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  2. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.

  3. Category:African-American scientists - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects ... This list may not reflect recent changes. List of African-American inventors and scientists; M. Michael D.L. Johnson

  4. List of Jamaican inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Mercedes Richards was the first to: . make images of the gravitational flow of gas between the stars in any interacting binary.; image the chromospheres and accretion disks in Algol binaries.

  5. Thomas L. Jennings - Wikipedia

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    Thomas L. Jennings (c. 1791 – February 12, 1859) was an African-American inventor, tradesman, entrepreneur, and abolitionist in New York City, New York.He has the distinction of being the first African-American patent-holder in history; he was granted the patent in 1821 for his novel method of dry cleaning. [1]

  6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Larry Page (born 1973), U.S. – with Sergey Brin invented Google web search engine William Painter (1838–1906), UK/U.S. – Crown cork , Bottle opener Salvatore Pais (born 1967), Romania/U.S. – electromagnetic field generator to deflect asteroids away from the Earth, an inertial mass reduction device, a room-temperature superconductor , a ...

  7. List of African educators, scientists and scholars - Wikipedia

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    Mahmud Ahmad Hamdi al-Falaki (1815–1885), Egyptian cartographer, teacher, Minister of Public Instruction. Ismail Mustafa al-Falaki (1825–1901), Egyptian astronomer and mathematician. Carthage

  8. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...

  9. List of African-American mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence. [215] Williams, Lisa D (2000). The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of black faculty in the math and science pipeline: a life history approach (Dissertation). University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [216] Williams, Talithia M (2018).