Hitchings
[ hich-ingz ]
/ ˈhɪtʃ ɪŋz /
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noun
George Herbert,1905–98, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1988.
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Hitchings
[ hĭch′ĭngz ]
American biochemist. He shared a 1988 Nobel Prize for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout.
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Hitchings
[ hĭch′ĭngz ]
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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