Early Life
When was Marie Daly born?
April 16th 1921
Who did Marie Daly get her love of chemistry from?
Her dad
What job did Marie Daly have after getting her doctoral degree?
She teached for two years at Howard University
Who was Marie Daly inspired by?
Her dad
Where did Marie Daly go for high school?
Hunter College High School
Where did she grow up?
Queens, New York
Why did Marie Daly have to work twice as hard to be tacken seriouly in her field?
Her race and gender
Why did she receive a grant from the American Cancer Society?
To continue her post doctoral research
What was she first to do?
She was the first African American women to get a PhD. in chemistry.
What did she do after she graduated high school?
She went to Queens College
What did her Father study in college?
Chemistry
Who did she marry?
Vincent Clark
Who did she work with and what did they work on during her time at the at the Rockefeller Institution Center?
She worked with Alfred Mirsky on the composition and metabolism of components of the cell nucleus and other smaller studies, for seven years
What did her work do for people?
It saved many people from heart attcks
What type of scientist was Marie Daly?
She was a Biochemist
Why did her father dropout of college?
Money struggles
When and how did Marie Daly die?
She died from cancer in 2003
What did she do after working at the Rockefeller Center?
She went back to teaching biochemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
What was her legacy in regards to science
It was for her work and studies on cholesterol, sugar, and proteins
What did she do after she graduated college?
After college she got a job at her college to be a lab assistant and earned a fellowship
Why did Maire Daly love reading?
Her mom was big on reading and education
Why did Maire Daly have a good education?
Her parents were both very big on getting a good education to succed
What did she do in 1960 for work?
She became a professor at the Albert Einstein College until she retired in 1986.
What was her legacy outside of science
It was for developing programs to get minority students enrolled in medical school and graduate from science programs
Did she only go to one college?
No, she saved up money to go to Columbia University where she graduated with a doctoral degree in 1947