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Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
Mar 1, 2018 · Alice Ball was the first African American and woman to earn a M.S. in chemistry from the College of Hawaii. She developed the first injectable leprosy treatment using chaulmoogra oil, but died at 24 and was not credited for years.
Mar 23, 2022 · Alice Ball was a trailblazing African American chemist who developed a method of extracting chaulmoogra oil from the seeds of a Hawaiian tree for leprosy patients. She was the first woman and first Black student to earn a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, but her achievements were overshadowed by a white man who took credit for her research.
Feb 28, 2018 · Alice Augusta Ball developed an injectable form of chaulmoogra oil, which was used for 20 years to treat Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy.
Apr 8, 2023 · The Ball Method wasn’t a cure, but it was as close to one as anybody got by 1922. It was named for Alice Ball, a Black chemist who had developed her formula in 1915 when she was 23.
Alice Ball was the first woman and the first African-American person to receive a master's degree from the College of Hawai'i and to teach chemistry there. She created the Ball Method, a technique that used a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy, a chronic bacterial infection.
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Alice Augusta Ball: the African-American chemist who pioneered the first viable treatment for Hansen's disease.
