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George Whipple

1878 - 1976

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George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". This makes Whipple the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Whipple is the 135th most popular physician (up from 161st in 2019), the 1,099th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,262nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, George Whipple ranks 135 out of 726. Before him are Robin Warren, William T. G. Morton, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Drew Weissman, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Hans Asperger. After him are Baruj Benacerraf, Francis Peyton Rous, Trota of Salerno, Johann Joachim Becher, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Dickinson W. Richards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, George Whipple ranks 22. Before him are Ferenc Molnár, Paul Reynaud, Maurice René Fréchet, Ernest King, Milan Nedić, and Gemma Galgani. After him are Shigeru Yoshida, Sergio Osmeña, Iwane Matsui, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Gustav Radbruch, and Louis Chevrolet. Among people deceased in 1976, George Whipple ranks 36. Before him are Anneliese Michel, Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Émile Benveniste. After him are Tove Ditlevsen, Benjamin Graham, João Goulart, René Cassin, Andrei Grechko, and Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Whipple ranks 1,099 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmy Connors (1952), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Gene Wilder (1933), Lee Radziwill (1933), Kris Kristofferson (1936), and Chris Gardner (1954). After him are Timothy McVeigh (1968), Robert Crippen (1937), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Marla Maples (1963), John Cassavetes (1929), and Marilyn vos Savant (1946).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George Whipple ranks 16. Before him are Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), William T. G. Morton (1819), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), and Drew Weissman (1959). After him are Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), George H. Hitchings (1905), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Ferid Murad (1936), and Charles Best (1899).

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