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Many Hispanic inventors have been recognized for their work in physics and engineering.

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano is a Puerto Rican astrophysicist at NASA and assistant professor at MIT, who pioneered developed of position-sensitive X-ray micro-calorimeters. He's a dark matter expert who has won several awards for his work.

Jose Negron Crespo, of Puerto Rico, invented a way to use sea waves for energy. The waves touch a panel in a machine, which sets off a hydraulic motor that feeds an electric generator.

Ellen Ochoa: She's a deputy director at the Johnson Space Center who invented optical systems that that detect defects in repeating patterns. Ochoa is a retired NASA astronaut.

Jose L. Hernandez-Rebollar of Mexico, invented Acceleglove - a device that captures hand gestures in Virtual Reality. One practical use has been for deaf people, the device translates 300 words of sign language into spoken words or text.

Victor Celorio of Mexico invented print on demand technology and Instabooks.

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