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100
He was born in Pennsylvania and attended medical school in Chicago, where he received his M.D. in 1883. He founded the Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, and he performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893.
Daniel Hale Williams
100
Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, he attended Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. in zoology in 1916. His work on cell biology took him to marine laboratories in the U.S. and Europe and led him to publish more than 50 papers.
Ernest Everett Just
100
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Edward Alexander Bouchet was the first African American to graduate (1874) from Yale College. In 1876, upon receiving his Ph.D. from Yale, he became the first African American to earn a doctorate in what subject?
Physics
100
This engineer and NASA astronaut was the first African American in space. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992.
Guion Bluford
200
He developed the computerized blood pressure machine.
Michael Croslin
200
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, he earned a B.S. from the University of California and an M.S. from the University of Washington. He joined NASA in 1977 as a remote sensing scientist. Among his discoveries is a method (developed with Grace Picciolo) of instantly detecting bacteria in water, which led to the improved diagnoses of urinary tract infections.
Emmett Chappelle
200
She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Mae Jemison
200
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N. Y. and M.I.T graduate she was the first female (and the first African-American female) to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Howard University and the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in engineering at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Aprille Ericsson
300
Born in Washington, D.C., Drew earned advanced degrees in medicine and surgery from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in 1933 and from Columbia University in 1940. He is particularly noted for his research in blood plasma and for setting up the first blood bank.
Charles Richard Drew
300
Roger Arliner Young, whose mentor was Ernest Everett Just, earned a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania in what subject in 1940?
Zoology
300
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?
Challenger
300
He attended Iowa State University and earned a civil engineering degree in 1912. While working for an engineering firm, he designed the Tidal Basin Bridge in Washington, D.C. Later, he formed his own company, designing Whitehurst Freeway in Washington, D.C. and an airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, among other projects.
Archibald Alexander
400
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was the second black woman to graduate from medical school (1867). She joined Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white woman physician, in New York and taught hygiene and childcare to families in poor neighborhoods.
Rebecca Cole
400
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he received a B.S. (1891) and M.S. (1892) from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. (1907) from the University of Chicago. A noted authority on the behavior of insects, he was the first researcher to prove that insects can hear.
Charles Henry Turner
400
He won the institute of electronics and electrical engineers Gordon Bell prize in 1989 for an experiment that used 65,000 processors to perform the world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second.
Philip Emeagwali
400
In 1966, Marie Van Brittan Brown, and her partner Albert Brown invented what device for the home?
security system
500
This neurosurgeon and professor led a medical team that became the first to separate Siamese twins successfully. He recently spoke at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast.
Ben Carson
500
Hildrus Poindexter was the son of a tenant farmer in rural Alabama. He attended Lincoln University and went on to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1929 with a PhD in Microbiology. His name became synonymous for his research and improvement on the control of what tropical disease?
malaria