Famous hispanic mathematicians

Most famous hispanic scientists
Famous hispanic politicians
Hispanic astronauts

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20 important Hispanic, Latino, and Latino-American Scientist biography research templates. Supports Hispanic Heritage Month and a culturally competent classroom. Research projects can be done as a single page or extended using the optional 2nd page. Includes two designs for each page with different questions allowing you to customize the project to your student's needs. Each worksheet includes a photo of the person. Also includes a curated bibliography of books about these Hispanic, Latino, and Latino-American scientists to check out from your library to help with student research.

Teacher notes give information about the area of research for each individual, date of birth, ethnicity, if they have won a Nobel Prize, or if they are a person with a disability.

To also help you determine which scientists will be easier for your students to research I have indicated if they have entries in Encyclopedia Britannica (our school has a subscription but many entries are free), in Biography.com , or in the book: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World. By Ignotofsk

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SACNAS Biography Project

Growing up in New Mexico, I was always interested in the stories about how the mountains and rivers surrounding me came to be. I remember being told the mountains outside Albuquerque were uplifted during a single huge earthquake and I questioned it immediately, wanting to know more. I also loved hiking in the mountains because I could get away from everything and be on my own.

Even though I was always good at science, I had a really tough time applying myself. My family was very poor; my mom struggled to keep enough food on the table for my brother and me. She chased jobs throughout northern New Mexico and we moved so much that I had changed schools seven times by the time I graduated high school.
To help my mom, I started washing dishes at a local Albuquerque restaurant when I was 12 years old. By the time I was 19, I was managing a fancy restaurant in town. I had guys twice my age working under me and I saw my future in their toil. I knew this wasn’t the life I wanted, but I didn’t know how to break free.

If I hadn’t met my wife, Kelly, I wouldn’t be

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10 Hispanic Scientists You Should Know

Over the centuries, many remarkable scientists have emerged from Spanish-speaking lands, cultures and ancestors. Though grouping such a diverse collection of people under a single rubric -- particularly the politically expedient but dubious term Hispanic – isn't ideal, it does make room to explore their wide-ranging array of backgrounds and accomplishments.

Take these two eminent medical men both born in Caracas, Venezuela, whom you'll meet in a little bit. The first, a child of Spanish immigrants, spent his life in his homeland and dedicated himself to the treatment of leprosy there; the second, born of Spanish Moroccan and French Moroccan parents, spent his formative years in Paris and most of his life in America, and studied the genetic causes of autoimmune diseases. Similar, yet worlds apart; that's this list in a nutshell.

10: Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915)

Before Google doodles, we honored important forgotten figures with postage stamps. Carlos Juan Finlay, the Cuban physician who first linked yellow fever to mosquitoes in 1881,