Hispanic Scientist Highlights
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Evangelina Villegas
First woman to receive the World Food Prize and inventor of Quality Protein Maize. Evangelina Villegas was born in Mexico City, MX on October 24th, 1924. Villegas double majored at National Polytechnic…
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Anabella Villalobos
“I encourage women to raise their hand, be ready to tell their story, and ask for what they want.” Anabella Villalobos was born in Panama City in the early 1960s. She discovered…
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José Celso Barbosa Alcalá
“We want and we ask for equality. Not colonial control or protection. We [support] the same ideal of the American union with equality in rights and in duties.” José Celso Barbosa Alcalá…
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Francisco Rubio
American record-holder for the longest space flight at 371 days. Francisco Rubio was born on December 11th, 1975 in Los Angeles, CA, and grew up in El Salvador with his mother and…
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Lizeth Magaña
“It’s not easy, but we’re doing it.” Dr. Magaña is a lunar postdoc fellow at John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where she studies Earth’s Moon and Jupiter’s moon, Titan. Magaña was born…
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Ellen Ochoa
“I am committed to space flight, human exploration, learning how to do more and more. I like the fact that it is much bigger than myself, important to my country and to…
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Antonia Novello
Motto: “Good science and good sense” Antonia was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, in 1944. Although her father died when she was young, her mother emphasized the value of education and hard…
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Albert Baez
1998 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation Hall of Fame Inductee Albert was born in Puebla Mexico in 1912. He grew up in New York from the age of 5 while his…
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Rebeca Gerschman
The first person to discover the effects of oxygen free radicals on cell death and aging.
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Luiz Alvarez
“[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his…