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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Minot has received more than 101,679 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). George Minot is the 89th most popular physician (up from 110th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from United States (up from 843rd in 2019) and the 6th 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 89 out of 726. Before him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, Corneille Heymans, Cornelius Jansen, Charles Nicolle, Hotepsekhemwy, and Walter Rudolf Hess. After him are Cyril of Jerusalem, Amenmesse, Jang-geum, Joseph Lister, Hans Selye, and Jean Nicot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, George Minot ranks 28. Before him are Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Tatlin, Yakov Sverdlov, D. H. Lawrence, Heinrich Brüning, and Karl Radek. After him are Sabina Spielrein, Alexander Löhr, Heinrich Hoffmann, Sinclair Lewis, Hugo Boss, and Hermann Weyl. Among people deceased in 1950, George Minot ranks 22. Before him are Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Kurt Weill, Sri Aurobindo, Emil Jannings, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are Ramana Maharshi, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolai Hartmann, Karl Seitz, Max Beckmann, and Cesare Pavese.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Minot ranks 652 out of 20,380. Before him are George Beadle (1903), John Dillinger (1903), Alec Baldwin (1958), Lionel Richie (1949), Stanford Moore (1913), and Paul Berg (1926). After him are Gary Becker (1930), Matthew C. Perry (1794), John Glenn (1921), Billy Graham (1918), Joe Louis (1914), and Martin Lewis Perl (1927).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, George Minot ranks 6. Before him are Virginia Apgar (1909), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), William P. Murphy (1892), Ferid Murad (1936), and Stanley Cohen (1922). After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), William T. G. Morton (1819), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), Jonas Salk (1914), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895).

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