The photos, names, and occupations of these people in the sciences are only part of their stories.
Just for fun, use the links below or do your own research to find out:
Who is still in school at MIT in Cambridge but already working on a project for NASA?
Who was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures?
Who works for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.?
Who is a retired Air Force colonel?
Which of these people plays heavy metal guitar?
Who attended Howard University at age 16?
Who became interested in science when she and her brother walked through the woods catching insects and animals?
Who developed robots that study the impact of global warming in Antarctica?
Who said as a child, "If I had a screwdriver and a pair of pliers, anything that could be opened was in danger" and later invented microphone technology?
Learn more:
Cagle: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/cagle.html
Daily: https://www.cise.ufl.edu/people/faculty/daily
Day: http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/agnes-day
Drew: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/BG/p-nid/336
Francisco: http://chem.unl.edu/joseph-s-francisco
Frederick: https://www.howard.edu/secretary/trustees/bios/frederick.htm
Green:http://www.tuskegee.edu/academics/colleges/ceps/ceps_special_programs/phd_program_in_materials_science_engineering/facultystaff/dr_hadiyah-nicole_green2.aspx
Guinn: https://www.gineersnow.com/engineering/aeronautical/22-year-old-student-already-engineer-nasa
Hammonds: http://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/evelynn-hammonds
Howard: http://howard.ece.gatech.edu/
Jackson, M.: https://www.nasa.gov/content/mary-jackson-biography
Jackson, S.: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/faculty/coll_pres_jacksonbio.html
Johnson: https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography/
Just: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/just-ernest-everett-1883-1941
Mickens: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/mickens
Neal: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/directory/faculty/ci.nealhomer_ci.detail
Stevens: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-12-21/features/0512210202_1_new-panda-giant-panda-program-smithsonian-national-zoological-park
Vaughan: https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography
Washington: https://staff.ucar.edu/users/wmw
West: http://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/faculty/west-james-e/
(sources and photo credits: Johns Hopkins University, NASA, Harvard University, NYT, Tuskegee University, MIT, UCAR, WGBH, University of Florida, NIH, Howard University, The History Makers, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Smithsonian Museum, blackpast.org, University of Michigan, Wikipedia)
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