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George Whipple
American biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
For the civil engineer, see George C. Whipple. For the surgeon responsible for Whipple's procedure and Whipple's triad, see Allen Whipple. For the fictional advertising character, see Mr. Whipple. For the lawyer and society reporter, see George Whipple III.
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976)[1] 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".[1][2] This makes Whipple the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester.[1][3]
Early life
Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire.[1] Ashley Cooper Whipple was a physician, and his father (George's paternal grandfather) was a physician and President of the New Ham
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Biography
- Born August 28, 1878 Ashland, NH, USA
- 1900 – A.B. Yale University
- 1905 – MD, Johns Hopkins University
- 1905-1914 – Assistant, Instructor, Associate then Associate Professor in Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical School
- 1914 – Returned from Panama gravely ill with malaria. He was admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital in New York where he was cared for by a young intern named Allen Whipple (1881-1963). The two Whipple’s were not related but became lifelong friends
- 1914 – Professor of Research Medicine, University of California Medical School
- 1920 – Dean of the University of California Medical School
- 1921 – Professor of Pathology and Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester
- Died February 1, 1976 Rochester, NY, USA
Medical Eponyms
Whipple disease (1907)
Rare multi-system disorder secondary to chronic bacterial infection. Affecting the gastrointestinal tract most frequently. Chronic infection of the intestinal mucosa with the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, leads to a lymphostasis; a
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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 66 (1995)
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GEORGE HOYT WHIPPLE
August 28, 1878–February 2, 1976
BY LEON L. MILLER
IFIRST MET GEORGE H. WHIPPLE in December 1938 when he interviewed me for the position of research fellow biochemist to work with him and other members of the Department of Pathology. I was impressed by his soft-spoken, taciturn manner and by his air of friendly reserve. Although I spent more than eight years in Whipple's laboratory working with him and others in many of the ongoing research problems, I came to realize that I had learned very little about Whipple personally. During department conferences or in small rese
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