Born in the borrow of Queens in 1921 Marie Maynard Daly. Marie would often read Paul De Kruif’s popular book The Microbe Hunters as a girl. That book mixed with her father's love of science influenced her to become who she was meant to be. Marie Attended Columbia University, and in 1947 was the first Black woman to have ever graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry. Now having her doctorate Marie taught for two years at Howard University in Washington, DC. Soon after she joined the Rockefeller Institute in New York, where for seven years she worked on the composition and metabolism of components of the cell nucleus, as seen above. In 1960 she became a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It is needless to say that under-representation shaped their experiences, from undergoing undue amounts of financial strife to being met with racism at every turn these innovators were met with unprecedented bias and overcame it to the best of the...
Lewis Latimer was a contemporary of both Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. The former is the reason you have probably never heard his name. Lewis was born Lewis Howard Latimer in 1804. Before he was born his mother fled slavery in order to give a better life to her children. He gained employment as an office boy with a patent law firm after his boss recognized his talent for sketching patent drawings, Lewis was promoted to the position of head draftsman earning. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell employed Lewis, then a draftsman at Bell's patent law firm, to draft the necessary drawings required to receive a patent for Bell's telephone. Lewis later in life assisted Thomas Edison in the invention of the light bulb. He was responsible for creating the filament that resides within the glass casing of the average light bulb. It is needless to say that under-representation shaped their experiences, from undergoin...