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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
Cancer, Science, Suffering
"The Legacy of Great Science". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. March 6, 1991.
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.