Role models in the physical sciences

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

Copyright © 2007 William H. Church. All rights reserved

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

Back to Science Disciplines

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

http://chemistry.uiuc.edu/bios/brady.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/seaborg-bio.html

Biochemistry



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

http://www.justgarciahill.org/jghdocs/webbiographydtlp.asp?BID=70

http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=90&id=500&tcode=nws3

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1959/ochoa-bio.html

http://eclipse.nichd.nih.gov/nichd/annualreport/2005/hdb/sgddm.htm

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html

Chemical Reactions and Equations



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.

http://www.doe-hbcu-massie-chair.com/massie.htm

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/936/Lloyd_Hall_was_an_efficient_chemist

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/norbertrillieux.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1995/molina-autobio.html

http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/percyjulian.html

http://www.chemistry.clemson.edu/people/luis_echegoyen.htm

History and People of the Chemical Sciences

James E. Bostic, Jr. Ph.D.



Henrie M. Tredwell, Ph.D.

George W. Carver Chemurgist

Elvia Niebla, Ph.D. Soil Scientist

http://www.scafricanamericanhistory.com/currenthonoree_print.asp?12&year=1994

http://www.scafricanamericanhistory.com/currenthonoree_print.asp?month=8&year=1992

http://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/carver.html

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=elvia_niebla_06

Nuclear Chemistry

Edwin R. Russell, Ph.D. Atomic Energy



Darleane Hoffman, Ph.D. Transuranic elements


http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/hoffman-priestley.html

Spectroscopy and Analytical Analysis

Isiah Warner, Ph.D. Organized media



Emmett Chappelle, M.S. Laser-induced fluorescence(LIF)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Ph.D. X-ray Crystallography

http://www.chem.lsu.edu/imw/group/warner.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blchappelle.htm

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html

Solutions

• Eliza Lucas PinckneyBlue Indigo Dye



http://www.myetv.org/television/productions/legacy/laureates/Eliza%20Lucs%20Pinckney.html

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

• Microbiology

• Genetics

• Molecular and Cell Biology

• Developmental Biology

• Environmental and Ecology

• Oceanography


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

http://www.justgarciahill.org/jghdocs/webbiographydtl.asp?BID=67

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/moore-ruth-ella-moore-1903-1994

http://www.rockefeller.edu/vaf/rclbio.htm

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



http://www.justgarciahill.org/jghdocs/webbiographydtl.asp?BID=26


http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=90&id=1721&tcode=nws3

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1983/mcclintock-autobio.html

Molecular and Cell Biology

Manuel Ares, Ph.D. RNA Structure, Function and Processing



Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D. Cellular processes and Cancer


http://www.bscp.org/Upload/Files/January%202004.PDF

Developmental Biology

Manuel Ares, Ph.D. RNA Structure, Function and Processing



Ernest Everett Just, Ph.D. Cell Surface Activity in Invertebrates



Environmental and Ecology

Marjorie Harris Carr Environmentalist, Zoology



Bette A. Loiselle, Ph.D. Ecology

http://www.fladefenders.org/marjorie

http://www.umsl.edu/%7Eloiselle/IndexNew.html

Oceanography

Ellen H.S. Richards, M.Sc. Founder of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Carole Baldwin, Ph.D. Icthiologist



http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/richards-es.html

http://www.mnh.si.edu/expeditions/galapagos/carole1.htm

PHYSICS

• Nuclear Physics

• Astrophysics

• Spectroscopy


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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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/brown_betha.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/06/MN123360.DTL

http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/

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


http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-bio.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1977/

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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http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/mcnair_ronalde.html

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1968/alvarez-bio.html

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/imes_smuele.html

http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/christineladd.html

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


Baldomero Olivera, PhD Neurotoxins

Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD Learning and Memory

Leslie P. Tolbert, PhD Developmental Neuroscience

Carla Shatz, Ph.D. Developmental Neurobiology


http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/edwardbruce_bynum.html

http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/jarvis/

http://www.hhmi.org/research/professors/olivera_bio.html

http://www.med.yale.edu/neurobio/goldman-rakic/goldman-rakic.html

http://www.neurobio.arizona.edu/faculty/tolbert/index.php

http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050222.html

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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