First Black Woman PhD Changed Medicine Forever Marie Maynard Daly became the first Black woman to earn a chemistry PhD in the US (1947, Columbia University) and completed it in just 3 years. Her revolutionary research: discovered how RNA builds proteins (cited by James Watson in his Nobel Prize lecture), identified DNA's building blocks before its structure was known, proved high cholesterol/sugar clog arteries, and showed hypertension causes heart attacks. Every heart disease treatment today is

Marie Maynard Daly was the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a PhD in chemistry. Her research changed how we understand heart disease and the effects of smoking—yet her name is rarely mentioned. This is one of those Black history facts you didn’t know because they left her out on purpose. This is Black history facts not taught in school. It’s Black history that is not taught in schools even though it shaped modern science. These are African American history facts that highlight real innovati

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