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  • Monograph from the Acute Leukemia Forum 1999 on Advances and Controversies in the Therapy of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
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Introduction to Janet D Rowley

Leukemia volume 14, pages 511–512 (2000)Cite this article

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Janet Rowley, whom I have known and admired for half a century. As a scientist, she does not require an introduction for her achievements are renowned. I would like to provide you with some of the background behind her major contributions to science.

Janet was born in New York, but her family moved to Chicago before she was 2 years of age and she has been a Chicagoan most of her life. She attended what was then known as a 4-year college, a program instituted at the University of Chicago by Robert Maynard Hutchins, who was the chancellor at that time. This program was predicated on the idea that the conventional last 2 years of high school were essentially wasted time. These years, plus the first 2 years of college, could provide a student with a broad, general education. There was ample time, Hutchins felt, for specialization afterwards. Janet's and my university educations ran a parallel course. I entered the program a few years after she did and if it had as profound an influence on her as it did on me, it would be fair to state that her spectacular professional success may have been related to this solid foundation of knowledge.

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