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Shew was born in Springfield, Massachusetts . She received her Bachelor Of Arts in history and chemistry from Mount Holyoke College in 1920. She received her Ph.D in organic chemistry and bacteriology in 1933 from the University Of Chicago . Brown collaborated with Elizabeth Lee Hazen through postal mail to develop the first useful antifungal Antibiotic , Nystatin . Brown and Hazen donated all nystatin royalties (more than $13 million) to the nonprofit Research Corporation . She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994 {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS
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