People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)

Mildred Dresselhaus

November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017 Born Mildred Spiewak in New York City to Polish Jewish immigrants, Dresselhaus became known as the "queen of carbon science" and was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she had a 57-year career.

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