Marie Taylor

Marie Clark Taylor
Photo of Marie Clark Taylor
Born1911
DiedDecember, 1990 (1990-12-16) (aged 79)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHoward University
Fordham University
SpouseRichard Taylor
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsHoward University
Thesis The influence of definite photoperiods upon the growth and development of initiated floral primordia  (1941)

Marie Clark Taylor (1911 – December 1990) was an American botanist, the first woman to earn a science doctorate at Fordham University, and the Head of the Botany Department at Howard University from 1947 to her retirement in 1976. Her research interest was plant photomorphogenesis.[1]

  1. ^ "50 Years of Doctoral Education: 1958-2008" (PDF). Quest (6): 8. Spring 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 8 October 2016.