Scrapbook, 1934, of George Hoyt Whipple's Nobel Prize

Mss.B.W575

Date: 1934 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 124 p.
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Abstract

This scrapbook features pictures, newspaper clippings, letters, telegrams, and journal which tell the story of George Hoyt Whipple's Nobel award, including the news reaching Rochester (N.Y.), local comments, the trip to Sweden, and the presentation ceremony.

Background note

George Hoyt Whipple was a pathologist. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1934 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1938.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume, 124 p.

Provenance

Presented by Katharine Ball Waring Whipple and accessioned, 1962 (1962 1394ms).

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Scrapbooks.

Personal Name(s)

  • Whipple, George Hoyt
  • Whipple, Katharine Ball Waring

Subject(s)

  • Nobel Prizes.