Marie Maynard Daly
American biochemist
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Marie Maynard Daly was an American biochemist. She was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University and the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry. Wikipedia
Born: April 16, 1921, Corona, New York, NY
Died: October 28, 2003 (age 82 years), New York, NY
Education: Queens College, City University of New York (1943), Columbia University, New York University, and more
Parents: Ivan C. Daly and Helen Page
Other names: Marie Maynard Daly Clark
Thesis: A Study of the Products Formed by the Action of Pancreatic Amylase on Corn Starch (1947)