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- In 1966, Rous won the Nobel Prize for his 1910 discovery that a virus can cause cancer tumors. His other contributions to scientific medicine include creating the first blood bank, determining major functions of the liver and gall bladder, and identifying factors that initiate and promote malignancy in normal cells.
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He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in 1966, [2] [3] 55 years after his initial discovery and he remains the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. [4] He and Joseph R. Turner studied methods to make use of blood types for blood transfusion.
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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.
Apr 4, 2024 · Peyton Rous was an American pathologist whose discovery of cancer-inducing viruses earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966. Rous was educated at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and at the University of Michigan. He joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical.
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Nov 29, 2011 · On December 10, 1966, the American pathologist and cancer researcher Francis Peyton Rous (1879–1970) (Fig. 1.1 ), professor emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of tumor-inducing viruses.”.
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FRANCIS PEYTON ROUS. October 5,1879-February 16,1970. BY RENATO DULBECCO. EYTON ROUS was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1966, when he Pwas eighty-six years old, for discoveries he had made fifty years before. He was born on the 5th of October 1879 in Balti- more, Maryland, to a family that valued humanistic education.
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.
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. Before he received the well-merited award of a Nobel prize in 1966, he had worked unremittingly for more than fifty years, piling fact upon solid fact: yet for many of those years his ...
