To my knowledge, she is the first African American woman (as Jess says). For those curious, the first African American to discover an element was James Harris:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Andrew_Harris …
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Did the retweeting because I went through the obvious options for finding further info around Oak Ridge and came up EMPTY. You really did get everything that's readily accessible.
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It was in part. Tennessine (117) is named because of the contributions of Oak Ridge (where she works), Vanderbilt University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The discovery team had a lot of contributors of different nations, genders and ethnicities.
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Dr. Wade, I really love what you’re doing (posting Wikipedia articles about all these wonderful women scientists)!!!
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Don't know anything, would think that the Tennessee folks would know more.
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Twitter fam, I need you! This is Clarice Phelps, possibly the first African-American woman to discover an element (117, Tennessine). I’ve started her Wikipedia page (