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Episode 026 - Gertrude Belle Elion |Biochemist

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Alternate Title: Purine Queen

Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning! 

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Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion

  1. Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
  • Koenig, Rick. The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion Lives On. The Oncologist. October, 2006. http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961
  • American Chemical Society. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999). https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/women-scientists/gertrude-elion.html 
  • Science History Institute. George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/george-hitchings-and-gertrude-elion
  • Avery, Mary Ellen. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999). Biographical Memoir for the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/elion-gertrude.pdf
  • Kresge, N, Simini, RD, and RL Hill. Developing the Purine Nucleoside Analogue Acyclovir: the Work of Gertrude B. Elion. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2008. http://www.jbc.org/content/283/19/e11.full.html#ref-list-1
  • Altman, Lawrence K. “Gertrude Elion, Drug Developer, Dies at 81.” New York Times, 1999. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/gertrude-elion-drug-developer-dies-at-81.html

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    New movie coming out about Mary Anning! https://variety.com/2018/film/news/kate-winslet-saoirse-ronan-ammonite-fossil-hunter-francis-lee-1203090106/  

     

    Music

    “Work” by Rihanna

    “Mary Anning” by Artichoke

    “La Vie Boheme” by Rent

     

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    Courtesy of GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Heritage Center.

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