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In the mid-1960s, the artist Una Hanbury sculpted two statues of famous female scientists.

One depicted Rachel Carson, the environmentalist who wrote Silent Spring.

Given Carson's iconic status, that bust ended up in the U.S. National Portrait Gallery.

The other bust depicted a woman who was every bit as revered at the time.

A woman who received a medal from President John

F. Kennedy, and who once appeared on a list of the most admired women in the world, alongside Marie Curie,

Queen Elizabeth and Helen Keller. Her name was Francis Oldham Kelsey. Now, if you're asking yourself, who is Francis Oldham Kelsey?

You're not alone.

She's hardly famous anymore.

And unlike Rachel Carson's statue, the bust of Kelsey never found its way into a museum.

It now sits in her daughter's living room, collecting dust.

As a scientist, Kelsey was not known for groundbreaking discoveries, but for an act of moral courage. She worked at the FDA, and in 1960,

she fought against the approval of a certain drug, a drug that grew so notorious that Sylvia Plath wrote a poem about it.

It also got mentioned in the Billy Joel song We Didn't Start the Fire, right alongside Mickey

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