Introduction Little did Gertrude Belle Elion know that because of her grandfather’s and mother’s deaths early on in her life, she would become a world renowned Nobel Prize winner who discovered a variety of pharmaceuticals to help fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, gout, and cancer. Early childhood: She was born on January 23, 1918 to a Russian emigrated mother and a Lithuanian emigrated father whom owned his own dentistry practice. She had a younger brother, Herbert, who was six years younger than she
hat and what the stickers on a hat means. Since many of the women in this book have won Nobel Prizes, the next page goes into depth of what the Nobel Prize is and how Alfred Nobel started this honorable award. Flipping forward, women such as Gertrude B. Elion, Grace Hopper, Henrietta Leavitt, Sallly Ride, Lise Meitner, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, and Maria Tharp are introduced. Each women has a page summary of what her achievements were and how she affected the world, accompanied by an activity related