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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BURGI, E.

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1952

#3108.2

Studies on condensed pyrimidine system. IX. The synthesis of some 6-substituted purines.

ELION, Gertrude Belle (1918 – 1999)
ELION, Gertrude Belle (1918 – 1999)
HITCHINGS, George Herbert (1905 – 1998)
HITCHINGS, George Herbert (1905 – 1998) BURGI, E. & et al.

Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine. In 1988 Gertrude Elion shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hitchings and Sir James Black “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”