List of black inventors and scientists

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) – Mathematician, astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher
Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894) – Inventor and engineer
Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) – Inventor
Jan Matzeliger (1852-1889) – Inventor
Granville Woods (1856-1910) – Inventor
Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
George Washington Carver (1865?-1943) - Botanical researcher
Garrett Morgan (1877-1963) – Inventor
Ernest Just (1883-1941) - Biologist
Lloyd Hall (1894-1971) - Chemist
Frederick McKinley Jones (1893-1961) - Inventor
Percy Julian (1899-1975) - Chemist
Charles Drew (1904-1950) - Medical researcher
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (1911-1992) - Scientist and inventor at Bell Laboratories
Henry McBay (1914-1995) - Chemist
John E Hodge (1914-1996) - Chemist
Marie Maynard Daly (1921-) – First black American woman with a Ph.D. in chemistry
Emmett Chappelle (1925-) - Scientist and researcher who made valuable contributions in several fields: medicine, biology, food science, and astrochemistry.
John Uzo Ogbu (1939–2003) – Anthropologist who studied race and intelligence
Joseph L. Graves Evolutionary biologist
Claude Steele (? -) – Social scientist who first studied stereotype threat
Ronald McNair (1950-1986) – Astronaut killed during mission STS-51-L