Alice Miles Woodruff
American virologist (1900–1985)
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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.[1][2] Her research greatly facilitated the rapid advancement in the study of viruses.[3]
Alice Miles Woodruff | |
|---|---|
Alice Lincoln Miles, from the 1922 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | |
| Born | November 29, 1900 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | November 24, 1985 (aged 84) 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.[4][5] She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922.[6] She obtained a master's degree in 1924 and a PhD in 1925 from Yale University.[7]
Career
Woodruff worked as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University from 1927 until 1931.[7] 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.[8]
Woodruff was a regional chair of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in her later years.[9][10]
Personal life
She married Charles Eugene ("Gene") Woodruff on 25 August 1927. They had three children together, Alice, Mary Jean, and Charles Eugene.[11] She was widowed when her husband died in 1980;[12] 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.