George H. Whipple M.D.
George H. Whipple M.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934
Co-Nobelists George R. Minot, William P. Murphy
Name: George Hoyt Whipple
Birth: 28 August 1878, Ashland, NH, USA
Death: 1 February 1976, Rochester, NY, USA
M.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1905
Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”
Subject: hematology
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Gentle. Quiet. Wanted to be remembered as teacher.
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George H. Whipple performed an autopsy on a physician, 37 yrs of age. The patient had died of a condition which had not been described up to that point in time. Whipple named it, ‘lipodystrophia intestinalis’. In the walls of the small intestine and lymph nodes, he found granular material. The material stained for fatty acids. The condition was later named Whipple’s Disease by others who described his original description as “a classic of clarity, objectivity and completeness.”