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Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠
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Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. She published “Benzoylations in Ether

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#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

My linocut portrait of pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball, a young Black woman in a lab coat, printed in indigo. Below her is the chemical reaction for Ball’s Process in violet. Above and around her is a branch of chalmoogra with green leaves and yellow fruit.
#printmaking #WomenInSTEM #sciart #chemistry #histsci #chemist #leprosy #blackinstem

Do you like Isaac Newton? Alchemy? Manuscripts? TEI? Or a combination thereof? Well you're in luck because we are hiring a postdoc for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton project to edit and encode more of Newton's manuscripts! More details here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postin…
#postdoc #DH #TEI #Newton #HistSci #Alchemy #Manuscripts

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarly Editions for Chymistry of Isaac Newton project, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Bloomington, IndianaThe Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University with support from …
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#postdoc #dh #tei #Newton #histsci #alchemy #manuscripts

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