Alice Ball
Alice Augusta Ball, a pharmaceutical chemist, was born in Seattle, Washington in 1892 to Laura and James P. Ball, Jr. Her grandfather was J.P. Ball,...
Category : Science – Technology
Dr. Patricia Cowings
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Dr. Patricia Cowings is a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Human Systems Integration Division. She is the Principal Investigator of the...
Christine Darden
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NASA engineer Christine Darden is often asked which movie star played her in the motion picture “Hidden Figures,” the film about African American women who...
Melba Roy Mouton
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Mouton was born in Fairfax, Virginia to Rhodie and Edna Chloe. She graduated from Howard University in 1950 with a master’s degree in mathematics. She...
Edward Franklin Frazier
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Edward Franklin Frazier, the most prominent African American sociologist of the 20th Century, was born on September 24, 1894, and died on May 17, 1962....
Dr. Ossian Sweet
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The trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet along with ten family members and friends for murder after a mob attacked his Detroit home caught the nation’s...
Louis Wade Sullivan
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After witnessing poverty and discrimination in Depression-era Georgia, Louis Wade Sullivan committed his career to education and public service, rising to become Secretary of Health...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, (born October 5, 1958, New York City, New York, U.S.), American astronomer who popularized science with his books and frequent appearances on radio and television. When Tyson...
Katherine G. Johnson
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One of NASA’s human ‘computers,’ Katherine G. Johnson performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight. Born in 1918 in West...
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
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Dorothy Johnson Vaughan worked as a NASA mathematician on the SCOUT Launch Vehicle Program that launched America’s first satellites into space. Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was...