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Dolores Cooper Shockley
American pharmacologist (1930–2020)
Dr. 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.
Dolores cooper shockley biography
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