Category : Science – Technology

Ronald McNair, in full Ronald Erwin McNair, (born October 21, 1950, Lake City, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 28, 1986, in flight, off Cape Canaveral, Florida),...

Lloyd Noel Ferguson (February 9, 1918 – November 30, 2011) was an African American chemist. As a child in Oakland, California, Ferguson had a backyard...

Earl Wiley Renfroe, a history-maker in the field of orthodontics and in breaking down the barriers of racial prejudice, died Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at...

Born May 31, 1918, in Philadelphia, Lloyd Albert Quarterman, a chemist, was one of the few African American scientists and technicians to work on the Manhattan...

St. Elmo Brady was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States. He received the Ph.D. in Chemistry...

Beebe Steven Lynk was one of the earliest black women chemists in the United States. She was born Beebe Steven, the daughter of Henderson and...

Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist...

Marguerite Thomas Williams, born in 1895, was the first African American (male or female) to earn a Ph.D. in geology.  Like Roger Arliner Young, Williams...

Dr. Ruth Smith Lloyd was the first African American woman in the United States to obtain a doctorate degree in Anatomy.  She earned her degree...