[24] In February 2020, a short film, The Ball Method will premiere at the Pan African Film Festival. [11], At the time, leprosy or Hansen's Disease was a highly stigmatized disease with virtually no chance of recovery. [8] After returning to Seattle, Ball attended Seattle High School and achieved top grades in the sciences. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii, she was also the first female chemistry professor at the university. [26], Ignotofsky, Rachel (2016). Author Octavia E. Butler is known for blending science fiction with African American spiritualism. Journal of the American Medical Association, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, List of African-American inventors and scientists, "Lost and Found: Alice Augusta Ball, an Extraordinary Woman of Hawai'i Nei", "Alice Ball and the Fight against Leprosy", "We Had A Cure For Leprosy For Centuries, But Couldn't Get It To Work", "A tribute to Alice Bell: a Scientist whose Work with Leprosy was Overshadowed by a White Successor", UWSOP alumni legend Alice Ball, Class of 1914, solved leprosy therapy riddle, "How the Woman Who Found a Leprosy Treatment Was Almost Lost to History", "14 extraordinary women in Hawaii history everyone should know", "Seattle's new Alice Ball Park named for a pioneering medical researcher", "Women health pioneers honoured on LSHTM's iconic London building for the first time", "A new film tells the story of Alice Ball, chemist and inventor of a treatment for leprosy", "Ground breaking African-American UH chemist finally recognized", Meet Alice Ball, Unsung Pioneer In Leprosy Treatment, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Ball&oldid=986903218, University of Washington School of Pharmacy alumni, University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 November 2020, at 17:44. Her grandfather, James Ball Sr., was a famous photographer, and one of the first Black Americans to make use of daguerr… During her brief lifetime, she did not get to see the full impact of her discovery. [3], The first recognition of Ball's work came six years after her death when, in 1922, she was briefly mentioned in a medical journal, with her method being called the "Ball Method". Her family was middle-class and well off, as Ball's father was a newspaper editor of the Colored Citizen, photographer, and lawyer. He is widely known for 'Roots' and 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.'.
[12], At the University of Hawaii, Ball investigated the chemical makeup and active principle of Piper methysticum (kava) for her master's thesis. [20] After the work of many historians at the University of Hawaii including Kathryn Takara and Stanley Ali, the University of Hawaii finally honored Ball in 2000 by dedicating a plaque to her on the school's only chaulmoogra tree behind Bachman Hall.
Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.
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