Gertrude Belle Elion

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  1. 4. Where was she born?
  2. 7. In 1991, she was the ___ woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
  3. 8. What is this cereal named after?
  4. 9. At the time, she was one of only ____ women to have won a Nobel Prize in the sciences
  5. 10. Which year did she become President of the American Association for Cancer Research?
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  1. 1. The stock market crash of 1929 bankrupted Elion’s family, casting a pall on her prospects. With her high grades, she got into __________, which was free, but after college Elion simply did not have the money to go on to graduate school.
  2. 2. What is her most significant award?
  3. 3. Gertrude Elion’s name appears on ____ patents.
  4. 5. Purinethol and ________ are the first two successful drugs for the treatment of acute leukemia that Hitchings and Elion had worked on
  5. 6. How many honorary doctoral degrees does she have?