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 * My Spanish Hero on Scratch.
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 * Scholastic - Latinos in History
 * FactMonster.com - Search under People and Biographies
 * [|Wikipedia] - search for Latinos in science, Latinos in technology, Hispanics in science, Hispanics in technology
 * Carlos Juan Finlay**
 * Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Cuba in the year 1833.
 * He found the cure to the disease known as yellow fever.
 * Was a Cuban physician and scientist that went to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853 and graduated in 1855.
 * After that he moved to Havana, Cuba and opened a medical practice.
 * When Finlay was the first to theorize that mosquitoes carried a disease called yellow fever and that it could infect anybody who was bitten by the mosquito.
 * His idea was that if you could control the mosquito population it would control the amount of people that would become infected with yellow fever.
 * Walter Reed, another important physician would help Finlay conquer the disease of yellow fever.
 * When they conquered the disease General Leonard Wood congratulated Finlay by saying Finlay's greatest step was the best since Edward Jenner's cure for smallpox.
 * In the city of Havana there is an monument dedicated to Finlay.
 * Finlay died August 20, 1915 in Havana, Cuba at the age of 81 from a stroke.


 * Ellen Ochoa**
 * Was born May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California.
 * Received her doctorate degree and master of science at Stanford University.
 * She was picked up by Nasa in 1990 and 1991.
 * She is a veteran of space flights with four missions overall.
 * She has over 950 hours in space.
 * She was the first Hispanic women to go to space.
 * Ochoa has many awards including the Exceptional Service Award, Outstanding Leadership Award, and Space Flight Medals which are very high ranking medals to get over at NASA.

How Carlos Juan Finlay, Ellen Ochoa, and Cesar Milstein changed The United States of America. Carlos Juan Finlay was born December 3, 1833 in Havana, Cuba. In 1853, he attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and graduated in 1855. After Finlay graduated he moved back to Havana, Cuba and opened a medical clinic. In 1881, Finlay developed a theory that mosquitoes carried a disease known as yellow fever and this would begin his research to find a cure for this deadly disease (//Wikipedia//). His theory would also explain that the mosquito would bite a healthy person and that person would become diagnosed with yellow fever. He also developed an idea that if the mosquito population would decrease that this would decrease the amount of people who would become diagnosed with yellow fever. Finlay had completed 103 experiments with yellow fever to see how a person would react to yellow fever and what their lifestyle would be like once they became bitten by a mosquito. Since none of Finlay’s experiments had a control he became laughed because people thought that his experiments weren’t real. It wasn’t until 1900, Walter Reed helped Finlay with coming up with a cure for yellow fever. Reed showed Finlay that the female mosquito bit the victim and infected him with yellow fever. With this knowledge Reed and Finlay were able to come up with a cure for yellow fever. With this achievement General Leonard Wood a physician from Cuba congratulated Finlay by saying that this was the greatest achievement since Edward Jenner’s vaccination for smallpox. There is a monument dedicated to Finlay in Havana, Cuba. Finlay died August 20, 1915 at the age of 81 from a stroke in Havana, Cuba.

Ellen Ochoa was born May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California (//Wikipedia//). She is the first Hispanic women to go into space in 1993. She was a veteran of four space missions and had spent over 950 hours in space (//Biography//). Ellen always had a love for science and it was her favorite subject. Shewent to Stanford University and that is where she received a master of sciences and doctorate degree. With this she was able to be recruited by NASA in 1990 and officially became an astronaut in 1991 (//Johnson, B. Lyndon//). When she was with NASA she primarily a mission specialist and flight engineer .When she was with NASA she many rewards including the Exceptional Service Award, Outstanding Leadership Medal, and Space Flight Medals which are some of the best achievements you can get at NASA. Her last flight to space was in 2002 for 11 days to attach a robotic arm to the space station (//Johnson, B. Lyndon//). Not only an engineer and researcher Ochoa is classical flutist (//Fact Monster//). Ochoa currently serves at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and lives with her family as a mother of two in Houston, Texas. Ochoa also likes to speak to small groups of people at NASA to explain what it is like to be an astronaut (//Encyclopedia//). Cesar Milstein was born October 8, 1927 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. He received a Nobel Prize in1984 for developing monoclonal antibodies (//Biography//). He graduated with his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1960. In 1975, he developed monoclonal antibody production with two of his friends. This earned him and his friends a Nobel Prize in 1984. Milstein died March 24, 2002 in Cambridge, England.

"Astronaut Bio: Ellen Ochoa (3/2014)." // Astronaut Bio: Ellen Ochoa (3/2014) //. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 May 2014. .
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 * This website is accurate because it was a website made by NASA themselves.

"Carlos Finlay." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 May 2014. . "Cesar Milstein." //Bio.com//. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 01 May 2014. .
 * This website is accurate because it has direct links to where it got its information.


 * This website is accurate because all the information is accurate with other sources.

"Ellen Ochoa." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 01 May 2014. .


 * This website is accurate because it has direct links to where it got the information.

"Ellen Ochoa." //Bio.com//. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 01 May 2014. .


 * This website is accurate because has accurate information with other websites.