Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Ambrose , Nair , Lazarus (1999-11-09), Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering, Temple Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-04-28
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    28 APR 2012

     Gertrude B. Elion's Tragedy

    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...
    Folksonomies: history science tragedy
    Folksonomies: history science tragedy
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    Her love died from an infection penicillin could have cured, but it was invented two years later.

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