Claim: Monroe Eliot Wall, born in 1916 at Newark, New Jersey, was a chemist who studied at Rutgers University and worked for the USDA as well as the Research Triangle Institute.
Evidence: 1916
Newark, New Jersey Monroe Eliot Wall (1916 – July 6, 2002) was an American chemist, who co-discovered, with Mansukh C. Wani, paclitaxel and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers. He joined the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1941 and worked at the USDA until 1960. That year, he started a research group at RTI International, where he remained for the duration of his career. RTI International (formerly Research Triangle Institute) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.