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Monday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

This week’s open thread will highlight African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists.  Gibor Basri is an American astrophysicist, born in New York on May 3, 1951. The son of Phyllis Basri, a...

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Tuesday Open Thread: African American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

George Robert Carruthers  is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life in Washington, DC. He is the inventor of the spectrograph, which is a...

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Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. (August 24, 1936 – April 29, 2001) was a solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He is most noted for having developed normal incidence multilayer XUV...

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Thursday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Dr. Beth A. Brown was born in Roanoke, VA in 1969. She liked science because she was always curious about how something worked and why something existed. She participated in science fairs in...

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Friday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Astronomer Derrick Pitts was born on January 22, 1955 in the Tioga-Nicetown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, Pitts was fascinated by outer space and rockets. After graduating from...

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Saturday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

This week’s open threads have highlighted the accomplishments of several African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists. Today’s post is going to focus on the current host of  Cosmos: A Spacetime...

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