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Hitchings

American

[hich-ingz] / ˈhɪtʃ ɪŋz /

noun

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

Hitchings Scientific

/ 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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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

Mr Hitchings then used some nearby cones to block off the road while attempting to get a response from Ms Martynova.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 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

After a brief pause, Mrs. Hitchings exclaimed, "Very good; very clever."

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

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