List of North American scientists
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[edit] Cuban Scientsts
- José Daporta González, (1911–1989), Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology.
- Vilma Espín Guillois, chemical engineer .
- Juan Carlos Finlay, (1833-1915), physician and scientist, identified the mosquito as a carrier of the organism causing yellow fever.
- Juan Cristóbal Gundlach, (1810-1896), naturalist and taxonomist.
- Luis Howell-Rivero, biologist and anthropologis.
- Hilda Molina, former chief neurosurgeon of Cuba.
- Felipe Poeyy Aloy, (1799-1891), zoologist.
[edit] Canadian Scientists
- Sidney Altman, (1939 - ), molecular biologist, in 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
- Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, MD, FRSC, (1891-1941), medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discovers of insulin.
- Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC, Ph.D, D.Sc, FRSC, (1918-2003), shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clifford Shull for developing neutron scattering techniques for studying condensed matter.
- William Francis Giauque, (1895-1982), won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949 for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero.
- Gerhard Herzberg, PC , CC , D.Sc , LL.D , FRSC , FRS, (1904-1999), physicist and physical chemist, won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
- David Hunter Hubel, (1926 - ), was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system;
- Charles Brenton Huggins, (1901-1997), awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.
- John James Richard Macleod, (1876-1935),
- Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus, (1923 - ), received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of Electron transfer.
- Michael Smith, CC, OBC, (1932-2000), British-born Canadian biochemist who was the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
- Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC, Ph.D., M.Sc, B.Sc, (1929 - ), laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics.
[edit] Haitian scientists
- Joseph-Anténor Firmin, (1850-1911), anthropologist.
[edit] Mexican scientists
- Miguel Alcubierre
- Albert Baez
- Jacob Bekenstein
- Alfonso Caso
- Alejandro Corichi
- Luis Enrique Erro
- Nabor Carrillo Flores
- Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
- Guillermo Haro
- Antonio Lazcano
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
- Pablo de la Llave
- José Luis Lezama
- Leandro Melendez
- Luis E. Miramontes
- Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
- Mario J. Molina
- Marcos Moshinsky
- Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros
- Esther Orozco
- José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez
- Andrés Manuel del Río
- Marco Rito-Palomares
- Arturo Rosenblueth
- George Rosenkranz
- Pablo Rudomin
- Reyes Tamez
- Ted Taylor
- Julio Cesar Gutierrez Vega
- Evangelina Villegas
- Miguel José Yacamán
[edit] Puerto Rican scientists
- Joseph M. Acaba
- Ricardo Alegría
- Nitza Margarita Cintron
- Enectali Figueroa
- Joseph M. Acaba
- Ricardo Alegría
- Nitza Margarita Cintron
- Enectali Figueroa
- Orlando Figueroa
- Juan E. González
- Sixto Gonzalez
- Carlos Ortiz Longo
- Juan R. Correa-Pérez
- Efrén Pérez Rivera
- Orlando Figueroa
- Juan E. González
- Sixto Gonzalez
- Puerto Ricans in NASA
- Carlos Ortiz Longo
- Juan R. Correa-Pérez
- Efrén Pérez Rivera
- Miguel Rodriguez (NASA)
- Pedro Rodriguez (NASA)
- Fernando E. Rodriguez Vargas
- Felix Soto Toro
- Agustín Stahl
[edit] Trinidad and Tobago scientists
[edit] USA Scientists
- Richard Feynman, (1918-1988), Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, for his fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.
- Robert Andrews Millikan, (1868-1953), won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect
- Shelly zhu, (1988-2007), Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, for her fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.
[edit] References
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