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This was not the work of one scientist alone. There is no Louis Pasteur of AIDS. Science today is too costly and too complex for that. Modern research, and especially AIDS research, is a richly collaborative effort. But in the shared achievement of the thousands of scientists and physicians who have helped bring AIDS this year to what seems to be a historic turning point, one name stands...
...David Ho doesn't look like a gambler. With his boyish face and slender build, he could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three--or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist. In fact, when he was an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology back in the 1970s, Ho hung around the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, tilting the odds in his favor by memorizing each card as it was played. He got so good at counting cards that he was thrown out of several casinos...
Eliminated. Just a few months ago, no one in the AIDS community and no reputable scientist would presume to imagine such a thing. Journalists, activists and researchers peppered Ho with questions at the podium. Had he found the cure? Could people stop worrying about AIDS? Could they throw away their condoms...
...professional jealousy. "David is the type of individual whom I feel particularly good about when he achieves success," says Dr. George Shaw, one of Ho's strongest competitors, who runs a state-of-the-art AIDS research laboratory at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. "He is a stellar scientist...
...unschooled, 20-year-old part-time illustrator and amateur archaeologist in 1933 when she met the man whose name she would help make synonymous with the study of human origins. Louis Leakey was a famous scientist, 10 years her senior, married with two children, a Cambridge University researcher. They fell in love, created a scandal, got married and moved to Africa. She worked for decades--painstakingly, methodically--in his shadow, but by the time Mary Leakey died last week, at 83, in Nairobi, Kenya, her scientific reputation had surpassed that of her more famous husband. "Louis was always the better...