With whom did George Whipple share his Nobel Prize?
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton
George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy
James Watson and Francis Crick
Ernest O. Lawrence and Enrico Fermi
Answer
George Whipple shared his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy for their work on pernicious anemia. Whipple and his colleagues discovered that liver extract could cure pernicious anemia, a condition that was previously fatal. This discovery led to the development of new treatments for the disease and improved the lives of millions of people.
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