Black STEM Accomplishments
He is the Black Astropysicist who hosted the series "Cosmos"
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
The first African American male to travel into space
Who is Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. (Retired.), USAF?
He discovered a method for long-term storage of blood plasma and organized America's first large-scale blood bank
Who is Dr. Charles Richard Drew?
The first black woman to become Surgeon General of the United States
Who is Dr. Minnie Joycelyn Elders?
He developed 300 products from peanuts and 118 from sweet potatoes which helped improve the economy of the South
Who is George Washington Carver?
The modern touch screen technology is attributed to him
Who is Eric Arthur Johnson ?
The first African American female to travel into space
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
He performed the first successful open heart surgery during an emergency procedure
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
The first African American woman to become a neurosurgeon in the United States
Who is Dr. Alexa Canady?
He created the prototypes for World War I gas masks and the modern traffic light
Who is Garrett Morgan?
In trying to create a heat pump operated by water instead of chemicals, he instead created a beloved kids toy from the 1990's called the Super Soaker
Who is Lonnie Jackson?
These three African American female mathematicians completed NASA calculations necessary for several space missions and were portayed in the movie Hidden Figures
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson ?
In 1721, this enslaved African, describes an African inoculation against smallpox, a technique later used to protect American Revolutionary War soldiers
Who is Onesimus?
The first African American woman to become a physician.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
He created an early version of a chiming wall clock and an almanac used by farmers in several Northeast states
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
The second African American woman to graduate with a PhD in physics in the U.S. and she received the National Medal of Science in 2015 during the presidency of Barack Obama.
Who is Dr. Shirley Jackson?
The first African American person to perform a spacewalk
Who is Bernard A. Harris?
He first synthesized the drug physostigmine which made it readily available for the treatment of glaucoma
Who is Dr. Percy Lavon Julian?
In 1879, she was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing and work as a professionally trained nurse in the US
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
She invented voice over internet protocol (VoIP) networks
Who was Marian Croak?
He was the first to discover insects could hear and that they were capable of changing their behavior based on previous experiences
Who is Dr. Charles H. Turner?
The first African American to serve as NASA Administrator.
Who is Charles Bolden?
He became the first African American psychiatrist and was the first to translate into English the research done by Dr. Alzheimer on dementia.
Who is Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller?
She discovered a revolutionary medical screening for Sickle Cell Disease in infants in 1986 that would change the lives of infants that suffer from the disease
Who is Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston?
The inventor of the Laserphaco Cataract Surgery Probe
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?