Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Electrical engineer who is an expert in semiconductor devices and high-performance processors who pioneered new ways to connect computer chips using copper instead of aluminum, resulting in 20% faster chip speeds.
Kiyome Hirai Tsuda was a kibei, a US citizen educated in Japan, who exemplified the deep connections between Hawai‘i and Japan before World War II.
Dr. Barbara Riley is the first person from her hometown of Dillingham, Alaska, to become a physician and the first Alaskan Native appointed to the medical staff at Alaska’s Kanakanak Hospital.
Pediatric hematologist Beatrice Gee, M.D., is assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and practices medicine at the Georgia Sickle Cell Center at Grady Hospital.
A young college graduate who joined the military following the Pearl Harbor attack
Chinese New Zealand storekeeper in the early 1900s
Worker at Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack in World War II
Atmospheric scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the carbon cycle – how carbon dioxide moves throughout the land, oceans, and the atmosphere – and how its movement both depends on and alters our planet’s climate.
Dr Hung studies night sky brightness.