Quotes by Gertrude B. Elion

About Gertrude B. Elion:

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. Working alone as well as with Hitchings and Black, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.
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I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

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 ...

Gertrude B. Elion

Author Bio

  • NameGertrude B. Elion
  • DescriptionAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist
  • BornJanuary 23, 1918
  • DiedFebruary 21, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBiologist; Chemist; Biochemist; Pharmacologist; Pharmacist; Physician
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine; National Women's Hall Of Fame