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  1. Mar 1, 2018 · Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed the first successful treatment for those suffering from Hansen’s disease (leprosy).

  2. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-trailblazing-black-woman-chemist-whoWho Was Alice Augusta Ball? | Smithsonian

    Mar 23, 2022 · Alice Ball was just 23 years old when she developed a method of making chaulmoogra oil—an early treatment for leprosy—more easily injectable.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alice_BallAlice Ball - Wikipedia

    Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method" for making ethyl ester derivatives of chaulmoogra oil, which were used as a treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. [1]

  4. 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.

  5. Alice Ball was an African-American chemist famous for developing the Ball Method, a technique that used a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy.

  6. Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, she was also the first female chemistry professor at the university.

  7. Apr 8, 2023 · It was named for Alice Ball, a Black chemist who had developed her formula in 1915 when she was 23. She had recently earned a master’s in chemistry and was an instructor at the College of...

  8. Apr 10, 2023 · After Alice Ball died -- and just a year after her discovery of a treatment for leprosy -- another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced. Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history at the UW, is quoted.

  9. 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.

  10. Mar 15, 2020 · In 1915, a young black chemist named Alice Ball revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, a painful and stigmatized disease. Decades before the development of antibiotics, Ball devised a method for treating lepers that allowed them to live without being ostracized or isolated.

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