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Alice Catherine Evans

1881 - 1975

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Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881 – September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus (called Brucella abortus) caused the disease brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans which led to the pasteurization of milk in US in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Catherine Evans has received more than 161,924 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alice Catherine Evans is the 917th most popular biologist (down from 821st in 2019), the 10,579th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,815th in 2019) and the 140th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 18

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  • 2.97

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 917 out of 841. Before her are Outram Bangs, Francis Walker, Sarah Gilbert, Alexander Wendt, Austin Stevens, and Maxine Singer. After her are William Murrill, Frederic Moore, Jon E. Ahlquist, John Bartram, Jessica Meir, and Timothy Ray Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 199. Before her are Robert Stangland, George Finnegan, Polydore Veirman, Marion Leonard, Howard Valentine, and Alfredo Gollini. After her are Paul Le Flem, James Cecil Parke, Gösta Åsbrink, Margaret Wycherly, Alice Wilson, and Éamonn Ceannt. Among people deceased in 1975, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 233. Before her are Kay Johnson, Evelyn Brent, Bram Fischer, Joseph Calleia, Fidel Ortiz, and Frithjof Sælen. After her are Marjorie Main, Larry Parks, Robert Strauss, Beatrix Loughran, Percy Lavon Julian, and Bob Wills.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 10,579 out of 18,182. Before her are Paul Manafort (1949), Janeane Garofalo (1964), George Simpson (1908), Benji Gregory (1978), Cheryl Hines (1965), and Don L. Lind (1930). After her are Gina Rodriguez (1984), William Murrill (1869), Kate Upton (1992), Tristan Taormino (1971), Barbara Jordan (1936), and Kevin Chamberlin (1963).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 140. Before her are Ruth Patrick (1907), Charles Sprague Sargent (1841), William Bartram (1739), Lucy Shapiro (1940), Outram Bangs (1863), and Maxine Singer (1931). After her are William Murrill (1869), John Bartram (1699), Jessica Meir (1977), Timothy Ray Brown (1966), Norman I. Platnick (1951), and Eugenie Clark (1922).

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