"So the idea was to recognize these great inventors, hold them up as role models for young people, and help young people see that aspiring to be an inventor is a great thing."
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
At Theravance, Merck alum Roy Vagelos lured former Merck chemist Burton Christensen, co-inventor of three antibiotics at Merck, to come out of retirement in 1998 to help create new antibiotics.