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Encyclopedia > George Richards Minot

George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) - February 25, 1950) won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for their work in the study of anemia.


External links

  • Nobel e-Museum: George R. Minot – Biography (http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1934/minot-bio.html)
  • "Red-Blooded Doctors Cure Anemia" (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/01.22/Red-BloodedDoct.html)
  • Pernicious Anemia, a Victory for Science (http://www.csulb.edu/~acolburn/SCED496/pernicious_anemia.htm)

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George R. Minot - Biography (692 words)
Minot early became, when he was a medical student, interested in the disorders of the blood with which his name is associated and he published during his life many papers on this and other subjects.
George Hoyt Whipple on the treatment of experimental forms of anaemia in dogs, and in 1926 he and Murphy described the effective treatment of pernicious anaemia by means of liver.
Minot was member or fellow of numerous medical and allied organizations in his own country and abroad, and served as Editor of several medical publications.
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