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Amanda E. Peele

1903–1978

United States

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Amanda Eunice Cheatham (née Peele January 10, 1903 – April 10, 1978) was an American biologist. She was the first woman of color to deliver a research paper to the Virginia Academy of Science, having done so in 1939.

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