Patrick Laidlaw

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Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw (1881–1940) was a British virologist.

Biography

He was one of the scientists working at the Medical Research Council (NIMR Farm Laboratories) at Mill Hill who first isolated influenza virus from humans.[1] This happened when ferrets they were working on to develop a distemper vaccine caught influenza from one of the scientists in the laboratory.

He was knighted in the 1935 Birthday Honours for distinguished service to medical science.

Notes

  1. ^ Medical science at www.hero.ac.uk

Further reading

  • Smith W, Andrewes CH, Laidlaw PP. A virus obtained from influenza patients. Lancet. 1933;2:66–8. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)78541-2
  • Distemper and Influenza at Mill Hill by Rick Carver and John Skehel from Mill Hill Essays 2000

External links

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