Jeannette Brown’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author
Is Writer 
Scientist 
Biographer 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Science 
Gender female
Birth 13 May 1934, The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Age: 86 years
Star sign Taurus

Jeannette E. Brown (born May 13, 1934) is a retired American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author.

Life and education

Brown was born in 1934 in The Bronx, New York and after moving with her family, attended high school on Staten Island. Brown was an undergraduate at Hunter College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1956, one of two African Americans in the inaugural class of Hunter’s chemistry program. She received a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in organic chemistry in 1958, the first African American woman to achieve this.

In the 1980s, Brown moved from Summit, New Jersey to Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.

Research career

After receiving her master’s degree, Brown began work as a research chemist at CIBA Pharmaceutical Company, where she was involved in research programs for drug development targeting tuberculosis and coccidiosis. She moved to Merck in 1969, where she continued to work as a research chemist. From 1993 to 2002 she was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Brown has also devoted significant professional effort to diversity and outreach projects; she served on the National Science Foundation Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women Minorities and Persons with Disabilities and was the historian of the American Chemical Society’s Women Chemist Committee. As a historian of science, Brown has contributed biographical profiles to the African American National Biography Project and is the author of the 2011 book African American Women Chemists, which profiles early African American women in chemistry.

Honors

  • 2007, Association for Women in Science fellow
  • 2009, Glenn E. & Barbara Hodson Ullyot Scholar of the Chemical Heritage Foundation
  • 2009, American Chemical Society fellow in the Division of Professional Relations
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