Adriana ocampo uria family

One of three daughters of Teresa Uria de Ocampo, a Montessori teacher, and Victor Alberto Ocampo, an electrical engineer, Adriana C.

Ocampo was born on January 5, 1955, in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Adriana Ocampo was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in , and then moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her interest in space exploration was evident at an early age. Ocampo turned her dolls into astronauts and built spaceships out of kitchen utensils. She never went to bed without looking at the stars and contemplating outer space.

Her parents encouraged her interests.

Ocampo's family emigrated to the United States when she was 14.

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I was raised in Argentina.

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I was raised in Argentina.

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Adriana Ocampo and her family moved to the United States when she was In high school, Ocampo first volunteered, then worked.

Adriana C. Ocampo Uria was born on January 5, , in Barranquilla, Colombia.

I'm originally from Colombia but was also raised in Argentina.

She was born on January 5, , in Barranquilla, Colombia.

At school in Argentina Ocampo had been steered toward a career in business or accounting, but at her new high school in Pasadena, California, she was able to study physics and calculus. Still she found attitudes in the United States less conducive to female scientists than in Argentina.

However, in 1973, after her junior year in high school, Ocampo got a summer job at