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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 ...
She was the first African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. Through WVSC's president, John W. Davis , she became one of three African-American students, [ 16 ] and the only woman, selected to integrate the graduate school after the 1938 United States Supreme Court ruling in ...
African American 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]
She is the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in oceanography from Texas A&M University. [ 3 ] Ashanti Johnson has made several notable contributions to stem enlightenment, which earned her the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring|2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science ...
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist, educator, and an active advocate for diversity in STEM. She became the first African-American woman to complete her PhD in astrophysics at Yale in 2014. [1] She is currently an assistant professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College. [2]
Madam C.J. Walker created a line of haircare products for African American women, leading her to later become the first female African American self-made millionaire. There is now a Netflix series ...
Velma Scantlebury (born 1955), Bajan-American first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S. Lise Thiry (1921–2024), Belgian virologist, senator; Helen Rodríguez Trías (1929–2001), Puerto-Rican American pediatrician and advocate for women's reproductive rights; Stina Stenhagen (1916–1973), Swedish biochemist