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Engineer, physician, astronaut - In 1992 Dr. 美Jemison became the first black woman to travel into space as part of the Space Shuttle Endeavor team.

Born into slavery, George Washington Carver went on to become an agricultural scientist, teaching at Tuskegee University for 47 years. He is especially well known for inventing over 300 uses for peanuts.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe's research is focused on global change science and the impact of changing environmental conditions in soil.

马克迪恩 is the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. In 1998, Dean's design team created the first one-gigahertz computer processing chip. 他是 inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997.

Physicist 乔治·瑟斯 invented the ultraviolet camera for NASA's launch of Apollo 16 & his invention recorded the first observation of molecular hydrogen in outer space. 他是 inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2003.

Katherine Johnson's 35 year career as a NASA mathematician led to the success of U.S. manned spaceflights, as well as working on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (later renamed Landsat). Her accomplishments were portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures. In 2015, Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 奥巴马总统.

欧内斯特·埃弗雷特 was a pioneering African American biologist who's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development 的生物.

Shirley Ann Jackson is the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at MIT and the second African American woman in the U.S. to earn a doctorate in physics. She is currently the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

薇薇安托马斯 was an African American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat medical issues like "blue baby syndrome" without any education past 高中. 他是 the director of Surgical 研究 Laboratories at Johns Hopkins University, and was later appointed to the medical school faculty as an Instructor 的手术.

瓦莱丽•托马斯 created the Illusion Transmitter, a device using two parabolic mirrors 电视 & makes images look three dimensional. Thomas also oversaw the NASA Landsat team responsible for the first satellite to send images from space.

Edward Alexander Bouchet was the first African American to earn a PhD from any American university, completing his physics dissertation at Yale in 1876. At this time he was only the sixth person in the Western Hemisphere to earn a physics doctorate.

Mathematician 格拉迪斯西 is best known for her work on the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth and her contributions developing the Global Positioning 系统. In 2018 West was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame.

多萝西沃恩 was a NASA mathematician, expert FORTRAN programmer, and contributor to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program. In 1949 she became the agency's first African-American 经理.