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Born December 2, 1885 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died February 25, 1950 (aged 64) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1934)
Subjects Of Study dietary supplement • liver • pernicious anemia • therapeutics • meat

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