Many in the scientific world are celebrating, and rightfuly so, the fact that two women received last year's Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st female scientists to be recognised by the Nobel Committee.

Yet a hundred years has passed, and we have never seen a black scientist become a Nobel laureate.

Of the 900 Nobel laureates, only 14 (1.5%) are blacksic and none in science.

Almost all our laureates have been awarded for work in the fields of peace (ten) and literature (three).

The only candidate to have come close enough was Arthur Lewis for his work in economics in 1973.


The main reason used to be based around discrimination and injustice, i.e

Lewis Latimer invented the Telephone and the Light Bulb yet both inventions are currently being awarded to Graham Bell and Thomas Edison respectively.


Graham Bell was an inferior scientist to Lewis, yet due to the laws at the time, was able to take most of the credit.

If you ask anyone, who invented the Telephone?

They will say Alexander Graham Bell.
Yet thats completely wrong for various reasons.

Firstly, according to records, Graham Bell and Lewis Latimer co-invented the Telephone.

Furthermore, Lewis Latimer actually invented the Telephone, Graham was merely an influential bystander that was awarded most of the credit for other peoples inventions.

Infact, Graham isnt even a real inventor, since he clearly never invented anything of known importance; instead he built his entire career feeding off African American scientist's intellectual property.

Such level of discriminatiom kept on for years without end; some will argue that these type of puzzles remain unsolved 'till this day.

As in, our some what limited opportunities in the world of today coupled with institutional bias wont allow for those living in the Western countries to study science, and even those that does, and happen to excell towards greater heights arent publicised and as such tend to experience the same discrimination exposed to Lewis and others.

There are over 1000 black scientist both past and present that are deserving to be granted the prestigious Nobel Prize.

Amujale:
There are over 1000 black scientist both past and present that are deserving to be granted the prestigious Nobel Prize.

Mention 10 of them. Black's do not make sense without white contribution. Nothing of global appreciation has ever come from the black race. I doubt the claim of the OP. Our own Emagwuali being celebrated a couple of years ago turned out to be a scam . Let us be receiving Nobel prize for peace . Apart from Arabs and Islamic world, black communities have won prizes in violence, insecurity and abject poverty. Don't defend mediocrity. Why are not Israelis, Chinese, German.... not discriminated? If you are excellent nothing can discriminate you. Blacks hate excellence, this shows all over Africa the cradle of all African descent. Please don't start e - war o dear reader. Let this observation stir up something good in you.p

MightySparrow:
Mention 10 of them.

You are completely misinformed and wrong about your viewpoint.

Here is a list of some Black scientists

Dr Mark Dean
Henry T Samson
Jesse Lee Russell,
Benjamin Banneker
Jerry lawson,
James forten
James Edward Maceo West
Madam CJ Walker
Walter Sammons
Lydia newman
Charles Orren
Kenneth J Dunkley
John Henry Thompson
Andrew Beard
Bessie Blount Griffin
Dr Donald Cotton,
Willis Johnson
William Purvis
George Washington carver
Thomas L Jennings
George T Samson,
J ross Moore
Sarah Boone
Augustus Jackson
Alfred L Craille
John Standard
Fredrick Jones
Alice H. Parker
Lonnie Johnson
Jan Matzeliger
Elijah McCoy
George Franklin Grant
Granville T. Woods
Lewis Latimer
Paul L Downing
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
George Crum
Sarah E Goode
Garrett Morgan
Richard Spikes
Edmond Berger
Joseph Gammel
Thomas J Martin
Percy Julian
Ellen Elgin
John Burr
Walter Wiley Jones
Frederick D Patterson
Jonathan Smith
George Carruthers
Robert T Allen
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Robert F Flemming Jr
Thomas Elkins
Ozzie Williams
Tessema Dosho Shifferaw
Kevin Woolfolk
Henry Blair
Leonard C. Bailey
Valerie Thomas
Marie & Albert Van Brittan Brown
Otis Boykin
Dr. Charles Drew
Dr Patricia bath
George Alcorn
Dr Betty wright Harris
Jane Cooke Wright
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Thomas A. Carrington
John Lee Love
Thomas Stewart
Lloyd Ray
David Unaipon
Norbert Rilleaux
Samuel R. Scrottron
Osbourn Dorsey
Albert C Richardson
William H. Richardso
Alexander Miles


Thank you for highlighting my main point.

MightySparrow:
Mention 10 of them. Black's do not make sense without white contribution. Nothing of global appreciation has ever come from the black race.

You are completely and utterly wrong.


Apart from the fact that science originates from Africa,
in the modern age, there are more African inventors than there are European and Asian combined.

Dr Shirley Jackson is a top inventor, she is the theoretical physicist and the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

The first American woman to earn a doctorate in nulclear physics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technlogy).

Her inventions include: touch-tone telephone, the portable fax, caller ID, call waiting, and the fibre optic cable.

Marie Brittain Brown a fulltime nurse with scientist as both her parents, devised and invented the first C.C.T.V (closed-circuit television system)

Jesse Ernest Wilkins, is amongst the most important contemporary mathematicians in history, earning bachelor, master and eventually earning his doctorate degree in mathematics at the age of 19.

He's published papers in mathematics, optics, and engineering. Major developments: mathematical models

Africans are ultimately responsible for most inventions, mostly, Asians and European academics often are found to have taken or been givven undeserved credit for African intellect.

Its important to note that today is better than yesterday, yet there definately is room for improvement with regards to giving Africans their due credit for their intellectual property at all times; everytime.

Africans invented (c) the speed of light, hundred and thousands of years before Einstein.

Africans discovered the presence of Sirus B star system hundred and thousands of years before N.A.S.A.

Lewis latimer co-invented the Light Bulb with Thomas Edison.

Lewis Latimer co-invented the telephone with Graham Bell.

Lewis Latimer is a reknowned engineer and prolific inventor that has his name engraved into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (www.invent.org).

Amujale:



You are completely and utterly wrong.


Apart from the fact that science originates from Africa,
in the modern age, there are more African inventors than there are European and Asian combined.

Among blacks or Egyptian Arabs? Don't deceive yourself.

MightySparrow:
Among blacks or Egyptian Arabs? Don't deceive yourself.

Are there any Egyptians or Arabs in the list above?

Furthermore, ancient Egyptians are blacksic African not Arabs.

You find it hard to accept the fact that you have gotten it completely and utterly wrong.

Anyone that takes the care to read the thread would never conclude that the names of the numerous black scientist available here are in any way shape or form connected to Arabia.

Amujale:
There are over 1000 black scientist both past and present that are deserving to be granted the prestigious Nobel Prize.

Within the past 100 years.

Educative.

Amujale:
Many in the scinentific world are celebrating, and rightfuly so, the fact thst two women received last year's Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st female scientists to be recognised by the Nobel Committee.

Yet a hundred years has passed, and we have never seen a black scientist become a Nobel laureate.

Of the 900 Nobel laureates, only 14 (1.5%) are blacksic and none in science.

Almost all our laureates have been awarded for work in the fields of peace (ten) and literature (three).

The only candidate to have come close enough was Arthur Lewis for his work in economics in 1973.


The main reason used to be based around discrimination and injustice, i.e

Lewis Latimer invented the Telephone and the Light Bulb yet both inventions are currently being awarded to Graham Bell and Thomas Edison respectively.


Graham Bell was an inferior scientist to Lewis, yet due to the laws at the time, was able to take most of the credit.

If you ask anyone, who invented the Telephone?

They will say Alexander Graham Bell.
Yet thats completely wrong for various reasons.

Firstly, according to records, Graham Bell and Lewis Latimer co-invented the Telephone.

Furthermore, Lewis Latimer actually invented the Telephone, Graham was merely an influential bystander that was awarded most of the credit for other peoples inventions.

Infact, Graham isnt even a real inventor, since he clearly never invented anything of known importance; instead he built his entire career feeding off African American scientist's intellectual property.

Such level of discriminatiom kept on for years without end; some will argue that these type of puzzles remain unsolved 'till this day.

As in, our some what limited opportunities in the world of today coupled with institutional bias wont allow for those living in the Western countries to study science, and even those that does, and happen to excell towards greater heights arent publicised and as such tend to experience the same discrimination exposed to Lewis and others.

op God bless you for bringing this up. Is time for Africa to wake up, Look at our educational system, no achievements of black scientists is recorded.it is always the whites and their achievements. I did this research myself and found at that all the nobel prizes in stem were awarded to only europeans, few chinese and americans. The record breaking inventions of black scientists are no where to be found even after their work has received several citations and patents. Very sad development. Lalastica.

MightySparrow:
Mention 10 of them. Black's do not make sense without white contribution. Nothing of global appreciation has ever come from the black race. I doubt the claim of the OP. Our own Emagwuali being celebrated a couple of years ago turned out to be a scam . Let us be receiving Nobel prize for peace . Apart from Arabs and Islamic world, black communities have won prizes in violence, insecurity and abject poverty. Don't defend mediocrity. Why are not Israelis, Chinese, German.... not discriminated? If you are excellent nothing can discriminate you. Blacks hate excellence, this shows all over Africa the cradle of all African descent. Please don't start e - war o dear reader. Let this observation stir up something good in you.p

self hatred. Have you lived in the western world for more than a year before? If you do, you would never open your gutter mouth and spew this nonsense. It is people like you that would make an ordinary beggar in UK to look down on a black man because he is white. Black people are working very hard despite harsh conditions to churn out great stuff. The only problem we have in Africa is bad leaders thats who are just like you self hatred, inferior thinking that the whiteman is more superior than them.

Wow educative, nice one OP.

Amujale:
Dr Shirley Jackson is a top inventor, she is the theoretical physicist and the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

The first American woman to earn a doctorate in nulclear physics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technlogy).

Her inventions include: touch-tone telephone, the portable fax, caller ID, call waiting, and the fibre optic cable.

Hahahaha. See inventions. LMAO

Evangkatsoulis:


Hahahaha. See inventions. LMAO

I praise all our reknowned scientist for taking their careers to the 'next level' despite adversity.

Always think back everytime you make use of your cell phone that a black man invents the first phone and a black woman enhanced the modern version with inventing Caller ID, Call waiting and the portable fax.


Kindly go and study more on Africans in the U.S.A and tbeir over 100,000 inventions. Some correctly had their names documented correctly, however, due to the draconian laws at the time, most AA inventors had work(s) credited to someone else.

Their is a list of some of the black scientist that are credited with their inventions somewhere above, kindly read and study as many of them as you can.

Philip Emeagwali wins the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize. The Gordon Bell Prize is an award partaining to super computers.

Philip's inventions are credited with being responsible for creating the "Internet".

MightySparrow:
Mention 10 of them. Black's do not make sense without white contribution. Nothing of global appreciation has ever come from the black race. I doubt the claim of the OP. Our own Emagwuali being celebrated a couple of years ago turned out to be a scam . Let us be receiving Nobel prize for peace . Apart from Arabs and Islamic world, black communities have won prizes in violence, insecurity and abject poverty. Don't defend mediocrity. Why are not Israelis, Chinese, German.... not discriminated? If you are excellent nothing can discriminate you. Blacks hate excellence, this shows all over Africa the cradle of all African descent. Please don't start e - war o dear reader. Let this observation stir up something good in you.p

wow

Amujale:


Here is a list of some Black scientists

Dr Mark Dean
Henry T Samson
Jesse Lee Russell,
Benjamin Banneker
Jerry lawson,
James forten
James Edward Maceo West
Madam CJ Walker
Walter Sammons
Lydia newman
Charles Orren
Kenneth J Dunkley
John Henry Thompson
Andrew Beard
Bessie Blount Griffin
Dr Donald Cotton,
Willis Johnson
William Purvis
George Washington carver
Thomas L Jennings
George T Samson,
J ross Moore
Sarah Boone
Augustus Jackson
Alfred L Craille
John Standard
Fredrick Jones
Alice H. Parker
Lonnie Johnson
Jan Matzeliger
Elijah McCoy
George Franklin Grant
Granville T. Woods
Lewis Latimer
Paul L Downing
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
George Crum
Sarah E Goode
Garrett Morgan
Richard Spikes
Edmond Berger
Joseph Gammel
Thomas J Martin
Percy Julian
Ellen Elgin
John Burr
Walter Wiley Jones
Frederick D Patterson
Jonathan Smith
George Carruthers
Robert T Allen
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Robert F Flemming Jr
Thomas Elkins
Ozzie Williams
Tessema Dosho Shifferaw
Kevin Woolfolk
Henry Blair
Leonard C. Bailey
Valerie Thomas
Marie & Albert Van Brittan Brown
Otis Boykin
Dr. Charles Drew
Dr Patricia bath
George Alcorn
Dr Betty wright Harris
Jane Cooke Wright
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Thomas A. Carrington
John Lee Love
Thomas Stewart
Lloyd Ray
David Unaipon
Norbert Rilleaux
Samuel R. Scrottron
Osbourn Dorsey
Albert C Richardson
William H. Richardso
Alexander Miles


Thank you for highlighting my main point.

Read and research on as many of them as you can.

Dr Charles Drew was a pioneering African-American surgeon and medical researcher.

Credited with inventing the "blood bank".

He made groundbreaking discoveries in the storage and processing of blood for medical purpose.

Mark E. Dean is an American inventor and computer engineer that was instrumental in the invention of the Personal Computer (PC). He holds three of IBM's original nine PC patents and currently holds more than 20 total patents. One of his most recent computer inventions occurred while leading the team that produced the 1-Gigahertz chip.

Henry T Samson is an African-American scientist and inventor who created the gamma-electric cell.

Jesse Lee Russell is an African American engineer and inductee of his country's National  Academy of Engineering for his pioneering work in digital cellular communications technology.

Jesse holds over 75 patents in digital cellular technologies, dual-mode digital cellular phones and digital software radio.

Functioning to enable new digital services for cellular mobile phone users, one of his inventions includes the Digital Cellular Base Station.