Marthe Gautier1925~ 2022,. 歷史與人物:美國10月30日Martha Graham生日

In the 1950s, in a small borrowed lab on the outskirts of Paris, a young researcher named Marthe Gautier worked quietly with a secondhand microscope and unshakable focus. She wasn’t chasing fame; she was chasing understanding. Among the children she cared for, she saw familiar faces—gentle expressions, soft eyes, and unexplained developmental delays. No one knew why.

So she taught herself what no one in France had mastered: how to culture human cells, fix them to glass, and spread out their chromosomes like stars on a slide. Night after night, she worked in silence, counting and recoding, her breath fogging the lens. And then, in 1958, she saw it—an extra chromosome. Trisomy 21. A discovery that rewrote medicine’s understanding of Down syndrome forever.

But when she shared her fragile slides with colleague Jérôme Lejeune, who had better photographic equipment, history took a different turn. He presented the findings publicly—without her name. Awards followed, papers spread, and Marthe’s work disappeared behind another man’s signature.

She went back to pediatrics, to her patients, to the quiet rhythm of care. The world moved on—genetic counseling evolved, prenatal medicine advanced—but her name stayed in the shadows. Decades later, when France finally honored her contribution, she accepted with the same calm grace that had marked her life.

Marthe Gautier didn’t fight for fame. She fought for truth. And though others claimed her light, it was her lens that first revealed it.

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Marthe Gautier was a French medical doctor and researcher, best known for her role in discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities. Wikipedia

Born: September 10, 1925, France

Died: April 30, 2022 (age 96 years), Paris, France

Education: University of Paris Faculty of Medicine (1955)

Jun 2, 2022 — Marthe Gautier, who participated in the discovery of Down syndrome alongside Jérôme Lejeune, passed away on April 30, 2022.

1950年代，在巴黎郊區一間借來的小實驗室裡，一位名叫瑪莎‧戈蒂埃的年輕研究員默默地工作著，手裡拿著一台二手顯微鏡，專注而堅定。她追求的並非名利，而是對唐氏症的理解。在她照顧的孩子們中，她看到了熟悉的臉孔——溫柔的表情、柔和的眼神，以及不明原因的發展遲緩。沒有人知道原因。

於是，她自學了當時法國無人掌握的技能：如何培養人類細胞，將它們固定在玻璃板上，並將它們的染色體像星星一樣排列在玻片上。夜復一夜，她默默地工作，數數、記錄，呼吸使鏡頭變得模糊。然後，在1958年，她發現了它——一條額外的染色體。 21三體綜合症。這項發現永遠改寫了醫學界對唐氏症的理解。

但當她與擁有更先進攝影設備的同事傑羅姆·勒熱納分享她脆弱的玻片時，歷史發生了翻天覆地的變化。他公開發表了研究成果——沒有署名。獎項接踵而至，論文廣為流傳，瑪爾特的研究成果卻消失在另一個人的署名之後。

她回歸兒科，回歸病人，回歸平靜的護理節奏。世界不斷發展——遺傳諮詢不斷發展，產前醫學不斷進步——但她的名字卻始終默默無聞。幾十年後，當法國終於表彰她的貢獻時，她以同樣平靜的姿態接受了這份榮譽，這種姿態也一直銘刻著她的一生。

瑪爾特·戈蒂埃並非為名利而戰，而是為真理而戰。儘管其他人都曾提及她的光芒，但正是她的鏡頭率先揭示了真理。

美國10月30日歷史與人物

先生美國舞蹈家Martha Graham生日 她在20幾年前訪問過台灣 對我們有些影響

Daily Highlights Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring Source

Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered on this date in 1944 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Graham starred in the dance that told the story of an American pioneer couple establishing their home in 19th-century Pennsylvania. Copland won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the ballet, which he called Ballet for Martha. Graham suggested the title of the piece, taking it from Hart Crane's book-length poem, "The Bridge."

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"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times." — Martha Graham

我到紐約時報查一下 找到這篇 很妙的末段無名氏的話

Today in History - Oct. 30

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: October 30, 2007

Filed at 12:03 a.m. ET

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2007. There are 62 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play ''The War of the Worlds,'' starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real.)

On this date:

In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass.

In 1885, poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho.

In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet ''Appalachian Spring,'' with music by Aaron Copland, premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.

In 1945, the U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

In 1961, the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb, the ''Tsar Bomba,'' with a force estimated at about 50 megatons.

In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.

In 1975, the New York Daily News ran the headline ''Ford to City: Drop Dead'' a day after President Gerald Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.

In 1979, President Carter announced his choice of federal appeals Judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.

In 1995, by a razor-thin vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, federalists prevailed over separatists in a Quebec secession referendum.

Ten years ago: A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. (The judge, Hiller B. Zobel, later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free.) Confronting some of his harshest critics, Chinese President Jiang Zemin defended his country's human rights record before members of Congress. Movie director Samuel Fuller died in Hollywood.

Five years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's broad-based coalition collapsed when Cabinet ministers from the moderate Labor Party resigned in a dispute over funding for Jewish settlements. Walter Mondale returned to politics as Minnesota Democrats approved the former vice president as a fill-in for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone less than a week before the election. (However, Mondale ended up losing to Republican Norm Coleman.) Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), a rapper with the Run-D.M.C. hip-hop group, was killed in a shooting in New York; he was 37.

One year ago: Mass. Sen. John Kerry told a California college audience that young people who didn't study hard might ''get stuck in Iraq,'' prompting harsh Republican criticism; Kerry later said it was a botched joke against President Bush's handling of the war. Larry Nelson and Vijay Singh were among five people inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Today's Birthdays: Actor Dick Gautier is 70. Movie director Claude Lelouch is 70. Rock singer Grace Slick is 68. Songwriter Eddie Holland is 68. Actor Ed Lauter is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Otis Williams (The Temptations) is 66. Actor Henry Winkler is 62. Rock musician Chris Slade (Asia) is 61. Musician Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) is 60. Actor Harry Hamlin is 56. Actor Charles Martin Smith is 54. Country singer T. Graham Brown is 53. Actor Kevin Pollak is 50. Actor Michael Beach is 44. Rock singer-musician Gavin Rossdale (Bush) is 40. Comedian Ben Bailey is 37. Actress Nia Long is 37. Country singer Kassidy Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 31. Actor Gael Garcia Bernal is 29. Actor Tequan Richmond (''Everybody Hates Chris'') is 15.

Thought for Today: ''There are things that are known and things that are unknown; in between are doors.'' -- Anonymous.