Ruth Smith Lloyd

Ruth Smith Lloyd
Born	Ruth M Smith (1917-01-17)January 17, 1917 Washington, D.C.
Died	February 5, 1995(1995-02-05) (aged 78) Washington, D.C.
Alma mater	Mount Holyoke College Howard University Western Reserve University
Known for	First African-American woman to earn a PhD in anatomy.
Scientific career
Fields	Anatomy
Institutions	Hampton Institute Howard University

Ruth Smith Lloyd (January 17, 1917 – February 5, 1995) was a 20th-century scientist whose research focused on fertility, the relationship of sex hormones to growth, and the female sex cycle. She earned a PhD in the field of anatomy from Western Reserve University in 1941, making her the first African-American woman to have reached this achievement.^[1] Lloyd worked on the faculty of medicine at Howard University from 1942 to 1977. She married physician Sterling Morrison Lloyd in 1939, and they had three children: Marilyn, Sterling and David. She died of cancer in 1995.