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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 to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

Time, School, Research

Gertrude B. Elion

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

Cancer, Grandfather, Nobody

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.

cancer, death, nobel-laureate, science, suffering

Gertrude B. Elion

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 saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery…

death, discovery, importance, love, medicine, nobel-laureate, penicillin, science