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Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.
Gertrude B. Elion
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Gertrude B. Elion
Age: 81 †
Born: 1918
Born: January 23
Died: 1999
Died: February 21
Biochemist
Biologist
Chemist
Innovator
Pharmacist
Pharmacologist
Physician
Professor
New York City
New York
Gertrude Belle Elion
Gertrude Elion
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Nobody
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Women
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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