Gertrude B. Elion Quotes:
Ocupation: Innovator
Life: January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999
Birthday: January 23
Death: February 21
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...
source: "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.
topic: Men, Discovery, Years, Penicillin
