At twenty-four, Alice Ball achieved the impossible. In 1916, as the first woman and first African American chemist on the faculty of the College of Hawaii, she developed the only effective treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy). Before her, diagnosis meant agonizing isolation and banishment to settlements like Kalaupapa. The existing remedy, crude chaulmoogra oil, was too painful and toxic to use. Ball's innovation-an elegant chemical modification-transformed the oil into a life-saving, injectable drug, offering dignity and freedom to thousands worldwide.But her genius was stolen. Dying tragically young from occupational illness, Ball was unable to publish her findings. Her method was swiftly appropriated by the university's white male president, Arthur L. Dean, and credited for decades as the "Dean Method," silencing her name in history.This comprehensive biography chronicles Ball's spectacular, brief trajectory-her dual degrees, her fight against prejudice, and the revolutionary science she conducted under immense pressure. It is a story of medical breakthrough, profound injustice, and the decades-long battle to reclaim her name from the shadows. Discover the untold history of the chemist who saved a generation and whose enduring formula finally brought the truth to light. Approx.174 pages, 33100 word count