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First African-American woman to earn a PhD in physics (University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1972) on vibrational analysis of secondary chlorides [147] Morgan, Garrett: 1877–1963 Inventor Invented an early version of a gas mask called a smoke hood, and created the first traffic light that included a third "warning" position which is standard today ...
Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a Catholic family living in the Bronx. [4] [5] His African-American father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927–2016), was a sociologist and human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
It includes physicists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American physicists" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total.
After leaving the Navy with an honorable discharge due to a skin condition from which he had suffered since he was a child, Oluseyi enrolled in Tougaloo College where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and mathematics. In 1991, he became a graduate student at Stanford University. He earned an M.S. degree in physics in 1995. [1]
The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), established in the United States in 1977, [1] is a non-profit professional organization with the goal to promote the professional well-being of African Diaspora physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and the world community at large.
Ashley Walker created the #blackinastro hashtag in the days following the death of George Floyd to highlight the Black experience in astronomy. It’s one of a slew of recent campaigns to raise ...
Her research explores the physics of blazars (hyperactive supermassive black holes) [3] and examines the jet streams emanating from them. [1] In November 2020, Isler was named a member of Joe Biden's presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [4]
Michio Kaku (Japanese: カク ミチオ, 加來 道雄, / ˈ m iː tʃ i oʊ ˈ k ɑː k uː /; born January 24, 1947) is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science.