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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.
Apr 4, 2024 · Peyton Rous (born October 5, 1879, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died February 16, 1970, New York, New York) was an American pathologist whose discovery of cancer-inducing viruses earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966.
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Biographical. Peyton Rous was born in Baltimore in 1879. His mother’s ancestors were Huguenots who settled in Virginia after the Edict of Nantes. Just before the Civil War in the 1860’s her father, foreseeing disaster, bought land in Texas, moving his big family there after it ended.
Peyton Rous. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966. Born: 5 October 1879, Baltimore, MD, USA. Died: 16 February 1970, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses” Prize share: 1/2. Work.
May 29, 2018 · 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.
Feb 7, 2005 · Reflecting on his career in his Nobel Prize lecture , Rous credited Linnaeus with opening a wide door for him into natural history, which eventually led him to his study of cancer. Rous, in turn, opened a wide door for countless others into the field of tumor biology.
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Rous’s fearless approach as head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory for Cancer Research resulted in a discovery that recast our most fundamental understanding of cancer, and won him the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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