St. Elmo Brady became the first African American to earn a PhD in chemistry in the United States, graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1916. Dr. Brady became just the 40th person to receive his PhD in chemistry from the U of I. He was also the first African American admitted to Phi Lambda Upsilon, the chemistry honor society, and the first inducted into Sigma Xi, the science honor society.
This documentary, created and produced by the U of I, details Dr. Brady’s story through interviews with relatives and officials at the universities and colleges he influenced.
Video Services at Illinois - the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Andrew Gleason, David Schiller, Emily Polk & Todd Wilson
Produced by: The School of Chemical Sciences & The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Images courtesy of The University of Illinois Archives & Carol Brady Fonvielle
Special Thanks to: William Clay Fonvielle, great-grandson of St. Elmo Brady; Dr. Vera Mainz, Director (retired) of NMR Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Dr. Lloyd Munjanja, Assistant Director of Graduate Diversity & Program Climate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
17 фев 2020
