Happy #BHM ! Each day for the month of February we will feature a black scientist and their noble contributions that changed the world. More here: https://www.livescience.com/amazing-black-scientists.html

#1 James E. West (Born in 1931)
Inventor and acoustician.
Fields: Physics & Electrical Engineering
Work: West invented the foil electret microphone in 1962. Today, he is working on a device to detect pneumonia in infant lungs. More: https://www.livescience.com/amazing-black-scientists.html

#2 Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Mathematician, astronomer, farmer, and surveyor
Banneker's Almanac: The six volumes published between 1792 and 1797 included information about astronomy, medicine, future eclipses.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
https://www.livescience.com/amazing-black-scientists.html

#3 Percy L Julian (1899-1975)
Chemist
Developed a number of patents, including for synthesizing the hormones progesterone & testosterone from soybean oil. He also developed a new, cheaper method for synthesizing the steroid cortisone #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #ScienceIsDiversity

#4 Danielle Lee @DNLee5
Biologist
Lee is a founder of the National Science and Technology News Service, a media advocacy group to increase interest in STEM and science news coverage within the African-American community. #BHM #ScienceIsDiversity
More: https://www.livescience.com/amazing-black-scientists.html

#5 Alexandria Jones
Archeologist
"I am passionate about empowering future generations through the knowledge and perspectives only archaeology can provide.”

#6 Vernard Lewis
Entomologist
Lewis also worked to promote diversity in entomology, and participated in outreach programs to introduce underserved youth to life sciences, insects and biodiversity. #BHM

#7 Annie Easley (1933-2011)
Before retiring in 1989, Easley added the role of equal employment opportunity counselor to her long NASA resume, dealing with issues of discrimination in the agency. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

#8 Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Marine Biologist
Johnson is a Brooklyn, NY native and earned her doctorate from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. In 2013, she invented a fish trap that reduces bycatch, which won @NatGeo's first Solution Search award. #BHM #BHM2021

#9 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Cosmologist
Since 2016, she's been the principal investigator for a project funded by the Foundational Questions Institute called Epistemological Schemata of Astro|Physics: A Reconstruction of Observers. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

#10 Brian Nord
Astrophysicist
Nord is the third and youngest Black physicist to hold a position at Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy lab that's been in operation since 1967. #ScienceIsDiversity #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2021

#11 Mae Jemison
@maejemison is also a physician, a Peace Corps volunteer, a teacher, a jazz dancer and choreographer, and a founder and president of two technology companies. #BHM #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScienceDay

#12 Gladys West
In the 1960s, West participated in award-winning research that proved the regularity of Pluto's orbit relative to Neptune (for every two orbits that Pluto makes around the sun, Neptune makes three). #BHM

#13 George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist and Inventor
In 1935, he was named head of the Division of Plant Mycology and Disease Survey for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. #BHM