African American Scientists

Who is Bettye Washington Greene ?

• She researched animals in the wild.

• She was an Aeronautics engineer.

• She was a professional Chemist at Dow.

Who was Marie Daly ?

• Marie Daly worked at NASA.

• She had six children that also became Chemist.

• She was the first African American Phd in Chemistry in USA

(August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) She was an African American physicist and mathematician. She was known for her work on the United States' aeronautics and space programs at NASA. She made it possible for many space flights such as the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program to happen.

• Katie Bouman

• Ada Lovelace

• Katherine Johnson

• Lynn Margulis

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American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

• Mae C. Jemison

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Alice Ball

• Katherine G. Johnson

She was the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Alice Ball

• Valerie Thomas

• Patricia Bath

U.S. inventor and professor who, in 1962, developed the electretotransducer technology later used in 90 percent of contemporary microphones.

• James West

• Charles H. Turner

• Daniel Hale Williams

• Ernest Everett Just

• Edward Bouchet

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African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.

• Katherine G. Johnson

• Patricia Bath

• Valerie Thomas

• Mae C. Jemison

• Shirley Ann Jackson

African American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.

• Lloyd Hall

• Percy Julian

• St. Elmo Brady

• James West

• George Carruthers

African American chemist who developed an inject-able oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.

• Alice Ball

• Mae C. Jemison

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Katherine G. Johnson

• Valerie Thomas

Scientist who created inventions, such as the ultraviolet camera, or spectograph, which was used by NASA in the 1972 Apollo 16 flight, revealing the mysteries of space and the Earth's atmosphere.

• George Carruthers

• Charles H. Turner

• Daniel Hale Williams

• Martin Luther King

• St. Elmo Brady

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