William P. Murphy
William Parry Murphy Sr. (February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).[1][2][3]
This article is about the Nobel Prize Scientist. For other people who share the same name, see William Murphy (disambiguation).
William P. Murphy Sr.
October 9, 1987 (aged 95)
Academic, researcher, physician
2; including William Jr.
Early life[edit]
Murphy was born on February 6, 1892, at Stoughton, Wisconsin[3] and moved to Condon, Oregon as a youth.[4] His father, Thomas Francis Murphy, was a congregational minister of English and Irish heritage. His mother, Rosa Anna Parry, was of a Welsh landowning background. Murphy was educated at the public schools of Wisconsin and Oregon. He completed his A.B. degree in 1914 from the University of Oregon.[3] He completed his M.D. in 1922 from Harvard Medical School.[1][3]
Personal life[edit]
Murphy married Pearl Harriett Adams (died 1980) on September 10, 1919. They had a son, William P. Murphy Jr., and a daughter, Priscilla Adams.[7]
Murphy died on October 9, 1987 in Brookline, Massachusetts at the age of 95.[1]