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Alice Ball

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Profession
Chemist
Died
Dec 31, 1916
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Washington
About
American chemist who developed an oil extract which served as the most effective known treatment of leprosy until the 1940's. She is also notable for having been the first woman and the first African-American to a Master's degree from the University of Hawaii.
Family
Her grandfather was famous photographer James Presley Ball. Her father, also named James, was a lawyer and newspaper editor, and her mother, Laura, was a photographer.

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