Whipple, George H.

Whipple, George H. (Hoyt) (1878–1976) pathologist; born in Ashland, N.H. He taught and performed research at Johns Hopkins (1905–07), served as a pathologist at Ancon Hospital, Panama (1907–08), then returned to Johns Hopkins (1909–14). He moved to the University of California: Berkeley (1914–21), then joined the University of Rochester (1921–55), where he became the first dean of the Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (1921–53), bringing that institution into scientific prominence. He shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology for his research (1918–25) that resulted in his proposal that dietary liver be used for treatment of pernicious anemia. He made major advances in investigations of protein metabolism in humans, in addition to studies of tuberculosis, pancreatitis, malaria, and the rare intestinal lipid disorder now known as Whipple's disease.