Eric Pierce
Eric Pierce’s work studying the interaction between water and rocks has taken him from coast to coast, including a stop in Washington, DC, before settling...
Category : Science – Technology
Dr. Josephine English
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Community leader and gynecologist Dr. Josephine English was born on December 17, 1920, in Ontario, Virginia to Whittie, Sr., and Jennie English. She grew up...
How Black Slaves Were Routinely Sold As ‘Specimens’ To Ambitious White Doctors
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The history of human experimentation is as old as the practice of medicine and in the modern era has always targeted disadvantaged, marginalized, institutionalized, stigmatized,...
Ionia Rollin Whipper
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Ionia Rollin Whipper was born on this date in 1872. She was a Black obstetrician and public health outreach worker. From Beaufort, South Carolina, both...
John Brooks Slaughter
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John Brooks Slaughter, a computer scientist is a professor of education and of engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He previously...
James Marion Sims
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Few medical doctors have been as lauded—and loathed—as James Marion Sims. Credited as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims developed pioneering tools and surgical techniques...
Donald E. Wilson
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Physician and academic administrator Dr. Donald E. Wilson was born on August 28, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Rivers and Licine Wilson. He attended Dix...
Tilahun D. Yilma
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Tilahun D. Yilma is a Distinguished Professor of Virology in the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California,...
Dr. Moses Wharton Young
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Dr. Moses Wharton Young was born in Spartansburg, S.C., in 1903 and moved to the Washington area in 1924. He graduated from Howard University, where...
Victor J. Glover, Jr
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He is currently...