Black Scientists
This scientist is known for his many inventions with peanuts and other agricultural products such as plastics, oils, and dyes. This inventor did not create peanut butter.
Answer: Who is Agricultural Scientist, George Washington Carver?
This inventor created a hair care system known as the “Walker System (Perms, hot combs),” that catered to black hair during the 1800s.
Who was Madam C. J. Walker?
This is an organization focused on improving diversity within the science community by pushing underrepresented minority groups to pursue chemical engineering and chemistry and it has the acronym NOBCChE.
What is National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers?
This poet wrote the following Excerpt:
“From Mother to Son”:
“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.”
Who is the American Poet, Langston Hughes?
This donut shop is just a 5-10 minute walk from MoSE and was founded by Kamal Grant.
What is Sublime Donuts?
She was the first Black American woman scientist to travel space as a NASA Astronaut.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
This inventor was a physician and medical researcher that developed the blood bank.
Who was Dr. Charles Drew?
This scientist was the president of the national NOBCChE organization at the time of the 1986 conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Who is Dr. Edward D. Walton?
This author served in the U.S. Coast Guard and is the co-author of “Queen”, but his most known work is “Roots.”
Who is Alex Haley?
Born in New York, this black ballet performer was the co-founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Who was Arthur Mitchell?
She is an American Viral Immunologist known for helping to develop the first SARS-Cov-2 mRNA vaccines.
Who is Dr. Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett?
Garrett Morgan, an African American born in 1877, created these to help soldiers during chemical warfare and these for automobiles.
What are gas masks and improvements to the traffic signal (traffic lights)?
This current NOBCChE president recently gave a talk at Georgia Tech (within the last 2 years) and specializes in Mass-Spec. based proteomics and health disparities as it relates to minorities.
Who is Dr. Rena Robinson?
This author is a Pulitzer Prize winner, a novelist, and a poet best known for authoring “The Color Purple.”
Who is Alice Walker?
This IT firm was established in the 1990s by David L. Steward and is currently worth over 6 million dollars.
What is World Wide Technology?
Alice Ball developed this method for isolating ethyl ester compounds from the fatty acids of chaulmoogra oil.
What is the “Ball Method?”
Bonus point question (200 pts): What disease did she help treat with this method?
The near death of Alexander Miles’ daughter caused him to invent this solution.
What are automatic elevator doors?
The year that Gwen was born (1996), NOBCChE President Winifred Burks-Houck presided over the conference at this location.
What is Detroit, Michigan?
You might recognize this author from her TED talk snippet featured in Beyoncè’s song “Flawless,” but she’s also known for her essays, such as “Apollo” and her collection of poems.
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
This company is currently one of the largest indigenous owned exporters of crude oil in Nigeria and is named after its founder.
What is Famfa Oil?
He was a chemist from Nymph, Alabama that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Who was Moddie Taylor?
Dr. Shirley Jackson is a physicist known for contributing to the science/theoretical physics behind these three inventions.
What are touch-tone phones, fax machines, and solar cells?
Also Accepted: Tech behind call-waiting, caller ID, fiber optic cells.
These are the seven founders of NOBCChE.
Who were Dr. Joseph N. Cannon, Dr. Lloyd Ferguson, Dr. William M. Jackson, Dr. William Guilory, Dr. Henry C. McBay, Dr. Charles Merideth, Dr. James Porter?
71.43 pts for each correctly spelled name!
This author established a publishing firm in Enugu, Nigeria and wrote the novel “Things Fall Apart?”
Who was the late Nigerian Author, Chinua Achebe?
This is Georgia's first majority Black-owned, full-service entertainment and corporate law firm. This firm was co-founded by Uwonda Carter Scott, Donald Woodard and John Seay.
What is Carter and Woodward?