Margaret E. M. Tolbert

Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert (b. November 24, 1943) was a chemist who has worked as a professor at Tuskegee University and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee, and as a research chemist at British Petroleum.^[1] From 1996-2002 she served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab.^[2][3]

Early life and education

Tolbert was born in Suffolk, Virginia, and raised by her grandmother. She enrolled in the Tuskegee Institute after graduating from high school as a pre-med major, later switching to chemistry because of the availability of financial aid. She graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in chemistry and a minor in mathematics, then earned an M.S. in analytical chemistry from Wayne State University in 1968, and in 1974 a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Brown University.^{[4] [5]}

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