George Richards Minot (1885-1950)

1. George Richards Minot (1885-1950)

GEORGE RICHARDS MINOT
(1885-1950)
Student: фаур Абд Эль Рахман
Group: 19ЛС4а
Professor: Tatyana Gavrilova

2.

• George Richards Minot was born on December
2, 1885, at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. His
ancestor, George Minot, had migrated to
America in 1630, from Saffron Walden,
England. His father, James Jackson Minot, was
a physician, and his mother was Elizabeth
Whitney.

3.

• In his youth Minot was
interested in butterflies and
moths, and he published two
articles on butterflies. He
went to Harvard University
and there took his A.B.
degree in 1908, his M.D. in
1912, and gained an honorary
degree of Sc.D. in 1928.

4.

• In 1915 he was appointed
Assistant in Medicine at the
Harvard Medical School and
the Massachusetts General
Hospital and was later
appointed to a more senior
post there.
• In 1922 he became
Physician-in-Chief of the
Collis P. Huntington
Memorial Hospital of
Harvard University, and
later was appointed to the

5.

• Minot early became, when he was a medical student,
interested in the disorders of the blood with which
his name is associated and he published during his
life many papers on this and other subjects.
Arthritis, cancer, dietary deficiencies, the part played
by diet (vitamin B deficiency) in the production of
so-called alcoholic polyneuritis and the social
aspects of disease were among the subjects of his
papers.

6.

• Among his other interests were
leucaemia, disorders of the lymphatic
tissues and polycythaemia, but his
most important contributions to
knowledge were made in his studies of
anaemia. His name will always be
associated with the therapy of
pernicious anaemia, in which he first
became interested in 1914, but it was
not until later that he, like William P.
Murphy, became impressed by the
work of George Hoyt Whipple on the
treatment of experimental forms of
anaemia in dogs, and in 1926 he and
Murphy described the effective

7.

• Minot was member or fellow of
numerous medical and allied
organizations in his own country
and abroad, and served as Editor
of several medical publications.
Among the many honours and
distinctions he received, may be
mentioned: the Cameron Prize in
Practical Therapeutics of the
University of Edinburgh, in 1930
(jointly with W. P. Murphy), the
Popular Science Monthly Gold
Medal and Annual Award for 1930
(jointly with G. H. Whipple), and the
John Scott Medal of the City of

8.

• On June 29, 1915, Minot married Marian Linzee Weld;
there were two daughters and one son by this marriage.
• After a long and busy life, during which he made many
important contributions to medical knowledge,
especially to that of diseases of the blood, Minot died,
full of honours, in 1950.

9. Conclusion:

CONCLUSION:
• George Richards Minot was an American medical
researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel
Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P.
Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia
and helping the world.

10. Thank you!

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