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Gertrude B. Elion: Women who changed science

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Born in New York on January 23, 1918 and died in Chapel Hill on February 21, 1999, she was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. She had a brilliant career, during which she helped develop drugs to treat many important diseases, including malaria and AIDS. She won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988. Elion and George Herbert Hitchings (an American doctor), discovered new drugs using rational drug design, which utilized differences in biochemistry and metabolism between normal human cells and pathogens.

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She was born in London on 25 July 1920 into a banking family of Jewish origin and died in Chelsea on 16 April 1958. Against her father's wishes, she decided to dedicate herself to the study of natural sciences. She enrolled in the faculty of chemistry and physics at the University of Cambridge where she graduated and obtained her doctorate with research relating to the colloidal characteristics of coal. She was a chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA ,RNA, viruses, carbon and graphite. DNA was initially isolated by the Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher, who in 1869 identified a microscopic substance contained in the pus of the surgical bandages used. Since this molecule was located in the nucleus, he called it nuclein. Thanks to photo 51 taken by Raymond Gosling, a specialist who worked under her supervision, Watson and Crick managed to develop the chemical model of the DNA molecule.

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These women in science have made their dreams come true, accomplishing something that has

marked their existence in a particular way, through this work we understood that nothing is impossible in life, but the important thing is to believe in it! So that it doesn't become reality!