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Also Known As WIlliam Parry Murphy
Born February 6, 1892 • Wisconsin
Died October 9, 1987 (aged 95) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1934)
Subjects Of Study dietary supplement • liver • pernicious anemia • therapeutics • meat
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