{"id":1045,"date":"2017-10-13T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:39:12","slug":"black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/10\/13\/black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Influential Figures in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">In our second post honouring Black History Month, we take a look at two more inspiring people from the science and engineering industries. Read on to find out more about the man who designed the first moon based observatory and the first ever female African American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1055\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Curruthers-Burns-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2078\" height=\"5389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Curruthers-Burns-1.png 2078w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Curruthers-Burns-1-116x300.png 116w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Curruthers-Burns-1-768x1992.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Curruthers-Burns-1-395x1024.png 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2078px) 100vw, 2078px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our second post honouring Black History Month, we take a look at two more inspiring people from the science and engineering industries. Read on to find out more about the man who designed the first moon based observatory and the first ever female African American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.<\/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":[274,90,95,277,273,120,275,276],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bhm","tag-black-history-month","tag-famous-scientists","tag-george-carruthers","tag-nasa","tag-stem","tag-ursula-burns","tag-xerox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","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=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}