• DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0025
Corpus ID: 32825036

Francis Peyton Rous, 1879-1970

@article{Andrewes1971FrancisPR,
  title={Francis Peyton Rous, 1879-1970},
  author={C. Andrewes},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1971},
  pages={643 - 662}
}

C. Andrewes

Published 1971

Medicine

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Before Peyton Rous died at the age of ninety he had been acclaimed as an outstanding leader in the field of pathology and particularly in cancer research. Before he received the well-merited award of a Nobel prize in 1966, he had worked unremittingly for more than fifty years, piling fact upon solid fact: yet for many of those years his outstanding discovery of a virus causing a tumour in fowls was disregarded. Rous, however, was throughout his working life constantly excited by every new fact… CONTINUE READING

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