Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle · Science & Medicine
Physician who developed Eagle's medium, a standard nutrient for growing cultured cells.
1905, New York City, USA — 1992, USA
United States (Johns Hopkins · NIH · Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)
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Eagle, an American physician of Jewish background born in New York City, trained at Johns Hopkins and worked at the National Institutes of Health before joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He formulated Eagle's minimal essential medium, a precisely defined nutrient mixture that reliably supports the growth of mammalian and human cells in culture. This deceptively simple achievement gave biology a universal foundation for cell culture, indispensable to virology, cancer research and modern biotechnology; he received the National Medal of Science in 1987.
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Physician who developed Eagle's medium, a standard nutrient for growing cultured cells.
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