Dorothy McClendon

Dorothy McClendon
Born 1924
Minden, Louisiana
Alma mater A & I State University
Employer TACOM

Dorothy McClendon (born 1924) is an American microbiologist.

Life

Mclenden was born in Minden, Louisiana in 1924. She was brought up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Cass Technical High School, she then attended A & I State University in Tennessee, where she earned a BSc in biology. After post-graduate study in universities including Purdue, she taught in public schools in Phoenix, Arizona and Eldorado, Arkansas. She then joined TACOM, in the early 1960s, and spent a long career developing methods to protect stored goods, notably fuel, from degradation due to biological agents.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Wini Warren (1999). Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-253-33603-1.
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