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Ella Burton Tyree (March 13, 1920-February 2, 1989) was an American medical researcher. She worked in the mid-twentieth century investigating effects of radiation poisoning in animals and potential treatments.
1918–2019
Ellamae Simmons (March 26, 1918 – May 10, 2019) was the first Black female medical doctor in the United States to specialize in immunology.
1849–
Ellen F. Eglin (before 1849 – after 1890) was an African-American inventor who invented a clothes wringer.
1992–
Elliot Reed (born 1992) is an American dancer and performance artist. Their projects span dance, video, performance, and sculpture and explores the relationship between physicality, time, and systems. Reed has shown internationally at venues like MoMA PS…
February 28, 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eleven digital files: 2011.174.57.1a, 2011.174.57.1b, 2011.174.57.1c, 2011.174.57.1d, 2011.174.57.1e, 2011.174.57.1f, 2011.174.57.1g, 2011.174.57.1h, 2011.174.57.1i, 2011.174.57.1j, and 2011.174.57.1k. Elmer Dixon discusses his…
1883–1941
Elmer Samuel Imes (October 12, 1883 – September 11, 1941) was an American physicist who demonstrated for the first time that quantum theory could be applied to the rotational energy states of molecules, as well as the vibration and electronic levels. His…
1931–
Elmer Lucille Allen (born August 23, 1931) is an American ceramic artist and chemist. In 1966, she became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in Louisville, Kentucky, and worked there for 31 years. In 2004, she became the first recipient of…
1946–2001
Elmer P. Martin Jr. (October 31, 1946 – 2001) was an African-American sociologist and museum executive. He was a professor of Social Work at Morgan State University.
1941–2024
Elnora Delores Belle Daniel (née Belle; November 19, 1941 – March 4, 2024) was an American nurse and educator. She served as president of Chicago State University from 1998 to 2008. In 1986, she became the first African American president of the Virginia…
1932–2021
Elouise Edwards (28 December 1932 – 22 January 2021) was a community activist and civil rights campaigner. She was born in British Guiana and moved to Manchester, England in the 1960s, becoming known for her campaigns to fight racial discrimination and to…
Biography
Elva Johnson Jones is a professor and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), a position she has held since 1991.
1985–
Elvis Francois (born 1985), also known as Dr. Elvis, is an American orthopedic surgeon and amateur singer known for making viral videos of his singing before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aulsondro "Novelist" Hamilton, better known by his stage name Emcee N.I.C.E., is an American Christian hip hop recording artist, rapper, singer, songwriter, record and film producer, record executive, actor, inventor, entrepreneur and former lead…
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Emerson Emory (January 29, 1925 – January 28, 2003) was an American internist and psychiatrist from Dallas, Texas. Aspiring to be a doctor from an early age, he attended Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College before serving in the Quartermaster…
1957–
Emery Neal Brown (born 1957) is an American statistician, computational neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a practicing…
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Emily King (born Emily Cowings; July 10, 1985) is an American singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2004 and her first album East Side Story was released in August 2007. In December 2007, she was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Contemporary R&B…
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Emma Ann Reynolds (1862–1917) was an African-American teacher, who had a desire to address the health needs of her community. Refused entrance to nurses training schools because of racism, she influenced the creation of Provident Hospital in Chicago and…
Biography
Emma Katherine Tara Benn is an American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference in health disparities as a way to help find targets for intervention against these disparities. She works at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where…
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Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (November 11, 1863 – October 22, 1938) was an American writer, and author of the novel Four Girls At Cottage City (1895). An earlier novel, Megda (1891), was published under her maiden name of Emma Dunham Kelley and the pseudonym…
1882–1957
Emma Rochelle Wheeler was an influential African American physician in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, known for opening and operating Walden Hospital with her husband. There, they had inpatient rooms, surgery wings, and a nursing school. She was an…
1868–1946
Emma Wakefield-Paillet (November 21, 1868 – August 26, 1946) was an American physician. Wakefield-Paillet was the first African-American woman to graduate from medical school and to practice medicine in Louisiana.
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Emmett W. Chappelle (October 24, 1925 – October 14, 2019) was an American scientist who made valuable contributions in the fields of medicine, philanthropy, food science, and astrochemistry. His achievements led to his induction into the National Inventors…
1908–1955
Emmett Ethridge Butler (1908-1955) was a physician practicing in Gainesville, Georgia. He was born in Jefferson and grew up in Macon. He was a graduate of Morehouse College.
1923–1993
Emmett James Conrad (October 6, 1923 – April 24, 1993) was an American surgeon and Dallas civic leader. He was the first African-American member of both the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees and the Texas State Board of Education.
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