Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey CM was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence... Wikipedia
Born: July 24, 1914, Cobble Hill, Canada
Died: August 7, 2015 (age 101 years), London, Canada
Known for: Preventing thalidomide from being marketed in the United States
Children: 2
Education: The University of Chicago (1938), McGill University (1935), University of Victoria, and more
Books: Essentials of Pharmacology