They were local. They tended to be the math teacher at junior high school, Jack Druckman, the math teacher in high school, Irene Finkel, who ran and supported the math team. They tended to be very local heroes. I was never one at those times for distant heroes and truly heroic legendary heroes. They were the local teachers who really made a huge difference in my life.
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Eric Lander
Founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; principal leader of the Human Genome Project
United States · b. 1957
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Mathematician turned geneticist whose laboratory produced the largest share of the human genome sequence published in 2001. Founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and later Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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