George Whipple

George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician and medical researcher, born on 28 August 1878 in Ashland, New Hampshire, who died on 1 February 1976 in Rochester, New York. When he received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, a one third share, he was at the University of Rochester. The prize honored discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia, shared with George Minot and William Murphy. Anaemia means that the amount of red blood cells in the blood is too low. At the beginning of the 1920s Whipple and his colleagues drew blood from dogs, fed them different kinds of food, and studied how new blood cells formed. They showed that blood cell formation was stimulated by a diet rich in foods such as liver, kidney, meat and apricots, which suggested a way to treat people with the serious condition pernicious anemia by having them eat abundant amounts of liver every day.