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Ocean worlds Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; fifth African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in planetary science; first African American staff scientist in the history of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, where she worked from 2017 to 2019; Asteroid 2001 SV 291 was renamed Asteroid ...
Evelynn Maxine Hammonds [1] (born 1953) is an American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College.
Webb was the first of two African American women to graduate from a school of veterinary medicine in the United States in 1949. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She then took Faculty Study Leave from Tuskegee to earn a master's degree ( M.S. in anatomy) from Michigan State University in 1950.
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree .
Carolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville, Florida, on November 18, 1917. [2] Her father, Julius A. Parker, known for being one of the first black doctors in the Alachua County, was a successful physician and pharmacist who graduated from Meharry Medical College, the first medical school in the South for African-Americans.
Dr. Patricia Bath, an ophthalmologist and laser scientist, was not only the first female African-American doctor to patent a medical device but also the first person to invent a surgery that ...
Marie Maynard Daly (April 16, 1921 – October 28, 2003) was an American biochemist.She was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University and the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. [2]
Alma Levant Hayden (March 27, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. [1] She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s.