biography
| name: |
Minot, George R(ichards)
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pronunciation:
[miynuht]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1950)
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| biography:
| Haematologist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was on the medical staff of several US hospitals (1912–23) before joining Harvard Medical School (1928–48). With his colleague, William Murphy, he shared the 1935 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their successful treatment of previously fatal pernicious anaemia with dietary liver and liver extract. Minot's other major contributions to haematology include developing iron treatment for hypochromic anaemia (1931–2) and demonstrating that haemophilia is related to the absence of a plasma globulin (1946). |
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