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George H. Hitchings
George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.
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science · Nobel Prize-winning American doctor (1905–1998) · physician · biochemist · pharmacologist · pharmacist · chemist · also George H. Hitchings, George Herbert Hitchings, Hitchings
Born 18 April 1905 · Died 27 February 1998 · Q310487
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-02-27.
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1989· 2 entries
To Joyce Carolyn Shaver-Hitchings, MD
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Hitchings received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1988).
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1985· 1 entry
His first wife, Beverly Reimer Hitchings, died in 1985.
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Alfred Burger Award (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded North Carolina Award for Science (1980).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1974).
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1972· 1 entry
Was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research (1968).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Hitchings became vice president in Charge of Research of Burroughs-Wellcome
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1942· 1 entry
Went to work for Wellcome Research Laboratories at Tuckahoe, where he began working with Gertrude Elion in 1944
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1923· 1 entry
And from there went to the University of Washington, from which he graduated with a degree in chemistry cum laude in 1927, after having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior the year before
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1905· 2 entries
Born 1905-04-18.
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And grew up there, in Berkeley, California, San Diego, Bellingham, Washington, and Seattle
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