X-Ray Microscope

Together with Dr. Paul Kirkpatrick, Mexican American physicist Albert Baez invented the x-ray microscope in 1948. Could you imagine what the world of science would look like today without this invention?

Even more notably, Baez was only a Ph. D. student when he and Kirkpatrick invented grazing incidence reflective optics for the examination of living cells! Baez’s contributions to science are still revered around the world today!

Transdermal Drug Patches

For as long as there has been medicine, there have been ways to administer said medicine. Injections and oral injections are common, but we also know drugs can be administered through skin.

Alejandro Zaffaroni, an Uruguayan biochemist and entrepreneur took what certain cultures have been doing for centuries and modernized it, clearing bandages that were and still are extremely efficient at controlling the amount of drugs delivered to a patient.

They were patented in 1970 and they’re still used today. For example, you might find contraceptive patches, or patches for nicotine, antidepressants, and pain medication.