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.
George Richards Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts to James Jackson Minot and Elizabeth Whitney. He was namesake of his greatgreatgrandfather George Richards Minot . His father was a physician his fathers cousin was anatomist Charles Sedgwick Minot one of his greatgrandfathers was James Jackson , cofounder of Massachusetts General Hospital. He developed interest, first, in the natural sciences, and then, in medicine.
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