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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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Drug
Medicine
Rewards
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I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Science
Bent
Cancer
Decided
Died
Grandfather
Nobody
Specific
Suffer
Toward
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I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.
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Courses
Satisfied
Sight
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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 / Innovator
Chemist
Waiting
Women World Me
Nobody
Seriously
Took
Wondered
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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 / Innovator
Waiting
Wanted
World
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I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Science
Cancer
Suffering
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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 all look alike!
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Cute
Smile
Science
White
Years
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I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
January
New York City
Time Home Mother
Burst
Fortunately
Hospital
Pipes
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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 to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
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Disease
Signals
Thinking
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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 women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Motivational
Women
Fear
Hard Work
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I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Courses
Insatiable
Thirst
Enjoying
Equally
Specialize
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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...
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Men
Science
Discovery
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Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Vacation
Travel
Avid
Enjoyed
Nevertheless
Photographer
Relaxation
Traveler
Vocation
Love Family Work
Early Years
Seldom
Stems
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Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Distance
Aspirations
Fortunately
Separated
Shared
Sons
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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.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Science
Diagnosis
Medical School
School
Thinking
Valuable
Time Medical Doctor
Doctor
Valuable Thing
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My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Dentistry
Higher Education
New York City
Poland
Russia
Graduated
Received
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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.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Crazy
People
Would Be
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.
Gertrude B. Elion / Innovator
Get Well
Hard Work
Serious Illness
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