In the history of medicine, George H. Hitchings is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists George H. Hitchings as Nobel Prize-winning American physician.
George H. Hitchings was born at Hoquiam in 1905. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Harvard Medical School and University of Washington.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Duke University, Case Western Reserve University and Burroughs Wellcome & Company.
The recorded fields of work are biochemistry and pharmacology.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1988) and Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
George H. Hitchings died in 1998, aged 93. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1988
- Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
- Held posts at Duke University, Case Western Reserve University and Burroughs Wellcome & Company
- Fields: biochemistry and pharmacology
