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Jaime Escalante
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Jaime Escalante
Educator / 1930 - 2010
Jaime Escalante became famous for his work with troubled, "unteachable" high school math students. His story was told in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver.
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Luis Federico Leloir
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- Hispanic Scientists and Educators
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- Famous Chemists
Luis Federico Leloir
Chemist / 1906 - 1987
Luis Federico Leloir received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and study of sugar nucleotides.
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Mario Molina
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- Hispanic Scientists and Educators
- Famous Pisceans
- Famous Chemists
Mario Molina
Chemist / 1943 -
Mexican-born chemist Mario Molina won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his research on how man-made compounds affect the ozone layer.
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Severo Ochoa
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- Hispanic Scientists and Educators
- Famous Academics
- Famous Libras
Severo Ochoa
Academic, Chemist / 1905 - 1993
Severo Ochoa was co-awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an enzyme in bacteria that enables the synthesis of RNA.
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay
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- Hispanic Scientists and Educators
- Famous Arians
- Famous Physiologists
Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Doctor, Physiologist / 1887 - 1971
Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentinian doctor whose research on the role of pituitary hormones regulating blood sugar won him a Nobel Prize.
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