Angie Turner King

Biography

Angie Lena Turner King (December 9, 1905 – February 28, 2004) was an American chemist, mathematician, and educator. King was an instructor of chemistry and mathematics at West Virginia State High School, and a professor of chemistry and mathematics at West Virginia State College (present-day West Virginia State University) in Institute. Born in the segregated coal-mining community of Elkhorn in McDowell County, West Virginia, in 1905, she had a difficult childhood following her mother's death when she was eight years old.

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