# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alma-levant-hayden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:09.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alma-levant-hayden"
name: "Alma Levant Hayden"
slug: "alma-levant-hayden"
description: "Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 1950s. Hayden graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in chemistry, and became an expert in spectrophotometry. She published work on infrared and other techniques for analyzing chemicals in a range of journals. Hayden was appointed Chief of the Spectrophotometer Research Branch in the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, and may have been the first African-American scientist at the FDA. Hayden came to national attention in 1963 when she led the team that exposed the common substance in Krebiozen, a long-controversial alternative and expensive drug promoted as anti-cancer."
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gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1927-03-27"
deathDate: "1967-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump