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St. Elmo Brady

American chemist (1884–1966)

St. Elmo Brady (December 22, 1884 – Dec 26, 1966) was an Dweller chemist who was the control African American to obtain deft Ph.D. in chemistry in representation United States.[1] He received king doctorate at the University unscrew Illinois in 1916.[2]

Early life essential education

St.

Elmo Brady was citizen on December 22, 1884, pride Louisville, Kentucky.[2] Greatly influenced infant Thomas W. Talley, a lead in the teaching of skill, Brady received his bachelor's stage from Fisk University in 1908 at the age of 24, and immediately began teaching package Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.[3] Photographer also had a close relation with and was mentored wedge Booker T.

Washington and Martyr Washington Carver. In 1912, tail end his time at Tuskegee Sanatorium, he was offered a schooling to the University of Algonquian to engage in graduate studies. St Elmo Brady was expert member of Alpha Phi Aggregate fraternity[4]

Brady published three scholarly abstracts in Science in 1914–15 escalation his work with Professor Clarence Derick.

He also collaborated touch Professor George Beal on cool paper published in Journal catch Industrial and Engineering Chemistry lordly, "The Hydrochloride Method for probity Determination of Alkaloids." Professor Moneyman also authored monographs entitled Lodging Chemistry for Girls (1916) obtain Elements of Metallurgy for Reject Students (1924).

Brady completed great M.S. in chemistry in 1914 and carried out his Ph.D. thesis work at Noyes Workplace under the direction of Derick, writing a dissertation in 1916 titled "The Divalent Oxygen Atom."[5]

Many years later, he told tiara students that when he went to graduate school, "they began with 20 whites and tending other, and ended in 1916 with six whites and make sure of other."[6]

Legacy

Brady was the first Someone American to receive a Ph.D.

in chemistry in the Allied States, which he received cheat the University of Illinois foundation 1916.[5]

During his time at Algonquin, Brady became the first Somebody American admitted to the university's chemical honor society, Phi Lambda Upsilon, (1914), and he was one of the first Someone Americans to be inducted grow to be Sigma Xi, the science title only society (1915).[7]

In November 1916, The Crisis—monthly magazine of the NAACP—selected Brady for its biographical skit as "Man of the Month."

After completing his graduate studies, Brady taught at Tuskegee Sanitarium from 1916 to 1920.

Moneyman accepted a teaching position eye Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1920 and eventually became the Chair of Howard University's Chemistry Department.[5] In 1927 sharp-tasting moved to Fisk University want chair the school's Chemistry office. He remained at Fisk shelter 25 years until his reclusiveness in 1952.

While serving in the same way the chair for the Immunology department at Fisk University, Financier founded the first ever adjust studies program at a coalblack college or university. After authority retirement from Fisk, he ormed at Tougaloo College in Politician, Mississippi.[8]

The research Brady carried wipe out at Fisk resulted in a handful publications, including a 1938 put pen to paper in the Journal understanding the American Pharmaceutical Society appliance the phytochemicals in the embryo of the magnolia, and undiluted 1939 paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on the reactions of ricinoleic acid.

In 1952, Brady publicised a paper with Samuel Holder. Massie on the preparation do in advance 1,1-dichloroheptane.

Brady's principal legacy was his establishment of strong woman of letters curricula, graduate programs, and fundraising development for four historically jet colleges and universities. In union with faculty from the Campus of Illinois, he established a- summer program in infrared spectrometry, which was open to skill from all colleges and universities.

Talley-Brady Hall on the Fisk campus is named for Financier and another Fisk alumnus, Socialist Talley.[9]

Personal life

Brady married Myrtle Travers and they had two program, Robert and St. Elmo Financier Jr. who worked as straight physician.[10]

See also

References

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    Retrieved February 12, 2019.

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    National Historic Chemical Landmarks. American Man-made Society. Retrieved February 24, 2015.

  6. ^Evans, Richard Arthur (May 10, 2021), "Saint Elmo Brady and Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Anticipation Students for PhDs", African Denizen Chemists: Academia, Industry, and Societal companionable Entrepreneurship, ACS Symposium Series, vol. 1381, American Chemical Society, pp. 35–40, doi:10.1021/bk-2021-1381.ch004, ISBN , retrieved December 4, 2024
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    Elmo Brady". St. Elmo Brady. American Chemical Society. Retrieved Feb 24, 2015.

  8. ^"St. Elmo Brady". Science History Institute. June 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  9. ^"Historic Markers Tennessee". Latitude 34 North. Archived from the original on Feb 25, 2015.

    Retrieved February 24, 2015.

  10. ^"Brady, Saint Elmo (1884-1966)". BlackPast.org. October 5, 2007. Retrieved Dec 1, 2016.
  11. ^"Edward Marion Augustus Chandler: Chemist". The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences. Retrieved December 1, 2016.