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William Moore (chemist)
William Earl Moore (1941 - 10 December 2020) was an American chemist. He was the first African Americans, African American to graduate from Purdue University with a PhD in chemistry. Moore was a faculty member at Southern University for more than three decades. Early life and education Moore was born in born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1941. Moore attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for his undergraduate studies. He completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry there in 1963. In 1967, Moore received a PhD in physical biochemistry from Purdue University, making him the first Black person to do so in the history of the university. His PhD thesis was titled "The Effects of Reversible Denaturation on the Population Distribution of Bovine Serum Albumin" and was submitted in August 1967. His doctoral advisor was Joseph F. Foster, and Moore also thanked Dr. Vandon E. White in his acknowledgements. White was chair of the department of chemistry at Southern Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 101,129 in 2019. It was known as Tuskaloosa until the early 20th century. It is also known as ''"the Druid City"'' because of the numerous water oaks planted in its downtown streets since the 1840s. Incorporated on December 13, 1819, it was named after Tuskaloosa, the chief of a band of Muskogean-speaking people defeated by the forces of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1540 in the Battle of Mabila, in what is now central Alabama. It served as Alabama's capital city from 1826 to 1846. Tuscaloosa is the regional center of industry, commerce, healthcare and education for the area of west-central Alabama known as ''West Alabama;'' and the principal city of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Tuscaloosa, Hale and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
