GREAT BLACK INVENTORS WHOSE INVENTIONS CREATED THE WEALTHIEST GLOBAL INDUSTRIES! | NEIL FRAZIER

Agricultural Science and Invention:

1. George Washington Carver – Inventor of Crop Rotation Methods and Peanut Products

Engineering and Invention:

2. Garrett Morgan – Inventor of the Traffic Signal and Gas Mask

3. Marie Van Brittan Brown – Inventor of the Home Security System
4. Lewis Howard Latimer – Key Contributor to the Development of the Lightbulb and Telephone
5. Granville T. Woods – Known as the “Black Edison,” Pioneered Railway and Communication Technologies
6. Lonnie G. Johnson – Inventor of the Super Soaker Water Gun
7. Jan Ernst Matzeliger – Revolutionized Shoe Manufacturing with the Shoe Lasting Machine
8. Norbert Rillieux – Pioneer in Sugar Refining Processes
9. Lewis Temple – Revolutionized Whaling Techniques with the Toggle Harpoon
10. Otis Boykin – Inventor of the Control Unit for the Pacemaker
11. Benjamin Montgomery – Pioneered Steamboat Propulsion Systems
12. Bessie Blount Griffin – Developed Devices to Help Disabled Veterans Feed Themselves
13. Mark Dean – Co-Inventor of the IBM Personal Computer and Color PC Monitor
14. Valerie Thomas – Creator of the Illusion Transmitter, an Early Form of 3D Imaging
15. Tiera Fletcher – Worked on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS)
16. Elijah McCoy – Known for His Automatic Lubrication System for Steam Engines

Medicine and Healthcare: 16. Dr. Patricia Bath – Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe for Cataract Treatment

17. Vivien Thomas – Helped Develop Techniques for Cardiac Surgery, Including the Blalock-Taussig Shunt
18. Dr. Charles Drew – Pioneer in Blood Plasma Preservation and Blood Transfusion Techniques
19. Dr. Mae Jemison – Physician, Engineer, and NASA Astronaut
20. Dr. Betty Wright Harris – Contributed to the Development of Drugs to Treat Glaucoma and Herpes
21. Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler – First African American Woman to Earn a Medical Degree in the United States
22. Dr. Mary Mahoney – First African American Registered Nurse in the United States
23. Dr. Alexa Irene Canady – First African American Woman Neurosurgeon in the United States
24. Dr. Ernest Everett Just – Pioneer in Cell Biology and Fertilization
25. Dr. Joycelyn Elders – First African American Surgeon General of the United States
26. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams – Performed One of the First Successful Open-Heart Surgeries

Science and Chemistry: 26. Percy Julian – Pioneer in the Chemical Synthesis of Medicines

27. Dr. Marie Maynard Daly – First African American Woman to Receive a Ph.D. in Chemistry in the United States
28. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson – Notable for Her Work in Semiconductor Physics
29. Dr. Percy Lavon Julian – Known for Synthesizing Medicinal Compounds from Natural Plant Sources
30. Dr. George Robert Carruthers – Designed the Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph for NASA’s Apollo 16 Mission
31. Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green – Known for Her Work in Quantum Physics and Cancer Treatment Research
32. Benjamin Banneker – Mathematician, Astronomer, and Surveyor

Technology and Computing: 32. Dr. Gladys West – Key Contributor to the Development of GPS Technology

33. Dr. Mark Dean – Co-Inventor of the IBM Personal Computer and the ISA Bus
34. Roy L. Clay Sr. – Helped Develop Hewlett-Packard’s First Computer
35. Lisa Gelobter – Co-Inventor of Web Animation Technology and WebTV
36. Kimberly Bryant – Founder of Black Girls Code
37. Philip Emeagwali – Pioneer of High-Performance Computing and the Internet
38. Dr. Jesse Russell – Inventor of Digital Cellular Technology
39. Dr. Marian Croak – Inventor of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Technology
40. David L. Evans – Co-Inventor of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
41. Dr. James E. West – Co-Inventor of the Electret Microphone
42. Clarence “Skip” Ellis – Pioneer in Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction
43. Marie Maynard Daly – Pioneered Research on the Relationship Between High Cholesterol and Heart Disease
44. Henry Sampson – Co-Inventor of the Gamma-Electric Cell for Nuclear Reactors

Physics and Quantum Physics:

45. Dr. Sylvester James Gates – Known for His Work in Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and String Theory

46. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson – Notable for Her Work in Theoretical Physics and Particle Physic

47. Dr. Ronald E. Mickens – Known for His Contributions to Quantum Mechanics and Dynamical Systems Theory

48. Dr. James Edward West – Worked on Quantum Electronics

49. Dr. Sekazi Mtingwa – Known for His Work in Quantum Field Theory, Particle Physics, and Accelerator Physics

50. Dr. Warren Washington – Contributed to Quantum Mechanics and Climate Modeling

51. Dr. Willie Rockward – Researcher in Quantum Optics and Nonlinear Dynamics

52. Dr. K. Renee Horton – Researcher in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing

53. Dr. Carl Rouse – Researcher in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing

54. Dr. Ernest Everett Just – Pioneer in Cell Biology and Fertilization

55. Dr. Ernest Just – Notable for His Work on Cell Surface Development and Egg Fertilization

56. Dr. George Robert Carruthers – Designed the Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph for NASA’s Apollo 16 Mission

57. Dr. Charles Richard Drew – Developed Blood Banks and Blood Plasma Programs during World War II