José Celso Barbosa, MD
Dr. José Barbosa was the first Afro-Puerto Rican to obtain a MD in the US and was considered the “Father of Puerto Rico Statehood Movement’. He served the poor, taught medicine, created a collective, and established a healthcare insurance program.
Albert Vinicio Baez, PhD
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 […]