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- Birth nameGertrude Belle Elion
- Gertrude Elion was born on January 23, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She died on February 21, 1999 in Chapel, North Carolina, USA.
- Shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Chemist who invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine, and other drugs that treat gout, herpes virus, and facilitate kidney transplants.
- Induced into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1991.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1991.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 185-186. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- On imagination: Intuition is really nothing more than a subconscious accumulation of experiences that you've had that you don't think about consciously anymore.
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