Inductee Category: <span>Science</span>
Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams
Dr. William E. Bennett
William E. Bennett, a Lincoln University of Pennsylvania graduate, is a biomedical scientist and former senior federal executive. After degrees from Temple and the…
Colonel Willie L. Frazier
Claflin University
Dr. Lilia Abron
Lilia Abron, a LeMoyne-Owen College alumna, was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in the United States. She…
Dr. Jennie Patrick
Tuskegee University
Dr. Walter Roberts
Mississippi Valley State University
Dr. Hattie Carwell
Hattie Carwell, a Bennett College graduate, is a health physicist who worked in nuclear and environmental science and later led efforts to expand STEM…
Dr. Beny J. Primm
Beny J. Primm, a West Virginia State University alumnus, was an anesthesiologist and addiction-medicine pioneer who founded the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation in…
Dr. Samuel P. Massie
Samuel P. Massie, a Fisk University chemist, became the first Black professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. He later chaired the Academy’s chemistry department…
Dr. Ronald E. McNair
Ronald E. McNair, a North Carolina A&T physicist, became one of the first African American astronauts. He flew on Challenger in 1984 and died…