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Birth Ruth Ella Moore was born in 1903 in Columbus Ohio[1]. There is no information on her parents and her childhood years.

College Years Moore attended Ohio State University for both undergraduate and graduate levels. In 1926, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree, in 1927 her Masters of Science Degree and in 1933 her Ph.D. in Bacteriology[2]. Her dissertation was on the Tuberculosis bacteria[3].

Career During her graduate school years, she taught hygiene and English at Tennessee State College now known as Tennessee State University in Nashville [2]. In 1939, she became assistant Professor of bacteriology at Howard University College of Medicine. In 1948 she was appointed acting Head of the Department of bacteriology, preventive medicine and public medicine. In 1955, she was made Head of the department of Bacteriology and in 1960, she was appointed associate professor of microbiology. She retired in 1973 while holding position of the associate Professor of emeritus of microbiology[2]  While in Howard, she conducted studies on blood groups and enterobacteriacea[4]. She was a member of the American Public Health Association and the American Society of Microbiologists[2].

Accomplishment She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. [4] She was the first woman to chair a department at Howard University College Of Medicine [4]

Death She died in Rockville Maryland at the age of 91 (1994) [1]

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