Mary Logan Reddick
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....
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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...
Dr. Herman Branson
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Known for discovering the Alpha Helix, a common protein structure, Dr. Herman Branson was a pioneer in biophysics. Born on August 14, 1914, in Pocahontas,...
Anna Louise James
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Anna Louise James was born on January 19, 1886, in Hartford. The daughter of a Virginia plantation slave who escaped to Connecticut, she grew up...
Joseph L. Graves, Jr
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
William Augustus Hinton
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...