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ELION, Gertrude Belle (1918 – 1999)

ELION, Gertrude Belle (1918 – 1999)

1918 – 1999

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1952 CE

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Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.…