I can’t remember that anyone in particular did. I think perhaps it was my mother who influenced me the most. She was a housewife. She had no higher education, but had the most common sense of anyone I knew, and she wanted me to have a career. So she was always very supportive, at a time when many women of her generation would not have been.
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Gertrude B. Elion
Biochemist and pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
United States · 1918–1999
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Pharmacologist at Burroughs Wellcome who, with George Hitchings, developed drugs for leukaemia, gout, malaria, herpes and the rejection of transplanted organs. Shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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