Download or read book Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century written by James H. Kessler and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-01-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From George Washington Carver to Dr. Mae Jemison, African Americans have been making outstanding contributions in the field of science. This unique resource goes beyond the headlines in chronicling not just the scientific achievements but also the lives of 100 remarkable men and women. Each biography provides an absorbing account of the scientist's struggles, which often included overcoming prejudice, as they pursued their educational and professional goals.
Download or read book Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science written by Betty Kaplan Gubert and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the lives and careers of 80 men and 20 women who defied poverty and prejudice to excel in the fields of aviation and space exploration.
Download or read book African Americans in Science Math and Invention written by Ray Spangenburg and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astronauts, physicists, chemists, biologists, agriculture specialists, and others who have dedicated their lives to improving humankind's knowledge and understanding of the universe through science, math, and invention are.
Download or read book Notable Black American Scientists written by Kristine M. Krapp and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles approximately 250 black Americans who have made contributions to the sciences, including inventors, researchers, award winners, and educators.
Download or read book Black Inventors written by Keith Holmes and published by Global Black Inventor Resea. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, highlights the work of Black inventors from over seventy countries. The author, Keith C. Holmes, has spent more than twenty years researching Black inventors from countries that include Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Cuba, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, St. Vincent, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States. Without inventions, innovations, financial resources, materials, muscle and labor saving devices, civilizations cannot exist and flourish. This book documents a number of inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by Black inventors. Among many other inventions, pre-enslaved Africans, developed agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth and weapons. Although historical documents emphasize that millions of Black people arrived in Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States under slavery's yoke, it is relatively unknown that thousands of Africans and their descendants developed numerous labor-saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide. While most authors focus primarily on American and European inventors, Keith Holmes introduces inventions, both past and present, that Black people, developed and patented globally and multiculturally.Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, also features early Black inventors from virtually every state in the US. It includes details about the first Black inventor who obtained a patent in both the Caribbean and the United States. To date, seventeen African American men have been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Two inventors, Jan E, Matzeliger, (Suriname) and Elijah McCoy, (Colchester, Canada) were not born in this countryThe material available in this book, one of the first to address the diversity of black inventors and their inventions from a global perspective, effectively gives the reader, researcher, librarian, student, and teacher the materials they need to understand that the Black inventor is not only a national phenomenon, but also a global giant.
Download or read book Biography of Dr Percy Lavon Julian 1899 2022 Greatest African American Chemist of the 20th Century written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the best story (enactment) of the life of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, the greatest African-American chemist of the 20th century, google PBS NOVA "Forgotten Genius" YouTube. The present book is a good bibliography and sourcebook, with 48 photographs and illustrations, many in color.
Download or read book Brilliant African American Scientists written by Jeff C. Young and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the lives and accomplishments of scientists who persevered in the name of science.
Download or read book Edward Bouchet written by Ronald E Mickens and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-02-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward A Bouchet was the first African-American to receive the doctorate in any field of knowledge in the United States and that area was physics. He was granted the degree in 1876 from Yale University making him at that time one of the few persons to hold the physics doctorate from an American university. Bouchet played a significant role in the education of African-Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century through his teaching and mentoring activities at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one among a small number of African-Americans who achieved advanced training and education within decades of the American civil war. These people provided direction, leadership, and role models for what eventually became the civil/human rights movements. The year 2001 marks the 125th celebration of his receiving the doctorate degree. This book gives a summary of his life and career. Contents: Early African American Presence in New Haven and Yale University (C L Patton)Edward A Bouchet — The Years at Hopkins Grammar School: 1868-1870 (T Rodd, Jr.)Edward Alexander Bouchet — The Master Teacher and Educator (H K Bechtel)In Search of Edward Bouchet (J A Wilkinson)African Americans Enter Science (K R Manning)Appendices:Letter from a Former Student of Bouchet (L M Allen)Willie Hobbs Moore: First African American Woman Doctorate in Physics (R E Mickens)Elmer Samuel Imes: Scientist, Inventor, Teacher, Scholar (R E Mickens)The Genesis of the National Society of Black Physicists (R E Mickens)The Bouchet InstituteSelected Bibliography of Materials on African American Scientists Readership: General. Keywords:Edward A Bouchet;History of Physics;19th Century Science;Sociology of Science;Science Studies;Yale University;Hopkins Grammar School;African-American History
Download or read book African Americans in Science 2 volumes written by Charles W. Carey Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides the most complete treatment to date of the accomplishments of African American scientists—and the struggles of African Americans to find their place in the scientific community. This comprehensive reference work sheds new light on an aspect of African American life that is often overlooked. More than a summary of individuals and accomplishments, African Americans in Science: An Encyclopedia of People and Progress explores the entire experience of African Americans seeking a place in the scientific community—not just the triumphs but the frustrations, discriminations, and the efforts to support (and sometimes impede) African American scientists. African Americans in Science offers alphabetically organized entries in three areas: the contributions of African Americans in over 30 different fields of science and medicine, schools and organizations that played a role in the development of African American scientists, and additional topics related to African American scientists. No other reference offers such a complete and up-to-date portrait of the pivotal work of African Americans across the spectrum of scientific research and what it took to achieve it.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Scientists written by Elizabeth H. Oakes and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains short biographies of almost 1,000 scientists from around the world who made great contributions to science throughout history.
Download or read book Contributions of African American Scientists to the Fields of Science Medicine and Inventions Second Edition written by Robert B. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists included in this book represent the fields of biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, dentistry, engineering, entomology, genetics, geology, mathematics, medicine, nursing, physics, psychology, sociology, zoology, and inventions. Described here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science, including inventions. These individuals have contributed in large and small ways that might have been overlooked when chronicling the history of science. All individuals included here were listed in the published literature. The author conducted no interviews, and no suggestions were accepted solely on the basis of hearsay. There is no intent to be all-inclusive. The selections were strictly the author's. Many important contributions have been omitted, especially those of recent years, because a limit had to be set. This book shows that African Americans made many contributions to the sciences, medicine, education, and inventions as slaves, as freed persons, and as immigrants. They made contributions during the period of slavery, segregation, sharecropping and the modern era. Their contributions had and continue to have an impact on the economy of the United States, and the convenience, education, health, safety, security, and welfare of its citizens. These contributors improved the economic well-being of individuals and groups of individuals. They saved lives, improved the health of people, alleviated much pain and suffering, and raised the levels of education and knowledge. The activities and deeds of George Washington Carver, Ernest Everett Just, Percy Lavon Julian, and Charles Richard Drew, who are arguably the greatest of the African American scientists and who have made great contributions, exemplify these characteristics. Some of their research, creations, and contributions will have an influence--at home and abroad--well into the future.
Download or read book African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era written by Jeannette E. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two books about African-American female chemists. The first book (African-American Women Chemists, 2011) focused on the early pioneers--women chemists from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act. African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era focuses on contemporary women who have benefited from the Civil Rights Act and are now working as chemists or chemical engineers. This book was produced by taking the oral history of women who are leaders in their field and who wanted to tell the world how they suceeded. It features eighteen amazing women in this book and each of them has a claim to fame, despite hiding in plain sight. These women reveal the history of their lives from youth to adult. Overall, Jeannette Brown aims to inspire women and minorities to pursue careers in the sciences, as evidenced by the successful career paths of the women that came before them.
Download or read book African American Women Chemists written by Jeannette Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African American woman chemist herself, will present a wide-ranging historical introduction to the relatively new presence of African American women in the field of chemistry. It will detail their struggles to obtain an education and their efforts to succeed in a field in which there were few African American men, much less African American women. The book contains sketches of the lives of African America women chemists from the earliest pioneers up until the late 1960's when the Civil Rights Acts were passed and greater career opportunities began to emerge. In each sketch, Brown will explore women's motivation to study the field and detail their often quite significant accomplishments. Chapters focus on chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist. The book concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women chemists, which will be of interest to all women interested in science.
Download or read book American Scientists written by Charles W. Carey and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than 200 American men and women who made significant contributions to science during the twentieth century.
Download or read book A to Z of STS Scientists written by Elizabeth H. Oakes and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles over 200 scientists from around the world who made important contributions to the interdisciplinary field of science, technology and society (STS), including Thomas P. Ackerman, Helen Caldicott, James Watt, and more.
Download or read book African American Scientists written by Jetty St. John and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of five African American scientists of this century.
Download or read book The Harvard Guide to African American History written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
