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1855–1905. 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 .
George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) [1] [2] was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame ...
Akin Adesokan, Nigerian writer, scholar and novelist. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977), Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. Toyin Adewale-Gabriel (born 1969), Nigerian writer. Ifi Amadiume (born 23 April 1947), Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist.
Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550–1607), The Netherlands – wind powered sawmill. Alexander Coucoulas (born 1933), U.S. – Thermosonic bonding. Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998), U.S. – Coulter principle. Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), France – co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera.
The International Innovation Index is part of a large research study that looked at both the business outcomes of innovation and government's ability to encourage and support innovation through public policy. The study comprised a survey of more than 1,000 senior executives from NAM member companies across all industries; in-depth interviews ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist writer, lecturer, and thinker at the turn of the 20th century. Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain. Benjamin Kidd (1858–1916), British sociologist, was not given a formal education. [1]
Mercedes Richards was the first to: make images of the gravitational flow of gas between the stars in any interacting binary. image the chromospheres and accretion disks in Algol binaries. apply the technique of tomography, in astronomy. make theoretical hydrodynamic simulations of the Algol binary stars. discover starspots on the cool star in ...
Miriam Benjamin. Henry Blair (inventor) Bessie Blount Griffin. Sarah Boone. Otis Boykin. Benjamin Bradley (inventor) Charles B. Brooks. Henry Brown (inventor) Marie Van Brittan Brown.