Alice Miles Woodruff

Alice Miles Woodruff
Alice Miles Woodruff
Occupation	Virologist
Spouse(s)	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

Alice Miles Woodruff (also known as 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]

Education and career

Alice Woodruff obtained a MS in 1924 and a PhD in 1925 from Yale University.[4] She worked as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University from 1927 until 1931.[4] 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.[5]

Personal life

She married Charles Woodruff on 25 August 1927 and had three children with him: Alice, Mary Jean, and Charles Eugene.[6]

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.

References

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.
"Significant Events in Microbiology 1861-1999". American Society for Microbiology. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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.
"Alice Lincoln Miles 1922". Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
Long, Esmond R. (1965). "Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 121–122. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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.

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[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. 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.

[Holyoke-4] "Alice Lincoln Miles 1922". Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, Massachusetts. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[5] Long, Esmond R. (1965). "Ernest William Goodpasture 1886-1960" (PDF). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. pp. 121–122. Retrieved 7 March 2016.

[6] 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.