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  2. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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    Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [81][82][83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee.

  3. Jerry Lawson (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Lawson (engineer) Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer. Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges ...

  4. Rufus Stokes - Wikipedia

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    Rufus Stokes (September 3, 1924 – June 22, 1986), an African American inventor, was born in Phenix City, Alabama.. Early life. Rufus Stokes grew up in the rural American South and attended public school in Alabama until he was 18 years old.

  5. George Robert Carruthers - Wikipedia

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    Thesis. Experimental investigations of atomic nitrogen recombination (1964) George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) [1][2] was an African American space physicist and engineer. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.

  6. Mark Dean (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    James Dean, Barbara Dean. Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) [1] is an African American [2] inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one- gigahertz computer processor chip. [3] He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. [4]

  7. Annie Turnbo Malone - Wikipedia

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    Community developer. Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone (August 9, 1877 [2][3] – May 10, 1957) [4] was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. [5][6] In the first three decades of the 20th century, she founded and developed a large and prominent commercial and educational enterprise centered on cosmetics for African-American women.

  8. Richard Spikes - Wikipedia

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    Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.

  9. Shirley Ann Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, [1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]