Wolfgang Joklik

Wolfgang Karl "Bill" Joklik (November 16, 1926 – July 7, 2019) was a

Joklik received the William G. Anlyan Lifetime Achievement Award from the Duke Medical Alumni Association in 2013.^[9] The Duke Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (a successor to the department Joklik chaired) hosts an annual lectureship in his honor, the Joklik Distinguished Lectureship; the inaugural lecture was delivered in 2010 by fellow poxvirus specialist Bernard Moss.^[1] The annual meeting of the American Society for Virology features a Bill Joklik Lecture, among other named lectureships celebrating pioneers in the field.^[10] Joklik trained over 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; among his notable trainees are Bernard N. Fields and John Skehel.^[2]

In retirement, Joklik continued to publish histories and retrospectives describing the history of the mid-20th-century emergence of molecular biology and the development of the modern field of virology.^{[2][3][8][11][12]} He died on July 7, 2019.^[13]

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