- 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.
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1991. First woman to be inducted.
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