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= Edward Bouchet
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Edward Bouchet was an influential African American physicist and educator, born on September 15, 1852, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is notably recognized as the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university, which he received from Yale University in 1876. His dissertation focused on the study of geometrical optics.