Claim: Monroe Eliot Wall, born in 1916 at Newark, New Jersey, was a honorary doctorate recipient chemist who co-discovered two anti-cancer drugs.
Evidence: 1916
Newark, New Jersey On May 27, 1987 Wall received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden. 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.