found: Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 25, 2023(Lloyd Noel Ferguson; an American chemist; born February 9, 1918 in Oakland, California; died November 30, 2011; he did his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. from the same university in 1943, the first African American to earn a chemistry Ph.D. there; After receiving his Ph.D., he took a faculty position at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, then approximately two years later moved to Howard University, where he became the chair of his department and founded a doctoral program there; He moved to the California State University, Los Angeles in 1965. He again became chair, and played an advisory role to the Food and Drug Administration; Ferguson was one of the founders of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers)