Not sure what to think of this article, it reads like science version of Buzzfeed.
Meet the woman who gave the world antiviral drugs
> Then Gertrude Elion showed the doubters "what I could do on my own."
It totally disregards the role of some dozens of scientists in the process who came before her. It doesn't even mention Dr. Howard Schaeffer who actually discovered Acyclovir and went on to develop it with the help of Elion. Sadly, Schaeffer doesn't even have his own wikipedia page.
From wiki page on Aciclovir:
Nucleosides isolated from a Caribbean sponge, Cryptotethya crypta, were the basis for the synthesis of aciclovir. It was codiscovered by Howard Schaeffer following his work with Robert Vince, S. Bittner and S. Gurwara on the adenosine analog acycloadenosine which showed promising antiviral activity. Later, Schaeffer joined Burroughs Wellcome and continued the development of aciclovir with pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion ...
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Not sure what to think of this article, it reads like science version of Buzzfeed.
It totally disregards the role of some dozens of scientists in the process who came before her. It doesn't even mention Dr. Howard Schaeffer who actually discovered Acyclovir and went on to develop it with the help of Elion. Sadly, Schaeffer doesn't even have his own wikipedia page.
From wiki page on Aciclovir:
Nucleosides isolated from a Caribbean sponge, Cryptotethya crypta, were the basis for the synthesis of aciclovir. It was codiscovered by Howard Schaeffer following his work with Robert Vince, S. Bittner and S. Gurwara on the adenosine analog acycloadenosine which showed promising antiviral activity. Later, Schaeffer joined Burroughs Wellcome and continued the development of aciclovir with pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion ...