As long as rivers run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars gaze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure. Those words were spoken by a President of the United States, and they were said to Dr Mary-Jane Mariset, at a reception in her honor, when she won the Nobel Prize for Physics. What a year that was for Dr Mary-Jane Mariset. Wined, dined, toasted, interviewed - and then one day, she simply disappeared - as in, she was no longer in the public eye - and everyone forgot her.