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6 days ago · 1997: Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu was the first African American awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. [9] 1997 Scott W. Williams produced the website, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora , a collection of African-American mathematicians, newsletter, and resources on Africans in ...
5 days ago · James Watson (born April 6, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American geneticist and biophysicist who played a crucial role in the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance that is the basis of heredity. For this accomplishment he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with ...
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2 days ago · e. Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of ...
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4 days ago · E.O. Wilson (born June 10, 1929, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.—died December 26, 2021, Burlington, Massachusetts) was an American biologist recognized as the world’s leading authority on ants. He was also the foremost proponent of sociobiology, the study of the genetic basis of the social behaviour of all animals, including humans.
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5 days ago · Alice Augusta Ball, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1892, became the first woman and first African American to earn a master's degree in science from the College of Hawaii in 1915, after ...
13 hours ago · First and foremost, the underrepresentation of scientists with East Asian and African names may be due to pragmatic challenges faced by U.S.-based journalists in interviewing them. Factors like time zone differences for researchers based overseas and actual or perceived English fluency could be at play as a journalist works under deadline to ...
5 days ago · 1. Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein, one of the most renowned scientists in history, was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, during the Kingdom of Württemberg’s reign. His early education was in Munich, where his family moved when he was a child. He is most famous for his theory of relativity, which fundamentally altered the ...
