Gertrude B. Elion
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1988for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 1/23/1918
- place of birth
- New York City
- date of death
- 2/21/1999
- place of death
- Chapel Hill
- Lived
- 81 years
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- educated at
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- New York University
- academic degree: Master of Science
- end time: 1941
- Hunter College
- academic degree: undergraduate degree
- end time: 1937
- Walton High School
- Jamaica High School
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering
- New York University
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1990
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 1995
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Medicine
- National Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- pharmacology
- biochemistry
- occupation
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- pharmacist
- pharmacologist
- biochemist
- university teacher
- employer
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- Duke University