Eugene Cota-Robles, PhD
Dr. Eugene V. Cota-Robles was born on July 13, 1926 in Nogales, Arizona, to Mexican immigrant school teachers from Pueblo Nuevo, Sonora, Mexico. In 1944 he enlisted for the U.S. Navy, serving as a signalman aboard the U.S.S. Baltimore during World War II. After being discharged he received his BS (1950) in Bacteriology in 1950 […]
Luis E. Miramontes, PhD
Dr. Luis Miramontes was born in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico in 1925. As a child, he was raised by the women in his family, his mother and his aunts. One of his most notable influences was his aunt Maria Dolores Cardenas, who served in Pancho Villa’s army. She instilled a love of science in Luis and […]
Susana López Charretón, PhD
Dr. Susana López Charretón is a virologist studying rotaviruses. She was born in Mexico City in 1957, and knew she wanted to be a scientist from a young age. As a child she did experiments on frozen flies and lizards. She took this curiosity and love of science with her in her education at the […]
Helia Bravo Hollis, MS
Helia Bravo Hollis was a renowned botanist and made great contributions to the study of cacti. She was born in 1901 in Mixcoac, an area in southern Mexico City. In her youth, she was renowned for her achievements, receiving a diploma of achievement from President Porfirio Diaz. In 1919, she entered Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (National […]
Alberto Pedro Calderón, PhD
Dr. Alberto Pedro Calderón was born in Mendoza, Argentina, 9/14/1920, where, at a young age, he showed an immediate aptitude for the field of Mathematics. Pressured by his father, he graduated from the University of Bueno Aires with a BS (1947) in Civil Engineering. He began working at the state-owned oil company Yacimenotos Petroliferos Fiscalas […]
Luiz Walter Alvarez, PhD
Dr. Luiz Walter Alvarez was an inventor, American physicist, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for the discovery of resonance particles. Alvarez was born in San Francisco on June 13, 1911. His grandfather and father were doctors. His father took a post at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, […]
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, MD, PhD
Dr. Sara Elizabeth Stewart, born in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1905, was a researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology. Her father was an American mining engineer and her mother was Mexican. To escape the Mexican revolution, her family moved to the United States in 1911. She received two Bachelor’s degrees (1927) in Home […]
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama in 1920 before immigrating to San Antonio, Texas, in 1945. She earned a nursing diploma from San Antonio’s Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing (1948). There she began to recognize the disproportionately low number of Hispanic nurses and found that it impacted care delivery for Hispanic patients. […]
Nicole Hernandez Hammer, MBA, MS
At the age of four, Nicole Hernandez Hammer and her family immigrated to the United States from Guatemala. She was then raised in Florida and began a lifelong journey into combating climate change. She received a BS in Integrated Natural Sciences from the University of South Florida (USF), a MS in Biology from Florida Atlantic […]
Cesar Milstein, PhD
Cesar Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1927 to immigrant parents. His father immigrated from Ukraine and his mother was also from a Ukrainian immigrant family. In his early life, his parents sought to ensure their children’s education and encouraged all of them to go to university. In 1952, he graduated with a […]