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Handout
Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Gertrude Elion (1918 1999)

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Gertrude Belle Elion, an American biochemist and pharmacologist and a Nobel Prize winner. She struggled to find her place in the male-dominated scientific world, and went on to become the first woman to be inducted into the...
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Gertrude Belle Elion

For Students 3rd - 8th
A synopsis of Gertrude Belle Elion's (1918-1999 CE) life. Read about her amazing discovery of a drug that could fight leukemia and also aided in the advancement of kidney transplants.
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Article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Gertrude Belle Elion

For Students 3rd - 8th
In a career spannig over 40 years, [Gertrude Belle] Elion (1918-1999 CE) invented some of the 20th century's most significant lifesaving drugs. Read about the life and accomplishments of this scientist who won the Nobel Prize for...