Alberta Jones Seaton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlberta Jones Seaton
American zoologist
Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1924
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 04-Apr-2014
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Alberta Jones Seaton
- Alberta Jones Seaton (1924–2014) was one of the first African-American women awarded a doctorate in zoology, in Belgium in 1949.
- She then moved to East Africa, where she and her husband became involved in African independence movements and she developed an academic career.
- Her husband, Earle Seaton, was an international lawyer and then jurist in several countries.
- Alberta Seaton later moved with her husband to Bermuda and the Seychelles, continuing to pursue an academic career.
- Alberta Seaton specialized in embryology, studying biological processes in the eggs of several species across her career, including early studies in morphogenesis.
- Born in Houston, she became a longterm professor of biology at Texas Southern University (TSU), where she also served as first chair of the Faculty Assembly and director of freshman studies.
- Seaton had two children, born in Kenya and Tanganyika.
- She died in Houston in 2014.
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