Alice Evans

Alice Evans was born in 1881. She graduated with a Masters degree in bacteriology from Cornell, in 1910.

She conducted investigations in to the dangers of non-pasturized cows' milk, and asserted that cattle brucellosis and human Malta fever had a common origin rather than being two distinct diseases.

Her achievement led her to receive several honors, including that of being the first woman President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (1928). She died in 1975.