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virology NP 1
noble prize winners
| description | Name and yr of award |
|---|---|
| crystallized TMV | wendell m stanley 1935-46 |
| small pox vaccine | edward jenner 1798 |
| rabies vaccine | louis pasteur 1885 |
| found Tobacco mosaic disease | Dmitri Iwanowsky 1892 |
| foot and mouth disease | Loeffler and Frosch 1898 |
| gave the beginning terms of "virus" to tabacco mosaic disease | beijerinck 1899 |
| viruses that cause malignant tumors in chickens | peyton rous 1911 |
| bacteriophages discovered | Twort and de'Herelle 1914-1918 |
| yellow fever | Max thelier 1927-1951 |
| showed that TMV is made of protein and nucleic acid | bawden 1937-38 |
| animal viruses started to be used | 1930s |
| electron microscopy was first used | 1940s |
| bacteriophages were being used | 1930s |
| 1 step growth expt | delbruck and luria 1940s |
| genetic material is DNA | hershey 1969 |
| polio virus in cell culture | robbin and weller 1954 |
| phage lambada and lysogeny | lwoff 1965 |
| poyoma virus; animal plaque assay | dulbecco 1975 |
| kuru disease | Gadjusek 1976 |
| hepatitis b virus | blumberg 1976 |
| REN; restriction endonucleases | aber nathans smith 1978 |
| reverse transcriptase | temin and baltimore 1975 |
| viral vectors and genetic engineering | berg 1980 |
| discovered viroids | diener |
| oncogene in a retrovirus | bishop and varmus 1989 |
| RNA splicing in adenovirus | sharp and roberts 1993 |
| prion theory | stanley prusiner 1982 & 1997 |
| discovery of HIV | Luc montgnier and francoise barresinassi 2008 |
| HPV strains cause cervical cancer | harald zur hausen 2008 |
| mimivirus | 2002 |
| draco | 2011 |
| virophages | 2008 |