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African Heritage in Science, Technology/Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM)
It's impossible to determine how many hundreds of thousands of people would have lost their lives without the contributions of African-American inventor Dr. Charles Drew. This physician, researcher and surgeon revolutionized the understanding of blood plasma – leading to the invention of blood banks. At the onset of World War II, He emerged as the leading authority on mass transfusion and processing methods, and went on to helm the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's laboratory and later at the Johns Hopkins University. Without any education past high school, Thomas became a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many surgeons. Vivien Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the U.S
Percy Lavon Julian was a U.S. research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants
Ruth Ella Moore was born in 1903. She received a Bachelor of Science from Ohio State University in 1926 and a Master of Arts in 1927. Ruth Moore received a Ph.D. in Bacteriology from Ohio State University in 1933 (Source), becoming the first black female to earn a Ph.D. in Bacteriology. Professor Moore's area of research focused on blood grouping and enteriobacteriaceae.
Ms. McClendon coordinates microbial research for the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) in Warren, Michigan. As a microbiologist, she develops methods to prevent microorganisms from contaminating the fuel and deteriorating military storage material. Currently, she is developing a fungicide, a chemical which will protect storage materials and not harm the people who use them.
Spelman graduate Ella Tyree worked near Chicago, where she did animal research "to determine the effects of radiation on humans." She managed the lab-animal farm for Argonne National Laboratories before being promoted to a research position
Blanche Lawrence was a Tuskegee graduate and the widow of a military pilot. When this picture was taken, she had been working at Argonne for 4 years; during that time, she had been promoted from a technician to “junior biochemist.”
Herman B. White Jr. will be the recipient of the 2010 Edward A. Bouchet Award from the American Physical Society. White, a scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics, is honored "for his contributions to KTeV experiments and the establishment of a new kind of interaction distinguishing matter from antimatter, as well as his outstanding public service and mentorship roles.
Valerie Thomas is an African American scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter for which she received a patent in 1980
Science
Contributions from the Past to the Present and into the future keep occurring in the field of science by African-Americans as whole and here are contributors to science.