Gertrude Belle Elion
Studied in New York and obtained her Master in Organic Chemistry in 1941, although she could not complete her doctorate because she needed to work and World War I had begun.
As assistant to George H. Hitchings, in what is now known as Glaxo-SmithKline laboratories, she learned a lot about Pharmacology and progressed until she became Head of Experimental Therapy Department.
She shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Hitchings and James W. Black in 1988 for developing important principles for pharmaceutical treatments that led to the development of new drugs. She passed away in 1999.
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