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Mar 29, 2024 · This list highlights ten exceptional Latina scientists who are leaders in their respective fields and role models for aspiring women scientists everywhere. 1. Gabriela Gonzalez
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Oct 25, 2020 · For this creative innovation, Maria Alexandra was named as one of the winners of the Latin American Innovators under 35 in MIT Technology Review. In celebration of LatinX Heritage Month, these are LatinX scientists shaping policy and research worldwide.
- Ellen Ochoa
- Diana Trujillo
- Angela Guzman
- Helen Cordova
- Antonia Novello
- Monica Mann
- Elizabeth Zelaya
- Connie Maza
- Nanette Cocero
- Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias
Engineer and astronaut, Ellen Ochoa, made history in 1993 when she became the first Latina to go into space. She did so on the Space Shuttle Discovery on a nine-day mission during which she and other astronauts studied the Earth’s ozone layer. To date, Ochoa has spent nearly 1,000 hours in space, and she was also the 11th director of the Johnson Sp...
Aerospace engineer, Diana Trujillo, was a critical member of the NASA team that achieved the historic landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars in 2020. Currently serving as Technical Group Supervisor for Sequence Planning and Execution and a Tactical Mission Lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, she served as flight directorfor the 2020 mission. N...
Graphic designer Angela Guzman, who was born in Colombia, revolutionized the way we communicate as the co-designer of the Apple emojis in 2008 when she was an intern. She was assigned the creation of a set of 500 emojis, a term she’d never even heard of at that point. Since then she’s worked at other major companies including Airbnb and Pinterest a...
California nurse practitioner, Helen Cordova, became the first person in the state of California —and amongst the firsts in the entire United States — to receive a COVID-19 vaccination back in December 2020. Her state was positively ravaged by the virus in its first year, and she wanted to do whatever she could to help. Despite initial reservations...
Antonia Novello wasn’t just the first Latina surgeon general in the United States, she was the country’s first female surgeon general. Originally from Fajardo, Puerto Rico, she was appointed by President George Bush in 1990 and served for three years. Previously, she worked at the National Institutes of Health as a public health administrator for m...
Monica Mann was part of a group of women scientists who pioneered COVID-19 research nearly from the outset of the outbreak. Her work was instrumental in tracking the spread of the virus and identifying mutations. “Some of them will open. They will open. And fortunately, we live in a country where you can start again from zero, career-wise, at any p...
Elizabeth Zelaya worked alongside Mann at the Washington, D.C., Department of Forensic Sciences’ Public Health Laboratory Division, testing the country’s very first COVID-19 patients. “Every day I reflect and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is probably going to be in a history book,'” she told NBC News, also noting that she’s often met with surprise when she ...
The third member of the self-proclaimed “las tres mosqueteras,” Connie Maza worked tirelessly with Mann and Zelaya. They’ve continued to work on COVID-19 research over the past two years, but it was the beginning that was most overwhelming. “I’m normally pretty calm when I do testing, and I mean, my manual dexterity skills are pretty good. But at t...
Also a major player in the fight against COVID-19, Nanette Cocero, who is the global president of vaccines for Pfizer, actually led the development of the pharmaceutical company’s Covid vaccine. Pfizer’s was actually the first to be approved in the United States, thanks to Cocero’s dedication and the commitment of the team that worked under her. Sh...
Puerto Rican physician Helen Rodriguez-Trías, was the first Latina president of the American Public Health Association, a founding member of the Women’s Caucus of the APHA and of the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse. She dedicated her entire career to women’s and children’s healthcare and rights, as well as to working with HIV and AIDS patients...
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Sep 16, 2021 · Miramontes is one of the scientists in this list of Hispanic and Latino chemists you should know about. This collection highlights the lives and careers of influential historical or recently deceased figures whose work has shaped our science and it follows collections that C&EN published to highlight the contributions of Black and LGBTQ+ chemists.
Oct 1, 2021 · Many great Latinx scientists are people you may have never learned about in school. From groundbreaking biologists and physicists to innovators in the fields of medicine, botany, and environmental studies, here are a few game-changing Latinx scientists that you should know. Albert Baez (1912–2007)
Sep 22, 2022 · Despite ridicule and discrimination, these Hispanic scientists helped change the world.
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Sep 13, 2024 · In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15), we highlight a few of the Hispanic and Latinx scientists and engineers who made (and are making) important contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The list below is only a sampling of noted scientists through history and working in STEM fields today.
