biography
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Murphy, William P(arry)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1987)
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| biography:
| Haematologist, born in Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA. He was a staff member of several New England hospitals before starting private practice in Brookline, MA (1923–87), concurrently working at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston (1923–73), and Harvard Medical School (1923–58). Inspired by the work of Whipple, and in conjunction with Minot, he shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for devising dietary liver extract therapy for patients with pernicious anaemia. |
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