George Richards Minot

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George Minot

George Richards Minot (born December 2, 1885 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA , † February 25, 1950 in Brookline, Massachusetts ) was an American internist .

Minot shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Parry Murphy and George Hoyt Whipple in 1934 for their research on pernicious anemia . The researchers had found a way to cure this previously inevitably fatal disease through a diet with a liver . With this liver diet , patients ate raw liver or foods made from it on a daily basis. It was not until much later that the “antipernicious factor” was identified in the liver tissue as vitamin B12 (cf. also cobalamine ).

Minot, offspring of a long dynasty of doctors, received his doctorate in Boston in 1912 and worked at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore until 1915 , then again at Harvard Medical School in Boston (from 1928 as a professor). In 1926 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1929 he received the Kober Medal . In 1935 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and the American Philosophical Society , and in 1937 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

His home in Brookline, Massachusetts was listed on January 7, 1976 as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places . Minot Point , a headland on the Brabant Island in Antarctica, has been named after him since 1960 .

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Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ Werner E. Gerabek : Minot, George Richards. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 996.
  2. ^ TN Raju: The Nobel chronicles. 1934: George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976); George Richard Minot (1885-1950); William Perry Murphy (1892-1987). In: The Lancet . Volume 353, Number 9148, January 1999, p. 247, ISSN  0140-6736 . PMID 9923916 .
  3. ^ GR Minot, WP Murphy: Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet. In: JAMA. Volume 87, 1926, pp. 470-476; also in: The Yale journal of biology and medicine. Volume 74, Number 5, 2001 Sep-Oct, pp. 341-353, ISSN  0044-0086 . PMID 11769340 . PMC 2588744 (free full text).
  4. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Minot, George Richards
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American internist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1950
Place of death Brookline , Massachusetts , USA