Overlooked no more: Alice Ball, chemist who created a treatment for leprosy

Submitted by Arts & Sciences Web Team on
After Alice Ball died -- and just a year after her discovery of a treatment for leprosy -- another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced. Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history at the UW, is quoted.

Featured on The New York Times 
News Topic
Share