Accomplishments:
- One of the first African Americans to graduate from Yale College
- First Black American to earn a Ph.D. from any American University
- Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Learn more about Bouchet: Northwestern University, Biography of Edward A. Bouchet; This Month in Physics History, June 1876: “Edward Bouchet becomes the first African American PhD in physics”
Last word: “Optics is an example of the different ways a human is able to see things in the world. The same goes for the color of a person’s skin and even though optics present that there are differences in color, these do not state that they should necessarily be treated as different.”