Black achievement in science

Examines the lives of African-Americans who have made an impact on the field of computer science.

Scientists and experts of African heritage have made many important contributions to technology.

Human beings have been exploring space close-up since the 1960s, and African-Americans have played a vital role throughout the process.

Discoveries in physics have happened at a rapid pace, and scientists of African heritage from around the world have been in the middle of the action.

Great scientific achievements, innovations, and inventions have been recorded in recent times and in the past by men and women of color.

Throughout recent centuries and perhaps never more so than today brilliant and dedicated creative people of African heritage are helping to make our world better and safer with their inventions.

Few sciences have been as much in the news as this one, which is concerned with the health of our planet.

Read about African American engineers who overcame barriers as they worked to use their talents to help the world.

The great African-American chemist George Washington Carver changed how we see not only peanuts, but the opportunities for black people in science.

Read how black biologists from around the world created new techniques in cell biology, made discoveries in DNA science, developed groundbreaking chemotherapies, and studied elephants, spiders, and other wildlife.