Chemistry/ Biology
The first African American to earn a Ph.D in evolutionary biology
Who is Joseph L. Graves Jr?
Developed a test for diagnosing syphilis, creates the first clinical textbook by an African American physician and was the first African American individual to be promoted to the title of professor at Harvard Medical School
Who is Dr. William Augustus Hinton?
The first African American individual to serve as surgeon general of the United States.
Who is Dr. Jocelyn Elders?
The neurosurgeon who preformed the first successful separation of conjoined twins who were attached at the at the back of the head
Who is Ben Carson?
The first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University
Who is Dr. W.E.B. DuBois?
The first African American to receive a Ph. D in Chemistry
Who is St. Elmo Brady?
The creator of the sanitary pad for menstruation
Who is Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner?
Published a groundbreaking study that led to the creation of a national sickle cell disease screening program for newborns and proved the effectiveness of penicillin to prevent infection from sepsis in babies with the disease
Who is Marilyn Hughes Gaston?
The first African American psychiatrists and a pioneer in the field of Alzheimer's disease
Who is Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller?
The first African American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University
Who is Mamie Phipps Clark?
The first African American to obtain a doctorate in biological sciences
Who is Alfred Oscar Coffin
The founder of the National Medical Association for African American medical practitioners
Who is Daniel Hale Williams III?
The first African American to earn a medial doctorate from Columbia and became the director of the new American Red Cross Blood Bank
Who is Dr. Charles R. Drew?
The first African American woman to be a neurosurgeon
Who is Dr. Alexa Canady?
The founding member of the National Association of African American Psychologist and created the term Ebonics to refer to the African American vernacular English
Who is Dr. Robert Lee Williams II?
The first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the United States
Who is Dr. Marie Maynard Daly?
The first woman and youngest Commissioner of Public Health
Who is Deborah Prothrow-Stith?
The first African American to receive a medical degree in the US
Who is James McCune Smith?
The first African American neurosurgeon in America
Who is Dr. Clarence Sumner Greene Sr?
The first African American to earn a doctorate in psychology from Columbia university and the first African American president of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Who is Kenneth Clark?
The first woman to develop successful treatment to Hansen's disease (Leprosy)
Who is Alice Ball?
Was born into slavery and after buying his freedom opened a medical practice
Who is James Durham?
The first African American cardiologist who preformed the first successful open heart surgery
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
The first African American woman President of the American Neurological Association (ANA) and the first African American woman to serve as an acting director of an Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Who is Dr. Audrey S. Penn?
The speech "Aint I a Woman?" became a staple of sociology as it laid the groundwork for theories of intersectionality
Who is Sojourner Truth?