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Caicedo, Hugo  

Edwin Corena Puentes

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01 June 2016
Published online:
31 May 2017

was born in the city of Cali, Colombia, to Alicia Angulo and Héctor Caicedo, parents of African descent. From a very young age, he demonstrated in his math classes a strength for defining realities with numbers. He went to high school at the Colegio Antonio José Camacho, then completed his undergraduate studies at the Universidad del Valle, where he earned a degree in electronics engineering in 2005. During those years of training, he began to contribute to research projects in topics such as information services and thin-film technology. For his academic performance and discipline, he was advised by researchers at the university’s Escuela de Electrónica (Electronics School) to participate in the creation of a digital electrocardiograph system. In more common terms, this is a cardiovascular diagnostic procedure that is commonly utilized in modern medicine.

Caicedo s passion for research and innovation in the field of applied technology for curing ...

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Coll-Seck, Awa Marie  

Jeremy Rich

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08 December 2011
Published online:
30 September 2012

Senegalese medical researcher and government minister of health, was born in 1951 in Dakar, Senegal. She attended primary and secondary schools in Dakar, where she drew attention because of her aptitude for science and her athleticism. She played on the Senegalese national women’s basketball team in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Coll-Seck received a medical degree from the University of Dakar in 1978 and commenced her medical practice the same year. She worked as a doctor in hospitals in the French city of Lyons as well as her hometown of Dakar in the late 1970s and the 1980s.

In 1989 Coll-Seck was named to the faculty of the medical school of the University of Dakar and chief medical officer of infectious diseases at the Dakar public hospital. In the 1990s Coll Seck was noticed by the international medical and public health community for her ...

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Harris, Eon Nigel  

Michael Toussaint

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01 June 2016
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31 May 2017

was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, on 30 December 1945. He belongs to an extended family of writers. Both his father, Theodore Wilson Harris, and mother, Cecily (née Carew), are accomplished authors. Eon was born in the year of their marriage, which ended in divorce. Wilson’s stepmother, along with one of his two siblings, also became writers.

Eon attended Queen’s College, Guyana, from 1957 to 1964. It was there that his literary and leadership potential were greatly manifested. He proved a skillful debater and served as president of the college’s junior, and later its senior, debating society. In 1965 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he pursued his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Howard University, graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1968 He then pursued a fellowship at Yale University from which he graduated with a master s degree in biochemistry Next he studied for ...

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Lachatañeré Crombet, Rómulo  

David A. Shefferman

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01 June 2016
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31 May 2017

was born on 24 July 1909 in Santiago de Cuba. He was the last of five children born to Flora Crombet and Gustavo Lachatañeré, who was killed by one of the family’s farmhands shortly after Rómulo’s first birthday. His family names mark his roots within the unique Franco-Creole culture that emerged in eastern Cuba during the 1800s following the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Like many in those communities, his paternal grandparents—the Lachataignerais line—adopted Hispanicized spellings, while his maternal lineage included Francisco Adolfo “Flor” Crombet (his grandfather) and other important figures in Cuba’s nineteenth-century independence movements. After earning his high-school degree in 1926, Lachatañeré moved from Santiago to the island’s capital city to begin studies in pharmacology at the University of Havana. He received his degree on 18 November 1929 and began work almost immediately as a laboratory technician in the government-sponsored Institute for Venereal Diseases.

Lachatañeré remained in ...