Francis Peyton Rous

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name = (Francis) Peyton Rous

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caption = Francis Peyton Rous
birth_date = October 5, 1879
birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland
death_date = February 16, 1970
death_place = New York City
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nationality = United States
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field = virology
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known_for = oncoviruses
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prizes = Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1966)
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(Francis) Peyton Rous (October 5, 1879 – February 16, 1970) born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer. In 1966 he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work.

References

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title=The Nobel chronicles. 1966: Francis Peyton Rous (1879-1970) and Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-97)
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year=1970|month=Feb.
title=Francis Peyton Rous, M.D. Johns Hopkins
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year=1969|month=Jun.
title= [Nobel prize for Francis Peyton Rous in 1966 for the discovery of carcinogenic viruses and for Charles Huggins for the introduction of hormones for treatment of neoplasms]
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year=1967|month=Jan.
title=Nobel prize winners in medicine
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volume=48
issue=1
pages=41-2
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year=1966|month=Dec.
title= [Francis Peyton Rous]
journal=Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr.
volume=91
issue=51
pages=2309-10
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last=Kreyberg
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year=1966|month=Nov.
title= [Nobel prize in physiology and medicine 1966 (Rous FP)]
journal=Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen.
volume=86
issue=22
pages=1565
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pmid = 4859882
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year=1966|month=Oct.
title=Nobel Prize
journal=British medical journal
volume=2
issue=5520
pages=964
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first=C P
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year=1959|month=Apr.
title=Citation and presentation of the Academy Medal to F. Peyton Rous
journal=Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
volume=35
issue=4
pages=216-9
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External links

* [http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1966/rous-bio.html Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972]