STEM Monthly Calendar
Monday, Wednesday, Friday = Facts; Tuesday & Thursday= Important Figures
May 2017- Asian American & Jewish Heritage Month
Technology
Science
Monday
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Kalpana Chawla was an
Indian-American astronaut
and the first Indian woman
in space. She first flew on
Space Shuttle Columbia in
1997 as a mission
specialist and primary
robotic arm operator. In
2003, she was one of the
seven crew members killed
in Space Shuttle Columbia
disaster.
8
1948- An Wang changed
computing technology by
showing that data could be
stored in an array of
magnetic ferrite cores.
Pam Nagurka & Marcella Park
STEM Specialists
Tuesday
Wednesday
2
Japanese American scientist
Dr.
Kenneth
Matsumura of Berkeley’s Alin
Foundation invented the BioArtificial Liver.
9
Taiwanese,
Jerry Yang
with fellow
classmate,
David Filo,
created the
Yahoo!
Directory to
help their pals
hunt down cool web sites.
3
Notable American Jewish
scientist include Dr. Gertrude
B. Elion, the first to develop
chemotherapy treatment for
childhood leukemia in 1954
and Jonas Salk’s discovery of
the polio vaccine in 1955
estimated to have helped
saved more than 100 million
people.
10
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Thursday
Friday
4
David Ho,
Taiwanese AIDS
researcher
proved that HIV
reproduces itself
in massive quantities once it
enters the body.
11
Thank Indian
American
computer
architect Ajay
V. Bhatt, the
co-inventor of
the USB. He
holds ten U.S.
patents for his creations including
the Accelerated Graphics Port, and
the PCI Express.
5
1938- As Chinese
Consul General in
Vienna, Dr. Feng Shan
Ho saved thousands of
Austrian Jews during
the Holocaust.
12
1969 - David Lee and
his team created the
first efficient
daisywheel printer at
Diablo Data Systems
that would become a
division of Xerox. He
was also the first Asian
Executive Suite of a
Top 10 US Corporation.
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May 2017- Asian American & Jewish Heritage Month
15
Jewish American,
Levi Strauss, invented
the iconic “blue jean”
in 1873; today Levi’s
is a $4.8 billion
American business
16
Chinese American May
Lin’s powerful
architectural memorial
designs bring forward
the “power of a name”
in the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights
Memorial in Montgomery Alabama.
22
Albert Einstein 18791955 is considered
the 20th Century’s
most influential
mathematician
contributing to
several equations to
calculus and
geometry, ten of
which are called
Einstein Field
Equations.
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29
Jewish Americans
comprise of 39% of
the United States’
Nobel prize winners
in physiology or
medicine comprise.
Pam Nagurka & Marcella Park
STEM Specialists
Fan Chung is a mathematician
known for her work in the areas of
spectral graph
theory, extremal
graph theory, and
random graphs.
30
Electronic engineer
Shuji Nakamura,
invented the blue
LED, a major
breakthrough in
lighting technology.
17
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Electrical
The month of May was chosen
engineer
and
for Asian American and Pacific
physicist,
Sir
Islander Heritage Observance
Charles
K
Kao
because on May 7th 1843, the
pioneered the
first Japanese immigrant
development and use of fiber
traveled to the United States
optics in telecommunications.
and May 10, 1869 the
transcontinental railroad was
completed. The majority of the
workers who laid the tracks
were Chinese immigrants.
24
Amalie Emmy Noether 1882-1935
was described by many as the
most important woman in the
history of mathematics. She
developed theories of rings, fields,
and algebras.
31
Ralph H. Baer 1952-2006 father of
Video Games became a pioneer
for his work in electronics and
television engineering.
25
May 3 1977 Iranian born
Maryam Mirzakhani became
the first woman to be
awarded the Fields Medal, the
highest prize a mathematician
can win for making striking
and highly
original
contributions
to geometry
and
dynamical
systems.
19
Mary the Jewess
considered to be the
first non-fictitious
alchemist in the
Western World.
26
Jewish American, John
Von Neumann 19031957, contributed to
fields like statistics,
economics (game
theory), and
computing publishing
60 papers in applied
mathematics and 60
papers in pure
mathematics.
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