Medicine
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.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
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.
Who is Ernest Everett Just?
The first African American woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the United States
Who is Marie Maynard Daly?
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?
What is Physics?
This engineer and NASA astronaut was the first African American in space. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992.
Who is Guion Bluford?
He developed the computerized blood pressure machine.
Who is Michael Croslin?
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.
Who is Emmett Chappelle?
The first African American to earn a B.S. in the United States, this scientist is credited with discovering crop rotation, inventing the Jessup wagon, and coming up with over 300 uses for peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
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.
Who is Aprille Ericsson?
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.
Who is Charles Richard Drew?
Roger Arliner Young, whose mentor was Ernest Everett Just, earned a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania in what subject in 1940?
What is Zoology?
This scientist earned international acclaim by synthesizing physostigmine from the calabar bean to create a drug treatment for glaucoma.
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 the Challenger?
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.
Who is Archibald Alexander?
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.
Who is Rebecca Cole?
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.
Who is Charles Henry Turner?
This inventor was known as "The Jackie Robinson of Proctor and Gamble"
Who is Dr. Herbert Smitherman?
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.
Who is Philip Emeagwali?
In 1966, Marie Van Brittan Brown, and her partner Albert Brown invented what device for the home?
What is the security system?
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.
Who is Ben Carson?
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?
What is malaria?
Daniel Hale Williams performed the first ever surgery of its kind. What part of the body was he able to successfully operate on?
Born in Maryland in 1731, this mathematician and astronomer was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in science, and even wrote his own almanac for publication.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
NASA's first Black female engineer
Who is Mary Jackson?