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Name
  
Patrick Laidlaw

Died
  
1940

Books
  
Virus diseases and viruses

Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw (1881–1940) was a British virologist.

Biography

He was one of the scientists working at the Medical Research Council at Mill Hill who first isolated influenza virus from humans. This happened when ferrets they were working on to develop a distemper vaccine caught influenza from one of the scientists in the laboratory.

He was knighted in the 1935 Birthday Honours for distinguished service to medical science.

References

Patrick Laidlaw Wikipedia


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