Dr. Samuel Nabrit Endowed Scholarship Guidelines

Dr. Nabrit was born in Macon, GA. He graduated from Morehouse College and was the first African-American to earn a doctorate degree from Brown University and also the first to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission. He worked as a Marine Biologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA where he conducted research from 1927 to 1932 on the tailfins of fish. His findings were widely published in scientific journals. In 1932 he became head of Morehouse’s Biology Department. In 1947 he became the Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Atlanta University. In 1955 he was named the President of Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. In 1966 President Johnson named him to Atomic Energy Commission Board where he remained until 1969. Dr. Nabit passed away in December 2003 at the age of 90. The scholarship was funded by a gift from his estate.