Beverley Pearson Murphy Explained

Birth Date:March 15, 1929
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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    Beverley E. Pearson Murphy, MD, (1929 – 2020) was a Canadian endocrinologist and professor emeritus at McGill University.[1] [2]

    Born in Toronto, she earned a B.A. in science from the University of Toronto in 1952, followed by an M.D. in 1956. She earned a masters’ degree in Experimental Medicine at McGill University in 1960, completing her residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and was awarded a PhD in Investigative Medicine from McGill in 1964.[3]

    In the 1950s, she discovered new methods for measuring steroid hormones such as cortisol.[4] [5] This work continued to be cited for decades.[6]

    She taught at McGill from 1964, and later was senior obstetrician and gynecologist at Montreal General Hospital, where she also served as director of the Reproductive Physiology Unit from 1972 to 1994.

    She developed a standard method for the measurement of thyroxine, a technique which was in use for many years. Her paper on this topic was one of the 100 most-cited papers in 1980, making her one of the few women scientists routinely being cited at the time.

    She was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1969.[7] She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1989.[8] She was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.

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    1. Web site: Beverley Pearson Murphy Research Honours - McGill University. mcgill.ca. 2019-05-06.
    2. Web site: Beverley Pearson Murphy. www.ommegaonline.org. 2019-05-07.
    3. Web site: Beverley Murphy . 2022-05-19 . Montreal Gazette Obituaries . en.
    4. Web site: Program strengths . 2019-05-23 . Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism . en.
    5. Book: Rothfeld, Benjamin . 1983 . Lippincott . 978-0-397-50505-0 . 48 . en.
    6. Web site: 67 years on the cutting edge : Making history at the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism . 2022-05-19 . McGill Reporter 40;17 . May 15, 2008.
    7. Web site: The American Society for Clinical Investigation . 2022-05-19 . en-US . 18 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221018210851/https://the-asci.org/contact.shtml . dead .
    8. Web site: FELLOWS DIRECTORY The Royal Society of Canada. rsc-src.ca. 2019-05-06.