Mathematicians

First African American to attend John Hopkins University

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Frederick Douglass
• Langston Hughes
• Kelly Miller

Who taught themselves astronomy, mathematics, and wrote almanacs?

• Isaac Newton
• Galileo Galilei
• Albert Einstein
• Benjamin Banneker

The third African American woman to earn a PHD in mathematics

• Dr. Annie Easley
• Dr. Katherine Johnson
• Dr. Etta Zuber Falconer
• Marjorie Lee Browne

She was a teacher, and she became NASA's first African American woman engineer

• Mae Jemison
• Dorothy Vaughan
• Katherine Johnson
• Mary Jackson

Who calculated how to get a person to outer space?

• Galileo Galilei
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Wernher von Braun
• Isaac Newton
• Katherine Johnson

Albert Cox was a_________ at Howard University and the ________ black man to get a _____PHD.

First African American Woman to earn a PHD in mathematics

• Dorothy Vaughan
• Katherine Johnson
• Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes

• Mary Jackson

Who got their PHD at 22 and was the first black man in National Academy of Sciences?

• Frederick Douglass
• David Blackwell

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• W.E.B. Du Bois

Who programed computers for IBM, taught at universities, and helped black woman get degrees?

• Ada Lovelace
• Grace Hopper
• Evelyn Granville

• Katherine Johnson

The third African American to earn a PHD in mathematics

• Dr. John H. McMillan
• Dr. William M. McMillan
• Dr. William Claytor

• Dr. James T. Johnson