 Monroe Eliot Wall

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.On May 27, 1987 Wall received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of 
Pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden.