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Advertisement George Minot Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Multimedia 1 item George Minot (1885-1950), American physician and hematologist (a blood specialist), who won the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his contribution to the development of an effective therapy for pernicious anemia. This disorder, in which the bone marrow fails to produce mature, oxygen-carrying red blood cells, was fatal when Minot and his fellow researchers, American physicians William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple pioneered their treatment. Together, they discovered that feeding patients liver cured the disease. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, George Richards Minot graduated from Harvard University in 1908, earning his medical degree there in 1912. After spending two years as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Minot joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1915. As a medical intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1912, Minot first became interested in the possible link between diet and pernicious anemia. By studying blood samples under a microscope, Minot observed that young red blood cells, known as | |
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