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To fathom more : African American scientists and inventors / Edward Sidney Jenkins ; with contributions by Patricia Stohr-Hunt, Exyie C. Ryder, S. Maxwell Hines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Edward Sidney.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- United States.
- African American scientists--Biography.
- African American scientists.
- African American inventors--Biography.
- African American inventors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 399 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1996]
- Summary:
- Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface, Benjamin Banneker; 18th Century Astronomer, Elijah McCoy; "The Real McCoy", Lewis Howard Latimer; Inventor and Renaissance Man, Daniel Hale Williams; Trail Blazing Surgeon and Builder of Hospitals, Granville T. Woods; So Trains Can Talk to Trains, Charles Turner; Pioneer Entomologist, George Washington Carver; Pioneer Chemurgist, Garrett Morgan; Firefighter's Breathing Helmet, Ernest E. Just; Biology of the Cell, Louis Tompkins Wright, M.D., Frederick McKinley Jones; Truck and Rail Refrigeration, Percy L. Julian; Born to be a Chemist, Charles R. Drew; Pioneer Blood Plasma Scientist, Jane C. Wright; Mother of Chemotherapy, Leon Roddy; The Spider Man, Reatha C. King; Chemistry of the Halogen Compounds, Shirley A. Jackson; Theoretical Physicist; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761802142
- 0761802150
- OCLC:
- 33357345
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