Alice Miles Woodruff Explained

Alice Miles Woodruff
Birth Date:November 29, 1900
Birth Place:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Death Date:November 24, 1985
Death Place:Highland Township, Michigan
Occupation:Virologist
Children:Alice, Mary Jean, Charles Eugene
Alma Mater:Mount Holyoke College
Yale University (MS, PhD)
Workplaces:Vanderbilt University
Notable Works:egg culture virology
Main Interests:Viruses

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]

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. 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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Podolsky, M. Lawrence . Cures Out of Chaos: How Unexpected Discoveries Led to Breakthroughs in Medicine and Health . 1997. Harwood Academic Publishers . Amsterdam. 90-5702-555-8 . 238–239 .
  2. Web site: Significant Events in Microbiology 1861-1999 . American Society for Microbiology . 7 March 2016 . 20 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182152/https://www.asm.org/index.php/component/content/article/71-membership/archives/7852-significant-events-in-microbiology-since-1861 . dead .
  3. Carmichael, L.E. . Viral Vaccines Produced in Embryonating Eggs . 135 . Quality control of veterinary vaccines in developing countries . Rome . 2 December 1991 . 92-5-103398-6 .
  4. News: 1954-04-06. Arthur L. Miles (death notice). 52. The Boston Globe. 2021-08-12. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1958-11-13. Marie A (Putnam) Miles - Death Notice. 27. The Boston Globe. 2021-08-12. Newspapers.com.
  6. Mount Holyoke College, Llamarada (1922 yearbook): 195.
  7. Web site: Alice Lincoln Miles 1922 . Mount Holyoke College . South Hadley, Massachusetts . 7 March 2016 . 8 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308062453/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~dalbino/photos/women4/amiles.html . dead .
  8. News: Long, Esmond R. . Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960 . National Academy of Sciences . 121–122 . 1965 . Washington, DC . 7 March 2016 .
  9. News: 1946-06-11. League Asks Restoration of Rationing. 9. Detroit Free Press. 2021-08-12. Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1953-01-04. Two Share Town Hall Spotlight. 42. Detroit Free Press. 2021-08-12. Newspapers.com.
  11. Book: Abbott, Susan Woodruff (compiled by) . Woodruff Genealogy: Descendants of Mathew Woodruff of Farmington, Connecticut . The Harty Press . New Haven, Connecticut . 63-23034 . 1963 . 593 .
  12. News: 1980-04-08. C. Eugene Woodruff (death notice). 43. Detroit Free Press. 2021-08-12. Newspapers.com.

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