Jeannette Brown
Jeannette E. Brown (born May 13, 1934[1]) is a retired American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author. Her field of research included coccidiosis and dehyropeptidase enzyme inhibitor. She is the author of African American Women Chemists, taught at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and worked at CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. as a junior research chemist,[2] and at Merck & Co. as a research chemist. She served on the National Science Foundation Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women Minorities and Persons with Disabilities, and was the historian of the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemist Committee.[3]
Brown studied at Hunter College where she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1956, one of two African Americans in the inaugural class of Hunter's chemistry program.[2] She received a master's degree from the University of Minnesota in organic chemistry in 1958, the first African American woman to achieve this.[4]
In the 1980s, Brown moved from Summit, New Jersey to Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.[2]
Honors
- 2009, Glenn E. & Barbara Hodson Ullyot Scholar of the Chemical Heritage Foundation[5][6]
References
- ↑ "Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934- - LC Linked Data Service (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- 1 2 3 Grezlla, Paul (March 16, 2012). "Chemical reactions Hillsborough chemist shares pioneering stories of black women". My Central Jersey. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ↑ "Chemist Becomes Historian". North Jersey Section – American Chemical Society. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ↑ "Jeanette E. Brown, Chemist, Historian, and author of "African American Women Chemists," to Speak August 18". Berkeley Lab. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ↑ Neal, Sharon L. (2 April 2012). "Black Women, Chemistry Pioneers". Chemical & Engineering News (American Chemical Society) 90 (14): 46–47. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ↑ "Past Scholars". Chemical Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
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