For a woman who has made a breakthrough in DNA and cancer research and won a Nobel Prize, it’s hard to imagine that she was barely accepted to graduate school.
Growing up, Catherine Drennan would have never imagined herself as a professor in chemistry and biology at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Craig McCaw took over the family business after his father passed away, building a $12.6 billion cellular company that began in his Stanford dorm room.
Dr. Helen Taussig persisted through years of higher education and medical school despite dyslexia and is now known as the founder of pediatric cardiology.
Now a common name in climate change discourse, James Lovelock became famous as the founder of the Gaia hypothesis, but is also known for his stance on global warming.
Dr. Robert Ballard is among the most accomplished of the world's deep-sea explorers, best known for his historic discovery of the R.M.S. Titanic shipwreck.