Settle, Dorothy

Throughout their friendship, Patterson and Settle fought and argued tooth and nail. But after Dorothy Settle spent two years measuring the lead in tuna muscle, Patterson made her the first author of their 1980 report. To determine the lead levels in the purest animal tissue on Earth, Patterson had chosen tuna because it is at the top of the marine food chain, which is far less polluted than the terrestrial food chain. Settle s work showed that a gram of fresh tuna contains only 0.3 nanogram of lead... 

Dorothy M. Settle and Clair C. Patterson. Lead in Albacore Guide to Lead Pollution in Americans. Science. 207 (Mar. 14, 1980) 1167-1176. 

Although the use of penicillin was now widespread, the structure of the compound was still not settled and was proving to be a source of furious debate due to the unusual structures being proposed. The issue was finally settled in 1945 when Dorothy Hodgkins established the structure by X-ray analysis (Fig. 10.18). 

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