Editing George Whipple (section)

== Nobel Prize, honors and distinctions ==
Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George R. Minot and William P. Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia".<ref name=":1" />

In presenting the Nobel Prize, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that "Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded. ... Whipple's experiments were planned exceedingly well, and carried out very accurately, and consequently their results can lay claim to absolute reliability. These investigations and results of Whipple's gave Minot and Murphy the idea that an experiment could be made to see whether favorable results might also be obtained in the case of [[pernicious anemia]]...by making use of the foods of the kind that Whipple had found to yield favorable results in his experiments regarding anemia from loss of blood."<ref name=":6" /><ref name="nobel">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1934/press.html|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934: Presentation Speech|access-date=3 January 2010}}</ref>

Whipple received honorary doctorates from several American and international Universities, including the Universities of Athens and Glasgow.<ref name=":0" /> In 1930, along with Minot, he received the Popular Science Monthly Gold Medal and Annual Award.<ref name=":0" /> In 1934, he was awarded the William Wood Gerhard Gold Medal of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia.<ref name=":0" />

He also was a member of the following organizations:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
* [[Rockefeller Foundation]], Trustee 
* Association of Physicians in Vienna, Corresponding Member 
* Royal Society of Physicians in Budapest
* European Society of Haematology
* [[British Medical Association]], Foreign Corresponding Member. 
* [[Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland]], Honorary Member 
* [[American Philosophical Society]], Honorary Member
* Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Honorary Member 
* Board of Scientific Directors of the [[Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research|Rockefeller Institute]], Member
* Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Institute, Member; Vice-chairman; and Trustee Emeritus