Black History Month Scientist Quiz

African-American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound

• Daniel Hale Williams

• Edward Bouchet

• Ernest Everett Just

• Percy Julian

• Charles H. Turner

American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

• Mae C. Jemison

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Alice Ball

• Katherine G. Johnson

African American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.

• Lloyd Hall

• Percy Julian

• St. Elmo Brady

• James West

• George Carruthers

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She was the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Alice Ball

• Valerie Thomas

• Patricia Bath

African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

• Percy Julian

• Daniel Hale Williams

• George Carruthers

• Charles H. Turner

• Lloyd Hall

American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Valerie Thomas

• Patricia Bath

• Barbara Ross-Lee

• Marie Maynard Daly

First African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States. He received his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1916.

• St. Elmo Brady

• Daniel Hale Williams

• James West

• George Carruthers

• Mae C. Jemison

African American chemist who developed an inject-able oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.

• Alice Ball

• Mae C. Jemison

• Marie Maynard Daly

• Katherine G. Johnson

• Valerie Thomas

U.S. inventor and professor who, in 1962, developed the electretotransducer technology later used in 90 percent of contemporary microphones.

• James West

• Charles H. Turner

• Daniel Hale Williams

• Ernest Everett Just

• Edward Bouchet

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African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.

• Katherine G. Johnson

• Patricia Bath

• Valerie Thomas

• Mae C. Jemison

• Shirley Ann Jackson