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Francis Peyton Rous

Francis Peyton Rous
Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

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 to become a practicing physician due to severe tuberculosis. After three years of working as an instructor of pathology at the University of Michigan, he became dedicated researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for the rest of his career.

5 October 1879

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