Background
She was born November 29, 1919, in Elkhart, Indiana.
She was born November 29, 1919, in Elkhart, Indiana.
She graduated from Elkhart High School, in 1938. She graduated from North Central College, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a Doctor of Philosophy.
She worked for Parke-Davis. She died February 17, 2011, in Ann Arbor.
In 1949, she was the key member of a research team that produced a synthetic form of the antibiotic chloromycetin, used to treat typhoid fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
