Peyton Rous M.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966
Co-Nobelist Charles B. Huggins

Physician, Pathologist, Scientist. Tumor-inducing Rous Sarcoma Virus, tumor filtrate transplantability. Nobel 50 yrs after discovery. Blood transfusion, world's first blood bank, Rous-Turner solution. Accurate editing, content, style. Experiments: extreme clarity. Equanimity, warmth. Many old are young to life.

"Uneducated men can be as great-hearted, lovable as those who know much."

Images

Peyton Rous in 1923. Reproduced with permission from The Rockefeller University archives. Van Epps, 2005.

Photograph from 1909 shows a sarcoma on the external chest wall of a chicken. It is original Plymouth Barred Rock fowl bearing the tumor presented to Rous and held by somewhat arthritic hands. Author: Patrick S Moore and Yuan Chang. Source: Perspectives

Vilhelm Ellerman (1871-1924)

Aluf Bang (1881-1937)

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