Ernest Everett Just: a snapshot biography.
Ernest Everett Just Biography The years of his life were often experienced with unkind treatment, as he faced much discrimination for being black. But through t...
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Chemist Alice Augusta Ball
Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed a treatment for leprosy after becoming the first woman and African-American to graduate with a master’s deg...
Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography
Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...
A snapshot biography of Mary Watson Whitney
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1847, Mary excelled as a student from a young age. But because of the time, her college options were limited. She went to the...
Marie Skłodowska Curie: a snapshot biography
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a p...
Botanist Alice Eastwood: a snapshot biography
At fourteen, she moved back in with her father, who was now living in Denver. There she attended high school, graduating as the valedictorian of her class. With...
Astronomer Beatrice Tinsley – a snapshot biography.
Beatrice Tinsley loved music, she loved math, she enjoyed being in the outdoors and she was completely unafraid to speak her mind, blithe to authority. As a chi...
Agricultural scientist George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver had a difficult start in life. Born sometime around 1864, his father died shortly before George’s birth, likely from an accident ...
A snapshot biography of geologist Florence Bascom
Florence Bascom loved being out, working in the outdoors. “This is the life, to plunge into the welcome isolation of the field,” in her words. Known as the ...
Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon
Biography It was her mother who nurtured a love in young Annie Jump Cannon for astronomy. The two would sit in the attic of the family home and gaze and identif...