“I had fallen in love with a young man…, and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis… Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery.”
― Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion
American innovator
Gertrude 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. Wikipedia
Born: January 23, 1918, New York City, NY
Died: February 21, 1999, Chapel Hill, NC
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Notable awards: Garvan–Olin Medal (1968)
Education: New York University, Hunter College, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Parents: Robert Elion, Bertha Cohen
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