Carolyn Parker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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US-American physicist
Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1917
Place of Birth: Gainesville, Florida, United States
Date of Death: 17-Mar-1966
Profession: physicist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Carolyn Parker
- Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917–1966) was a physicist who worked from 1943 to 1947 on the Dayton Project, the plutonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project.
- She then became an assistant professor in physics at Fisk University.Parker earned two master's degrees, one in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941 and one in physics from MIT in 1951.
- Her completion of a doctorate in physics at MIT was prevented by the leukemia that would kill her at age 47.
- Leukemia was an occupational risk for workers on the Dayton Project.Parker is the first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics.
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