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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988

Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings

Nobel Lecture

The Purine Path to Chemotherapy

Gertrude B. Elion held her Nobel Lecture on 8 December 1988, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She was presented by Professor Folke Sjöqvist of the Karolinska Institutet.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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