Native American Heritage

First Diné woman to ever become board certified in surgery

A professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico

A physicist and one of the first Native Americans who worked at NASA

A chemist working in the field of energy research on heterogeneous catalysis and the development of alternative fuels

First Native American to earn a medical degree

Known for her 2015 discovery (with Casey Mann and David Von Derau), of the 15th and last class of convex pentagons to tile the plane

The first person from the Pascua Yaqui Reservation to graduate from an Ivy League University

An organic chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma

The first female engineer in the history of Lockheed and one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project