PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: virology

Peter Piot is a Belgian microbiologist who served as executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and under-secretary-general of the United Nations (1995–2008), best known...

Martinus W. Beijerinck Dutch microbiologist and botanist who founded the discipline of virology with his discovery of viruses. Beijerinck was the first to recognize that viruses are reproducing entities...

Harvey J. Alter is an American physician and virologist known for his discoveries pertaining to viruses that cause hepatitis, particularly his contributions to the discovery and isolation of hepatitis...

David Baltimore is an American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. Working independently, Baltimore and Temin discovered reverse...

Charles M. Rice is an American virologist who was known for his contributions to the development of highly effective treatments for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. His work to generate a version...

Nathan Wolfe is an American virologist and epidemiologist who conducted groundbreaking studies on the transmission of infectious viruses. His research focused primarily on the transmission of viruses closely...

Harold Varmus is an American virologist and cowinner (with J. Michael Bishop) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for his work on the origins of cancer. Varmus graduated from Amherst...

Michael Houghton is a British-born virologist known for his contributions to the discovery of hepatitis C virus (HCV). The identification of HCV facilitated the development of improved blood screening...

J. Michael Bishop is an American virologist and cowinner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for achievements in clarifying the origins of cancer. Bishop graduated...

Sir Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian physician, immunologist, and virologist who, with Sir Peter Medawar, was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of acquired immunological...

John Franklin Enders was an American virologist and microbiologist who, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1954 for his part in cultivating...

Renato Dulbecco was an Italian American virologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and David Baltimore, both of whom had studied under him. Dulbecco obtained...

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist who received (with John Enders and Thomas Weller) the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for successfully cultivating poliomyelitis...

Salvador Luria was an Italian-born American biologist who, along with Max Delbrück and Alfred Day Hershey, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for research on bacteriophages, viruses...

Thomas H. Weller was an American physician and virologist who was the corecipient (with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for the successful cultivation...

Howard Martin Temin was an American virologist who in 1975 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his former professor Renato Dulbecco and another of Dulbecco’s students, David Baltimore,...

Luc Montagnier was a French research scientist who received, with Harald zur Hausen and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi shared half...

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist who was a corecipient, with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She and Montagnier shared half the...

Harald zur Hausen was a German virologist who was a corecipient, with Franƈoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Zur Hausen was given half the award...

Thomas Milton Rivers was an American virologist who, as chairman of the virus research committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; 1938–55),...