An element is a chemical substance made up of a particular kind of atom and hence cannot be broken down or transformed by a chemical reaction into a different element, though it can be transmuted into another element through a nuclear reaction.
Almost 40 years separate Shirley Ann Jackson's achievement, as the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Jedidah Isler, the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale.
Do one of the following as a presentation at an Adventist Youth/Pathfinder Meeting, campout, or other equivalent event. 1  some potential pioneers to work with... 2  Eva B. Dykes become the first black woman in the United States to complete requirements for the Ph.D. degree (1921).