"for discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia."
WILLIAM PARRY MURPHY WAS BORN IN STOUGHTON, WISCONSIN, on February 6, 1892. His early education was received in the public schools of Wisconsin and Oregon. He received his A.B. from the University of Oregon in 1914 and then for two years taught physics and mathematics in Oregon high schools. After one year in the University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, and a summer session at the Rush Medical School, Chicago, he entered the Harvard Medical School and received the M.D. degree in 1922 as of 1920. After two years as house officer at the Rhode Island Hospital, he became assistant resident physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital under Prof. Henry A. Christian for eighteen months, then junior associate, and later associate in medicine at the same institution. He was assistant in medicine at Harvard from 1923 to 1928, instructor from 1928 to 1935, and associate from 1935 to 1948. Dr. Murphy has was an active practitioner of medicine since 1923.