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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988

"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
Sir James W. Black Gertrude B. Elion George H. Hitchings
Sir James W. Black Gertrude B. Elion George H. Hitchings
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom USA USA
London University, King's College Hospital Medical School
London, United Kingdom		 Wellcome Research Laboratories
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA		 Wellcome Research Laboratories
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
b. 1924 b. 1918
d. 1999		 b. 1905
d. 1998
 
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