Thomas Milton Rivers
Thomas Milton Rivers | |
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| Born | September 3, 1888 Jonesboro, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | May 12, 1962 (aged 73) Forest Hills, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Emory College |
| Known for | first description of the Haemophilus parainfluenzae |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | virology |
| Institutions | Rockefeller Institute |
Thomas Milton Rivers (September 3, 1888 – May 12, 1962) was an American bacteriologist and virologist. He has been described as the "father of modern virology."[1]
Life
Born in Jonesboro, Georgia, he graduated from Emory College in 1909 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Immediately following graduation, Rivers was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Medical School. His plans of becoming a physician could not be realized at first as he was diagnosed with a neuromuscular degeneration which forced him to leave medical school and work as a laboratory assistant at a hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. When by 1912 the illness had not become worse he returned to Johns Hopkins and graduated in 1915. He stayed at Johns Hopkins until 1919.
In March 1922 he headed the infectious disease ward at the
In 1948 Rivers edited a standard book on viral and Rickettsial infections.[5]
In 1958 he was inducted into the Polio Hall of Fame at Warm Springs, Georgia.
Rivers was married to Teresa Jacobina Riefle of Baltimore. Rivers died at Forest Hills, New York in 1962 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on account of his military rank.
References
- ^ Oshinsky p. 18
- ^ Furman, Bess (January 3, 1958). "New Hall of Fame Hails Polio Fight". The New York Times. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
- ^ Archives of NAS
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ THOMAS M. RIVERS, Editor: Viral and Rickettsial Infections of Man, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia,1949.
Further reading
- Saul Benison: Tom Rivers - Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967
- ISBN 0-19-515294-8.
- PMID 11615452.
- SHOPE, R E (September 1962). "Thomas Milton Ribers 1888–1962". J. Bacteriol. 84 (3): 385–8. PMID 13988655.
External links
- Thomas M. Rivers Papers at the American Philosophical Society [1]
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