Thomas Nelson Baker Jr. was a famous American educator who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Ohio State University. Born in 1906, in Massachusetts, Baker was the third child of Reverend Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker Sr. and Elizabeth Baytop Baker. He had two sisters, Edith and Ruth, and […]
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