dLife membership gives you exclusive access! Get free recipes, newsletters, savings, and so much more!
Membership is FREE!

George Richards Minot Biography

Claim to Fame: Nobel Prize winner
DOB: 1885
Date of Death: 1950
Diabetes Type: Unknown

George Minot was born on December 2, 1885, in Boston, MA. Minot was member or fellow of numerous medical and allied organizations in his own country and abroad, and served as Editor of several medical publications. He was the first person with diabetes to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. After a life of making important contributions to medical knowledge, especially to that of diseases of the blood, Minot died in 1950.