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Hitchings

[hich-ingz]

noun

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



Hitchings

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

Mr Hitchings said he had not seen Ms Martynova, who was dressed all in black and crossing in an "uncommon part of the road", until immediately before the collision.

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"What's clear from the previous analysis, and even more clear from Dr. L's edits, is that absolutely there was a political motivation behind the final analysis that was produced," Hitchings added.

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

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Before local news reports in 2016 shined a light on the extent of period poverty in New Zealand, there was relatively little public awareness of the problem, Ms. Hitchings said.

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