Hitchings

American  

[hich-ingz] / ˈhɪtʃ ɪŋz /

noun

1. George Herbert, 1905–98, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1988.

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Hitchings Scientific  

/ hĭch′ĭngz /

1. American pharmacologist who with his colleague Gertrude Elion developed drugs to treat leukemia and malaria, gout, herpes, and urinary and respiratory tract infections. He and Elion shared with Sir James Black the 1988 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Example Sentences

Senior Barstool producer TJ Hitchings was effusive about the city’s iconic Tonga Room, calling it “the best bar I’ve ever been to in my life.”

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2026

Ms Hitchings, a retired nurse who was born in Exeter, died on 16 October.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Mr. Hitchings is the author of “The Secret Life of Words.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

In 1846, she bought three, at four guineas each, from Hitchings Baby Stores of Ludgate Hill in London.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

In 1841 Mr. Benjamin Hitchings, Jr., was elected, and in 1842 the town was represented by Mr. Stephen E. Hawkes.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 by Various