[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 17396]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             RECOGNIZING DON MILLER AS A HERO OF CHEMISTRY

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                            HON. JIM GERLACH

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 22, 2004

  Mr. GERLACH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize my constituent, 
Don Miller of Downingtown, PA, as one of the American Chemistry 
Society's 2004 Heroes of Chemistry.
  The Heroes of Chemistry Award was created in 1996 to recognize the 
innovation and hard work of scientists whose chemical work has produced 
successful commercial products.
  Along with four of his colleagues at Wyeth, Don is being recognized 
by the ACS for his pioneering work in developing the world's first 
antibody-targeted chemotherapeutic agent. Don headed this team of 
scientists for 7 years, seeing the research all the way through to 
product approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
  Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Don's love of science led him first to 
the University of Pittsburgh and then on to Purdue University for his 
PhD. His career as a scientist has taken him across the United States 
and around the world, but the driving force in his life remains in 
Downingtown with his loving wife, Eva, and his daughters, Skye and 
Rhiannon.
  The ingenuity, perseverance and dedication of Don Miller, and all of 
his colleagues in the various fields of chemical research, has had a 
tremendously positive impact on the quality of our health and lives and 
we all owe Don and his dedicated colleagues our utmost gratitude and 
appreciation.

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