Dolores cooper shockley biography
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Dolores Cooper Shockley
American pharmacologist (1930–2020)
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Dolores Cooper Shockley is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D.
Dolores C. Shockley (April 21, 1930[1] – October 10, 2020)[2] was the first black woman to receive a PhD in pharmacology in the United States and one of the first African American students to receive a PhD from Purdue University.[3][4][5] After obtaining her PhD she became faculty at the historically black schoolMeharry Medical College where she subsequently became the first black woman to chair a Pharmacology department in the United States in 1988.[3] Her research contributions included studying the effects of chemical pollutants on the brain and identifying pharmacological agents that interact with drugs of abuse such as cocaine.
She was a distinguished scholar and emeritus professor at Meharry Medical College.
Early life and education
Dolores Cooper was born in 1930 in Mississippi. She grew up in a segregated society in the small rural town of Cl
