BLACK SCIENTISTS THAT TEACHERS SHOULD KNOW

BLACK SCIENTISTS THAT TEACHERS SHOULD KNOW

Each clue tells about a Black African-American Scientists, Mathematicians, & Inventors. Use the list to connect to a short biography of each person. Click what you think is the correct answer.

Multiple Choice

This person became a foremost botanist, inventor and teacher. Invented over 300 uses for the peanut and developed methods to prevent soil depletion. Hint: Clothes in water

• George Washington Carver

• Percy Julian

• Edward Bouchet

• Walter Lincoln Hawkins

• Albert Bharucha-Reid

Multiple Choice

This person was a research chemist and pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills. Hint. Where you put money

• George Washington Carver

• Percy Julian

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

• Gladys West

Multiple Choice

This person became the first African American to travel in space and went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Hint: Name of a month

• George Washington Carver

• Percy Julian

• Mae Carol Jemison

• Katherine Johnson

• Gladys West

Multiple Choice

This person is a Mathematician who is best known with this major contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers. Hint: "Meow"

• Katherine Johnson

• Gladys West

• Marie M. Daly

• Edward Bouchet

• Annie Easley

Multiple Choice

This person is a Mathematician, the second black person ever to be employed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and was inducted into the United States Air Force Hall of Fame—one of the highest honors awarded by the Air Force. Hint: "pleased"

• Gladys West

• Katherine Johnson

• Marie M. Daly

• Annie Easley

• Alexa Canady

Multiple Choice

A Chemist, Researcher and Activist and

was the first African-American person to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States. And worked closely with scientist Dr. Quentin B. Deming and their work opened up a new understanding of how foods and diet can affect the health of the heart and the circulatory system. Hint: Last name means "disability..."

• Katherine Johnson

• Gladys West

• Marie M. Daly

• Annie Easley

• C. J. Walker

Multiple Choice

A physicist and educator. The first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university and the sixth person of any race to receive a Ph.D. in physics from an American university. Hint: first name means "wealth or riches"

• George Washington Carver

• Percy Julian

• Katherine Johnson

• Edward Bouchet

• Annie Easley

Multiple Choice

A computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist

Known as a “human computer,” performing complex mathematical calculations. Being evolved with the technology -- becoming an adept computer programmer and helped develop and implement code for numerous projects. Hint: First Name means "gracious"

• Gladys West

• Marie M. Daly

• Edward Bouchet

• Alexa Canady

• Annie Easley

Multiple Choice

A polymer chemists, scientist and inventor

and is best known for inventing a plastic coating for telephone wires that made universal service possible. Hint: Name like a bird's

• Walter Lincoln Hawkins

• Edward Bouchet

• Percy Julian

• George Washington Carver

• Alexa Canady

Multiple Choice

A Surgeon, Educator, the first African-American neurosurgeon in the United States, and also the first African-American to be certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Hint: "Echo Dot"

• Annie Easley

• Alexa Canady

• Marie M. Daly

• Gladys West

• Katherine Johnson

Multiple Choice

This person is a Mathematician, Statistician who formulated the Probability theory and Markov chain theorist. Hint: First name means Noble and bright"

• Albert Bharucha-Reid

• Clarence "Skip" Ellis

• Henry Charles Turner

• C.J. Walker

• Edward Alcorn

Multiple Choice

The first person to prove that insects can hear and can distinguish pitch, that cockroaches can learn by trial and error, and that honeybees can see color. Hint: "revolve"

• Albert Bharucha-Reid

• Clarence "Skip" Ellis

• Henry Charles Turner

• C.J. Walker

• Edward George Alcorn

Multiple Choice

This person created black cosmetic products. Hint: "Cross the street"

• Edward George Alcorn

• C.J. Walker

• Henry Charles Turner

• Clarence "Skip" Ellis

• Alexa Canady

Multiple Choice

A Computer Scientist, and first African American with PhD in computer science; software inventor including Office Talk at Xerox PARC. Hint: Name mean four-wheeled carriage

• Clarence "Skip" Ellis

• Edward Bouchet

• Walter Lincoln Hawkins

• Annie Easley

• Percy Julian

Multiple Choice

A Physicist, Inventor. Invented a method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer. Hint: Sounds a "nut"

• Edward George Alcorn

• Henry Charles Turner

• Edward Bouchet

• George Washington Carver

• Percy Julian