Black Scientists
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Africa
Aminata Garba, from telecommunications to the Internet of Things
After studying in Niamey (Niger), she studied in Canada, at Laval University, and obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer…
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Africa
Saliou Touré, the African mathematician
Saliou Toure (June 4, 1937 in the sub-prefecture of Kolia, department of Boundiali in northern Ivory Coast ) is an…
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Africa
Philip Emeagwali, the nigerian genius
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian engineer, mathematician and computer scientist. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a recognition of…
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Black Scientists
George Washington Carver, the agricultural scientist
George Washington Carver was an American botanist, agronomist, and inventor, born on January 1, 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri and…
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Black Scientists
Alice Ball, the first woman to graduate from the University of Hawaii
Alice Augusta Ball (born July 24, 1892 – died December 31, 1916) is an American chemist. She is best known…
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Astronomy
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mister Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist born on October 5, 1958 in New York. Since 1996, he has been…
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Black Scientists
Edward Alexander BOUCHET: The first Black physicist of the modern era
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the last of Susan and…
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Black Women
Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956; She is the youngest of three children of…
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Black Scientists
Garrett Morgan: the inventor of traffic light and gas mask
Garrett Augustus Morgan, one of the most successful black inventors of all time, created two major inventions that today protect…
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Black Scientists
Norbert RILLIEUX, the famous inventor and chemist
Norbert RILLIEUX was born on March 17, 1806, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a French father ( planter and inventor)…
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