Alice Hamilton

Dr. Alice Hamilton
Born(1869-02-27)February 27, 1869
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
DiedSeptember 22, 1970(1970-09-22) (aged 101)
Hadlyme, Connecticut
NationalityUSA

Alice Hamilton (born 1869) focused her life on workplace safety. Her dedication made the government improve health conditions for workers. She worked in several medical jobs. Before she retired, she was a research assistant, a pathology professor, a bacteriologist, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. She was the first female professor at Harvard Medical School. She was a consultant of the U.S. Division of Labor Standards and the President of the National Consumers League after she retired.

Alice Hamilton was born with 4 siblings. Hamilton wanted to be a medical doctor when she was a child. She attended the University of Michigan Medical school. She was not allowed to study in German Universities. So, she went back to the United States. She worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1897, Hamilton became a pathology professor at the Women’s Medical School of Northwestern University. After that, she worked as a bacteriologist at Chicago’s Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases.

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