ALICE EVANS

WHO WAS ALICE EVANS

• Alice Evans was born in Neath, Pennsylvania on January 29, 1881.
• She studied microbiology.
• In 1910, she was one of the first women to hold a permanent place in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Other scientists didn't take her work seriously because she was a woman and she didn't have a PhD.
• She died on September 5, 1975.

What did Alice Evans do?

Alice Evans's studies showed drinking unpasteurized milk could pass on Malta fever(a disease given to farm animals to humans). She wanted to pasteurize or get rid of all the Bactria in all the milk to prevent this.

WHY IS HER WORK STILL IMPORTANT?

• If Alice didn't use her science to prove that the dairy products were not healthy, they would have made it the same way longer. There was bacteria called bacillus in the unpasteurized milk that wasn't being cleaned out well enough causing Malta fever.

WEBSITES I USED

• www.womenyoushouldknow.net
• ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• National Women's History museum
• www.encyclopedia.com
• history.nih.gov