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Eugenie Clark Biologist Ph.D. form New York University Born: May 4, 1922 Died: February 25, 2015 Known as the “Shark Lady”, because that is what she chose to study, and she was the director of the Cape Haze Laboratory. |
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Yvonne Young Clark Engineer Master's from Vanderbilt University Born: April 13, 1929 Died: January 27, 2019 She was the first black woman to earn B.S. in Mechanical engineering at Howard University and the first woman to earn a Master's in engineering from Vanderbilt University. She earned the title of "TSU’s First Lady of Engineering” by being the first female faculty member at the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University. |
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Evelyn Boyd Granville Mathematician Ph. D. from Yale University Born: May 1, 1924 She is the second black women in the United states to earn a degree in Mathematics.
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Katherine Johnson Mathematician B.S. West Virginia State College Born: August 26, 1918 Died: February 24, 2020 Among the first African- American women to work for NASA and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015. |
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Chien-Shiung Wu Experimental Nuclear Physicist Ph. D. from University of California, Berkeley Born: May 31,1912 Died: February 16, 1997 Called the First Lady of Physics, she worked on the Manhattan Project and conducted an experiment to disprove the conservation of parity during beta decay. |
The National Institutes of Health has some amazing women supporting, doing research, and making discoveries in biomedical research. These women represent a multitude of cultures, ethnicities, abilities, and identities. The idea to honor women of color in science originated with the Committee for Women of Color in Biomedical Careers, a sub-committee of the working group for Women in Biomedical Careers at NIH. We have gathered their stories in hope that women and girls all over the world will be inspired, informed, encouraged, and empowered to pursue their own dream of scientific discovery.
https://www.edi.nih.gov/people/sep/women/wocis
