Hadiyah-Nicole Green

Hadiyah-Nicole Green
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Alma materAlabama A&M University
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Known forCancer therapy, precision medicine, immunotherapy, nanotechnology
AwardsKey to the City and the Historic Icon Award, City of Selma, Alabama;

Research Advocate of the Year Award, Southern Company and Perennial Strategy Group;
Distinguished Trailblazer Award, The National Coalition of 100 Black Women;
Trailblazer of the Year Award, 100 Black Men of America;
2016 Root 100, The Root magazine;

2016 Power 100 as one of the "100 Most Influential African Americans" in the United States, Ebony magazine
Scientific career
FieldsMedical physics
InstitutionsMorehouse School of Medicine

Hadiyah-Nicole Green (1981-) is an American medical physicist, known for the development of a method using laser-activated nanoparticles as a potential cancer treatment.[1][2][3] She is one of 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012,[4] and is the second black woman and the fourth black person ever to earn a doctoral degree in physics from The University of Alabama at Birmingham.[5]

  1. ^ "Black female physicist pioneers technology that kills cancer cells with lasers". Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Vollers, Anna Claire (January 5, 2016). "Alabama scientist, one of nation's few black female physicists, breaks ground in cancer research". Huntsville Times. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Brueck, Hilary (September 20, 2017), "Here's Why They Put A Bunch Of Women On The Ceiling At Grand Central Terminal", Forbes
  4. ^ Kohli, Sonali (June 21, 2015). "In 39 years, US physics doctorates went to 66 black women—and 22,000 white men". qz.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  5. ^ "UAB – Civil Rights Movement – Hadiyah-Nicole Green". uab.edu. Retrieved September 9, 2016.