Monroe Eliot Wall, born in 1916 at Newark, New Jersey, was a honorary doctorate recipient chemist who co-discovered two anti-cancer drugs.
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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. 
