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Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method" for making ethyl ester derivatives of chaulmoogra oil, which were used as a treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
Mar 1, 2018 · Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed the first successful treatment for those suffering from Hansen’s disease (leprosy).
Mar 23, 2022 · Alice Ball was the first woman and first African American to earn a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1915. She developed a method of extracting chaulmoogra oil, a natural remedy for leprosy, and was a trailblazer in a male-dominated field.
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Apr 8, 2023 · The Ball Method wasn’t a cure, but it was as close to one as anybody got by 1922. It was named for Alice Ball, a Black chemist who had developed her formula in 1915 when she was 23.
Feb 28, 2018 · Meet Alice Ball, the Woman Who Made a Leprosy Drug From Chaulmoogra Oil. Alice Augusta Ball developed an injectable form of chaulmoogra oil, which was used for 20 years to treat Hansen’s disease,...
Alice Ball was the first woman and African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii and the first female chemistry professor there. She developed an injectable oil extract from chaulmoogra tree seeds that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.
Alice Ball was the first woman and the first African-American person to receive a master's degree from the College of Hawai'i and to teach chemistry there. She created the Ball Method, a technique that used a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil to treat leprosy, a chronic bacterial infection that was highly stigmatised at the time.
