Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (died 1995)

Herman Russell Branson was an American physicist, chemist, best known for his research on the α protein structure, and was also the president of two colleges. He received a fellowship from the Rosenwald Foundation. He was one of the first African American physicists to make crystallography the focus of his research.

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