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Gloria Long Anderson (born 1938) is an American chemist. Atlanta Magazine named her as one of the foremost scientists in Atlanta, Georgia in 1983. Anderson was born on November 5, 1938 in Altheimer, Arkansas to parents Charley Long and Elsie Lee Foggie. In 1960 she married Leonard Sinclair Anderson with when she had a son named Gerald. The two got divorced a few years later. Anderson graduated from Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal college in 1958 with a bachelor of science degree. She went on to receive her M.S. from Atlanta University and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago. While Anderson was working towards getting her Ph.D. she started as a chemistry teacher at South Carolina State College Anderson's research focuses on an isotope of fluorine, fluorine-19 and its uses in nuclear magnetic resonance.