Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb Blazed a Path for Black Women in Science | ABC7 New York
Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) was the first woman of color to obtain a Ph.D. in biology in the United States. In 1949, while still in graduate school, Cobb was named an independent investigator at the MBL, and she returned to MBL for several subsequent summers as a Library Reader. She was a member of the