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Marie Taylor

1911–1990

United States

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Marie Clark Taylor (February 16, 1911 – December 28, 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.

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