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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1966 (6) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1901 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) Canada (19) Halifax (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1997 (9) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Midwestern states (27) Illinois (15) Chicago (10) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) C (45) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) H (72) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) C (27) Charles (12) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 66 (17) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations (70) Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners (69) Physicians (65) Physicians, Pathologists (5) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) Canada (18) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Midwestern states (41) Illinois (27) Chicago (21) University of Chicago (21) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Midwestern states (201) Illinois (131) Chicago (107) University of Chicago (97) Long-term academic staff (45) Michigan (25) Ann Arbor (25) University of Michigan (25) Short-term academic staff (13) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Harvard (159) Alumni (77) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Philosophical Society (126) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (5) G-H (389) G (254) Gairdner Foundation International Award (89) Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2) K-L (297) L (183) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (13) O-P (364) P (242) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (65) complete name: Charles Brenton Huggins nobel prize: medicine award year: 1966 together with: Francis Peyton Rous prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 was divided equally between Peyton Rous "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses" and Charles Brenton Huggins "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Charles family name: Huggins occupation: university teacher occupation: physiologist occupation: oncologist work location: University of Chicago, 5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States of America description: Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American physician, physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specializing in prostate cancer. He was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers. This was the first discovery that showed that cancer could be controlled by chemicals. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1966/summary/> date birth: 1901 date death: 1997 usual name: Charles Huggins
