Across
- 1. Designed a long distance airplane, was only black person to display an airplane at 1st airshow.
- 3. Invented a highly effective treatment for leprosy, first woman and african american to graduate.
- 6. Researched peanuts, majored in art.
- 7. Inventor/Farmer. 2nd black to hold a patent.
- 8. 1st black president of American Psychological Association. Both he and his wife studied children for the civil rights movement.
- 9. Improved curing salt, dedicated much of his life to science.
- 12. One of the first physicians to perform an open heart surgery.
- 15. Captain in the U.S. Army during WW2 and became the first african american appointed surgical staff.
Down
- 1. Zoologist who discovered that insects can hear and alter behavior.
- 2. Helped Thomas Jefferson write the constitution when addressing slavery. Used astrology to author almanacs.
- 4. Inventor who helped establish the capital savings bank of Washington D.C. the first black bank.
- 5. Invented the Ironing Board patent.
- 10. Presidential Advisor to Nixon, first black department chair of Harvard. One of the most revered microbiologist teachers, taught for well over 50 years.
- 11. 1st african american to earn a doctorate degree in the US.
- 13. Inventor, died holding a total of 26 patents. Invented control unit for pacemakers.
- 14. Was a leading anthropologist.