Charles Brenton Huggins
(Redirected from Charles B. Huggins)
Charles Brenton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician, physiologist, and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.
Huggins was born on September 22, 1901 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied at Acadia University and at Harvard University. Huggins died on January 22, 1997 in Chicago, Illinois from natural causes, aged 95.
Charles Brenton Huggins Media
Professor Huggins with Professor Reddi in 1972 working on bone and cartilage research
Other websites
- Nobel biography
- Prostate Cancer
- Ben May Department for Cancer Research Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
This short article about a person from the United States can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.