Ellen Lauri Ochoa, PhD

Ellen Ochoa

Dr. Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go in space and first Hispanic Director at the Johson Space Center.

Albert Vinicio Baez, PhD

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Dr. Albert Vinicio Baez (1912-2007) was a pioneer in x-ray optics, a co-inventor of the x-ray reflection microscope, and advocate for science education. Baez was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1912. His family moved to the United States when he was two. His father worked as a minister at the First Spanish Methodist Church in […]

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, PhD

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Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff was born on August 7, 1947, in Las Vegas but grew up Santa Fe, New Mexico after her parents immigrated to the United States to escape the Mexican Revolution. At a young age, she knew she wanted to be a scientist. Initially she enrolled at University of Washington to study Chemisty, but […]