George H. Hitchings

Nobel Prize-winning American physician · United States · Doctors · Lived 1905 to 1998 · aged 92

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George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical 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.

A life in dates

1998Died27 February 19981988Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1984Alfred Burger AwardAward1980North Carolina Award for ScienceAward1974Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1968AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer ResearchAwardCanada Gairdner International AwardAward1905Born18 April 1905

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Awards

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1988

Alfred Burger Award1984

North Carolina Award for Science1980

Foreign Member of the Royal Society1974

Canada Gairdner International Award1968

AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research1968

Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh

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Ralph F. HirschmannBoth received Alfred Burger Award Miguel OndettiBoth received Alfred Burger Award

Doctors from the United States 4

J. Marion Sims55.5

Baruch Samuel Blumberg55.3 William H. Masters55.6

Dickinson W. Richards55.3

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