ARNALDO TAMAYO MÉNDEZ
(1942 - )
He was born in Guantánamo. He is the first Latin American in having gone to the cosmos, which took place during a week from September 18th, 1980 together with the soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko. Upon...
Archeology
ANTONIO NÚÑEZ JIMÉNEZ
(1923 - 1998)
Fighter for the Liberation of Cuba in the Sierra Maestra. He founded in 1940 the Cuban Speleological society, where he was the president and director of its museum. Since 1959, he was given a great am...
EUSEBIO LEAL SPENGLER
(1942 - )
Self-taught and later achieving the Doctor degree on Historical Sciences and the Master degree on Archeological Sciences, he is the Historian of the City of Havana and Director of the Restoration Prog...
Ethnology
MARÍA TERESA LINARES SAVIO
(1920 - )
Professor and researcher of Cuban music, she worked for many years at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Later she was appointed director of the Museum of Music ...
MIGUEL BARNET LANZA
(1940 - )
Since very young, he was related to top figures of Cuban ethnology. Being 21 years old, he was among the founders of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He is the most published living Cuban writer inside ...
Medicine
AGUSTÍN LAGE DÁVILA
(1949 - )
Oncology specialist of the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Healthcare (MINSAP), he treasures a vast experience in services and contributions in the branch relate...
ALBERTO GRANADOS JIMÉNEZ
(1922 - )
Born in Córdoba, Argentina, he became an inseparable friend of Ernesto Guevara’s, the “Che”. Together, they would make an anthological journey along Latin America (1951-1952) that would profoundly mar...
CARLOS MILLARES CAO
(1939 - )
One of the most notable science men of Cuba. He is fully devoted to researches to face skin illnesses such as smarts, loss of color, hair loss, cracking and some other sickness. Drugs coming from the ...
ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA
(1928 - 1968)
A man of all times, he is considered the supreme paradigm of the impeccable revolutionary. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. He joined the libertarian movement in 1955. He was an expeditionary of the...
ORFILIO PELÁEZ
(1923 - 2001)
Brilliant ophthalmologist who has discovered effective procedures to fight the pigmentary retinosis or nocturnal blindness. Creator of the International Center aimed at fighting this visual disease. I...
RODRIGO ÁLVAREZ CAMBRAS
(1935 - )
He was born in Candelaria, Pinar del Río. Notable orthopedic surgeon who is heading the Havana-based Frank País Complex since 1969. He is famous due to diverse successful surgical operations to major ...
Researcher
CONCEPCIÓN CAMPA HUERGO
(1958 - )
Director of the Carlos J. Finlay Center of Vaccine Production, in Havana City, she is one of the main scientists responsible for vaccine work at the scientific pole located at the west of the city of ...
