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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Jeannette Brown
Jeannette Brown
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| Other authors / contributors: | Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Minneapolis, Minnesota 2012 January 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Organic chemist and historian Jeannette E. Brown was born in Bronx, New York, on May 13, 1934. Brown graduated from Staten Island's New Dorp High School. She received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Hunter College in New York City in 1956. In 1958, she became the first African American woman to earn her M.S. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Brown joined CIBA Pharmaceutical Company as a research chemist working on drug development for tuberculosis. After eleven years, Merck & Co. Research Laboratories hired her. From 1993 to 2002, Brown was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She also served as the regional director of the New Jersey Statewide System Initiative. In 2011, Brown published a book, African American Women Chemists. She received numerous honors, including recognition as an fellow of The American Chemical Society and the Association of Women in Science.
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