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Figure 1: National Defense Research Council project on chemical warfare at the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 1944.
Figure 2: Summit of the Matterhorn, August 18, 1947.
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Figure 4: Selective uptake and retention (without chemical change) of tritiated estradiol by reproductive tissues of the immature rat.
Figure 5: Patient with metastatic breast cancer 3, 8 and 18 months after hypophysectomy.
Figure 6: Correlation of estrogen receptor content with response of breast cancer to endocrine ablation in 160 patients with metastatic disease.

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And so a road that began with the search for more effective agents to eradicate fellow human beings slowly meandered its way to a program for reducing or eliminating human suffering. During this journey, the author has received assistance, enlightenment, support and encouragement from many sources and individuals. I am grateful to the gifted students, fellows, colleagues and, by no means least, technical assistants who are the backbone of continued research effort. I thank my late wife, Mary, who, with patience and fortitude, brightened the earlier part of the journey, as well as my present wife, Peggy, who will be there on October 1 to celebrate the occasion. And I am thrilled to participate in the 2004 Basic Medical Research Award of the Albert Lasker Foundation; may this organization continue its most valuable mission in stimulating medical research.

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