# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:39:22.715Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  William Parry Murphy was born February 6, 1892. An American physician, he worked alongside George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple to devise a treatment for macrocytic anemia, particularly its pernicious form — a condition that had long eluded cure. Their combined research led to a breakthrough that turned fatal diagnosis into manageable illness. In 1934, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the work. Murphy died October 9, 1987.