Marie Taylor

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Marie Clark Taylor (1911 – December 1990) was a black American botanist. She earned her B.S. and master's at Howard University, and later her Ph.D. at Fordham University, being the first woman of any race to earn a science doctorate at Fordham. She briefly taught at Cardozo High School, and later started up summer science institutes for high school science teachers, bringing new methods of how to teach science, such as using light-microscopes to study cells. During the mid-1960s, she was requested President Lyndon B. Johnson to bring her work overseas, bringing her teaching style to an international level. She chaired the botany department at Howard University until her retirement in 1976.^[1] After her death, an auditorium in the Ernest. E. Just Hall at Howard University was named in her honor.^[2]

References

↑ Henry T. Frierson, William F. Tate, ed. (2011). Beyond Stock Stories and Folktales: African Americans' Paths to Stem Fields (1st ed.). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-78052-168-8.
↑ Warren, Wini (1999). "Marie Clark Taylor". Black Women Scientists in the United States. 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA: Indiana University Press. pp. 260–262. ISBN 0-253-33603-1.

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Name	Taylor, Marie Clark
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Short description	American botanist
Date of birth	1911
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Date of death	December 1990
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