Edward Marion Augustus Chandler
Edward Marion Augustus Chandler was a chemist. He was the second African American in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry and was a founding faculty member at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Chandler was born in Ocala, Florida, to Annie M. and Henry Wilkins Chandler, an early African American lawyer and Republican politician in Florida who was the first Black graduate of Bates College in Maine.
Edward Chandler received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1913, an M.A. from Clark University in 1914, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1917 with a thesis about the molecular rearrangement of carbon compounds. He worked in the commercial chemical industry at Dicks David and Heller Company and the pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories before eventually serving as a founding professor at Roosevelt University in 1945. Chandler taught there for twenty years.
