Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999)



 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988
Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings



Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999) American biochemist and pharmacologist who played a key role in developing the AIDS drug AZT, receiving the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 together with two other researchers. She was the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.




This was her Nobel lecture:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-lecture.html

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