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        Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall.  Goodall, who was interested in animal behaviour from an early age, left school at age 18.  in June 1960 she established a camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a national park) so that she could observe the behaviour of chimpanzees in the region.   Over the years Goodall was able to correct a number of misunderstandings about chimpanzees. She found, for example, that the animals are omnivorous, not vegetarian; that they are capable of making and using tools; and, in short, that they have a set of hitherto unrecognized complex and highly developed social behaviours. <br/>Tags: woman, primatologist, scientist, africa, chimpanzee<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32768">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        1992/09/12. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman astronaut, spending more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour. Jemison moved with her family to Chicago at the age of three. There she was introduced to science by her uncle and developed interests throughout her childhood in anthropology, archaeology, evolution, and astronomy. While still a high school student, she became interested in biomedical engineering, and after graduating in 1973, at the age of 16, she entered Stanford University. There she received degrees in chemical engineering and African American studies (1977).

In 1977 Jemison entered medical school at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she pursued an interest in international medicine. After volunteering for a summer in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand, she studied in Kenya in 1979. She graduated from medical school in 1981, and, after a short time as a general practitioner with a Los Angeles medical group, she became a medical officer with the Peace Corps in West Africa. There she managed health care for Peace Corps and U.S. embassy personnel and worked in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control on several research projects, including development of a hepatitis B vaccine.

After returning to the United States, Jemison applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to be an astronaut. In October 1986, she was 1 of 15 accepted out of 2,000 applicants. Jemison completed her training as a mission specialist with NASA in 1988. She became an astronaut office representative with the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, working to process space shuttles for launching and to verify shuttle software. Next, she was assigned to support a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan designed to conduct experiments in materials processing and the life sciences. In August 1992, STS-47 Spacelab J became the first successful joint U.S.-Japan space mission.

Jemison's maiden space flight came with the week-long September 1992 mission of the shuttle Endeavor. At that time she was the only African American woman astronaut. After completing her NASA mission, she formed the Jemison Group, to develop and market advanced technologies. (http://www.britannica.com)<br/>Tags: woman, scientist, africann american, astronaut, orbit, blast off<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34470">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D., wins the National Medal of Technology. During his lifetime, he secured over 140 patents. Pioneering investigator of factors limiting the life of plastics, Lincoln Hawkins was co-inventor at Bell Laboratories of an anti-oxidant additive that made possible inexpensive plastic insulation of telephone cables. This new material saved telephone and power companies billions of dollars and made universal telephone service economical, revolutionizing the communications industry.

Hawkins also played an outstanding role in the development of viable means for recycling and reuse of plastics. He was granted 147 patents related to the development of environmentally advanced materials for communications equipment.

Hawkins was the first African American scientist at AT&T Bell Labs and the first African American member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was a passionate advocate and leader in efforts to expand the nation's pool of minority scientific talent. (http://www.pbs.org)<br/>Tags: scientist, telephone, african american, bell labs, patents<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/34473">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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