African American in Science and Technology

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African American in Science and Technology

• by Dallis Woodley
• KaVion Martin

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Annie Easley Computer Scientist

• Annie Easley was born on April 23, 1933 in
  Birmingham, Alabama. Ms. Easley has worked for
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
  Lewis Research Center and its predecessor agency
  (NACA) in Cleveland, Ohio since 1955.
• Her computer applications are used to identify
  energy conversion systems that offer the
  improvement over commercially available
  technologies.

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Roscoe Giles Computer Scientists

• Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
  Engineering, Boston University
• Deputy Director, Center for Computational
  Science, Boston University
• Executive Director, Institute for African
  American E-Culture
• Team Leader, EOT-PACI
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Katherine G. Johnson Physicist, Space
Scientist, Mathematician

• Katherine G. Johnson has worked for NASA with the
  tracking teams of manned and unmanned orbital
  missions. Ms. Johnson is an Aerospace
  Technologist at the National Aeronautics and
  Space Administration's Langley Research Center,
  Hampton, Virginia.
• For her pioneering work in the field of
  navigation problems, she was the recipient of the
  Group Achievement Award presented to NASA's Lunar
  Spacecraft and Operations team.

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Madame C.J. Walker Inventor

• In 1905 Sarah Breedlove developed
• a conditioning treatment for straightening
  hair. Before her death
• in 1919 she was a millionaire, one of
• the most successful business executives in
  the early half of the twentieth century.
• One of the first American women of any race or
  rank to become a millionaire through her own
  efforts was Sarah Breedlove Walker.

• The Madam Walker Building, which was completed in
  1927 and is a National Historic Landmark, is now
  called the Madam Walker Theatre Center.

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Bryan Busby Meteorologists

• I love my job. It was a childhood dream
• of mine to be doing TV weather. Since
• the third grade, this is what I wanted to
  do. I have a blast up there and I hope it shows,"
  Bryan said.
• Since coming to KMBC 9 NEWS in 1985, Bryan
  quickly established himself as Kansas City's
  leading meteorologist.

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• Bryan has put KMBC-TV on the "weather map" with
  innovative programs like "Guaranteed Weather,"
  "EarthStation," "Weather-To-Go," "Bryan Goes to
  School," and "Instant Weather Network."  

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Roscoe L. Koontz Health Physicist Scientist

• Roscoe Koontz was among the first formally
  trained Health Physicists by participated in the
  first Atomic Energy Health Physics Fellowship
  Training Program, in 1948.

• He designed a pinhole gamma ray camera and
  collimator and helped to design and make
  automatic air and water sampling equipment and
  radiation activity measuring devices.

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Charles Henry Turner Zoologist, Entomologist

• Charles Henry Turner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
  on February 3, 1867.
• He received his Ph.D. from the University of
  Chicago in 1907, the first African American to
  earn a doctoral degree in Zoology.

• He is credited with being the first researcher to
  prove that insects can hear and can also
  distinguish pitch. Charles H. Turner published
  during his career forty-nine papers on
  invertebrates.

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Thank you for your contribution to society!!

• The End