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1981 Exceptional Black Scientists CIBA-GEIGY Corporation has selected the three honorees for its 1981 Exceptional Black Scientists Poster Series. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946) Theoretical physicist, with a specialty in solid state physics...Currently employed at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of AT&T...In addition to Bell Labs, career also includes stint with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., and a year in Geneva, Switzerland at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (C.E.R.N.)...Received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from M.I.T., where she was the first American black woman to receive a Ph.D....Currently serving her second five-year term on the M.I.T. Corporation (Board of Trustees) and has received school's Carl Taylor Compton Award for outstanding contributions to the university...Credits her parents and teachers at Washington, D.C.'s Roosevelt High School with providing her start in science...Frequent speaker at scientific seminars and colloquia...Plays tennis, skis and likes photography...Most quotable remark, when asked to describe the field of high energy physics: "There's a whole zoo of other particles below protons and neutrons." [[image]] [[image]] Dr. Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941) Cell biologist and distinguished biological researcher...Major fields of lifelong research were fertilization of the egg, cellular physiology and experimental embryology...Taught at Howard University in both the Medical School and the College of Arts and Sciences...Graduated as valedictorian of his prep school class at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Dartmouth, in history and biology, Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago...Began a longstanding affiliation with the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1909...With the exception of two, Just spent every summer from 1909 to 1930 at Woods Hole, where he studied the fertilization of marine eggs...Just produced numerous scientific papers, mostly on the fertilization of the egg...His major work, The Biology of the Cell Surface, was published in 1939...Was first recipient of Spingarn Medal...Later years of his research career spent in the finest laboratories of Europe, including Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, where he was the first American invited to this prestigious institution... [[image]] Dr. William Montague Cobb (born 1904) Teacher, physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, medical editor...Also scholar, innovator, traveller, raconteur, activist, humorist, and Renaissance man...Distinguished Professor of Anatomy, Emeritus, Howard University College of Medicine...Editor for 28 years of the Journal of the National Medical Association...B.A., Amherst, M.D., Howard, Ph.D., Western Reserve University, plus a host of honorary degrees...Winner of the Henry Gray Award of the American Association of Anatomists, that Association's highest honor...Author of nearly 700 published works...President of the NAACP since 1976...In 1972, was one of first Americans to tour People's Republic of China as part of a delegation of physicians from the National Medical Association...Recognized as the principal historian of the American Negro in medicine...Twinkling eyes, rapid-fire wit and remarkable memory belie his 76 years...In his "spare" time, enjoys playing the violin and painting watercolors. 91
