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====Burroughs Wellcome====
Burroughs Wellcome & Company was founded in 1880, in London by the American pharmacists [[Henry Wellcome]] and [[Silas Mainville Burroughs (pharmacist)|Silas Burroughs]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Kumar |first=B. Rajesh |title=Mega Mergers and Acquisitions: Case Studies from Key Industries |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-137-00590-8 |location=Cham |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref> The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories opened in 1902. In the 1920s, Burroughs Wellcome established research and manufacturing facilities in [[Tuckahoe (village), New York|Tuckahoe, New York]],<ref name="TriCent">{{Cite web |title=Eastchester: History of the Town |url=http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/History-of-the-town-1964.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401183707/http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/History-of-the-town-1964.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2016}}</ref>{{rp|18}}<ref>[http://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=theeastchester19241119.1.2 "Addition to Factory"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201140948/https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=theeastchester19241119.1.2 |date=1 December 2020 }}, ''The Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin'', 19 November 1924</ref><ref>Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, ''The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, p.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=PfsvwzwaQqUC&pg=PA188 188].</ref> which served as the US headquarters until the company moved to [[Research Triangle Park]] in North Carolina in 1971.<ref>[http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ "Iconic Burroughs Wellcome Headquarters Open for Rare Public Tour"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828173230/http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ |date=28 August 2018 }}, Triangle Modernist Houses, press release, 8 October 2012.</ref><ref name="Cummings">{{cite web |last1=Cummings |first1=Alex Sayf |date=13 June 2016 |title=Into the Spaceship: A Visit to the Old Burroughs Wellcome Building |url=https://tropicsofmeta.com/2016/06/13/into-the-spaceship-a-visit-to-the-old-burroughs-wellcome-building/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411175810/https://tropicsofmeta.com/2016/06/13/into-the-spaceship-a-visit-to-the-old-burroughs-wellcome-building/ |archive-date=11 April 2023 |access-date=25 November 2019 |website=Tropics of Meta historiography for the masses}}</ref> The [[Nobel Prize]] winning scientists [[Gertrude B. Elion]] and [[George H. Hitchings]] worked there and invented drugs still used many years later, such as [[mercaptopurine]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bouton |first=Katherine |date=29 January 1989 |title=The Nobel Pair |website=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/the-nobel-pair.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017153346/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/the-nobel-pair.html |archive-date=17 October 2022}}</ref> In 1959, the [[Wellcome Foundation]] bought [[William Cooper (chemical manufacturer)|Cooper, McDougall & Robertson Inc]] to become more active in animal health.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.gsk.com/about/history-noflash.htm |title=GSK History |publisher=GlaxoSmithKline |access-date=18 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608203248/http://www.gsk.com/about/history-noflash.htm |archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref>

When Burroughs Wellcome decided to move its headquarters, the company selected [[Paul Rudolph (architect)|Paul Rudolph]] to design its new building.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kaji-O'Grady |first1=Sandra |title=LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture |last2=Smith |first2=Chris L. |publisher=MIT Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-262-35636-7 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=4–5 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Elion-Hitchings Building]] "was celebrated worldwide when it was built," according to Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation president Kelvin Dickinson. Alex Sayf Cummings of [[Georgia State University]] wrote in 2016, that the "iconic building helped define the image of RTP," saying, "Love it or hate it, Rudolph's design remains an impressively audacious creative gesture and an important part of the history of both architecture and [[Research Triangle Park]]."<ref name="Elion-Hitchings"/> [[United Therapeutics]], which bought the building in 2012, announced plans in 2020, to tear it down.<ref name="Elion-Hitchings">{{cite news |last=Stradling |first=Richard |date=21 September 2020 |title=United Therapeutics to demolish an RTP landmark building |work=[[News & Observer]] |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article245830330.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106220235/https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article245830330.html |archive-date=6 January 2021}}</ref>