Polly Matzinger

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Прочитала тут про одну женщину-ученого у юзера progenes . Ну очень смешно.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger

Early years

Polly Matzinger took to science from an unusual background career path which included stints as a Playboy Bunny at a Playboy Club in Denver, a bar waitress, a jazz musician, a carpenter and dog trainer. In 1974 Polly Matzinger had dropped in and out of college for years and worked at various jobs before ending up waitressing at a bar frequented by faculty from the University of California, at Davis and here she met Professor Robert Schwab, the head of the University's wildlife program who noticed her talent and persuaded her to take to science.^[1]

She eventually went to the University of California, San Diego for her Ph.D., did post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge, and was a scientist at the Basel Institute for Immunology before coming to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Ghost Lab at NIAID

Polly Matzinger is now a section head at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Matzinger and her coworkers refer to the lab's name as the 'Ghost Lab' when listing their affiliation in papers. The nickname was given to the lab by her colleagues when Matzinger first arrived at the NIH because she spent the first nine months studying a new field (Chaos Theory) that she thought might apply to the immune system, and the lab sat empty. The formal name of her laboratory is the T-Cell Tolerance and Memory Section of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology. The ghost lab now hosts 3 post-doctoral researchers .[1] From this knowledge pool, approximately 0-3 original research articles are published a year, including original research articles and theoretical pieces. A majority of the publications are her taken-author published works, theoretical in nature and published in very highly cited journals. [2]

Past and current work with dogs

In one of her first publications, she appeared to have a dog as a coauthor for a paper for the Journal of Experimental Medicine[5]. As Ted Anton described the decision in his book Bold Science, "Refusing to write in the usual scientific passive voice ('steps were taken') and too insecure to write in the first person ('I took the steps'), she instead invented [a] coauthor": her Afghan Hound, Galadriel Mirkwood.^[2] Once discovered, papers on which she was a major author were then barred from the journal until the editor died and was replaced by another.

Although no dogs have been coauthors of any of her recent papers, she is an avid sheepdog trainer, and, with her two Border Collies, Charlie and Lily, was on the team that represented the United States at the 2005 World Sheepdog Finals in Tullamore, Ireland.

Ну подумаешь, вставила собаку соавтором. Сколько этих никому неизветсных соавторов в братских могилах, и как знать - собака или олень, male or female? А главное, кому какая разница?