George Richards Minot (1885-1950)

Awarded the Prize “for discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia.”

American physician. Minot was born on December 2, 1885 at Boston. From Harvard University he received A.B. degree in 1908 and M.D. in 1912. In 1915 he was appointed Assistant in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1922 he became Physician-in-Chief of the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital of Harvard University, and later was appointed to the Staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1928 he was elected Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and Visiting Physician to the Boston City Hospital. Minot died on February 25, 1950 in Brookline, Massachusetts.