Alma Levant Hayden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alma Levant Hayden

American chemist

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1927

Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1967

Profession: chemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Alma Levant Hayden (March 30, 1927 – August 2, 1967) was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C.
She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s.
Hayden graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in chemistry, and became an expert in spectrophotometry, the measurement of how substances absorb light.
She published work on infrared and other techniques for analyzing chemicals in a range of journals.
Hayden was appointed Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, and may have been the first African-American scientist at the FDA.
Hayden came to national attention in 1963 when she led the team that exposed the common substance in Krebiozen, a long-controversial alternative and expensive drug promoted as anti-cancer.