Meet Marie Maynard Daly! 🧪 At a time when only about 2% of Black women living in the United States held college degrees, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly was the very first African-American woman to receive her Ph.D in Chemistry in the United States! 👩🏾‍🎓 She became a Biochemist after studying how the body’s chemicals help digest food at Columbia University. 📖 In 1955, Daly returned to Columbia, working closely with Dr. Quentin B. Deming on the causes of heart attacks. Their groundbreaking work, disclosed the relationship between high cholesterol and clogged arteries. That work opened up a new understanding of how foods and diet can affect the health of the heart and the circulatory system. 🥗 Daly also created opportunities for students of color to be enrolled in medical schools and graduate science programs. In 1988, she started a scholarship, in honor of her father, for minority students who wanted to study science at Queens College. 🤎 Thank you Marie M. Daly, for your contribu...