Alice Miles Woodruff
Alice Miles Woodruff | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Virologist |
| Spouse |
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. Vol. 4, no. 3. pp. 209–222. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
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. 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.
- ^ a b "Alice Lincoln Miles 1922". Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Long, Esmond R. (1965). "Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 121–122. 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. LCCN 63-23034.
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