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George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) 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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Apr 14, 2024 · George Herbert Hitchings (born April 18, 1905, Hoquiam, Wash., U.S.—died Feb. 27, 1998, Chapel Hill, N.C.) was an American pharmacologist who, along with Gertrude B. Elion and Sir James W. Black, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for their development of drugs that became essential in the treatment of several major ...
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George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) 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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What did Dr Hitchings do for a living?
For more than 33 years, Dr. Hitchings was the chief researcher and biochemist with the Burroughs Wellcome Company in Research Triangle Park, N.C. (now Glaxo Wellcome P.L.C.). For most of his career he worked closely with Dr. Gertrude Elion, and their work led to the development of such drugs as AZT, used to treat AIDS.

George Hitchings, 92, Winner Of Nobel in Medicine, Is Dead

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Who was Andrew Hitchings?
In 1865, my grandfather, Andrew Hitchings, moved his family to Eureka, California. Andrew was a skilled craftsman in the building of wooden ships, and my father, George Herbert Hitchings, Sr., followed in his footsteps, eventually becoming a marine architect and master builder. On my mother’s side, Scottish and English prevailed.

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Why did George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion win a Nobel Prize?
Along with James Whyte Black, Hitchings and Elion received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment. Featured image: George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion, 1988. Wikimedia Commons.

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George Hitchings (1905–1998) and Gertrude Elion (1918–1999) diverged from this traditional path by deliberately designing new molecules with specific molecular structures, using what today is termed rational drug design.
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Mar 2, 1998 · Dr. George H. Hitchings, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for pharmaceutical research that led to the creation of drugs to treat leukemia, gout, malaria and disorders of the human...
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Gertrude Belle Elion and Dr. George H. Hitchings first teamed up in 1944 at the Tuckahoe, New York, offices of Burroughs Wellcome Company, now known as GlaxoSmithKline.