Baruj Benacerraf, MD
Baruj Benacerraf was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish-Jewish parents. His early childhood was spent in Paris, France where his family stayed until the early 1930s before fleeing back to Venezuela under the threat of the Second World War. Benacerraf’s father was a textile merchant and importer, and hoped his son would follow […]
France A Córdova, PhD
On August 5th, 1947, France Anne-Dominic Córdova was born in Paris to an Irish mother and Mexican-American father who was Chief of the Cooperative for American Remittance to Europe (CARE) Program stationed in France before settling in West Covina, California. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Stanford University, where she conducted anthropological […]
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz, PhD
On April 5th, 1950, Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz was born in San José, Costa Rica, to a Costa Rican mother and Chinese immigrant father. Franklin immigrated to the US during high school and went on to attend the University of Connecticut, where he earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1973. He then received a PhD […]