{"id":1023,"date":"2017-10-06T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:39:00","slug":"black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/10\/06\/black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Influential figures in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">To honour Black History Month we&#8217;ve created a series of posts profiling inspiring and influential black people throughout history in the science, technology, engineering and maths industries. This week we&#8217;re looking at the achievements of pioneering botanist, George Washington Carver, and NASA&#8217;s extraordinary mathematician and physicist, Katherine Johnson. Visit the blog next week for more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1043\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-george-carver-katherine-johnson-FINAL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"5375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-george-carver-katherine-johnson-FINAL.png 2083w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-george-carver-katherine-johnson-FINAL-116x300.png 116w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-george-carver-katherine-johnson-FINAL-768x1982.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-george-carver-katherine-johnson-FINAL-397x1024.png 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To honour Black History Month we&#8217;ve created a series of posts profiling inspiring and influential black people throughout history in the science, technology, engineering and maths industries. This week we&#8217;re looking at the achievements of pioneering botanist, George Washington Carver, and NASA&#8217;s extraordinary mathematician and physicist, Katherine Johnson. Visit the blog next week for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[90,95,271,94,272,273,120],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-black-history-month","tag-famous-scientists","tag-george-washington-carver","tag-history","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}