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Mae Jemison
Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–…
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science · American astronaut, doctor and engineer (born 1956) · astronaut · physician · professor · physicist · actor · engineer · children's writer · also Mae Jemison, Mae C. Jemison, Mae Carol Jemison, Mae EL Jemison, Jemison
Born 17 October 1956 · Q34091
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2026· 2 entries
Doctor of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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2024· 1 entry
al.com: Mae Jemison outlasts Decatur with late kickoff returned for touchdown
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2023· 1 entry
University of Delaware: Mae Jemison to speak at UD Commencement
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021).
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2019· 1 entry
(International Women's Day) featured a quote from Jemison: "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations
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2018· 1 entry
Collaborated with Bayer Crop Science and the National 4-H Council for the initiative named Science Matters, which was aimed at encouraging young children to understand and pursue agricultural sciences
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2017· 2 entries
LEGO released the "Women of NASA" set, with minifigures of Jemison, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride, and Nancy Grace Roman
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“Stories of Atlanta – Boldly Going ... And Taking Stuff”
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2016· 1 entry
Partnered with Bayer Corporation to promote and advance science literacy in schools, emphasizing hands-on experimentation
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2015· 2 entries
Futurism: Mae Jemison: The First African American Woman in Space and First Real Astronaut on Star Trek
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Won Elizabeth Blackwell Medal (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Jemison also appeared at Wayne State University for their annual Dr
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2012· 1 entry
Jemison made the winning bid for the DARPA 100 Year Starship project through the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence
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2008· 2 entries
Jemison was the featured speaker for the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority established by African-American college women
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Jemison said that it was difficult to go to Stanford at 16 but that her youthful arrogance may have helped her; she asserted that some arrogance is necessary for women and minorities to be successful in a white male domi
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2006· 1 entry
Jemison participated in African American Lives, a PBS television miniseries hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Rachel Carson Award (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (2004).
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1999· 1 entry
Jemison founded BioSentient Corp and obtained the license to commercialize AFTE, the technique she and Mohri tested on themselves during STS-47
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1996· 2 entries
“Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.”
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“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations… If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won’t exist because you’ll have already shut it out… You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.”
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1994· 1 entry
Camps have been held at Dartmouth College, Colorado School of Mines, Choate Rosemary Hall, and other sites in the United States, as well as internationally in South Africa, Tunisia, and Switzerland
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1993· 4 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1993).
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And founded a technology research company
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Founded The Jemison Group Inc
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Jemison appeared as Lieutenant Palmer in "Second Chances", an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, becoming the first real-life astronaut to appear on Star Trek
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1989· 2 entries
Was selected to join the STS-47 crew as Mission Specialist 4 and was also designated Science Mission Specialist, a new astronaut role being tested by NASA to focus on scientific experiments
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Published “Hybrid Arrangements as Strategic Alliances: Theoretical Issues in Organizational Combinations” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 1,992 times.
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1987· 1 entry
And was selected for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992
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1986· 2 entries
Published “Corporate Acquisitions: A Process Perspective” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 1,629 times.
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Jemison reapplied in 1987
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1983· 2 entries
And served as a medical officer until 1985
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Jemison applied to the astronaut program in October 1985
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1981· 2 entries
Studied at Weill Cornell Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (1981).
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Interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in 1982, and worked as a general practitioner for Ross–Loos Medical Group
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1977· 1 entry
Studied at Stanford University, Bachelor of Science (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
Jemison entered Stanford University at the age of 16
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1956· 2 entries
Born 1956-10-17.
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The youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green)
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