Died 1970-02-16.
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Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Peyton Rous was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller University known for his works in oncoviruses, blood transfusion and physiology of digestion. A medical graduate from the Johns Hopkins University, he was discouraged from becoming a practicing physician due to severe tuberculosis. After three years of working as an instructor of pathology at the University of Michigan, he became d…
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science · American scientist (1879–1970) · virologist · chemist · university teacher · physician · pathologist · also Francis Peyton Rous, Peyton Rous, F. Peyton Rous, Rous
Born 5 October 1879 · Died 16 February 1970 · Q298707
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1970· 2 entries
Of abdominal cancer at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
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1966· 3 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1966).
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55 years after his initial discovery and he remains the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
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With Charles Brenton Huggins "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses
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1965· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research (1963).
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1960· 1 entry
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1958).
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And the National Medal of Science in 1965
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1955· 1 entry
Won Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
Won George M. Kober Medal (1953).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded George M. Kober Lectureship (1946).
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1940).
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1933· 1 entry
Shope had discovered that a skin tumor (papilloma) in cottontail rabbits was due to a filterable virus, later known as Shope papilloma virus, and showed in 1935 that the virus was transmissible in healthy rabbits
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1927· 2 entries
Awarded John Scott Award (1927).
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And a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1939
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1920· 1 entry
Was appointed Member of the Rockefeller Institute, and became Member Emeritus in 1945, the position he occupied till his death
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1916· 1 entry
Replaced the additive with a citrate-glucose solution which extended blood storage from one week to two weeks
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1915· 1 entry
Who survived him by fifteen years before her own death in 1985
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1912· 1 entry
Gave the first clue of virus as the filterable agent, but failed to make an exact identification
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1911· 2 entries
That a chicken tumor was caused by a virus (later named Rous sarcoma virus) led to more discoveries and understanding of the role of viruses in the development of certain types of cancer
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Made a seminal observation that cell-free filtrate (using Berkefeld filter that separate bacteria and large microbes) of chicken sarcoma could produce a malignant tumor when transferred to other chickens, describing:A
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1909· 1 entry
Joined the laboratories as a full-time researcher at Rockefeller
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1908· 1 entry
Warthin informed him of a Rockefeller Scholarship for cancer research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) in New York
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1907· 1 entry
Went to Germany for a training course on morbid anatomy at Friedrichstadt Municipal Hospital (Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt) in Dresden under Christian Georg Schmorl
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-10-05.
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