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- Lewis H. Latimer
- engineer who made drawings for the first telephone
- Ernest E. Just
- biologist who did research in cell division
- Mae C. Jemison
- 1st African-American woman to be an astronaut
- David H. Blackwell
- mathematician who was the 1st African-American elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
- Charles R. Drew
- physician who organized the world's first blood plasma bank
- Percy L. Julian
- Chemist who developed medication used for arthritis
- Katherine Johnson
- aerospace tech. who helped design systems for tracking space missions
- Benjamin Banneker
- mathematician who made the first clock in America
- Shirley A. Jackson
- 1st African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics
- George E. Carruthers
- astrophysicist who designed an ultraviolet camera used in Apollo 16 moon landing