Whipple, George Hoyt (1878–1976)
US physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for work on the treatment of pernicious anaemia by increasing the amount of liver in the diet. His research interest concerned the formation of haemoglobin in the blood. He showed that anaemic dogs, kept under restricted diets, responded well to a liver regime, and that their haemoglobin quickly regenerated. This work led to a cure for pernicious anaemia. He shared the prize with George Minot and William Murphy.
| Whipple was born in Ashland, New Hampshire, and was educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins University before becoming a professor at the University of California, where he concentrated on his anaemia research. |
