Mary Logan Reddick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Logan Reddick

neuroembryologist

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1966

Profession: university teacher, neuroembryologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mary Logan Reddick (31 December 1914 – 1 October 1966) was a neuroembryologist who earned her PhD from Radcliffe College, Harvard University in 1944.
She was a full professor, first at Morehouse College, and then at the University of Atlanta from 1953 to her death.
Her doctoral dissertation was on the study of chick embryos, and she went on to do research with time-lapse microscopy (then called motion picture microphotography) in tissue cultures.In 1952, Reddick received a Ford science fellowship to study at Cambridge University.
Reddick was possibly the first African-American woman scientist to receive this fellowship for study abroad, and she was the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College.