This week's open thread will focus on the scientists, engineers, and mathematicians that were involved in the space race. Mary Winston Jackson (April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became the National Aeronautics and Space … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: The scientists, mathematicians and engineers of NASA
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Saturday Open Thread: African Americans In Agriculture
Happy Saturday POU! Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African Americans In Agriculture
Monday Open Thread: African American Mathematicians
Mathematician and computer scientist Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to Joylette and Joshua Coleman. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a farmer and janitor. From a young age, Johnson enjoyed mathematics and could easily solve mathematical equations. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African American Mathematicians
Saturday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields
This week's threads highlighted black women pioneers in the STEM Fields. From mathematicians , scientists, video game animators,engineers and architects, black women have played major contributions to excelling and innovating the STEM fields. Norma Merrick Sklarek (April 15, 1926 – February 6, 2012) was an African-American architect who accomplished many firsts for … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields
Friday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields
ACG artist and computer animator Lisette Titre has contributed to some of EA’s highest profile games, including Tiger Woods Golf for Nintendo’s Wii, The Simpsons, and Dante’s Inferno. As a character modeler, Titre takes data from scanned images of characters or real-life individuals and reworks the information to build a 3-D digital sculpture. After the character’s digital … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Women Game Changers in the STEM Fields