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Richard Shope

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Gender Male
Death58 years ago
Date of birth December 25,1901
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Date of died October 2,1966
Influenced Erich Traub
ChildrenRobert Shope
Job Physician
Education Cornell University
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Richard Shope Life story


Richard Edwin Shope was an American virologist who at the Rockefeller Institute identified influenzavirus A in pigs in 1931. Using Shope's technique, Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw of England's Medical Research Council cultured it from a human in 1933.

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