“ I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been… Gertrude B. Elion
“ I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. Gertrude B. Elion
“ I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. Gertrude B. Elion
“ I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how… Gertrude B. Elion
