Volume 11

“What gets remembered is a function of who’s in the room doing the remembering.”

“I have always been proud to be a medic. It’s a special privilege.”

She simply wouldn’t take no for an answer.

A retired Deputy Chief of LAPD, Downing came to completely oppose the War on Drugs as the cost, in money and lives, is worse than the drug problem.

Roberts got rich from a singular idea: freezing burritos.

Stofan’s groundbreaking work made manned and unmanned rocket launches possible, and massively safer.

Gips was a master of one-liners.

“I promised myself that no other student would ever suffer an insult like the one I had suffered.”

Gurdon’s groundwork underpins today’s regenerative medicine.

There was no such thing as hospice care in Canada in the early 1970s …or even in the U.S. Dr. Mount decided to change that.