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Alice C. Evans (1881-1975)

Evans joined the United States Public Health Service in 1918, researching epidemic meningitis and influenza at the department’s Hygienic Laboratories. That same year she demonstrated that Bacillus abortus caused the disease Brucellosis in both cattle and humans. (In 1925 she also contracted this disease and suffered from the symptoms for seven years.) Initially her results were not taken seriously (due to her gender and lack of a Ph.D.), but they were later confirmed by other scientists. This led to the pasteurization of milk in 1930, a process she had championed.

Evans was also the first female president of the Society of American Bacteriologists.

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