Edward Bouchet
Edward Alexander Bouchet was an American physicist and educator. He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in any subject from an American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876.
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- Born in
- New Haven
- Educated at
- Yale CollegeGoffe Street Special School for Colored ChildrenHopkins SchoolYale Graduate School of Arts and SciencesHillhouse High School
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Arthur Williams Wright
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1852
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