Editing Janet Rowley (section)

==Early life and education==
Janet Davison was born in [[New York City]] in 1925, the only child of Hurford and Ethel Ballantyne Davison. Her father held a [[MBA|master of business administration]] degree from [[Harvard Business School]], and her mother a [[master's degree]] in education from [[Columbia University]]. Her parents were educators at the college and high school levels, respectively, and her mother later gave up teaching to become a school librarian.

Davison attended an academically challenging junior high school in [[New Jersey]] and became especially interested in science. In 1940, aged 15, she was granted a scholarship to study in an advanced placement program at the [[University of Chicago Laboratory Schools]] where she finished high school and the first two years of college, followed by completion of her degree at the [[University of Chicago]], where she earned a [[Bachelor of Philosophy]] degree in 1944, a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in 1946, and [[Doctor of Medicine]] degree in 1948, aged 23. Davison, only 19 years of age, had to wait 9 months in order to attend the university because their quota had already been filled for that semester.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aacr.org:443/Membership/Pages/FellowDetailsNoModal.aspx?ItemID=79|title=Janet D. Rowley, MD|website=www.aacr.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> During that time only 3 out of 65 students were to be women in each class accepted.<ref name=":0" /> She married Donald Adams Rowley, also a physician, the day after graduating from medical school. He then went on to become a distinguished [[Pathology|pathologist]] later in life.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Druker|first=Brian J.|date=January 22, 2014|title=Janet Rowley (1925-2013)|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=505|issue=7484|pages=484|doi=10.1038/505484a|pmid=24451535|bibcode=2014Natur.505..484D|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref> In 1951, both Janet and Donald Rowley completed internships at the United States Public Health Service's Marine Hospital in [[Chicago]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/janet-rowley-cancer-genetics-pioneer-1925-2013|title=Janet Rowley, cancer genetics pioneer, 1925-2013|website=University of Chicago News|date=December 17, 2013 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/janet-d-rowley/|title=Rowley, Janet D.|website=National Women’s Hall of Fame|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-19}}</ref> Rowley continued her work throughout Chicago and worked in a clinic for children with [[Down syndrome|Down Syndrome]].<ref name=":0" /> Rowley worked part-time until the youngest of her four sons was 12 years old.