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Elmer Lucille Allen (born in Louisville, Kentucky, August 23, 1931) is a ceramic artist and chemist who graduated from Nazareth College (now Spalding University) in 1953. [1] Both her father and brother were named Elmer and the family chose to name her Elmer Lucille. [2] She became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in 1966. [3]
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Glenola Emily Behling Rose (March 6, 1891 – June 20, 1970) was an American chemist known for her work during the 1920s and 1930s on women's employment in chemistry. She ran the Women's Service Committee of the American Chemical Society, which she co-founded in 1926.
Margaret Seward (1864–1929), one of the first two female chemistry students at the University of Oxford; signed the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society; Vera Bogdanovskaia (1868–1897), one of the first female Russian chemists; Gerty Cori (1896–1957) Jewish Czech-American biochemist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science
That year, she was selected by BuzzFeed as one of the world's top women scientists and was included in Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. [20] [21] She is regularly featured in the media, including on Great Big Story, [22] The Wall Street Journal, [23] Today, [24] The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, [25] The Wendy Williams Show, [26] [27] and CBS. [28]
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (/ ˈ k w oʊ l ɛ k /; July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist best known for inventing Kevlar (poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide). ). Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 ye
Hidden inside were the biographies of 500 women scientists. [13] This discovery spurred her Charles Warren Center fellowship talk, Women scientists in America before 1920 which she published [14] in the magazine American Scientist after it was rejected by Science and Scientific American. The paper's success led her to continue her research in ...
Bridgette Renee Shannon (née Blackman) is an African-American chemist who is a research scientist at 3M.Shannon was the first African-American woman to complete a doctoral degree from the chemistry department at the University of Arkansas.