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Gerceida E. Adams-Jones

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Gerceida E. Adams-Jones is an American physicist, a clinical associate professor at New York University, and a faculty member at Pioneer Academics, an online research program for high school students connected with Oberlin College. In 1981, she became the first African-American woman to receive a B.S. degree in physical oceanography in the United States.

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