Jeannette E. Brown - Organic Chemist And Historian

Jeannette E. Brown Jeannette E. Brown is an organic chemist and historian. Born on the 13th of May 1934 in Bronx, New York, she was the daughter of Freddie and Ada Brown. At a tender age of six, Doctor Arthur C. Logan was able to inspire Brown to pursue a career in science. On to her academic background, Jeannette Brown was an outstanding student through and through. She finished high school in New Dorp on Staten Island. She earned her college degree from Hunter College of Bachelors’ in Science major in Chemistry. Jeannette Brown belonged to the class as one of the first two African Americans for the then new degree. Brown later on entered University of Minnesota to pursue her post-graduate degree on organic chemistry where she also published her master’s thesis “Study of Dye and Ylide Formation in Salts of 9-(P-dimethylaminophenyl) Florence”. She was also recognized as the first African American woman to have earned a master’s degree in organic chemistry Done with her academic pursuit, she joined a pharmaceutical company known as CIBA and landed in their research department. As a chemist, she analyzed diseases such as tuberculosis and coccidiosis, thus leading her to develop drugs to combat these diseases. After years, she was hired by Merck & Co. Research Laboratories to further pursue her work on synthesizing chemical compounds which were tested as potential drugs. Other than her career in Merck & Co., she received another responsibility of being the Chairwoman – Project SEED Committee for the American Chemical Society back in 1986. Performing her responsibilities as a chairperson and as a chemist-researcher...