Alice Miles Woodruff

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]

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

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
  • 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
  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. "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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