Dr. Moses Wharton Young
Dr. Moses Wharton Young was born in Spartansburg, S.C., in 1903 and moved to the Washington area in 1924. He graduated from Howard University, where...
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Victor J. Glover, Jr
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He is currently...
Dorothy Vaughan
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Date of Birth: September 20, 1910 Hometown: Kansas City, MO Education: B.A., Mathematics, Wilberforce University, 1929 Hired by NACA: December 1943 Retired from NASA: 1971...
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green
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Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in physics, holds the distinction of being only the second African...
Angie Lena Turner King
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Born in Elkhorn, West Virginia in 1905, Angie Lena Turner King was a chemist and mathematician who dedicated her life and career to teaching and...
Dr. Harold Amos
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Dr. Harold Amos, the first African American to chair a department of the Harvard Medical School, left an indelible mark on the fields of medicine...
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker
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Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, a renowned astrophysicist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 24, 1936. He was the only child of Cuthbert Walker, an...
Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett
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Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett is a research fellow and the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis Team at the National Institutes of Health...
Samuel Massie
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Organic Chemist Samuel Massie was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on July 3, 1919; his mother, a teacher, and his father, a minister, instilled in...
Bernard A. Harris Jr
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Bernard A. Harris Jr. is a renowned figure in the fields of medicine, space exploration, and business. With a distinguished career that spans various disciplines,...