2022 BHM Scientist Quiz

She is the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT. She conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.

• Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

• Mae C. Jemison

• Dr. Ayanna Howard

• Katherine Johnson

• Dorothy Vaughan

This scientist with a partner created a new material, known as “plastic cable sheath,” that went into production in the 1960s and became widely used as an inexpensive, durable, and safe coating for telecommunications wire. It is still used today to protect fiber optic cable.

• Walter Lincoln Hawkins

• Ernest Everett Just

• Neil deGrasse Tysono

• Edward Chargaff

• Dr. A. Hasani Stone II

An American politician and neurosurgeon who performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins who were attached at the back of the head. He is also known for having performed the first successful rescue of a hydrocephalic twin using an intrauterine shunt

• Dr. Ben Carson

• Percy Julian

• Dr. Charles Drew

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

• Dr. Phipps Clark

This scientist figured out how to synthesize important medicinal compounds from abundant plant sources, making them more affordable to mass-produce. The hormones include, sex hormones and the cortical hormones of the adrenal glands. The medicinal potential of these compounds was clear, but extracting sufficient quantities of them from animal tissue and fluids was prohibitively expensive.

• Percy Julian

• Roland G. Fryer

• Charles Drew

• Ralph Bunch

• Marcus Garvey

This man became the youngest African-American to be given tenure at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge

• Roland G. Fryer Jr.

• Don Lemon

• Michael Clark Duncan

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Richard Johnson

This medical doctor pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S. He directed the blood plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain in World Ward II, but resigned after a ruling that the blood of African Americans would be segregated

• Dr. Charles Drew

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

• Dr. Marcus P. Blakemore

• Dr. Kwasi Neonene

• Dr. Huey P. Newton

This ophthalmologist is given credit for pioneering the creation of the highest rated brand of magnetic lashes. She has been given numerous awards and endorsements assisting the growth of her enterprise.

• Dr. Anika Goodwin Hildebrand

• Katherine Johnson

• Dr. Ayanna Howard

• Christine Darden

• Dr. Patricia Bath

This scientist pioneered many areas on the physiology of development, including fertilization, experimental parthenogenesis, hydration, cell division, dehydration in living cells and ultraviolet carcinogenic radiation effects on cells.

• Ernest Everett Just

• Daniel Hale Williams

• William McCoy

• William L. Smith

• Roland G. Fryer

Her calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.

• Katherine Johnson

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Wilma Rudolph

• Mae C. Jemison

• Mary McCloud Bethune

This medical doctor became the first surgeon to performed open-heart surgery on a human. Dr. Williams perform the nation's first open-heart surgery at the Provident hospital in the summer of 1893. The operation was done without X-rays, antibiotics, surgical prep-work, or tools of modern surgery.

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

• Dr. Marty McFly

• Dr. Charles Drew

• Dr. Pat Bath

• Dr. Edward Bouchet