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Advertisement Charles Brenton Huggins Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 1 item Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997), Canadian-born American surgeon, cancer researcher, and corecipient, with American Peyton Rous , of the 1966 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for revealing the role of hormones in the growth and treatment of cancer. Huggins was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He earned an undergraduate degree from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1920. Huggins graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1924 and became a surgical intern at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. In 1927 he became one of the original faculty members of the University of Chicago Medical School. From 1951 to 1969 he served as director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago. In 1962 he was named the university's William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor. Huggins returned to his alma mater, Acadia University, in 1972. He served as Acadia's chancellor until retiring in 1979. | |
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