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PROFILE: Dr. Marlene H. McKetty, physicist

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From: The Weekly Gleaner
Date: 20070322
Author:Nelson, Barbara

NEW YORK:

WHEN HENRY Wadsworth Longfellow, in the 18th century, wrote the words: "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night," little did he know those words would apply to a young Jamaica-born woman two centuries later.

In 1978 as Marlene McKetty prepared for the Ph.D. in Medical Physics at the University of Florida, she found that "the research was difficult. I had to do a lot of the experiments alone, at night."

Today, she is the chief physicist in the Department of Radiology at ...

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