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Dr. Percy L. Julian (1899-1975)

Dr. Percy L. Julian (1899-1975). African- American research chemist who was a true pioneer. He developed medicinal medications derived from plants. Earned over 130 chemical patents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhgxq1vjBqY. Dr. Charles Drew (1904 -1950).

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Dr. Percy L. Julian (1899-1975)

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  1. Dr. Percy L. Julian (1899-1975) African- American research chemist who was a true pioneer. He developed medicinal medications derived from plants. Earned over 130 chemical patents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhgxq1vjBqY

  2. Dr. Charles Drew(1904 -1950) Charles Drew was an African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S. https://www.biography.com/people/charles-drew-9279094

  3. Neil DeGrasse Tyson(1958-Present) American astrophysicist and author. Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6FT3cMdImE

  4. Dr. Ben Carson Dr. Carson became a neurosurgery resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. At age 33, Dr. Carson became the youngest physician to ever head a major division at Johns Hopkins.  https://www.biography.com/video/ben-carson-mini-biography-596073027584

  5. George Washington Carver1865-1943 George Washington Carver was a prominent African-American scientist and inventor. Carver is best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdz8XTNttdc

  6. Lloyd Augustus Hall(1894-1971) African American Chemist with over 60 US patents who revolutionized the way we preserve food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjat465KBw

  7. Dr. Marie M. Daly(1921-2003) First African-American female to receive a Ph. D in chemistry (from Columbia University). While at Columbia, Daly took to the lab, studying how the body's chemicals help digest food. She also taught biochemistry classes at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

  8. Dr. Mae C. Jemison(1956-Present) Doctor, Scientist, Professor, Dancer and Astronaut https://www.biography.com/people/mae-c-jemison-9542378

  9. Ernest E. Just1883-1941 Earnest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization. Just's legacy of accomplishments followed him long after his death, on October 27, 1941.

  10. Dr. Erich Jarvis1965-Present Jarvis is an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center Erich Jarvis investigates the neurobiology of learned vocal communication.

  11. Arlie Petters(1964-Present) Mathematician and Astrophysicist teaching mathematics and physics at Duke University. The first African American at Duke University to receive tenure in the mathematics department. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltrU_-mCe3g

  12. Annie Easely(1933-2011) Known as “The Rocket Scientist” was a computer scientist, and mathematician. She worked on Centaur technology at NASA -- a high-energy rocket technology that uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to boost rockets into space. She also co-authored numerous papers about nuclear engines in rockets and she worked on solar, wind and energy projects. She is one of the ladies from the “Hidden Figures” book and movie.

  13. George Robert Carruthers(1939-Present) Scientist George Carruthers created inventions, such as the ultraviolet camera, or spectograph, which was used by NASA in the 1972 Apollo 16 flight, revealing the mysteries of space and the Earth's atmosphere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eNwNNHMIk

  14. Dr. Emery Brown M.D & Ph. D(1957-Present) Anesthesiologist, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT, and Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology He is currently researching what happens to your brain under anesthesia.

  15. Dr. Roger Arliner Young1889-1964 Roger Arliner Young was an American scientist of zoology, biology, and marine biology. She was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology.

  16. Emmette Chapelle1925-Present Some of his work includes the detection of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), an important compound in all living organisms.  Through the patented method he developed, exobiologists are able to more speedily detect bacteria outside the earth's atmosphere.  Chappelle also discovered a method for determining the health of forest vegetation.  Environmental Scientist, Biochemist and Astrophysicist at NASA

  17. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923-2011) Mathematician and Physicist who worked at the Met Lab in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. Wilkins's team was scheduled to be transferred to Oak Ridge, but Jim Crow laws prevented him from taking up a scientific post there. Instead, he worked  Eugene Wignerwho at the time was researching the design and development of nuclear reactors that would convert uranium into weapons grade plutonium.

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