Editing Alice Hamilton

{{Short description|American physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)}}
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| birth_place       = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1970|09|22|1869|02|27}}
| death_place       = [[Hadlyme North Historic District|Hadlyme, Connecticut]], U.S.
| fields            = [[Occupational health]], industrial [[toxicology]]
| workplaces        = [[Hull House]]<br>Woman's Medical School of [[Northwestern University]]<br>Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases<br>[[Harvard Medical School]]
| alma_mater        = [[Miss Porter's School]] (1888)<ref name=Letters15>{{cite book |first=Barbara |last=Sicherman |title=Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters |year=1984 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=0-674-01553-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alicehamiltonlif00sich/page/15 15] |url=https://archive.org/details/alicehamiltonlif00sich/page/15 }}</ref><br>[[University of Michigan]] (1893)<br>[[University of Leipzig]],<br>[[University of Munich]], and University of Frankfurt (1895)<br>[[Johns Hopkins University]] (1897)<br>[[University of Chicago]] (1899–1901)<ref name="McKeen134">{{cite book | editor-first=James McKeen|editor-last= Cattell| title =American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary | publisher =The Science Press | year =1906 | location =New York | page=134 | url =https://archive.org/stream/americanmenofsci01catt#page/134/mode/1up  }}</ref>
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| academic_advisors = [[Simon Flexner]]
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| awards            = [[Albert Lasker Public Service Award]] (1947)
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'''Alice Hamilton''' (February 27, 1869<ref name=ADNB>{{cite book | url=http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1200366 | isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 | doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200366 | year=2000 | last1=Corn | first1=Jacqueline Karnell | title=Hamilton, Alice (1869-1970), physician }}</ref> – September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author. She was a leading expert in the field of [[occupational health]], laid the foundation for health and safety protections, and a pioneer in the field of [[Occupational toxicology|industrial toxicology]]. She led efforts to reduce lead poisoning.

Hamilton trained at the [[Michigan Medicine|University of Michigan Medical School]]. Her residency at [[Hull House]] in [[Chicago]] from 1897 to 1919 put her in contact with an extensive demographic of working-class households, and the work-life dangers they faced.  She also became a professor of pathology at the [[Feinberg School of Medicine|Woman's Medical School]] of [[Northwestern University]] in 1897. In 1919, she became the first woman appointed to the faculty of [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Hamilton |url=https://sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/alice-hamilton/ |access-date=November 6, 2023 |website=Science History Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>

Her scientific research focused on the study of occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and [[chemical compound]]s. In addition to her scientific work, Hamilton was a social-welfare reformer, humanitarian, and peace activist. She received numerous honors and awards, including the [[Albert Lasker Public Service Award]]. Her work led to improvements in safety and regulation, and is sometimes credited with leading to the founding of the United States' [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]].

==Early life and family==
Hamilton, the second child of Montgomery Hamilton (1843–1909) and Gertrude (née Pond) Hamilton (1840–1917), was born on February 27, 1869, in [[Manhattan]], New York City, New York.<ref name=NLibMed>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alice Hamilton|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_137.html|website=Changing the face of medicine|publisher=National Library of Medicine|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018130822/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_137.html|archive-date=October 18, 2015}}</ref> She spent a sheltered childhood among an extended family in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], where her grandfather, [[Allen Hamilton]], an Irish immigrant, had settled in 1823. He married Emerine Holman, the daughter of [[Indiana Supreme Court]] Justice [[Jesse Lynch Holman]], in 1828 and became a successful Fort Wayne businessman and a land speculator. Much of the city of Fort Wayne was built on land that he once owned. Alice grew up on the Hamilton family's large estate that encompassed a three-block area of downtown Fort Wayne.<ref>The family compound included three homes: her grandparents' homestead, called Old House; Red House, the home of her uncle, Andrew Holman Hamilton, and his family; and White House, where Alice and her family lived. See {{cite journal| first=Catherine E. Forrest |last=Weber | title =Alice Hamilton, M.D.: Crusader Against Death on the Job | journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =7 | issue =4 | pages =31 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Fall 1995}}</ref><ref name=Landmark>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine National Historic Chemical Landmark|url=http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017085209/http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html|archive-date=October 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 13–15.</ref> The Hamilton family also spent many summers at [[Mackinac Island, Michigan]]. For the most part, the second and third generations of the extended Hamilton family, which included Alice's family, as well as her uncles, aunts, and cousins, lived on inherited wealth.<ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 14, 25.</ref>

Montgomery Hamilton, Alice's father, attended [[Princeton University]] and [[Harvard Law School]]. He also studied in Germany, where he met Gertrude Pond, the daughter of a wealthy sugar importer. They were married in 1866.<ref name=Weber31>Weber, p. 31.</ref><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 15, 17.</ref> Alice's father became a partner in a wholesale grocery business in Fort Wayne, but the partnership dissolved in 1885 and he withdrew from public life. Although the business failure caused a financial loss for the family, Alice's outspoken mother, Gertrude, remained socially active in the Fort Wayne community.<ref name=Weber31/><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 18.</ref><ref name=NAW303>{{cite book | first1 =Barbara | last1 =Sicherman | first2 =Carol Hurd | last2 =Green | title =Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary | publisher =Belknap Press of Harvard University | year =1980 | location =Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages =[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/303 303] | url =https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/303 | isbn =9780674627321 }}</ref>

[[File:Hamilton Sisters.jpg|thumb|The Hamilton sisters: Edith, Alice, Margaret, and Norah|alt=|left]]Alice was the second eldest of five siblings that included three sisters (Edith, Margaret, and Norah) and a brother (Arthur "Quint"), all of whom were accomplished in their respective fields. The girls remained especially close throughout their childhood and into their professional careers.<ref name=Landmark/> [[Edith Hamilton|Edith]] (1867–1963), an educator and headmistress at [[Bryn Mawr School]] in [[Baltimore]], became a classicist and renowned author for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. [[Margaret Hamilton (educator)|Margaret]] (1871–1969), like her older sister Edith, became an educator and headmistress at Bryn Mawr School. [[Norah Hamilton|Norah]] (1873–1945) was an artist, living and working at [[Hull House]]. [[Arthur Hamilton (educator)|Arthur]] (1886–1967), the youngest Hamilton sibling, became a writer, professor of Spanish, and assistant dean for foreign students at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. Arthur was the only sibling to marry; he and his wife, Mary (Neal) Hamilton, had no children.<ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 11–13.</ref>

==Education==
[[File:Alice Hamilton1.jpg|thumb|Hamilton in 1893 (age 24), her year of graduation from the University of Michigan Medical School|201x201px]]
[[File:Theodate Pope, Alice Hamilton, and a student believed to be Agnes Hamilton, 1888.jpg|alt=Theodate Pope, Alice Hamilton, and a student believed to be Agnes Hamilton, 1888. Courtesy of Miss Porter's School.|left|thumb|174x174px|[[Theodate Pope]], Alice Hamilton, and a student believed to be [[Agnes Hamilton]], 1888. Courtesy of Miss Porter's School.]]
Hamilton's parents homeschooled their children from an early age.<ref name=Weber31/> Following a family tradition among the Hamilton women, Alice completed her early education at Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies (also known as [[Miss Porter's School]]) in [[Farmington, Connecticut]], from 1886 to 1888. In addition to Alice, three of her aunts, three cousins, and all three of her sisters were alumnae of the school.<ref name=Letters15/><ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW303/>

Although Hamilton had led a privileged life in Fort Wayne, she aspired to provide some type of useful service to the world and chose medicine as a way to financially support herself.<ref name=Weber31/> Hamilton, who was an avid reader, also cited literary influence for inspiring her to become a physician, even though she had not yet received any training in the sciences: "I meant to be a medical missionary to [[Tehran|Teheran]], having been fascinated by the description of Persia in [[Edmund O'Donovan|[Edmond] O'Donovan's]] ''The Merv Oasis.'' I doubted if I could ever be good enough to be a real missionary, but if I could care for the sick, that would do instead."<ref>{{cite book|last=Sicherman|first= Barbara|chapter=Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Victorian America|editor-first=Cathy N. |editor-last=Davidson |title=Reading in America: Literature and Social History|location=Baltimore, Maryland|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1989|page=213}}</ref>

After her return to Indiana from school in Connecticut, Hamilton studied science with a high school teacher in Fort Wayne and anatomy at Fort Wayne College of Medicine for a year before enrolling at the [[University of Michigan]] Medical School in 1892.<ref name="Landmark"/><ref name=Weber32>Weber, p. 32.</ref><ref name=NAW303/> 
There she had the opportunity of studying with "a remarkable group of men"<ref name="Dangerous"/> – [[John Jacob Abel]] (pharmacology), [[William Henry Howell]] (physiology), [[Frederick George Novy]] (bacteriology), [[Victor C. Vaughan]] (biochemistry) and [[George Dock]] (medicine). During her last year of study she served on Dr. Dock's staff, going on rounds, taking histories and doing clinical laboratory work.<ref name="Dangerous">{{cite book | first =Alice | last =Hamilton | title =Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. | publisher =Northeastern University Press | year =1985 | location =Boston | pages =[https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 44–51] | url =https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 | isbn =0-930350-81-2 }}</ref>
Hamilton earned a medical degree from the university in 1893.<ref name=Jay148>{{cite book |first=Stephen J.|last= Jay|chapter=Alice Hamilton | editor1-first= Linda C. |editor1-last=Gugin |editor2-first= James E. |editor2-last=St. Clair | title =Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State | publisher =Indiana Historical Society Press| year =2015 | location =Indianapolis | page=148  | isbn =978-0-87195-387-2}}</ref>
[[File:Alice Hamilton in an anatomy class.jpg|alt=Alice Hamilton in an anatomy class, ca. 1893|left|thumb|Alice Hamilton in an anatomy class, ca. 1893]]
In 1893–94, after graduation from medical school, Hamilton completed internships at the Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children in Minneapolis and at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in [[Roxbury, Boston|Roxbury]], a suburban neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, to gain some clinical experience.<ref name="Landmark"/><ref name="windsor">{{cite book|first=Laura Lynn |last=Windsor|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/womenmedicineenc00wind |url-access=limited |year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/womenmedicineenc00wind/page/n109 89]–91|isbn=9781576073926 }}</ref><ref name=Weber33>Weber, p. 33.</ref> Hamilton had already decided that she was not interested in establishing a medical practice and returned to the University of Michigan in February 1895 to study [[bacteriology]] as a resident graduate and lab assistant of Frederick George Novy.<ref name=NAW303/><ref name=Weber33/> She also began to develop an interest in public health.<ref name="windsor"/>

In the fall of 1895, Alice and her older sister, Edith, traveled to Germany. Alice planned to study bacteriology and pathology at the advice of her professors at Michigan, while Edith intended to study the classics and attend lectures.<ref>In 1894 Edith Hamilton, a fellow in Latin at [[Bryn Mawr College]], was awarded the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship that provided the funds to enable the two sisters to pursue further studies abroad for an academic year. See Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 89–90.</ref><ref name=Weber43>Weber, p. 43.</ref> The Hamilton sisters faced some opposition to their efforts to study abroad. Although Alice was welcomed in [[Frankfurt]], her requests to study in [[Berlin]] were rejected and she experienced some prejudice against women when the two sisters studied at universities in [[Munich]] and [[Leipzig]].<ref name="windsor"/><ref name=CHFBio>
{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/alice-hamilton|website=Science History Institute |access-date=March 21, 2018}}</ref><ref>Hamilton described their experiences in Germany in her autobiography. See {{cite book | first =Alice | last =Hamilton | title =Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. | publisher =Northeastern University Press | year =1985 | location =Boston | pages =[https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 44–51] | url =https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/44 | isbn =0-930350-81-2 }} See also: {{cite book | first=Sandra L. |last=Singer | title =Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868–1915 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group  | year =2003 | location =Westport, Connecticut | pages =74–75 | isbn =9780313096860}}</ref>

When Alice returned to the United States in September 1896, she continued postgraduate studies for a year at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] Medical School. There she worked with [[Simon Flexner]] on pathological anatomy. She also had the opportunity to learn from [[William H. Welch]] and [[William Osler]].<ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW303/><ref name="Dangerous"/>
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==Career==
===Early years at Chicago's Hull House===
In 1897 Hamilton accepted an offer to become a professor of pathology at the [[Feinberg School of Medicine|Woman's Medical School]] of [[Northwestern University]]. Soon after her move to Chicago, Illinois, Hamilton fulfilled a longtime ambition to become a member and resident of [[Hull House]], the [[settlement house]] founded by social reformer [[Jane Addams]] and [[Ellen Gates Starr]].<ref name=NLibMed/><ref name=Landmark/><ref>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters'', p. 111.</ref> While Hamilton taught and did research at the medical school during the day, she maintained an active life at Hull House, her full-time residence from 1897 to 1919.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X">{{cite web |url =http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html#designation-acknowledgments |title =Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine |publisher =American Chemical Society |work =National Historic Chemical Landmarks |access-date =May 2, 2017 |url-status =live |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170829161049/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html#designation-acknowledgments |archive-date =August 29, 2017 }}</ref>
On how Hull House had helped Hamilton to find her true self she said; It "''satisfied every longing, for companionship, for the excitement of new experiences, for constant intellectual stimulation, and for the sense of being caught up in a big movement which enlisted my enthusiastic loyalty.''"<ref>{{Cite news |last=GORNICK |first=VIVIAN |date=October 7, 1984 |title=Alice Hamilton's Factory Practice |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/10/07/alice-hamiltons-factory-practice/fddbe711-cc8f-459f-8138-1984e4deb244/ |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref> Hamilton became Jane Addams' personal physician and volunteered her time at Hull House to teach English and art. She also directed the men's fencing and athletic clubs, operated a well-baby clinic, and visited the sick in their homes.<ref name=Weber34>Weber, p. 34.</ref><ref name=NWHM-exhibits>{{cite web| title =Alice Hamilton| publisher =National Women's History Museum| url =https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html| access-date =May 1, 2017| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20161230141742/https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html| archive-date =December 30, 2016| df =dmy-all}}</ref> 
Other inhabitants of Hull House included Alice's sister Norah, and her friends [[Rachelle Yarros|Rachelle]] and [[Victor Yarros]].<ref name="Dangerous"/>
Although Hamilton moved away from Chicago in 1919 when she accepted a position as an assistant professor at [[Harvard Medical School]], she returned to Hull House and stayed for several months each spring until Jane Addams's death in 1935.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X"/>

Through her association and work at Hull House and living side by side with the poor residents of the community, Hamilton witnessed the effects that the dangerous trades had on workers' health through exposure to carbon monoxide and [[lead poisoning]]. As a result, she became increasingly interested in the problems the workers faced, especially occupational injuries and illnesses.<ref name=Jay148/><ref name="Trades">{{cite book|first=Alice|last=Hamilton|title=Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton|year=1943|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|location=Boston|page=[https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/114 114]|isbn=0-930350-81-2|url=https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami/page/114}}</ref> The experience also caused Hamilton to begin considering how to merge her interests in medical science and social reform to improve the health of American workers.<ref name=Jay148/>

When the Woman's Medical School closed in 1902, Hamilton took a position as bacteriologist with the Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, working with [[Ludvig Hektoen]].<ref name=Jay148/><ref name=NAW304/> During this time, she also formed a friendship with bacteriologist [[Ruth May Tunnicliff|Ruth Tunnicliffe]].<ref name="Morantz-Sanchez">{{cite book |last1=Morantz-Sanchez |first1=Ruth Markell |title=Sympathy & science : women physicians in American medicine |date=October 12, 2005 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0807848906 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sympathysciencew01mora/page/161 161] |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/sympathysciencew01mora |url-access=registration |access-date=September 25, 2018}}</ref> Hamilton investigated a typhoid epidemic in Chicago before focusing her research on the investigation of industrial diseases.<ref name=Jay148/><ref name=NAW304>Sicherman and Green, p. 304.</ref> Some of Hamilton's early research in this area included attempts to identify causes of typhoid and tuberculosis in the community surrounding Hull House.<ref name=CHFBio/> Her work on typhoid in 1902 led to the replacement of the chief sanitary inspector of the area by the [[Chicago Board of Health]].<ref name=DaleyCollection>{{cite web |title=Alice Hamilton Collection |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AHamiltonf.html |website=Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001170628/http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AHamiltonf.html |archive-date=October 1, 2015 }}</ref>

The study of industrial medicine (work-related illnesses) had become increasingly important because the [[Industrial Revolution]] of the late nineteenth century had led to new dangers in the workplace. In 1907 Hamilton began exploring existing literature from abroad and noticed that industrial medicine was not being studied as much in America. She set out to change the situation and published her first article on the topic in 1908.<ref name=MMWR1999>{{cite journal|title=Alice Hamilton, M.D.|journal=MMWR Weekly|date=June 11, 1999|volume=48|issue=22|page=462|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.HTM|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216100927/http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.htm|archive-date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>

===Medical investigator===
Hamilton began her long career in public health and workplace safety in 1910, when Illinois governor [[Charles S. Deneen]] appointed her as a medical investigator to the newly formed Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases.<ref name="CHFBio"/><ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X"/><ref name="Stebner">{{cite book |last1=Stebner |first1=Eleanor J. |title=The women of Hull House : a study in spirituality, vocation, and friendship |date=1997 |publisher=State University of New York Press |location=New York |isbn=9780791434871 |pages=128–139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDuFeO9tlbkC&pg=PA137 |access-date=October 9, 2018}}</ref> Hamilton led the commission's investigations, which focused on industrial poisons such as lead and other toxins.<ref name=Jay148/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2014/04/28/alice-hamilton/|title=A Voice in the Wilderness: Alice Hamilton and the Illinois Survey {{!}} NIOSH Science Blog {{!}} Blogs {{!}} CDC|website=blogs.cdc.gov|date=April 28, 2014 |access-date=November 12, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113033928/https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2014/04/28/alice-hamilton/|archive-date=November 13, 2016}}</ref> She also authored the "Illinois Survey," the commission's report that documented its findings of industrial processes that exposed workers to lead poisoning and other illnesses. She discovered over seventy industrial processes through which workers became exposed to lead poisoning. In addition, she uncovered professions, such as polishing cut glass and wrapping cigars in "tinfoil," that exhibited an increase expose to lead poisoning, contrary to the public's beliefs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine |url=https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html |access-date=February 11, 2025 |website=American Chemical Society |language=en}}</ref> The commission's efforts resulted in the passage of the first workers' compensation laws in Illinois in 1911, in Indiana in 1915, and occupational disease laws in other states.<ref name=Jay148/> The new laws required employers to take safety precautions to protect workers.<ref name="windsor"/><ref name="CDCBio" />

By 1916 Hamilton had become America's foremost authority on lead poisoning.<ref name=NAW304/> For the next decade she investigated a range of issues for a variety of state and federal health committees. Hamilton focused her explorations on occupational toxic disorders, examining the effects of substances such as [[Aniline|aniline dyes]], [[carbon monoxide]], [[Mercury (element)|mercury]], [[tetraethyl lead]], [[radium]], [[benzene]], [[carbon disulfide]] and [[hydrogen sulfide]] gases. In 1925, at a Public Health Service conference on the use of lead in gasoline, she testified against the use of lead and warned of the danger it posed to people and the environment.<ref name="Why"/> Nevertheless, leaded gasoline was allowed.<ref name="Jacobson">{{cite book |last1=Jacobson |first1=Mark Z. |title=Atmospheric pollution : history, science, and regulation |date=2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521010446 |pages=75–80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bveEPjMxP3cC&pg=PA76}}</ref><ref name="Kovarik">{{cite journal |last1=Kovarik |first1=William |s2cid=44633845 |title=Ethyl-leaded gasoline: How a classic occupational disease became an international public health disaster |journal=International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health |date=2005 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=384–397 |doi=10.1179/oeh.2005.11.4.384 |pmid=16350473}}</ref> The [[EPA]] in 1988 estimated that over the previous 60 years, 68 million children suffered high toxic exposure to lead from leaded fuels.<ref name="Why">{{cite web |url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/why-lead-used-to-be-added-to-gasoline/ |title=Why lead used to be added to gasoline |date=November 15, 2011 |access-date=December 5, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003081233/http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/why-lead-used-to-be-added-to-gasoline/ |archive-date=October 3, 2017 }}</ref>

Her work on the manufacture of [[white lead]] and [[lead oxide]], as a special investigator for the [[U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics]], is considered a "landmark study."<ref name="CHFBio"/> Relying primarily on "shoe leather epidemiology" (her process of making personal visits to factories, conducting interviews with workers, and compiling details of diagnosed poisoning cases) and the emerging laboratory science of toxicology, Hamilton pioneered [[occupational epidemiology]] and [[industrial hygiene]]. She also created the specialized field of industrial medicine in the United States. Her findings were scientifically persuasive and influenced sweeping health reforms that changed laws and general practice to improve the health of workers.<ref name=Jay148/><ref name=Weber35>Weber, p. 35.</ref><ref name=CDCBio>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Science Awards|url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/HamHist.html|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|publisher=The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921073843/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/hamhist.html|archive-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>

During World War I, the US Army tasked her with solving a mysterious ailment striking workers at a munitions plant in New Jersey. She led a team that included [[George Minot]], a professor at Harvard Medical School. She deduced that the workers were being sickened through contact with the explosive [[trinitrotoluene]] (TNT). She recommended that workers wear protective clothing to be removed and washed at the end of each shift, solving the problem.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton a pioneer in occupational health|url=https://tacomed.com/chapter-one-george-minot/alice-hamilton-a-pioneer-in-occupational-health/|website=Tacomed.com|access-date=June 13, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171621/https://tacomed.com/chapter-one-george-minot/alice-hamilton-a-pioneer-in-occupational-health/|archive-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref>

Hamilton's best-known research included her studies on carbon monoxide poisoning among American steelworkers, [[mercury poisoning]] of hatters, and "[[Vibration white finger|a debilitating hand condition developed by workers using jackhammers]]."<ref name=NWHM-exhibits/> At the request of the U.S. Department of Labor, she also investigated industries involved in developing high explosives, "spastic anemia known as 'dead fingers'" among [[Bedford, Indiana]], limestone cutters, and the "unusually high incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis" among tombstone carvers working in the granite mills of [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], and [[Barre (city), Vermont|Barre, Vermont]].<ref name=Weber37>Weber, p. 37.</ref> Hamilton was also a member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Mortality from Tuberculosis in Dusty Trades, whose efforts "laid the groundwork for further studies and eventual widespread reform in the industry."<ref name=Weber37/>

===Women's rights and peace activist===
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During her years at Hull House, Hamilton was active in the [[women's rights]] and [[peace movement]]s.  She traveled with [[Jane Addams]] and [[Emily Greene Balch]] to the 1915 [[International Congress of Women]] in [[The Hague]],<ref name=Hague1915>{{cite web|first1=Kathryn Kish |last1=Sklar |first2= Kari |last2=Amidon|title=How Did Women Activists Promote Peace in Their 1915 Tour of Warring European Capitals?|url=http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/hague/intro.htm|website=Women and Social Movements in the United States|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920082612/http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/hague/intro.htm|archive-date=September 20, 2014}}</ref> where they met [[Aletta Jacobs]], a Dutch pacifist, feminist, and suffragist.<ref name=Addams1915>{{cite book |first1=Jane|last1= Addams|first2= Emily |last2=Balch|first3=  Alice |last3=Hamilton |title=Women at The Hague : The International Congress of Women and Its Results / by Three Delegates to the Congress from the United States, Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, Alice Hamilton |date=1915 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |isbn= 9780524058886|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000446799 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308185058/http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000446799 |archive-date=March 8, 2016 }}</ref><ref name=History>{{cite web|title=1915: International Congress of Women opens at The Hague|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/international-congress-of-women-opens-at-the-hague|website=This Day in History|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085008/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/international-congress-of-women-opens-at-the-hague|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref> She also visited German-occupied Belgium.<ref name=NAW304/>

Hamilton returned to Europe with Addams in May 1919 to attend the second International Congress of Women at [[Zürich]], Switzerland.<ref name=NAW304/><ref name="Sklar53–55">{{cite book|first1=Kathryn Kish|last1= Sklar|first2= Anja|last2= Schüler| first3= Susan |last3=Strasser|title=Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885–1933|date=1998|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca|isbn=9780801484698|pages=53–55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FUxisSKqRUC&pg=PA245|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529064100/https://books.google.com/books?id=4FUxisSKqRUC&pg=PA245|archive-date=May 29, 2016}}</ref> In addition, Hamilton, Addams, Jacobs, and American [[Quakers|Quaker]] Carolena M. Wood became involved in a humanitarian mission to Germany to distribute food aid and investigate reports of famine.<ref name=Sklar245-255>Sklar, Schüler, and Strasser, pp. 53–55.</ref>

===Assistant professor, Harvard Medical School===
[[File:Dr. Alice Hamilton.jpg|alt=Alice Hamilton during her first year at Harvard, 1919|thumb|Alice Hamilton during her first year at Harvard, 1919]]
In January 1919, Hamilton accepted a position as assistant professor in a newly formed Department of Industrial Medicine (and after 1925 the School of Public Health) at [[Harvard Medical School]], making her the first woman appointed to the [[Harvard University]] faculty in any field.<ref name="CHFBio"/><ref name=NAW304/> Her appointment was hailed by the ''[[New York Tribune]]'' with the headline: "A Woman on Harvard Faculty—The Last Citadel Has Fallen—The Sex Has Come Into Its Own".<ref name=NLibMed/>  She commented, "yes, I am the first woman on the Harvard faculty—but not the first one who should have been appointed!"<ref name=Fee>{{cite journal|first1=Elizabeth|last1= Fee| first2= Theodore M. |last2=Brown |title=Alice Hamilton: Settlement Physician, Occupational Health Pioneer |journal=American Journal of Public Health|date=November 2001|volume=91|issue=11|page=1767|doi=10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1767|pmc=1446873 |pmid=11684598}}</ref>

During her years at Harvard, from 1919 to her retirement in 1935, Hamilton never received a faculty promotion and held only a series of three-year appointments. At her request, the half-time appointments for which she taught one semester per year allowed her to continue her research and spend several months of each year at Hull House. Hamilton also faced discrimination as a woman. She was excluded from social activities, could not enter the Harvard Union, attend the Faculty Club, or receive a quota of football tickets. In addition, Hamilton was not allowed to march in the university's commencement ceremonies as the male faculty members did.<ref name=NLibMed/><ref name=Jay149>Jay, p. 149.</ref><ref>{{cite web | title =A National Chemical Landmark: Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine, September 21, 2002 | publisher =American Chemical Society | date =2002 | url =https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton/alice-hamilton-and-the-development-of-occupational-medicine-commemorative-booklet.pdf | access-date =May 2, 2017 | url-status =live | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20171029121523/https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton/alice-hamilton-and-the-development-of-occupational-medicine-commemorative-booklet.pdf | archive-date =October 29, 2017 }}</ref>

Hamilton became a successful fundraiser for Harvard as she continued to write and conduct research on the dangerous trades. In addition to publishing "landmark reports for the U.S. Department of Labor" on research related to workers in Arizona copper mines and stonecutters at Indiana's limestone quarries,<ref name=Jay149/> Hamilton also wrote ''Industrial Poisons in the United States'' (1925), the first American textbook on the subject, and another related textbook, ''Industrial Toxicology'' (1934).<ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW305>Sicherman and Green, p. 305.</ref> At a tetraethyl lead conference in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1925, Hamilton was a prominent critic of adding [[tetraethyl lead]] to gasoline.<ref name="Rosner">{{cite journal |last1=Rosner |first1=David |last2=Markowitz |first2=Gerald |title=A 'Gift of God'?: The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline during the 1920s |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=April 1985 |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=344–352 |doi=10.2105/ajph.75.4.344 |pmid=2579591 |pmc=1646253}}</ref><ref name=Tetraethyl>{{cite journal|first=Alice |last=Hamilton |title=What Price Safety, Tetraethyl Lead Reveals a Flaw in Our Defenses|journal=The Survey Mid-Monthly|date=June 15, 1925|volume=54|pages=333–34}}</ref><ref name=Dauvergne>{{cite book|first=Peter |last=Dauvergne|title=The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment|date=2010|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0262514927|page=74|edition=First MIT Press paperback|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PEFBfoK9JIC&pg=PA74|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617164206/https://books.google.com/books?id=5PEFBfoK9JIC&pg=PA74|archive-date=June 17, 2016}}</ref>

Hamilton also remained an activist in social reform efforts.<ref name=NAW304/><ref name=Weber37/> Her specific interests in civil liberties, peace, birth control, and protective labor legislation for women caused some of her critics to consider her a "radical" and a "subversive."<ref name=Jay149/> From 1924 to 1930, she served as the only woman member of the [[League of Nations]] Health Committee.<ref name=Hilgenkamp>{{cite book|first=Kathryn |last=Hilgenkamp|title=Environmental Health|date=2011|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Learning|isbn=978-0763771089|page=327|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuCNxKlDLogC&pg=PA327|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430082840/https://books.google.com/books?id=DuCNxKlDLogC&pg=PA327|archive-date=April 30, 2016}}</ref> She also visited the Soviet Union in 1924 and [[Nazi Germany]] in April 1933. Hamilton wrote "The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength," which was published in ''The New York Times''. The article described [[Nazi]] exploitation of youth in the years between the two world wars.<ref name=NAW305/><ref name=Letters437>Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 437.</ref> She also criticized the Nazi education, especially its domestic training for girls.<ref name=Perry>{{cite book|first=Marvin |last=Perry|title=Sources of the Western Tradition |date=2003 |publisher=Wadsworth |location=Belmont, California |volume=II|edition=5th}}</ref>

==Later years==
After her retirement from Harvard in 1935, Hamilton became a medical consultant to the U.S. Division of Labor Standards, and she maintained her connections at Harvard as professor emerita.<ref>{{Cite journal|first=William T.|last= Moye|date=June 1986|title=BLS and Alice Hamilton: Pioneers in Industrial Health|url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1986/06/art4full.pdf|journal=Monthly Labor Review|volume=109|issue=6|access-date=November 12, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203075515/http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1986/06/art4full.pdf|archive-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref> Her last field survey, which was made in 1937–38, investigated the viscose rayon industry. In addition, Hamilton served as president of the National Consumers League from 1944 to 1949.<ref name=NWHM-exhibits/><ref name=NAW305/>

Hamilton spent her retirement years in [[Hadlyme North Historic District|Hadlyme, Connecticut]], at the home she had purchased in 1916 with her sister, Margaret. Hamilton remained an active writer in retirement. Her autobiography, ''Exploring the Dangerous Trades'', was published in 1943.<ref name=CWHF>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=http://cwhf.org/inductees/science-health/alice-hamilton|website=Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911120611/http://www.cwhf.org/inductees/science-health/alice-hamilton|archive-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> Hamilton and coauthor [[Harriet Louise Hardy]] also revised ''Industrial Toxicology'' (1949), the textbook that Hamilton had initially written in 1934. Hamilton enjoyed leisure activities such as reading, sketching, and writing, as well as spending time among her family and friends.<ref name=NAW305/><ref>Weber, pp. 38–39.</ref>

==Death and legacy==
Hamilton died of a stroke at her home in [[Hadlyme, Connecticut]], on September 22, 1970, at the age of 101.<ref name=Landmark/><ref name=NAW306>Sicherman and Green, p. 306.</ref> She is buried at Cove Cemetery in Hadlyme.<ref>Alice Hamilton is buried in the same cemetery where the remains of her mother (Gertrude) and sisters (Norah, Alice, and Margaret) are interred, as well as those of Edith's life partner, Doris Fielding Reid, and Margaret's life partner, [[Clara Landsberg]]. See {{cite book | first=Scott|last= Wilson|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|publisher=McFarland and Company, Inc. |edition=3d Kindle |page=2 (Kindle Location 19508) }}</ref><ref>Clara Landsberg, a close college and longtime family friend, studied in Europe with Margaret Hamilton for a summer in 1899. The daughter of a [[Reform Judaism|Reform rabbi]] from [[Rochester, New York]], and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Landsberg became a resident at Hull House, where she was in charge of its evening education programs and shared a room with Alice. Landsberg eventually left Hull House to teach Latin at Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland, where Edith was headmistress. Margaret also became a teacher at Bryn Mawr School and took over as headmistress before retiring in 1935. (See: Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', pp. 141 and 257; and Singer, ''Adventures Abroad'', pp. 74–75.) Alice, who considered Landsberg part of the Hamilton family, one remarked, "I could not think of a life in which Clara did not have a great part, she has become part of my life almost as if she were one of us." (See Sicherman, ''Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters'', p. 197.)</ref>

Hamilton was a tireless researcher and crusader against the use of toxic substances in the workplace.<ref>Weber, p. 28.</ref> Within three months of her death in 1970, the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passed the [[Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States)|Occupational Safety and Health Act]] to improve workplace safety in the United States.<ref name=Weber39>Weber, p. 39.</ref>

==Recognition and awards==
* Hamilton was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, [[Mount Holyoke College]], and [[Smith College]].<ref name=Weber39/> 
* She was included in the ''American Men in Science: A Biographical Dictionary'' (1906).<ref name="McKeen134"/>
* In 1935 [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] presented Hamilton with the [[Chi Omega]] women's fraternity's National Achievement Award.<ref name=NationalAward>{{cite web|title=Grimes, Roosevelt, and Hamilton, standing. Roosevelt is presenting Hamilton with an award.|url=http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|website=Harvard University Library|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124702/http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|archive-date=March 4, 2016|access-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref>
* In 1947 Hamilton became the first woman to receive the [[Albert Lasker Public Service Award]] for her public service contributions.<ref name=Weber39/><ref name=Lasker>{{cite web |title=Albert Lasker Public Service Award |url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm |website=Lasker Foundation |access-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909172353/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm |archive-date=September 9, 2013 }}</ref> 
* In 1948 Hamilton received the Donald E. Cummings Memorial Awards from the [[American Industrial Hygiene Association]] (AIHA).  In 1993, the AIHA established an award in her honor to recognize the contributions of outstanding women in the field of occupational and environmental hygiene.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2, 2016 |title=Alice Hamilton Award |url=https://www.aiha.org/get-involved/outreach/Pages/Alice-Hamilton-Award.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402152845/https://www.aiha.org/get-involved/outreach/Pages/Alice-Hamilton-Award.aspx |archive-date=April 2, 2016 |access-date=November 1, 2022 }}</ref>
* In 1956 she was named ''TIME'' magazine's "Woman of the Year" in medicine.<ref name="Time1956">{{cite magazine|title=Medicine: Woman of the Year|magazine=Time|date=November 19, 1956|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867287,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305073438/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867287,00.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref> 
* In 1973 Hamilton was posthumously inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref name=NWHF>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-hamilton/|website=Nationanl Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905205555/https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-hamilton/|archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref>
* On February 27, 1987, the [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]] dedicated its research facility as the Alice Hamilton Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health. The institute also began giving an annual Alice Hamilton Award to recognize excellent scientific research in the field.<ref name=AwardGiven>{{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Awards for Occupational Safety and Health|url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|publisher=The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|access-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905101209/http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/|archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref> 
* In 1995 the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]] honored Hamilton's contributions to [[public health]] with a 55-cent commemorative postage stamp in its [[Great Americans series]].<ref name=Postage>{{cite web|title=Up 55-cent Hamilton|url=http://arago.si.edu/category_2043110.html|website=Arago: People, Postage and the Post|access-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203100105/http://arago.si.edu/category_2043110.html|archive-date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> 
* In 2000 the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, erected statues of Alice, her sister, Edith, and their cousin, Agnes, in the city's Headwaters Park.<ref name=Jay149/>
* On September 21, 2002, the [[American Chemical Society]] designated Hamilton and her work in industrial toxicology a [[National Historic Chemical Landmarks|National Historic Chemical Landmark]] in recognition of her pioneering role in the development of occupational medicine.<ref name="Alice Hamilton ACS Landmark-X"/>
* Hamilton has been heralded as a pioneering female environmentalist.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nancy |last=Unger |title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford and New York|pages=87–88}}</ref> The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, sponsors an annual lecture named in recognition of her achievements in these areas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UCSF|url=http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|access-date=February 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223173638/http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|archive-date=February 23, 2014}}</ref> Since 1997 the [[American Society for Environmental History]] has annually awarded the Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside the ''Environmental History'' journal.<ref>{{cite web| title =Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article| publisher =American Society for Environmental History| url =http://aseh.net/awards-funding/award-recipients/alice-hamilton-prize-for-best-article/view| access-date =May 2, 2017| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170917072529/http://aseh.net/awards-funding/award-recipients/alice-hamilton-prize-for-best-article/view| archive-date =September 17, 2017}}</ref>
* On September 26, 2018, one bust of Alice Hamilton was placed in the foyer of the [[FXB International|François-Xavier Bagnoud Building]] of the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]], and another bust, also by local sculptor Robert Shure, was placed in the Atrium in the Tosteson Medical Education Center of the [[Harvard Medical School]].
* Annually, the [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]]'s Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) sponsors the annual Alice Hamilton lecture and award to recognize especially promising junior faculty women.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2096/2017/02/Harvard-Final-Self-Study-April-2017.pdf |title=Final Self-Study Report, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |date=June 29, 2024 |page=86}}</ref>

==Selected published works==
Books:
* ''Industrial Poisons in the United States'' (1925)<ref name=NAW305/>
* ''Industrial Toxicology'' (1934' rev. 1949)<ref name=Landmark/>
* ''Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.'' (1943).<ref name=CWHF/>

Articles:
* "Hitler Speaks: His Book Reveals the Man," ''Atlantic Monthly'' (April 1933)<ref name=Jay149/>
* "The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength," ''New York Times'', 1933<ref name=Letters437/>
* "A Woman of Ninety Looks at Her World," ''Atlantic Monthly'' (1961)<ref name=Weber39/>

==Notes==
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==References==
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* {{cite web|title=1915: International Congress of Women Opens at The Hague|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/international-congress-of-women-opens-at-the-hague|website=This Day in History|access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite web| title =A National Chemical Landmark: Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine, September 21, 2002 | publisher =American Chemical Society | date =2002 | url =https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton/alice-hamilton-and-the-development-of-occupational-medicine-commemorative-booklet.pdf | access-date =May 2, 2017}}
* {{Cite web|url=https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2014/04/28/alice-hamilton/|title=A Voice in the Wilderness: Alice Hamilton and the Illinois Survey {{!}} NIOSH Science Blog {{!}} Blogs {{!}} CDC|website=blogs.cdc.gov|date=April 28, 2014 |access-date=November 12, 2016}}
* {{cite book |last1=Addams |first1=Jane |last2=Balch |first2=Emily Green |last3=Hamilton |first3=Alice|title=Women at The Hague : The International Congress of Women and Its Results / by Three Delegates to the Congress from the United States, Jane Addams, Emily G. Balch, Alice Hamilton |year=1915 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=9780524058886 |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000446799}}
* {{cite web|title=Albert Lasker Public Service Award|url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm|website=Lasker Foundation|access-date=October 16, 2015|archive-date=September 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909172353/http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/1947_p_description.htm|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/alice-hamilton|website=Science History Institute |access-date=March 21, 2018}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton|url=http://cwhf.org/inductees/science-health/alice-hamilton|website=Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=October 15, 2015}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton |url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-hamilton/ |website=National Women's Hall of Fame |access-date=October 15, 2015}}
* {{cite web | title=Alice Hamilton | publisher=National Women's History Museum | url=https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html | access-date=May 1, 2017 | archive-date=December 30, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230141742/https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/hamilton.html | url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Awards for Occupational Safety and Health|url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |publisher=The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|access-date=October 15, 2015}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Collection |url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AHamiltonf.html|publisher=Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago |access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton and the Development of Occupational Medicine National Historic Chemical Landmark |url=http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html|website=ACS Chemistry for Life|access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite web|title=Alice Hamilton Science Awards |url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/HamHist.html|website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|publisher=The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|access-date=October 15, 2015}}
* {{cite journal|title=Alice Hamilton, M.D.|journal=MMWR Weekly|date=June 11, 1999|volume=48|issue=22|page=462|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.HTM|access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite book|last1=Dauvergne|first1=Peter|title=The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment|year=2010|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0262514927|edition=First MIT Press paperback|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PEFBfoK9JIC&pg=PA74}}
* {{cite web|title=Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, UCSF|url=http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|access-date=February 21, 2014|archive-date=February 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223173638/http://oem.ucsf.edu/about/hamilton.html|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|title=Dr. Alice Hamilton |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_137.html |website=Changing the Face of Medicine |publisher=National Library of Medicine|access-date=October 15, 2015}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |author=Corn, J.  |year=2000 |title= Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970), physician |encyclopedia = American National Biography |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200366 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |edition=online | access-date=February 26, 2019 | url= http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1200366|url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal|last1=Fee|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Brown|first2=Theodore M. |title=Alice Hamilton: Settlement Physician, Occupational Health Pioneer |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=November 2001|volume=91|issue=11|page=1767|doi=10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1767|pmc=1446873 |pmid=11684598}}
* {{cite web|title=Grimes, Roosevelt, and Hamilton, standing. Roosevelt is presenting Hamilton with an award.|url=http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|website=Harvard University Library|access-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124702/http://viacs.hul.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepcontent?recordId=olvwork20004468|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite book|last=Hamilton|first= Alice |title=Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75264|year=1943|publisher=Little, Brown, and Company|location=Boston}}
* {{cite book | last =Hamilton | first =Alice | title =Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. | publisher =Northeastern University Press | year =1985 | location =Boston | url =https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami | isbn =0-930350-81-2 }}
* {{cite journal|last1=Hamilton|first1=Alice|title=What Price Safety, Tetraethyl Lead Reveals a Flaw in Our Defenses|journal=The Survey Mid-Monthly |date=June 15, 1925 |volume=54 |pages=333–34}}
* {{cite book|last1=Hilgenkamp|first1=Kathryn|title=Environmental Health |date=2011 |publisher=Jones and Bartlett Learning|isbn=978-0763771089|page=327|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuCNxKlDLogC&pg=PA327|access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* Jay, Stephen J., "Alice Hamilton" in {{cite book | editor1-last=Gugin|editor1-first= Linda C.|editor2-first= James E.|editor2-last= St. Clair| title =Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State | publisher =Indiana Historical Society Press| year =2015 | location =Indianapolis | pages=148–50  | isbn =978-0-87195-387-2}}
* {{cite magazine|title=Medicine: Woman of the Year |magazine=TIME |date=November 19, 1956 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867287,00.html}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Moye |first=William T. |date=June 1986|title=BLS and Alice Hamilton: Pioneers in Industrial Health |url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1986/06/art4full.pdf|journal=Monthly Labor Review |volume=109|issue=6|access-date=November 12, 2016}}
* {{cite book|last1=Perry|first1=Marvin|title=Sources of the Western tradition|date=2003|publisher=Wadsworth|location=Belmont, California |volume=II|edition=5th}}
* {{cite book | last1 =Sicherman | first1 =Barbara | first2 =Alice | last2 =Hamilton | title =Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters | publisher =Harvard University Press | year =1984 | location =Cambridge, Massachusetts | url =https://archive.org/details/alicehamiltonlif00sich | isbn =0-674-01553-3 }} (Second publishing: University of Illinois Press, 2003.  {{ISBN|0-252-07152-2}})
* Sicherman, Barbara, "Sense and Sensibility: A Case Study of Women's Victorian America," in {{cite book |editor-first=Cathy N.|editor-last= Davidson|title=Reading in America: Literature and Social History |publisher= The Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Maryland |year=1989|page=213}}
* {{cite book | last1 =Sicherman | first1 =Barbara | first2 =Carol Hurd | last2 =Green | title =Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary | publisher =Belknap Press of Harvard University | year =1980 | location =Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages =[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/303 303–06] | url =https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich/page/303 | isbn =9780674627321 }}
* {{cite book | last=Singer|first= Sandra L. | title =Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-Speaking Universities, 1868–1915 | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group  | year =2003 | location =Westport, Connecticut | isbn =9780313096860}}
* {{cite web|last1=Sklar|first1=Kathryn Kish|last2=Amidon|first2=Kari|title=How Did Women Activists Promote Peace in Their 1915 Tour of Warring European Capitals?|url=http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/hague/intro.htm|website=Women and Social Movements in the United States |access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite book|last1=Sklar|first1=Kathryn Kish |last2=Schüler |first2=Anja |last3=Strasser |first3=Susan |title=Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany : A Dialogue in Documents, 1885–1933|date=1998|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, New York|isbn=9780801484698|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FUxisSKqRUC&pg=PA245}}
* {{cite book |last=Unger |first=Nancy C. |title=Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History |year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford and New York }}
* {{cite web |title=Up 55-cent Hamilton |url=http://arago.si.edu/category_2043110.html |website=Arago: People, Postage and the Post |access-date=October 16, 2015}}
* {{cite journal| last=Weber|first= Catherine E. Forrest | title =Alice Hamilton, M.D.: Crusader Against Death on the Job | journal =Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History | volume =7 | issue =4 | pages =28–39 | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | location =Indianapolis | date =Fall 1995}}
* {{cite book | last=Wilson|first= Scott | title =Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc. | edition =3d ed. Kindle | pages =2 (Kindle Location 19508)  }}
* {{cite book |last=Windsor |first=Laura Lynn|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/womenmedicineenc00wind |url-access=limited |year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO| location=Santa Barbara, California|pages=[https://archive.org/details/womenmedicineenc00wind/page/n109 89]–91|isbn=9781576073926 }}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book | first1=Jane |last1=Addams |first2=Emily Greene |last2=Balch|first3= Alice |last3=Hamilton| title =Women at The Hague: The International Congress of Women and its Results | publisher =MacMillan | year =1915 | url = https://archive.org/details/womenathagueint00hamigoog | quote=emily greene balch biography. }}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Haber
| first1 = Louis
| title = Women Pioneers of Science
| date = 1979
| publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
| location = New York
| isbn = 9780152992026
| url = https://archive.org/details/womenpioneersofs00habe
}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Hamilton
| first1 = Alice
| title = At the War Capitals
| date = 1916
| publisher = Alice Hamilton
| location = New York
}}
* {{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Alice|title=Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.|publisher=Northeastern University Press|year=1985|url=https://archive.org/details/exploringdangero00hami|isbn=0-930350-81-2}}
* {{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Moira Davison|title=American Women Scientists : 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=9780786421619|url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomensci00moir}}
*{{cite book
| last1 = Ringenberg
| first1 = William
| last2 = Ringenberg
| first2 = Matthew
| last3 = Brain
| first3 = Joseph
| title = The Education of Alice Hamilton: From Fort Wayne to Harvard
| date = 2019
| publisher = Indiana University Press
| location = Bloomington, Indiana
| isbn = 978-0-253-04400-6
| url = http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=6040_6063&products_id=809789
| access-date = November 14, 2018
| archive-date = June 15, 2019
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190615102705/http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=6040_6063&products_id=809789
| url-status = dead
}}
* {{cite book | last1 =Sicherman | first1 =Barbara | first2 =Alice | last2 =Hamilton | title =Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters | publisher =Harvard University Press | year =1984 | url =https://archive.org/details/alicehamiltonlif00sich | isbn =0-674-01553-3 }} (Second publishing- University of Illinois Press, 2003.  {{ISBN|0-252-07152-2}})
*{{cite book
| last1 = Uglow 
| first1 = Jennifer
| title = The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
| date = 2005
| publisher = Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 
| location = Basingstoke, UK
}}

==External links==
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*[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-woman-who-founded-industrial-medicine/?sf222178419=1 The Woman Who Founded Industrial Medicine], Scientific American, October 23, 2019
*[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00031 Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970. Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk): A Finding Aid] [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509153246/http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles |date=May 9, 2012 }}, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
*{{Internet Archive author|sname=Alice Hamilton|sopt=t}}
*[http://cwhf.org/inductees/science-health/alice-hamilton Alice Hamilton in The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame]
*[https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/HamHist.html Alice Hamilton] at [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health|The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]]
*[https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/MM4822bx.htm Alice Hamilton, M.D.] – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
*[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/105/ Exploring the Dangerous Trades Excerpt]
*[http://www.shhofi-online.org/inductees/Bios/hamilton92.htm Alice Hamilton Profile at the Safety and Health Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126062908/http://www.shhofi-online.org/inductees/Bios/hamilton92.htm |date=January 26, 2021 }}
*[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_137.html Alice Hamilton at the National Institutes of Health]
*[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/but-who-will-darn-the-stockings-if-women-are-going-to-be-bacteriologists/ Audio Clip of Dr. Alice Hamilton: "But Who Will Darn the Stockings?"]
*[https://dralicehamilton.com/ Dr. Alice Hamilton]
*Alice B. Hamilton Award for Occupational Safety and Health, one of the [https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/default.html NIOSH Science and Service Awards], [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]].
*WBEZ "Curious City" episode: [https://www.wbez.org/2025/03/19/alice-hamilton-changed-workplace-safety-forever-and-youve-likely-never-heard-of-her "Alice Hamilton changed workplace safety forever — and you’ve likely never heard of her"]

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