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Benjamin Franklin
Founding father and scientist. -
Benjamin Banneker
African American Scientist who constructed America’s first
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Alexander Graham Bell
An eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. -
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. -
Nikola Tesla
Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. -
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
African American physician who performed the first
prototype open-heart surgery. -
George Washington Carver
African American scientist and inventor and an
extraordinary explorer and innovator of agricultural science. -
Garrett Morgan
African American inventor who made both the first traffic
signal invention and the first patented gas mask. -
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. -
Florence Bascom
First female elected to the Geological Society of America -
Roger Arliner Young
A zoologist and biologist and the first African-American
woman to receive a doctorate in zoology. -
Bertha Parker Pallan Cody
Known as the first female Native American
archaeologist. -
Chien-Shiung Wu
A Chinese-American physicist who worked on the
Manhattan Project and many other experimental physics and radioactive studies. She was the first female president of the American Physical Society. -
Charles Drew
African American inventor of the blood bank -
Marie Maynard Daly
The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in
Chemistry and an important biochemist. -
James D. Watson
An American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick. -
Severo Ochoa
Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the synthesis
of ribonucleic acid (RNA). -
James West
African-American inventor who developed the microphone. -
Melba Roy Mouton
An African-American mathematician who graduated from
Harvard and later led a group of mathematicians at NASA who were known as "computers" for their intense calculations. Hidden Figures is based off her life. -
Alan Shepard
First American astronaut in space. -
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose
book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement -
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
A pediatrician and microbiologist known for her work in antibiotic resistance and developing a remedy for Haemophilus influenzae. She was the first woman elected president of the American Pediatric Society. -
Luis Walter Alvarez
Hispanic scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1968. He helped design a ground-controlled radar system for aircraft landings and with his son developed the meteorite theory of dinosaur extinction. -
Mario Molina
Discovered that the release of CFCs could destroy the ozone
layer in the stratosphere and won Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for his work. -
Barbara McClintock
Pioneered genetic research of corn cells, won Nobel
Laureate Prize for cytogenetics. -
Sally Ride
American physicist and astronaut who became the first American
woman in space in 1983. -
Carlos Noriega
Mission specialist and computer scientist, Lieutentant Colonel
Noriega has visited Mir and helped to assemble the International Space Station. -
Bill Nye
An American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist, and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Disney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy. -
Franklin Chang-Diaz
First Costa Rican astronaut and director of the Advanced
Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA. -
Patricia Bath
American ophthalmologist and inventor known for being the first
African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. -
Ellen Ochoa
World's first Hispanic female astronaut. -
Mae Jemison
American physician and NASA astronaut known for being the first black woman to travel in space. -
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
African-American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. -
Kalpana Chawla
She was the first Indian-American astronaut and first Indian woman in space.
