From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Biography
Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (née Pond) in New York City New York and raised in Fort Wayne Indiana. National Women's Hall of Fame.

She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.