Idelisa Bonnelly, MS
Idelisa Bonnelly (September 10, 1931 – July 3, 2025) was born Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. She went on to be known as the Mother of Marine Biology in the Caribbean. Bonnelly turned her love of the ocean into a career in Marine Biology, which she started in the US since the Dominican Republic […]
Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, MD
Dr. Josefa Emilia Toledo Murillo or Josefa Toledo de Aguerri (April 21, 1866 – April 27, 1962) was born in Juigalpa, Nicaugura. She became one of Nicaragua’s most consequential educators and feminist organizers. After earning a scholarship to the secular Colegio de Señoritas in Granada, she graduated with honors and, by her early twenties, was […]
Miguel Ramírez Goyena
Miguel Ramírez Goyena (December 5, 1857 – June 23, 1927) was born 1857 in León, Nicaragua. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, he made significant contributions to the classification of Nicaragua’s flora. Taken in by a wealthy family after his parents passed away at a young age, Miguel graduated from the College of Granada (1879). […]
Eladio Dieste
Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was born in Artigas Department, Uruguay. He was an engineer that not only helped design many incredible buildings for Uruguay but also relied on local materals and he revolutionized the use of bricks and ceramics in building design. He received his Engineering Degree in 1943 from the […]
Luis Walter Alvarez, PhD
Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was a physicist, inventor and professor born in San Francisco. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of a particle’s resonance states. He completed his entire education at the University of Chicago, earning his BS (1932), MS (1934), and […]
Martin Cárdenas Hermosa, PhD
Martín Cárdenas Hermosa (November 12, 1899 – February 14, 1973) was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Martín Cárdenas Hermosa went on to be the most important Botanist in the history of Bolivia and he received the Mary Soper Pope [Medal] Memorial Award in botany. He received his BS (1918) in Biological Sciences from the Instituto Normal […]
Juan Taveras, MD
Juan Manuel Taveras Rodrígues (September 27, 1919 – March 28, 2002) was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He would become known as the father of neuroradiology as he revolutionized the practice through developing new techniques, equipment, and new training methods. He received an MD (1943) from both the University of Santo Domingo and (1949) […]
Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner
Dr. Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner was born December 3, 1944 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and was instrumental in understanding the function and metabolism of nitric oxide, as well as its connection to vascular and inflammatory biology. He obtained his MD (1970) University of El Salvador and his PhD (1974) in Pharmacology from the University of London. […]
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, MD
Dr. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1 1852 – October 17, 1934) was born in Petilla de Aragón, Spain. He spent most of his childhood causing trouble, leading to frequently changing schools and even an arrest at the age of 11. His greatest love was art and medicine, as his father would take him to […]
Andrés Barbero, MD
Dr. Andres Barbero (July 28, 1877 – February 14, 1951) was born in 1877 in Asunción, Paraguay. He became one of the first Paraguayan citizens to earn a medical degree and dedicated himself to many philanthropic ventures across Paraguay. Born into a very wealthy family, he completed Pharmacy in 1898 and Medicine in 1903 at […]