Rachel Fuller Brown

Rachel Fuller Brown (November 23, 1898 - January 14, 1980) was an American scientist.

She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor of Arts in history and chemistry from Mount Holyoke College in 1920. She received her PhD in organic chemistry and bacteriology in 1933 from the University of Chicago.

Brown collaborated with Elizabeth Lee Hazen through postal mail to develop the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin. Brown and Hazen donated all nystatin royalties (more than $13 million) to the nonprofit Research Corporation.

She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994 [http://www.wipo.int/women-and-ip/en/renown_inventors/hall_of_fame.html] .

External links

* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0777r.htm Mount Holyoke biography]
* [http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/HazenBrown.html MIT biography]
* [http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/20.html Biography]
* " [http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/pharm/antibiot/readings/hazbro.htm Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown: Pharmaceutical Achievers] "
* [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00478 Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen Papers.] [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library,] Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University