6 years. What can you do in just 6 years? Could you change the world in 6 years? Probably not. But you know who did. Alice Ball. From graduating high school to her death, Alice Ball invented a technique in just 6 years that would change the world.
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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00611
https://www.britannica.com/topic/kava#ref90385
https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/LHC-publications/PDF/pub2003048.pdf
https://www.uhfoundation.org/impact/students/woman-who-changed-world
https://www.unsw.edu.au/science/about-us/equity-diversity-inclusion/science-history-trail/alice-ball
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