Biography:Alice Miles Woodruff
Alice Miles Woodruff | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Virologist |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Eugene Woodruff (m. 1927) |
| Children | Alice, Mary Jean, Charles Eugene |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College Yale University (MS, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
| Main interests | Viruses |
| Notable works | egg culture virology |
Alice Miles Woodruff (also known as Alice Lincoln Miles), together with Ernest William Goodpasture developed a method for growing fowlpox outside of a live chicken.[1][2] Her research greatly facilitated the rapid advancement in the study of viruses.[3]
Education and career
Alice Woodruff obtained a MS in 1924 and a PhD in 1925 from Yale University.[4] She worked as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University from 1927 until 1931.[4] While working with her husband and Goodpasture, she conducted studies in the "nature, infectivity, and purification of fowl-pox virus, and the character of the changes it induced on experimental infection of fowls," which became the forerunner in the cultivation of viruses.[5]
Personal life
She married Charles Woodruff on 25 August 1927 and had three children with him: Alice, Mary Jean, and Charles Eugene.[6]
Bibliography
- Woodruff, Alice Miles; Goodpasture, Ernest W. (May 1931). "The Susceptibility of the Chorio-Allantoic Membrane of Chick Embryos to Infection with the Fowl-Pox Virus". American Journal of Pathology 7 (3): 209–222. PMID 19969963.
References
- ↑ Podolsky, M. Lawrence (1997). Cures Out of Chaos: How Unexpected Discoveries Led to Breakthroughs in Medicine and Health. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. pp. 238–239. ISBN 90-5702-555-8.
- ↑ "Significant Events in Microbiology 1861-1999". American Society for Microbiology. https://www.asm.org/index.php/component/content/article/71-membership/archives/7852-significant-events-in-microbiology-since-1861. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ↑ Carmichael, L.E. (2 December 1991). "Viral Vaccines Produced in Embryonating Eggs". Quality control of veterinary vaccines in developing countries. Rome. p. 135. ISBN 92-5-103398-6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Alice Lincoln Miles 1922". South Hadley, Massachusetts. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/photos/women4/amiles.html. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ↑ Long, Esmond R. (1965). "Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960". Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 121–122. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/goodpasture-ernest.pdf. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ↑ Abbott, Susan Woodruff (compiled by) (1963). Woodruff Genealogy: Descendants of Mathew Woodruff of Farmington, Connecticut. New Haven, Connecticut: The Harty Press. p. 593.
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