Alice Ball Biography: The 23 Year Old Who Solved Leprosy and Had No Credit

Alice Ball Biography

Alice Ball Biography: The 23 Year Old Who Solved Leprosy and Had No Credit. Alice Ball earned the first chemistry master’s degree given to a Black woman or any woman at the University of Hawaii. At 23 she solved a problem that had defeated medicine for centuries. She died at 24 before publishing her findings. … Read more