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Alice Ball

1892 - 1916

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Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for Hansen’s disease (Leprosy). She was born in Seattle, Washington, to James Presley Ball Jr. and Laura Louise Ball. Her father was a photographer, journalist, and lawyer, while her mother left a photography career to raise the family . Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2024). Alice Ball is the 363rd most popular chemist (down from 312th in 2024), the 3,360th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,207th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alice Ball ranks 363 out of 602. Before her are Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Edward Frankland, Lars Fredrik Nilson, Charles Macintosh, Karl Ernst Claus, and Victor Goldschmidt. After her are Édouard Herzen, Otto Schott, Peter Waage, Charles Hatchett, Viktor Meyer, and Asima Chatterjee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Alice Ball ranks 113. Before her are Chen Gongbo, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Reiner Stahel, Liu Bocheng, Nikolai Polikarpov, and William Powell. After her are Helmuth Plessner, Harry Dexter White, Stanisław Maczek, Djuna Barnes, James M. Cain, and Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai. Among people deceased in 1916, Alice Ball ranks 73. Before her are Saki, Tina Blau, Marie Bracquemond, Ferdinand Fellner, Charles Booth, and William Stanley Jr.. After her are Huang Xing, Karl von Stürgkh, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Patrick Pearse, and Cai E.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Ball ranks 3,360 out of 20,380. Before her are Jimmy McLane (1930), Murray Perahia (1947), Harriet Quimby (1875), Neil Sedaka (1939), Jim Kelly (1946), and Vincent Gigante (1928). After her are William Porter (1926), Tom Hulce (1953), John Blair Jr. (1732), Katie Holmes (1978), Baruch Goldstein (1956), and Cicely Tyson (1924).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, Alice Ball ranks 73. Before her are Thomas Cech (1947), Roger Y. Tsien (1952), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Frances Arnold (1956), Louis E. Brus (1943), and Alexander Shulgin (1925). After her are Albert Ghiorso (1915), Edward Calvin Kendall (1972), Isabella Karle (1921), Maclyn McCarty (1911), Eric Betzig (1960), and Jennifer Doudna (1964).

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