Word: virologist
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...team of Harvard researchers headed by the brilliant virologist, John F. Enders, reported in Science in January 1949 that they had succeeded in growing polio viruses in tissue cultures of non-nervous tissues. From the obscure technical lan guage they used, only another virologist could have divined the explosive import of their work. In fact, Enders' discovery was to a polio vaccine (and to much other health-saving virus research) what Einstein's cryptic E = mc2 was to the atom bomb...
...Detroit laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co., a research team headed by Virologist Alton R. Taylor started by growing polio virus of the Type I or Brunhilde strain in test tubes with tissues from animals. The company is not telling how the purification was achieved, and its photograph shows particles of different sizes...
Burnet, 53, was still in school when the great influenza wave struck and had no thought that it would mean so much to him later. But he went to work and became a virologist, won fame by isolating the giant virus (rickettsia) which causes Q fever. He was in London in 1933 when influenza virus was first isolated, and his interest became sharply focused. Year after year (especially during World War II, when another epidemic was feared), Burnet went on performing delicate laboratory tests with influenza strains...
...biggest class of germs against which no drug (antibiotic or otherwise) has been found effective: the viruses. Rutgers has just added a virologist, Dr. Vincent Groupe, to Waksman's staff. Thus far, Groupe can report no progress, but neither can other virologists; the job may take years. But Waksman is sure that some day, somewhere, something will be found to ease the horror of poliomyelitis and the nuisance of the common cold. That something may well be an unknown microorganism fighting its battle in the soil...