{"id":1051,"date":"2017-10-27T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:39:35","slug":"black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/10\/27\/black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Influential Figures in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">October is drawing to a close, which means it&#8217;s time for our final installment of profiles for Black History Month. We take a look at astronaut and scientist, Mae Jemison, and renowned zoologist, Ernest Everett Just. We&#8217;ve barely scratched the surface of the achievements of black people in the STEM industries, but we hope we have inspired you with some amazing stories. If there&#8217;s anyone else you&#8217;d like to share with us don&#8217;t forget to comment below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Jemison-Just.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"5551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Jemison-Just.png 2083w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Jemison-Just-113x300.png 113w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Jemison-Just-768x2047.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/files\/2017\/10\/BHM-Jemison-Just-384x1024.png 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is drawing to a close, which means it&#8217;s time for our final installment of profiles for Black History Month. We take a look at astronaut and scientist, Mae Jemison, and renowned zoologist, Ernest Everett Just. We&#8217;ve barely scratched the surface of the achievements of black people in the STEM industries, but we hope we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2017\/10\/27\/black-history-month-influential-figures-in-stem-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black History Month: Influential Figures in STEM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[274,90,278,95,279,273,120,142],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bhm","tag-black-history-month","tag-ernest-just","tag-famous-scientists","tag-mae-jemison","tag-nasa","tag-stem","tag-zoology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","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=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}