![]() ![]() Her mother was Della Ella Murrell Parker. Parker, was a successful physician and pharmacist who graduated from Meharry Medical College, the first medical school in the South for African-Americans. ![]() Early life and education Ĭarolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville, Florida, on November 18, 1917. Parker is the first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics. Leukemia was an occupational risk for workers on the Dayton Project. According to family, her completion of a doctorate in physics at MIT was prevented by the leukemia that would kill her at age 48. ![]() Parker earned two master's degrees, one in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941 and one in physics from MIT in 1951. She then became an assistant professor in physics at Fisk University. She was one of a small number of African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project. ![]() Carolyn Beatrice Parker (Novem– March 17, 1966) was a physicist who worked from 1943 to 1947 on the Dayton Project, the polonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project. ![]()
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