George Albert Flippin
George Albert Flippin was born on February 16, 1878, in Port Clinton, Ohio, to parents who had escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad. When he...
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Stephanie Diana Wilson
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Stephanie Diana Wilson is an American astronaut who was born on September 27, 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an accomplished engineer and pilot who...
Warren Elliot Henry
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Warren Elliot Henry was born in Evergreen, Alabama, on a peanut farm where George Washington Carver lived and did research during the summer months. Both...
Wesley L. Harris
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Aerospace engineer Wesley L. Harris was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 29, 1941. His parents, William Harris and Rosa Harris worked in Richmond’s tobacco...
Mary Logan Reddick
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Mary Logan Reddick was a neuroembryologist and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College. Reddick was born on December 31, 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia....
Alyce Chenault Gullattee
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Alyce Chenault Gullattee, M.D., was a prominent Howard University Hospital psychiatrist, civil rights activist, member of Union Temple Baptist Church, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority...
Evelyn Carmon Nicol
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Evelyn Carmon Nicol was born on June 2, 1930, to Daniel and Margarite Carmon in Little Rock, Kentucky. From a young age, she faced the...
Dr. Gladys West
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If you rely on your GPS for directions, you can thank a mathematician whose little-known contributions to the mathematical modeling of the Earth recently earned...
Michelle McMurry-Heath
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Michelle McMurry-Heath is the President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). A medical doctor and molecular immunologist by training, Dr. McMurry-Heath leads BIO as...
Marcella Nunez
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Marcella Nunez is a physician and associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine. Most recently she was appointed by President-Elect Joe...