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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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

Senior Devon, Plymouth and Torbay coroner Philip Spinney said Ms Hitchings suffered blunt trauma that led to haemorrhagic shock.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

In 1846, she bought three, at four guineas each, from Hitchings Baby Stores of Ludgate Hill in London.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2018

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 Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell