Episode 060 - Marie Clark Taylor | Botanist

Alternate Title: Carpe Diem

Emlyn tells Emma about the legendary botanist, Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in botany. Dr. Taylor was not only a top researcher in her field of photomorphogenesis, but she spent much of her career training science teachers in innovative teaching methods that involved the use of plants.

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Sources

Main Story - Marie Clark Taylor

1. “Women of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor” by Lucy Dinsmore, Women in Horticulture. https://www.womeninhorticulture.com/post/woman-of-firsts-marie-clark-taylor 
2. Warren, Wini. Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press, 1999. 
3. Plant Science Bulletin, Botanical Society of America, 1957. https://www.botany.org/PlantScienceBulletin/psb-1957-03-2.php 
4. “New Guinea Campaign”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea_campaign 
5. “Marie Taylor”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Taylor 

Women who Work 

1. Devitt, James. “Scientists Discover a New Connection Between the Eyes and Touch.” NYU, 2020. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/july/scientists-discover-a-new-connection-between-the-eyes-and-touch.html

Music

“Mary Anning” by Artichoke

“Work” by Rihanna

Cover Image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Clark_Taylor_(1911-1990).jpg