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Notable African-American Scientists and Inventors
- Archibald Alphonso Alexander, design and construction engineer
- Benjamin Banneker, intellectual and scientist
- Patricia Bath, inventor
- Edward Bouchet, physicist, chemist
- Benjamin Bradley, inventor
- Herman Russell Branson, physicist
- George Washington Carver, agricultural chemist
- Emmett W. Chappelle, biochemist
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, biologist, physiologist
- Rebecca Cole, physician
- David Crosthwait, Jr., engineer, inventor
- Mark Dean, inventor
- Martin Robinson Delany, Black leader, physician
- Charles Richard Drew, physician
- Clarence L. Elder, engineer and inventor
- Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist, mathematician
- Evan Forde, oceanographer
- Lloyd Hall, chemist
- Samuel Elmer Imes, chemist, physicist
- Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician
- Thomas L. Jennings, inventor
- Frederick McKinley Jones, inventor
- Percy Lavon Julian, chemist
- Ernest Everest Just, biologist, educator
- Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor
- Henry Cecil Ransom McBay, chemist
- Elijah McCoy, inventor
- Garrett Augustus Morgan, inventor
- Maurice F. Rabb, Jr., ophthalmologist
- Norbert Rillieux, inventor
- Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr., chemical engineer
- Charles Henry Turner, entomologist
- Sarah Breedlove “Madame C.J.” Walker, inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Daniel Hale Williams, physician
- Granville Woods, inventor
- Roger Arliner Young, zoologist
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TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
