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Gertrude Elion discussing her eagerness to attend school as a young child |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the importance to her of letters from patients helped by her medications |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the principles that underlay her and Hitchings' original research strategy |
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Aerial view of building housing Burroughs Wellcome laboratory |
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Article from Burroughs Wellcome newsletter announcing Gertrude Elion's receipt of the American Chemical Society's Garvan Medal |
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Bertha and Gertrude Elion |
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Excerpt from Gertrude Elion's college chemistry notebook |
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Excerpt from Gertrude Elion's laboratory notebook |
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George Hitchings |
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Gertrude Elion |
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Gertrude Elion |
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Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings |
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Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings working in the laboratory |
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Gertrude Elion and her fiancé, Leonard Canter |
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Gertrude Elion and her fiancé, Leonard Canter |
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Gertrude Elion at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Roy Calne, Dr. George Hitchings, Dr. Donald Searle, Dr. Hager, and Dr. Joseph, Murray, and the dogs Tweedledum, Tweedledee, Titus, and Lollipop (recipient of the first successful foreign kidney transplant) |
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Gertrude Elion in Antarctica, on one of her many trips |
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Gertrude Elion preparing radioactive 6-MP, Tuckahoe |
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Gertrude Elion receiving the Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden |
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Gertrude Elion with a young leukemia patient |
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Gertrude Elion with colleagues in Burroughs Wellcome laboratory |
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Gertrude Elion with Dr. S. Bushby (left) and Dr. George Hitchings |
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Gertrude Elion with George Hitchings |
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Gertrude Elion with George Hitchings just after receiving her first honorary doctorate, from George Washington University |
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Gertrude Elion with her family and the King and Queen of Sweden at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony |
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Gertrude Elion with muppet |
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Gertrude Elion with other recipients at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony |
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Gertrude Elion working in her lab |
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Gertrude Elion's college graduation photograph |
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Gertrude Elion's high school graduation photograph |
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Gertrude Elion's junior high report card |
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Kenneth Pack, recovered from leukemia |
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Letter from Babi E. Emmanuel to Gertrude Elion |
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Letter from George Hitchings to Milan Logan |
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Letter from Gertrude Elion to Ted Pack |
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Letter from Kate Moynihan to Gertrude Elion |
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Letter from Sharyn Cohn, kidney transplant recipient, to Gertrude Elion |
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Letter of thanks to Gertrude Elion |
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Letters from Ted Pack to Gertrude Elion |
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Newspaper clipping announcing Gertrude Elion's college graduation |
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Patent granted to George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion for 6-Mercaptopurine |
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Staff of Wellcome Research Labs |
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Way Cool Scientist trading card featuring Gertrude Elion |
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Gertrude Elion discussing George Hitchings' efforts to get her into the American Society of Biological Chemists |
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Gertrude Elion discussing her reaction to seeing leukemia patients in remission due to her drug |
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Gertrude Elion discussing her surprise at hearing she had won the Nobel Prize |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the difficulty of her initial job search |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the effect of her grandfather's death on her decision to become a chemist |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the excitement of her lab's success with the first anti-viral medication |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the excitement of the Nobel ceremony |
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Gertrude Elion discussing the Nobel Prize and the responsibility it gave her to encourage young people to enter scientific careers |
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Gertrude Elion receiving the Nobel Prize |
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Gertrude Elion's views on the problems facing women in the workplace, at the beginning of her career and today |
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The processional at the Nobel Awards ceremony |
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To Elion, the letters and photos she received from patients were the real reward. |
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