Emmett Chappelle

Emmett W. Chappelle ( born 1925 in Phoenix) is an American scientist. He deals with medicine, biology and nutritional sciences.

Childhood and youth

Chappelle was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Until he was 12 he lived on a small farm without electricity. 1942, joined the Army and was assigned Chapelle a special training program, where he acquired skills in the engineering field.

In 1946, he came back and began at Phoenix College to study engineering. He then studied at the University of California, Berkeley Biology and earned his bachelor's degree in 1950. Four years later, he achieved his master's degree from the University of Washington. He studied and also worked at Stanford University in California.

Career

From 1950 to 1953 he taught at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. From 1953 to 1959 he worked at Stanford University. In 1958 he started for the Research Institute for Advanced Studies to work in Baltimore that dealt, among other things with the space. There he found that plants such as algae, which are easy to transport produce oxygen. In 1963 he started for the Hazelton Laboratories to work. In 1966 he started working as a chemist for NASA.

Awards

He was awarded 14 U.S. patents and an honor as one of the 100 most important African American scientists of the 20th century.

Swell

• Brown, Mitchell. "Faces of Science: African- Americans in the Sciences. "
• Kessler, James H.; Kidd, J. S. and Renee; and Katherine Morin. Distinguished African- American Scientists of the 20th Century. Oryx Press: Phoenix, AZ. In 1996.

• Chemists ( 20th century)
• Americans
• Born in 1925
• Man