To Rosella Carroll, 14, test tubes and microscopes were the most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious.
So at Rosary College in Illinois, she went on with her science studies. In 1930 she took her final vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters,...
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