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Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
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