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(extra long because it is the end of the month)

• Agricultural scientist who promoted using crops rotation to prevent soil depletion
• To promote the value of nitrogen restoring plants, like peanuts, he distributed a wide variety of recipes
• Lead a lab researching industrial uses of all those materials as well
• Teddy Roosevelt publicly praised him before he became a household name
• Became one of the few Americans to be inducted in the UK Royal Society of Arts
• One of the first black people to testify to congress

And with that, my BHM series comes to an end. I just wanted to take this time to thank everyone along for the ride and to remind everyone that this is just one field of black excellence. Black history is core to American history, and is made every day.

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• Worked at NASA for 40 years on aerodynamics
• Published groundbreaking work on sonic booms and supersonic flight
• First black woman to be promoted to Senior Executive Service, the top civil service rank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Darden

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• Human computer at NASA before modern computing
• Only one of the 4 black women with that job not in the movie Hidden Figures
• Reformed equal opportunity hiring at NASA
• Became a NASA programmer when tech evolved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley

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• Developed mathematical modeling of the earth (including various distortions due to gravity)
• Those models were used for the creation of GPS
• Worked on satellite data accuracy
• Inducted in Air Force hall of fame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West