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Guion “Guy” Bluford, Jr. (born November 22, 1942), is an engineer, retired Colonel from the United State Air Force and a former NASA Astronaut. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-8, Bluford became the first African American in space, and the second person of African ancestry, after the Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. By: Fushawnda Marie Felder
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American 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.
Guion Bluford retired from NASA and the Air Force in 1993. He now serves as vice president and general manager of the Science and Engineering Group, Aerospace Sector of Federal Data Corporation in Maryland. Guion Bluford after effected life
By: Nakia Phillips Life of Ben Carson • Born September 18,1951 Detroit, Michigan • Raised by mother after divorced from father. Also had an older brother by the name of Curtis. • Is a famous African American Pediatric neurosurgeon. • Carson was the youngest to become Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. • Carson was also the first ever to perform a successful surgery on conjoined twins.
Lonnie Johnson By Dwayne Collins
Ernest Everett Just Darshi Lockett February 14, 2011
Who is he? • 1883-1941 • African American Biologist • Internationally known: USA, Italy, Germany, France • Studied at Howard University, earned a degree in History & Biology and received PH.D in embryology • Assisted in establishing the fraternity “Omega Psi Phi” • Married with three children
Birth:1861, probably on July 12Died: January 5, 1943 Parents: His parents, Mary and Giles Carver, were slaves owned by Susan and Moses CarverEducation: He went to a school for black children in Neosho, Kansas. He later attended Simpson College and Iowa State University in Iowa. • George Washington Carver was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets. A monument showing Carver as a boy was the first national memorial erected in honor of an African American. • His father, a slave on a neighboring farm, died before George was born. When George was just a few months old, he and his mother were kidnapped from the Carver farm by a band of men who roamed Missouri during the Civil War era. • Carver died on January 5, 1943, at Tuskegee Institute. He is buried on that campus near the grave of Booker T. Washington. The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond was created soon after his death.
Dr. Charles R. Drew Tianna Borner
Charles Drew • Inventor: Charles Richard Drew • Criteria: First practical. Modern prototype. • Birth: June 3, 1904,in Washington, D.C. • Death: April 1, 1950 while traveling in rural North Carolina. • Nationality: American • Invention: Blood Bank • Function: noun / blood plasma • Definition: A place, usually a separate division of a hospital laboratory, in which blood is collected from donors, typed, and often separated into several components for future transfusion to recipients. The American Red Cross operates the largest blood bank in the U.S
David Harold Blackwell • African American Mathematician • Born: April 24, 1919 in Centralia, Illinois Kee`Ana Wolfe
Accomplishments He is honored as one of the greatest African American Mathematicians. His elections to National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds memberships in numerous professional organizations
