Dr. Nazeer Ahmad
Dr. Nazeer Ahmad was a Guyanese born soil scientist whose work on tropical soils supported farmers all over the world in increasing the health and abundance of their crops.
Dr. Courtenay Felix Bartholomew
Dr. Courtenay Bartholomew was a Trinidadian research physician who was the first to diagnose AIDS in the English-speaking Caribbean. He grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad and loved studying the sciences as a child.
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian was one of the foremost chemists in the 20th century. He was one of six children to two middle class parents in Montgomery, Alabama, and all of his siblings attended college.
Dr. Charles Henry Turner
Dr. Charles Henry Turner was an African-American zoologist, civil rights activist, and educator whose work provided insight into certain behaviors of vertebrates in the19th century.
Dr. Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol CMG (pen name Abioseh Nicol)
Dr. Nicol was a physician, researcher, writer, and poet. Born in Sierra Leone, he and his family would later leave there, and he received his primary education in Nigeria.
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly was a biochemist and advocate for minorities in STEM. Originally from Queens, New York, she always showed an interest in science modeled after her father, an immigrant from the West Indies.
Dr. Thomas Risley Odhiambo
Dr. Thomas Risley Odhiambo was a Kenyan born entomologist whose work classified new genera and species of the Miridae bugs of East Africa.
Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones
Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones was a Canadian born physician and Canada’s first black woman to earn a medical degree.
Dr. George Robert Carruthers
Dr. George Robert Carruthers was a prodigy in Astronautical Engineering and the inventor of the only astronomical telescope sent to the moon.
Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta ball was a renowned biochemist and Seattle native who broke barriers in the field of Chemistry during the early 1900’s.