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“I didn't stop when they started throwing rocks, but then they pepper-sprayed me and I held up the manuscript as a shield,” Marrack now says casually. That incident, in part, prompted Thomas Mitchell, a former postdoctoral fellow, to give Marrack a movie poster of John Wayne's True Grit. In her direct manner, Marrack says true grit also means you can't crumble under a reviewer's comments. “You only get a day to scream and kick the walls,” she says. “Then you have to get up and go on.”

Known to colleagues as Pippa, Marrack is described alternately as gracious, opinionated, self-effacing and tenacious. A Howard Hughes investigator since 1986, Marrack freely admits to an obsession with immunology and is credited with, among other things, discovering the αβ T-cell receptor, the mechanism of T-cell tolerance and how superantigens directly stimulate T cells.

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