Noted Scientists
Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is the first woman from China to receive the Nobel Prize. She led a team of scientist that discovered a cure for Malaria. Her discovery of Artemisinin, the compound used to cure Malaria, has saved millions of lives.
Rosalind Franklin
Born in 1920 in London, England, Rosalind Franklin earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Cambridge University. She learned crystallography and X-ray diffraction, techniques that she applied to DNA fibers. One of her photographs provided key insights into DNA structure. Other scientists used it as the basis for their DNA model and took credit for the discovery. Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958, at age 37.
Mario Molina
Mario Molina is a Mexican-born chemist. He was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in describing the threat of chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs) on the Earth's ozone layer. Molina is the fisrt Mexican-born recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Molina currently serves as a climate policy adviser to the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto.
Andrea Ghez
Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. Dr. Ghez has opened important windows of galactic observation by overcoming previous limitations of ground-based instruments. She spent two decades proving that a supermassive black hole anchors the center of the Milky Way galaxy. What’s next? Test what happens when things get too close.
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You can view her TedTalk by clicking here.
Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal is well-known for her work in robotics, where she is recognized as a pioneer of social robotics and human-robot interaction.
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At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cynthia and her team are building robots with social intelligence that communicate and learn the same way people do.
Dr. Hayat Sindi
Dr. Hayat Sindi is a Saudi Arabian medical scientist and innovator. She is the first Saudi woman to receive a Ph.D. in biotechnology from Cambridge University.
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Dr. Hayat is a co-founder of Diagnostics for All, which benefits the economically less privileged. She is also the founder and CEO of i2, Institute for Imagination, an non-governmental organization (NGO) creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and social innovation for scientists, technologists and engineers.