Inductee Category: <span>Science</span>
Dr. Julian Earls
Julian Earls, a Norfolk State University graduate, is a physicist who became director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center. He was among the highest-ranking HBCU…
Dr. Luther S. Williams
Miles College
Katherine Coleman Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a West Virginia State University mathematician whose orbital calculations at NASA helped send American astronauts into space and bring them home.…
Dr. James Letton
Kentucky State University
Robert Benjamin Lee, III
Norfolk State University
Dr. Joseph B. Morris
Howard University
Dr. James Harris
Huston-Tillotson College
Dr. Valerie L. Thomas
Valerie L. Thomas is a Morgan State-trained physicist and NASA inventor best known for the illusion transmitter, a patent that advanced 3-D imaging. At…
Dr. Gladys B. West
Gladys West, a Virginia State University mathematician, spent decades modeling the Earth for Navy satellite programs. That geodesy work became part of the foundation…
Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch, Ph.D.
Eugene M. DeLoatch, a Tougaloo College graduate, was the founding dean of Morgan State University’s Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering. He spent…