Role Models in the Natural Sciences
Created by William H. Church, Trinity College, Hartford CT in conjunction with the Consortium for High Achievment and Success, Trinity College
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Science Discipline
Chemical Sciences
Biological Sciences
Physics
Neuroscience
Chemical Sciences
• Atoms and the Periodic Table
• Chemical Reactions and Equations
• Solutions
• Gases and Gas Laws
• Stoichiometry
• History and People of the Chemical Sciences
• Biochemistry
• Bonding
• Nuclear Chemistry
• Spectroscopy
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Atoms and the Periodic Table
St. Elmo Brady, Ph.D Divalent Oxygen
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Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D Actinide concept of heavy elements
Biochemistry
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John M. Brown, Ph.D. Proteins and Carcinogens
James R. Gavin III, Ph.D. Insulin
Severo Ochoa, M.D. Nobel Prize, Enzymology
Ida S. Owens, Ph.D. Isozymes, Drug metabolism
Gertrude B. Elion, MSc. Purine Pharmacology
Chemical Reactions and Equations
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Samuel P. Massie, Jr. Ph.D. Organic Synthesis
Lloyd Hall, D.Sc. Food Sterilization
Norbert Rillieux Sugar Refining
Mario J. Molina, Ph.D. Nobel Prize winner
Percy Julian, Ph.D. Organic Synthesis
Luis A. Echegoyen, PhD. Fullerenes-Head NSF Chemistry Div.
History and People of the Chemical Sciences
James E. Bostic, Jr. Ph.D.
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Henrie M. Tredwell, Ph.D.
George W. Carver Chemurgist
Elvia Niebla, Ph.D. Soil Scientist
Nuclear Chemistry
Edwin R. Russell, Ph.D. Atomic Energy
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Darleane Hoffman, Ph.D. Transuranic elements
Spectroscopy and Analytical Analysis
Isiah Warner, Ph.D. Organized media
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Emmett Chappelle, M.S. Laser-induced fluorescence(LIF)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Ph.D. X-ray Crystallography
Solutions
• Eliza Lucas PinckneyBlue Indigo Dye
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• Microbiology
• Genetics
• Molecular and Cell Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Environmental and Ecology
• Oceanography
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Microbiology
John F. Alderete, Ph.D. Sexually-transmitted diseases
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Ruth Ella Moore, Ph.D. Bacteriology
Rebecca C. Lancefield, Ph.D. Bacteriology
GeneticsJill Bargonetti-Chavarria, Ph.D. P53 gene and Cancer
Maggie Werner-Washburne, Ph.D. Genomics
Francisco Ayala, Ph.D. Population and Evolution Genetics
Barbara McClintock, Ph.D. Cytogenetics
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Molecular and Cell Biology
Manuel Ares, Ph.D. RNA Structure, Function and Processing
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Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D. Cellular processes and Cancer
Developmental Biology
Manuel Ares, Ph.D. RNA Structure, Function and Processing
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Ernest Everett Just, Ph.D. Cell Surface Activity in Invertebrates
Environmental and Ecology
Marjorie Harris Carr Environmentalist, Zoology
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Bette A. Loiselle, Ph.D. Ecology
Oceanography
Ellen H.S. Richards, M.Sc. Founder of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Carole Baldwin, Ph.D. Icthiologist
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PHYSICS
• Nuclear Physics
• Astrophysics
• Spectroscopy
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ASTROPHYSICS
• Beth A. Brown, Ph.D. Astrophysics
• Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., Ph.D. Astrophysics
• Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. Astrophysics
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS
• Fred Begay, Ph.D. Thermonuclear fusion
• Lise Meitner, Ph.D. mother of the Atomic Bomb
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• Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Ph.D.
• Rosalyn Yalow, Ph.D. Medical Application of Radioisotopes
SPECTROSCOPY
• Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D. Lasers
• Luis Alvarez, Ph.D. Optics and Cosmic Rays
• Samuel E. Imes, Ph.D. Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy
• Christine Ladd-Franklin Color
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NEUROSCIENCE
Jose Del Castillo, Ph.D Electrophysiology
Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D. Behavior and Biofeedback
Erich JD. Jarvis, Ph.D. Molecular Neurobiology and Animal Behavior
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Baldomero Olivera, PhD Neurotoxins
Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD Learning and Memory
Leslie P. Tolbert, PhD Developmental Neuroscience
Carla Shatz, Ph.D. Developmental Neurobiology
Database Resources• Biographies of Notable Women Scientists• The African American Registry• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences• A Recipe for Invention: Scientist Biographies• We Are Scientists/Mathematicians/Engineeers/Physicians
– African Americans
– Hispanics
• Journal of Chemical Education: Biographical Snapshots
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