List of Cubans - Science

Science

  • Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, First Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space
  • Carlos Juan Finlay, epidemiologist, proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever and was instrumental in assisting Walter Reed with his studies in Cuba
  • Celia Hart, Cuban physicist
  • Felipe Poey, zoologist
  • Hilda Molina, former chief neuro-surgeon in Cuba.
  • Luis Alvarez, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics, worked on the Manhattan Project
  • Juan Gundlach, 19th century naturalist and taxonomist.

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