Medicine
Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States during this American war.
What is the Civil War?
C. V. Raman discovered characteristic Raman scattering, often used in cancer screening and intraoperative surgical guidance, and was awarded this, making him the first Asian person to receive one in any branch of science.
What is a Nobel Prize?
One of the U.S.'s wealthiest African American entrepreneurs was Annie Malone, awarded a patent for a hot comb in 1920, devised to style this feature of the body.
What is hair?
Edward Alexander Bouchet was the first African American to graduate (1874) from Yale College. He became the first African American to earn a doctorate in what STEM subject?
Physics
The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize
Who was Marie Curie?
This African-American neurosurgeon became the first to surgically separate Siamese twins successfully. Also he ran for president.
Ben Carson
Hildrus Poindexter was the son of a tenant farmer in Alabama. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1929 with a PhD in Microbiology. His name became synonymous for his research on what tropical disease spread by mosquitos?
What is malaria?
The British chemist who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA. A rover going to Mars in 2021 will bear her first name.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin proposed in 1925 that stars are composed primarily of these first two elements on the periodic table
What are Hydrogen and Helium?
Dr. Maria Esperanza Martinez-Romero addresses the issue of feeding the planet's growing population through studying nitrogen fixing Rhizobia bacteria, so named for this, the part of the plant that draws nutrients from the soil.
What are roots?
Virginia Apgar devised the "Apgar Score", named for herself, which assesses health in what category of people?
What are babies?
In 2019 in light of the COVID pandemic, the FDA announced a relaxing of its lifetime ban on gay men being allowed to do this.
What is donate blood?
Lauren Esposito is the co-founder of 500 Queer Scientists, a network that boosts the recognition and awareness of LGBTQ+ people working in STEM fields. She is an arachnologist, which is the study of this field.
What are spiders?
Wanda Diaz Merced suffered from diabetic neuropathy, and as a result lost function in these, making it much harder for her to pursue her career in astronomy.
What are eyes?
Mary Jackson was portrayed in the 2016 movie Hidden Figures by this well-known African American Singer
Who is Janelle Monae?
Youyou Tu received The Nobel Prize in Physiology for her discoveries concerning Malaria using ancient Chinese homeopathic knowledge. She did this all without what?
A PhD/MD Degree
Ron McNair, born in Lake City, SC, was the second African American to fly in space. He was tragically killed in a space shuttle mission on January 28, 1986 aboard which space shuttle?
What is Space Shuttle Challenger?
Roger Arliner Young earned the first Ph.D in her discipline from the University of Pennsylvania in what animal-based subject in 1940?
Zoology
The mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Mary Golda Ross was the first known Native American female engineer. She is depicted on the 2019 one-dollar coin along with this famous Native American woman.
Who was Sacagawea?
HeLa cervical cancer cells were provided by Henrietta Lacks without her consent to develop a vaccine for this paralysis-causing disease in the 1950's.
What is Polio?
Daniel Hale Williams, an African American man, performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893 in Provident Hospital, found in this major midwest US City.
What is Chicago, IL?
In 1913 Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it’s from the Greek for “equal” & “place”
What is an Isotope?
from the Greek isos topos
Astronaut Ann McClain was accused in 2020 by her ex-wife of committing this act, the first-ever Crime in Space.
What is identity theft?
Mary Ward was an astronomer and microscopist known for being the first to be killed (in 1869) by this machine
What is a car?