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To fathom more, African American scientists and inventors, Edward Sidney Jenkins ; with contributions by Patricia Stohr-Hunt, Exyie C. Ryder, S. Maxwell Hines

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To fathom more, African American scientists and inventors, Edward Sidney Jenkins ; with contributions by Patricia Stohr-Hunt, Exyie C. Ryder, S. Maxwell Hines

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

To fathom more

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

33357345

Responsibility statement

Edward Sidney Jenkins ; with contributions by Patricia Stohr-Hunt, Exyie C. Ryder, S. Maxwell Hines

Sub title

African American scientists and inventors

Table Of Contents

Benjamin Banneker: eighteenth century astronomer (1731-1806) -- Elijah McCoy: "The real McCoy" (1843-1929) / Edward S. Jenkins and Patricia M. Stohr-Hunt -- Lewis Howard Latimer: inventor and humanist -- Daniel Hale Williams, trail blazing heart surgeon and builder of hospitals -- Granville T. Woods: railway inventor (1856-1910) -- Charles Turner, pioneer entomologist (circa 1867-1923) / by Patricia Stohr-Hunt -- George Washington Carver: pioneer chemurgist (circa 1864-1963) / by Exyie Ryder -- Garrett Augusta Morgan, firefighters breathing helmet (1875-1963) -- Ernest Everett Just: biology of the cell (1883-1941) -- Louis Tompkins Wright, M.D. (1891-1952) -- Frederick McKinley Jones: turning ideas into inventions (1893-1961) -- Percy Julian: born to be a chemist (1899-1975) -- Charles Drew: pioneer blood plasma scientist (1904-1950) / by S. Maxwell Hines -- Jane Cooke Wright: mother of chemotherapy (1919- ) -- Leon Roddy: the spider man (1921-1975) -- Reatha Clark King: chemistry of the halogen compounds (1938- ) -- Shirley Ann Jackson: theoretical physicist (1946- )

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