Black History Month STEM Periodic Table

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  1. 1. Vivien Thomas was Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s main instructor of ______in 1976.
  2. 5. Opened the Evanston Sanitarium and Training School with her husband at their home.
  3. 6. The first African American to get an M.D. in the state of Indiana
  4. 10. First African American women to travel in space.
  5. 12. Willetta Johnson is one of the first African American women to get a PhD in theoretical physics, and also a ________ winner for writing the song “Saved”
  6. 15. Mary Reddick researched ______ embryology and chaired biology department at Atlanta University
  7. 17. Professional model and mentor at ‘Girls Who Code’
  8. 18. She is the program manager of the Smithsonian Institution’s Marine GEO program
  9. 20. The AAMC's first Vice President for Community and Minority Programs
  10. 22. Lonnie Johnsona former NASA and US Air Force engineer, most well known for his invention of the famous ________.
  11. 25. Marie Brown invented the modern home _______system
  12. 26. Darlene Dixon was a ___________scientist and toxicologic pathologist.
  13. 29. Discovered the Rao-Blackwell Theorem and made contributions to game theory
  14. 31. Stephon Alexander was a professor of physics at __________and the president of the National Society of Black Physicists.
  15. 34. In 1961, this African-American woman helped calculate the flight path which sent Alan Shepard (first U.S. astronaut) into space.
  16. 35. Henry Gamble was the fourth African American to graduate from _____ Medical School and was President of the National Medical Association in 1911-1912.
  17. 36. Kizzme Corbett helped and contributed towards the creation of THIS vaccine.
  18. 37. Susie King Taylor was the first African American _______ during the Civil War
  19. 39. Marie Daly was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in _________in the US.
  20. 40. Ernest E Just’s research of _________helped contribute greatly to developmental sciences
  21. 41. A medical student who graduated from Yale and is the host of “the Dose” podcast.
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  1. 2. First African American Woman too become a doctor in the US.
  2. 3. Founded the “Trusted Messenger” program
  3. 4. Marilyn Gaston discovered a revolutionary medical procedure in 1986 for _____
  4. 7. Garrett Morgan invented the traffic light, ______, and hair straightener solution.
  5. 8. Frederick Jones was the first African American elected to the American Society of _______ Engineers.
  6. 9. Developed new methods of bacterial detection that the FDA and similar agencies around the world rely on today to declare foods salmonella-free
  7. 11. Helped calculate lunar landing and orbit trajectories
  8. 13. A slave who was instrumental in mitigating the effects of a smallpox outbreak in 1700s Boston
  9. 14. First African American physician in Arizona, founded Booker T. Washington Memorial Hospital
  10. 16. Alexa Canady was the first African-American woman __________in the United States
  11. 19. Alice Augusta Ball created the first effective treatment for Hansen’s Disease otherwise known as _______.
  12. 21. Malik & Miles George are twins who are both Biomedical Engineering PhD students at MIT, working to develop biotechnologies to combat the effects of _________.
  13. 22. Joined the Manhattan Project as a research assistant from 1943-1945
  14. 23. First African American woman to practice medicine in Georiga
  15. 24. The first African-American woman to achieve a PhD in Zoology
  16. 27. Margaret Collins did extensive research on________.
  17. 28. opened the first nursing school in Georgia with her husband
  18. 30. Inventor of the kidney dish and electric self-feeding machine
  19. 32. James Harris was the first African American to discover an __________ on the periodic table; discovered elements 104 and 105.
  20. 33. Treena Arinzeh was the founder of the first ________ Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory at NJIT
  21. 38. Abdasis Hussein focuses his studies on _________diapause with mice.