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6 days ago · In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first (and so far, only) Italian to receive the prize in medicine. Since then, eight women have received the award, including Gertrude B. Elion in 1988, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard in 1995, Linda B. Buck in 2004 and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi in 2008.
2 days ago · List of Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [ 1 ] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients.
Sep 22, 2024 · Chemist Gertrude Elion (1918 – 1999), circa 1946. Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.
3 days ago · Chloroquine, the mainstay of modern antimalarial drugs, was first synthesized in Germany in 1934, and pyrimethamine was synthesized in the United States during World War II (1939–45) by a team that included future Nobel laureates George H. Hitchings and Gertrude B. Elion.
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Sep 25, 2024 · Boeing Visiting Professorship Program facilitates new research and education opportunities. For three weeks this summer, Chris McComb stepped away from his lab to explore AI in the aerospace industry as part of Boeing’s Visiting Professorship Program.
Sep 26, 2024 · Apollo´s women. The heroines behind the moon landing. JoAnn Morgan was the only woman who worked in the control room during the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. 55 years after the moon landing: The women who put that man on the moon. 55 years ago, on 21 July 1969, a man walked on the moon for the first time.
Oct 7, 2024 · Allopurinol inhibits an enzyme that is necessary to form uric acid, a substance present in abnormally large amounts in the blood of persons with gout that forms solid deposits in the joints, the kidneys, and other tissues.
