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Mabel Keaton Staupers worked to pressure the Army to admit black women into the Army Nurse Corps, which they finally did in 1941. [53] Velma Scantleburry-White is the first African-American female transplant surgeon in the United States [143] Rosalyn P. Scott in 1977 became the first African American woman trained in the practice of thoracic ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major general and the first black female major general in Army Medicine. [3] [4] West is also the first Army black female lieutenant general. [5] She is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy.
Hadiyah-Nicole Green (1981-) is an American medical physicist, known for the development of a method using laser-activated nanoparticles as a potential cancer treatment. [1] [2] [3] She is one of 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012, [4] and is the second black woman and the fourth black person ever to earn a doctoral degree in physics from The ...
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Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown (October 10, 1927 – August 5, 2011) [1] [2] was a nurse and educator who served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first Black female general in the United States Army and the first Black chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps. [3]
In 2020, Brown earned a MPhil in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the Hertford College, Oxford. [6] She researched the impacts of Black women physicians in medicine and American society. [6] In 2020, Brown enrolled at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. [7]