Jennie Patrick

Jennie Patrick
Born (1949-01-01) January 1, 1949 (age 75)
Gadsden, Alabama, U.S.
Alma materTuskegee University

University of California at Berkeley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forFirst African American woman to earn a doctorate in traditional chemical engineering
Scientific career
FieldsChemical engineering
InstitutionsTuskegee University
Thesis Superheat-Limit Temperature for Non-ideal Liquid Mixtures and Pure Components  (1979)

Jennie Patrick (born 1949) is an American chemical engineer and educator. As a high school student, she participated in the integration of Alabama's public schools.[1] At Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, she became one of the first African American women in the United States to earn a doctorate in traditional chemical engineering.[2] She went on to pioneer work on supercritical fluid extraction. Her educational work has focused on the mentoring of African American and female students.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference HistoryMakers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Smith, Jessie Carney (1996). Notable Black American women (1st ed.). Detroit: Gale Research. pp. 516–519. ISBN 0810391775.
  3. ^ Jennie R. Patrick, interview by Jeannette E. Brown at Atlanta, Georgia, 30 March 2006 (Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, Oral History Transcript # 0691). From the Oral History Centre: https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/patrick-jennie-r