List of African-American women in STEM fields
Appearance
This is a list of notable African-American women in STEM fields. Many have made significant contributions in the STEM fields, the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.[1]
Prominent African-American women in these fields have included:
- Lilia Ann Abron (b. 1945), chemical engineer, entrepreneur [2]
- Gloria Long Anderson, Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College
- Shellye Archambeau,[3] CEO of MetricStream
- Treena Livingston Arinzeh [4]
- Wanda Austin
- Alice Ball
- Patricia Bath
- Regina Benjamin
- Angela Benton [3]
- Matilene Berryman
- Sarah Boone [5]
- Carolyn Brooks
- Dorothy Lavinia Brown
- Marjorie Lee Browne
- Kimberly Bryant [3]
- Ursula Burns
- Alexa Canady
- Majora Carter [3]
- May Edward Chinn
- Yvonne Clark
- Jewel Plummer Cobb
- Rebecca Cole, second African-American female to graduate from medical school
- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892–1926), first female aviator of African-American descent; inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006
- Margaret S. Collins (1922–1996), zoologist, one of the world's foremost authorities on termites [6]
- Patricia S. Cowings
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler
- Marie Maynard Daly
- Helen Octavia Dickens
- Annie Easley
- Cecile H. Edwards (b. 1926), nutritional researcher [7]
- Joycelyn Elders
- Dale Emeagwali [5]
- Jeanette J. Epps
- Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
- Brittney Exline [8]
- Angella D. Ferguson (b. 1925), pediatrician, early researcher of sickle-cell disease [9][10]
- Njema Frazier
- A. Oveta Fuller (b. 1955), microbiologist, studied the herpes simplex virus [11]
- Vicki Gambrell [12]
- Sarah E. Goode
- Evelyn Boyd Granville
- Bettye Washington Greene
- Eliza Ann Grier (1864–1902), first African-American woman to practice medicine in Georgia
- Bessie Blount Griffin
- Betty Harris [13]
- Mary Styles Harris
- Ruby Puryear Hearn (b. 1940), biophysicist, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation [14]
- Mary Elliot Hill (1907–1969), chemist (NBAS, BISAM) [15]
- Stephanie Hill [16][17]
- Esther A. H. Hopkins (b. 1926), chemist, patent attorney [18]
- Fern Hunt
- Yasmin Hurd
- Fatimah Jackson
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Mae Jemison
- Ashanti Johnson [4]
- Katherine Johnson
- Tracy L Johnson
- Sinah Estelle Kelley (1916–1982), chemist, worked on mass production of penicillin [19]
- Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (b. 1912) [20]
- Angie Turner King (1905–2004), chemist and mathematician [21]
- Reatha King
- Lisa Lambert [3][22][23][24][25]
- Margaret Morgan Lawrence (b. 1914), pediatric psychiatrist, researched negative psychological effects of segregation on Black children [26]
- Kathryn Emanuel Lawson (1926–2008), chemist [27]
- Shirley M. Malcom (1946), science administrator [28]
- Cora Bagley Marrett (b. 1942), sociologist, science administrator [29]
- Pamela McCauley-Bush [30][31]
- Dorothy McClendon [5]
- Kyla McMullen
- Shireen Mitchell
- Ruth Ella Moore
- Tanya Moore [4]
- Ann T. Nelms
- Lydia Newman [5]
- Joan Murrell Owens, (b. 1933), marine biologist, expert on button corals [32]
- Vivian W. Pinn (b. 1941), pathologist, Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [33]
- Mary Logan Reddick
- Antoinette Rodez Schiesler
- Cheryl L. Shavers (b. 1953), semiconductor engineering and management, first African-American Undersecretary of Commmerce for Science and Technology [34]
- Mabel Keaton Staupers
- Susan McKinney Steward
- Latanya Sweeney, computer scientist best known for work on k-anonymity
- Lisette Titre [4]
- Margaret E. M. Tolbert (b. 1943), chemist and science administrator [35]
- Marguerite Williams
- Geraldine Pittman Woods (1921–1999), science administrator [36]
- Dawn Wright (b. 1961), oceanographer, geographer, expert in seafloor mapping, marine geographic information systems[37][38]
- Jane C. Wright
- Chavonda J. Jacobs Young (b. 1967), chemist, USDA administrator [39]
- Christine Darden
- Jedidah Isler
See also
- List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
- STEM pipeline
- National Society of Black Engineers
- African American women in computer science
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External links
- DOE.gov: Women @ Energy series — by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).