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The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Co-inventor of imaging x-ray spectrometer. NASA engineer. United States of America Army Civilian Engineer. Jackson, Mary: 1921–2005 Mathematician, Aerospace engineer NASA's first black female engineer Jackson, Shirley: 1946– Physicist Distinguished and pioneering scientific career, achieving several "firsts" as a woman and as an African ...
Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
According to the Society of Women Engineers, women and other minorities constituted approximately 16%-17% of engineering graduate students from 1990 to 2003. Furthermore, in 2003 approximately 20% (approximately 12,000)of new engineers were women, compared with about 80% of men (approximately 49,000). [citation needed]
The ACM-Mills Conference on Pioneering Women in Computing. Mills College, Oakland, California. May 7, 2000; In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles and Books Concerning More than 15,000 Black Individuals and Groups. 3rd edition Mary Mace Spradling, ed. (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co.), 1980. p. 289.
As a nice transition from Black History Month into Women's History Month, NASA named its D.C. headquarters after its first Black female engineer. Mary W. Jackson became NASA's first Black female ...
Sandra Kay Johnson (also published as Sandra Johnson Baylor) is a Japanese-born American electrical engineer, the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering at Rice University, [1] and the first black woman in the IBM Academy of Technology.
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.