1. George Richards Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts to James Jackson Minot and Elizabeth Whitney.
12 Facts About George Minot
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George Minot was namesake of his great-great-grandfather George Richards Minot.
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George Minot's father was a physician; his father's cousin was anatomist Charles Sedgwick Minot ; one of his great-grandfathers was James Jackson, co-founder of Massachusetts General Hospital.
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George Minot developed interest, first, in the natural sciences, and then, in medicine.
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George Minot worked in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as a staff member.
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George Minot was a member of the Pernicious Anemia Committee at Harvard and served on the Anti-Anemia Preparation Advisory Board of the US Pharmacopoeia.
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George Minot was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1926.
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George Minot was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1935 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1937.
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George Minot was 6 feet one inches tall and only weighed 135 pounds.
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Insulin became widely available about a year later Dr William Castle observed that Frederick Banting's and Charles Best's discovery of insulin in 1921, not only transformed diabetes treatment, but, by keeping George Minot alive, contributed towards the discovery of a cure for pernicious anemia.
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George Minot began developing complications associated with diabetes in 1940, and suffered a serious stroke in 1947, which partially paralyzed him.
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George Minot died in Brookline, Massachusetts on February 25,1950.