will not. This is their home. It’s like the Hawaiian people – they belong here.”…
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Har G. Khorana
The scientist who built the world’s first synthetic gene.
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Fe Del Mundo
“I feel that if you give the world the best that you can, the best will always come back to you.” – Fe Del Mundo
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Uma Chowdhry
“I had the courage to dream the impossible.” – Uma Chowdhry
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John Pham
Editor-in-Chief of Cell journal.