List of African-American women in STEM fields
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Lilia Ann Abron | chemical engineering, environmental engineering | 1945- | first African-American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering | ||
Claudia Alexander | geophysics, planetary science | 1959-2015 | Project manager for NASA's Galileo misson and Rosetta mission | ||
Gloria Long Anderson | chemistry | 1938- | |||
Treena Livingston Arinzeh | biomedical engineering | 1970- | |||
Donna Auguste | businesswoman, computer scientist | 1958- | |||
Wanda Austin | aerospace engineering | 1954- | Former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation | ||
B
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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June Bacon-Bercey | meteorology | 1932- | |||
Alice Augusta Ball | meteorology | 1892-1916 | first woman and African-American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii | ||
Patricia Bath | ophthalmologist, inventor | 1942- | |||
Regina Benjamin | physician | 1956- | 18th Surgeon General of the United States | ||
Angela Benton | internet entrepreneur | 1981- | |||
Matilene Berryman | oceanographer | 1920-2003 | |||
Sarah Boone | inventor | 1832-1904 | |||
Sylvia D. Trimble Bozeman | mathematician | 1947- | |||
Carolyn Brooks | microbiologist | 1947- | |||
Dorothy Lavinia Brown | surgeon | 1919-2004 | First African American female appointed to a general surgery residency in the racially segregated South. | [1] | |
Marjorie Lee Brown | mathematician | 1914-1979 | |||
Kimberly Bryant | electrical engineer | ||||
Ursula Burns | engineer, CEO | 1958- | |||
C
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Alexa Canady | neuroscience | 1950- | |||
Carolyn Cannon-Alfred | pharmacologist | 1934- | |||
Majora Carter | developer | 1966- | |||
Gloria Chisum | experimental psychologist | 1930- | |||
Mamie Phipps Clark | social psychologist | 1917-1983 | Researched self-esteem and self-concept in African-American children, which was used in 1954 civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas | [2] | |
May Edward Chinn | physician | 1896-1980 | |||
Yvonne Clark | engineer | 1929- | |||
Jewel Plummer Cobb | biologist | 1924-2017 | |||
Johnnetta Cole | anthropologist, educator and museum director | 1936- | Spelman College's seventh president and the first Black woman to lead the institution | [3] | |
Rebecca Cole | physician | 1846-1922 | Second African-American woman physician | ||
Bessie Coleman | aviator | 1896–1926 | first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license | [2] | |
Betty Collette | veterinary pathologist | 1930-2017 | |||
Margaret S. Collins | zoologist | 1922-1996 | |||
Carol Blanche Cotton | psychologist | 1904-? | |||
Patricia S. Cowings | aerospace psychophysiologist | 1948- | 'first African American woman scientist to be trained as an astronaut by NASA | ||
Rebecca Lee Crumpler | physician | 1831–1895 | first African-American woman to become a physician in the United States | ||
D
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Marie Maynard Daly | biochemist | 1921–2003 | first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry | ||
Christine Darden | aerospace engineer | 1942- | Researcher at NASA where she was a pioneer in the design of supersonic aircraft | [2] | |
Geraldine Claudette Darden | mathematician | 1936- | |||
Mary Deconge | mathematician | 1933- | |||
Giovonnae Dennis | electrical engineer | ||||
Helen Octavia Dickens | physician | 1909–2001 | |||
Eugenia Dunn | biologist | ||||
Georgia Dunston | medical researcher | ||||
Barbara Dyce | biochemist | ||||
E
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Annie Easley | mathematician and rocket scientist | 1933–2011 | |||
Cecile H. Edwards | nutritionist | 1926–2005 | |||
Joycelyn Elders | pediatrician | 1933- | Surgeon General of the United States | ||
Dale Emeagwali | microbiologist | 1954- | |||
Anna Epps | microbiologist | 1930- | |||
Jeanette J. Epps | astronaut and aerospace engineer | 1970- | |||
Aprille Ericsson-Jackson | aerospace engineer | 1963- | |||
Princilla Evans | biochemist | ||||
Brittney Exline | software engineer | [4] | |||
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Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Etta Zuber Falconer | mathematician | 1933-2002 | |||
Angella D. Ferguson | pediatrician | 1925- | researcher of sickle cell disease | ||
Evelyn J. Fields | oceanographer | 1949- | |||
Eleanor Ison Franklin | endocrinologist | ||||
Njema Frazier | nuclear physicist | ||||
A. Oveta Fuller | virologist | 1955- | |||
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Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Vicki Gambrell | |||||
Sadie Gassaway | mathematician | ||||
Gloria Ford Gilmer | mathematician | ||||
Sarah E. Goode | inventor | 1855–1905 | |||
Evelyn Boyd Granville | mathematician, computer science | 1924- | |||
Bettye Washington Greene | chemist | 1935- 1995 | |||
Eliza Ann Grier | physician | 1864–1902 | |||
Margaret Grigsby | physician | ||||
Bessie Blount Griffin | physical therapist, inventor | 1914–2009 | |||
Dr. Natasha A. Greene | Physicist, Nuclear Health Physicist, Meteorologist | 1975- | Dr. Greene is noted as the first to earn a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from Howard University. She currently works in Federal Government at the US NRC. |
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Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. | |
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Betty Harris | chemist | 1940- | ||||
Mary Styles Harris | geneticist | 1949- | ||||
Alma Levant Hayden | chemist | 1927-1967 | ||||
Euphemia Lofton Haynes | mathematician | 1890-1980 | First Afircan-American woman to earn a PhD in Mathematics | |||
Ruby Puryear Hearn | biophysicist | 1940- | ||||
Gloria Conyers Hewitt | mathematician | 1935- | ||||
Mary Elliott Hill | chemist | 1907-1969 | ||||
Stephanie Hill | engineer | [5][6] | ||||
Jane Hinton | veterinarian | 1919-2003 | ||||
Esther A. H. Hopkins | chemist | 1926- | [7] | |||
Ruth Winifred Howard | psychologist | 1900-1997 | ||||
Fern Hunt | mathematician | 1948- | ||||
Yasmin Hurd | neuroscientist | |||||
Kaitlyn Haley | litologist | |||||
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Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Jedidah Isler | astrophysicist | ||||
J
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Deborah J. Jackson | aeronautical engineer | ||||
Fatimah Jackson | biological anthropologist | ||||
Shirley Ann Jackson | physicist | 1946- | President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||
Mae Jemison | astronaut and physician | 1956- | first African American woman to travel in space | [8] | |
Allene Johnson | chemist | 1933– | [9] | ||
Ashanti Johnson | geochemist and oceanographer | ||||
Katherine Johnson | mathematician | 1918- | calculated the trajectories for many NASA missions, including Apollo 11 | ||
Tracy L. Johnson | molecular and cell biologist | ||||
Anna Johnson Julian | sociologist | 1903-1994 | |||
Lynda Marie Jordan | biochemist | 1956– | [10] | ||
K
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Sinah Estelle Kelley | chemist | 1916-1982 | worked on mass production of penicillin | [11] | |
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner | 1912- | [12] | |||
Angie Turner King | chemist and mathematician | 1905–2004 | [13] | ||
Reatha King | 1938- | ||||
L
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Lisa Lambert | [14][15] [16][17][18] | ||||
Margaret Morgan Lawrence | pediatric psychiatrist | 1914- | researched negative psychological effects of segregation on Black children | [19] | |
Kathryn Emanuel Lawson | chemist | 1926–2008 | [20] | ||
Lillian Burwell Lewis | zoolologist | ||||
Ruth Smith Lloyd | anatomist | 1917-1995 | |||
Irene Long | 1951- | ||||
Beebe Steven Lynk | chemist | 1872– | [21] | ||
M
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Shirley M. Malcom | science administrator | 1946- | head of education and human resources programs at AAAS | [22] | |
Harriet Marble | pharmacist | 1885-1966 | early African-American woman pharmacist | ||
Cora Bagley Marrett | sociologist, science administrator | 1942- | [23] | ||
Pamela McCauley-Bush | [24][25] | ||||
Dorothy McClendon | microbiologist | 1924- | [26] | ||
Kyla McMullen | |||||
Linda C. Meade-Tollin | biochemist | 1944– | [27] | ||
Juanita Merchant | |||||
Shireen Mitchell | |||||
Ruth Ella Moore | bacteriology | 1903–1994 | first African-American woman with PhD in a natural science, department head at Howard University | ||
Tanya Moore | [28] | ||||
N
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Ann T. Nelms | |||||
Lydia Newman | [26] | ||||
O
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Joan Murrell Owens | marine biologist | 1933- | expert on button corals | [29] | |
P
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Carolyn Parker | mathematician, physicist | 1917–1966 | worked on the Dayton Project, the plutonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project
first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics |
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Jennie Patrick | chemical engineering | 1949– | [30] | ||
Hattie Scott Peterson | civil engineer | 1913–1993 | believed to be the first African-American woman to gain a bachelor's degree in civil engineering | ||
Vivian W. Pinn | pathologist | 1941- | Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) | [31] | |
Jessie Isabelle Price | veterinary microbiologist | 1930-2015 | isolated and reproduced the cause of the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming in the 1950s | [32] | |
Sian Proctor | African American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator, and aspiring astronaut | geology, sustainability and planetary science professor | |||
Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro | chemist | 1922–2009 | food chemistry and nutrition | [33] | |
R
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Mary Logan Reddick | neuroembryologist, biologist | 1914 - 1966 | possibly the first African-American woman scientist to receive a fellowship to study abroad, and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College | ||
Eslanda Goode Robeson | chemist | 1896–1965 | [34] | ||
Gladys W. Royal | chemist | 1926–2002 | [35] | ||
S
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Antoinette Rodez Schiesler | chemist, director of research at Villanova University | 1934 - 1996 | |||
Cheryl L. Shavers | semiconductor engineering and management | 1953- | first African-American Undersecretary of Commerce for Science and Technology | [36] | |
Mabel Keaton Staupers | Nursing administrator | 1890 - 1989 | Instrumental in implementing the desegregation of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII | [37] | |
Susan McKinney Steward | pediatrician, homeopath | 1847-1918 | the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state. | ||
Thyrsa Frazier Svager | mathematician | 1930-1999 | one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics | ||
Latanya Sweeney | computer scientist | computer scientist best known for work on k-anonymity | |||
Alberta Jones Seaton | embryologist, biologist | 1924-2014 | One of the first African-American women awarded a doctorate in zoology, in Belgium in 1949. | ||
T
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Valerie Thomas | physicist and inventor | 1943- | Inventor of the Illusion Transmitter Overseer of NASA's Landsat program, international expert in Landsat data products | ||
Lisette Titre | [28] | ||||
Margaret E. M. Tolbert | chemist and science administrator | 1943- | the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab | [38] | |
Rubye Prigmore Torrey | chemist | 1926– | [39] | ||
W
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Dawn Ward | synthetic chemist | 1973- | [40] | ||
Jessica Ware | evolutionary biologist, entomologist. | work on phylogenomics of insect evolution | |||
Marguerite Williams | geologist | 1895 – 1991? | the first African American to earn a doctorate in geology in the United States | ||
Geraldine Pittman Woods | science administrator | 1921–1999 | known for her lifelong dedication to community service and for establishing programs that promote minorities in STEM fields, scientific research, and basic research | [41] | |
Dawn Wright | oceanographer, geographer | 1961- | expert in seafloor mapping, marine geographic information systems | [42][43] | |
Jane C. Wright | cancer researcher, surgeon | 1919-2013 | pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy | ||
Y
Image | Name | Field(s) | Dates | Notes | Ref. |
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Josephine Silone Yates | chemist | 1859-1912 | [44] | ||
Chavonda J. Jacobs Young | |||||
See also
Further reading
- Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 143–150. ISBN 9780199742882.
- Carey, Charles W. (2008). African Americans in science: an encyclopedia of people and progress. 1. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. pp. 51–52. ISBN 9781851099986.
- "STEM Equity Pipeline – Resources – Online Resources". NAPE – National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity. Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- Rice, Delores. "The Career Experiences of African American Female Engineers" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- Robelin, Erik W (2010-03-22). "Education Week: U.S. Gets Poor Grades in Nurturing STEM Diversity". Education Week. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- Sullivan, Otha Richard (2002). African American women scientists and inventors. Black stars. New York: Wiley. ISBN 047138707X.
- [45][46][47]
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- 1 2 3 Hine, Darlene Clark (2005). Black Women in American History. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780195223743.
- ↑ "About Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D." Spelman College's Presidents Office about page. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Christian, Margena A. (2012-01-10). "Brittney Exline Becomes Nation's Youngest African-American Engineer". Careers & Finance – EBONY. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- ↑ Rowley, Dorothy (2014-01-01). "Lockheed Martin's Stephanie Hill wins Black Engineering Award". Washington Informer. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- ↑ de Vise, Daniel. "Why the nation needs more female engineers". The Washington Post – College, Inc. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 92–99. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ Hine, Darlene Clarke (2005). Black Women in America. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 140. ISBN 9780195223750.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 56–60. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 84–91. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 108–111. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ Sullivan, Otha Richard (2002). African American women scientists and inventors. Black stars. New York: Wiley. pp. 47–49. ISBN 047138707X.
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- ↑ "Lisa Lambert, Intel Capital". ecorner – Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner:. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
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- ↑ "Cora Bagley Marrett". National Academy of Sciences, African American History Program. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
- ↑ "UCF's McCauley-Bush is Engineering Role Model for Black History Month". UCF Today – Orlando, FL. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
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- 1 2 Talbert, Marcia Wade (2011-03-01). "Women In STEM – Black Enterprise". Retrieved 2015-02-23.
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- ↑ Hine, Darlene Clarke (2005). Black Woman in America. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780195223767.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 123–135. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ Brown, Jeannette E. (2012). African American women chemists. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 46–49. ISBN 9780199742882.
- ↑ "Dawn Ward: Fine School of the Sciences Faculty | Stevenson University". www.stevenson.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ↑ Carey, Charles W. (2008). African Americans in science: an encyclopedia of people and progress. 1. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. pp. 208–210. ISBN 9781851099986.
- ↑ NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Maritime Heritage Program. "Deep Sea Dawn". Voyage to Discovery: Untold Stories of African-Americans and the Sea. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
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