The approximate number of uses for peanuts discovered by George Washington Carver, a formerly enslaved man who became a botanist and inventor.
Numbers in the News: Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month with some facts and figures about pioneering Black scientists
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71
The number of scientific papers published by zoologist Charles Henry Turner between 1890 and 1923. He was one of the first people to study the way insects think and behave.
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$1 BILLION
The estimated amount made from worldwide sales of the Super Soaker—a toy water blaster invented by Lonnie Johnson in 1989.
2 MONTHS
The maximum amount of time blood can be kept in blood banks, thanks to techniques for blood storage created by Dr. Charles Drew in the 1930s.
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1992
The year astronaut Mae Jemison became the first Black woman in space.
Research one of the people mentioned on this page. What else have they achieved? What challenges did they overcome?
SOURCES: NASA, HASBRO, CURRENT BIOLOGY, SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE
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