# Alice Ball (@alice-ball)

Alice Ball was a chemist. At the College of Hawaiʻi, Ball developed a way to convert chaulmoogra-oil components into injectable ethyl esters used to treat Hansen's disease before modern antibiotics.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Alice Ball's public record._

## Topics

- [Teaching and Barriers](/@alice-ball/teaching-and-barriers.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Credit Restored](/@alice-ball/credit-restored.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Ball Method](/@alice-ball/the-ball-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/02/28/alice-ball-facts/
- blog: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/alice-ball-and-fight-against-leprosy
- blog: https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/alice-ball.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "alice-ball", "question": "…"}`.