| Name |
Life |
Occupation |
Inventions/Accomplishments |
| Virgie Ammons |
|
|
Invented a device for dampening fireplaces |
| Benjamin Banneker |
1731-1806 |
Mathematician
Astronomer
Surveyor
Clockmaker
Author
Farmer |
Constructed wooden clock (1753). Assisted in survey of the original boundaries of the District of Columbia (1791). Authored almanac and ephemeris (1792-1797) |
| Patricia Bath |
1942- |
ophthalmologist |
First African American female physician to receive a patent for a medical invention |
| Andrew Beard |
1849-1921 |
Farmer
Carpenter
Blacksmith
Railroad worker
Businessman
Inventor |
Made improvements to Jenny Coupler |
| Earl S. Bell |
1977- |
Inventor
architectural theorist
building designer |
|
| Miriam Benjamin |
|
Inventor |
Invented Gong and Signal Chair for hotels
Second black woman to receive a patent |
| Edmond Berger |
|
Inventor |
Invented early spark plug |
| Leonidas Berry |
1902-1995 |
Gastroenterologist |
Pioneer in the development and use of the gastroscope |
| David Blackwell |
1919- |
Statistician |
|
| Henry Blair |
?-1860 |
Inventor |
Second black inventor issued a patent
Invented early spark plug |
| Bessie Blount Griffin |
1914- |
Physical therapist
Inventor |
Invented object allowing amputees to feed themselves |
| Sarah Boone |
|
Inventor |
Invented improved ironing board allowing sleeves of women's garments to be ironed more easily |
| Otis Boykin |
1947-1982 |
Inventor |
|
| St. Elmo Brady |
1884-1966 |
Chemist |
|
| Herman Branson |
1914-1995 |
Physicist
Educator |
Best known for his research on protein structure |
| E. Luther Brookes |
1900s?-? |
Chemist, Educator |
|
| Charles Brooks |
|
Inventor |
Invented a type of street sweeper truck, and a type of paper punch |
| Phil Brooks |
|
Inventor |
Received a patent for a disposable syringe |
| Henry Brown |
|
Inventor |
Invented fire safe |
| Marie Brown |
|
Inventor |
Invented video home security system |
| John Albert Burr |
|
Inventor |
Received a patent for a type of Rotary-blade lawn mower |
| William Warrick Cardozo |
1905-1962 |
Pediatrician |
Pioneered research on sickle cell anemia. In October 1937 he published "Immunologic Studies in Sickle Cell Anemia" in the Archives of Internal Medicine, many of the findings still valid today. |
| Ben Carson |
1951- |
Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University |
|
| George Washington Carver |
1865-1943 |
Botanical researcher |
|
| Emmett Chappelle |
1925- |
Scientist and researcher |
Made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, biology, food science, and astrochemistry |
| David Crosthwait, Jr. |
1898-1976 |
Research engineer |
Expert on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
Received some 40 U.S. patents relating to HVAC systems. |
| Marie Maynard Daly |
1921- |
|
First black American woman with a Ph.D. in chemistry |
| Charles Drew |
1904-1950 |
Medical researcher |
|
| Lloyd Noel Ferguson |
1918-? |
Chemist
Educator |
First African American to receive a chemistry doctorate (1943, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Sarah P. Goode |
1850s-? |
Inventor |
Invented cabinet bed
First African American woman to receive a patent in the United States |
| Joseph L. Graves |
|
Evolutionary biologist |
|
| Lloyd Hall |
1894-1971 |
Chemist |
|
| James A. Harris |
1932-? |
|
Co-discovered two new elements: Rutherfordium (element 104) and Hafnium (element 105) at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory[citation needed] |
| Walter Lincoln Hawkins |
1911-1992 |
Scientist |
Inventor at Bell Laboratories |
| John E Hodge |
1914-1996 |
Chemist |
|
| Erich Jarvis |
|
Duke University Neuroscience |
Studies bird sogsb |
| Elgy S. Johnson |
?-1987 |
Mathematician |
|
| Frederick McKinley Jones |
1893-1961 |
Inventor |
|
| Percy Julian |
1899-1975 |
Chemist |
|
| Ernest Just |
1883-1941 |
Biologist |
|
| Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. |
1931-1981 |
Transplant surgeon/researcher |
Pioneer in organ transplantation, particularly renal transplant research and surgery
Author or co-author of 172 articles in scientific publications |
| Lewis Latimer |
1848-1928 |
Inventor |
|
| USAF Major Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. |
1935-1967 |
Major
Astronaut |
First black astronaut and member of the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program |
| Jan Matzeliger |
1852-1889 |
Inventor |
|
| Henry McBay |
1914-1995 |
Chemist |
|
| Ronald McNair |
1950-1986 |
Astronaut |
Astronaut killed during mission STS-51-L |
| Garrett Morgan |
1877-1963 |
Inventor |
|
| Norbert Rillieux |
1806-1894 |
Inventor
Engineer |
|
| John Uzo Ogbu |
1939–2003 |
Anthropologist |
Studied race and intelligence |
| Claude Steele |
? - |
Social scientist |
First studied stereotype threat |
| Vivien Thomas |
August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985 |
Surgical technician |
Helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
1958- |
Influential astronomer |
|
| Daniel Hale Williams |
1856-1931 |
|
|
| Granville Woods |
1856-1910 |
Inventor |
|
| Madam C.J. Walker |
1867–1919 |
Inventor |
created black cosmetic products |
