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George Minot
Born	December 2, 1885 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	February 25, 1950
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	anemia
Notable awards	1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts – February 25, 1950) won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for their work in the study of anemia. He completed his A.B. in 1908 and his M.D. in 1912 from Harvard University. Between 1914 to 1915, George Minot was appointed Assistance in Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. In 1915, he was appointed Assistant in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

References

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Minot, G R; Murphy W P. "Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet. 1926". The Yale journal of biology and medicine (United States) 74 (5): 341–53. ISSN 0044-0086. PMID 11769340.
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"Nutrition Classics. The Journal of the American Medical Association 87:470-6, 1926. Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy". Nutr. Rev. (UNITED STATES) 36 (2): 50–52. February 1978. ISSN 0029-6643. PMID 345160.
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v • d • e Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

Johannes Fibiger (1926) · Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) · Charles Nicolle (1928) · Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929) · Karl Landsteiner (1930) · Otto Warburg (1931) · Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian (1932) · Thomas Morgan (1933) · George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy (1934) · Hans Spemann (1935) · Henry Dale / Otto Loewi (1936) · Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937) · Corneille Heymans (1938) · Gerhard Domagk (1939) · Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy (1943) · Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser (1944) · Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey (1945) · Hermann Muller (1946) · Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay (1947) · Paul Müller (1948) · Walter Hess / António Egas Moniz (1949) · Edward Kendall / Tadeus Reichstein / Philip Hench (1950)

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