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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

This Columbia High School graduate, Hall of Fame inductee, and professional Ultimate Frisbee player has 4 million Instagram followers and 16.6 million YouTube subscribers who tune in to see the hottest tech and electronics gear.

Who is Marques Brownlee?

100

Made famous in the film Hidden Figures, this mathematician first worked as a human calculator at NASA then worked on several missions applying analytic geometry and trigonometry to predict and plan space flight. 

Who is Katherine Johnson?

100

After graduating from Penn State with a B.S. in aerospace engineering, this NASA astronaut was the first African American in space. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992.

Who is 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

This inventor worked for Thomas Edison, has an elementary school named for him, and is famous for creating the Hilton strawberry and multiple processes for forging malleable iron and making patent leather.

Who is Seth Boyden?

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?

What is Zoology?

300

These GenZ twins from Woodbridge, NJ attend MIT and make intelligent and  humorous STEM videos on TikTok.

Who are Malik and Miles or Malik and Miles George?

@MalikandMiles

300

Born in 1731 he was surveyor and farmer self-educated in mathematics and astronomy.  He is famous for helping to establish the borders for Washington, DC, predict a solar eclipse, and build clocks and other mechanical tools from wood.

Who is Benjamin Banneker?

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

Born in Pennsauken, NJ this microbiologist and professor was the first African American department chair at Harvard Medical School.

Who is Harold Amos?

400

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he 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.

Who was Edward Alexander Bouchet?

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 conjoined 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
500

Born in Atlantic City and graduating from University of Michigan, she was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in physics.  

Who is Willie Hobbs Moore?

500

He attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13 becoming its youngest ever student.  He earned multiple degrees and worked as a mathematician, mechanical engineer, and nuclear scientist, including on the Manhattan Project in WW2.

Who was Jesse Ernest Wilkins?

500

Known as the "Bill Gates of Africa" he invented the world's first supercomputer using 65,000 processors to do 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Who is Philip Emeagwali?