Robert Guthrie
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 29 years ago |
Date of birth | June 28,1916 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Marionville |
Missouri | |
United States | |
Date of died | June 24,1995 |
Died | Seattle |
Washington | |
United States | |
Fields | Microbiology |
Metabolism | |
Newborn screening | |
Job | Microbiologist |
Education | University of Minnesota |
Books | Phenylketonuria Detection in the Newborn Infant as a Routine Hospital Procedure: A Trial of a Phenylalanine Screening Method in 400,000 Infants |
Known for | Inventing the bacterial inhibition assay used to screen newborns for phenylketonuria |
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ID | 2055565 |
Robert Guthrie Life story
Robert Guthrie, MD, Ph.D. was an American microbiologist, best known for developing the bacterial inhibition assay used to screen infants for phenylketonuria at birth, before the development of irreversible neurological damage.