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Every year, when Black History Month rolls around, everyone trots out the same, tired biography of George Washington Carver. Carver, who lived from from 1860 (exact date unk.) to 1943 is certainly a statesman of science, and a worthy icon, but Black scientists did not die with him!
It's time to celebrate the contemporary Black, Brown, and Female scientists who live today, lived recently, and upcoming, and know about their very important contributions to the advancement of current science! Modern science - in all fields - is populated and benefits from a rich diversity of players.
Here is listed - a very incomplete - list of modern scientists that deserve to be known as well as George Washington Carver:
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Warren Washington (climatologist, NCAR)
Mae Jemison (Dartmouth)
Claudia Alexander (d) (U of Mich; AGU; NASA)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (astrophysicist, U of Dublin)
Julie Castillo-Rogez (Panetary Sci., U of Rennes)
E. Margaret Burbidge (astrophysicist, U College of London)
Clifford V. Johnson (astronomy & physics)
Danielle N Lee (animal behaviorist at Cornell U)
Rutherford H. Adkins (d) (physicist, Howard U)
Diolo Bagayoko (chem & physics, Louisiana State)
Robert H. Bragg (xray crystallography)
Charles S. Brown (physicist Georgia Tech)
George R. Carruthers (spectography, U of Illinois)
Ernest Colelman
Warren E. Collins
Belay Demoz (Howard U)
Peter J. Delfyett
David J. Ernst
Sylvester J. Gates
Irving J. Heard
Warren E. Henry
Shirley A. Jackson
Deborah J. Jackson
Keith H. Jackson
Anthony M. Johnson
Joseph A. Johnson, III
James R. Lawson
Walter E. Massey
Charles H. McGruder
Stephen C. McGuire
Ronald E. Mickens
Harold L. Morrison
Alfred Z. Msezane
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
Kennedy J. Reed
Carl A. Rouse
Earl D. Shaw
Milton D. Slaughter
Carl Spight
James H. Stith
Edward E. Thomas
Arthur N. Thorpe
Demetrius D. Venable
Arthur B. C. Walker
Charles A. Weatherford
Quinton L. Williams (physics & astronomy Howard U)
Barbara A. Williams
Herbert G. Winful
James E. Young
Mack Gipson
John Leftwich
Patrice Mahob
David Padgett
Sherilyn Stroud
Wesley Ward
Carolyn Shoemaker
Vera Rubin
Jill Tarter
Judith Pipher
Sally Ride
Nancy Roman
Wendy Freeman
Carolyn Porco
Jordana Blacksberg
Joseph N. Cannon, Chemical Engineer, Prof. - Howard University
Lloyd Ferguson, Chemist, Prof. - California State University
William M. Jackson, Chemist, Prof. - Howard University
William Guilory, Chemist, Prof. - Drexel University
Henry C. McBay, Chemist, Prof. - Morehouse College
Charles Merideth, Chemist, Chancellor, The Atlanta University Center, Inc.
James Porter, Chemical Engineer, Prof. – MIT
Corey Welch (ecology Iowa state)
Corey Garza (marine science Cal State Monterey Bay)
Patricia Silveyra (biochemistry Penn State)
Erika Camacho (applied math, Arizona State)
Martha I Dávila-García (pharmacology Howard U)
Pamela Padilla (biology U of North Texas)
Ahna Skop (genetics U of Madison Wisconsin)
Carmen Cordova (staff scientist Natural Resources Defense Council)
Gabriel Montano (nanotechnology, Los Alamos Nat’l Laboratory)
Katrina Claw (pharmaceutics, U of Washington)
Laura Robles (biology, Cal State)
Lisa White, paleontologist UC
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