William Parry Murphy ( February 6 , 1892 - October 9 , 1987 ) was an American doctor . He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , along with George Whipple and George Minot , for discovering how eating liver could cure anemia .
William Parry Murphy ( Stoughton , Wisconsin , February 6 , 1892 -- October 9 , 1987 ) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia ( specifically , pernicious anemia ) .