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Norbert Rillieux (March 17, 1806 – October 8, 1894) was a Louisiana Creole inventor who was widely considered one of the earliest chemical engineers and noted for his pioneering invention of the multiple-effect evaporator. This invention was an important development in the growth of the sugar industry.
France was viewed by many African Americans as a welcome change from the widespread racism in the United States. It was then that jazz was introduced to the French, and black culture was born in Paris. African-American musicians, artists and writer (many associated with the Harlem Renaissance) found 1920s Paris ready to embrace them with open arms.
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]
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor.
Several hundred scientists and technicians were involved in the Manhattan Project, of whom a few men and women were African-American. [1] [2] Once the project ceased to be a secret, publications like Ebony hailed African-American scientists and technicians as role models and "progressive heroes". [10] [19]
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 ...
[4] [15] During his tenure at Howard he undertook a sabbatical position as a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory from 1976 to 1977. [2] From 1974 to 1975 Wilkins served as president of the American Nuclear Society [4] [16] and in 1976 became the second African American to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering. [4] [17]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American engineers. It includes engineers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. African-Americans who are/were engineers.