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Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. Daly was also part of the team that established the primary nucleic acid bases.

She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.

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Robert McNees
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From a few years ago: A great, short piece by Sibrina Collins for Undark Magazine, about Marie Maynard Daly.

https://undark.org/2017/08/07/unsung-marie-maynard-daly-women-stem/

Unsung: Marie Maynard Daly

Daly is known for being the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, but she should be remembered for so much more.
Sibrina Nichelle Collins (Undark Magazine)

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Besides her studies linking cholesterol and smoking to health problems, Daly was part of the group that established adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine as the primary nucleic acid bases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2147206/pdf/497.pdf

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Cori Bargmann
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Marie Daly was an ACS Fellow at Rockefeller University, and is honored in our portrait of trailblazing women in science: https://www.rockefeller.edu/support-our-science/women-and-science/portrait-initiative/

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Women & Science Portrait Initiative “Five Trailblazing Women Scientists at The Rockefeller University” (Left to right) Florence R. Sabin, Louise Pearce, Rebecca C. Lancefield, Gertrude E. Perlmann, and Marie M.
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