# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bettye-washington-greene
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:26:45.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bettye-washington-greene"
name: "Bettye Washington Greene"
slug: "bettye-washington-greene"
description: "Bettye Washington Greene was an American industrial research chemist. She was one of the first few African American women to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry and she was the first African American female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at the Dow Chemical Company. At Dow, she researched latex and polymers. Greene is considered an early African American pioneer in science."
tagline: "African-American chemist (1935-1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bettye_Washington_Greene_at_work.tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-03-20"
deathDate: "1995-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.00414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump