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George H. Hitchings
1905Apr, 18

George H. Hitchings

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American 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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