The Physics Queen: Authorized Biography of Dr. Elvira Louvenia Williams is an excessively detailed account of one of AmericaâÂÂs most distinguished women in the academe. Dr. Williams became the first African-American woman to hold a Ph.D. in Physics in North Carolina and one of the earliest in the United States of America. At times when women were sparsely represented in the sciences, and Physics in particular, Dr. Williams undertook the study of this most challenging discipline and, as the history of her research indicates, she excelled in all aspects of this discipline whether in relation to teaching or research. As a young girl, she was very curious about nature and how things operated. Nakireru chronicles in this account how this woman embarked on a remarkable journey that took her from the small countryside city of Pollocksville, North Carolina, to the heights of academics as Dean of the College of Art and Sciences at Shaw University.
