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]
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