Pharmacologist

🇺🇸Bernard Brodie (military strategist)

Military

1910–1978

"Yet the only empirical data we have about how people conduct war and behave under its stresses is our experience with it in the past, however much we have to make adjustments for subsequent changes in conditions."

🇺🇸Leslie Z. Benet

Science

b. 1937

"Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin’ with, it still is – science!"

🇬🇧Alexander Fleming

Medicine

1881–1955

"It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual."

🇺🇸Gertrude B. Elion

Science

1918–1999

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