Lucile Rose Hac (May 18, 1909 – December 27, 2006) was an American biochemist and microbiologist whose research interests included amino acids, antibiotics, and bone metabolism.
She was director of research at International Minerals and Chemical Corporation and a faculty member in the biochemistry department at Northwestern University.
Her dissertation, The Addition of Cyclopentadiene to Ortho-benzoquinones, was supervised by Lee Irvin Smith.
[4] After working as a bacteriologist for the Maryland State Health Department and a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, she worked as a research assistant and instructor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1936 to 1943.
[2] After retiring, she worked as a career counselor in Winnetka, Illinois,[5][6] before returning to Lincoln to assist her older sister Marguerite, a music teacher who died in 2003.