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COLUMBIA HISTORY
On August 17, 1906, Hazel Bishop (BC 1929) was born. A chemist who began her career as a dermatologist's assistant at Columbia medical center, Bishop found early success at Standard Oil (later Exxon) during World War II. There she determined the cause of the fuel deposits affecting the superchargers of aircraft engines. Following the war, Bishop continued to formulate gasoline by day, but by night she cooked up lipstick.
For two years, Bishop tried to devise a lipstick that wouldn't leave oily pink bows on cups and sweethearts. By 1949, she found the solution—a stick of bromo acids that stained skin rather than coating it. Her invention revolutionized the world of makeup, but Bishop did not stop there.
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