Role Models in the Natural Sciences

Created by:William H. Church,Associate Professor Department of ChemistryNeuroscience ProgramTrinity College Hartford CT

in conjunction with the Consortium for High Achievment and Success, Trinity College

Copyright © 2007 William H. Church. All rights reserved - updated Fall 2010

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Chemical Sciences

Biological Sciences

Physics

Neuroscience

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

• Atoms and the Periodic Table

• Chemical Reactions and Equations

• Solutions

• Gases and Gas Laws

• 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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James A. Harris, Ph.D. Nuclear Chemist

John McNeile Hunter Oxygenated Tungsten and Thermoionics

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Biochemistry

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John C. Browne, 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

Lloyd Agustus HallAnti-oxidants and Food Preservatives

Lino GonzalezProtein Chemistry

Joseph C. Hall, Ph.D.Male contraceptives; entrepreneur

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Bonding

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Chemical Reactions and Equations

Norbert Rillieux Sugar Refining

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Mario J. Molina, Ph.D. Nobel Prize winner

Samuel P. Massie, Jr. Ph.D. Organic Synthesis

Lloyd Hall, D.Sc. Food Sterilization

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Gases and Gas Laws

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History and People in the Chemical Sciences

James E. Bostic, Jr. Ph.D.

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George W. Carver Chemurgist

Elvia Niebla, Ph.D. Soil Scientist

Joseph S. Francisco, Ph.D.President, American Chemical Society

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Nuclear Chemistry

Edwin R. Russell, Ph.D. Atomic Energy

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Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, Ph.D.

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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

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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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Dale Brown EmeagwaliAnti-sense methodology

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GeneticsJill Bargonetti-Chavarria, Ph.D. P53 gene and Cancer

Francisco Ayala, Ph.D. Population and Evolution Genetics

Maggie Werner-Washburne, Ph.D. Genomics

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.Cellular processes and Cancer

Renato Aguilera, Ph.D. transcriptional regulation of the Recombination

Activating Genes (RAG)

Sandra Murray, Ph.D.cyclic AMP and cell-cell communication

Elma Gonzalez, Ph.D.Plant Cell Biology

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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

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Environmental and Ecology

Marjorie Harris Carr Environmentalist, Zoology

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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 and Cosmology

• Spectroscopy

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John McNeile Hunter Oxygenated Tungsten and Thermoionics

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

Rodrick Pettigrew, M.D.Biomedical imaging

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Spectroscopy

• Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D. Lasers

• 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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Lisa D. Cain, Ph.D Brain injury

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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/Engineers/Physicians

– African Americans

– Hispanics

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