Black history month?????

Question

For extra credit i have to find n african american biologists (and something great that they contributed to the world today)? please nothing easy im in 9th grade && im in advanced classes. Any ideas?. Thank so much!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Give this lady a try, i copied this from the site linked below

Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb

Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb (1924-...) is an African American biologist known for her research and her work to promote science education. Cobb conducted important studies on skin cells that produce the brown pigment melanin. She was interested in learning how these cells work normally and how they become cancerous. Cobb also studied the effects of newly discovered chemotherapies (drug treatments). Her research focused on the effects that cancer therapies have on normal human cells.

Cobb is also well known for her work to promote educational opportunities in science for women and minorities. She has worked continuously with organizations to help schools develop programs to prepare women and minority students for college and for careers in mathematics and science. In 1993, the National Science Foundation presented her with the Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the advancement of women and minorities in science.

Jewel Isadora Plummer was born in Chicago, where her father, a physician, had a successful medical practice. She became interested in biology at an early age. In 1941, she studied biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor but transferred to Talladega College in Alabama the next year. She graduated in 1944 and accepted a fellowship to teach and study cell biology at New York University. She earned an M.A. there in 1947 and a Ph.D. in 1950. In 1954, she married Roy Raul Cobb, an insurance salesman.

Jewel Cobb held many teaching and administrative positions including dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey from 1976 to 1981. From 1981 until 1990, she served as president of California State University at Fullerton.

Answer 3

Here's a list of 4. Dr. Drew is my personal favorite.

Charles Henry Turner
(1867-1923) A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Turner received a B.S. (1891) and M.S. (1892) from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. (1907) from the University of Chicago. A noted authority on the behavior of insects, he was the first researcher to prove that insects can hear.

Ernest Everett Just
(1883-1941) Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Just attended Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. in zoology in 1916. Just's work on cell biology took him to marine laboratories in the U.S. and Europe and led him to publish more than 50 papers.

Roger Arliner Young
(1889-1964) Ms. Young was born in Virginia and attended Howard University, University of Chicago, and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a Ph.D. in zoology in 1940. Working with her mentor, Ernest E. Just, she published a number of important studies.

Dr. Charles Richard Drew
(1904-1950) Born in Washington, D.C., Drew earned advanced degrees in medicine and surgery from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in 1933 and from Columbia University in 1940. He is particularly noted for his research in blood plasma and for setting up the first blood bank.

Answer 4

It is rare to find a man of the caliber of George Washington Carver. A man who would decline an invitation to work for a salary of more than $100,000 a year (almost a million today) to continue his research on behalf of his countrymen.

Agricultural chemist, Carver discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were his recipes and improvements to/for: adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Only three patents were ever issued to Carver.