The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988
Awarded on: 1988-10-17
"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
Affiliations:
- Wellcome Research Laboratories – Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
George H. Hitchings
Born: 1905-04-18 in Hoquiam, WA, USA
Gender: male
Field: Nobel Prize-winning American doctor (1905–1998)
Biography
George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.