| LC control no. | no2006075230 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ball, Alice A. |
| Variant(s) | Ball, Alice, 1892-1916 |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0000 4908 9676 41596644 Q16059113 |
| Associated place | Hawaii |
| Birth date | 1892-07-24 |
| Death date | 1916-12-31 |
| Place of birth | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Place of death | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Leprosy--Research |
| Affiliation | University of Washington College of Hawaii |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists |
| Found in | The sandalwoods of Hawaii, 1916: p. 15 (Alice A. Ball) OCLC, July 20, 2006 (hdg.: Ball, Alice A.; usage not shown) Alice Augusta Ball exhibition materials, 2000: biography (b. Seattle, Wash., July 24, 1892; d. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 31, 1916; chemist) Wikipedia, 20 Mar. 2017 (Alice Ball; Alice Augusta Ball; b. 24 July 1892 in Seattle, WA; d. 31 Dec. 1916 in Seattle, WA; African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s; bachelor's degrees in pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacy from the University of Washington; in 1915 became the first woman and the first African American to graduate with a master's degree from the University of Hawaii) New York times, 10 Apr. 2023: in an obituary in the Overlooked series on page B8 (Alice Ball; born Alice Augusta Ball on July 24, 1892 in Seattle [Wash.], died Dec. 31, 1916 in Seattle, aged 24; a chemist who created a treatment for leprosy that freed people from draconian quarantines; in publishing a 1920 paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and a second 1922 paper in Public Health Reports, two men did steal her work and didn't give her any credit for her contributions -- it would take more than half a century for Ball to receive credit for her work) |
| Associated language | eng |
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