George Hitchings shares the 1988 medicine prize for advances in rational drug design. His investigations of nucleic acid metabolism enabled the development of medicines that selectively disrupt disease processes rather than relying solely on trial-and-error screening.
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George Herbert Hitchings
Nobel Prize history for George Herbert Hitchings based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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