Talk:Polly Matzinger

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" Polly Matzinger's co-author on her 1978 Journal of Experimental Medicine was her cat, Galadriel Mirkwood. (Tolkien fans will recognize an unusual coupling of names – Queen Galadriel, the bearer of the elf-ring Nenya, and Mirkwood, the home to many evil creatures [14].) The editor at the time was not amused and refused to take further papers from Matzinger. " this is my b are lines from -- The liveliest effusion of wit and humor. Jan A. Witkowski Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 26:12, 2001, 747-752 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0004(01)01936-3

This article states that Galadriel Mirkwood was her cat. Cat or dog:

Just to let you know, Matzinger wasn't barred by J Exp Med for 15 years. A quick search of Pubmed will show she published papers in that journal in 1980 and 1991. The paper with "Galadriel Mirkwood" as a coauthor was published in 1978.

--then, follow the wikipedia invocation to be bold and edit! but, I think she was barred at least until the J Exp Med Nov 1991 paper was published, 13 years later; the others were really mainly other people's papers in which Matzinger participated; for J Exp Med to have barred these papers b/c of Matzinger's participation would have been quite peevish. Joewright 06:25, 7 November 2005 (UTC)