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Shirley Ann Jackson |
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Shirley Ann Jackson was born August 5, 1946 in Washington, D.C. She received her B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. (Physics). She was the first African American female to receive a doctorate in Theoretical Solid State physics from MIT.
Jackson became a Research Associate in Theoretical Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and served as a Visiting Science Associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. She served at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Aspen Center for Physics, served on the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in theoretical physics and worked with the Technical Staff of the Scattering and Low Energy Physics Research Laboratory of Bell Telephone Laboratories, appointed as Professor of Physics at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. and serving concurrently with her professorship at Rutgers as a consultant in semiconductor theory to AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. and was appointed as Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and assumed the Chairmanship.
Her research focused on Landau theories of charge density waves in one- and two-dimensions and also touched on two-dimensional Yang-Mills gauge theories and neutrino reactions.
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Dorothy McClendon |
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Dorothy McClendon was born in 1924 in Minden, Louisiana and has been a professional in the field of microbiology for 24 years. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1948 from Tennessee A&I State University. She currently studies tiny living things such as fungi and bacteria, otherwise known as microorganisms that are far too tiny to be seen with the naked eye alone. Some of these microorganisms cause materials, liquid or solid, to become contaminated and decay or to spoil. Some of these microorganisms are very harmful to our bodies and, if you are contaminated by them, they will destroy cells and cause disease.
In Warren, Michigan, at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, Dorothy is a microbiologist who coordinates microbial research and is developing methods to protect the fuel from getting contaminated as well as to protect the deteriorating military storage materials. Currently she is working on developing a fungicide that will not be harmful to the humans that come into contact with it but that will still protect the storage material.
A native to the state of Louisiana (Minden) she moved to Detroit, Michigan where in her early teens she began attending |
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Ida Stephens Owens: Biochemist |
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Ida Stephens Owens was born September 26, 1929 in Newark, New York. Ida received her PhD in Biology-Physiology from Duke University in 1967. Ida made the front page in the Carolina Times because she was the first black woman to not only earn her Ph.D, but to ever receive a degree in this field of study at Duke.
Ida is known for her research that is aimed at shedding light on how the human body defends itself against poison. She studies the biochemical and molecular genetics of human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase as it relates to both health and disease states. She is focused on understanding the genetic basis of the detoxifying system responsible for removing noxious chemicals from the body. Ida is helping to determine the genetic basis of hyperbilirubinemic disease. This is being done by cloning, describing, and characterizing the enzyme system. They are hoping to provide an alternative to liver transplantation for children that are diagnosed with the lethal CN-I disease.
Dr. Owens is known all around the world for her work on drug detoxifying enzymes. She has done numerous written key publications in scientific journals on the genetics of this enzyme system. She has been invited to |
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George Washington Carver: Chemurgist |
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George Washington Carver was known as a Chemurgist. His birthdate is not actually known, but some believe he was born in 1865. Carver grew up in the slavery days, but he never gave up on his goals in life. He received his bachelors from Iowa Agricultural College in 1894. He wanted to help the farmer by teaching them to turn their crops. He also wanted to educate them about three crops that could be used for a variety of things. The peanut, sweet potatoes and soybeans were the three crops George concentrated on.
He taught the cotton farmers how they could rotate their cotton crops with one of these other crops and it would help put the nutrients back in the soil that the cotton drained out. While he was teaching the farmers things he went on to make several different things out of peanuts, pecans, soybeans and sweet potatoes.
George was able to produce paints, stains and even cosmetics. George had there patents in place for the paints, stains and cosmetics. He made things that would help aid the farmers like axle grease, flour, linoleum and many more.
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Ernest Everett Just |
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Ernest Everett Just was born August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina. Just attended college at Dartmouth and graduated magna cum laude in 1907. He then went to the University of Chicago in 1916 where he earned his Ph. D in zoology.
In November 17, 1911 Mr. Just helped three Howard students with establishing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Upon graduation Ernest encountered his next task at hand. He wanted to work for a college or university, but knew that was going to be hard. The reason for it being hard for him to get hired was because the schools faculty was white and African Americans just were not hired on. He decided the best place for him to go work would be a historically-black Howard University in Washington D.C. Ernest took a teaching position and was put in charge of the new biology department at the university. From 1912-1941 he was head of the Department of Zoology.
Just was very interested in Marine Biology. Ernest became friends with Dr. Frank R. Lillie who was the chief of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. Frank invited Ernest to come spend the summers so he could |
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