Richard Shope
American virologist
Died when: 64 years 281 days (777 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Richard Edwin Shope (December 25, 1901 – October 2, 1966) was an American virologist who, together with his mentor Paul A.Lewis 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.They and Shope in 1935 and 1936, respectively, identified it as the virus circulating in the 1918 pandemic.
In 1933, Shope identified the Shope papillomavirus, which infects rabbits.His discovery later assisted other researchers to link the papilloma virus to warts and cervical cancer.
He received the 1957 Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award.
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