Gertrude Belle Elion won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 17, 1988, which she shared with her mentor, Dr. George Hitchings. Elion was also the 20th inductee into our Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame, posthumously. “I was told women didn’t go into chemistry,” Elion once recalled. “I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” We released this edition of NMAJH in a Minute on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2020, in honor of groundbreaking work that made the development of the AIDS drug AZT possible.
Vial, Zovirax clinical trail, 1978
Estate of Gertrude B. Elion
Nobel Medal awarded to Gertrude Elion, 1988
Estate of Gertrude B. Elion
Nomination for the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, January 25, 1988
GlaxoSmithKline Heritage Center
