Rachel Fuller Brown
(1898-1980)
chemist
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Rachel Fuller Brown (November 23, 1898 – January 14, 1980) was a chemist best known for her long-distance collaboration with microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen in developing the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin, while doing research for the Division of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health. Brown received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D from the University of Chicago. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994.
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23 November 1898 Springfield, Massachusetts
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14 January 1980 (aged 81) Albany, New York
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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