Biology
The World Almanac lists this man, born circa 1860, as a botanist, chemurgist & educator
Who is George Washington Carver?
St. Elmo Brady was the first African-American to earn a PhD in chemistry in this country.
What is the USA?
Sylvester James Gates Jr. holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science at this local university and is also known for pioneering achievements in supersymmetry
What is the University of Maryland?
Lewis Latimer developed a carbon filament for this device & later worked for its inventor
What is a light bulb?
In 2023, 2 teenagers presented "an impossible proof" of this theorem named for an ancient Greek to the Amer. Mathematical Society.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
Patricia Bath has 4 patents for the laser that safely destroys this opacity of the eye's lens
What are Cataracts?
Alice Ball was 23 & a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease
What is leprosy?
Meredith Gourdine's work on gas dispersion led to a way of clearing this from airport runways.
What is fog?
Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train.
What is electromagnetic?
Computer scientist Annie Easley wrote code that helped in the development of the first batteries used in this class of car that employs dual power systems.
What are hybrids?
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett led the team that came up with the COVID-19 vaccine from this company founded in 2010
What is Moderna?
African-American chemist Percy Julian invented a synthetic form of this adrenal hormone & "miracle drug".
What is cortisone?
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the director of this world-famous planetarium at this museum, opened in 1935 & named for a philanthropist
What is the Hayden Planetarium?
Cornell medical grad Mae Jemison won fame aboard this Space Shuttle, spelled the British way with a "U".
What is the Endeavour?
The pizza magnate & 2012 presidential candidate, Herman Cain, was a math major at this historically black college.
What is Morehouse?
Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs
What is a blood bank?
By replacing the boiling of cane juice with vacuum refining, Norbert Rillieux turned this from a luxury to a common table item.
What is sugar?
Edward Alexander Bouchet was the 1st Black to earn a Ph.D. & the 1st to join this Greek-letter fraternity
What is Phi Beta Kappa?
NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented this alliterative water gun that promises a drenching.
What is the Super Soaker?
The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum store sells a Barbie doll of Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in this Oscar-nominated 2016 film.
What is Hidden Figures?
In 1893 internal surgery was rare--most patients died of infection--but that year this doctor used antiseptic methods during one of the first successful open-heart surgeries.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
This African American worked on the 1940s "Manhattan Project" & helped build the first atomic bomb.
Who is Lloyd Quarterman?
This African American woman made breakthroughs that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, and more. She was also presented a National Medal of Science in 2016.
Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson?
This African American implemented automated lubrication to improve the productivity & life span of machines.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
Born into freedom in Maryland, this surveyor & astronomer successfully calculated a solar eclipse in 1789.
Who is (Benjamin) Banneker?