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| Born | Gertrude Belle Elion January 23, 1918 New York City |
| Died | February 21, 1999 (aged 81) North Carolina |
| Notable awards | Garvan-Olin Medal (1968), Nobel Prize in Medicine (1988) National Medal of Science (1991) Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1997) National Inventors Hall of Fame (1991) (first woman to be inducted) |
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist. In 1988, she received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.