Alice Hamilton

Alice Hamilton was born in New York City, in 1869. She was educated at home, then studied at and graduated from the University of Michigan.

She studied pathology and bacteriology in Europe and was appointed professor of Pathology at the Women's Medical College of North Western University in 1897.

Much of her work was linked between medical practice and environmental concerns, particularly environment and disease. She served on state and national advisory committees on occupational disease.

She became the first woman professor at Harvard in 1919, almost 30 years before Harvard accepted women medical students; and she published a textbook, Industrial Toxicology, in 1934. She died in 1970.