Daily News | Helen Conrad Davies, celebrated scientist, ‘singing professor’ of microbiology, and social justice activist, dies at 97
, and her portrait hangs at the entrance to the microbiology department in Penn’s Johnson Pavilion.
She marched in 1965 with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama and Washington, was a leader for racial equality and women’s rights at Penn and elsewhere, and won the 2004 Helen O. Dickens Lifetime Achievement Award from Women of Color at Penn. Born Helen Rogoff on Feb. 14, 1925, in Manhattan, Professor Davies graduated from Hunter College High School for Intellectually Gifted Young Ladies, now Hunter College High School, at 15 and from Brooklyn College in 1944. She was a singer and performed on stage when she was young and in nightclubs during her college years.She earned a master’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Rochester in 1950 and, while raising two sons, got her doctorate in physical biochemistry at Penn in 1960.
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