James McCune Smith (1813-1865), first black American to hold a medical degree.
James McCune Smith, MD, was a man of firsts. In 1837, he became the first black American to receive a medical degree — although he had to enroll at the University of Glasgow Medical School because of racist admissions practices at U.S. medical schools. And that was far from his only groundbreaking accomplishment.
Meet James McCune Smith, the first Black to graduate from medical school (University of Glasgow, 1837), successful New York physician, and abolitionist. Frederick Douglass considered Smith the most important Black influence on his life.
James McCune Smith was not just any physician. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree, educated at the University of Glasgow in the 1830s, when no American university would admit him. For this groundbreaking achievement alone, Smith warrants greater appreciation.
The first physician of whom we have any definite record is evidently I-em-Hetep, who lived in the reign of King Tchser, a monarch of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, the date of whose reign is somewhat uncertain, but is probably not later than 4500 B. C. In the light of recently awakened interest in psychotherapeutics and ...
Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern medicine because in his books, which are more than 70. He described in a scientific manner, many diseases and their treatment after detailed observation. He lived about 2400 years ago.
James McCune Smith (April 1, 1812 – November 25, 1870) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree.
in Physics in 1876. Bouchet was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from an American university. Upon graduation from Yale, Dr. Bouchet taught chemistry and physics for twenty-six years at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, PA.
1968-1969 marks an enormous shift in the School's commitment to diversity and inclusion, a tradition that began when two Black students, Edwin C.J.T. Howard and Thomas Dorsey, graduated from HMS in 1869.
Under Alex Wylie, Mayhew was brought in as doctor in 1988. Mayhew worked under Wylie until 1991 and with Wylie and John Hart at the World Cup in the same year. He had two years, 1992-93, under Laurie Mains, then quit. "I pulled out in 1994.
Thirty-five years ago today, surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on a human being at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Bob Johnson knows what it takes for people of color to advance to the highest level of the business world. The founder of Black Entertainment Television, Johnson became the first Black billionaire in American history in terms of personal net worth when he sold the pioneering cable network to Viacom for $3B in 2001.
Madam C.J.
Walker (1867-1919), who started life as a Louisiana sharecropper born to formerly enslaved parents in 1867, is usually cited as the first Black millionaire.
The diligence and perseverance of Clarence Sumner Greene, Sr., M.D., D.D.S., F.A.C.S. enabled him to overcome incredible odds to become the first African-American neurosurgeon, trained by Dr. Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
Du Bois, the first Black person to earn a PhD from Harvard, used his talent and intellect to pave a path toward racial uplift. W. E. B. Du Bois was a scholar, public intellectual, author, orator, and activist who used his powerful voice and influence to illuminate issues of race, racism, and Black consciousness.
Until now, most frequently cited as the first Black students at Harvard are David Laing, Jr., Isaac H. Snowden, and Martin R. Delany, who were admitted to the Harvard Medical School in November 1850.
— Cecelia Woolley, in a letter to University of Chicago president, Harry Pratt Judson (1907). Simpson was the first black woman to be awarded a doctoral degree in the United States. After receiving her PhD, she along with black scholars Sadie Tanner Mossell, Eva B.
1. George Washington Carver. Known for: Born into slavery, George Washington Carver became a foremost botanist, inventor and teacher. He invented over 300 uses for the peanut and developed methods to prevent soil depletion.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. A true pioneer, she battled deep-seated prejudice against women and African Americans in medicine.
Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer. During her treatment, cancer cells from her tumor were biopsied and found to be the first immortalized cell line.
Hippocrates, (born c. 460 bce, island of Cos, Greece—died c. 375 bce, Larissa, Thessaly), ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece's Classical period and is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine.
Sushruta is the most celebrated physician and surgeon in India. Though he practiced during the 5th century B.C., many of his contributions to medicine and surgery preceded similar discoveries in the Western world. Sushruta devotes a complete volume of his experiences to ophthalmologic diseases.