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George Whipple

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George Hoyt Whipple
Born(1878-08-28)August 28, 1878
DiedFebruary 1, 1976(1976-02-01) (aged 97)
Alma materYale University
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

George Hoyt Whipple (August 26, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American Medical doctor and scientist.[1] He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with George Minot and William P. Murphy, for their discoveries about how eating liver could cure anaemia.

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  1. "Biography of George H. Whipple". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-01-05.