“Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
-Dr Marie Daly on the bravery required to push the frontiers of science and equality
Profile
Name: Marie Maynard Daly
Life: April 16th 1921 – October 28th 2003 (died aged 82)
Degrees: B.S. Queen’s College, Flushing, New York
M.S. New York University
P.h.D Columbia University
Occupation: Biochemist, first Black American woman in the United States to earn a P.h.D in chemistry
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