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Black History Month: Recognizing African-American Scientists and Inventors
Updated: Feb 10,
We're celebrating Black History Month this year by highlighting African-American scientists and inventors. Each Friday at 11 a.m. this month, we'll discuss these groundbreaking people during our Curiosity L!VE series on Instagram. Learn more about the program here.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was a botanist, inventor, and teacher. He invented over uses for the peanut and developed methods to prevent soil depletion. Together with other agricultural experts, he urged farmers to restore nitrogen in their soils by practicing systematic crop rotation: alternating cotton crops with plantings of sweet potatoes or legumes (such as peanuts, soybeans, and cowpeas). These crops both restored nitrogen to the soil and were good for human consumption! Learn more about him during our Curiosity Live from February 4, .
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer was an inventor and draftsman best known for his contributions to the patenting of the light bulb and the telephone. In addition to assisting others, Latimer designed a number of his own inventions, including an improved railroad car bathroom and an early air conditio
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List of African-American inventors become more intense scientists
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Black Scientists and Inventors
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The following list includes African-American scientists and inventors who contributed to the advancement of science and technology in the United States, including George Washington Carver, Thomas Jennings, Rebecca Cole, and more.
- Archibald Alphonso Alexander, design and construction engineer
- Benjamin Banneker, American intellectual and scientist
- Patricia Bath, American inventor
- Edward Bouchet, physicist, chemist
- Benjamin Bradley, inventor
- Herman Russell Branson, physicist
- George Washington Carver, American agricultural chemist
- Emmett W. Chappelle, biochemist
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, biologist, physiologist
- Rebecca Cole, physician
- David Crosthwait, Jr., engineer, inventor
- Mark Dean, American inventor
- Martin Robinson Delany, American Black leader, physician
- Charles Richard Drew, physician
- Clarence L. Elder, engineer and inventor
- Philip Emeagwali, computer scientist, mathematician
- Evan Forde, oceanographer
- Lloyd Hall, chemist
- Samuel Elmer Imes, chemist, physicist
- Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician
- Thomas L. Jennings, inventor
- Frederick McKinley Jones, inventor
- Percy Lavon Julian, chemist
- Ernest Everest Just, biologist, educator
- Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor
- Henry Cecil Ransom McBay, chemist
- Elijah McCoy, inventor