Charles Brenton Huggins belongs to the record of medicine as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Charles Brenton Huggins as American physiologist (1901-1997).
Charles Brenton Huggins was born at Halifax in 1901. His recorded nationality is Canada. He was educated at Harvard Medical School and Acadia University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives his occupations as physiologist, oncologist and university teacher.
His affiliations include University of Chicago and University of Michigan.
The work that carried his reputation furthest concerned work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
His recorded fields of work are physiology and oncology.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1966) and Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1963).
That the work was done from Canada matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Charles Brenton Huggins died in 1997 at the age of 96. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1966
- Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award — 1963
- Affiliated with University of Chicago and University of Michigan
- Educated at Harvard Medical School and Acadia University
- Worked as physiologist, oncologist and university teacher
