Women
Edith Clarke was the first professionally employed female ____ in the US in 1922
Electrical Engineer
George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, became famous for his suggestions of crop rotation to prevent soil depletion. His main crop he suggested was ____.
peanuts
Carlos Juan Finley was the first to discover and present that _____ transmitted yellow fever.
mosquitos
Lori Alvord was the first Diné woman to become a board certified _____. She has explained that physically fixing a problem doesn't cure a patient, you must also address the psychological and spiritual elements as well.
Surgeon
Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American woman to ______
Rosalind Franklin was the first person to do what?
Discover DNA was a helix!
Katherine Johnson was a strong mathematician who helped calculate _______.
The paths of space ships
Mario J. Molina was the first Mexican-born scientist to win ________ for his research on CFCs and the atmosphere.
A Nobel Prize (in chemistry)
Carol Gardipe was one of seven founders of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Her specialty was _____.
Geology
Alfonso Caso y Andrade made the huge discovery of Tomb Seven at Monte Albán and helped to crack the Mixtec Codices. He may have started in legal philosophy but his work in _______ was super valuable.
Anthropology
Rachel Carson is known for her book Silent Spring, which was the catalyst for what major movement?
The modern environmental movement
The first black man in Cleveland to own a car, Garrett Morgan was an inventor who created an early version of ______.
The 3-color traffic light
Dr. Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to do what in 1993
Go to space!
Gregory A. Cajete pioneered reconciling indigenous perspectives in sciences with a Western academic setting. He focuses on culturally based science, with a focus on ________.
health and wellness
Brazilian experimental physicist Cesare Mansueto Giolio Lattes was credited with discovering the ____, made up of a quark and anti-quark
pion
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was at the front of computer programming from the 30s through the 80s. Her biggest achievement was ______.
Developing computer programming languages in english rather than math notation
John Lee Love was best known as the inventor of this useful everyday school object.
A portable pencil sharpener!
Albert Baez, a Mexican-American physicist, was the co-inventor of this crucial piece of technology still used in labs today.
the X-Ray reflection microscope
Marcos A. Moreno, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from just outside of Tucson, was part of the St. John's University founding chapter of the Global ____ Brigades.
Medical
Lewis Latimer was an African-American inventor who improved Thomas Edison's design of the _____ and is the reason we are able to use them for long times today.
lightbulb
Despite being told women didn't belong in chemistry, Lydia Villa-Komaroff still went on to discover _____.
Bacteria could be engineered to produce human insulin
Mary Maynard Daly was the first African American woman to _____ in the US in 1947.
Earn a Ph.D. in chemistry
Ynes Mexia had a passion for botany. Now, 50 plant species are named for her because she discovered 2 new plant genera and _____ new species of plants.
500
Mary G. Ross is a famous Native American engineer who has received many awards and was even featured in a Google Doodle and on the 2019 dollar coin. She worked primarily with/in ____.
rockets + spaceflight
The first _____ was invented by Marie Ban Brittan Brown, a black woman who also worked full-time as a nurse.
home security system