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A. Oveta Fuller
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American women in computer science
African-American women were among early pioneers in computing in the United States.
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Alberta Jones Seaton
Alberta Jones Seaton (1924–2014) was one of the first African-American women awarded a doctorate in zoology, in Belgium in 1949.
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Alexa Canady
Alexa Irene Canady (born November 7, 1950) is a retired American medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery.
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Alice Ball
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.
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Alma Levant Hayden
Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s.
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Angela Benton
Angela Benton (born) is the Founder & CEO of NewME Accelerator.
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Angella D. Ferguson
Angella Dorothea Ferguson (born February 15, 1925) is an African American pediatrician known for her groundbreaking research on sickle cell disease.
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Angie Turner King
Angie Lena Turner King (December 9, 1905 – February 28, 2004) was one of the first African-American women to gain degrees in chemistry and mathematics, and a PhD in mathematics education.
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Ann T. Nelms
Ann T. Nelms (born 1929) is a prominent African American nuclear physicist.
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Anna Epps
Anna Cherrie Epps (born 1930) is an American microbiologist known for her immunology research as well as her attempts to promote the advancement of minorities within the sciences.
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Anna Johnson Julian
Anna Johnson Julian (November 24, 1903 – July 3, 1994) was the first African-American woman awarded a PhD in sociology (1937) by the University of Pennsylvania, a civic activist, and fourth national president of Delta Sigma Theta.
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Annie Easley
Annie J. Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist.
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Antoinette Rodez Schiesler
Antoinette Rodez Schiesler (December 13, 1934 – April 8, 1996) was an African-American chemist and Director of Research at Villanova University.
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Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
Aprille Ericsson-Jackson (born April 1, 1963) is an American aerospace engineer.
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Ashanti Johnson
Ashanti Johnson (previously Ashanti Johnson-Pyrtle) is an American geochemist and chemical oceanographer.
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Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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Bessie Blount Griffin
Bessie Virginia Blount, also known as Bessie Blount Griffin, (November 24, 1914 – December 30, 2009) was a writer, physical therapist, inventor, and forensic scientist.
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Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator.
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Betty Collette
Betty Elaine Collette (December 5, 1930 - February 5, 2017) was a veterinary pathologist from Asheville, North Carolina.
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Betty Harris (scientist)
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Bettye Washington Greene
Bettye Washington Greene (March 20, 1935 – June 16, 1995) was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company.
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Brittney Exline
Brittney Exline is the youngest African-American female to be accepted into an Ivy League school, at 15.
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Carol Blanche Cotton
Carol Blanche Cotton (born August 20, 1904; date of death unknown)http://www.ncgenweb.us/vance/births/c-brth-1920.htm was an American psychologist.
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Carolyn Brooks
Carolyn Branch Brooks (born July 8, 1946) is an American microbiologist known for her research in immunology, nutrition, and crop productivity.
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Carolyn Cannon-Alfred
Carolyn Cannon-Alfred (born August 16, 1934) is an American pharmacologist.
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Carolyn Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917–1966) was a physicist who worked from 1943 to 1947 on the Dayton Project, the plutonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project.
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Cecile Hoover Edwards
Cecile Hoover Edwards (October 26, 1926 – September 17, 2005) was an African American nutritional researcher and Howard University dean whose career focused on improving the nutrition and well-being of disadvantaged people.
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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.
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Cheryl L. Shavers
Cheryl L. Shavers, born in 1953 in San Marcos, Texas, is a chemist, expert in semiconductors, and Chairman and CEO.
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Christine Darden
Dr.
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Claudia Alexander
Claudia Joan Alexander (May 30, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was an American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science.
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Cora Bagley Marrett
Cora Bagley Marrett (b. 1942) is an African American woman who is known for her work as a sociologist and for the National Science Foundation.
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Dale Brown Emeagwali
Dale Brown Emeagwali (born December 24, 1954) is a microbiologist, cancer researcher, author and co-author of several notable scientific and research journals.
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Dawn Wright
Dawn Jeannine Wright (born April 15, 1961) is an American geographer and oceanographer.
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Dayton Project
The Dayton Project was a research and development project to produce polonium during World War II, as part of the larger Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.
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Donna Auguste
Donna Auguste (born 1958) is an African-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
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Dorothy Lavinia Brown
Dorothy Lavinia Brown (January 7, 1919 – June 13, 2004Martini, Kelli., News Archives, The United Methodist Church, June 14, 2004, UMC.org), also known as "Dr.
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Dorothy McClendon
Dorothy McClendon (born 1924) is an American microbiologist.
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Eliza Ann Grier
Eliza Anna GrierDr.
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Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.
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Etta Zuber Falconer
Etta Zuber Falconer (1933 – September 2002) was an educator and mathematician who was one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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Euphemia Haynes
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (September 11, 1890, Washington, D.C. – July 25, 1980, Washington, D.C.) was an American mathematician and educator.
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Evelyn Boyd Granville
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Evelyn J. Fields
Evelyn J. Fields (born 1949) is a rear admiral (retired) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, who served as the director of the Commissioned Officer Corps and director of NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, until her retirement in 2003.
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Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.
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Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.
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Fatimah Jackson
Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson is an American biologist and anthropologist.
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Fern Hunt
Fern Hunt (born 1948) is an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics and mathematical biology.
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Galileo (spacecraft)
Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Geraldine Claudette Darden
Geraldine Claudette Darden (born July 22, 1936) is an American mathematician.
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Geraldine Pittman Woods
Geraldine Pittman "Jerri" Woods (January 29, 1921 – December 27, 1999) was an African American science administrator.
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Giovonnae Dennis
Giovonnae Anderson Dennis is an American electrical engineer.
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Gloria Chisum
Gloria Twine Chisum (born 1930) in Muskogee, Oklahoma is an experimental psychologist who eventually became a board member of the American Psychological Association, among many other organizations.
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Gloria Conyers Hewitt
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935) is an African-American mathematician.
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Gloria Ford Gilmer
Gloria C. Gilmer (née Ford; b. Baltimore, Maryland) is an American mathematician and educator, notable for being the first African American woman to publish a non-PhD thesis.
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Gloria Long Anderson
Gloria Long Anderson (born November 5, 1938) is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, and its Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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Harriet Marble
Harriet Beecher Stowe Marble (May 2, 1885 – January 12, 1966) was an early African-American woman pharmacist and the first in Kentucky, gaining her degree from Meharry Medical College in 1906.
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Hattie Scott Peterson
Hattie T. Scott Peterson (1913–1993) is believed to be the first African-American woman to gain a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
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Helen Octavia Dickens
Helen Octavia Dickens (1909–2001) was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons.
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Irene D. Long
Irene Duhart Long (born November 16, 1951) is an American physician and was an official at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Jane C. Wright
Jane Cooke Wright (also known as "Jane Jones" or "Mr. David Jones") (November 30, 1919 – February 19, 2013) was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy.
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Jane Hinton
Jane Hinton (1919-2003) was one of the first two African-American women to gain the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1949).
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Jeanette J. Epps
Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut.
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Jedidah Isler
Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist and educator.
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Jessica Ware
Jessica Lee Ware is an African-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist.
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Jessie Isabelle Price
Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist.
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Jewel Plummer Cobb
Jewel Plummer Cobb (January 17, 1924 – January 1, 2017) was an American biologist, cancer researcher, professor, dean, and academic administrator.
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Joan Murrell Owens
Joan Murrell Owens (June 30, 1933 – May 25, 2011) was an African-American educator and marine biologist specializing in corals.
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Johnnetta Cole
Johnnetta Betsch Cole (born 1936) is an American anthropologist, educator, museum director, and college president.
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Joycelyn Elders
Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator.
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Juanita Merchant
Juanita L. Merchant is an American physiologist who has contributed to understanding of gastric response to chronic inflammation.
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June Bacon-Bercey
June Esther Bacon-Bercey (née Griffin, born October 23, 1932) is an international expert on weather and aviation who has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service and the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights.
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Kimberly Bryant (technologist)
Kimberly Bryant is an African American electrical engineer who worked in the biotechnology field at Genentech, Novartis Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Merck.
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Landsat program
The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth.
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Latanya Sweeney
Latanya Arvette Sweeney is a Professor of Government and Technology in Residence at Harvard University, the Director of the Data Privacy Lab in the Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard, and the Faculty Dean in Currier House at Harvard.
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Lilia Ann Abron
Lilia Ann Abron (born March 8, 1945) is an entrepreneur and chemical engineer.
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List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
The Women in Technology International Hall of Fame was established in 1996 by Women in Technology International (WITI) to honor women who contribute to the fields of science and technology.
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Mabel Keaton Staupers
Mabel Keaton Staupers (February 27, 1890 – November 29, 1989) was a pioneer in the American nursing profession.
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Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut.
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Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City.
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Mamie Phipps Clark
Mamie Phipps Clark was an American social psychologist who, along with her husband Kenneth Clark, focused on the development of self-consciousness in black preschool children.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Margaret E. M. Tolbert
Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert (born November 24, 1943) is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum.
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Margaret Morgan Lawrence
Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (born August 19, 1914) is an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, gaining those qualifications in 1948.
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Margaret S. Collins
Margaret James Strickland Collins (September 4, 1922 – April 27, 1996) was an African-American child prodigy, entomologist (zoologist) specializing in the study of termites, and a civil rights advocate.
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Marguerite Williams
Marguerite Thomas Williams (24 December 1895 – 1991?) was an African American geologist.
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Marie Maynard Daly
Marie Maynard Daly (April 16, 1921 – October 28, 2003) was an American biochemist.
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Marjorie Lee Browne
Marjorie Lee Browne (September 9, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a noted mathematics educator.
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Mary Deconge
Mary Lovenia DeConge-Watson (born 1933) is an American mathematician and former nun in the Order of the Sisters of the Holy Family.
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Mary Elliott Hill
Mary Elliott Hill (1907–1969) was one of the earliest African-American women to become a chemist.
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Mary Kenner
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (May 17, 1912 – January 13, 2006) was an African-American inventor most noted for her development of the sanitary belt.
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Mary Logan Reddick
Mary Logan Reddick (31 December 1914 – 1 October 1966) was a neuroembryologist who earned her PhD from Radcliffe College, Harvard University in 1944.
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Mary Styles Harris
Mary Styles Harris, Ph.D. (born June 26, 1949) is an American Biologist and Geneticist.
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Matilene Berryman
Matilene Spencer Berryman (December 8, 1920 – May 6, 2003) was an American oceanographer and attorney.
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May Edward Chinn
May Edward Chinn (April 15, 1896 - December 1, 1980) was an African-American woman physician.
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Microbiologist
A microbiologist (from Greek μῑκρος) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes.
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Minority group
A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.
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Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically Black college located in Atlanta, Georgia.
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National Society of Black Engineers
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), was founded in 1975 Purdue University located in West Lafayette, Indiana by six undergraduates and a faculty advisor.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Njema Frazier
Njema Frazier (born in San Francisco, California) is a nuclear physicist at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington, D.C. Frazier has a bachelor's degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in nuclear physics from Michigan State University.
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Oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
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Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine and surgery (both methods are used) that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eyeball and orbit.
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Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City) is an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic.
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Patricia S. Cowings
Patricia S. Cowings (born 1948) is an aerospace psychophysiologist, and was the first African American woman scientist to be trained as an astronaut by NASA (though Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space).
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Phylogenomics
Phylogenomics is the intersection of the fields of evolution and genomics.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Planetary science
Planetary science or, more rarely, planetology, is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), moons, and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes that form them.
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Plutonium
Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.
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Psychophysiology
Psychophysiology (from Greek ψῡχή, psȳkhē, "breath, life, soul"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.
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Reatha King
Reatha Clark King (born April 11, 1938) is an African-American chemist, the former Vice President of the General Mills Corporation; and the former President, Executive Director, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the General Mills Foundation, the philanthropic foundation of General Mills, Inc.
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Rebecca Cole
Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer.
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Davis, (February 8, 1831March 9, 1895) was an African American physician and author.
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Regina Benjamin
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
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Rosetta (spacecraft)
Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency launched on 2 March 2004.
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Ruby Puryear Hearn
Ruby Louise Puryear Hearn (born April 13, 1940) is an African-American biophysicist who has dedicated her career to health policy.
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Ruth Ella Moore
Ruth Ella Moore (May 19, 1903 in Columbus, Ohio – 1994) was a bacteriologist, who in 1933 became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in a natural science.
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Ruth Smith Lloyd
Ruth Smith Lloyd (January 17, 1917 – February 5, 1995) was a 20th-century scientist whose research focused on fertility, the relationship of sex hormones to growth, and the female sex cycle.
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Ruth Winifred Howard
Ruth Winifred Howard Beckham (March 25, 1900 – February 12, 1997) is most notably famous for her psychological work concerning students with special needs at Children's Provident Hospital School.
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Sarah Boone
Sarah Boone (1832–1904) was an African American inventor who on April 26, 1892, obtained United States patent rights for her improvements to the ironing board.
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Sarah E. Goode
Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an entrepreneur and inventor.
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
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Shireen Mitchell
Shireen Mitchell is an American entrepreneur, author, technology analyst and diversity strategist.
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Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Shirley M. Malcom
Shirley M. Malcom currently serves as the Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Sian Proctor
Sian Proctor is an African American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator, and aspiring astronaut.
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Sinah Estelle Kelley
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STEM pipeline
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Surgeon General of the United States
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Susan McKinney Steward
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Sustainability
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Sylvia Bozeman
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The Aerospace Corporation
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Thyrsa Frazier Svager
Thyrsa Anne Frazier Svager (June 16, 1930 – July 23, 1999) was an American academic who was one of the first African-American women to gain a PhD in mathematics.
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Tracy L. Johnson
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Treena Livingston Arinzeh
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United States Department of Energy
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Ursula Burns
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Valerie Thomas
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Villanova University
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Vivian Pinn
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Wanda Austin
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Yasmin Hurd
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Yvonne Clark
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_women_in_STEM_fields
