1879–1970 American pathologist who demonstrated that cancer tumours could be caused by viruses.
Keywords: cancer; blood transfusion; Rockefeller Institute; Flexner; virus
Rous, Francis Peyton
Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002905
| Further Reading | |
| Rous FP (1911) A sarcoma of the fowl transmissible by an agent separable from the tumour cells. Journal of Experimental Medicine 13: 397–411. | |
| Rous FP (1923) Destruction of the red blood corpuscles in health and disease. Physiological Reviews 3: 75–99. | |
| Rous FP (1959) Surmise and fact on the nature of cancer. Nature 183: 1357–1361. | |
| book A Notable Career in Finding Out: Peyton Rous, 1879–1970 (1971) New York: Rockefeller University Press. | |
| Andrewes CH (1971) Francis Peyton Rous, 1879–1970. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 17: 643–662. | |
| Dulbecco R (1976) Francis Peyton Rous. Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences 48: 275–308. | |
| Obituary (1970) British Medical Journal i: 477. | |
| Obituary (1970) Lancet i: 477, 529. | |
