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...have so richly deserved a Nobel Prize in medicine as Virologist Francis Peyton Rous, 87, of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, and Surgeon Charles Brenton Huggins, 65, of the University of Chicago. But each man seemed to have lost his chance long ago. It is more than 50 years since Rous did his pioneering cancer research, more than 25 since Huggins made his impressive contributions to treatment of the same disease. But last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute belatedly corrected both glaring omissions. It named Drs. Rous and Huggins to share the 1966 Nobel Prize in physiology...
Breast of Chicken. Major reason for the delay in Rous's recognition was the very nature of his award-winning discoveries. In 1911 he reported that he had ground up and filtered material from a kind of cancer (sarcoma) on the breast of a Plymouth Rock...
...resulting extract, he said, caused identical cancers when it was injected into other hens. Since he was sure he had removed all cancer cells from the extract, Dr. Rous was thus convinced that what was left must be a filter able virus...
...medical and scientific community of the day, this was utter nonsense. If true, it meant that cancer (at least in fowls) was an infectious disease, and everyone "knew" it was not. More likely, his critics scoffed, Rous had inadvertently let some cancer cells slip through his filters. With infinite patience and persistent good humor, Dr. Rous extended his work to other kinds of tumors in different species of fowl. A quarter-century later, the late Dr. Richard E. Shope followed his lead and produced virus-induced tumors in rabbits. By now, half a dozen mammalian species carry viral cancers...
Also: Michael N. Ozman (third year), "Interferon Production by, and Interferon Sensitivity of the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV);" and Charles D. Woody (fourth year), "Conversion of Analogue Data to Computer Acceptable Format...