BIOLOGIST

Alice Catherine Evans

1881 - 1975

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Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881 – September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus (called Brucella abortus) caused the disease brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Catherine Evans is the 938th most popular biologist (down from 823rd in 2019), the 8,538th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,761st in 2019) and the 135th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 938 out of 1,097. Before her are William Murrill, Joanne Chory, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, Norman I. Platnick, and Philipp Christoph Zeller. After her are George Edwards, Shi Zhengli, Walter Buller, Maxine Singer, Maxwell T. Masters, and Outram Bangs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 197. Before her are Gösta Åsbrink, Lajos Gönczy, Oscar De Cock, Abdulla Shaig, Gunnar Setterwall, and Jetze Doorman. After her are Aleksandr Gerasimov, Alfredo Gollini, Élie Blanchard, Delfina Bunge, Gus Dillon, and Valerian Albanov. Among people deceased in 1975, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 221. Before her are Alfred Neveu, Nils Eriksen, Toti Dal Monte, William Cockburn, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, and Arne Halse. After her are Oliver Nelson, Paul Verhoeven, Larry Fine, Åge Lundström, Adrienne Bolland, and Jacob Bjerknes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 8,540 out of 20,380. Before her are Analeigh Tipton (1988), Ron Woodroof (1950), John Holt (1923), Vanessa Blue (1974), Kayden Kross (1985), and Mickey Kuhn (1932). After her are Anne Sewell Young (1871), Robert Coover (1932), Robert Young (1907), Michael Flatley (1958), Fran Lebowitz (1950), and Lewis Sheldon (1874).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alice Catherine Evans ranks 135. Before her are Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Janet Rowley (1925), Barry Commoner (1917), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), Joanne Chory (1955), and Norman I. Platnick (1951). After her are Maxine Singer (1931), Outram Bangs (1863), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), William Beebe (1877), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), and Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835).

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