Gertrude B. Elion War Quotations

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.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.