Famous AfricanAmerican Scientists

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Famous African-AmericanScientists

• Created by Biography Team 5
• Jenna, Michael, Keasha, Jimmy

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Famous Scientists

• George Washington Carver
• George R. Caruthers
• Ida Stephens Owens
• Marie Maynard Daly
• Lewis Howard Latimer
• Shirley Ann Jackson
• Elijah McCoy
• Walter Eugene Massey
• Resources

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George Washington Carver Chemurgist

• Born spring 1865, near Diamond Grove, Missouri
• Earned BA from Iowa State Agricultural College in
  1894 MS in 1896.
• Faculty member at Iowa State University
• Researched industrial applications for farm
  products
• 325 products from peanuts
• 108 products from sweet potatoes
• 75 products from pecans
• Faculty of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama until
  death in 1943
• Created total of 118 products
• Patents in 1927 for process to refine stains and
  dyes from soy beans

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George R. Caruthers Astrophysicist

• Born October 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio
• BS in Physics, University of Illinois 1961
• MS in Physics 1962
• PhD in Astronautical and Astronomical Engineering
  in 1964
• Rocket Astronomy Research Physics 1964-1982
• Head of Ultraviolet Measurement Branch of Naval
  Research lab
• Exceptional Achievement Scientific Award NASA
  1972
• Inventor of lunar surface UV camera
• Research experiments in atomic nitrogen
  recombination

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Ida Stephens Owens Biochemist

• Born September 26, 1929 in Newark, New York
• Received PhD in Biology-Physiology from Duke in
  1967
• National Institute of health research genetics of
  detoxification enzymes
• Section of Genetic Disorders and Drug Metabolism
• Author of many research papers

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Marie Maynard Daly Biochemist

• Born April 1921 in Corona, New York
• Earned BS in Science at Queens college in 1942
• Received MS 1943 from New York University
• Received PhD in Chemistry from Columbia
  University in 1948, first Black female to earn a
  doctorate in chemistry
• Instructor in Physical Science at Howard
  University
• Research Assistant at Rockefeller Institute
• Associate in research at Columbia University
• Professor of Biochemistry at Medicine at Albert
  Einstein College of Medicine
• Investigator for American Heart Association
  1958-1963
• Cancer Scientist for Health Research Council of
  New York 1962-1972
• Research on nucleic acids

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Lewis Howard Latimer Inventor

• Born September 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts
• Learned mechanical drawing in patent office
• Invented toilet system for railroad cars
• Invented electric lamp for light bulbs 1873
• Supervised installation of electric lighting in
  New York City, Philadelphia, Montreal, London
• Prepared patent drawings for Alexander Graham
  Bells telephone design
• Member of Thomas Edisons engineering division of
  his electric light company 1884
• Published technical engineering guide book 1890
• Died December 1928

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Shirley Ann Jackson Physicist

• Born August 1946 in Washington, DC
• Received BS from Massachusetts Institute of
  Technology in 1968 and PhD in Physics in 1973
• First African American woman to receive doctorate
  in Theoretical Solid State Physics from MIT
• Research Associate at Fermi National Accelerator
  Lab 1973
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Aspen Center
  for Physics 1976-1977
• Research laboratory of Bell Telephone
  Laboratories in Scattering and Low energy physics
  1976
• Professor of physics at Rutgers 1971-1991
• Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  1995
• President of Rensselaers Polytechnic Institute
  1999

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Elijah McCoy Inventor

• Born Colchester, Ontario, Canada May 1844
• Son of former slaves who fled before Civil War
• Educated in Scotland as mechanical engineer
• Returned to Detroit, Michigan
• Invented and patented lubricator for steam
  engines in 1872
• Established own firm
• Responsible for 57 patents
• Term real McCoy refers to his oiling device
• Other inventions include ironing board and lawn
  sprinkler
• Died October 1929 in Eloise, Michigan

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Walter Eugene Massey Physicist

• Born April 1938 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• BS from Morehouse College in 1958
• MS and PhD in Physics from Washington University
  in 1966
• Associate Professor of Physics at Brown
  University 1970 full professor in 1975
• Director of Argonne National laboratory 1974-1984
• Vice President for Research at Argonne 1984
• Research in theoretical and solid state physics
  dealing with many body problems, quantum liquids,
  and quantum solids.
• 1995 named president of Morehouse
• Director of National Science Foundation

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Information and Pictures used with permission
from

• The Faces of Science African Americans in the
  Sciences Mitchell C. Brown, Princeton
  University, Princeton, NJ (January 22, 2001).
• URL http//www.princeton.edu/mcbrown/display/fac
  es.htmlLast updated 09/03/2000 retrieved
  January 22, 2001