List of Alpha Phi Alpha Brothers - Science

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Sixty percent of all Black Male Doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black Male Dentists are Alphas.

Name Original chapter Notability References
Herman Branson Beta Gamma President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist
James Comer Gamma Eta Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine
Lloyd Hall Alpha Mu Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. Author of 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries
LaSalle Leffall, Jr. Beta Nu President of American College of Surgeons; President of American Cancer Society
Garrett A. Morgan Delta Alpha Lambda Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal
Earl W. Renfroe Theta Orthodontist, for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after Renfroe
Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha Rho Secretary of Health and Human Services; CO-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Levi Watkins, Jr. Beta Omicron Chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Performed the world's first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator; First African-American medical student at Vanderbilt University

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