Marie Maynard Daly Essay

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Marie Maynard Daly was born on April 16, 1921 in Corona, Queens, New York City to Ivan C. Daly and Helen Page, they lived in New York City, and Marie was born in Queens. Marie often went to visit her mother’s parents in Washington D.C. where she got the chance to read about various scientist and their many accomplishments in her grandfather’s substantial library. She was extremely interested in the works of Paul de Kruif the Microbe Hunters a book that primarily inspired Daly to become a scientist. Marie was also inspired by her father who attended the very prestigious Ivy League Cornell University who had hopes of becoming a chemist, but with the little money he was not able to live out that dream. Marie graduated from Hunter College High …show more content…

Daly received her master’s degree in chemistry from NYU in 1943 and then she registered for the doctoral program at Columbia University. Daly was helped by Dr. Mary L. Caldwell to learn “how chemicals produced in the body contribute to food digestion.” She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1947. After graduating Marie got a job at Howard University as the physical science instructor in 1947 and 1948. Daly was awarded a granny to support her postdoctoral research and then she joined Dr. A.E. Mirsky at the Rockefeller Institute, where she and the other studied the cell nucleus. Marie explored the roles of the cytoplasmic ribonuleicprotein and how to measure protein metabolism. In 1953 Watson and Crick described the structure of the DNA, which allowed Marie to further her research. In 1955 she began working in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University where she studied the effects of aging, hypertension and atherosclerosis had on the metabolism of arterial wall. She continued working as the assistant professor of biochemistry and Marie taught medical students at Yeshiva University in 1960 where she was focused on increasing the amount of minorities attending medical

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