How A Man Got All The Credit For Alice Ball S Work
Alice Ball’s contribution to leprosy treatment Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Alice Ball began making history when she became the first woman and the first African American to graduate from the College of Hawaii, now known as the University of Hawaii, in 1915 (via University of Hawai’i Foundation). After earning two degrees from the University of Washington, one in pharmaceutical chemistry and the other in pharmacy, according to Scientific Women, Ball then studied chemistry in Hawaii, with her thesis centered around identifying and extracting the active chemical in kawa roots....