Jedidah Isler
STEM Career: Astrophysics (application of the physical world to stars and other celestial bodies)
Significant Contribution/s: First African American woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from Yale University
Picture: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/files/TED_Talk_Jedidah_Isler.jpg
Learn more:
http://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/explorers-week/jedidah-isler/
https://www.ted.com/talks/jedidah_isler_the_untapped_genius_that_could_change_science_for_the_better
http://www.jedidahislerphd.com/
http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_2015/releases/jedidah_isler.html
Cornelius Coffey
STEM Career: Aeronautical Mechanic and Licensed Pilot
Significant Contribution/s: First African American to be licensed as both a pilot and aeronautical mechanic; established his own flight training school, the Coffey School of Aeronautics, in Chicago.
Birth: September 6, 1903
Death: March 2, 1994
Picture: https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/640/91-6606_640.jpg
Learn more:
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/coffey-cornelius-r-1903-1994
http://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/cornelius-coffey
http://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/coffey-school-aeronautics
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Dr. Agnes Day
STEM Career: Microbiologist (The study of all living organisms that are too small to be visible with the naked eye)
Significant Contribution/s: Research on drug-resistant fungi and breast cancer health disparities
Birth: July 20, 1952
Picture: http://i1.wp.com/thegrio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/100130-grio-100-agnes-day.jpg?fit=489%2C366
Learn more:
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/agnes-day
http://thegrio.com/2010/02/01/thegrios-100-agnes-day/
http://www.scienceupdate.com/spotlights/african-american-scientists/#agnes-day
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Dr. Velma Scantlebury-White
STEM Career: Surgeon
Significant Contribution/s: First African American female transplant; kidney transplant specialist
Birth: October 6, 1955
Learn more:
https://news.vcu.edu/article/Nations_first_black_female_transplant_surgeon_will_discuss_equity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Scantlebury
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Horace King
STEM Career: Self-taught Engineer and Architect
Significant Contribution/s: Master bridge designer and builder in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
Birth: September 8, 1807
Death: May 28, 1885
Picture: http://atlantablackstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Horace-King.jpg
Learn more:
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/images/uploads/markers/horacekingbridgebuilder.jpg
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1245
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/king-horace-1807-1885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQWPX3oaNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2yu7WMxbVc
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Mary Eliza Mahoney
STEM Career:
Significant Contribution/s: First African American woman to train and serve as a nurse in the U.S.
Birth: May 7, 1845
Death: January 4, 1926
Learn more:
http://acceleratednursing.roseman.edu/blog/nursing-role-models/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Mahoney
http://www.nursingworld.org/MaryElizaMahoney
http://www.biography.com/people/mary-mahoney-41021#synopsis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/early/e_pioneers_mahoney.html
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Kenneth J. Dunkley
STEM Career: Physicist, Studied Human Vision
Significant Contribution/s: Invention of Three-Dimensional (3-D) Viewing Glasses without lenses, mirrors or optical elements of any kind. His method and devices work with pictures, not with movies.
Birth: December 29, 1939
Picture: https://www.thenubianmessage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/kendunk.jpg
Learn more:
https://www.reference.com/art-literature/biography-kenneth-j-dunkley-75e1baee97d1eb39
http://www.3-dvg.org/untitled-component_14104
http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/48650957909/kenneth-j-dunkley#.WIvtDPkrLIU
http://www.black-inventor.com/Kenneth-Dunkley.asp
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Dr. Margaret S. Collins
STEM Career: Zoologist
Significant Contribution/s: Termite Specialist
Birth: 1922
Death: April 27, 1996
Learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_S._Collins
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Annie Easley
STEM Career: Physician – a medical doctor
Significant Contribution/s: Along with her father, Dr. Louis Wright, discovered and developed chemicals that attack and destroy cancer cells, called chemotherapeutic agentsBirth: November 30, 1919
Death: February 19, 2013
Picture: http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/wright_jane.jpg
Learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright
https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_336.html
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/wright-jane-cooke-1919
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Dr. Jane Cook Wright
STEM Career: Physician – a medical doctor
Significant Contribution/s: Along with her father, Dr. Louis Wright, discovered and developed chemicals that attack and destroy cancer cells, called chemotherapeutic agents
Birth: November 30, 1919
Death: February 19, 2013
Learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_C._Wright
https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_336.html
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/wright-jane-cooke-1919
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