Gertrude Belle Elion

Studied in New York and obtained her Master in Organic Chemistry in 1941, although she could not complete her doctorate, because she needed to work and World War I had begun.

As assistant to George H. Hitchings, what is now known as Glaxo-SmithKline laboratories, learned a lot about Pharmacology and progressed until she became Head of Experimental Therapy Department.

She shared her Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize with Hitchings and James W. Black, in 1988, for having developed important principles for Pharmaceutical treatments and have led to the development of new drogues. She passed away in 1999.