William Parry Murphy Sr. was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia. Wikipedia
Born: February 6, 1892, Stoughton, WI
Died: October 9, 1987 (age 95 years), Brookline, MA
Children: William P. Murphy Jr.
Awards: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1930) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)