Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr
Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr., a respected chemical engineer and an official with the U.S. Department of Energy, was one of only a small number of...
Category : Science – Technology
Charles Henry Turner
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Charles Henry Turner was a pioneering American behavioral scientist whose groundbreaking research on insect behavior and unwavering commitment to civil rights left an indelible mark...
Marie M. Daly
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Marie M. Daly is best known for being the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. Marie M. Daly...
Dr. Ernest Just
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Ernest Everett Just was a pioneering African American biologist, zoologist, and physiologist. Born on August 14, 1883, in Charleston, South Carolina, Just overcame significant racial...
Edward Alexander Bouchet
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Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852, in New Haven, Connecticut to William Francis and Susan Cooley Bouchet. Edward attended the segregated primary...
Lonnie Bristow
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In 1995, Lonnie Bristow, a board-certified doctor of internal medicine, became the first African American President of the American Medical Association (AMA) in its 148-year...
Eliza Ann Grier
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Eliza Ann Grier was an extraordinary woman who overcame slavery, poverty and racism to become the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in...
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins
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Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, the first African American Woman dentist, was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, on March 4, 1867. She became an orphan when her...
Daniel Hale Williams III
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Daniel Hale Williams III was a pioneering surgeon best known for performing 1893 one of the world’s first successful open-heart surgeries. Williams was born on...
Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr
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Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. was a cardiac surgeon who, in 1980, performed the first implantation of an automatic defibrillator into a human heart. He was...