George H. Hitchings

So they, you know, they work through that.

Another one is, you know, the ultrasound, 3D ultrasound, AZT, which ultimately came from some research that Gertrude Elion, she got the Nobel Prize, came here with Burr's Welcome with George Hitchings in the early 1970s.

We're known for, probably a lot of people don't realize this, but our area is one of the top life science biotech centers in the country, in the world.

And a lot of that is because of the foresight of our leaders back in 1980, when that industry really started.

I mean, that's, that was the first rational antiviral ever made back in the 1950s.

I mean, Gertrude Elion, she, she won the Nobel Prize for this, along with George Hitchings, and, um, for this drug.

And it was sort of the first drug that was rational in that it was kind of really targeted at the virus and left the, the human cells pretty much alone.

So it's a very well-tolerated drug.

"Or that about Aberdeen?" So I wanna share some of their comments.

Brian Garrow on Instagram said, "George Hitchings is from Hoquiam, and Douglas Osheroff was born in Aberdeen." You may say, "Well, who cares?" Hoquiam, by the way, is the sort of the sister city to-

Yeah

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Aberdeen.

"Well, who cares? I don't know who George Hitchings and Douglas Osheroff are." Well, guess what? They're Nobel Prize winners.

Oh.

And they grew up not far from each other in different eras.