Alice Stoll’s life work has saved thousands of lives through fire-resistant fabrics and the foundational research that led to the understanding of how burns occur as a function of time and temperature. Born and educated in New York City, Stoll’s seminal contributions occurred at the Naval Air Development Center in Pennsylvania. There, she developed two different Stoll Curves. One demonstrated human tolerance to centrifugal acceleration. The knowledge and application of this Stoll Curve would later enable designers of aircraft and space vehicles to determine when pilots needed to be protected against high-g-force conditions. Her second Stoll Curve remains foundational today to the understanding of how to protect humans from flames. It led to the development by DuPont of Nomex®, a fabric used in everything from military uniforms to aircraft upholstery to hospital bed linens to ironing board covers. Stoll received many awards during her lifetime, including the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1969), and was inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.