Dr. Fatimah Jackson
Dr. Fatimah Jackson received her Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. (cum laude with Distinction in all Subjects) from Cornell University. Her doctoral dissertation research was on...
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Robert L. Curbeam Jr
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Astronaut Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr., was born in 1952 and is the astronaut who holds the record for most spacewalks on a single flight. Â Curbeam...
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert
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Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert lost both her parents while growing up, but with support from her grandmother and mentors, she graduated as valedictorian from East...
The little-known engineer who designed NASA’s 1968 Apollo 6 camera system
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Shelby Jacobs designed a camera system that flew on the unmanned Apollo 6 flight in April 1968. Growing up as the son of a preacher...
Leland Devon Melvin
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Leland Devon Melvin (born February 15, 1964, in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space...
Reatha Clark King
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Reatha Clark King is a chemist whose long scientific career includes breakthroughs in fluoride research that advanced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) space...
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green
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Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of the first African American women in the nation to earn a Ph.D. in physics, holds the distinction of being only...
Mary Styles Harris
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Born June 26, 1949, in Nashville, Tennessee, Mary Styles Harris turned an early love of science into a prominent career in health research. Since earning...
John Edward Hodge
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John Edward Hodge was born on this date in 1914. He was an African American chemist. From Kansas City, Kansas he was the son of...
Homer A. Neal
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Homer A. Neal, a distinguished physicist and academic leader, made significant contributions to the field of physics and science policy throughout his illustrious career. As...