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Alice Ball

1892 – 1916

Seattle, Washington and Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Seattle-born chemist, the first woman to earn a master's degree at the College of Hawaii (1915), who devised a way to make chaulmoogra oil injectable as a leprosy treatment before dying at 24.

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View from Waikolu Valley toward the Kalaupapa Peninsula, Molokai, where Hansen's disease patients were sent
Credit: NPS / Hailey Shchepanik, National Park Service. License: Public domain.

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Sources

  1. University of Hawaiʻi News, "Alice Ball scholarship honors pioneering chemist in fight against Hansen's disease" (2017) (Primary source)
  2. BlackPast, "Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)" (Reference)

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