George Richards Minot ( December 2 , 1885 - February 25 , 1950 ) was an American doctor . He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with George Whipple and William P. Murphy , for their discoveries how eating liver could cure anemia . George Richards Minot ( December 2 , 1885 â `` February 12 , 1950 ) was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia .