Template:Did you know nominations/Alice Ball

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The result was: promoted by Matthew Brown 11:16, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Alice Ball

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• ... that Alice Ball (pictured), an African American, developed an injectable medicine that was the most effective treatment of leprosy before the 1940s?

Created by Fb3779 (talk). Nominated by RockMagnetist (talk) at 22:18, 20 May 2013 (UTC).

• Article created new on 18 May.
• Long enough: 4116 characters readable prose.
• Hook is certainly interesting, and verified here.
• Looks to me that both Fb3779 and RockMagnetist deserve credit. Great work y'all!
• Ready for the spotlight.

groupuscule (talk) 08:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

• Placed in Prep Area 3