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1944–2020
James S. Jackson (1944 – September 1, 2020) was an American social psychologist and the Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Jackson was also a member of the National Science Board and a past president…
1901–1987
James E. Lytle Jr. (February 22, 1901 – July 17, 1987) was an American football, basketball, baseball, and golf coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta in 1927, Shaw University from…
1935–2004
James Major B. Gates (July 17, 1935 – March 20, 2004) was the last survivor of the segregated 95th Engineers Combat Battalion, which was used for human fallout exposure testing. They were stationed in closest vicinity during atomic blasting at Camp Desert…
1927–2008
James M. Jay (1927–2008) was an American microbiologist who taught at Southern University and Wayne State University with a Ph.D. in bacteriology and biochemistry.
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James Marshall Turner is an American physicist and retired government official. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of International Affairs and as deputy director of the…
Biography
James A. "Charlie" Mahoney (1957/1958 – April 27, 2020) was an American pulmonologist and internist. He was the head of the intensive care unit and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
1944–2009
James A. Martin Sr. (August 22, 1944 – January 14, 2009) was an American football and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He was served as the head football coach at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama for nine seasons, from 1984 to…
1888–1958
James Maxie Ponder (February 22, 1888 – March 4, 1958) was a physician and the first African-American admitted to practice at Mercy Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was regarded as an influential leader of the African American community in St.
1813–1865
Unable to study medicine in the U.S., Smith earned his degree at the University of Glasgow and became a leading physician, writer and abolitionist in New York.
1972–
James McLurkin (born 1972) is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Google. Previously, he was an engineering assistant professor at Rice University specializing in swarm robotics. In 2005, he appeared on an episode of PBS' Nova and is a winner of the 2003…
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James W. Mickens is an American computer scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His research focuses on distributed systems, such as…
1861–1923
James H. N. Waring, also known as J. H. N. Waring, (September 22, 1861 – December 29, 1923) was an educator and physician who practiced in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. He implemented trade courses in Baltimore and studied societal pressures…
Born 1865
James Nathan Calloway (1865 – after 1930) was an American agriculturalist. Born in slavery in Tennessee, Calloway graduated from Fisk University before joining the faculty of the Tuskegee Institute. Initially a lecturer in mathematics, he became involved…
1934–
James Pierpont Comer (born September 25, 1934) is currently the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and has been since 1976. He is also an associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine. As one of the world's leading…
1915–1996
James Raymond Lawson (January 15, 1915 – December 21, 1996) was an American physicist and university administrator. He was the president of Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1967 to 1975.
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James Samuel Risien Russell (17 September 1863 – 20 March 1939) was a Guyanese-British physician, neurologist, professor of medicine, and professor of medical jurisprudence.
?–2018
James Edward Shaw (April 2, 1938 2018) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for four seasons, from 1976 to 1979, compiling a record of 15–24–1. A graduated of Miles College in…
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James Skivring Smith (February 26, 1825 – 1892) was a Liberian politician who served as the sixth president of Liberia from 1871 to 1872. Prior to this, he served as the eighth vice president of Liberia from 1870 to 1871 under President Edward James Roye…
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James Still (April 9, 1812 – March 9, 1882) was an African-American medical doctor, herbalist, and author. He was known as "The Black Doctor of the Pines", referring to the New Jersey Pine Barrens region. His parents were slaves and he was born into…
1840–1895
James Thomas Still (July 12, 1840 - June 22, 1895) was a surgeon and writer in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1871, he graduated with honors from Harvard Medical School, the third Black graduate of the school. In 1875, he was the first Black member elected to…
1864–1944
James W. Ames (October 12, 1864 in New Orleans, Louisiana – January 31, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American physician. Ames was educated at Straight University (later merged into Dillard University) in New Orleans, and then received a degree from…
1952–2021
James Wayne Hunt (August 5, 1952 – March 21, 2021) was an African-American computer scientist and inventor. He invented the Hunt–Szymanski algorithm and Hunt–McIlroy algorithm algorithms. It was one of the first non-heuristic algorithms used in diff.
1943–
James W. Mitchell (born November 16, 1943) is an African American chemist and was the David and Lucille Packard Professor of Material Science at Howard University.
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James Webb Curtis, M.D. (July 29, 1856 – April 12, 1921), also known as J. Webb Curtis, was an American physician, surgeon, civil servant, educator, and postmaster. He served as a volunteer medical officer for the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War,…
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