Anna Coble
American biophysicist
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- Bachelors Physics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anna Jane Coble-Mullen was an American biophysicist. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate in biophysics, and the first black woman to be hired at Howard University. Early life and education Coble was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she became interested in mathematics and physics. Her father was a teacher at St. Augustine's University. Coble studied mathematics at Howard University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1958 and a master's degree in 1961. After graduating, she taught physics at North Carolina A&T State University for four years. Coble moved to University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for her postgraduate studies, where she became an advocate for minority students and women. She completed her PhD in 1973 under the supervision of Floyd Dunn. She spent two years at Washington University in St. Louis studying the impact of high-intensity ultrasound on frogs.
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