For research on biographical data, try:

Gale's Biography Resource Database

• Scroll down the list of databases and select Biography Resource Database

• Search for an inventor by name or keyword

find.galegroup.com/menu/commonmenu.do?userGroupName=monm93287

Suggested web resources:

Impacto, Influencia, Cambio: Science, Technology, and Invention in Latin America and the Southwestern United States

Search by person or place for scientific leaders and inventors.

http://smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/graphic/index.html

About.com: Famous Hispanic Inventors

http://inventors.about.com/od/hispanicinventors/Famous_Hispanic_Inventors.htm

Famous-Hispanic-Inventors.com

http://www.famous-hispanic-inventors.com/inventors

Inventors of Latin America (with some suggested websites to begin research)

Luis Agote (Medicine)  http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Luis_Agote

Vincente Almandos Almonacid (Aviation)  Includes some helpful links http://earlyaviators.com/ealmonac.htm

Ernesto Blanco (Assisting the handicapped)  http://www.famous-hispanic-inventors.com/inventors?start=4

Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena  http://www.explorandomexico.com/about-mexico/5/135/

Quirino Cristiani (Animation)  Official Quirino Cristiani movie site http://www.quirinocristianimovie.com/

Raul Pateras de Pescara (Aviation)  Article on the helicopter design http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/pescara.php

Carlos Finlay (Medicine)  Biography from the Finlay Medical Society http://www.finlay-online.com/welcome/whowasdrfinlay.htm

Amalia Celia Figureredo de Pietra (Aviation)  http://smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/graphic/aviation/amalia.html

María del Socorro Flores González (Medicine)  Brief entry about Gonzalez http://halloffame.gwiin.com/gallery.php?id_ptofile=99

• • Scroll down for details on her work http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/04/article_0001.html

Jose Hernandez-Rebollar (Sign Language translation advances)  http://www.famous-hispanic-inventors.com/inventors/2-inventors/9-dr-jose-hernandez-rebollar

Juan Lozano (Aeronautics)  Scroll down to Lozano. Click on the link to visit his aeronautics company website and to see a picture of his invention.http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/tp/mexican.htm

Luis Miramontes (Medicine)  http://www.famous-hispanic-inventors.com/inventors/2-inventors/3-luis-e-miramontes

Narcisco Monturiol (Medicine)  http://inventors.about.com/od/hispanicinventors/a/NarcisoMonturio.htm

Ellen Ochoa (Science & Aeronautics)  NASA biography http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ochoa.html

Severo Ochoa (Genetics)  Biography of Nobel Prize winner http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1959/ochoa-bio.html

Victor Ochoa (Aeronautics)  Smithsonian site detailing inventors contributions http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/scitech/impacto/graphic/victor/index.html

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Medicine)  Biography of Nobel Prize winner http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1906/cajal-bio.html

Felipe Vadillo (Medicine)  http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/tp/mexican.htm

Juan Vucetich (Fingerprinting)  Article on contributions of Vucetich from National Institute of Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/vucetich.html

Juan Pablo Zaramella (Animation)  Official website of Zaramella's work http://www.zaramella.com.ar/