Press Permanent

“Many news articles over the years have described Dr. Benerito as the sole inventor of wrinkle-free cotton, a distinction she repeatedly disavowed. In the shorthand mythologizing to which the mass media can fall prey, ‘permanent press’ seems to have been a convenient hook on which to hang her many achievements in less readily understood areas of chemistry. Her demurrals, in polite Southern tones, were widely ascribed to modesty. In reality, wrinkle-free cotton first appeared in the 19th century, developed by a Shaker community in Maine. In the 20th, many scientists contributed incrementally to the problem of persuading cotton, constitutionally crease-prone, to lie down and behave.”
 — I don’t want to say you will enjoy this obituary, because that sounds callous and wrong, but it is a well-written celebration of a worthy life, so if that seems like something you would be interested in you should do the thing with the clicking on this link.