Katheryn Emanuel Lawson

Katheryn Emanuel Lawson
Born
Katheryn Lee Emanuel

(1926-09-15)September 15, 1926
DiedSeptember 25, 2008(2008-09-25) (aged 82)
Michigan, U.S.
Education
OccupationChemist
Notable workBehavior of carrier-free tracers; Infrared absorption of inorganic substances; Ion-exchange resins, a bibliography of unclassified references
Spouse
Kenneth Lawson
(m. 1954)
Children2

Kathryn Lee Emanuel Lawson (September 15, 1926 – September 25, 2008) was one of the first few female African American chemists who worked in Sandia National Laboratories. She studied properties of irradiated materials in Crystal Physics research division.[1] She earned her PhD from the University of New Mexico in radiochemistry in 1957.[1]

  1. ^ a b Brown, Jeannette. (2011). African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press. pp. 111–114. ISBN 9780199909612. OCLC 1054399980.