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Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion
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Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs.

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  1. Derek BartonSeptember 8, 1918 – March 16, 1998
  2. Edwin G. KrebsJune 6, 1918 – December 21, 2009
  3. Gertrude B. Elion (this page)January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999
  4. Jerome KarleJune 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013
  5. Katherine JohnsonAugust 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020
  6. Paul D. BoyerJuly 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018

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