George Minot

George Richards Minot (1885 to 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 pioneering work on pernicious anemia. Born in Boston to a medical family, he took his B.A. from Harvard College in 1908 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1912. From 1915 he served on the medical staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he started research on anemia, and during the First World War he worked with Alice Hamilton to show that skin contact with TNT was sickening munitions workers. He became professor of medicine at Harvard University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1926.