List of African-American women in STEM fields

This is a list of notable African-American women in STEM fields. Many have made significant contributions in the STEM fields, the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.^[1]

Prominent African-American women in these fields have included:

• Lilia Ann Abron (b. 1945), chemical engineer, entrepreneur ^[2]
• Gloria Long Anderson, Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College
• Shellye Archambeau,^[3] CEO of MetricStream
• Treena Livingston Arinzeh ^[4]
• Wanda Austin
• Alice Ball
• Patricia Bath
• Regina Benjamin
• Angela Benton ^[3]
• Matilene Berryman
• Sarah Boone ^[5]
• Carolyn Brooks
• Dorothy Lavinia Brown
• Marjorie Lee Browne
• Kimberly Bryant ^[3]
• Ursula Burns
• Alexa Canady
• Majora Carter ^[3]
• May Edward Chinn
• Yvonne Clark
• Jewel Plummer Cobb
• Rebecca Cole, second African-American female to graduate from medical school
• Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892–1926), first female aviator of African-American descent; inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006
• Margaret S. Collins (1922–1996), zoologist, one of the world's foremost authorities on termites ^[6]
• Patricia S. Cowings
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Marie Maynard Daly
• Helen Octavia Dickens
• Annie Easley
• Cecile H. Edwards (b. 1926), nutritional researcher ^[7]
• Joycelyn Elders
• Dale Emeagwali ^[5]
• Jeanette J. Epps
• Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
• Brittney Exline ^[8]
• Angella D. Ferguson (b. 1925), pediatrician, early researcher of sickle-cell disease ^[9][10]
• Njema Frazier
• A. Oveta Fuller (b. 1955), microbiologist, studied the herpes simplex virus ^[11]
• Vicki Gambrell ^[12]
• Sarah E. Goode
• Evelyn Boyd Granville
• Bettye Washington Greene
• Eliza Ann Grier (1864–1902), first African-American woman to practice medicine in Georgia
• Bessie Blount Griffin
• Betty Harris ^[13]
• Mary Styles Harris
• Ruby Puryear Hearn (b. 1940), biophysicist, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation ^[14]
• Mary Elliot Hill (1907–1969), chemist (NBAS, BISAM) ^[15]
• Stephanie Hill ^[16][17]
• Esther A. H. Hopkins (b. 1926), chemist, patent attorney ^[18]
• Fern Hunt
• Yasmin Hurd
• Fatimah Jackson
• Shirley Ann Jackson
• Mae Jemison
• Ashanti Johnson ^[4]
• Katherine Johnson
• Tracy L Johnson
• Sinah Estelle Kelley (1916–1982), chemist, worked on mass production of penicillin ^[19]
• Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (b. 1912) ^[20]
• Angie Turner King (1905–2004), chemist and mathematician ^[21]
• Reatha King
• Lisa Lambert ^{[3][22][23][24][25]}
• Margaret Morgan Lawrence (b. 1914), pediatric psychiatrist, researched negative psychological effects of segregation on Black children ^[26]
• Kathryn Emanuel Lawson (1926–2008), chemist ^[27]
• Shirley M. Malcom (1946), science administrator ^[28]
• Cora Bagley Marrett (b. 1942), sociologist, science administrator ^[29]
• Pamela McCauley-Bush ^[30][31]
• Dorothy McClendon ^[5]
• Kyla McMullen
• Shireen Mitchell
• Ruth Ella Moore
• Tanya Moore ^[4]
• Ann T. Nelms
• Lydia Newman ^[5]
• Joan Murrell Owens, (b. 1933), marine biologist, expert on button corals ^[32]
• Vivian W. Pinn (b. 1941), pathologist, Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ^[33]
• Mary Logan Reddick
• Antoinette Rodez Schiesler
• Cheryl L. Shavers (b. 1953), semiconductor engineering and management, first African-American Undersecretary of Commmerce for Science and Technology ^[34]
• Mabel Keaton Staupers
• Susan McKinney Steward
• Latanya Sweeney, computer scientist best known for work on k-anonymity
• Lisette Titre ^[4]
• Margaret E. M. Tolbert (b. 1943), chemist and science administrator ^[35]
• Marguerite Williams
• Geraldine Pittman Woods (1921–1999), science administrator ^[36]
• Dawn Wright (b. 1961), oceanographer, geographer, expert in seafloor mapping, marine geographic information systems^[37][38]
• Jane C. Wright
• Chavonda J. Jacobs Young (b. 1967), chemist, USDA administrator ^[39]
• Christine Darden
• Jedidah Isler

See also

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• List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
• STEM pipeline
• National Society of Black Engineers
• African American women in computer science

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External links

• DOE.gov: Women @ Energy series — by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).