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Peter Martin Biggs
Peter Martin Biggs FRS (13 August 1926 — 27 December 2021) was a British scientist who specialised in avian infectious disease. He is known particularly for his work on Marek's disease in poultry, and the development of a vaccine for the virus-caused disease. Peter grew up in Hampshire, but was evacuated to Harvard, Massachusetts in 1940 for four years. Upon returning to the UK, he joined the RAF, before turning his interests to animals, becoming a veterinary student at Royal Veterinary College, London. His research career was then initiated with a PhD at Bristol University, studying cancer and domestic fowl. Peter joined the Houghton Poultry Research Station in 1959 (later becoming Director in 1973), where he followed his interest in viruses and cancer. Here he recognised that avian leukosis was composed of two diseases: Marek's disease and lymphoid leukosis. Study of Marek's disease and the underlying virus would lead to a successful vaccine. Upon the closure of Houghton in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Overview Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to :Fellows of the Royal Society, around 8,000 fellows, including eminent scientists Isaac Newton (1672), Benjamin Franklin (1756), Charles Babbage (1816), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Jagadish Chandra Bose (1920), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1945), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955), Satyendra Nath Bose (1958), and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
