“I sometimes think I learned as much during the summer work periods as during the school terms.”
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George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". This makes Whipple the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the Universi…
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science · American biomedical researcher (1878–1976) · physician · pathologist · also George Whipple, George Hoyt Whipple, George H. Whipple, Whipple
Born 28 August 1878 · Died 1 February 1976 · Q273238
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2015· 1 entry
Law: George Whipple—And His Eyebrows—Head to Epstein Becker
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2009· 1 entry
New York Magazine: George Whipple
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2007· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: George Whipple and Lisa Poggi at Only Make Believe Benefit Photo
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1976· 2 entries
Died 1976-02-01.
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At the age of 97 and his ashes were scattered in Rochester's Mount Hope Cemetery
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1962· 1 entry
Won Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal (1962).
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1955· 1 entry
“I would be remembered as a teacher”
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1953· 1 entry
At 75 years old, Whipple retired from the Deanship, and retirement from the university would follow in 1955
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1939· 2 entries
Won George M. Kober Medal (1939).
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A commission of the New York State Legislature found this practice to be in violation of New York's anti-discrimination laws, after which the URMC began to admit African-American medical students
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1937· 1 entry
Whipple collaborated with William B
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1934· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934).
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With George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia"
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Was awarded the William Wood Gerhard Gold Medal of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia
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1930· 1 entry
Along with Minot, he received the Popular Science Monthly Gold Medal and Annual Award
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1925· 1 entry
Whipple demonstrated that raw liver fed to anemic dogs was the most effective diet additive for reversing the anemia by boosting the production of red blood cells
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1921· 1 entry
Through the persistence of University of Rochester President Benjamin Rush Rhees, Whipple agreed to become a Professor and Chairman of Pathology, and the founding Dean of the yet-to-be-built medical school (URMC)
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1914· 1 entry
At 34 years old, Whipple married Katherine Ball Waring of Charleston, South Carolina
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1911· 1 entry
Whipple went to Vienna to study hepatic portal vein blood flow and its effects on hepatic functions in the dog with Hans Meyer
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1905· 1 entry
Whipple joined the pathology department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as an assistant in pathology
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1901· 1 entry
Under the advice, persuasion, and guidance of his mother, Whipple attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-08-28.
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