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Marguerite Thomas Williams (born Marguerite Thomas; December 24, 1895 – August 17, 1991) was an American geologist.She was the first African American to earn a doctorate in geology in the United States and dedicated most of her career to teaching geography and social sciences.
A group of involved physicists met at Fisk University in 1972 to honor three well known African-American physicists: Dr. Donald Edwards, Dr. John McNeile Hunter, and Dr. Halson V. Eagleson. [2] On April 28, 1977, the Society was established at Morgan State University, [3] with its founding co-chairs being Walter E. Massey and James Davenport. [1]
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.
It includes physicists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American physicists" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total.
Michael Duryea Williams (born 1957) is an American physicist, professor at Clark Atlanta University, and current president of the AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (formerly American Vacuum Society). He is the first African American president of AVS. [1]
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. [2] She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.
He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor (with tenure) at the University of California, Berkeley, [3] [5] [6] and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. [7] In 2012, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal ...