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.
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 … - Gertrude B. Elion
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 …
- Gertrude B. Elion
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. - Gertrude B. Elion
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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 … - Gertrude B. Elion
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 …
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 t… - 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 t…
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told… - Gertrude B. Elion
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told…
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 … - 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 …
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer tha… - Gertrude B. Elion
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer tha…
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped… - Gertrude B. Elion
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped…
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they… - Gertrude B. Elion
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they…
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