1878–1976 American pathologist and physiologist who developed a successful therapy for anaemia.
Keywords: pathology; haemoglobin; anaemia; iron metabolism; liver
Whipple, George Hoyt
HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002951
| Further Reading | |
| book Whipple GH (1956) The Dynamic Equilibrium of Body Proteins: Haemoglobin, Plasma Proteins, Organ and Tissue Proteins. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas. | |
| book Corner GW (1963) George Hoyt Whipple and His Friends: The Life-Story of a Nobel Prize Pathologist. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Company. | |
| Diggs LW (1976) Dr George Hoyt Whipple. Johns Hopkins Medical Journal supplement 139: 196–200. | |
| book Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology. New York: Garland. | |
