Gertrude B.
Elion
Scientist Emeritus
Burroughs Wellcome Company
1991
Chemistry & Materials
For her basic research which enhanced the sciences of chemistry and medicine by elucidating fundamental principles of drug-receptor interactions for nucleic acid antagonists.
Presented by President Bush at a White House Rose Garden Ceremony on September 16, 1991.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988