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Willie Hobbs Moore (May 23, 1934 – March 14, 1994) was an African American physicist and engineer. She is the first African American woman to earn a PhD in physics. [1]
Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876. On the basis of his academic record he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa society. In 1874, he ...
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]
George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) [1] [2] was an American space physicist and engineer.Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.
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.
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.
Donald Anderson Edwards (5 January 1905 – 19 December 1999) was an American physicist. Edwards was the founding chair of the physics department at North Carolina A&T State University, and spent his career teaching there and at other historically Black colleges and universities across the United States.
Keith H. Jackson was an American physicist, ... "Utilization of African-American Physicists in the Science and Engineering Workforce," Pan-Organizational Summit on ...