Gertrude B. Elion Quotes:
Ocupation: Innovator
Life: January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999
Birthday: January 23
Death: February 21
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.
source: "The Legacy of Great Science". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. March 6, 1991. 
topic: Cancer, Science, Suffering, Father Died, My Grandfather, Grandfather Died
