2019 STEAM Camp - Famous HBCU People

Garrett Morgan - SCIENCE

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Born: Claysville, KY REF SITE Wikipedia

Benjamin Banneker - SCIENCE / ART / ENGINEERING

Nov 9, 1731

Born: Baltimore County, MD
- 1753 Wooden Hourly Clock @ 21
- 1791 Surveying Team (10mi, 100sqmi) Major Andrew Ellicott requested by U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson REF SITE
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Norbert Rillieux

Mar 17, 1806

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Lewis Howard Latimer - ART / ENGINEERING

Sep 4, 1848

1865 Patent Law Firm, Crosby Halstead and Gould, Draftsman
Born: Chelsea, MA
- The Edison Electric Light Company, created the carbon filament for the light blub REF SITE
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Dr Daniel Hale Williams - SCIENCE

Jan 18, 1858

Born: Hollidaysburg, PA
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George Washington Carver - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Jan 1, 1864

Born: Diamond, MO REF SITE Wikipedia

Robert Charles Bates - ART / ENGINEERING

1872

Claflin University (Orangeburg, SC)
Born:
- First Certified African American Architect
(Fisk Hall, destroyed by fire in 1913) REF SITE

Ernest Everett Just - SCIENCE

Aug 14, 1883

Born: Charleston, SC
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Vertner Woodson Tandy - ART / ENGINEERING

May 17, 1885

Cornell University (1907 Ithaca, NY)
Born: Lexington, KY
- 1906 The Seven Jewels - Alpha Phi Alpha @ Cornell Univ
- 1st African American registered architect NY
(Harlem’s St. Philip’s Episcopal Church) REF SITE Wikipedia

Robert Taylor - ART / ENGINEERING

Jun 8, 1886

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1888)
Born: Wilmington, NC
- Tuskegee Institute teaching
(Tuskegee Chapel burned down in 1957) REF SITE
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Paul Revere Williams - ART / ENGINEERING

Feb 18, 1894

University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Born: Los Angeles, CA
- 1920 LA City Planning Commission
- 1921 Certified Architect (1st Certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi)
(LAX Theme Building, various homes for celebrities around Los Angeles and other parts of CA) REF SITE Wikipedia

Percy Lavon Julian

Apr 11, 1899

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Charles R. Drew - SCIENCE

Jun 3, 1905

• Amherst College (1928, Amherst, MA, Omega Psi Phi fraternity (1926–1928) Chemistry and Biology, 1st AD / Coach Morgan College
• McGill University (1933 Medial School, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Alpha Omega Alpha, PhDf Medicine & Master of Surgery
• Columbia University (1940, NYC, PhD of Science in Medicine, 1st African American)

Born: Washington DC REF SITE
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Charity Adams Earley - SCIENCE / MATH

Dec 5, 1918

Wilberforce University (1938 Wilberforce, OH)
Born: Kittrell, NC
- Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) - 1st African American Woman (1942)
- Commanding Officer of an All-African American Female Battalion REF SITE
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Prof. Samuel Massie Jr.

Apr 3, 1919

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Otis Frankin Boykin - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Aug 29, 1920

Fisk University (1941, Nashville, TN)
Born: Dallas, TX
- 1959 Wire Precision Resistor
- Control Unit for the Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker
- Boykin-Fruth, Inc. firm he established REF SITE
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Marie Maynard Daly

Apr 16, 1921

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Emmett W. Chappelle - SCIENCE

Oct 24, 1925

Born: Phoenix, AZ REF SITE
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James Edward Maceo West - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Feb 1, 1931

Temple University (1957, Masters
Born: Farmville, VA
- Inventor and Acoustician
- 250 foreign and U.S. patents microphones & techniques for polymer foil electret (Gerhard Sessler - 90% used in devices today)
- 2001 Lucent Technologies, retired after 40 years (Bell Laboratories Fellow)
- 2007 NJIT, Honorary PhD REF SITE Wikipedia

George Edward Alcorn Jr - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Mar 22, 1940

Howard University (1963, Washington, DC)
Born: Indianapolis, IN
- Nuclear Physics
- X-ray spectrometer (NASA Inventor of the Year Award)
- Howard Univ and Univ of DC, Professor
- North American Rockwell, Research Engineer, Space Division, Titan I, II, Saturn, Nova REF SITE
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Dr. Betty Wright Harris - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Apr 29, 1940

Baton Rouge, LA
Born: Ouachita Parish, Monroe, LA
- 3x MSI graduate
- Chemistry
- Southern University, BS @16
- Clark Atlanta University, MS @19
- University of New Mexico (HSI), PhD
- hazardous waste treatment and environmental remediation
- explosives chemistry REF SITE
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Dr. Patricia Bath - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING

Nov 4, 1942

Hunter College (1964, Manhattan, NY, AANAPISI)
Howard University Medical School
Born: Harlem, NY
- Chemistry
- 1986 Laserphaco Probe treatment of cataracts, 1988 patent
- 1st African-American female doctor to receive a patent for this type of medical purpose REF SITE
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Valerie L. Thomas - SCIENCE / ENGINEERING / MATHMATICS

Feb 8, 1943

Morgan State University (Physics)
Born: Baltimore, MD
- 1964 NASA, data analyst
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Landsat 720723, Earth Resources Technology Satellite launched
- 1980 Illusion Transmitter, patent (surgery & video screens)
- 1995 NASA retirement REF SITE
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Philip Emeagwali

Aug 23, 1954

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Mae Jemison - SCIENCE / MATHEMATICS

Oct 17, 1956

Born: Decatur, AL REF SITE Wikipedia

Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) - ART / MATHEMATICS

Mar 13, 1972

Florida A&M University (FAMU, Business Administration, 2 years)
Born: Chicago, IL REF SITE
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