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Mar 27, 1927 Greenville, South Carolina, United States Died on 02 Aug 1967 (aged 40)
American chemist
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About Alma Levant Hayden
- Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C.
- She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s.
- Hayden graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in chemistry, and became an expert in spectrophotometry, the measurement of how substances absorb light.
- She published work on infrared and other techniques for analyzing chemicals in a range of journals.
- Hayden was appointed Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S.
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, and may have been the first African-American scientist at the FDA.
- Hayden came to national attention in 1963 when she led the team that exposed the common substance in Krebiozen, a long-controversial alternative and expensive drug promoted as anti-cancer.
