Marie Maynard Daly

CTL-E-6741 · Person · other · 1921–2003

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Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003) in 1947 became the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in chemistry, at Columbia University. Her research spanned the chemistry of histones and protein synthesis and early evidence linking cholesterol and diet to hypertension and heart disease. She spent her later career at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and established a scholarship at Queens College for minority science students.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Scientist — biochemist (Columbia; Albert Einstein College of Medicine) · Photo: Photo: Queens College Silhouette Yearbook · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Maynard_Daly.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6741. · Photo size note (as staged): Largest original available on Wikimedia Commons is 250x290; below the 1200px long-edge preference — used as-is, never upscaled.

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• Wikipedia, 'Marie Maynard Daly' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Maynard_Daly

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