Elmo Brady (1884-1966) was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the U.S. After receiving his ... He worked hard to gain an education and become a scientist. He taught at ...

He is remembered as a trailblazer who overcame racial barriers to make lasting contributions to science and medicine. Dr. Shirley Jackson is a physicist and the first African American woman to ...

blood chemistry, preservation, and transfusion — the work on which he based his seminal dissertation, "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Preservation." The thesis also made him the first African American ...

"For an African ... a Dow scientist, Dr. Patrick Oriel. A few years later, when she and James were looking for a company where both could work - she in biochemistry and he in organic chemistry ...

If African-American researchers are ever to gain equal opportunities in science, even subtle cases of differential treatment must be stamped out. A new study reveals that African American researchers ...