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George H. Hitchings

1905 - 1998

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George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George H. Hitchings is the 142nd most popular physician (up from 151st in 2019), the 1,128th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,140th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George H. Hitchings ranks 142 out of 726. Before him are Baruj Benacerraf, Francis Peyton Rous, Trota of Salerno, Johann Joachim Becher, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Dickinson W. Richards. After him are William Kaelin Jr., Jang-geum, Ferid Murad, Charles Best, Ryke Geerd Hamer, and Ibn Zuhr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, George H. Hitchings ranks 32. Before him are Guillermo Stábile, Władysław Gomułka, Gerard Kuiper, Gertrude Ederle, C. P. Snow, and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. After him are Raymond Cattell, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Max Schmeling, Michael Powell, Marian Rejewski, and Helen Wills. Among people deceased in 1998, George H. Hitchings ranks 25. Before him are Conrad Schumann, Frederick Reines, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Tameo Ide, and Theodore Schultz. After him are Raymond Cattell, Falco, Shoichi Nishimura, Kenichi Fukui, Nizar Qabbani, and Julien Green.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George H. Hitchings ranks 1,128 out of 20,380. Before him are Dashiell Hammett (1894), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Anne Sullivan (1866), Charley Patton (1891), David Fincher (1962), and Mahershala Ali (1974). After him are Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), L. Frank Baum (1856), Lewis Strauss (1896), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), and William D. Leahy (1875).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George H. Hitchings ranks 19. Before him are William T. G. Morton (1819), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Drew Weissman (1959), George Whipple (1878), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895). After him are William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Ferid Murad (1936), Charles Best (1899), Jonas Salk (1914), Peter Agre (1949), and Virginia Apgar (1909).

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