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Francis Peyton Rous ForMemRS (/ r aʊ s /; October 5, 1879 – February 16, 1970) 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 ...
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Apr 4, 2024 · Francis Peyton Rous. Born: October 5, 1879, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Died: February 16, 1970, New York, New York (aged 90) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1966) Subjects Of Study: blood. cancer. virus.
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May 29, 2018 · American physician. Francis Peyton Rous was a physician-scientist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (later the Rockefeller University) for over sixty years. In 1966, Rous won the Nobel Prize for his 1910 discovery that a virus can cause cancer tumors.
ROUS, (Francis) Peyton(b. 5 October 1879 in either Texas or Baltimore, Maryland; d. 16 February 1970 in New York City), Nobel Prize–winning physician and pathologist whose groundbreaking research on the relationship of viruses to cancer was recognized in the 1960s and led to new advances in understanding and treating the disease.
This is a photograph of Peyton Rous (Francis Peyton Rous, 1879–1970), who in 1909–11 made 2 seminal discoveries that are now the foundation blocks of modern virology and oncology. First, he discovered that a malignant tumor (a sarcoma in chickens) was transmissible; this was the first transmissible solid tumor discovered.
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- Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Apr; 19(4): 660-663.
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Overview. Francis Peyton Rous. (1879—1970) Quick Reference. (1879–1970) US pathologist who pioneered cancer research and discovered that cancer can be caused by a virus, though his work was not recognized until fifty-six years later when he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Obituary. Francis Peyton Rous, 1879-1970. Christopher Howard Andrewes. Published: 01 November 1971 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1971.0025. Abstract. Before Peyton Rous died at the age of ninety he had been acclaimed as an outstanding leader in the field of pathology and particularly in cancer research.
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