List of Latin Americans - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

• Manuel de Abreu (1894–1962), physician and scientist, inventor of abreugraphy.
• Joseph M. Acaba (born 1967), First Puerto Rican astronaut.
• Luis Agote (1868–1954), physician and researcher, first doctor in Latin America to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant.
• Ricardo Alegría (born 1921), physical anthropologist, pioneer in the anthropolic studies of the Taino culture.
• Baruj Benacerraf (born 1920), immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1980).
• Francisco Jose de Caldas (1768-1818), commonly known as "el sabio" (the wise)

• Fernando Caldeiro (born 1958), NASA astronaut.
• Nabor Carrillo Flores (1911–1967), nuclear physicist.
• Franklin Chang-Diaz (born 1950), NASA astronaut who flown seven spaceflights.
• Nitza Margarita Cintron (born 1950), chief of NASA's (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office.
• Jacinto Convit (born 1913), medical scientist, discoverer of vaccines against leprosy and leishmaniasis.
• Oswaldo Cruz (1872–1917), physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer.
• Frank Duarte laser physicist and author.
• Matias Duarte Director Google-Android system.
• René Favaloro (1923–2000), cardiologist, he created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (1967).
• Orlando Figueroa (born 1955), Director for Mars Exploration and Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters.
• Carlos Finlay (1833–1915), medical scientist, prominent researcher on the yellow fever disease.
• Julio Garavito Armero (1865-1920), Colombian astronomer.
• Guillermo González Camarena (1917–1965), inventor of an early color television transmission system.
• Juan Gundlach (1810–1896), naturalist and taxonomist; over sixty species were named after him.
• Guillermo Haro (1913–1988), astrophysicist, made many important contributions to observational Astronomy.
• Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1947).
• Miguel de Icaza (born 1972), free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.
• Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate (1970).
• Humberto Maturana (born 1928), biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis.
• César Milstein (1927–2002), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate (1984).
• Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), chemist, co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive (1951).
• Mario J. Molina (born 1943), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate (1995).
• Rodolfo Neri Vela (born 1952), Ph.D., NASA payload specialist and astronaut.
• Carlos I. Noriega (born 1959), NASA astronaut.
• Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born 1947), pathologist, works on improving a vaccine for malaria.
• Felipe Poey (1799–1891), zoologist, specialist in ichthyology.
• Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist and chemist, discovered vanadium (as vanadinite) in 1801.
• Wilfredo Santa-Gómez, psychiatrist.
• José Santana (born 1962) specialist in technology and development; Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Commission of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942), First Cuban cosmonaut
• Francisco Varela (1946–2001), biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis.
• Klaus von Storch (born 1962), Chilean aerospace engineer.