Lloyd Noel Ferguson was an American chemist. As a child in Oakland, California, Ferguson had a backyard laboratory in which… Read more Lloyd Noel Ferguson (Chemist)

Valerie L. Thomas is an American scientist and inventor. She invented the Illusion Transmitter, for which she received a patent… Read more Valerie L. Thomas (Scientist, Inventor)

Granville Tailer Woods was an inventor who held more than 60 patents in the U.S. He was the first African… Read more Granville Tailer Woods (Engineer, Inventor)

Ruth Ella Moore was a bacteriologist, who in 1933 became the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in a… Read more Ruth Ella Moore (Bacteriologist)

Enriqueta González Baz y de la Vega was a Mexican mathematician, a co-founder of the Mexican Mathematical Society, and the… Read more Enriqueta González Baz y de la Vega (Mathematician)

Percy Lavon Julian was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.… Read more Percy Lavon Julian (Chemist)

Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a… Read more Lydia Villa-Komaroff (Biologist, Administrator, Business Woman)

Dorothy Vaughan was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and… Read more Dorothy Vaughan (Mathematician, Human Computer)

Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States… Read more Minnie Joycelyn Elders (Physician, Public Health Administrator)

Antonia Novello is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health… Read more Antonia Novello (Physician, Public Health Administrator)