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George Minot

1885 - 1950

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George Richards Minot ( MY-not; December 2, 1885 – February 25, 1950) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Minot is the 101st most popular physician (down from 89th in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from United States (down from 652nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Physician.

George Minot was a doctor who discovered that the diet of patients suffering from pernicious anemia was deficient in vitamin B12. He and his colleague, William Murphy, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 for this discovery.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George Minot ranks 101 out of 726. Before him are Jean Nicot, Peter Canisius, François Duvalier, Djer, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, and Shirō Ishii. After him are Michael DeBakey, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Ulf von Euler, Niels Kaj Jerne, Cornelius Jansen, and Frederick Banting.

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Among people born in 1885, George Minot ranks 31. Before him are Heinrich Brüning, Vladimir Tatlin, Chester W. Nimitz, Kato Svanidze, Sonia Delaunay, and Yakov Sverdlov. After him are Sabina Spielrein, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Karl Radek, Sinclair Lewis, Hermann Weyl, and Alexander Löhr. Among people deceased in 1950, George Minot ranks 15. Before him are Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Heinrich Mann, Marcel Mauss, and Karl Renner. After him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willis Carrier, Sri Aurobindo, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, and Ramana Maharshi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Minot ranks 765 out of 20,380. Before him are Pat Robertson (1930), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Jeff Goldblum (1952), Wilt Chamberlain (1936), Frank Marshall (1877), and Billy Graham (1918). After him are Frank Sheeran (1920), Natalie Wood (1938), Ellen G. White (1827), Darren Young (1983), Christopher Lambert (1957), and Murray Gell-Mann (1929).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George Minot ranks 7. Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Joseph Murray (1919), William P. Murphy (1892), Harvey Cushing (1869), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916). After him are Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), and William T. G. Morton (1819).

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