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ca. 1920
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA booklet, published by the Virginia State Department of Health, called "Help for Midwives," owned by midwife Amanda Carey Carter. The booklet is printed in black ink on off-white paper and center bound with two large staples. The book is 32 pages long,…
Biography
Heman Bekele is an Ethiopian American inventor and scientific researcher. He developed a soap prototype designed to deliver cancer-fighting treatments, earning recognition through various science competitions, including the 3M Young Scientist Challenge and…
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Isimeme "Naomi" Udu (born November 16, 1998), known professionally as Hemlocke Springs (stylized in all lowercase), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. She first gained prominence for her second self-produced song "Girlfriend" achieving…
1920–1951
Cells taken from Lacks’s cervical tumor in 1951 without her knowledge became the first human cells to thrive indefinitely in a lab, enabling advances from the polio vaccine to cancer research.
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG"Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31. During an examination, cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent by a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and were subsequently used to produce the world’s…
1915–1979
Henry Aaron Hill (May 30, 1915 – 1979) was an American chemist who became the first African American president of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As a scientist, he specialized in the chemistry of fluorocarbons.
1872–1918
Henry Alvin Cameron (February 4, 1872 – October 30, 1918) was an American schoolteacher who served as an officer in the United States Army during World War I. Prior to joining the military at age 45, he worked as a science teacher and coach at Pearl High…
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Henry Blair (c. 1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent (after Thomas L. Jennings).
Biography
Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box. Little is known about his life, other than that he was living in Washington D.C. when he initially filed his patent. Henry Brown developed a type of…
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Henry Ransom Cecil McBay (May 29, 1914 – 1995) was an American chemist and teacher. McBay won numerous awards for his teaching and mentoring, including the American Chemical Society Award (for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical…
1910–1979
Henry Clifford Boles (1910–1979), also known as Hank Boles, was an American architect. He had his own architecture firm, as well as being a part of the Associated Architect and Engineer firm from 1957 to 1969 with civil engineer Paul Parks. Early in his…
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Henry Edwin Baker Jr. (September 1, 1857 – April 27, 1928) was the third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy. He later served as an assistant patent examiner in the United States Patent Office, where he would chronicle the history of…
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Henry E. Hayne (December 30, 1840 – d.n.d.) was a politician in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era. Born free in Charleson, South Carolina, he served in the South Carolina Senate and as Secretary of State of South Carolina in the 1870s. In 1873,…
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Henry Floyd Gamble (16 January 1862 – 7 September 1932) was an African-American surgeon, obstetrician, physician and president of the National Medical Association from 1911 to 1912. Gamble was born on 16 January 1862 in North Garden, Virginia to Henry…
1933–2022
Henry Foster Jr. (September 8, 1933 – September 25, 2022) was an American obstetrician who was a professor emeritus and dean of the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College in the United States. He was also clinical professor of obstetrics and…
1876–1960
Henry L. Brown, M.D. (December 9, 1876 – January 12, 1960) was an American physician. He served in World War I (as a part of the Medical Reserve Corps) as commanding officer of 366th Ambulance Company in the 317th Sanitary Train. He later was promoted to a…
1870–1946
Henry McKee Minton (25 December 1870 - 29 December 1946) was an African-American medical doctor who was one of the founders of Sigma Pi Phi and was Superintendent of the Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia for twenty-four years. He wrote on medical care for…
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Henry Morgan Green (1877–1939) was an American physician, a national healthcare leader, researcher, scholar, real estate investor, and alderman. He served as the city physician in Knoxville, Tennessee, and president of the National Medical Association. He…
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Henry Nehemiah Tisdale (born 1944) is an American retired academic administrator, educator, and mathematician. He served as the 8th president of Claflin University, a historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina from 1994 to 2019. During his…
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Henry Ossian Flipper (March 21, 1856 – April 26, 1940) was an American soldier, engineer, former slave and in 1877, the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in…
1932–2020
Henry T. Brown (June 16, 1932 – February 13, 2020) was a chemical engineer and the first African American to earn a BS degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Brown was the first African American to enroll in UC's Co-Op program at a…
1934–2015
Henry Thomas Sampson Jr. (April 22, 1934 – June 4, 2015) was an American engineer, inventor and film historian who created the gamma-electric cell in 1971 — a device with the main goal of generating auxiliary power from the shielding of a nuclear reactor.…
1947-1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Henry Vollam Morton (H. V. Morton) at Martin Chemist store, Somerset West (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
1947-1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Henry Vollam Morton (H. V. Morton) outside Martin Chemist store, Somerset West (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
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