Richard Shope

Richard Edwin Shope

Richard Edwin Shope as a U.S. Navy officer
Born December 25, 1901
Died October 2, 1966
Nationality American
Fields Virologist
Influenced Erich Traub
Notable awards

1957 Kober medal

1957 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award

Richard Shope (December 25, 1901October 2, 1966) was an American virologist who at Rockefeller Institute identified influenzavirus A in pigs in 1931.[1] Using Shope's technique, Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw of England's Medical Research Council cultured it from a human in 1933.[1] They and Shope in 1935 and 1936, respectively, identified it as the virus circulating in the 1918 pandemic.[1] In 1933, Shope identified the Shope papillomavirus, which infects rabbits.[2] He received the 1957 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Van Epps, HL (2006). "Influenza: Exposing the true killer". J Exp Med 203 (4): 803. doi:10.1084/jem.2034fta. PMID 16685764.
  2. Shope RE, Hurst EW (1933). "Infectious papillomatosis of rabbits: with a not on the histopathology". J. Exp. Med. 58 (5): 607–624. doi:10.1084/jem.58.5.607. PMC 2132321. PMID 19870219.
  3. Rockefeller University, "Awards & honors: Richard E Shope", Rockefeller.edu, 28 Jul 2012 (Web: access date).

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