Lawrence Howland Knox was among the first African Americans to receive a PhD in chemistry, following his brother William Jacob Knox. Knox was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was one of five children, two girls and three boys, and remarkably for that time, all of the boys earned PhDs; the oldest brother, William Jr. […]
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