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Dr. Ida Stephens Owens

Dr. Ida Stephens Owens.   Field: Physiology; Biochemistry Dr. Owens is known for her work on drug detoxifying enzymes but is also notable for being the first black woman to receive her doctorate from Duke University in 1967. Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville. Field: Mathematics

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Dr. Ida Stephens Owens

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  1. Dr. Ida Stephens Owens   Field: Physiology; Biochemistry Dr. Owens is known for her work on drug detoxifying enzymes but is also notable for being the first black woman to receive her doctorate from Duke University in 1967.

  2. Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville Field: Mathematics In 1949 (just a few years after Euphemia Lofton Haynes), Dr. Granville received her doctorate in mathematics. She has worked at the New York Institute of Mathematics, and as a professor at Fisk University, Texas College, University of Texas and California State University.

  3. Bessie Coleman Field: Aviation Coleman was the first black woman aviator. She received an international pilot’s license in 1921 in France due to the Jim Crow laws of the United States. 

  4. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Field: Physics  She's the first black woman to earn a doctorate in theoretical physics, and the first black woman to head the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

  5. Dr. Betty Harris Field: Chemistry  Dr. Harris is best known for her work in explosives and nuclear technology. She is known for her patented invention: The spot test to identify explosives in the field.

  6.  Henry T. Sampson Sampson invented the cell phone he also was the first African American to earn a Ph.D.in Nuclear Engineering in the United States. Some of his accomplishments include being a member of the united states between the years 1962 and 1964 and earning an atomic energy commission honor between 1964 and 1967.

  7. Alexander Miles Alexander Miles is known for improving the elevator. He improved the method of the opening, and closing to the elevator door; and he improved the closing and opening to the shaft when an elevator was not on that floor.

  8. Garrett Morgan On July 25, 1916, Garrett Morgan made national news for using his gas mask to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie. 

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