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St. Elmo Brady

Education

Brady attended public schools

for elementary, middle, and high.

During college in 1904, he attended

Fisk University in Nashville, where he

majored in chemistry, and would later

receive his Bachelor's of Science degree

in 1908. After he graduated, he accepted

History

Summarization

a faculty position at what we now know to

be Tuskegee University. In 1913, he left the

university to attend a graduate program in

St. Elmo Brady set

chemistry at the University of Illinois. A

On December 22nd, 1884, St. Elmo

year into the program, he received his

many great milestones for the

Contribution to Science

Master's degree and a fellowship that

St. Elmo Brady was the first

would enable him to pursue a

African American community of

Brady was born in the city of Louisville,

doctorate degree.

African American to receive a

doctorate degree in the US. As a

his time, as well as becoming

University of Illinois graduate, his

Family

an asset for aspiring, and later

Kentucky. He lived to be 82, passing away on

research was mainly focused on

characterization of organic acids. After

successful, chemists.

St.Elmo Brady was the eldest

having completed his doctorate, he

December 25th, 1996 in Washington

established a collaborative faculty

child of Thomas and Celesta Brady.

training program with the University of

He also had 2 sisters, Fedora and

Illinois that focused on a technique

D.C.

called infrared spectroscopy.

Buszeder. He was married to his wife, Myrtle

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Travers and had two sons, Robert

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and St. Elmo Brady, Jr.

Fun facts

  • Brady was mentored by

Booker T. Washington and George

Washington Carver.

  • He mentored Dr. Samuel Massie,

who later came to work on the

Manhattan Project, and was also the

Sources

  • http://www.blackpast.org/aah/brady-saint-elmo-1884-1966
  • http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2005_05_20/nodoi.8486722754476011068
  • http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/noyeslaboratory.html

African American to join the US Naval

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Academy.

  • Even after his retirement in 1952,

he helped a college in Mississippi,

Tougaloo College, develop a

chemistry department.

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