“Nothing is impossible. There were so many countries that failed in their first tries. But we weren’t disheartened and we didn’t accept that.” – Nandini Harinath referencing India succeeding in putting their craft into Mars orbit on the very first try…
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Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal “Working with this virus is like putting your hand in a treasure chest. Every time you put your hand in, you pull out a gem.”- Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal referencing her work with HIV and AIDS. Profile. Name:…
Alice Ball “It cannot be denied that our people, through force of circumstance, occupy a peculiar status in this country. We are not thoroughly known,” - James P. Ball Jr., Father of Alice Ball, The Colored Citizen. Profile. Name:…
Henrietta Lacks Profile. Name: Henrietta Lacks Life: 01/08/1920 – 04/10/1951 (31 Years) Born: Roanoke, Virginia, United States Died: Baltimore, Maryland, United States Occupation: Tobacco Farmer [1] Who was Henrietta Lacks? Henrietta Lacks was a black Tobacco farmer living on the…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS- Astrophysicist “In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had…
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