I follow this thread about black scientists.
And I found out that
Thomas Monroe Campbell was the first Cooperative Extension Agent in the United States and headed the first Extension Program as a field agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What does he have to do with science?
George Washington Carver (July 12, 1864 – January 5, 1943)[1] was an American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency.
Much of Carver’s fame was based on his research and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops as both a source of their own food and a cash crop.
Yeah, another great black scientist. One should be a scientist to pursuade africans to grow peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Mark Dean is the first African-American to become an IBM Fellow. In 1997, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Currently, he is an IBM Vice President overseeing the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. As a high-ranked manager they say that he led a team that developed the interior architecture (ISA systems bus) that enables multiple devices, such as modems and printers, to be connected to personal computers.
His contribution to this invention is unknow. It is quite possible that he played only some administrative role as a manager.
Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is a noted American theoretical physicist. He received BS and PhD degrees from MIT, the latter in 1977. His doctoral thesis was the first thesis at MIT to deal with supersymmetry. Gates is currently the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.
His main achievement that received BS and PhD degrees from MIT.
Let’s call each person who has BS and PhD degrees from MIT a great scientist.
One knows about the policy of “positive descrimination” when Afro-Americans
are promoted in spite of their academic results
Mae Carol Jemison, M.D. (born 17 October 1956) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. She became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Another scientist who turned out to be not a scientist but a NASA astronaut.
Animals were the first in space and what out of it?
Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering black U.S. biologist. Just spent his adult life collecting, classifying, and caring for his marine specimens. He believed that scientists should study whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting.
So what? Each person spends life on something. Where are the results
Hehry Cecil McBay - just a teacher.
Ronald Erwin McNair - another austronaut
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. October 5, 1958 in New York City) is an astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Since 2006, he has hosted PBS’s educational TV show NOVA scienceNOW.
Another great scientist or rather a Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan’s and TV showman?
