The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934

George Hoyt Whipple

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Prize share: 1/3

George Richards Minot

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Prize share: 1/3

William Parry Murphy

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934 was awarded jointly to George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"

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