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I'm on my first year at the university, so the subjects are a little bit general in relation to what I'm studying, but I think that my favorite one could be General Chemestry, because it is something that I have always liked, and I would say that it's one of the easiest subjects for me this semester, because I have already seen almost all the contents that we're seeing now. In classes we have already seen a lot of contents, like atomic structure, chemical bonds, inorganic nomenclature, stechiometry, chemical reactions and now we're seeing solutions, which I think it is our last content. I really like the way that my teachers explain the contents, because I feel that everything is clear to me and also their classes are very interactive, like when they teach us molecular geometry and make us draw them on the screen. It was really fun. Anyway, I don't like the seminars of this class, they are really early and I'm not 100% active at that hour, so I prefe

                                                                  Gertrude Belle Elion Gertrude Belle Elion was a biochemist and a pharmacist borned in New York on January 23rd, 1918. When she was 15 years old, her grandfather died because of a cancer, that's why she felt interested in the area of science, especially in the research of new medicine. She got a magister at the University of New York, but she couldn´t get her doctorate because it was very difficult for a woman to study in those years. But when the second world war started many men had to leave, this made it easier for women to access to the scientific field. Gertrude discovered many important medicines, such as the azathioprine for organ transplants, the mercaptopurine for leukemia and the acyclovir for herpes, besides of helped in the creation of the first medicine against AIDS,the AZT. That is the reason why she got the Novel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1988 for discovering "key facts abou