George Herbert Hitchings 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... Wikipedia
Born: April 18, 1905, Hoquiam, WA
Died: February 27, 1998 (age 92 years), Chapel Hill, NC
Academic advisor: Otto Folin
Awards: Canada Gairdner International Award (1968), Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1972), Fellow of the Royal Society (1974), and more