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Chrishayden
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I just saw this guy on the Daily Show. He is a black astrophysicist and he has this book out, Death by Black Hole. Does anybody know anything about him? |
Yvettep
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Chris, can't you access Google with your floppy disc computer? 
Here's just some of what I came up with:
http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/tyson.html
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/11/neil_degrasse_t.html
http://haydenplanetarium.org/about/message/ |
Yvettep
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BTW, CH, note the name of the planetarium he's director of! Any relation? |
Chrishayden
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Nope
I am going to get one of his books. I think its great we have a black scientist out here. |
Yvettep
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I agree, Chris. But the number of Black scientists may surprise you, actually! Anyway, let me know how his book is. I am a big fan of popular science books, though I usually stay more in the evolution/mathematics/genetics areas. |
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Chris..surely you jest about Black Scientists..there are MANY..goodness..you must mean we should hear from Black scientists more than we do
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The Society of Black Scientists and Engineers (SBSE), a student-run organization, is a chartered member of the organization known as the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Nationally, the organization boasts of over 260 chapters and over 13,000 members, making it the largest student organization in the country. SBSE, which was chartered in 1973 by Professor Clayton Bates and a few Stanford University graduate students, is dedicated to fulfilling the mission of NSBE which is to increase the number of Black engineers and scientists who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community.
SBSE has continued a long tradition of programs on Stanford University’s campus geared towards the successful recruitment, retention, and graduation of talented and enthusiastic Black scientists and engineers. Some of these programs, include college tutorial sessions, engineering and science incentive programs, corporate presentations, Pre-College Initiative (PCI) outreach programs, and summer and permanent technical placement programs.
SBSE is primarily concerned with supporting the interests of Blacks and other minorities traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering professions on the Stanford University campus. Therefore, we strongly encourage and target minority students. However, all Stanford science and engineering students are invited to participate in all of our activities.
For this reason, SBSE benefits everyone involved with science and engineering, students as well as the companies recruiting those students. SBSE hopes to continue its programs placing emphasis on the support and development of Black scientists and engineers.
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UCSF
Corinna Kaarlela, News Director
Source: Jennifer O'Brien
jobrien@pubaff.ucsf.edu
415-476-2557
20 March 2003
Two young black scientists seek to empower, shift mindset of blacks
Two young, black scientists at the University of California, San Francisco -- with scientific achievements already behind them – are working to achieve another goal, as well – to change the ethnic landscape of the biomedical sciences. The researchers -- Frederick Moore, PhD, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in human genetics who has already made insights into the genes involved in male infertility, and Michael Penn, Jr., PhD, who has made findings regarding the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the UCSF Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology and who will receive his MD in May as part of the UCSF MD-PhD program – are leading a charge to shift the expectations that young blacks and Latinos have for their lives, encouraging young black and Latino students to enter the biomedical sciences and helping them to navigate the particular challenges they face in the world of academia. In 2001, Moore and Penn co-founded the nonprofit “Brothers Building Diversity in the Sciences,” aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities obtaining PhDs or MD-PhDs in the biomedical sciences.
And on Tuesday, March 25, Moore and Penn’s foundation will get a boost from Hollywood – at a special movie premier of the science fiction thriller “The Core,” starring black actor Delroy Lindo. In the movie, Lindo plays a geophysicist and inventor who becomes a member of a team of gifted scientists bent on saving the world from total destruction. The special premier, the brainchild of Lindo and hosted by Paramount, is intended to raise money for the Building Diversity nonprofit, as well as for The African American Male Achievers Network and The Algebra Project.
The need to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in engineering, math and the sciences is great. In the biological sciences, for instance, blacks and Latinos represent less than 6 percent of PhD scientists. Moore and Penn, who received their PhDs at UCSF and who say they have tutored and mentored hundreds of minorities during their academic careers, are now applying what they learned along the way.
“There is a completely different culture in science – one that I had to learn how to integrate, while keeping my identity and personality. I want to teach students this culture before they get to graduate school in order to make an already hard transition easier,” says Moore.
“Brothers Building Diversity in the Sciences,” which will be launched next year, will include the mentoring effort that Moore and Penn currently carry out with high school and college students - particularly those at junior colleges, “where many minorities are,” says Moore. But the team is also working to raise funds to provide stipends for undergraduate students to do summer research at UCSF and possibly at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford and biotech companies, as well. They also are in the process of developing a computer-based, on-line site for addressing issues affecting black and other minority students in the sciences -- to provide advice on courses to take, information about scholarships, tips for stress management and approaches for handling perceived racism.
But Moore and Penn’s ultimate intent is broader yet – to reach out to youth not inspired academically. “The young black community has perpetuated the attitude that excelling in school isn’t ‘cool.’ If young black males were exposed to educated black men with whom they share things in common, then a change in this stereotype could occur,” says Moore, who was inappropriately placed in the slow reading group in third grade, did the minimum amount of work in high school to get by with Cs and Bs, and socialized -- until he let his intellect take off. A near-fatal car crash left him with time to reflect, and he eventually moved with strong intent into the California community college system and on to University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a B.A. in molecular and cell biology and with honors in genetics.
“I wish someone had sat me down early on and explained that black people are viewed differently by society and that the first step in taking control of your destiny is a good education….There were steps I needed to take to ‘deprogram’ the perception of myself left by society and reprogram myself to live up to my potential,” he wrote in an essay included in the 2000 book “Brothers of the Academy…Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education.”
“The black community focuses a lot on being social,” says Moore. “The creative potential in the black community is limitless and is an untapped resource in the sciences.” Penn, who also wrote a chapter for “Brothers of the Academy,” emerged more directly as a scholar. He excelled in math and science at the academic Lowell High School in San Francisco and moved on to Morehouse College in Atlanta on a full scholarship, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and with a 3.94 grade point average, earning himself the highest-ranking person in the biology department.
But as he wrote in his chapter of the book, there were many things he didn’t know as he tried to make his way through academia. “African Americans, in general, do not have the benefit of learned academic behaviors of success that are garnered by growing up around generations of educated people,” he wrote. Penn, whose parents were first-generation college graduates, sees himself as someone who can offer young scholars insights he didn’t have.
“The only way that we can change the ethnic landscape of science is by empowering students academically and creating opportunities for them,” says Penn.
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Libralind2
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Flourishing in scientific careers - Black scientists on encouraging black students to take up science courses
Black Issues in Higher Education, Jan 9, 1997 by Gary M. Stern
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While completing his master's degree in zoology at the University of Maryland College Park in 1984, Dr. David Jett's advisor and several faculty members told him that he was not Ph.D. material.
Discouraged by their disapproval, Jett needed months, helped by the support of a close-knit group of fellow African-American science graduates, to regain his confidence. In 1992, Jett received his Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is now a tenured assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University.
"I wanted to show them that I had the makings of a Ph.D.," says the 38-year-old Jett, who contends that racism by his white professors colored their view of his Ph.D. potential.
Jett's persistence enabled him to join a select group of African American scientists. Though African Americans number 12 percent of the population, only 5.6 percent of American scientists in 1990 were Black, according to Bureau of Census statistics provided by the National Science Foundation. And in 1992, only 3.9 percent of all doctoral degrees in science were granted to African Americans.
Roosevelt Calbert, director of Human Resources Development at the National Science Foundation, attributes the dearth of Black scientists to a variety of factors including: the inadequate science requirements and teaching in most K-12 urban schools attended by most African American students; the lack of financial grants and scholarships bestowed on Black students in science; and the scarcity of mentors who can serve as role models and show African American youngsters how to handle the competitive aspects of science.
Moreover, Calbert attributes the lack of minority male scientists to peer pressure in which Black students interested in science are mocked for "not being macho." He also observed that many African Americans opt to become medical doctors because of the opportunity to earn more money.
"Some problems are financial. Another has to do with mentoring. Too many Black students don't have proper mentoring as undergraduates. And often parents don't offer enough support. Parents play a major role in a student's life who is interested in math or science," says Calbert.
Jett agrees. Succeeding as a Black scientist takes "mentors, finding the right environment that provides a level playing field, and perseverance," he says.
Jett Propelled by Parent, Mentor
While an elementary school student, Jett's mother, a druggist, took him to the, pharmacy where she worked and let him fill prescriptions under her watchful eye. Showing an early bent for science, he started watching nature and science shows in elementary school when other children were watching cartoons. He took biology and chemistry in high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, and his interest in science flourished at Hampton University in Virginia. After earning his master's from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1983, David Jett completed his doctorate in toxicology at the University Maryland School of Medicine in 1992.
Dr. James Abram, who taught biology and zoology at Hampton University, offered Jett a job as lab assistant after the gifted science student earned an "A" in biology. That job helped pay Jett's tuition, easing his financial burden.
Abram taught him "what science was all about and what kind of creativity it took to succeed," says Jett. Mentors play an important role because "science is a very competitive ordeal. You really need someone to guide you, show you the easiest path of resistance, help you evolve, and show you the ropes. On a more personal basis, you need a mentor to keep you going when you're tempted to give up," he explains.
Jett, whose research contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency's ban against certain insecticides, believes that since there are so few African Americans in most Ph.D. programs, Black students have to work much harder than white students to network, form study groups, and learn from the few Blacks who have doctorate degrees. To encourage more Black students to become scientists, he would like to see more high school science courses stress "hands-on, real world problems." He recommended that undergraduate courses for science majors teach what scientists do in their competitive careers, including learning how to write grants, proposals and papers.
Calbert also notes that affirmative action programs have proven successful in attracting Black men to the sciences. "These programs have given students hope and guidance, provided mentors, research and lab experience."
Mtingwa's Science Flair
Attending Henry McNeal Turner High School in Atlanta, Dr. Sekazi Kauze Mtingwa (who changed his name from Michael Von Sawyer while in college) expressed his initial interest in science while working on projects for local science fairs. He spent four years in high school developing one major project concerning whether a closed ecological system with green algae could travel in space. In 1967 at one of the first state Science Fair competitions that included white and Black high school students, Mtingwa's four-year project won first place in biology. That science fair victory and his high grades earned him a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
When Mtingwa was a junior at MIT, the college hired its first Black physics professor, Dr. James Young. Though Mtingwa was doing quite well in science courses on his own, Dr. Young advised him which courses to take for graduate school and what graduate schools were looking for in a student, and offered encouragement in the pursuit of advanced courses. Mtingwa took the advice and earned a Ford Foundation fellowship to work on his doctorate at Princeton University.
Mtingwa, 46, says one of his most difficult burdens was being the only Black student in his MIT undergraduate classes and one of two (in a program of one hundred candidates) at Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1976. Although he does not feel that he experienced blatant racism, Mtingwa does believe that the faculty "never quite treated you in the same way and never gave you the same amount of time as others." He does say, however, that several white, Black and Japanese professors were very encouraging to him.
After graduating from Princeton University, Mtingwa worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab from 1980-1988 and was involved in building the system that produced the anti-proton particle, a type of nuclear particle. Keen on making more of an impact on future minority scientists, he turned to teaching full-time in 1989 at Clark Atlanta University and is now a professor of physics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Part of his mandate as professor of physics is to train more minority professors to become physics teachers in secondary education. About thirty of the physics majors in his courses are African American.
We try to give them the tools, make sure they have the courses to apply for fellowship, and provide encouragement. With affirmative action being dismantled, there are enough obstacles out there," Mtingwa says.
Starting With a Chemistry Set
When Dr. Anthony Johnson, now forty-two and the chairman of the Department of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, was in fourth grade, he started experimenting with a chemistry set--a Christmas present from his father, a bus driver, and mother, a buyer for a department store.
From then on, Johnson was encouraged to pursue science as his avocation. At Tilden High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., he took a rigorous science program which included classes in chemistry, biology and physics. Johnson's physics teacher encouraged him to attend his own alma mater, New York's Polytechnic University. And at the Polytechnic Institute, one of his professors, Donald Scarl, encouraged Johnson to apply for an AT&T Bell Labs minority fellowship, which he was granted in 1974.
At Bell Labs, Johnson was once again encouraged, by Dr. David Auston to pursue experiments in high-speed lasers and optoelectronics. "He let me go and find my way in this million dollar lab and allowed me to make mistakes. It was important for my confidence," says Johnson, who worked on his Ph.D. at the City College of New York while spending summers working at Bell Labs for a stipend. After earning his doctorate in physics in 1981, Johnson conducted research in high-speed, fiber-optic communication at Bell Labs for 15 years. His research in voice, video and data communication, concentrated on linking multimedia to home computers.
In 1995 Johnson accepted a position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology hoping, he says, to launch more African Americans in science. On a recent visit to an elementary school, he says, he was struck by the openness and inquisitiveness of the elementary students. But he was also struck by the reluctance and resistance of the high school students he also visited.
"It's not hip for a Black kid to show interest in science," he says, adding that reaching minority students in elementary school is critical to generating interest in science as a career.
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Fort’s gate swung open to black scientists
Army research facility once known as the
‘Black Brain Center’
By gloria stravelli
Staff Writer
Since the 1940s, the laboratories at Fort Monmouth have been the setting for major achievements by black scientists and engineers, including creating technology that ushered in the space age and the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS), a satellite navigation system with wide civilian and military applications.
"Fort Monmouth was known as the Black Brain Center of the U.S.," said Thomas E. Daniels, an electrical engineer at the U.S. Army installation for 35 years.
Daniels has written extensively about the achievements of black scientists and engineers who worked at Fort Monmouth beginning in the early 1940s and reaching a peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
During that time, he said, black professionals working in U.S. Army laboratories were awarded more than 88 patents. Five African Americans — John L. Carter, Belmar; Samuel Dixon Jr., Neptune; Bernard Smith, Ocean; William Wade, Fair Haven; and John Perry, Tinton Falls — were responsible for work resulting in 70 patents.
A resident of Oakhurst, Daniels and his wife Maxine founded the African-American Heritage Association of Monmouth County, which recently presented an exhibit on black achievements in science, engineering and technology at the Student Center at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. The exhibit, which Daniels also has presented at area high schools, is part of an outreach designed to highlight the history of achievements by blacks, particularly in technical and scientific fields.
According to Daniels, who began his career at Fort Monmouth and retired in 1989 as assistant director for space and strategic systems at the Pentagon, while other research facilities were closed to blacks, the laboratories at Fort Monmouth — known as the center of electronic development for the Army — provided a place where black scientists and engineers could find jobs and advance in their careers.
The move into government jobs gained impetus from the desegregation of the military ordered by President Harry S. Truman in 1948, Daniels explained.
"The services have been kind of a model in terms of desegregation," he said. "As a result, they were able to benefit from the knowledge, experience and leadership of blacks."
Yet, Daniels said, outside the fort little is known about their contributions in fields where blacks traditionally had not worked, including positions as highly skilled technicians, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, computer specialists, scientists, logisticians, and managers.
‘They have invented many devices and equipment used by the Army," he wrote in an article for the Journal of the National Technical Association. "They have forged new frontiers in science. Their calculations have been used to send signals to the moon. Many have received patents for their scientific discoveries."
In a two-year period from 1940-42 alone, Daniels said some 20 black engineers and physicists arrived at the fort, beginning an influx of black professionals into research and development positions in communications, radar, sound ranging, electronic warfare systems, avionics, navigation and air traffic control, surveillance and target systems, meteorological equipment, satellite communications and tactical computer systems.
In addition, the outbreak of World War II, Daniels said, created opportunities for black women who secured positions as engineers, technicians and draftspersons in U.S. Army laboratories. Corrynne Godwin, of Middletown, was hired in 1942 and rose to become one of only two black female electronic engineers at Fort Monmouth to attain the level of senior engineer. Mary Tate, of Fair Haven, was hired at Fort Monmouth as a laboratory technician and rose to the position of computer specialist in the Communications Research and Development Command.
The period from 1979-82, according to Daniels, "witnessed the largest number ever of high-level black civilians and military" in positions at the fort, including three blacks at senior executive level (Daniels was one of those), and, on the military side, a major general, 10 full colonels who headed major technical operations, and 11 lieutenant colonels who were deputies of major technical units.
"We had so many black engineers in one place. You could go to other places and find one and two, but we had over 100," he noted.
Among the most notable achievements of blacks at Fort Monmouth was the work of the late Dr. Walter S. McAfee, a theoretical physicist, who did the mathematical calculations that made it possible for a team of Fort Monmouth scientists and engineers to bounce radar signals off the surface of the moon in 1946. His work as part of Project Diana at the Camp Evans Signal Laboratory, in Wall, ushered in the dawn of the Space Age, Daniels noted.
McAfee’s theoretical genius was recognized by the Army, which awarded him the prestigious Army Research and Development Achievement Award in 1961.
Other important scientists cited by Daniels include:
William Benjamin Gould III, who was among the first group of black electronic engineers at Fort Monmouth in 1940, worked on the early warning radar system, long-range guided missiles and the application of radio and radar for meteorological purposes.
John Carter, of Belmar, a senior physicist and former branch chief in the Electronics Devices and Technology Laboratory of the Electronics Research and Development Command, was recognized for his work on microwave ferrite devices with the Army’s second-highest award, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award. Carter was one of the most prolific black inventors at the fort, holding 26 patents, Daniels said.
John Perry, of Tinton Falls, was a chemist and team leader in the Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory, specialized in development of batteries and power sources for communications electronics and laser equipment. Perry holds four patents on fuel cells.
Walter E. Johnson, of Fair Haven, was a project engineer, responsible for work on voice and data security equipment.
Bernard Smith, of Ocean, was a top physicist who was awarded 23 patents, including a patent for development of amplifier devices used in military radar, communications and electronic warfare jamming equipment.
Samuel Dixon, of Neptune, served as a senior electronics engineer at the Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory, where he worked on microwave and millimeter wave devices and systems in the areas of radar, communications, electronic warfare and satellite systems. Dixon was awarded 20 patents.
Daniels was hired as a draftsman at Fort Monmouth in 1953 and progressed rapidly through a series of positions with the Electronic Warfare Laboratory, the Avionics Laboratory and Navigation Control Systems. During his career, he rose to the level of senior executive service, the highest level for civilian managers. In 1981, he became deputy laboratory director for combat surveillance, and in 1985 transferred to the Pentagon where he served as assistant director for space technology until his retirement three years later.
"In the early days, nobody would give me a project worth more than $25,000 to manage," he said, adding that he progressed to positions in which he managed multimillion-dollar programs.
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Kessler, James H. Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century.
Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1996.
LOCATION(S): MCK REF
CALL NUMBER: Q141.D535 1996
Includes entries for 100 men and women scientists, from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with extensive biographical profiles. Two appendices list scientists chronologically and by research area.
Sammons, Vivian Ovelton, compiler. Blacks in Science and Medicine.
New York, NY: Hemisphere, 1990.
LOCATION(S): MCK REF, EPSL REF
CALL NUMBER: Q141.B58 1990
Biographical sketches on African American scientists, technologists, and health practitoners. Includes historical figures as well as people who are still alive.
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Libralind2
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Ok..my work is done
LiLi
::mumbling..I cant believe he said..Its great we have A black scientist out here:: geesh |
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Hey Libralind2,
I can understand Chris' statement. I however trust that Chris knew there are other black scientists ranging from mediocre to great.
I will print this out and read the articles you posted -- thanks
In another life, I was a member of NSBE. I was VP of my local chapter and would attend their national conferences. I still remember the key note from one of the first national NSBE conferences I attended, about 25 years ago.
The speaker was a Brother, a PhD. out from the west coast (maybe Stanford), by the name of Marc Hannah. Marc cofounded Silicon Graphics. What struck me about this Black dude was that he was as accomplished and talented as ANY computer scientist could be.
So while I was a senior in one of the better engineering programs in the country, I did not realize there were many serious, accomplished Black engineers. I went to an all white university and grew up in the projects; so I did not run into many -- even through I was studying the subject. We were always told there were not enough and we needed more and the implication was there were none.
NSBE dispelling that myth; is one of the most important reasons for the existence of the organization. NSBE is a professional organization. However, educating the general public is another story...
The best way to inform the average Joe about Black scientists is via the TV. Tyson like Carl Sagan before him are excellent communicators and benefit from the medium. They help increase interest in science. If Tyson can also help people understand that there are Black scientists out there, then that is a bonus.
I discovered Tyson many years ago and built a page for a book he had out at the time called The sky is the limit: http://aalbc.com/books/theskyis.htm (Chris all you had to do was enter Tyson's name in the Google search box at the top of every page). It was a really good, easy to comprehend book. If memory servers it spoke about things like “the science of star trek” including explaining how much energy it would take to propel and object fast than the speed of light (more energy than exists in the universe - I believe).
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LiLi: Whew! Thanks for the posts, girl!
Are you by chance a Boilermaker, Troy?
Yes, there are many (tho still not enough) Black folks in STEM disciplines quietly working in academia or industry. I agree that the difference with Tyson is that he is a "public intellectual" in the vein of Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sacks.
I wish more of these other folks would also write for the general public and participate more in popular culture--including for TV, film, and such. (Say what you will about him, it was a victory for us academics everywhere when Cornell West had a role in The Matix!) Unfortunately the nature of academia makes this difficult: There is a LOT of pressure to get grants and publish in peer-reviewed forums and often general audience books are looked upon as suspect and do not help with tenure and promotion.
Thanks for the aalbc page link. And thanks, Chris, for starting the thread. (Sorry for dogging your computer LOL!) |
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Chris..surely you jest about Black Scientists..there are MANY..goodness..you must mean we should hear from Black scientists more than we do
LiLi
(I ain't never seed y'all post nothin' about none. That's what I'm talking about. From visiting this site all I'd think we had was entertainers, sports figures and criminals.
C'mon people. It's black history month. |
Libralind2
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Umm sorry but as one who feels "we" know too little about our own people particulary in this arena, I had a flash back when the READ kids (not saying ya'll are kids AT ALL) but would say they didnt know black folks like Carver, Woods and the like. I felt it my duty ::grin:: to put forth some evidence of the many Black folks who dont get recognized mainly because folks dont hear of them..what Chris said. Ya'll know ya'll dont read..
running behind Kola hehehehehe
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Libralind2
I hereby dub thee Keeper of the Files of Black Science and charge thee to post all the stuff on Black Science and Black Scientists ya kin! |
Libralind2
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I accept this mission with pride Commander !!!
LiLi |
Chrishayden
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I just got his book, "The Sky is Not the Limit" (on the backcover it states that when he got his PhD in astrophysicis from Columbia in 1991, he was one of only SEVEN black astrophysicists worldwide.
I know I am the Wet Blanket of this site but this kind of stuff is what we ought to post, not about the failures and mistakes. |
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Chris: "wet blanket"? Nah! LOL Any way, you have inspired me to buy "Death By Black Hole."
BTW, an amazon.com review calls him "telegenic." Is that like Obama being "articulate"? LOL |
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Yvettep: I'm not a boilermaker. I'm an Orangeman. |
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Post Number: 1632
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 06:40 pm: |
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Well, Troy, you can't be perfect LOL! |
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