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1918–1999 United States

Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black.

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I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

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