George R. Minot M.D.
George R. Minot M.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
Co-nobelists George H. Whipple, William P. Murphy
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Name: George Richards Minot
Birth: 2 December 1885, Boston, MA, USA
Death: 25 February 1950, Brookline, MA, USA
Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”
Subject: Hematology
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Ukrainian Zoologist. Theory of cellular immunity. Father of Natural immunity. Research: Comparative embryology, Phagocytosis, Anthrax, Rabies.
Weak eyesight, heart troubles, difficulties in University lead to pessimism. Twice attempted suicide. Discovery of phagocytosis completely changed his outlook on life; abandoned his pessimistic philosophy and determined to find further proof of hypothesis.
Biography
A biographical memoir by W.B. Castle, National Academy of Sciences