Marie Maynard Daly
First African American woman to earn a chemistry doctorate in the United States
At a glance
- Inventor
- Marie Maynard Daly
- Life
- 1921–2003
- Birthplace
- Queens, New York
- Country
- United States
- Region
- United States
- Era
- 1950–2000
- Fields
- Science & Engineering, Medicine & Health
- Evidence
- Documented
- Records
- 0 in this archive
What they did
Daly took her PhD at Columbia in 1947 and spent her career on the chemistry of the cell nucleus, protein synthesis, and — with Quentin Deming — the relationship between cholesterol, hypertension and arterial disease.
Historical context
Her research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine helped establish the link between diet, cholesterol and clogged arteries that reshaped cardiovascular medicine.
The legacy
She endowed a scholarship for Black students in the sciences at Queens College in her father's name, and remains a reference point for women entering chemistry.
The evidence
Doctoral dissertation and departmental records, 1947
Institutional recordMarie Maynard Daly biographical record
Institutional record
Documentation strength
- 2
- Sources
- 0
- Primary
- 2
- Publishers
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