Other notable couples who arrived in the 1950s included the future leaders of NIH, Alan Rabson (Deputy Director of NCI) and Ruth Kirschstein (former Acting Director of NIH). Kirschstein's brilliant career, which included becoming the first woman to head an institute at NIH (she became director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974), started when she was a resident physician at the Clinical Center (CC). Subsequently, she worked as a researcher in the Division of Biologics Standards. This would not have been possible if the anti-nepotism rules had been applied in NIH as in academia.
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A distinguished NIH couple, Alan Rabson, Deputy Director of NCI, and Ruth Kirschstein, former Acting Director of NIH
Married Couples in Science at NIH - 1950-1961 (Selective)
