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About Alice Catherine Evans
Alice Catherine Evans was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She proved that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis in both cattle and humans, which led to the pasteurization of milk in the US in 1930. Evans was the first woman president elected by the Society of American Bacteriologists.
Everything about Alice Catherine Evans →- Occupation
- microbiologist, bacteriologist
- Position held
- chairperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 29, 1881
- Died
- September 5, 1975