AA in the Ss edit
African American women scientists from The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
Biochemists edit
Biologists edit
Chemists edit
Physicists edit
Geneticists edit
Inventors edit
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Zoologists edit
NAPE edit
- Susan McKinney-Steward (First African American Female MD in NY)
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler (First African American Female to Earn an MD)
- Mary Eliza Mahoney (First African American Graduate Nurse)
- Sarah Boone (Patent Holder for Improved Ironing Board)
- Lydia O. Newman (Inventor: Hairbrush with Detachable Brush and Bristles)
- Madame C.J. Walker (Born: Sarah Breedlove Walker, Inventor: Straightening Comb and Cosmetics)
- May Edward Chinn (First African American Female Intern in Harlem Hospital, Cancer Research)
- Ruth Ella Moore (First African American Female PhD in Bacteriology)
- Roger Arliner Young (First African American Female Zoologist, Marine Biologist)
- Helen Octavia Dickens (First African American Female in the American College of Surgeons)
- Dorothy Lavinia Brown (First African American Female Surgeon in the South)
- Dorothy McClendon (Microbiology Research, US Army)
- Mabel K. Staupers (Desegregation Nurse, US Army)
- Jewel Plummer Cobb (PhD Cell Physiology, Melanin Research, Cancer Treatment)
- Bessie Blount (Patent Holder for Handicapped Feeding Device)
- Jocelyn Elders (US Surgeon General)
- Jane Cooke Wright (First African American Female to be Associate Dean of a Medical School and President of the NY Cancer Society)
- Alexa Canady (First African American in Neurosurgery)
- Mae Carol Jemison (First African American admitted to the Astronaut Training Program)
- Patricia Bath (Patent Holder for Laserphacoprobe for Cataracts)
- Dale Emeagwali (NTA’s Scientist of the Year in microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry)
Infoplease edit
- Rebecca Cole (1846-1922)
- Roger Arliner Young (1889-1964)
- Aprille Ericsson (b. 1963)
- Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
- Patricia Bath (1942-)
BWS in the US edit
- Black Women Scientists in the United States Wini Warren 1999
- Gloria Long Anderson - Gloria Anderson?
- June Bacon-Bercy - June Bacon-Bercy?
- Patrica Erna Bath - Patrica Bath?
- Matilene Berryman - Matilene Berryman?
- Sylvia Trimble Bozeman - Sylvia Bozeman?
- Dorothy Lavinia Brown - Dorothy Brown?
- Marjorie Lee Brown - Marjorie Brown?
- Carolyn Cannon-Alfred - Carolyn Cannon-Alfred?
- May Edward Chinn - May Chinn?
- Gloria Twine Chisum - Gloria Chisum?
- Mamie Phipps Clark - Mamie Clark?
- Yvonne Clark - Yvonne Clark?
- Jewel Plummer Cobb - Jewel Cobb?
- Johnetta Betsch Cole - Johnetta Cole?
- Betty Elaine Collette - Betty Collette?
- Maraget James Strickland Collins - Maraget Collins?
- Carol Blanche Cotton - Carol Cotton?
- Patricia Suzanne Cowings - Patricia Cowings?
- Marie Maynard Daly - Marie Daly?
- Christine Voncile Mann Darden - Christine Darden?
- Geraldine Claudette Darden - Geraldine Darden?
- Mary Lovinia Deconge-Watson - Mary Deconge-Watson?
- Giovannae Anderson Dennis - Giovannae Dennis?
- Eugenia V. Dunn - Eugenia Dunn?
- Georgina M. Dunston - Georgina Dunston?
- Barbara Jeanne Dyce - Barbara Dyce?
- Annie Easley - Annie Easley?
- Cecile Hoover Edwards - Cecile Edwards?
- Anna Cherrie Epps - Anna Epps?
- Pricilla Violet Smart Evans - Pricilla Evans?
- Etta Zuber Falconer - Etta Falconer?
- Eleanor Ison Franklin - Eleanor Franklin?
- Sadie Catherine Gassaway - Sadie Gassaway?
- Evelyn Boyd Collins Granville - Evelyn Granville?
- Bettye Washington Greene - Bettye Greene?
- Margaret E. Grigsby - Margaret Grigsby?
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt - Gloria Hewitt?
- Mary Elliot Hill - Mary Hill?
- Esther A. H. Hopkins - Esther Hopkins?
- Ruth Winifred Howard - Ruth Howard?
- Deborah J. Jackson - Deborah Jackson?
- Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson - Jacquelyne Jackson?
- Mary Winston Jackson - Mary Jackson?
- Shirley Ann Jackson - Shirley Jackson?
- Charlene Drew Jarvis - Charlene Jarvis?
- Mae C. Jemison - Mae Jemison?
- Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson - Katherine Johnson?
- Eunice L. Jones - Eunice Jones?
- Sinah E. Kelly - Sinah Kelly?
- Angie Turner King - Angie King?
- Reatha Clark King - Reatha King?
- Flemmie Pansy Kittrell - Flemmie Kittrell?
- Margaret Morgan Lawrence - Margaret Lawrence?
- Katheryn Emanuale Lawson - Katheryn Lawson?
- Lillian Burwell Lewis - Lillian Lewis?
- Ruth Smith Lloyd - Ruth Lloyd?
- Beebe Steven Lynk - Beebe Lynk?
- Carolyn R. Mahoney - Carolyn Mahoney?
- Shirley M. Malcolm - Shirley Malcolm?
- Jessie Jarue Mark - Jessie Mark?
- Vivienne Lucille Malone Mayes - Vivienne Mayes?
- Shirley Mathis McBay - Shirley McBay?
- F. Pearl McBroom - F McBroom?
- Dorothy MCClendon - Dorothy MCClendon?
- Ruth Ella Moore - Ruth Moore?
- Lenora Moragne - Lenora Moragne?
- Diane Powell Murray - Diane Murray?
- Marion Antoinette Richards Myles - Marion Myles?
- Ann T. Nelms - Ann Nelms?
- Barbara J. Oden - Barbara Oden?
- Joan Murrell Owens - Joan Owens?
- Lynette Padmore - Lynette Padmore?
- Jennie R. PAtrick - Jennie PAtrick?
- Amanda Peele - Amanda Peele?
- Linda Phaire-Washington - Linda Phaire-Washington?
- Mildred E. Phillips - Mildred Phillips?
- Barabra Wright Pierce - Barabra Pierce?
- Gwendolyn Washington Pla - Gwendolyn Pla?
- Muriel E. Poston - Muriel Poston?
- Jessie Isabelle Prosser - Jessie Prosser?
- Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro - Johnnie Prothro?
- Mary Logan Reddick - Mary Reddick?
- Yvonne A. Reid - Yvonne Reid?
- Gladys W. Royal - Gladys Royal?
- Alberta Jones Seaton - Alberta Seaton?
- Marianna beck Sewell - Marianna Sewell?
- Dolores Cooper Shockley - Dolores Shockley?
- Gerogia Caldwell Smith - Gerogia Smith?
- Dolores Maragret Richard Spikes - Dolores Spikes?
- Jeanne Spurlock - Jeanne Spurlock?
- Nettie S. Strange - Nettie Strange?
- Marie Clark Taylor - Marie Taylor?
- Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert - Margaret Tolbert?
- Alberta Banner Turner - Alberta Turner?
- Ola B. Watford - Ola Watford?
- Rosa Clark Webster - Rosa Webster?
- Myra Willard - Myra Willard?
- Marguerite Thomas Williams - Marguerite Williams?
- Donella Joyce Wilson - Donella Wilson?
- Geraldine Pittman Woods - Geraldine Woods?
- Jane Cooke Wright - Jane Wright?
- Josephine A. Silone Yates - Josephine Yates?
- Roger Arliner Young - Roger Young?