Ellen Lauri Ochoa, PhD
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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet
Dr.Edward Alexander Bouchet was an African-American mathematician and physicist who was the first African-American to graduate with a PhD in the United States.
Dr. George Robert Carruthers
Dr. George Robert Carruthers was a prodigy in Astronautical Engineering and the inventor of the only astronomical telescope sent to the moon.