Meet the woman who developed the first effective drugs against leukemia at:
http://rosefirewalker.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/the-first-woman-inductee-into-national-inventors-hall-of-fame/
She was also the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame!
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Thanks Gwyn, your name is fascinating...is it Celtic? What does it mean?