AFRICAN
AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS, ASTRONOMERS,
AND ASTROPHYSICISTS
Below you will find a picture of the display and resource links to African Americans in astronautics, astronomy, and astrophysics.
Featured Scientists
Thomas Fuller, African slave, Mathematician, and Trailblazer, 1710-1790
Thomas Fuller, African slave and mathematician
Thomas Fuller (1710-1790) - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts
Bridging the Two Cultures: American Black Scientists and Inventors
Benjamin Banneker, Freeman, Astronomer, and Mathematician, 1731–1806
Benjamin Banneker - Home Page
Memoir of Benjamin Banneker: Read Before the Maryland Historical Society
Benjamin Banneker : surveyor, astronomer, publisher, patriot/Charles Cerami
The African Heritage of Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Mathematician and Astronomer
Banneker, Benjamin Writngs
Major Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., Engineer, Pilot, and First African-American Astronaut, 1935-1967
Fact Sheets : Robert Lawrence
The unsung astronaut
Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men/Tonya Bolden
They Had a Dream : The Story of African-American Astronauts/J. Alfred Phelps
Dr. George R. Carruthers, Inventor, Engineer, and Astrophysicist
George R. Carruthers - Physicist of the African Diaspora
George R. Carruthers - NASA Oral History
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century/James H. Kessler.
Proposed mission concept for the Astrophysical Plasmadynamic Explorer(APEX)
Space Schmidt imaging telescope: optical concept and astrophysical objectives
Far-ultraviolet stellar occultation measurements of the upper atmosphere
Colonel Guión S. Bluford, Jr., Pilot, Engineer, First African-American in space
Guion S. Bluford, Jr.
NASA - Guy Bluford Remembered Twenty Years Later
Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science/Betty Kaplan Gubert
The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation/Charles E. Francis
Applying science in space to practical needs
Dr. Derrick Pitts, Vice-President/Chief Astronomer Franklin Institute Science Museum/Fels Planetarium
NetNews
MCCC’s ‘Evening Under the Stars’
Halley's Comet Almanac, 1986
A Conversation with Astronomer Derrick Pitts
The great comet crash/WHYY, Philadelphia
Dr. Ronald McNair, Physicist, Astronaut, and Martial Artist, 1950 -1986
Ronald E. McNair - Physicist of the African Diaspora
Astronaut Bio: Ronald McNair
Dr. Ronald E. McNair Foundation
They had a dream : the story of African-American astronauts /J. Alfred Phelps
Black stars in orbit : NASA's African-American astronauts /Khephra Burns
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Origins
NOVA scienceNOW
From black holes to black history
The sky is not the limit : adventures of an urban astrophysicist/Neil deGrasse Tyson
Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries/Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cosmic horizons : astronomy at the cutting edge/Steven Soter and Neil de Grasse Tyson
My favorite universe /Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dr. Mae C. Jemison, Physician, Astronaut, Educator, First African-American Woman in space
Astronaut Bio: Mae C. Jemison
Gale - Mae C. Jemison
Find where the wind goes : moments from my life / Mae Jemison.
Epic lives : one hundred black women who made a difference / edited by Jessie Carney Smith.
Black women scientists in the United States / Wini Warren.
Black Birds in the Sky: The Legacies of Bessie Coleman and Dr. Mae Jemison
Dr. Beth A. Brown, NASA Astrophysicist - Goddard Space Flight Center, Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
NASA Quest > Astrobiology
Dr. Beth A. Brown
Careers of African Americans in Academic Astronomy
BAW: Living Black History: Astronomer Beth Brown Boldly Goes Where ...
NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
Resources
African American Culture and History
African American World
African American Odyssey
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Museum of African American History Boston
African Americans in the Sciences
From Banneker to Best: Some Stellar Careers In Astronomy and Astrophysics
Science NetLinks: African Americans in Science
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Nasa Quest: Chats with African American Scientists
National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)
National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Astronomy, Space, and Beyond
Astronomy.com
SPACE.com
Night Sky Info
Seeing in the Dark
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Databases
EbscoHosts
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Books
Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture/Claudia Zaslavsky.
African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention/Ray Spangenburg and Kit Moser.
African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design/Ron Eglash.
The Black Digital Elite: African American Leaders of the Iinformation Revolution/John T. Barber.
Black Sars: African American Women Scientists and Inventors/Otha Richard Sullivan
Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern (Journal of African Civilizations; Vol. 5, No. 1-2)/Ivan Van Sertima.
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century/James H. Kessler.
Geometry from Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations/Paulus Gerdes.
Notable Black American Scientists/Kristine M. Krapp.
To Fathom More: African American Scientists and Inventors/Edward Sidney Jenkins.
Women, Art, and Geometry in Southern Africa/Paulus Gerdes.
"Space is the Place" page by Leta Hendricks
February 1, 2008
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