African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown
A chemist sketches the lives of women who broke racial boundaries, including Marie Maynard Daly, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1947.
Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $35
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