This article describes the journey of a young girl born to poor cotton farmers in the early 40s who grew up to become a chemist and then became the President of the World’s Largest Scientific Society, the American Chemical Society. It describes the obstacles she had to overcome as a woman as she earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry and the successes she celebrated along the way. It also features undergraduate research success stories and how these have contributed to her success. Hopefully it will inspire women to follow her footprints in a journey that reached many corners of the world.

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以身作则

这篇文章描述了一个 40 年代初出生于贫困棉农的年轻女孩的旅程，她长大后成为一名化学家，然后成为世界上最大的科学学会美国化学学会的主席。它描述了她作为一名女性在获得博士学位时必须克服的障碍。在化学和她一路庆祝的成功。它还介绍了本科研究的成功故事以及这些故事如何促成了她的成功。希望它会激励女性在到达世界许多角落的旅程中追随她的足迹。