All Science & Technology

Film actress during Hollywood’s “Golden Age”, inventor, and the co-intervenor of the technology that will be the basis of modern days wireless communication systems.
Category: Theater & Cinema, Science & Technology.

A mathematician and ‘human computer’, among the first African-Americans who worked and progressed at NASA, and the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
Category: Science & Technology.

The first American woman astronaut in space.
Category: Science & Technology, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education.

A physician, an engineer, and an astronaut who was the first African-American woman to travel in space.
Category: Science & Technology.

A medical pioneer in late 19th century West Coast.
Category: Health, Academy & Education, Science & Technology.

The first Indian-American female astronaut to go to space.
Category: Science & Technology.

A mathematician and aerospace engineer, who was NASA’s first African-American female engineer.
Category: Science & Technology.

A spiritual leader and author, famous for establishing the Christian Science Movement.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Health, Science & Technology.

A mathematician and a human-computer, among the first African-American women who worked at NASA.
Category: Science & Technology, Academy & Education.

A self-taught botanist and plant collector, the first paid botanist of the Grand Canyon National Park.
Category: Science & Technology.