Today We Honor Alice Augusta Ball A Woman Who Changed The World… Alice Augusta Ball earned a master’s degree, the first woman—and first African-American woman—to do so at the University of Hawai‘i. The first woman instructor in the UH chemistry department, her work in 1916 led to the first treatment for Hansen’s disease, bringing hope to thousands of patients who had previously only known despair. Sadly, Ball did not receive credit for her scientific contribution for many years. She died before she could publish her findings, and another chemist continued her research and published it as his own. Then in 1922, a U.S. public health officer in Hawai‘i named Dr. Harry Hollmann published an article explaining how he had approached the young chemistry instructor to apply her expertise to extracting the essence of the chaulmoogra tree. Referring to her process as “Ball’s Method,” Hollmann’s effort to give Ball her due attribution “rescued Alice Augusta Ball from the charnel houses of history, and gave her the credit she deserved for the remarkable work she accomplished,” writes Paul Wermager in a chapter he contributed to They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawai‘i. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #aliceball #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke Thank you @tsarinasonja for helping us with this information. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaRhPOrui2d/?utm_medium=tumblr

Today We Honor Alice Ball A Woman Who Changed The World… Alice Augusta Ball earned a master’s degree, the first woman—and first African-American woman—to do so at the University of Hawai‘i. The first woman instructor in the UH chemistry department, her work in 1916 led to the first treatment for Hansen’s disease, bringing hope to thousands of patients who had previously only known despair. Sadly, Ball did not receive credit for her scientific contribution for many years. She died before she could publish her findings, and another chemist continued her research and published it as his own. Then in 1922, a U.S. public health officer in Hawai‘i named Dr. Harry Hollmann published an article explaining how he had approached the young chemistry instructor to apply her expertise to extracting the essence of the chaulmoogra tree. Referring to her process as “Ball’s Method,” Hollmann’s effort to give Ball her due attribution “rescued Alice Augusta Ball from the charnel houses of history, and gave her the credit she deserved for the remarkable work she accomplished,” writes Paul Wermager in a chapter he contributed to They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawai‘i. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #aliceball #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/p/CWp6wefrsOe/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Black History Fact: Alice Ball, an African American chemist, was the first to discover a cure for Hansen's disease (leprosy). Ball was also the first African-American woman and the first African-American to receive a master's degree in chemistry from the College of Hawaii (now known as the University of Hawaii). Alice Augusta Ball was born in Seattle, Washington on July 24, 1892. She was the middle child in a family of three, with two older brothers and a younger sister. The family was comfortably middle-class. Ball tragically died at the age of 24 as a result of complications caused by breathing chlorine gas during a lab teaching accident. Because Dr. Arthur Dean, the president of the College of Hawaii, continued Ball's research without crediting her, she did not get to see the full impact of her discovery during her brief lifetime. Dean even took credit for her discovery, dubbing it the "Dean Method." Unfortunately, men were routinely given credit for women's discoveries. Dr. Harry T. Hollmann, the assistant surgeon at Kalihi Hospital who first pushed Ball to investigate chaulmoogra oil, published a paper six years after her death in 1922, finally giving Ball the credit she deserved. Despite this, Ball was largely forgotten in scientific history until recently. Former Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Mazie Hirono has also declared February 29 to be "Alice Ball Day." #365DaysOfBlackHistory #BlackHistoryFacts #AliceBall #BlackScientist #Leprosy #ShowThyselfApproved #KnowledgeIsPower #EachOneTeachOne #BLM (at Rise Up Financial Freedom Solutions LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR39O-rLckc/?utm_medium=tumblr

Seattle, USA - Birthplace of Alice Ball - pioneer in chemistry and first female graduate student and professor at University of Hawaii. My story about her on Olelo May 3rd - 6th. Check it out. . . . #universityofhawaii #aliceball #zyaoimedia #olelotv #femalescientist #leprosy #universityofwashington #seattlehighschool #africanamericanscientists #blackscientist #japanesetouristhawaii (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CORuYgiAeBY/?igshid=10dty0ejhrszl

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