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Alice Ball was born in Seattle, WA
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Moved to Hawaii
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Moved back to seattle
due do the death of her grandfather -
Graduated high school
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Attended the University of Washington
She earned her batchelors degree in both pharmeseutical chemistry and pharmacy. -
Attended the University of Hawaii
Earned her masters in chemistry and became the first African American and the first woman to graduate from UH. -
Began research with Dr.Hollmann
searching for an effective treatment for leprosy -
Created an effective leprosy treatment
developed a method to isolate ethyl esters of fatty acids in chaulmoogra oil, which made it injectible and leprosy treatable. -
Death of Alice Ball
cause of death is suspected but unknown -
method tested, published and credited
the method developed by Ball was not recognized as a treatment until after her death, and remained the go-to treatment until 1940.