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Gertrude Belle Elion Timeline

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Gertrude Belle Elion timeline

1918

1950

1991

Gertrude B. Elion was born on January 23, 1918, in New York, United States.

In 1950, pyrimethamine arrived, a successful drug in the treatment of malaria.

In 1991 she became the first female member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

1933

1999

1988

Her grandfather died of stomach cancer, a great loss for her since she was very close to him. On the day of her death, she promised herself that she would devote her life to science.

Gertrude B. Elion died on February 21, 1999 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Received in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his "discoveries of key principles on the development and treatment of medicines"