Alice Miles Woodruff
A young white woman in profile, with bobbed hair, wearing a blouse with a scooped neckline and a pendant on a chain
Alice Lincoln Miles, from the 1922 Mount Holyoke College yearbook
BornNovember 29, 1900
Cambridge, Massachusetts
DiedNovember 24, 1985
Highland Township, Michigan
OccupationVirologist
Spouse
Charles Eugene Woodruff
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(m. 1927)​
ChildrenAlice, Mary Jean, Charles Eugene
Academic background
Alma materMount Holyoke College
Yale University (MS, PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsVanderbilt University
Main interestsViruses
Notable worksegg culture virology

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.[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

References

  1. ^ Podolsky, M. Lawrence (1997). Cures Out of Chaos: How Unexpected Discoveries Led to Breakthroughs in Medicine and Health. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. pp. 238–239. ISBN 90-5702-555-8.
  2. ^ "Significant Events in Microbiology 1861-1999". American Society for Microbiology. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ^ Carmichael, L.E. (2 December 1991). Viral Vaccines Produced in Embryonating Eggs. Quality control of veterinary vaccines in developing countries. Rome. p. 135. ISBN 92-5-103398-6.
  4. ^ "Arthur L. Miles (death notice)". The Boston Globe. 1954-04-06. p. 52. Retrieved 2021-08-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Marie A (Putnam) Miles - Death Notice". The Boston Globe. 1958-11-13. p. 27. Retrieved 2021-08-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Mount Holyoke College, Llamarada (1922 yearbook): 195.
  7. ^ a b "Alice Lincoln Miles 1922". Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  8. ^ Long, Esmond R. (1965). "Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 121–122. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  9. ^ "League Asks Restoration of Rationing". Detroit Free Press. 1946-06-11. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-08-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Two Share Town Hall Spotlight". Detroit Free Press. 1953-01-04. p. 42. Retrieved 2021-08-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Abbott, Susan Woodruff (compiled by) (1963). Woodruff Genealogy: Descendants of Mathew Woodruff of Farmington, Connecticut. New Haven, Connecticut: The Harty Press. p. 593. LCCN 63-23034.
  12. ^ "C. Eugene Woodruff (death notice)". Detroit Free Press. 1980-04-08. p. 43. Retrieved 2021-08-12 – via Newspapers.com.
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