Alice Miles Woodruff
Alice Miles Woodruff (November 29, 1900 – November 24, 1985), born Alice Lincoln Miles, was an American virologist.
She developed a method for growing fowlpox outside of a live chicken alongside Ernest William Goodpasture. Her research greatly facilitated the rapid advancement in the study of viruses.
Alice Miles Woodruff | |
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 Alice Lincoln Miles, from the 1922 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | |
| Born | November 29, 1900 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | November 24, 1985 Highland Township, Michigan |
| 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 |
Early life and education
Alice Lincoln Miles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Arthur L. Miles and Marie Augusta Putnam Miles. Her father was a dentist. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922. She obtained a master's degree in 1924 and a PhD in 1925 from Yale University.
Career
Woodruff worked as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University from 1927 until 1931. 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.
Woodruff was a regional chair of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in her later years.
Personal life
She married Charles Eugene ("Gene") Woodruff on 25 August 1927. They had three children together, Alice, Mary Jean, and Charles Eugene. She was widowed when her husband died in 1980; she died in Highland, Michigan, in 1985, aged 84 years.
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. PMC 2062632. PMID 19969963.
References
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