My Life My Education/Jobs

Type of scientist I am Experiments/Achievements

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I was born on July 23, 1893 in Germany I was raised by both of my parents As a child, my mother got sick because of a

disease and died of it I have always wanted to find a cure for diseases

I was educated in Chicago and California (middle school and High school)

I received my PhD at the University of Rochester

I have also worked at the University of Rochester Medical School for 36 years.

For eighteen years I was a research partner with George Whipple. I am a scientist in Pathology and I find the cure for the deadly disease Pernicious Anemia.

1925 Whipple and I published the first of what was to become a series of eighteen papers on "Blood Regeneration in Severe Anemia."

Between 1925 and 1930 Whipple and I published a total of twenty-one papers describing the use of the standard anemic dog to test a lengthy array of foods of animal and vegetable origin.

Robscheit-Robbins published in 1935 Whipple compared hemoglobin production in the fasting state with production during feeding of sugar only.

These studies were documented by measurements of urinary nitrogen partition and nitrogen balance. The results supported the view that, even during total starvation, small but significant amounts of hemoglobin were produced and that hemoglobin production was substantially improved by sugar feeding associated with a marked reduction in urinary nitrogen excretion.

Because I was the assistant for George Whipple, he was given most of the achievements and credit. He was still nice enough to share his prize money with me and two other women who also helped.

“You became possessed of a magnificent obsession and determination to learn the truth of your scientific theory if it takes sixteen years or many times sixteen. If you are successful, you really deserve no great credit, for by that time experiment has become the only thing in life you care to do.”