Hitchings

American  

[hich-ingz] / ˈhɪtʃ ɪŋz /

noun

1. George Herbert, 1905–98, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1988.

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Hitchings Scientific  

/ hĭch′ĭngz /

1. American pharmacologist who with his colleague Gertrude Elion developed drugs to treat leukemia and malaria, gout, herpes, and urinary and respiratory tract infections. He and Elion shared with Sir James Black the 1988 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Hitchings

Senior Barstool producer TJ Hitchings was effusive about the city’s iconic Tonga Room, calling it “the best bar I’ve ever been to in my life.”

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026

Mr. Hitchings is the author of “The Secret Life of Words.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

The driver of the vehicle, Tata steelworker Jamie Hitchings, was returning home after working a 6am to 6pm shift at the steelworks, the inquest heard.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

“This is a grave violation of research integrity,” Hitchings said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Hitchings, and Webb, Merrill and Company were also listed in this traffic.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

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