Rachel Fuller Brown (1898 - 1980)

Born 23 Nov 1898 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 14 Jan 1980 at age 81 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States

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Biography

Rachel Brown is Notable.

Developer of the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin

Rachel Fuller Brown was the daughter of George Brown and Annie Fuller. She was born in 1898.

Rachel was a chemist best known for her long-distance collaboration with microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen in developing the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin, while doing research for the Division of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health. Brown received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her Ph.D from the University of Chicago.

Royalties for nystatin amounted to $13.4 million. As neither researcher wanted any of the funds for themselves, the philanthropic Research Corporation used half for grants to advance scientific research and the other half to support what became known as the Brown-Hazen Fund.

She died in 1980. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994.

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• Birth record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-678Q-F7C?i=147&cc=2061550

See Also:

• Wikipedia: Rachel Fuller Brown
• Wikidata: Item Q7446, en:Wikipedia